Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-21
Yssarrsction at Harper's Ferry,

DALrrnoas. Oct. 1s-3 o'clock, A.
A.-The town Of Harper's Ferry has
been taken possession of by companies
from Charlestown and Shepar,lstown,
Va, and Frederick. Md. The rioters
arc entrenched in the armory and hold
Nr. Washington and Mr.. Lanenfeld as
prisoners. The insurrectionists are COM
maaded by Capt. Brown. of Kansas no
toriety; they numbered originally IL
whits man and FIVE negroes, several of
whom were shot. Two men of the Mar
tinsburg corr pany we're shot dead whilst
charging on the armory.
A portion of the Insurgents have left
here under command of 8 leader named
Cock, who. with a large party of slaves,
90 supposed to be moving toward Penn
~sylvania.
Allen Evans, one Of the insurgents, is
living in Q dying condition here, having
bssn shot through the breast. He is
from Connecticut, bat has been in Kan
ess. He saws that the whole scheme was
got up by Brown, who represented that
the negroes would rise by thousands, and
Maryland and Virginia would be made
free states.
N8ts 0uIlNSI1 VI E'CdCf8AA5 Hoo g"ON
had an interview with Blown is tie aTm-
DRY. He asked t., be allowed to march
ont with his men, and averred his inten-
zion of defending himself to the last
-His men are very strongly posted in the
engine house, and cannon cannot be ased
against them for fear of injuring the
prisoners they still hold. Seine sixteen
persons are known to have keen killed.
Fountain Beckuan. a Railroad agent.
was shot dead from the armory. Three
9riotess are lying dead nnder the bridge,
having been shot by the Shepardstown
troop in thsBr charge ca tie bridge.
Capt. Cook is second III command of
the insurgents. He is essd to be pested
IN the school house, four miles distaRt,
With q large body of runaway slaves.
The arRaary was taken possession of
sbeat 9 O'Clock On Sunday night. So
eoietly was it done tina. the citizens
Knew nothing of it till the train was
stopped. Col. Lee. who has arrived
here. thinks there are abundant troops
on hand to capture the rioters, and seems
perGsatly certain that the original party
e@meiEted of not more than twenty white
mea and five Regrses.
Can't. Brown had beea sben4 here and
rested q farm four miles off, which was
The rendezvous Of the rioters. Capt.
Cook has also lived about here, and for
. long time taught a school. All the
other white men are unknown. They
ere supp0-ed, however, to be men who
have been connected with Brown in Kan
sas.
II il reported, but not confirmed, that
the rioters have carried off a considera-
BILE amount of the Government finds.
No attempt was made to pillage the
town, or insult females. Capt. Brown
claims easy terms Oh account Of his mod
erati0n.
HAkrER's FERRY, Oct. 1873 o'clock
Il. M.-The conflict on the bridge was
fought mainly by the Railroad tonnage
men from Martinsburg, led by Capt. AL
berts. Evan Dorsey, a conductor of the
Railroad Company, was killed, and con-
dnctors Bowman and Hollet were woun-
ded. No damage was done to the Rail
road or bridge by the rioters. It is sup
Desed that the rioters will be { lied by
martial law, as DON as captured, and
hang on rhe spot.
0&A " SSsUCA n VA AE 1OttDW MS Is
the special dispatch received from the
editor Of the Baltimore American:-Pre-
fparations are now making for the artack
on the Armory. The soldiers are posted
ell around the grounds, and for the last
hour everything has been quiet. The RI
'oters have still the following persons in
their custody, as prisoners: Armistead
Ball chief draFgatsman at the Armory:
John P. Bangerfeld, Paymaster, and
CLARK Lewis OF Washington, a farmer
&nd prominent citizen; John Alstadt, a
farmer. and his son sixteen years old
The three last were seized on their farms
several miles from the Ferry. George
Turner. a graduate of West Point, and
cue Of the most distinguished citizens.
was shot yesterday whilst coming into
town. He died daring the night. He
has a brother living in Baltimore who
married into the Patterson family. Three
Of the rioters are lying dead in the streets.
There are also three in the river and sew
eral are said to be lying within the ar
soory enclosure.
The following is the list of the killed
among the citizens and soldiers:-Fouu-
tain Beckman. Haywood, a negro por-
ter at the railroad station, Joseph Bam-
ley. of Harper's Ferry, Evan Dorsey and
George Richardson, of Martinaburg.-
Another rioter. q negro named Lewis
Leary. who has just died. confessed the
particulars of the plot, which he SAYS
was concocted by Brown, at a fair held
IN Ohio two months ago. The rioters
have just sent out a flag of truce, saying
that if they are not protected by the SOL
disrs here at present, they will hang all
AhsY capture.
HARPER's FERRY. Oct IS, So'cloek.
The armory has Just been stormsd and
taken after q determined resistance
Col. Shut approached with a lsg of
truce aad 6en: anded a surrender of the ar
Rory. After expostulating some time,
chs rioters refused. The Marines then
advanced and made a charge, endeavor-
ing to break open the door with sledge
banners, but it resisted all their efforts.
A large ladder was then used az a bat
tsring ram, and the door gave way.
The rioters fred briskly and shot three
OF the marines, who exchanged shots
through the partly broken door. The
marines then forced their way through
the break, and in a few minutes the re-
s~istsnce was at an end. The rioters were
brought out amidst the most intense ex-
element, many of the armed militia
present trying to get an opportunity to
shoot them. Capt Brown and his son
were both shot, the latter is dead and
the former dying. He talks freely, and
says that he is the Ossawattomie Brown
whose feats in Kansas had such wide no.
tice. He says his whole c iect was to
free the slaves, and justified his actions.
He says that he had possession of the
town, and aculd have murdered all the
people, and had been murdered in re-