Smyrna times., 1859-11-03
Further Incidents and Items
Ofthe Harper's Ferry Rebellion.

Of the Harper's Ferry Rebelli on.
The colored man Copeland, arrested for hi
completely with the Harper's Ferry outbrea K
has made a full confession of all he knew o
) the affair. He duplicates many persons here
totore not suspected, and states that rising
was expected about the same time in Kentucky
All the facts are not published, and when they
are, a sensation is expected.
At the trial of Brown, an attempt was about
being made to urge the plea of insanity in his
behalf, but he Indignantly denied the truth ol
such an assertion. He seems rather to glory
IN his present position.
Lawson Bolts, the counsel for Brown and his
contederates, is son of the late Gen. Thomas
II. Bolts, of Virginia, and nephew of John NJ.
Bolts and the Princess Catharine d. Murat, of
Florida. His mother is grand-niece of Gen.
Washington. Mr.. Bolts is said to be a young
lawyer who relies on his profession for subsis-
tence. and a man of good ability and spotless
character.
1t is thought that Fred Douglass has fed to
Canada, to avoid becoming involved in the Har-
per's Ferry difficulty.
Another insurgent. named Alfred Hazlett,
arrested at Carlisle, Pa, has been conveyed
back to Virginia.
| A dispatch from Charlestown, on Tuesday ?,
the 25th ult., says: The reason given for hur.
rying the trial is, that the people of the whole
county are kept in a state of excitement, and
large armed force is required to prevent at.
tempts at rescue. 1t is presumed that they
will demand separate trials. After conviction,
but few days will be given them before their
execution. 1t is thought that all but Brown
will make full confession.
A fellow named Lynch alias William ]. Sto-
burg, supposed to be implicated in the affair,
has been arrested and confined at Charlestown
There is great excitement at Charlestown, and
the town is guarded by large body of troops.
1t is stated that Brown has given the sheriff
an order on DR.. Murphy, paymaster at the Har.
per's Ferry armory, for the three hundred dol
lars taken from him, to purchase comforts for
himself and fellow prisoners.
There is a report at Washington that the
Secretary of War has received, since the affair
at Harper's Ferry, an insoent letter, purport-
ing TO come from the notorious Cook, dated at
Chambersburg, Pa, informing him that it is his
intention to march an army of several thousand
men and take Harper's Ferry and CharIestown,
and liberate the prisoners, aud TO perform sun
dry other ridiculous feats!
| Alexander R. BoteIer, member elect to Con.
gress, has collected from fifty to one hundred
letters from the citizens Of the neighborhood of
Browns house, who searched it before the ar
rival of the marines. The letters are in the
possession of Andrew Hunter, ESQ.,, who had a
large number of letters obtained from Browns
house by the marines and other partes among
them is a roll of the conspirat tors containing
| forty-seven signatures; also a receipt from
Horace Greeley for letters, &c., received from
Brown. and an accurately traced map from
Chambersburg to Browns house.
G. S. GOOD FOR 1000 MEN.-There are also
copies of letters from Brown stating that as the
arrival of too many men at once would excite
suspicion, they should arrive singly; and let
ter IRON Merriam, stating that of the twenty
thousand men wanted, G. S. toas good for one
fifth.
F. ]. Merriam, of Boston. who had some con-
necton with the affair at Harper's Ferry, but
who caped before the taking of the Arsenal,
has since died of his wounds. He was hurried.
ly buried in Virginia by fugitive slaves.
Who is Captain Conspirator Brown! CO.
temporary makes this response: He is the
son of wealthy farmer of Hudson, Portage
county, Ohio, by the name of Owen. or Squire
Brown, as he was generally called. John
Brown was born in Litchfeld county, Connec-
ticut, but resided for more than thirty years in
Hudson township, Ohio, on a dairy farm, but
subsequently, embarked in wool growing, in
which business he was quite successful, until
he accompanied very large venture Of the
finest quality of that article 10 England. This
speculation resulted in a ruinOus loss, and from
that time to This he has been more or less ab-
sorbed in the furtherancs of Abolition views, on
which subject he was complete fanatic"
The New York Tribune says that John E.
Cook, one of Browns men, Commissioned as
Captain,) was born in Haddam, Conn.,, where
his parents, who are highly respectable people,
now reside. He is a brother in-law of a we'll
known merchant in New York, and four or five
years ago he studied law in Williamsburg -
; Three years ago he went to Kansas, and re.
mained there about one year, and at the exp.
ration of that time he returned to Williams
burg, where he remained for few weeks
when he again set out for Kansas, since which
time his friends in New York have heard moth
ing from him until now.
3 THE New York Herald of last week, pub
= lished the correspondence of Col. Hugh Forbes
: a cosmopolitan soldier, with certain parties in
3 teresled in the outbreak at Harper's Ferry
j. Forbes was with Brown in Kansas, worked 70
the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, VIII
n forgot 10 pay him for his services, and was th
originator of the Stampede plan which o.:
Brown attempted so unsuccessfully to carr
Il into execution. Col Forbes letters show tn
d completely of Seward, Hale, Sumner, Greele
s, and other lesding Republicans, in the Harper
n Ferry affair. They show, too, that their cor
nection with Brown aud their other tools, wa
Of not recently formed; and, to use the words
ID the Herald, " that it was not alone feeling
L philanthropy, nor even a political motive th'
of led these New England and New York Abol
q tionIsts to encourage Old Brown, Of ossawot,
lnie. Something more than all that was at Il
bottom of the movement. And what! Spec
err laton in the rise of Cotton had more to do wi
al the Harper's Ferry outbreak than ali the oth'
op causes combined. Old Brown HI
al told Forbes that member OF the house OF La'
es renee. Stone g. Co., celebrated for the $57 OF