NARROW ESCAPE AT HARPER’S FERRY.– We clip the following interesting article from an exchange paper:— There was to be a military execution away up above the heads of everybody in Harper’s Ferry, on Bolivar heights, and […]
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 […]
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, […]
General J. D. Imboden, Confederate General, gives a lengthy account of General David Hunter’s incendiarism, while he had command of the Federal troops in this Valley, during the late war; from which we extract the following […]
Observer was reminded of another story of the late George W. Caton. He lived near the old cement mill, east of town, and word having been carried to Harper’s Ferry to the Union forces then there […]