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H. H. FR.A.ZLER, Publisher:
VOLUME 11.
guointoo glitatorg.
DR. R L BTAKr.ciLER
PH
YSICIAN AND BURGEON, bas located at Brooklyn. Bye.
qaelliams UOM.ty, Pa. WIG attend mornplly to all calls
clth which be may be riveted. Offlat al L. M. Baldwin s.
Prooklm, July 10, 16115.—y1.
Dit. E. L. GARDNER,
'INT/HOZ/OS AND BIIHOZON, Moats's, Pl. Office °vet
E Webby Btars. Bossdt at Besrls's Hotel.
, yontross,Jtme 3,1665.4 f
GROVES & REYNOLDS,
vekeIIIONAMLE TAIL9TIS. Shop over Mimelee'
ju awn, Puh/le Amu..
id nevem, June 19,1865.
Da. CHARLES DECKIA,
PITYRICIAN `l'D SITECIEnfI, Luning located tinamelt al
Blrclawrdville, Satquelmuna County. Pa., alit attend to all the
wtuk smith Dummy to favored lto a/utopianism:ld attention.
es, .1 Eta ouldeaca nour Oruatto Mar Ma.
rntouttyllln. Susi. Co.. Pa. Ray 22.
JOHN BEAUMONT,
ITTOOL CL&MMER, Cloth Dreamer, and Manufacturer, at the old
1! stand known as Smith's Carding /tachlne. Terms made
to , wo when the work Is bmgcbt,
Jesup, Itar , h 1061.
Da. G. 7, DIMOCK,
PIYSICIAS CA SURGEON, MONTHOSS Ps. OflCleo on
, ? . .rgarcet, crppaats the Itairmaaas ==. Baud" at
Febrstz7 eth,1863.-Ipp
C. ISL CRANDALL,
al' 26.Ni:711MT11ES of Llnen-wheels, Wool.arbeela Wheel.
Jl cende, Clock-laela, dc. ho. Wood-Coming done to order, and
- • eArst nuener. Twutna Shop and Wheel FaelOtTin Urea'
Bllldtryg, op anatra
K.,Lnse, J.uarilotl4 1943.-t1
a s. BENTLEY, JR, NOTARY PUBLIC,
MON'T . R.OI3M.
pa KEY dernorrledirment of Deeda. Iforterdes de., for any
I Nate to the Malted Melee. Penton Vouchers and Pay Cc,
Jazes sdow - rloyced before elm do not require the oreltkate of the
the Court. hientroas, Jan. 1, .—tr.
CHARLES HOLES,
E ALE}: IN CLOCKS, WATCHES. AND JEWELRY
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done Its uattl. on dart botico and rastaable tam.
, Fat tuic Public Aram. in F. B. Clatakes Mom.
ti,ta Nov. 7.1264.
DR. K. L. HANDRICK,
prt ttCIAN .nad SURGEON, reepoctlhlly Under. prom
...fvlm to the eh:lents of Friendsville and vidulty. Of
tte , tor nt Dr. Leet. Boards at J. Hoeford'a.
y 1634.-tf
B. W. EMTH,
rro ILN ET a COI7NIBELLOIL AT LAW land Li=led Olga
Agezl. (Mee ova? DroA More.
Deal Jamul* 113, 1814.
H. BURRITT,
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0 r itt E t• R ro th e S LlA.,.2 : 7aints, ( Ilo=tll4 Hate
Caps. Curs Bualo bes. Gra:mica, Iloilklmu,ac.
bic.llllo , ll, Ps- A 4 ,111 1864.41
S. H. SAYRE & BROTHERS,
tr.tti t'FACTUREELS of Mill Coatings, Casthoga of nll kit&
M. Soy , . To ood Shoe% boo Wort, Lgncult.oro.l Implemental.
oe.lsr. it, Dry Ooods,Orocarles, Crockery. ttr.o.
ll , Ltrase. I'a.Fehmarylll,lB64.
lIJI LINOS STROUD,
putE Asp LIFE ENISIIR&ZiOt Ms In Lath
rue , br.:l4lcic. mat end of Brick Block. In hi atecnec, keel
other wall be trameeerraell by C. L. Broaela.
Yaarrose, February 1,1464.—U
J. D. VAIL, M. D,
130.4tE0YATITIC PITYIIIII/A9, bus Fermnneatty bxsthe,
cnnaelj liontroa, Pa., where he wlll promptly attend to
n.l. n hls profession which be may he favored. °Mee
!:•,1t... , West of th e Conn Hones. near Bentley &,,,Flteles.
if,,str.we., Fernery 1, Bet -Oct, VS, 1661.
