Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-10-27

Brown walked slowly from the door. Imma,
diately the signal for attack was given, and
the marines, headed by Colonel Harris and
Lieutenant Green, advanced in two lines a,
each side Of the door Two powerful fellow.
sprung between the lines, aud with heavy SIedge
hammers, attempted 70 batter down the door,
The doors swung and swayed, but appeared n
be secured with q rope, the spring of which
deadehed the effect Of The blow. "T-fe"
Failing thus to obtain a breach the marin,
were ordered to fall back, aud twenty of then
then took hold of ladder, some forty feet
long and advancing at run, brought it with
tremendous effect against the door AT tba
second blow, sone leaf falling inwards in slant.
ing position, the marines immediately adyaHce5
to the breach, Major Russell and Lieut. Green
leading A marine in the front fell aud the
firing from the interior was rapid aud
sharp They fired with deliberate ann, and
for moment, the resistance was serious and
desperate enough to excite the spectators to
something like a pitch of phrensy. The mex.
moment the marines poured in, the firing ceas-
ed and the v ork was done, whilst cheers rang
from every side, the general feeling being tha.
the marines had done their part admirably.
, When the insurgents were brought out some
dead and others wounded, they were greeted
with execratons, and only the precautions tha:
had been taken saved them from immediate ex-
ecution. The crowd, nearly every man Of
which carried a gun, swayed with tumultuom
excitement, and cries OF . shoot them :" ''shOO.
them |" rang from every side. a
The appearance of the liberated prisoners.
all of whom through the steadness of the
marines escaped injury, changed the current @.
feeling aud prolonged cheers took the place 0.
howls and eXecrations tE.a ar...
In the assault, Private Ruffert, of the
marines, received ball in the stomach and
was believed to be fatally wounded. AnotLeg
received a slight flesh wonnd.
a.1raes THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The lawn in front Of the engine house, after
the assault, presented dreadful sight. Lying
on it were two bodies of men, killed the pre-.
yious day, and found inside of the house, aud
three wounded men are just at the last gasp
of life, and the two others groaning in agony
Que of the dead was Browns son Oteway
the wounded man, his son Watson, whilst the
father himself lay upon the grass u CORY spec.
tacle, his face and hair clotted with blood, and
a severe bayonet wound in his side
HARPeR's Ferry, Oct. I9.-The prisoners
have been committed to Charleston Jail to
await the action of the grand Jury, when they
will be indicted and tried in a few days
The arrangement about the Jurisdiction has
been settled in this way I: The local authOritios
are to try the prisoners for murder, and in the
meantime the United States authorities vii.
proceed on the charge of treason Governor
Wise said to Mr. Oud, the United State>
District Attorney, that he had 10 objection to
the General Government proceeding agains,
the priSohers that is, what will be left OF them
by the time the Virginia authorities have don.
with them
| Brown is better to tfay and has made fuller
statement of his operations. He says that be
rented the farm from DR. Kennedy six months
since, and he rent is paid until next Mar:h
I He never had over twenty-five men at the
! farm at any one time that belonged to the or
ganiZation, but that he had gOod reason TO ey.
| pectreinfOrcemeuts from " ,rvand kentucky,
! North and South Carolina, ana the Canada>
| He had provided arms sufficient for fifteen
hundred men, including two hundred revolyerS.
two hundred Sharpes rifles, and thousand
spears, all of which were left at the farm
He also had an abundance of powder ard
fixed ammunition. All the arms were from
time to time brought from Connecticut aud
| other eastern points to Chambers5urg, Pa,
and were directed to j. Smith 4 Sons, Kenne-
! dy Farm, his assumed name They were
packed in double boxes so as to deceive the
parties who handled them on their way 10 the
farm. He says that he made one mistake in
either not OBTAINING the train on Sunday night
or else permitting it TO 90 on unmolested.-
This mistake he seemed TO infer exposed his
ioings too soon, and prevented his reinforce
mentS coming
The names of all his party at the Ferry, Oh
Sunday night, except three white men, whom
he admits that he sent away on an err and, are
as follows, with their proper titles under the
Provisional Government '... .e-
Gen. John Brown, commander-in-chet-
wounded, but will recover.
Capt. Oliver Brown-dead
/ Capt. Watson Brown-dead
Capt, John Kagi, of Ohio, raisedin Virgin,
ia-dead
Capt Aaron G. Stevens, OF Connecticut
wounded badly has three balls in his body,
and cannot possibly recover.
Lieut.. Edward Coppec, of Iowa-unhurt
Lieut.. Albert Hazett, OF Pennsylvania
dead. s'
Lieut. Jeremiah Anderson, of Tndiana-dead
Lieut.. w Leman, of Maine-dead
Capt. John E. Cook, of Connecticut
capped.
Privates, Steward Taylor, of Canada-dcad;
Charles P Todd, of MaiDe-dead William
Thompson, of New York-dead d. Thomp-
son, of New York-dead ..
The above, with the three whites previous
ly sent of, make in all seventeen whites.
NegroeS-Dangerfeld Newly, of Ohio rails
ed in Vmginia-dead. Emperor of New York,
raised South Carolina-not wonnded-a priS-
Oner. The latter was elected member OF
Congress Of the ProYisinnal Gnvernment some