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Standing at Harper's Ferry. --A gentleman last arrived from the above locality, informed us last night that Col. Turner Ashby, of Far n erarrived at Bolivar, near Harper's ferry. about two o'clock last Sunday afternoon with 200 troops. He sent forward 10 men to reconnoitre, who reported 400 Abolition soldiers in Harper's Ferry. He proceeded intending to attack them. On arriving at Camp Hill he recertained that they had found out his design, and crossed the Potomac on a bridge of boats. Ashby and his men, who are encamped two miles south of Charlestown, VaBanks has a considerable force two miles from Harper's Ferry. There is now, so far as known, no Yankees in arms on the Virginia side of the Potomac from Mar- down to Harper's Fe of Charlestown, VaBanks has a considerable force two miles from Harper's Ferry. There is now, so far as known, no Yankees in arms on the Virginia side of the Potomac from Mar- down to Harper's Ferry, and but is between that point and Alexandria.
ep, and urges be the invader to the indulgence of his sectional hate, to the commission of his violence, his barbarism, his inhumanity, and his crime. In Harper's Ferry, Va, where the division of Patterson were encamped, numerous instances of these depredations were committed. Apart from the natural bent of Northern proclivit their persons and property, by some of these crayen-hearted miscreants, for voting for the Ordinance of Secession; whilst a large number of the residents of Harper's Ferry have been necessitated to leave all their property, real and personal, for the protection and security of their persons, and actuated by a devcil to the Southrs, for the use of obnoxious, treasonable language, by the intercession of men who now suffer in their persons and property, while the Confederate army lay at Harper's Ferry. Two of those traitors have been signally efficacious in preventing the transmission of machinery southward; in sending Federal cavalry to apprehend a physici