A. 0. WARREN,
rroF.Nar AT LAW_, KOIIITTI. BACK PAT and PEN
.I SION CLAIM AGIIKT. All Penton Mhos muttony pre
;-,red once ln room formerly occupied by DT. VII, lb W. LI
brio. BMW. Rotel.
kontrote. P... rob 1.1564.-febl77l 1668.
LEWIS KIRBY & E. BACON,
ITEET. constantly on hand a ttal topply of every rmint7 et
a oft 00 and CONFECTIONERIES. Ity driet att.-
,: to iturinica and Mirnmein deal, they hope to merit the liberal
sta i n or the public. OTB le
to the Granary, where btralres, in season. are served In es,
•Or:v that the tut. of tbe public d em and. Rentemberthe Lace,
In Mott Grocery stand, on Main ntrect, below the P
it,,trose. Nov. 17. 1953.—r0ch17,63.-if
DR CALVIN C. HALSEY,
DHISICIAN AND PTTROZON. AND EXAIIINING SUN.
G for PENSIONERS. OtNee over the ntora of J. Lyon.
I Vcblic Avenue Bo It Mr. Ezterldgel.
omber. 1659.4.1
D. A. BALDWIN,
rroP.BILT AT LAW, and Paadoa. Balmy. and Back Pay
a Arent, Great BoDA,fleagatAAAA2 Counts.
Gnat Bend. A c A-at 10,1eGA.-ly
BOYD . WEBSTER,
nEAL.ER..7 Stovn. Stove Plpa, ,?ID, Copper, &am
1.1 Ir.r. W. also, nl.low bah. Panel Doors, Wlndo•
s Ptne Lemberand all Lands or Building Materials
amrle'rHotel. and Carpenter Stop tear the
LUML.
ti.NT Vj v. Pa.. Jannai 1. 1861.-tf
Da. WILLIAM W. SMITH,
0 SURGEON DENTIST. Mee over the Rankine
rkMce. of cooper Co. All Dental Operatio=
performed to his =nal good style and
ILarirmber, office formal). of R. Bmlth d Son.
li.trua January 1. 1884..-41
E. J. ROGERS,
'I , IN . AACTTITLEII of all description, of WAG
-11 uht, et.R.8.Le.133.t. BLEIGHM. ht. In theOENA
%vs:y:o efts - m.2.We and of the bed metatele.
trtll kmnre mod of IC. H. ROGERS, a few rods met
t-carlp Etv! Montmee, whore he trill be happy to re.
or ell trho want anythhig to hie Ilea.
DR. JOHN W. COBB,
rgitieN ana s UEGZON.
t, cr.:sew of Su llmt
guerab Oomaty. PHe .0.C.re..r....4.•
mmtlon to 100 .d medical tt+stment of diseases of the
.on: Em. ernmnlted relatice to auTriml opm-allema
ta , L °atm mu W. J. Ji 8. U. iolfortratitore.
x , 11- - Jrl, tweet. coat of J. d. Tarinelfa Hotel.
4 ,-, sues. ticmity, Pa, J one 1563.-tf
BALDWIN & ALLEN,
LIARS FLOUI3 3 Salt, Pork. 11. sh, Lard. Grain, Feed.
Cl,Fer and rimothy Sood. Aldo GELOCEBIES,
dvetue.
edolasedo'.es, Syrup.,
J. Tex and
ia. Ckdree.., Wan sidd"cd
one below Etherld
1. 1614.41
Da. G. W. BEACH,
FIET' , IIAN BUILGEOTi. having prrmerettly Ineeted
I.lmwe at Brook:To (letter. tcnd r hla prormantos) oer
"'t c''‘lcra or rhossuctsuans County, on terms comnisnamr
ar-kes. Occoples the °MCA of the late Dr. B. Elchard
re. Richardson'.
June 11.11364..-1 T
F. B. WEBICB,
1
CTIr'LL BOOT 6.14 D SHOE MAKER; also Deals: )`Vo . oll atm.!. Leather, and Shoe rtadinge. Repairing dose
.
.staan Tam dooas above &aria), Rotel.
January 1, 1664.41
WAL tb WEL H. JESSUP,
1 - roicNETS AT LAW. Monter.. Pa. Practice In Bengal!,
tre.lrord., Wayne, Wyomlng mad Lawn,. Cotentin,.
