The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-22
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The following dispascd has just been receive,
ICON Fredssiek, Nd II SCENE very improbabl
and ahonld be received with caution TIL con
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''Fredsrek. Nd, Oct. l7.--An insurrsc.ion i
reported 10 have taken place At Harpes'e Ferry
An armed band of abolitionisss have full DOS
sion Of the U. S. Arsenal At Harpers Ferry. Tn,
express train running east was fired into twice
and one Of the railroad hands, . negro, VA
killed trying TO get the train through the town
The mob arrested two men who came in with
load OF wheat, and took . wagon, loaded il
with rifes and sen. it into Maryland They are
ZEE y about 200 whites, with gang Of negre.
6sbtiug." e 50 s
SECOND DIsPArcH.
Baltimore, Oct. IA later dispatch received
At the r r. Office says the affair 10 greatly ex
aggerated. II has foundation in difficulty ii
the armory. The negroes have nothing to dc
with il.
THIRD DrsPArcH.
Baltimore, Oct. lit is apprehended thai
the anair as Rarper's Ferry is more serious thar
the people here are willing 70 believe. The
telegraph wires have been cut from HArper'e
Ferry, and there 10 no communication beyond
Aonocscy. Is is reported that there has been 1
stampede Of negroes from Maryland. The tran
due here early shis A. n, has not yet arrived.
Many wild rumors are a6oat, but no intelligence
OF an authentic character has yet been received.
Baltimore, Oct. IS.
LATER.-The western train has just arrived.
The officers confirm the statement FIRST received.
They say the bridge keeper discovered that the
lights on the bridge had been extinguished, and
when he went TO ascertain the cause was pur-
sued and fred upon by gang Of blacks and
whites. The colorcd assistant baggage master
on the train was shot and MORALLY wounded
Conductor Phelps was threatened that the train
should not pass. He waited till after daylight,
and was thus detained six hours by the mob
he says shat the iDsurrectionis.s number 200
whites and blacks. They nave fuli possession
OF the armory, and are commanded BY . man
named Anderson, who lately arrived ut Rarper's
Ferry. The rioters have seized saigon of
wheat and loaded it with quantity OF muskets
and sen; it up into Virginia. The military Of
Frederick City had been ordered out, and Pres
ident Buchanan has ordered the q. S. troops.
A spscial train is now getting ready to carry
the troops from this city. The President has
also accepted Sewik's Co. Of Frederick, and has
ordered companies from Old Point Comfort
This is authentic. 1t seems, however, to be
considered that something dangerous is going
on Another account by the train says that the
bridge across the Potomac is flied with insur-
gents, all armed Every light IN town is extirl-
gushed, and the hotels are closed. All the
streets are in possession of the mob aud every
road and lane leading thereto barricsded and
guarded. Men were seen In every quarter
armed with muskets aud bayonets. They had
arrested the citizens and pressed them into ser>
vice, including many negroes When this was
done the U. s. Arsenal aud Government Pay
House, in which there is said to be a large
amount of money, and all other public works
we're seized by the moo. Some were Of the
opinion that the object was entirely one Of
plumber to rob she Government Of the funds de.
posted on Saturday 81 she pay mouse. During
the nj. the mob made demands on the Wager
Hotel for provisions, and enforced their claim
by body OF armed msa. The citizens were 10
terrible state of alarm, the insurgents having
threatened to burn the town.
STILL LA-ER.-The folowing has just been
received by telegraph from Monocacy: This
side OF Harpef's Ferry. The mail agent on the
western bound train has returned 10 Aonocacy,
and reports the train was unable to get through.
The town is in possession OF the negroes, who
arrest every one they can catch aud imprison
them. The train due here At p. m. could not
get through. The agent came down on an
empty engine. The mail train going east got
as far as Sandy Hook. The baggage master and
other party started on foot for The bridge. Al
ter passing the bridge they we're taken and in>
prisoned. They we're afterwards taken before
the Captain oil the insurrcctionists who refused
to let any thing pass through the town. All the
eastward bound trains lying west Of Harper's
Ferry have been seized. The mail train bound
west has returned to this station. There are
from five to seven hundred whites and blacks
under arms.
Washington, Oct rs p IN.
On the receipts OF the intelligence from Har-
per's Ferry, orders were issued for three compa.
MES of artillery at Old Point and a corpse Of
to the scene CT difficulty without delay. The
marines, 80 in number, left on the 3:l5 tram
with two IL pound Howitxers. and iull supply
OF ammunition. II is reported that they are
under orders to force passage over the bridge
tonight at all hazards. Col. Faulkner accom-
panies them. 1t il reported on good authority
that some weeks ago Secretary Floyd received
All anonymous epstle stating that about the
25th OF October the abolitionists, negroes and
other disatfected persons would make an at
tempt to seize the arsenal and bold the place,
but the statement was 80 indefinite and improb-
able as to cause no fears Of such an outbreak.
Baltimore, Oct l7.-3 p. I'll.
A train filed with the military, consisting Of
the Law Grays, City Guards, Seields' Guards,
and other companies, has just left here for Har-
psr's Ferry. Several representatives Of she
press accompany the train.
6p. ma dispstch from Martinsburg, which
is situated west OF Harper's Ferry, sent via
Wheeling, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. has just
been received. 1t confirms the report shat the
-insarrectionists have taken possession OF the ar
senal at Harper's Ferry, and adds that the mob
has placed cannon At the bridge, and the trains
have all been stopped. A body Of armed men
were getting ready to proceed thither to clear
the road. Great excitement existed in that vi
cinty. .E ~s
The American newspaper OF this city has sent
special reporter by the military train. and some
definite intelligence, it is expected will soon be
received. The reporter telegraphs from the
Relay House that the expedition was joined
there by 80 marines from Washington, under
the command of Col. Harris, with two pound
uosi,zer's.
Richmond, Va, Oct II.
1t is reported and believed that the Govern.
menl has ordered out the volunteer troops to
proceed to Harper's Ferry. 200 stand OF mus
kets aud ammunition have also been placed in
the CITY Hall tor emergency. Il has been sug-
gested by well informed persons that the cause
of the insurreetion 10 the reported fact that not
tong since the con rator for the construct Oh oil
the Governments dam at Harper's Ferry alb
seconded, largely indebted to several hundred
employees. who have taken this step to indem-
mfg themselves by the izure Of the Govern
ernmeut funds, which were supposed to have
90 O. l..
tieman who has just arrived from Harper's Ferry
thinks the blacks are only participants in the
outbreak by compulsion.
Baltimore, Oct. IS, 5 am.
Harper's Ferry has been taken possession O
by companies from Charlestown and Sbepards
town, Va, aud Frederick, Nd. The rioters ara
entrenched i'll the Armory aud hold Mr. WASH
ington and Mr.. Lafen6eld prisoners. The in
.nrrectioniyts are commanded BY Capt. Brown
OF Kansas no.oriety, and numbered originally
IL white men and negroes, several OF whom