Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-10-21
LATE NEWS.
THE INSURRECTlON AT HAIR.
PERS FERRY.


anonymous ietter receiver Dy uOV. TIoyu.
"CISciSSArTi, Aug 20. ls59.-Sir: have
lately received Information OF q movement
OF such great Importance. That feel IT TO te
| my duty to impart it to you without Delay.
| have discovered the existence Of q select
association. having for its objec. the liber-
alton Of the slaves at the South bv general
insurrection. The leader Of the movement
is old John Brown, late Of Kansas. He has
been in Canada during the winter, drilling
the negroes there. and they are only wait
ing his word to start for the South to assist
the slaves They have one Of their leading
men. a white man, in an aTmory in Mary
land As soon as everything is ready those
Of their number who are in the Northern
States and Canada are to come in small
comp ,nies to their rendezvous. which is in
the mountains in Virgiaia.
They will pass down through Pennsylva-
MIA and Maryland, and enter Virginia st
Harper's Ferry. Brown left the North
about three or four weeks ago, and will arm
the negroes, and strike the blow in few
weeks. They have large quantity Of arms
at their rendezvous. ! dare not sign my
name to this. but truet that you will not
disregard this warning on that account"
Sometime during yesterday morning, the
O'Reiliy telegraph line repairer, whilst re
pairing the line between Hasper's Ferry
and Mar;insburg, was shot at by Captain
Cook himself. whom he recognized.
The following is the number Of killed and
wounded during the recent insurrection:
Killed-5 citizens, Is insurgents; wounded
3 insurgents; prisoners, 5 insurgents. The
prisoners have been committed to Charles
ton Jail to await the action OF the CIR nd
Jury, where they will be indicted and tried
in few days. The arrangement about the
jurisdiction has been settled in this way
The locnl authorities are to try the prison.
ers for murder, and in the meanwhile the
United States authorities will proceed on
he charge Of treason. Gov. Wise said TO
Mr. Ould, the u. S. District Attorney, that
he had no objections to the General Govern.
ment proceeding against the prisoners
that is what will be left of them by the
time the Virginia authorities are done with
them.
Brown is better to-day, and has made a
fuller statement Of his operations. He says
that he rented the farm Of DIR. Kennedy six
months since and that the rent is paid un.
til next March. He never had over twenty
two men at the farm at any one time that
belonged to the organization, but that he
had good reason to expect reinfOrcements
from Maryland. Kentucky, North Carolina,
South Carolina and the Canadas. He had
provided arms sufficient for 1900 men. in
cluding 200 revolvers, 200 Sharpe's rifles,
and 1000 spears-all of which werel left at
the farm He also had an abuudan Of
powder and ammunition.
The arm. WERE from, time to time brought
from Connecticut and other eastern points,
to Chambersburg. Pa. and we're directed
to j. Smith d Sons, Kennedy Farm-his as.
sumed name. They were packed in double
boxes so as to deceive the parties handling
them on their way to the farm. He says
he made one mistake, in either not detain-
ing the train on Sunday night. or else per-
mitting it to 60 on unmolested. This mis-.
take, he seemed to infer, exposed his doings
too soon, and prevented his reinforcements
coming.
The names Of all his party at the Ferry
on Sunday night, except three white men,
whom he admits that he sent away on an
errAnd, are as follows. with their proper IT,
ties under the provisional government:
Gen. John Brown, Commander in Chief,
wounded, but will recover; Capt. Oliver
Bro wn, dead; Capt Watson Brown. dead
Capt. John ksige Of Ohio, raised in Va,
| Ucdu O0pt "a ~. AStcRucuop W OohH's n~'
three balls in his body and cannot recover
1t. Edwin Coppie, OF Iowa. unhurt Lieut..
Alber Hazlett, Of Pa, dead 1t. Jeremiah
Anderson, of Indiana, dead; It. WIN. Lee
man, of Indiana, dead Capt. John E Cook
of Conn, escaped. Privates-S. Taylor, of
Canada, dead; C. P. Tidd, Of Maine, dead
W. Thompson, of New York, dead Dolph
Thompson, of New York, dead.
| xvh hikoc vpnvi-
ously sent off make in all seventeen whites.
raised in Va, dead, Emperor of N. Y,
raised in S. c., not wounded but prisone r.
The latter was elected member of the
Lewis Leary, of Ohio, raised in Va, dead.
Copeland Of Ohio. raised in Va. not woun
ded but a prisoner at CEarlestown.
Gen. Brown has nine wounds but none
fatal
among papers ut Browns:
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances 70,
the people of the United States;
| PREAMBLE.
Whereds Slavery, throughout its entire
existence in the Uni ed States, is none other
than the most barbarous, unprovoked and
unjustifiable war Of one portion Of its citi-
zens upon another portion, the only condi
tions Of which are perpetual Imprisonment
and hopeless servitude, or absolute EXTERN.
ination. in utter sregard and violation OF
those eternal and self,evident truths set
forth in our Declaration of Independence.
Therefore, we, the citizens Of the United
States. and the oppressed people who. by
the recent decision Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, are declared to have no
rights which tho white man is bound to re-
spect, together with al people degraded by
the laws therefor. do for the time being
ordain and establish for ourselves the fol-
lowing provisional constitution and ordin-
ances, the better to protect our people, their
property, lives and liberties, and to govern
our action:
Article l.-Qualifcations for Member
ship-All persons Of mature age, whether
prescribed, oppressed and enslaved citizens,
or Of the prescribed and oppressed races Of
the United States, who shall agree to sus-
tain and enforce the Provisional Constitu-
tion and ordinances of this organization, to-
gether with all minor children of such per-
sons. shall he held to be fully entitled to
protection under the same.
ARTICLE 2.-Branches Of Government -
The Provincial Government Of this "rgsni-
zation shall consist of three branches, viz
legislative, Executive aud Judicial.
ARTICLE 3.-Ihe Legislative B,anch-shall
be Congress, or House of Representatives,
composed Of not less than five nor more
than fifteen members, who shall be elected
BY oil citizens Of mature age and of sound
mind connected with this organiEati"-' snd
who shall remain in off, '0r tnree yes~
death \ majority of such members shall
rALs4ec,tive BrancA-shall con.
.;.t Of : P-.sldent and Vice President, who
ar % chosen by citizens and members Of
this organization. and each Of whom shall
hold this office three years, unless sooner
removed by death, inability or misconduct.