The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-19
Great Excitement.
MILITARY ORDERED OUT.
BALTIMORE. Oct. II. n,

officers confirm the statement just received.
They say the bridge-keeper discovered lights
in the bridge, which had been extinguished,
and, when he went to ascertain the cause,
was pursued and fired upon by gang Of
whites and blacks.
The colored assistant baggage master on
the train was shot and MORALLY wounded.
Conductor Phelps was threatened, and
the train forbidden to proceed. He waited
till after daylight, and was then detained
six hours by the mob. He says that the in
sirgents number 200 whites and blacks.
They have full possession of the armory,
and are commanded by man named An
derson, who lately arrived at Harper's Ferry.
The rioters seized wagon load of wheat,
and loaded it with quantity of muskets,
and sent it up into Virginia.
The military of Frederick City..has been
ordered out, and President Buchanan has
ordered out the U. S. torops. A special
train is now getting ready to convey troops
from this city. The President has also ac-
cepted Senick's Company, of Frederick City,
and has ordered companies from old Point.
This is authentic.
II seems now to he considered that some
thing is going on.
Another account, by train, says that the
brirge across the Potomac is filled with in
surgentS, all armed. Every light in the
town is extinguished, and the hotels closed.
All the streets are in possession of the moh,
and every road and lane leading thereto is
barricaded and guarded.
Men were seen in every quarter armed
with muskets and bayonets. They arrested
the citizens and pressed them into the SER
vice, including many negroes. When this
was done the u. s. arsenal and Governments
pay house, in which there is said TO be n
large amount of money and all the other
public works were seized by the mob. Some
were of the opinion that the object was in
directly one OF plumber. TO rob the Govern
ment of funds deposited at the pay house.
During the night the mob made demand
on the Wager Hotel for provisions and en-
forced their claim by a body OF armed men.
The citizens were in terrible state of alarm,
the insurgents having Threatened to hurn
the town.
LATER
The following has just been received by
telegraph from Monaco, this side Of Har-
per's Ferry:
The mail agent on the western bound
train has returned to Monaco, and reports
that the train was unable to gel through
The train was in possession OF the ne
groes, who arrest every one they can catch
and impress them.
The train due here Mt 3 - NJ. cannot get
through. The agent came down on an emp
~ engine. The train going west got as far
AS Sandy Hook. bt
The baggage master and another party
started for the bridge on foot. After pass
ing the bridge, they were taken and impris-
oned. They were afterwards taken before
the captain of the insurrectionists, who re-
b. FUSED TO let anything pass through the
town. All the eastern bound trains lying
. west Of Harper's Ferry have been seized
The mail train bound west has returned TO
this station. There are from 500 to 700
blacks under arms.
w WASHINGTON, Oct. IL, Bpm.
On the receipt of intelligence from Har-
per's Ferry, orders were received for three
companies of artillery at Old Point, and 4
corps of marines at Washington Barracks
To proceed 10 the scene of disturbance with
out delay. The marines, % in number, lef,
on the p. NJ train with two twelve pount
howltzers with full supply of ammunition
1t is reported that they are under orders t.
force passage over the bridge tonight a
all hazards.
Col. Faulkner accompanies them.
Ii is reported that, some weeks ago, Mr.
Floyd received an anonymous letter, stating
that, the 10Th of October, the Abolitonists
negroes, and otl>er disafected persons woul,
make an attempt to seize the arsenal ant
hold the place; but the statement was so in
definite Us to cause no fears of such an out
break.
BALTIMORE, Oct. lS-M.
A train filled with military, consisting o
the Law Grays, City Guards, Shield Guard
and other Companies, left here for Harper
Ferry Several representatives left here 70
the scene of disturbance.
fI.-t. BALTIMORE, Oct. l8-N.
A despatch from Martinsburg, which j
situated west of Harpers Ferry, sent vi
Wheeling and Pittsburg, has been received
? Ii confirms the report that the rioters hav
taken possession of the arsenal at Harper
Ferry, aud adds that the mob have place
. canon at the bridge, and the trains have a
been stopped. A body of armed men WEI
getting ready to clear the track. Great eA
element existed in Baltimore and vicinit!
The american, OF this city, has sent sp'
cial reporter by the military train, and som
definite intelligence, it is expected, Wi
soon be received. The reporter telegraph
from the Relay House that the expeditio
was joined there by ninety marines, fro
Washington, in command of Col. Harri
with two howitzers.
RICHMOND, Oct. Va, lS-M
TIE Governor has ordered out the volu
teer troops to proceed to Harper's Ferry
Two hundred stands of muskets have al
been placed in the City Hall for an eme
gency. II is believed by some persons th
the cause of the instruction is the report
fact that not long since the contractor
the construction of the government dam,
Harper's Ferry, absconded, largely indebt
To several hundred employees, who ha
taken this step to indemnify themselves
the seizure of the government funds, whi
it was supposed had been transported thit
er on Saturday.
gentleman just arrived from Harpe
Ferry thinks the blacks are only particiI
tors i'm the outbreak by compulsion.
BALTIMORE, Oct. ITO. P. NJ.
The AmericdR's special reporter telegraI
from train No. 4, As miles from Baltimo
aud 81 from Harper's Ferry IA follows: