Named Entity Results, Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States)

u very well, But now we'll do without you. Yankee Doodle had the luck To get a new religion-- A sort of no against pluck At everybody's pigeon. Yankee Doodle strove with pains And Puritanic vigor. To loose the only friendly chains That ever bound a nigger. But Doodle knowns as well as I, That when his zeal has freed'om, He'd see a million niggers die Before he'd help to read 'em. Yankee Doodle sent us down a gallant missionary, His name was Captain Johnny Brown, The Priest of Harper's Ferry. With pikes he tried to magnify The Gospel creed of Bee her; But Old Virginia f ed high This military preacher. Yankee Doodle's grown so keen or every dirt shilling-- Propose a trick, however mean, And Yankee Doodle's willing. So, Yankee Doodle, now good-bye. Keep the gains you've gotten-- Proud independence is the cry Of sugar, rice and Cotton. I will send also an ancedote from the same source: "A young woman of somewhat formidable stature, known in the vicinity of Ale

some of them by the preachers of that body at Christians. We are glad to know and to state for this large and important element of our population, that while they "seek peace and pursue it," yet their hearts and sympathies are with their Southern brethren in the war upon us, and they are doing what they can for the furtherance of the good cause. They are raising a magnificent harvest of bread stuffs, all of which if necessary, will be given for the cause of Southern rights and Southern independence. We know that a good portion of the breed prepared for the use of their recent Annual Conference at Beaver Creek went to feed the families of soldiers who went from different neighborhoods in the county of Harper's Ferry. We'll guarantee that both the Messonite and Tunker churches of Rockingham will do as much towards feeding the families of the soldiers who have volunteered to defend their country during the iniquitous war waged against us as any other Christian churches in Virginia.

Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Wilmington, N. C. Wilmington, N. C., June 22, 1861. One hundred and twenty five additional persons passed through here yesterday, direct from Harper's Ferry, en route for Fayetteville. They will commence turning out arms, I understand, in a week or two. These arms, as I am informed, are for the use of the State. A fire occurred last night in the vicinity of the city, consuming a dwelling belonging to Capt. R. S. Macomber. Worrill.

iner's Ferry. We stated time of the reported evacuation of Harper's Ferry, that there were undoubtedly military reasons for it, which, ifn and some of the Southern papers have called the Evacuation of Harper's Ferry." The General, like other military men of education, had long kse views. It was well known that Gen. Scott's plan was to turn Harper's Ferry by a column from Pennsylvania, under Gen. Patterson, effect a jr about Thursday, the 16th inst., Gen. Johnson having waited at Harper's Ferry long enough to make the enemy believe that he intended to conte endangering private property, spiked such of the heavy guns at Harper's Ferry as could not be removed, and on Saturday moved, with his whole nt, in command of a part of the forces who had 'retreated' from Harper's Ferry, and who had been pushed forward towards Romney, as our readers "Our readers will thus see what Gen. Johnson's 'retreat from Harper's Ferry' has done. It has thoroughly broken up General Scott's paper p

The evacuation of Harper's Ferry. --The Washington correspondent of the N. O. Picayune writes, June 14th: The evacuation of Harper's Ferry, if authenticated, is regarded here as big with future events. Indeed, the movement, taken in connection with reliable advices received from the rebel camp at Manassas, means nothing more nor less than a bold and concentrated dash upon this capital, and should authentic intelligence of such a contemplated movement he received, the whole plan of tHarper's Ferry, if authenticated, is regarded here as big with future events. Indeed, the movement, taken in connection with reliable advices received from the rebel camp at Manassas, means nothing more nor less than a bold and concentrated dash upon this capital, and should authentic intelligence of such a contemplated movement he received, the whole plan of the campaign will be changed, and the bulk of the Federal army be summoned here for the defence of the city. In any event the evacuation is regarded as a master movement, and one that will tell vigerously in future operations.

Capt. Cook, well known for his distinguished services as commander of the Home Guard of Sharpsburg, arrived here this evening and reports that the Virginia pickets have reappeared at various points along the Poi river. Sixty appeared at Harper's Ferry the morning to arrest Union men who had returned there. At 12 o'clock to-day a company of C appeared at the Ferry, when the citizen immediately crossed the river in boats, or any other available mode of escape. were fired upon by the the morning to arrest Union men who had returned there. At 12 o'clock to-day a company of C appeared at the Ferry, when the citizen immediately crossed the river in boats, or any other available mode of escape. were fired upon by the Secession troops of nineteen citizens killed and wounded. Man had their clothing pierced with bullets. Yesterday at two o'clock, the people above Harper's Ferry raised a Union The Confederates fired upon it. The pickets appeared also to-day at dam

Spirit of the South. --We learn that the Southern troops passed River Station Warren county, some time since, on the way to Harper's Ferry, a daughter of John Richards, Esq., living near the station appeared upon the platform with a beautiful flowers, which were strewn among the diery. She then drew a revolver, and with an intrepid spirit, discharged attends northward, indicating the re she would give the abolition invaders of soil.--Rockingham Register.

From Winchester.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch] Winchester, June 23, 1861. The evacuation of Harper's Ferry on the 13th and 14th of the present month, was a source of regret to those unacquainted with military tactics, as well as to those who are forgetful that "prudence is the better part of valor." I myself must confess to feelings of surprise, not to say sorrow, when I witnessed the movement, and I deemed it a pity that our boasted stronghold should fall an easy prey to those Northern vandals. On conversing, however, with men who had passed successfully through military campaigns and when I heard the powerful reasons urged for this evacuation, I began to discover that my chances were desperately slim of ever becoming a Brigadier General. It is no every-day sight to see one hundred and fifty wagons, laden with baggage and provisions, all in a train, followed and preceded, in different detachments, by some sixteen thousand soldiers. The men marched briskly, i