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to call out the militia to repel the invasion. This appeal was promptly responded to, and Harper's Ferry was taken possession of by a body of men who believed they were acting under the authority of the United States Government, and who never understood, their true position until, after a few days, they found strangers, secession leaders from the South, superseding their officers, and strange soldiers from distant parts looking with suspicion upon themselves. Dr. Funsten, of White Post, Clarke county, at present distinguished as a proscriptive and cruel officer of rebels in that region, was peculiarly adroit and energetic in consummating this great act of villainy, which, like almost every act as yet performed by the rebel horde, is characterized by meanness, falsehood, and fraud, toward the loyal and peace-loving portion of their own citizens. The foregoing statement has been made to us by an intelligent and truthful witness, and sufferer of the wrongs enacted in Clarke a