Patrick Higgins, On Guard At Harpers Ferry Bridge, Was Shot By John Brown When The Abolitionists’ Raid Occurred. JUST as the roll of a drum quickens the step of the old soldiers and rekindles within them […]
THE JOHN BROWN RAIDSOME CLIPPINGS FROM OUR OLD PILES OF 1859. Thursday, October 20th, 1859.OUr citizens were startled on Monday morning last, by the arrival of a messenger informing us that a band of lawless Desperadoes […]
A Veteran Railroad Man’s Memories of John Brown and the Raiders of 1859 HARPER’S FERRY, W. VA., Dec. 26.NEXT Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the execution of John Brown and his band of raiders at […]
Practically neglected and gradually merging into the characterless undulations of the Old Colored Cemetery in this city, is a grave that the colored people should especially honor. Over its apparently neglected surface they should raise some […]
We are frequently asked as to the hanging of John Brown and his comrades– some persons supposing that all were hanged the same day. The facts are these: John Brown was hung December 2nd, 1859, at […]
Miss Kate Field was in town the first of the week looking after her interests. The foundation for John Brown’s Fort is being made on the Murphy farm near town. The bricks, we learn at this […]
Even if John Brown’s “first victim was an industrious, inoffensive colored man,” as is so eloquently stated by the FREE PRESS, the blood of that “victim” has borne glorious fruits to his race, unlocking their shackles, […]
HARPER’S FERRY.Since the announcement that Industry Lodge No. 2 A. O. U. W., would give an excursion to Harper’s Ferry on Thursday, July 29th over the new B. & O. Railroad we have frequently been asked […]
Old John Brown. — “Gath,” in his letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, has some interesting notes of an interview in New York with Hon. A. R. Boteler. He says: Mr. Boteler is a man rather above […]
A man named Sanborn was last week arrested in Massachusetts, by Deputies of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, for contempt in refusing to appear before the John Brown Investigating Committee. He was forcibly taken […]
JOHN BROWN’S OUTLAWS. — The Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee had another meeting on Thursday. The Sergeant-at-arms, who has been in search of John Brown, Jr., has returned, and informed the Committee that he is in Ohio, […]
THE IRISH IN THE NORTH.– The New York Herald publishes a secret circular, which it is evident the abolitionists have printed in the North and sent an agent with it over the South to mail it […]
Gerrett Smith, the abolitionist, is insane. He is confined in the asylum in New York, and in his ravings, frequently speaks of Harper’s Ferry, and imagines himself under arrest. Pity but that all of his comrades […]
It is stated that the arms recently furnished to a colored volunteer company in Philadelphia, have been taken away by the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the Harper’s Ferry affair.
Arrested. We learn from the Charlestown correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, of the 24th inst., that James Lynch, alias William J. Stabough, (the same man whom some of our citizens attempted to ride on a rail […]
We saw in the possession of Hon. A. R. Boteler, on Monday last, a gun belonging to “old” Brown, taken from his rendezvous on the mountain, which weighed 34 pounds and was worked by means of […]
The utmost excitement still prevails in this region, caused from a telegraphic dispatch, received from New York, by Mr. Barbour of Harper’s Ferry, stating that a band of armed men will come from that State, to […]
Hayward Shepherd, the free negro who was shot by the insurrectionists at Harper’s Ferry because he would not join them, was buried at Winchester with the honors of war by the military companies of the town, […]
