Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-11-26
From tie Frederick Iva Examiner.
Earper's Ferry victory.

Descend, descend, ye glorious nine! al
tend unto our call,
Repeat in sorrowing numbers what new
terrots now appal
How leagoed corruption pouring forth
from al The Northern cllne..
Can set oar couulrY's negroes free and
stsal our country's dimes.
Tell, Oh, tell ! we do not know,
Whence, oh whence tbs cruel foe
Far IN along the wild Blue Rilge where
rolls Potomac's wave,
WhcEe wiIlow branches drooP not low
their curling twigs TO lave,
Whsr, munn;ajns part"as friends in hate
to give their fury vent,
A casled city stands, or what was for
city meant.
Bat arms-U. S located here,
How can there be cause of fear
The morn was dark, as of it is, before
the rising sun,
An East-bound train came to this spot and
10 the watch was gone.
But there instead, bury chap who swore
the train mu>l larry,
AS he had guests for all The seats, and
more thsn they could carry.
Conductor stares, with eyes OF wonder
Slares again and then-knocks under.
Then comes excitement and come too the
Agent and the Porter,
The last was shot and 10 the first was CIV
en- doubtful quarter,
Then drew near others one by one III
spect The tagging cars,
Ana as they came, by unseen ioes were
locked benind the bars;
Then shouts AMI groanings most inVidl-
Gus
Proclaimed the night was growing hide
ous.
Now came strange rumors thro' the ait
and cries ol insuIrcCton,
That Africa'S woolly- headed sons no more
will own subjecinn,
Five hundred patrols from the North and
slaves in countless number
At last awake The lyrant South from Out
her fatal SIumber
Glad of permission gained at last
The train in terror onwa passed.
The wires are cut, that none may learn
save from the witness train,
The desperate state in which things are,
the gloom the dread the pain.
This spreads tn alarm along the road and
fast the number grows
OF thousands in the darkness seen lniIIc-
ting direful woes.
Miserere for the Ferry
Alb ! great lis woes are, very
To Washington the news is borne, soon
Cabinet sits in State
And orders out It's Guards Marine, ere yet
il be too late,
Vircina's daring GoV'ner scents from lar
ths fumes of strife
Commands each Richmond trooper oil at
peril of hls life.
And the drum beats wild tattoo
AS Baltimore joins the crusade TOO.
But in the Mountain City, where throbs
the brayest heart,
Three troops of volunteers rush form 10
take their awful part
One Captain Richie's was, one Sim
and one Ulysses Hobbs,
They held not back for mems alarms, nor
vet for women's so5s.
Yet daunilessly away they 60,
How can men court danger sc
When all The brave defenders left, the
Mayors slill man.
And orders all tn inhabitants TO shoulder
guns who can,
Patrol the silent streets, endure the cold
and driving rain,
So cheap chance 10 gain renown' may
not appear again.
Ard bravely thro' the night they tramp .
Up and down, lhro' mud and damp.
The Old Dominion offers up her children
in defence,
Bright burned the flame in Winchester, in
CharIestown grew intense,
Brave Shepherdstuwn sent out her force
to join the ranks of war,
And darkly lrowned upon the strife the
wrath Of Bolivar.
Then luriG watch, fires light the sky,
And show the daring loemAu nigh.
Now while from all the various points the
brave defenders rally
T To wrest the Town from sack and storm
and most emPhaucaIiy
I To prove TO Northern fanatics, the thou
/. sands they may send
Z Csn moi sinoIe negro from his generous I