Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-04
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From the New York Herald of Tuesday
News Rumors and Gossip from Harper's
FerrY.

From the New York Herald of Tuesday
News Rumors and Gossip from Harper's
Ferry.
One Of our special reporters, who has been Mt
liarper's Ferry and that ncighborhood since the
first news Of the outbreak, returned To this city
yesterday, aud gives us some additional items of
news and incidents connected with the affair.
CONTINUED EXCITEMENT AND ALARM.
The whole Of Jefferson county aud tho adioin-
ing counties in Virginia and Maryland continue
IN II state of great and increasing excitement,
which will hardly be allayed SO long Ms "Old Os-
sawatumie Brown" continues to live. Rnmors
and reports of movements hy the abotionists to
rescue Brown and his men. on trial at
Chnrlestown, or to nvengc their death, should
they be executed, were in continual circulation.
and tho authorities constantly sending and
receiving telcgrnphc dispatches on tho subject.
The purport ot these communications was not sui
Icrcd to transpire, hut enough had leaked out to
keep up the fever. From the rema, ks of the
counsel for the prosecution in opposing delay in
the trnl of old Brown, as well rs from the few
words dropped by the Court Judgc Parkcr) in
that connection, it was inferred that an attack Of
some sort was momentarily apprehendod.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE.
Arms had been freely ISSUED from the United
States Armory Mt llarpeI's Ferry and Ind been
placed in the hands ol every citizen in whom
fdencc could be rcpascd A military company
the United Guard. Cnpt. Snn, from Frederick,
Mary and-hud cen tor me days ut llurpcr'r
Ferry; company of forty or fifty men had been
enrolled in the service or the State at Charles
town, receiving 81 80 p"r cach to guard the court
house aud nl; and besides, many of the inhabi-
tnnts bad orgnuzcd themselves for patrol service,
and were .coitiat th,c,nnuy in varous dircc-
tions. The reporters Mt Charestuwn were intor
med, an Friday morning hast, that thirty or forty
marines had arrived ut lIarpcr's Ferry, but no
Inl .l,1. IA Ciiu
and it is pps,bc that the story told only IN
order that the ahuliui~ts, who are suppose Ia
read the papers. mi, ,ht lac deferred from making
another attack ut i|iat point.
TIE NFGRuEs uNDER SUSPICION.
The inha' itants arc not by nny means easy III
there minds ny to the temper Of the slaves and free
negroes amnng them Col Washington, who
was of ol Browns hostages does not slcnd
,, nights at home, and we are assured that many
other wealthy slave owners. who residences lie at
IA distance from those OF their neigh hbors, also
gard it prudent to lodge elsewhere for tho pres
ent; ard yet the personal courage of these gentle
mon Cannot be doubted Ii has been ns'ertnined
reports to the contrary Notwithstanding. that many
negroes in the nei shborhood. who had been tam
pcred with Ly Cook and ,thcrs Of Browns gang.
had ut least cuguihanrc oi the maraudcrs, 1t they
did not sympathlse with them. On tho night
that Colonel Washington was taken, free M
gto who has n wife on the Coloncis plantntlpn.
was spending the night thcrc& although he mi ght
in haitian hour raised an alarm at Charlcstown, only
two " three .milcs distant. he rciraine1 from dn-
ing 50, and the first news was brought to that vl-
lnge hy citizens Of llarper's Ferry the next day.
There is ~ doubt that Nashlngtons negro
c0achman, Jim, who chased into the river
by citizens and drowned, had Joined the rebels
will. A pistol ;was found on Tim, and he had
his pockets filled with ball cartridges when he
was ished out of the river.
AMYsTERY.
On Sunday evening before the attack, gentle
man on the wayto llarpers Ferry was stopped III
a lonely place. three or four miles distant, by II
white man, carrying rife, and two neGtors,
armed with axes, who told hlm there was some
thing going at llarperS Ferry, and he must
turn back He did 50, and the men remained
standing there until he was OF sight Who these
par les were,or what their connection with Brown
party is stilla mystery.
HoRE or BROWNS MN AROUND.
1t is certain that Browns party coneidera
hlv larger When the attack was made than hc has
Acknowledged, VAS at first supposed. There
must have been at leas. thrty men. Beside the
two suns Of Brown who were killed, another
Owen Brown was engages with Cook most OF
the day orx. NJ sdaI ia carrying arms from the
Kennedy lm la { schoolhouse in the neiphbor-
hood OF HarHer's Perry. and male hs esCal . at
night stephens and Copree cnch acknov ledge
also that they had a brother in the fight, and they
have not been heard from since. Three or four
men who vera stopping At the Wager House on
the day Brown haI possession of the Armory alSp
left very suddenly at night and are suspected Of
having been concerned in the matter. One of
them had previously been MT the hotel and regis
tered different name. Crcum> tances have also
transpired leading to the belief that wounded men
have been concealed ia the nc ghborhood for seyc-
raj DAYS, and have received the attentions #
,hysician. At the Relay House. II few n .lits
since. man rolled himself from the train frLm
Ilarpcrs Ferry while it was still in rapid motion,
and when picked up he was found to have
we're stab or gun shot wound in his side He
arrested on suspicion, and is still in custody.