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

he shout, resistance to the death! Six military companies have been organized, and most of them are now in active service. The "Culpeper Minute Men" are commanded by a gentleman formerly of Richmond, and a nephew of the immortal Captain of the Minute Men of the Revolution, concerning whom Mr. Randolph remarked in the United States Senate: "They were summoned in a minute, marched in a minute, fought in a minute, and vanquished in a minute." This company was among the first to go to Harper's Ferry about six weeks ago, and are now there. Company "E, " Capt. Porter, numbers about 85 men, of the first respectability. Capt. P.'s father, who resides about four miles from this place, has six sons in the Southern Army. Company "F" is commanded by Captain Taylor, one of our most opulent and influential citizens. It numbers about sixty at this time, with recruits daily coming in. In his ranks are seven brothers by the name of Brown.--This beats anything I have heard of except an old la

New is the hour for the guerilla bands. The enemy have entered Virginia in full force. They are threatening the Manassas Junction, which is the vital point of our line of communication with Harper's Ferry. This line will, doubtless, be threatened also at other points, by bodies of men thrown out from Washington and Georgetown. If this line of communication can be broken up, then Harper's Ferry may be attacked by a large force from Pennsylvania and Washington; and a heavy column be throwHarper's Ferry may be attacked by a large force from Pennsylvania and Washington; and a heavy column be thrown forward against our army in Culpeper, looking towards Gordonsville and Richmond. Probably these movements will be seconded by heavy forces thrown upon York River and the Rappahannock, and disembarked at Old Point. Newports News is occupied. Gen. Scott has declared his desire to conquer Virginia without much bloodshed, by means of a force too heavy to be resisted. We may certainly expect a very formidable army of invasion. We allude to these facts in order to show the great importance

How the Kentuckians Handle a rifle. --An intelligent correspondent who lately left Baltimore for Harper's Ferry and other points in Virginia, gives the following account of his observations in a private letter: At Harper's Ferry, a Kentuckian challenged a Virginian to shoot with the rifle. The distance was a hundred and fifty yards. Old Kentucky covered his six bullet holes with a half dollar, and Old Virginia was obliged to get a small tin cup to cover his; but he claimed the victorHarper's Ferry, a Kentuckian challenged a Virginian to shoot with the rifle. The distance was a hundred and fifty yards. Old Kentucky covered his six bullet holes with a half dollar, and Old Virginia was obliged to get a small tin cup to cover his; but he claimed the victory, on the ground that his bullets were twice the size of his adversary's--Twenty-eight men shot on the same day, at three hundred yards, at a log the size of a man, and 22 bullets pierced it. These shots were all off-hand. There is a company here who practice at double quick time — a full trot — and they seem to do nearly as well as those who fire standing. They are terrible fellows, and seem to have a most insatiable desire to figh

Hoops on duty --The Kentucky ladies are up to snuff. If any one doubts it, we refer to the following, recently written to the Cincinnati Enquirer: As abolition Republicans are frightened at the shadow of a ghost, as was Lientenant Jones at Harper's Ferry, and Commander Pendergras at Norfolk, the proof of which is now historic record, let such men know that a fierce and bloody rencontre awaits them, when I tell you that over two hundred of the finest Colt's revolvers I ever saw have been purchased in Cincinnati, at various times and places, within the last two weeks, (no thanks to the Eggleston vigilance mob,) and conveyed out of the city under the hoops of one of the fairest and most distinguished of Kentucky's daughters, and sent by trusty agents to her friends in the interior of the State. Oh, Crinoline, thou art a jewel !