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Insurrection Among the Slaves The
Affair Very Serious.
BALTIMORE, October II.

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1t is apprehsnded that the affair at Harper'l
Ferry is more serious than the people here are
willing to believe. The telegraph wires have
been cut, and there 10 no communication beyond
Monoeacy. tits reported that there has been
stampede Of negroes from Maryland. The
train due here early this morning has not yet
arrived. Many wild rumors are aaoat, but no
intelligence of an authentic character has YET
been received. rr
LATER.-The Western train has Just arrived.
The officers confirm the statement first received.
They say that the bridge keeper discovered the
lights in the bridge had been extinguished,
and when he went to ascertain the cause, was
pursued and fred upon by q gang of blacks
and whites. The oolored assistant baggage
master on the train was shot and mortally
wounded. Conductor Phelps was threatened
| that the train should not proceed He 10 IN.
certain as to the condition Of the bridge. He
waited till after daylight, and was then de-
\ tanned six hours by the mob. Hesays that the
| insurreotionists number two hundred whites and
blacks. They have full possession of tho at-
mory, and are commanded or led by . man
named Anderson, who lately arrived at Har-
per's Ferry. The rioters seized wagon Of
wheat, loaded it with quantity OF muskets
and sent it up into Virginia.
The military Of Frederick City have been
| ordered out, and President Buchanan has
ordered out United States troops. A special
train is now getting ready to convey troops
from this city. The President has also accepted
Senick's company, of Frederick City, and has
ordered companies from Old Point. This Ii
authentic.
It seems now to be considered that something
serious is going on.
Another account by the train says that the
bridge across tho Potomac was filled with in
surgents, all armed. Every light In the town
was extinguished and the hotels closed. ALI
| the streets were in possession Of the mob, and
every road and lane leading thereto was bar
ricaded and guarded. Men were seen in every
quarrer armed with muskets and bayonets.
They had arrested the citizens and pressed
them into the service, including many negroes.
When this was done, the United States Arsenal
and Government Pay y-house, in which there Is
said to be large amount of money and all
other public works, we're seized blythe mob.
Some we're of the opinion that the object was
entirely one of plunder, to rob the Government
of the funds deposited on Saturday at the Pay
house.
During the night the mob made demand
on the Wager Hotel for provisions, and en-
forced their claim by body Of armed men.
The citizens were in a terrible state of alarm,
the insurgents having threatened to burn the
town.
STILL LArER.-The following has just been
received by telegraph from Monocacy, this
side of Harper's Ferry:
The mail agent on the Western-bound
train has returned to Monocacy and reports
that the train was unable to get through.
The town is in possession of the negroes,
who arrest every one they can catch and i'm
prison them. The train due here at three P.
M. could not get through. The agent came
down on an empty engine. The mail train
going West got as far as Sandy Hook. The
baggage master and another party started on
foot for the bridge.
After passing the bridge they were taken
and imprisoned They were afterward taken
before the captain Of the insurrectionists, who
refused to let any thing pass through the
town.
All the eastwsrd bound trains laying west
of Harper's Ferry have been seized.
The mail train, bound West, has returned
to this station.
There arc from FIVE to seven hundred whites
and blacks under arms.
WASHINGTON, October s-P. M.
On the receipt of intelligence from Harper's
Ferry, orders were issued for the three com.
panies of artillery at Old Point and corps
Of marines in the Washington Barracks, to
proceed to tho scene Of disturbance without
delay.
The Marines, ninety three in number, left on
the 3:15 P. M. train, with two twelve-pound
howitzers, and a full supply Of ammunition.
1t IL reported that they are under orders to
force o passage over the bridge tonight at all
hazards. Colonel Faulkner accompanies them.
1t is reported on good authority that some
weeks ago Secretary Floyd received an aneny-
nous epistle, stating that about the 18th of
October, the Abolitionists, negroes and other
disaffected persons would mako an attempt to
seize the Arsenal and hold the place, but the
statement was so indefinite and improbable as
10 cause no fears of such an outbreak.
BALTIMORE P. NJ.
A train filed with the military, consisting of
the Law Grays, City Guards, Shield Guards
and other companies, has just left here for
Harper's Ferry.
Several representatives Of the press accom-
psny the train.
BALTINoRn--6P. M.
A dispatch from Martinsburg, which 10 stu
ated West Of Harper's Ferry, sent pia Wheeling,
Pittsburg and Philadslphia, has just been re-
ceived. 1t confirms the report that the insur-
rectionists have taken possession Of the
arsenal at Harper's Ferry, and adds that the
mob has placed cannon at the bridge, and the
trains had all been stopped. A body of armed
men were getting ready to proceed tbither to
clear the road. Great excitement existed in