The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-25
The Insurgents at Harper's Ferry
Their Place of Trial.

thfNAi law VI NhANAs
The State of Virginia has the insurgents
prisoners in the Jail at Charleston, seat of
Justice of Jefferson Comfy. This place is
on the railroad eight miles from Harper's
Ferry, and within twenty-five miles OF Win
chester. II was tho sito in 1885 of log
house residence of Colonel Charles Washing
ton, the only brother of Washington, who
settled west Of the Blue Ridge, and ia named
from his Christian name, he being the first
proprietor. The whole land in this vicinity
was originally owned by the Washington
family, and John A., and the Washington
recently made prisoner by Brown, still own
land thercabout. .....
The pen of the novelist will in due time
work up the plot OF this Undersigned but dar-
ing Ossawatomie story, with description of
the scenery and narraticns of the legends of
the locality, which will stir the blood, and, as
it ought, point moral to the appetizing
reader of some Sylvanus Cobb or Emerson
Bennett. St. Romans we'll will not be more
famous than the we'll dug by Braddocks
army in their route to the West while en-
camped about mile from the village, on the
land Of Bushrod Washington, once an Asso
ciate Judge of the Supreme Court Of the
United States. The tale will be graphically
told that, when Captain Cook had escaped,
the mountains were secured, the railroad cars
were searched, and every available means
taken TO track the fugitive, when on the sug-
gestion of the PENNY PRESS, Of Cincinnati,
the time-covered we'll, long concealed, was
| explored, and the dead body Of Cook found
in it's deep depth.
The fancy Of the writer will dwell with
| force and power in describing the secret meet
ings of tho conspirators; Old Brown, COM
| mander, in cavern, two and e half miles
southeast Of Charlestown, known as Wash
| ington's Masonic Cave, which is divided into
several apartments, which tradition busies
itself in declaring was used by Washington
and others in carly times as a Masonic Lodge
and where in lS44 the Masons of the vicinity
held celebration.
Not content with painting in elegant word;
in its livoliest colors, picture of the confer
euces in the Cavern. Another locality near
| by, about two milessssouth- OF Charles
town, will be described in Walter Scott style
as the spot on which are the Ruins to be
hereafter known as the Ossawatoinie Abbey,
Near the line of the Railroad to Winchester
in all open, cultivated field, stand the mains
of an ancient church, heretofore known as
the ruins of Trinity Church, Norborne Par.
| iah. 1t Is described as venerable and pic
tures1ue ruin, overrun with vines, which
clingng in their beauty and verdure to it,
crumbling walls, gently wave in the passing
winds. The cedar-wood Of tho windows il
reported sound and fragrant, and on the
walls arc carved the names of visitors. o
course, now, there will be smell as it wer,
Of birthstone, and the magic name OF OsSa
| vatOnie Brown will TO be sure apDear ever,
once mean in q While While in % letters Of blue or @ pbosphc
rescent light, and disappear at intervals OF
the entrance of any of the brave defenders o
IIarner,s Ferry. The ace OF th,, building i
unknown, and due care will be eiyen by th,