The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-10-22
Insured tion at Harper's Ferry,

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of the attack and the complete success of the
insurrectionists in their efforts to get posses.
sion of the Armory and other public build
ings, struck terror to the inhabitants, and
caused the most exaggerated runors in regard
J to the number and character of the assailants.
These runlors, which estimated the nun.
Der Of insurrectionists, in arms, at from fl We
to seven hundred, turn out to be entirely
unlounded. 1t seems that about twenty three
crazy fanatics, white and black, lead by one
Captain Brown, who figured largely in the
late Kansas troubles, conceived the project of
exciting an independent provisional govern
inert. with Harper s Ferry as its capital, and
fully organized with President, two houses
Of congress, supreme court aud secretaries of
state and war; the object of which was to
effect the liberation OF the slaves in the South,
by aifording them place of refuge within
the territory Of this provisional government.
On Sunday night these men, fully armed,
secured possession Of the Armory, made
prisoner Of a watchman at Harpcr's Ferry
bridge, attacked the residence of two or three
farmers in the vicinity. and took the proprie-
tors and their slaves prisoners; and the
people of Harpers Ferry. on waking up in
the morning found the bridge guarded oy
armed men, guards stationed at the avenues,
and themselves prisoners. Much fighting
took place on Monday. chiefly between the
employees of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road Company, and the insurrec tionists. -
Several persons were killed on each side
The alarm had spread in the mean time to
the neighboring towns and cities, and troops
began to arrive during Monday night. On
| Tuesday morning the U. s. Marines, from
Washington, battered down the Armory door
and effected an entrance, the insurrectionlsts
refusing steadily to surrcnde: unless allowed
10 pass out unmolcstcd. One or two of the
marines were fatally wounded in this attack. -
Several of the insurreclionists were taken
prisoners, among whom was the leader,
Brown. severely wounded. The following is
WHITES Captain John Brown, commander
n-chiet--woundcd, will recover; Captains
Oliver Brown, and Watson Brown, both dead ,
sons ofCapt Brown. Capt Aaron G. Stevens,
Connecticut badly wounded; three balls ;
cannot possibly recover; Lieutenant Edwin
| Coppuck, Iowa unwounded; Lieut.. Edward
Hazlitt, Pennsylvania, and William Leman
Maine-both dead captain John F.. Cook,
Connectcut-escaped; Stewart Taylor. Canada
| Charles =. Tidd, Maine-both dead; William
and Dolph Thompson, New York, both dead ;
captain Ohm kagi, Ohio, but raised in Virginia
-dead; Lieut. jeremiah Anderson, Indiana
dead.
NEGROES Daingerticld Newly, Ohio ;
raised in Virginia O. p. Anderson, Pennsyl-
zania-both dead; Shields Green aias
Emperor, New York, raised in South Carolina
prisoners at the Ferry; Lewis Lcary. Ohio,
raised in Virginia; dead. --Copel land =,
Ohio, raised in Virginia; prisoner at Charles
| ton.
~ Brown stated that this man was a
Member of Congress under the 5, Provisional
Government J." he intended catab fishing.
One of the leaders named Cook escaped
toward Pa, ii is said, with number of slaves
An anonymous letter to the Secretary of war
dated Cincinnati Aug. Goth, 1859, revealed
nearly the whole scheme bat no attention was
paid to it. The following in reference to
Old Brown the leader, and President of the
outbreak, will be interesting -
HAnpER's FERRY. Oct. l9.-Thc wounds
of 9 Old Ossawattamie " Brown are not at all
dangerous and he is to-day amost well again.
| His fanaticiSm is of that character which
shuts out all doubt from his own mind about
the propricty Of the desperately wild foray in
which he has engaged. lie takes it for granted
that he was right, cares for nobody else S
opinion, and views the murders he and his
men committed as merely the necessary result
of the war in which he had engaged against
slavery. lie processes to be prepared for
trial. though having no doubt Of his convic-
| ton, and AYERS his readiness to die on Inc
scaiiold, though he would not like TO be
slaughtered by the mob.
lie made a statement TO Gov. Wise this
morning, Of which the following is the sub
| Stance:-
G. l will be sixty years old next MONTH
[ rented the Kennedy farm six months ago.
1t belongs to DR.. Kennedy, of Sharpsburg,
Md: had paid the rent up to March next.
| never had over twenty-five men at any one
time at that farm, who belonged to my regular
organization. but had good reason to expect
reinforcements from Maryland, Kentucky,
North and South Carolina and Canada
negroes and whites), and had arms enough
on The farEI to arm about fifteen hundred
men not quite full. The arms consisted Of
200 revolvers, 200 Sharp's rifles, and 900
spears. | left these arms at the farm
We had plenty of powder and fixed ammuni
ton. We brought all the aims from time to
time from the East to Chambcrsburg, Pa,
and they were there packed in double boxes,
so as to deceive the parties who hauled them
to the farm. They were directed to j. Smith
Il Sons, Kennedy farm, that being the lame
we had assumed"
The whole outbreak has been subdued, and
the peace and quiet of the place completely
restored The Baltimore Sun of Wednesday
says of the instruction
THE whole. affair DIV indies into utter insig-
nicance as the literal facts are brought out
from the uncertainty peculiar to the first dem.
onstration' And although so bold, Sudden
and formidable a course Of action, naturally
aroused suspicion of " dc spread and pre-.
concerted movement, and induced the most
efficient means for its suppression, the meas
ures adopted have lmost ludicrous diSpro-
portion to the necessity of the occasion and
the result"
There does not appear to be any evidence
that the slaves of the neighborhood had any
intention of rising; few seem to have been
forced 10 assist, and some perhaps took the