The breaking up of the ice on the river has proven injurious to Dam No. 5 on the C. & O. Canal. About 80 or 100 feet of the old Dam has been broken and washed […]
In the House of Delegates, the clerk read a communication from the Senate announcing their agreement to a Joint Committee, on the subject of Harper’s Ferry expenses. Reports were also made allowing a pension to Mrs. […]
List of the Taxable Land in Jefferson County for the Year 1859. Name of Owner Flanagan, Martha Residence Jefferson Estate, whether held in fee simple, for life, &c. Dower Number of Acres 123 3/4 Name of […]
List of the Taxable Land in Jefferson County for the Year 1859. Name of Owner Flanagan, James heirs Residence Jefferson Estate, whether held in fee simple, for life, &c. in fee Number of Acres 129 3/4 […]
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 […]
In the County CourtNov. Term 1859 Ordered that William McSherry, Israel Russell and Thomas Gallaher being first sworn, appraise the personal estate of Thomas Boerley, dec’d, and make report thereof according to law. A copy. Teste […]
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 understood that the contract for constructing the Armory dam at Harper’s Ferry is awarded by the Government to Hugh L. Gallaher, formerly of this town.
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 […]