P. January let„ 1661.
ALBERT CHAMBERLIN,
rillTlllC7 ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY AT LAW.—
LI ' , T., over tbe Store formerly ocerlylcd by Poll Brothers.
January 1. 1660.
J. LYONS & SON,
V-LE:DS IS Dia GOODS. Groxdos.Crocted74lardsoara
Mynas, Books, Ideiodoons. PISMOL and all kinds of Slued
• .cents.Fillecl Mask, &c. 01no carry on the Book bind
It all its branchea. 1. LTOII6.
.re, January 1. 1804. T. ♦. LT0.51,
A_I3EL TERRELL,
DEALER IN DELFOS. MEDICINES.
Nat, Clla. Dye.stolts„ Varnish., Window
M.. Groceries. Crockery, Olusware, WuII-Yaw, Jew.
ranc T tiovds, Perfumer), Surgical Inearuments, T.
Brush., Perfumery
Agent for all of the most prop
• ..L., iit•tuctacw. liontnase. January 1, 1861.,
C. 0.
FOPpLAIi,
UFACTURpofBUO SHOES
. Icatos
e Pl.
tf:d. ,Atk":km
„E rpllt. neatly. Workdone pr
Moutrne. L 21861-if
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
rItnLEIL In BOOTH dt BROM. CA:rah. and Find
.,Men at. third door below Searles Hotel. Leh.
al s truide to r t ge i r g. r e l so rr . pairing done nastly.
L IL BURNS,
TT. , ILNIET AT LAW. Office with Wfillaso J Tanen. I*
t lioieL Panel= and Ltquoty Claims candul
c. , .eetaoazpronaply made
No , . f. 1.1564.-
B. R. LYONS & CO..
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blare on the cast onto of rublk Avenue.
6a. Lawn. • ' •S. D. LYONS
not , rosn.J.n.try 1, lE&I.-tf
READ, WATROUS & FOSTER,
REI,LERS IN Dar FOODS. Drugs, Paws, oils
f! . lunliml l nackery .
641741,01.31.. k., W
oelc,matches. Jew
,I,A.IS,4WA.TROLI c.10,11:11
_WILLIAM W. SMITH,
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P os t-. IT. CORI= AND °Wan lILINI3. 14 4
.7.1-V d t: T r i Keeps constantty on hr . d r :11 ,
, t . see . st snort nottze. Shop and gore Rooms foot of Maio Et.
Pa.. Muth D, 1863...tt
PHILANDER LINES,
I,lAstUuR ULF. TAILOR, Brick mock . one, Roll
w Valeta. • /Niter's/31am Iltrmtnno*. Da.
5.1. el 14.
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Summer Is come, and the blue wave is still;
Theelonds are white and high and moons are yellow,
And the long shades ether, slowly down the hill
Till day and night embrace in Wight mellow,
The evening bird has spread his languid wing,
The vine begins to sigh on Etna's aide,
In the unwavering elude by form I fling,
And gaze upon the waters blue and Wide.
For Ithaca is dim across the wave,
The shores of Africa are hardly seen,
Where the long billows gently lift and lave
The plains that fringe them with eternal green.
I'm detailing of a strange and mystic land
Where Men have wandered and have come not back;
For when they holdrastrange fruit in their hand;
They taste it , and forget their homeward track.
Their cares are dead; yet they have drank no wine,
For on the pleasant hill the lotus swells,
Ad deep wi th in the shadow of the vine
In crystal springs the cooling water wells.
At eve they gaze upon the yellow moon,
And think: it fair; while through the heavy leaves
The west wired murmurs in a low, strange tune,
And 'cresefthe star-beams dim his web the spider
weaves.
Maids of Melling, with passion in their eyes,
Come down and gaze In wonder and then weep ;
The dreamers see them with a faint surprise,
But love Within their breasts is long asleep.
There is a lake surrounded with a wood
Of cypress and tall palms, and there they stray
To bathe their white feet in the silent flood
For hours until the daylight dies away;
But when the shades grow denser round their heads,
And from the lotus boughs the night dews weep.
Till the rich golden fruit It nightly sheds
Falls in the mandrake's arms, they eat and sleep,
They sleep, but do not dream; they lie like death,
ith folded hands, upon the lake's dark brink,
And not a motion, nor a sound, nor breath
Scares the wild antelope that comes to Arink.
