The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-22

Z white man, In an armory n Marylsnd. Al
soon - everything il ready, tkooe Of their
number who are in tho Northern o1otes and
Canada ~ to come in small companies TO
t1pie renDssvous, which 10 IN the Iountains
r Virginia
ssThey will pass down through Psnnsylva-
nh md Maryland and enter Virginia = Har-
psf's Ferry. Brown left the North about
three or four weeks ago, and will arm the
negroes, and strike tho blow in few weeks.
They h1se large quantity Of arms u their
randeEyous.s dare not sign ny name 70 this,
bns trust that you will not disregard this
warning on thes account. =
Sometime during yesterday morning, the
O'Reilly telegraph line repairer, whilst re-
pairing the line between Harper's Ferry and
Martinsburg, wss shot q BY Capt. Cook him
self, whom Ne recognised.
The following 10 the number Of killed and
wounded during the recent insurreesion -
Killed, S citisens, is insurgents wounded, 8
insurgents; prisoners, insurgents. The
prisoners have been committed 80 Charleston
jail to await the action OF the Grand Jury.
where they will be indicted and tried ia few
days. The arrangement about the jurisdic-
ton has been settled in this way: The local
authorities are to try the prisoners for MUIR
der, and IN the meanwhile the United States
authorities will proceed on tho chsrge Of
treason. Gov. Wise said 70 Mr.. Ouid, the
o. s. District Attorney, that he had no OBJ.
jecsions to the General Governmsns proceed
ing sgainst the prisoners. Thas ID what will
be left Of thsm by the time tho Virxinia au-
th0rities are done with them.
Brown 10 better to-day, and has made =
fuller statement OF his operations. He says
that he rented the farm Of DR.. Kennedy six
months since, and the rent 10 paid until next
March. He never had over twenty two men
at the farm ct any one time that belonged to
the organisation, but that he had good reason
to expect reinforcements from Maryland,
Kentucky, North and South Csrolins and tho
Canadas. He had provided arms sufficient
for 1900 mon, including 200 revolver, 200
Sharpe's rifles, and / 900 spears--an OF which
| we're left ae the farm. He also had IN abun-
dance Of powder and ammunition.
The arms werc from time TO time brought
from Connecticut and other Eastern points,
10 Chambersburg, Pa, and we're directed to
]. Smith 1 Sons, Kennedy Farm-his as-
sumed name. They we're packed in double
boxes, so ~ to deceive the parties who ham
died them on their way to tho farm. He
says he made one mistake, in either not do.
taininiDg tho train on Sunday night, or else
permitting il to 60 on nnnolsstsd. This
mistake, be seemed TO infer, exposed his do
iDgs too soon and prevented HE reinforce
ments coming.
The names Of ell his party Il the Ferry On
Sunday night, except three white men, whom
he admits that he sent away on On errand,
sre ~ follows, with their proper titles under
the provisional government:
Gen. John Brown, Oommander-in-O Chief,
wounded, but will recover; Capt. Oliver
Brown, dead; Capt. Watson Brown, dead !;
Capt. John Kaigis, Of Ohio, raised in Vir-
ginis, daad; Oapt. Aaron O. Stephens, Of
Conn.,, wounded badly, has three balls ia HE
pie, Of Iowa, unhurt Lieut.. Alder Haslett,
of Indiana, dead; Lieut.. WIN. Lssman, Of In.
dams, dead Capt. John e. Cook, OF Conn,
escaped; Privates- Stewart Taylor, Of Cana
da, dead; Chas. p. Tidd, of Maine, dead !;
Wn. Thampson, Of New York, dead Dolph
Thomson, OF New York, dead.
The'sbovc, With tho three whites previous.
ly sent %, make in oil II whites.
NKoRoxs - DAngorfeld, newly Of Ohio,
raised in Virginia, dead Emperor, Of N. T.,
raised in s. o., not wounded but prisoner;
The latter wAs elected = member Of the Pro-
visional Government Some time since. Lew
10 Leary, OF Ohio, raised 10 Va, dead. Cope
land, OF Ohio, raised in Va, not wounded, .
prisoner 1t Charlestown. ~
Gen. Brown has nine wounds, but mono
fatal.
/ A bushel Of letters were discovered, from
oil parts Of the country. One from Gerritt
Smith informs brown Of money being do
posted ia bank in New York to the credit
Of J. Smith & Sons, and appears to be one Of
many, informing him from time to time q
money was raised.
The following IL the constitution found
among papers 1t Browns farm:
ProUissoayI Constitutions and Ordinoncss
for the People Of tho United States.
PRxAEBLE.
II Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire
existence 10 the United States, u mono other
than the most bsrbarous, unprovoksd and
unjusti6able war Of one portion Of it, oiti-
| sens apon another portion, the only eondi-
tions Of which are perpetual imprisonmeAt
and hopeless servitude, or absolute extsrmi-
nation, 10 utter disregard and violation Of
those eternal and self evident truths set forth
10 our Declaration Of Independence: There
fore, We, tho sitisens Of tho United States,
and oppressed people Who, BY the recent de-
| cision 81 the Supreme Court Of the United
States, are declared to have no rights which
the white man is boundto repecl, togsthsr
with all people degraded b the laws there
for, do for the time bAiae oG1Ain and estab-
lish for ourselves the fol3ouine Provisional
lDDnstituton and Ordinances, ~ better 90
protect our peopls, sheir properly, lives and
liberties, and 70 govern ar aeei1a.
| Article I.--Quaiiosaai6as q 111hhsrship.
ALI persons OF mA1DRe -, Mkl1hSf pro-
scribed, oppressed and snslavsd eitisens, or
Of the proscribed and oppressed races of The
United StAtes, who sha1l agree 70 sustaiu
and enforce the Provisional Oonstitution and
ordinances Of this organisation, together with
oil minor children OF such persons, shall be
held TO be fully entitled to Profession 0ndss