Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-11-01

About half-past ten o'clock Sunday night
Oct.l6lh the wa;chrpan on Harpers Ferry bridge
whist walking across the bridge toward the
Mary land side, was seized by number of men
who informed him that he was their prisoner and
must come with them He taken to the L.
S Armory already in their possession, and de-
tanned Until daylight, and then discharged
The insurgents then visited several plantations
nea- by. making prisoners of the proprietors and
arming their siavcs-some 30 or 100, af er which
they returned To the Armory at the Ferry
" hen the eve, ing r. r. Train for Baltimore ar
rived it stopped, and during the raeiec the
coiored assistant baggage master the train.
was shot and nortally wounded. The tram was
detained till about 10 or IL o'clock A. NJ and
then was permitted to proceed which it did.
speaking the news as 1t went. 4 number Of
worknen, knowing nothing of what had occur
red. entered the Armory in the NOR ning usual
and were snccessively taken prIsouers,untii they
had at one tin not less ,han SHY men confined
in the Arnorv
This vas the condition of affairs at daylight
on Monday, about which time Capt Ceuk with
two white men and accompanied by 80 slave.
and taking with them large farm wagon went
over the bridge and struck up the nouD,ains on
the read towards Fennsy lvanla where he made
good his escape. The receipt of this news A.
Ba tiinore. Washington and other place in tho
vicinity seems TO have created the most intense
excitement. President Buchanan, Secretary
/ Floyd and Gov. Wise, believing, that the war
had actually begun" made desperate exertions
and soon had an effective Allied Army" of
about 900, composed of u. S. Troops and Vol
uuteer Companies at the seat of action judy
ing from the accounts reach lg us. the conflict,
winch cnsued must have been Prodigious r.
The ,iei.iisas We're nearly as follows:
The Allies under.,t1oi- Shut approached 10
within safe distance of the-1as rmory waving a
very large flag of truce In most energfc ~ an
ner, here they demanded the surrender of the
Armory. They expostulated long and loudly but
the riolers pertinacously refused To comply and
at last the besie5ers advanced boldly to the at
| tack and cromdod their way inside the enclosure
OF course the rioters had no chance after thi.
and they were nearly exterminaied. Thus closed
= very brilliant passage at
| Brown made has FIRST appearance in the vicin-
| ity OF 1arpers Ferry than year ago as
sumIug the name OF Smith, and made a preten-
dcd search for ore. After an absence OF some
months ne reappeared III the vIcinity and rented
a farm on the Mary land side four miles from the
| Ferry, at which place he frequently seen,
| but no suspicion seemed to have existed that
! Bill Smith was Capt. Brown
Browns chief aid John E. Cook n Young
| man W ho was we'll known in kanzas as daring
man, aud an excellent marksman
Cook, IL Is said, resided for some time Mt the
Ferry before going to kauzas, where LIE become
acquainted with Brown. He finally returned
to The Ferry and married there
| These mad-men proposed, is it appears, to in i
ton OF Slavery. y provisional government was
lp he established. which according to Il draft en
tllled,' Provisional Constitution and Ordinance,
for The peop!e Of the United States,' found al
Browns farm, to consist of Congress Of
not less than five or more than I'll cen member RS
holding office three years /; President and. Vice
President whose term OF office was for like Pc
Rod Chief Justice of the Supreme Court aud
four Associate Judges each constituting a Cir
cult Court-all ID be chosen by b" all citizens OF
mature age and sound mind connected with the
organ uizatlon." All property was to be merged
into a common fund for the use of every onea anc
a glorious reign OF brotherly love was to be es
tablished. But unfortunately for their scheme
the country is not sufficiently advanced to avai
itself OF their services and they Will doubles.
receive their punishment under the old order o
things.
HARrru's FEERr, Oct. 2l-ll p. n.
citizens guard of twenty is establishe,
one OF twenty at Shepardsown, and one q
| | eighty at ChaI lcstown, wbe9e the prisoners ar
confined. They will be indicted for treason
murder, aud inciiIug slaves to revolt Rober
y. Hunter. of Winchester, has been appointe,
20 defend them, and Andrew Hunter will assis
the prosecution.