No Title.New York, New York, Tribune [Republican](18 October 1859)
A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled
the whole country yesterday -- one importing that
an Insurrection had just broken out at Harper's
Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes
and Abolitionists! That some sort of a
disturbance has taken place in that locality is manifest;
for it seems that the telegraphic wires are broken
at that point, and the running of the trains on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad interrupted; but, as
negroes are not abundant in that part of Virginia,
while no Abolitionists were ever known to peep in
that quarter, we believe the nature of the affair
must be grossly misapprehended. Possibly, a
considerable body of runaway slaves from Virginia have
been stopped when attempting to cross the Potomac
near Harper's Ferry, and this may have brought on
a fight in which the fugitives obtained a temporary
advantage; whereupon they cut the wires and
stopped the trains to insure themselves a start
on their course toward the North Star. If any
such party has made a stand at that point, they
will of course be crushed out at once; as a large
force went down by train from Baltimore yesterday
afternoon, while President Buchanan and Gov.
Wise are both preparing to hurl their thunders at
the rebels. We suspect, however, that the nature
of the trouble is misapprehended and its importance
at the same time exaggerated.
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