Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-10-28

3, lntormant; who was on Inc hill Whlle I'M
h firing was going on, says that all the terri
H bic scenes of battle passed in reality
n beneath his eyes. Soldiers could be seer
pursuing singly and in couples, and the
$ muskets and rifles were generally followed
!, Iby one or more of insurgents biting the
y dust. The dead lay in the streets where
/ they fell; the wounded were cared for.
v Capt Brown wounds consist of sword
: cut in the forehead and o bayonet wound
e in the Kidneys. Another of The rioters
e Killed was named Stewart Taylor J. C.
Anderson, ring Header who stopped con-
. tductor Phelps yesterday, was killed dur
ing the first attack by the 9Virginians.--
u Anderson was fine looking man with a
| flowing beard Some of the Maryland
volunteers are in pursuit of Captain Cook s
party. A Body IofV40 mounted men left
this afternoon for Harper's Ferry to pur-
sue the rioters
j It Is. reported that many Of them had
escaped and are secreted in the noun
tains. b,sa54 ,ss3a sdl ~. l.ar liin .li.E .
Baltimore, Oct. 19h.-The following
! fragment of a letter was found in Capt.
Browns pocketa 1T occupiesia page of
fine note paper, straw-tinted, and is writ
ten in pencil, evidently from person of
tsome education, and without any date
The freight alluded to was doubtless the
sort usually carried on the underground
railroad
I gHGPtT BrqpnTDsarSrF hhqye been
disappointed at not seeing you here ere
this to take charge of your freight They
have been here now for two weeks, and as
III have had to superintend the providing
for them, it has imposed on memo small
task besides, and if not soon taken on
some Of them will 60 to Missouri. I wish
Ito know definitely, what you purpose do
ing. They cannot be kept here much
longer without risk, to themselves, and if
any, of them conclude to go back to the
State it will be bad termination to your
enterprise. No signature. The princi-
pal originator of the short but bloody ex-
istence of this insurrection was undoubt-
dly Capt. John Brown, whose connection
with scenes of violence in the border war
, fare of Kansas then made his name famili-
arly notorious to the whole country
Brown made his first appearance in, the
vicinity of ,Harper's Ferry more than a
year ago, accompanied by his two sons,
the whole party assuming the name of
, Smith. They inquired about land in the
vicinity, and made investigations on the
probability of finding ores and for some
time they boarded at Sandy Point, a mile
east of the Ferry After an absence of
some months they reappeared in the vicini-
ty, and the elder Brown rented or leased
a farm on the Maryland side, about four
miles from the Ferry They bought a
this confirmed the belief that they intend
cd to, mine for ores. They were seen
frequently in and about Harper's Ferry,
but no. suspicion seems to have existed
that Bill Smith was Capt. Brown, or that
he intended embarking in any movement
so desperate and extraordinary. Yet the
developments of the plot leave no doubt
that his visits to the Ferry and his lease
of the farm were all parts of his prepara-
tion for the insurrection, which he sup
posed would be successful in exterminat-
ing slavery in Maryland and Western
6 Virginia. .,..-s.-r..-.,--.-.--s
Browns chief aid was John e. Cook; a
comparatively young man, who has resided
Il III anu HSdl tiiS srSllgl ioi seViiO y cal o.
He was first employed in tending a lock
$ on the canal Afterwards he taught
J school on the Maryland side of the river,
g and after a brief residence in Kansas,
{ where it is supposed he became acquaint-
. ed with Brown, hereturned to the Ferry
] and married there He was regarded as a
$ man of some intelligence, known to be
anti-slayery, hut not, so violent in the .ex-
0 preston Of his opinions as to excite any
suspicious. These two men, with Browns
two sons, were the only white men con
= nected with the insurrection that had been
I seen previously about the Ferry. All were
: brought by Brown from a distance and
/ nearly all had been with him in Kansas.
4 The first active movement in the insur-
e rection was made about half past ten
# o'clock on Sunday night. VIM. William
e son, the watchman on the Harper's Ferry
n bridge, whilst walking across towards the
), Maryland side, was seized by a number Of
r men, who said he, was their prisoner. and
h must come with them. He recognized
s Brown and Cook among the men, and
s knowing them, he treated the matter as 6
t. oke, but enforcing their authority, they
: conducted him 10 the armory which he
J. found already in their possession. Hi
d was retained till after day light when they
: dischai ged him. The watchman was tc
il relive him at midnight, found the bridge
lights all out, and was Immediately seized
d Supposing IL an attempt at robbery, hC
e broke away and his pursuers stumbling
n over, he escaped. aaa- ..t ..r 4.lf
/, The next appearance of the insurrec
IS tionists was at the house Of Col Lewis
g Washington, a large farmer and slav'
owner, living about four miles from the
d Ferry. A party headed by Cook proceed
is ed there, reused LColIWs and ytold hin
n that he was their prisoner. They ais
% seized all the slaves near the house, ant
S took carriage and horses, and larg'
e. wagon with two horses. -
o, When Col Washington saw Cook, h
n recopniyel himeas aaman who had callej