The dusky dwellers of remotest lands,
The islanders that love the Northern sea,
And they who roam o'er Ethiopia's sands,
And they that tame the steeds of Araby
They come, but ne'er return , but 'mong the vales
Far Northward of the Mountains of the Moon
They rest for aye; the lotus never fails;
And they that watch and grew not weary soon
Die waiting, nor behold them any more.
The stars are out and shining on the sea,
The waves die sobbing on the dim-llt shore,
The breeze is whispering to the hill-side tree,
My dream is ended and an hour is done.
Men call this fietion, fable, be it so,
I own the lotus-eaters have gone,
And that they ever were I do not know.
But it is pleasant when our fancies build
Unreal visions in the world of thought ;
And 'tie an occupation sweet to gild
An idle hour with colors from them caught.
Flom the Atlantic Menthly fin. July.
THE OHICJAGO OONSPIRAOY.
On the eve of the last general election, the coun
try was etarued by the publication of a Report from
the Judge Advocate of the United States, disclosing
the existence of a widespread conspiracy at the
West, which had Inc its object the overthow of the
Union. The conspiracy, the Report stated had a
military organization, with a commander-in-chief,
general and subordinate officers, and 500,000 enrolledofficers,
members, all bound to a blind obedience to the or
ders of their superiors, and pledged to "take up
arms against any government found waging war
against a people endeavoring to establish a govern
ment of their own choice.'
The organization, it was said, was in every way
hostile to the Union, and friendll to the so-called
Confederacy; and Its ultimate on eels were "rising
in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and "entuckv, in co
operation with the rebel force which was to invade
the last-named State."
Startling and incredible as the report seemed, it
told nothing but the truth, and it did not tell the
whole truth. It omitted to state that the organiza
tion was planned in Richmond; that, its operators
were directed by Jacob Thompson, who was in
Canada for that purpose; and that wholesale rob
bery arson and midnight assassination were among
its divigns.
The paint marked out for the first attack was
Camp Douglas, at Chicago. The 5,000 rebel soldiers
confined there, being liberated and armed, were to
be joined by the Canadian refugees and Missouri
" Butternuts " engaged 3n their release, and 5,000
and more members of the treasonable order resident
in Chicago This force, of nearly 20,000 men, would
be a nucleus about which the conspirators in other
parts of Illinois could gather; and being joined by
the prisoners liberated from other camps, and mem
bers of the order from other States, would form an
army a hundred thousand strong. So fully had
everything been foreseen and provided for, that the
leaders expected to gather and organize this vast
body of men within a fortnight! The United States
could bring into the field no force capably of with
standing the progress of such an army. The conse
quences 'maid be that the whole character of the
war would be changed—its theater would be shifted
from the border to the heart of the free States; and
Southern independence, and the beginning at the
North of that process of disintegration so confident
ly counted on by the rebel leaders at the outbreak of
hostilities, would have followed.
What saved the nation from being drawn into this
whirlpool of ruin? Nothin but the cool brain.
sleepless vigilance and wonderful asgacily of one
man—a young Officer never read of in the newspa
pers—removed from field duty because of disability,
but commissioned, I very believe, by Providence it
self to ferret :out and foil this deeper-bild, wider
spread and mote diabolical conspiracy than any that
darkens the page of history. Other men--and wo
men, too—were instrumental in dragging the dark
Iniquity to light ; but they felled to fathom Its full
enormity, and to discover Its point of outbreak. He
did that ; and he throttled the tiger when about to
swing, and so deserves the lasting gratitude of his
country. How he did it I propose to tell In this paper.
It is a maryeldtus tale ; it will read more like ro
mance than history ; but, calling to mind what a
good man once said to me, " Write the truth; let
people doubt It if they will," I shall narrate the
facts.
There is nothing rnmarkablkin the appearance of
this young man. Nearly six reit. high, he has an
erect military carriage, a frank, manly face, and
looks every Inch a soldler—eneb a Soldier as would
stand up all day in &square hand-to-hand ilLeht with
an open enemy ; but the keenest eye would detect in
him no indication of the crafty genius which deligh , s
to follow the winding' of alekedneas whoa burrow
ing In the dark. Bnt:lf not a Fonda' or a Vidocq, be
Is certainly an able man; for, In a section where able
men are as plenty asepple-blossoms In June, he was
chosen to represent his district In the State Senate,
and, entering the army as a subaltern offleer, rose,
before the battle of Perryville, to the command of a
regiment At that battle a rebel bullet entered his
shoulder and crushed the hones of his right elbow.
