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

A Device of the enemy. It is thought by many that all the demonstrations made at Chambersburg, Hagerstown, Frederick and the Relay, do not indicate a real design of attacking Harper's Ferry, but are mere feints for the purpose of drawing a large force of Virginians to that place, and distracting their attention from the true points of attack, which are Norfolk and Richmond. Our military leaders are, no doubt, well advised of the real purposes of the enemy.

Harper's Ferry. --A gentleman residing in Winchester, Va., writes (May 15) as follows: There are now not less than 8,000 troops at Harper's Ferry, and some estimates make the number as high as 10,000. I occasionally go down and mix with them.--They are all in goods parts, and determined to give old Abe's canaille a warm reception if they come to invade the Valley. They have possession of all the mountain heights, with cannon, and could, I think, with all their advantages of pre-occnow not less than 8,000 troops at Harper's Ferry, and some estimates make the number as high as 10,000. I occasionally go down and mix with them.--They are all in goods parts, and determined to give old Abe's canaille a warm reception if they come to invade the Valley. They have possession of all the mountain heights, with cannon, and could, I think, with all their advantages of pre-occupation, repulse a Yankee force of 50,000. When old Abe reaches Richmond, please "write and let me know."

Union paper. Its specialty will be "the interests of Western Virginia." The Rev. G. C. Vanderaliced, a Methodist clergyman of Rappahannock county, Va., at the solicitation of many influential men, is forming a volunteer company to meet the invading foe. The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill suspending the civil courts till January, and ordering all executions issued since January last to be re-issued and returnable next March; Major W. H. C. Whiting having been ordered to Harper's Ferry, has resigned his position as Inspector General of Coast Defences in North Carolina. Hon. A. H. H. Stuart recommends an undivided vote upon the part of Virginia in favor of the ratification of the Ordinance of Secession. It is said that Ben McCulloch, of Texas has received an appointment of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Augusta is the banner county of the State, having eleven companies already in the field, and two more forming. Any quantity of troops fro

Reported Obstruction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Harper's Ferry. Wheeling,May 16.--Passengers have returned here from an attempt to reach Baltimore, and report that the culverts on the railroad near Harper's Ferry have been blown up and the rails removed from the track. The rebel troops there were hourly expecting an attack. The force now there numbered three thousand. A full regiment of Union men will be in camp here in a few days. Prominent Secessionists here haveHarper's Ferry have been blown up and the rails removed from the track. The rebel troops there were hourly expecting an attack. The force now there numbered three thousand. A full regiment of Union men will be in camp here in a few days. Prominent Secessionists here have been ordered to leave Wellsburg. A number of Secessionists from below report a temporary detention of a party of Virginians, including Judge Brockenbrough, a member of the Montgomery Congress, at Gallapolis, Ohio. [ All dispatches from Wheeling are to be received for what they are worth, and no more.]

from three points — viz, from Alexandria via Culpeper and Greenville to Richmond, overland. From the Chesapeake via the York River to the same city, and from Harper's Ferry or the Point of Rocks, up the Valley of Virginia, to Staunton, Charlottesville and Lynchburg; the force thus employed to co-operate, as circumstances may requn the York River, 27 miles below Richmond, with large reserves between West Point and that city.--A large force will also contest the entrance of the State at Harper's Ferry on the Point of Rocks, as the case may be, and another at Alexandria. Fredericksburg, also, is being fortified, to prevent a surprise in that quarter. Betwevarious points on the route large bodies of troops strongly posted in positions capable of being maintained for many days against a large invading army.--From Harper's Ferry to Richmond, via Staunton, is about 250 miles--the route lying through a narrow valley for the first half of the way. It was from this valley that Morgan deri