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MuQCKbourne *MA«TiNSBU/td^XzSHEPARDS I•■'msufunMsnm./luiuiiiniaiiuiUiWfTSBSCH£MC.CHARLES K «2SHEWANJDOAH SIaOberlin, Ohio, raised in Virginia; Oberlin, Ohio.INCIDENTS.Copeland,During the attack on the engine house by the Martinsburg men, on Monday afternoon, one ofthem had a part of his coat tail shot away, the ball cutting it off near the waist like a knife. As it fell to the ground he looked at it for an instant and then remarked to a comrade that “they will haveto cut my pegs off* before they stop me. They areit fimmnnitimi in PiiHinrr aIV mv paqf fail 99wasting ammunition in cutting oil'my coat tail.Mr. Ball, one of the imprisoned citizens, was so disheartened during Monday night that he desired some one ot the insurgents to kill him and end hismisery. Capt. Brown requested him to wait untilooJMSWRSWENCLmorning, w hen it was probable he would begrati- , tied. In the morning Mr. Ball was more hopeful, and did not remind Capt. Brown of the wish he had expressed during the night, and when the engine house w as taken he manifested his thanks and grat-itude to his deliverers by taking a marine witheach hand and clasping a third to his breast. Mr. Ball is an estimable citizen and a warm hearted man.A negro boy belonging to Mr. Washington, who was taken by the insurgents at the time his master was, when he reached the Ferry w as offered a pike, which he refused, when one of the insurgents told him that he was free and should tight the whites. The boy replied, ‘*1 don’t know' anything about being free; I was free enough before you took me, and Pm not going to tight until I see Massa Lewis fighting, and then I tight for him.” Thus boy was among the prisoners in the engine-house.THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.The following is the letter addressed to the Secretary of War, warning him of the outbreak at Harper’s Ferry :Cincinnati, August 20.Sir :—I have lately received informal on of a movement of so great importance that 1 feel it tobe my duty to impart it to you without delay.I have discovered the existence of a secret association, having for its object the liberation of the slaves of the South by a general insurrection. Theleader of the movement is “Old John Brown” late of Kansas. He has been in Canada during the winter, drilling the negroes there, and they are only waiting his word to start for the South to assist the slaves. They have one of their leading men (a white man) in an armory in Maryland; where it is situated, I am not enabled to learn.As soon as everything is ready, those of their number who are in the Northern States and Canada, are to come in small companies to their rendezvous, which is in the mountains of Virginia. They will pass down through Pennsylvania and Maryland, and enter Virginia at Harper’s Ferry. Brown left the North about three or lour weekstttrn and will arm fhn nuirrnno and airilraKir,TIMORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1859.
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Baltimore Daily Exchange
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1859
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