This disabled him for field duty, and so it came
about that he Gemmed the light blue of the veteran.,
and on the second day of May, 180-1, succeeded Gen
Orme in command of the military post at Chicago.
When fairly settled in the low-roofed shanty,
which stands, a sort'of mute sentry, over the front'
gateway of Camp pouglas, tbo new commandant,
as was natural, looked about him. He found the
camp—about sixty acres of that, sandy soil, Inclosed
by a tight board fence, an inch thick and fourteen
teet high—had a garrison of but two regiments of
veteran reserves. Numbering, all told, only 700
men St for duty. This small force was. guarding
8,090 rebel prisoners, one-third of whom were Texas
rangers and guerrillas who bad served under Morgan
—wild, whims characters, fonder of a fight than a
dinner, and ready for any enterprise, however des
perate, that hcld - oat the smallest prospect of free
dom. To add to the seeming Insecurity, nearly
every office in the camp was filled with these pris
oners. They served out rations and distributed
clothing to their comrades, dealt out ammunition
to the guard', and even kept the records in the
quarters of the Commandant. In fact, the prison
was In charge of the prisoners, not the prisoners in
charge of the prison. This state of things underwent
a sudden change. Wile g the exception of a very
few, whose character recommended them to peculiar
confidence, all were at once placed where they be
longed—on the inner side of the prison fence.
A post Mace was connected with the camp, and
this next received the Commandant's attention.
Everything about it appeared to be regular. A vast
number of letters came and went, - but they all
passed unsealed, and seemed to contain nothing
contraband. Many of them, however, we short
epistles on long pieces of papers, a cations eireum-
I stance among correspondents with whom stationery
was scarce and greenbacks not over plenty. One
sultry dayte June the Commandant built a lire, and
gave these letters a ;Fanning, and lo! presto! the
white spaces broke out into dark lines breathing
thoughts blacker than the fluid that wrote them
Conuoral Snooks whispered to hie wife, away down
in Texas, " The forthe of July Is comb', Stikey, so
be a man far I'm gwine to celebrate. Pm colas
up Mike a rheket, of I does come down !elk° a
stick." And Sergeant Blower said to John Coppe
head of Chicago, " Down in 'old raglans' I used
to think,tlie forth of July was a humbug, but this
prison has rimde me a patriot. Now, pd like t o
burn an rallied sight of powder, and; if you kelp,
and God is willing, I shall do It." In a [hailer amain
wrote half a score of them.
Such patriotism seemed altogether too wordy to
be genuine. It told nothing, u but darkly hinted at
creels to come. The C h o bethought
him that the Democratic Convention Would assem
ble on the 4th of July ; that a vast multitude of
pie would congregate at Chimp on that on ;
" Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1865.
and that, In so great a throng, it would be easy for
the clans to gather, attack the camp, and liberate
the prisoners. " Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty," and the young Commandant was vlgilant.
Boon Prison &mare received a fresh installment of
prisoners. They were genuine " Butternuts," out
at the toes, out at the knees, out at the elbows, out
everywhere, in fact, and of everthing but their sere
sea. Those they had snugly about them. They
fraternized with Corporal Snooks, Sergeant Blower
and others of their comrades, and soon learned that
a grand pyrotechnic display was arranged to come
off on Independence day. A huge bonfire was to be
built outside, and the prisoners were to salute the
old flag, but not with blank cartridges.
But who was to light the outside bonfire? That
the Improvised "Butternuts" failed to discover,
and the Commandant set his own wits to working.
Hu soon ascertained that a singular organization
existed In Chicago. It was called " The Society of
Mini" and its object, ea set forth in Its priuted
constitution, was the more perfect development of
the literary, ay-lentil:lc, moral, physical, and social
welfare of the conservative citizens of Chicago."
The Commandant knew a conservative citizen
whose development was not altogether perfect,
and he recommended him to Join the organization.
The society needed recruits and Initiation fees, and
received the new member with open arms. Soon
be was deep in the outer secrets of the order; but
he could not penetrate its inner mysteries. Those
were open to oely an elect few who had already at
tained to a " perfect development "—of villany. Ile
learned enough, however, to verify the dark hints
thrown out by the prisoners. The society numbered
some thousands of members', all fully armed,
thorougly drilled, and impatiently waiting a signal
to explode a mine deeper than that in front of Pe
tersburg
But the assembling of the Chicago Convention
was postponed to the '29th of August, and the 4th
of July passed away without the bonfire and the
fireworks.
