Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29

Shut approached with flag of truce and deman
ded the surrender of the armory; after expostula
ting for some time, the rioters refused. The mar
ines then advanced and made charge, endeavcr
ing to break open the door with sledse hammers
but 1t resisted a their efforts. A ladder was ther
used as battering ram, and the door gave way
The rioters fred briskly, and shot three Of th'
marines who exchanged shots through the partly
broken door. The marines then forced their way
through the break, and in a few minutes resis
tance was at an end The rioters were brough
out amidst the most intense excitement many o
the armed militia present trying to get an oppor
tunity to shoot them. Capt. Brown and his son
were both shot, the latter is dead and the former
dying. lie lies in the armory enclosure. lie talks
freely, and says that he is the old OssawatomiC
Brown, whose feats in Kansas have had suUt
wide notice. lie says his whole object was tC
free the slaves, and in justiying his actions, says
that he had possession of the town and could hav,
murdered all the people, and he had been mur
dcred in return. j. G. Anderson was also sho
down in the assault, he was from Connecticut
The dead body Of man shot yesterday, was
found within the armory. Brown declares thai
there were mono engaged in the plot but those
who accom- mpanied him. The prisoners are retain
ed within the armory inclosure.
Noon Soon soon after stormipg the armory
four dead bodies Of the insurgents, who were shot
| yesterday, were found within the enclosure
Captain Brown and his son are dangerously
wounded. Only two of the insurrcc,ionsts are
unwounded viz Edwin Coppich and White, from,
Iowa, and Shields Green, colored, also from iowa.
The party originally consisted Of twenty-five per
sons, Of whom fifteen are killed, two mortally
wounded two unhurt, and three escaped. Soon
after the assault on the armory, some firing took
place from the hills on the Maryland shore, sup
posed to be parting salute from Cook and his
party, who left on Monday morning. The fire
was returned with general yolley, but both
parties were too distant for damage. company
of volunteers has gone in pursuit of the fugitiyes
There are probably a thousand armed men con-
gregated here Reinforcen,ents have been pour.
ing in oil night from Gil quarters Of the surround
ing country. N' WI N'- ' 't''.--I' f-i'2
l 80. p. H.-The Secretary Of war has tele
graphed to Col. Lee that Mr.. Ould, the Distric,
Attorney for this district will proceed forthwith
to Harper's Ferry to take charge Of the legal pro
ceedings against the prisoners and bring them to
trial. The train is now getting ready to convey
horses and men from here to pursue the rioters
into any State or locality whero they may have
| fled. This is by order Of the President, at the
request of Gov. Wise.
FROM THE EDITOR OF THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN.
The principal originator of the short, but bloody
existence of this insurrection, was undoubtedly
Capt. John Brown, whose connection with the
scenes of violence in the border warfare of Kan
sas, then made his name familiarly notorious to
the whole country. Brown made his first appear,
ance in the vicinity OF Harper's Ferry, more than
q year ago, accompied by his two sons, assuming
the name of Smith. He enquired about land in
this vicinity, and made investigations abou. the
probability of finding ores, and Cor some time
boarded at Sandy Point, mile east of the Ferry
After an absence of some months he reappcared
in the vicinity, and the elder Brown rented OF
leased farm on the Maryland side, about four
miles from the ferry. They brought large nun,
ber of picks and spades, and this confirmed the be-
lief that they intended to mine for ores. They
were seen frequently in aud about Harpers Fer
ry, but no suspicious seems to have existed tina,
Bill Smith was Capt. Brown, or that he intended
any movement SO desperate or extraordinary.
| Yet the developement of the plot bears no doub,
that his visits to the Ferry, and his lease of the
farm were all parts Of his preparation for the in
surrection, which he supposed would be success
full in discriminating slavery in Maryland and
Western Virginia. Browns chief aid was John
E. Cook, comparatively young man, who has re
sided in and hear the Ferry for some years. liz
was first employed in tending lock- and after q
brief residence in Kansas, where it is supposed
he became acquainted with Brown, returned tC
the Ferry, and married there lie was regarded
as man OF some intelligence, known to be anti
slavery, but not SO violent in the expression of hi
opinions as to excite any suspicious. Browns two
sons were the only white men connected with the
insurrection, that had been seen previously abou
the Ferry. All were brought by Brown from
distance, and nearly all had been with him il
Kansas. "a
| The fret active movement in the insurrectior
was made about 104 o'clock on Sunday night
Mr. Williams, the watchman on the Harper's Fer
~ bridge, whilst walking across towards the
Maryland side, was seized by q number of men,
who said that he was their prisoner and must
come with them. lie recognized Brown and COOK
among the men, and knowing them, he treated
the matter as joke, but enforcing silence they
conducted him to the armory, which he found al
ready in their possession. lie was retained till
after daylight and then discharged The watch
man who was to relieve Williamson at midnight
found the bridge lights all out and was Immediate
ly seized. Supposing it an attempt at robbery,
he broke away, and his pursurers stumbling over,
he escaped. The next appearance Of the iusurrec-
tionsts was at the house Of Col. Lewis Washing
ton, large farmer and slave owner living about
four miles from the Ferry. A party headed by
Cook proceeded there, reused Col. W. aad told
him he was their prisoner. They also. seized all
the slaves near the house and took the carriage
and horse and a large wagon with two horses.
When Col. W. saw Cook he recognized him as a
man who had called upon him some months pre-
vious; to whom ho had exhibited some valuable