Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-11-02
News, Rumsrs and Gossip, frsm Harper,s
Ferry.
From the New York Herald
CONTINUED ExcIfrMrSr AND Ala

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The whole Of Jefferson county and the adjoining
counties in Virginia and Maryland continue In Z
state Of great and increasing excitement which
Will hardly be allayed 50 long az sold Ossawata-
mile Brown" continues to live. Rumors and re-
ports Of movements by the abolitonists to rescue
Brown and hts men, now trial at Chariestown,
or to avenge their death should they be executed,
were in continu circulation, and the authorties
were constantly sending and receiving teiegraphic
dispatches on the subject The purport Of fhese
communications was not suffered to transpire but
enough hsd LEAKED out TO keep uPt the fever. From
tue remarks Of the counsel for the prosecution in
opposing delay in the trial Of Old Brown, a well
as from the few words dropped from the court
(Judge Puker) in that connection ii was inferred
that an attack Of some sort was appeehended.
PREPARATIONS YoH DEFENCE.
Arms had been freely issued from the United
States Armory at Harper's Ferry, and had been
placed in the hands Of every citisen in whom con.
aas1 Ta. sSr s1s Ss a..
Maryland-had been for some days at Harper 8
Ferry company Of forty or hfty men had been
enrolled IN the service Of the State at Charlestown,
aeq s d.~ a. z ry sscsiving 50
and besides, many Of the Inhabitants had organ,
lied themselves fof patrol service aud were scour
Ing the country In various directions.
The NEGRoEs STILL UNDER SuspIcfox.
The Inhabitants are not by any means EASY I'm
their minds a. to the temper Of the slaves and free
negroes among them. IL has been ascertained. re-
ports to the contrary Notwithstanding, that many
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pefed with by Cook and others Of Browns gang
had at least cognizance Of the plans Of the ma,
rIude1, II they did not sympathise with them. On
the night Col. Washington was taken. q free ne.
gro, who has wife on the Colonel's plantation
was spending the night there, and although he
might In half an hour raised alarm at CharIes.
town, only four miles distant, he RETAINED from
doing 20, and the first news Of the affair was
brought TO that village by citizens Of Harper's
Ferry the next day. There Is no doubt that w asb
ingtons negro coachman, Jim, who was chased
the rebels with good win. A pistoi wa. so,nd
on him, and he had his pockets filled with tsIi
cartridges when he was fshed out Of the river. :
SrRANGrRs SUSPECTED.
EsG r srsnssr VINO steps rom the cars at Har-
under surveillance, especially II at the hotel he
registers his name a. coming from a Northern or
Eastern STATE; any movement beyond the hotel Is
to his business. Sometimes ludicrous missaLes
are made, - Tor instance, In the arrest on t,ro
southern gentlemen, one Of them clergyman
f On sns,, =, Wsv to Prs.sytsr.n synod char
raveuinga gentor peddler can remain In the place
three four Of that class having already ZEN A.
dered sxay. On Friday afternoon, while Brown
der, well dressed man who had lust arrived I'm
town, and who spoke with a rather nasal accent
was ON trial before committee Of citixeus In fh1
yard o. the court house on suspicion Of being an
nant ut the Questions put 10 him cotcerning III
business, but finally gave Satisfactory account Of
himself and was suffered to go on his way
OLD BRowx's INSANITY. - -
The Virginians win not for moment tolrr,t.
the idea that Brown d . monomanisc on the sub
tect o. slavery; The apparent madness and folly
OF me- attempt they Say, y only apparent since be
slaves, but large reinfoscements from ~ No,th
The fact that he left sll his property and his i'm,
portant papers exposed at the Kennedy arm W.
ace Snay Symptom ,s % n.snis and can
them to be taken charge Of by other bands Of
abolitionish who were 70 arrive during the dav.
FRED pouoIAss' TaxAcHxnr.
Ihe .ePSrtsn were fnicrmed after the arrival Of
more. communicative than old Brown. lint no
reporter was allowed 70 see him. His captors say
that Cock told them e Brown had takeh his "a. |
wee ana reeased @ the moontains at once, with
they would have been able 10 succsed. ana thsl
e u y. the entsspsiss only failed through the
T. e ne drsSrS %. Esd
:ehocl-house with large band early On Mondsv.
hin !S s, sss waited tn ssstiy aigas bat De cow
'.sie.s cooE IN JAZZ silx
A slave owner namsd Brown visited f.ook a,
ja:l on Rriday, and recognized him = idsnticai
sn Or twenty gi so Ss MsS v e I'd h:
g last summer, and psstsnted % be enQaged I"
writing h!saosy q Virginia. He went 81 ovs~
the paeuUuoo, covered with the ua0roea go
nnaliy staid over night. AMER be hSS gone 1
'sstss was found On the parl9 table urgisg III.
'sspfi,s;;. Cock .ecegsizsi he visitor, baf had
Whenever he did peak his lip trembled. ssS -
I ss Az 'sss'y ,ssd IN view q bic spPsoseS
Nd 6easen ~ gnng 81 men at Wosk a 4 tvi1.s
fear n, who had obeefved his dGsDoeafs xs~~Ssi
With his cspeon. HE fsee ana ksid stiil 80 H.
marks Of this violence. sas
OLD Bnown's 6cPrEEs-IsLx yrxurrvr. =
During his reaidsnce at the K6nnedv Fsrm r,,x /
Brown, q smith, - he was tn fnossr.- ~,
:haeed al TIE supplies fos >his Int,cr Sr1 49,
amii{ g aa.Igl ts,ys whess - W. 5000
= IN ino9snsive, kind- h1nFted old mas. ~ n,,~
:hasse BE 4o.s-gsnssalIy one band : wi - Il
aefri Wsash IAEE's aoas milln, q he aiSer1 +
'ivss, ql:sssr e @ils shevs - yilisgs, a.
lc1Is - val nd fhvogabJy bnosv1 n ~ 49, i,
a msnrShctnsed a thspe Nails ~. Her ~ |
hat Oh Bfown va peompk an1 buuinsss. NJ "A /
~ ineescoufDe, tn4 always poid H. n613v eseh
1e I'D loeDe1 = fhyoe4ble op1nfol a a. 49, i
dall' = H. neoeey, which W15 oP1111 - - -
en1ese, = eolY = ~ rofs abo1s; ~ - fS
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