The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-10-25

clock It. j. E. B. Stuart of the LIST Cavalry, who was
acting aid for Col Lee advanced to Parley with the
besieged Samuel Strider Esq., old and respectable
Citizen bearing flag of truce. They received at
the door by Capt. Cook Lieut.. Stuart demanded an
unconditional surrender, only promising them protec-
tion from immediate violence and trial by law. Capt
Brown refused all terms but those previously demand
ed which substantially: THAT he should be per-
mitted to march out with his and arms taking
their prisoners with them; that they should proceed
unpursued the second toll-gate, when they would
free their prisoners The soldiers then at liberty
to pursue and they would fight they could not
OF this refused, and Lieut.. Stuart pressed
upon Brown his desperate position, and urged surren-
der. The expostulation though beyond ear-shot was
evidently very earnest and the GOODNESS of the Leutcn-
and the courage of his aged flag bearer won warm
praise.
Storming the Arnory-Thrillng !Scene.-At this mo-
ment the interest of the intense. The VOL
unteers arranged all around the building cutting
off escape in every direction. The marines, divided in
squads ready for dash the door. Finally
Lieut. Stuart having exhausted all argument with the
determined Captain Brown, walked slowly from the
door, Immediately the signal for attack was given,
and the marines, headed by Colonel Harris and Lieu
Green advanced in lines each side of the
door, Two powerful fellows sprang between the lines
and with heavy sledge hammers attempted to batter
down the door. The door swung and swayed, but APP
peared be secured with rope, the spring of which
deadened the effect of the blows Failing thus to OBJ
tain a breach the marines ordered to fall back,
and twenty of them took hold of ladder, forty
feet long, and advancing at brought it with ire
mendous power against the door, At the second blow
it gave way, leaf falling inward in slanting posi-
ton The marines Immediately advanced TO the breach,
Major Russell and Lieutenant Green leading. A
rine in the front fell the firing from the interior is
rapid and sharp, they fire with deliberate aim, and for
the moment the resistance is serious and desperate
enough to excite the spectators to something like a
pitch of frenzy. The next moment the marines pour
in the firing ceases and the work done, whilst the
cheers rang from every sde the general feeling being
that the marines had done their part admirably.
When the insurgents were brought out-some dead,
others wonnded-they were greeted with excavations,
and only the precautions that had been taken saved
them from Immediate execution. The crowd, every
man of which had gum swayed with tumultuous ex-
cement, and cries of shoot Them" rang from every
side The appearance of the liberated prisoners all of
whom through the seadness of the marines, escaped
injury changed the of feeling and prolonged
cheers took the place of how and execratons In the
assault private RUPERT of the marines received ball
in the stomach and was believed to be fatally wounded;
another received slight flesh wound in the face.
The Dead and Wounded-The lawn in front of the
engine house after the assault presented adread sight
Lying it bodies of killed the previous
day and found inside the house; three wounded men,
just the last gasp of lfe others grooming in
pain. One of the dead Capt. Browns son Ottowa,
the wounded man his Watson whilst the father
himself laid the grass CORY spectacle his face and
hair cloted with blood and bayonet wound in
his side.
Various questions put to Capt. Brown, which
he answered clearly and freely and seemed anxious to
vindicate his When first brought ont he
supposed be mortay wounded, and he himself said
he was dying. An examination of his wounds proved
them to be necessarily fatal and he afterwards
pressed desire live and be tried by his country
In his pockets considerable number of papers
found among which the articles of agreement
under which the insurrectionsts acted and what pur
ported to be schedule for the establishment of 'pro
visona government" In his pockets found near
y four hundred dollars in gold, which committed
to the care of Dr. Murphy, the Armory Paymaster
The Prisonsrs.-Besde Capt. Brown, the prisoners
taken are his son, who is seriously wounded in the alb
domen, and not likely TO live Edwin Coppuck who be-
longs to Iowa. and negro named Shields Green, who
came from Pttsburg to join Brown. The stories of all
these men are precisely the same they agree the
object they proposed accomplish and the number of
parties in the movement. Young Brown in answer to
question, said there parties in the North
nected with the movcment-hus differing with his faith
this point. Coppuck the other white prisoner is
quite young, and seems less shrewd than the Others
He said he did not wish to join the expedition and
when asked gave reply which showed the influence
Brown had over him. He sad "Ah! you gentlemen
don't know Capt. Brown; when he calls for never
think of refusing to come"
Several slaves found in the room with the in
surrcctonsts but is not believed that they there
willingly. Indeed. Browns expectations to the
slaves running to him entirely disappointed None
seem to have come to him willingly and in most
they were forced to desert their masters But one in
stance in which slave made public appearance 18th
arms in his hands is related. negro. who had been
sharply used by of the town people, when he found
he had pike in his hand used his 'bref authority" to
arrest the citizen and have him taken the ArmOry
Ho,c the Insurgents treated their Prisoners-The citizens
imprisoned by the nsurrectionsts all testify their
lenent treatment They neither tied insulted
and beyond the outrage o. restricting their liberty
not l-used Captain Brown always courteous to
hem and at all times assured them they should be
injured He explained his purposes them and whilst
he had the workmen in confinement made abolition
speech to them Col. Washington speaks of him IS a
man of extraordinary He banched during
the assault though he admitted during the night that
escape impossible and he would have to die When
the door was broken down, one of his cried out
al surrender" The Captain Immediately cried out
"There's one surrenders-give him quarter" and at
the same moment, fred his rife the door. Du-
ring the previous night he spoke freely with Colonel
Washington and referred to his He said he had
lost one in Kansas and two here-he had pressed
them to join him in this expedition, but he did
greet their oss-they had "died in glorious cause"
The position of the prisoners in the engine house du-
ring the firing Monday, and at the of the
final attack, was a very trying Without any of
the incentives of combat they had risk the balls of
their friends, but happily they all escaped. At the
ment when the doors were broken in the prisoners at
the suggestion of Col Washington held their hands
SO that 1t might be seen that they combaants
Cook holly pursued-Seizure of Arms-During Tues
day morning one of Colonel Washingtons negroes
in and reported that Cook in the mountains, only
three miles off. About the time some shots were
said to have been fired from the Maryland hills and
rapid fusilade returned from Harpers Ferry The
Independent Greys, of Baltimore, Immediately started
on scouting expedition, and in hours returned
with two wagons loaded with arms and ammunition
found at Capt Browns house. The arms consisted of
boxes filled with Sharps rifles, pistols &c. all bearing
the marks of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Compa-
ny, at Chicopee, Mass.
There also found quantity of United States am
munton, large number of spears (sharp iron bowie
knives fixed pole, a terrible looking weaponl in
tended for the of the with SPADES