The Commandant, however, did not sleep. He
still kept his wits at work; and the red flames still
brought out the black thoughts on the white letter
laper. Quietly the garrison was re-enforced, quietly
ncreased vigilance was enjoined upon the sentinels;
and the tanqull, essured look of the Commandant
told no qbe that be was playing with hot coals on a
barrel orgernpowder.
So July rolled away Into August, and the Com
mandant sent a letter giving his view of the state of
things to his Commanding-General. This letter has
fallen into my hands, and as might sometimes makes
right, I shall copy a portion of it.
It is dated August 12th, and, in the formal phrase
customary among military men, begins:
"I have the honor respectfully to report, in rela
tion to the supposed organization at Toronto, Can
ada, which was to come here in squads, then com
bine, and attempt to rescue the prisoners of war at
Camp Douglas, that there is an armed organization
in this city of 5,000 men, and that the rescue of our
prisoners would be the signal for a general insur
rection in Indiana and Illinois. • * • •
" There Is little, If any doubt that an organization
hostile to the Government, and secret in its work
ings and character, exists in the States of Indiana
and Illinois, and that this organization is strong In
numbers. It would be easy, perhaps, at any crisis
in public affairs, to push this organization Into acts
of open disloyalty, if Its leaders should so will. * I
"Except in cases of considerable emergency, I
shall make all communications to your headquarters
on this subject by maiL"
These extracts show that seventeen days before
the assembling of the Chicago Convention, the
Commandant had become convinced that mall-bags
were safer vehicles of communication than tele
graph-wires; that 5,000 armed traitors were then
domiciled in Chicago; that they expected to be
joined by a body of rebels from Canada; that the
object of the combination was the rescue of the
prisoners at Camp Douglas, and that success in that
enterprise would be the signal for a general upris
ing throughout Indiana and Illinois. Certainly,
this was no little knowledge to gain by two months'
burrowing in the dark But the conspirators were
not fools. They had necks which they valued. They
would not plunge into open disloyalty until some
"crisis in public affairs" should engage the atten
tion of the authorities, and afford a fair chance of
success. Would the assembling of the Convention -
be such a crisis? was now the question.
This question was soon answered. About this
time Lieut. CoL B. IL Hill, commanding the Mili
tary district of Michigan received a missive from •
person in Canada who represented himself to he a
Major In the Confederate service. He expressed a
readiness to disclose a dangerous plot against the
Government, provided he were allowed to take the
oath of allegiance, and rewarded according to the
value of his Information. The Lientenant-Colonel
read the letter, tossed it aside, and went about his
business. No good, he had heard, ever came out of
Nazareth. Boon another missive of the same pur
port, and from the saline person, came to him. Hr
tossed this aside also, and went again abput his
business. But the Major was a Southern Yankee—
the " cutest " sort of Yankee. He had something
to sell, and wee bound to sell it, even if he had to
throw his neck into the bargain. Taking his life in
his hand, he crossed the frontier; and so it came
about, that, late one night, a tall mania a slouched
hat, rusty regimentals, and immense jack-boots,
was ushered Into the private apartment of the Lieu
tenant-Colonel at Detroit It was the Major. He
had brought his wares with him. They had cost
him nothing, except some small sacrifice of such
trivet matters as honor, fraternal feeling, and good
faith towards brother conspirators, whom they
might send to the gallows; but they were of im
mense value—would save millions of money and
rivers of loyal blood. Bo the Major said, and so the
Lieutenant-Colonel thought, as coolly, with his ci
gar in his month, and his legs over the arm of his
chair, he drew the important secrets from the rebel
officer. Something good, might come, after all, out
of Nazareth. The Lieutenant-Colonel would trust
the fellow—trust him, but pay him nothing, and
send him back to Toronto to 'worm out the whole
plan from the rebel leaders, and to gather the whole
details of the projected expedition_ But the Major
knew with whom he was dealing. He bad faith in
Uncle Sam, and he was right in having it ; for, truth
to tell, if Uncle Sam does not always pay, he can
always be trusted.
It warrinat long before the Majorjeappeared with
his budget, which he duly opened tb the Lieutenant-
Colonel.. Its contents were interesting, and I will
give them to the reader es the Union officer gave
them to the General commanding the Northern DO
partment. His communication Is dated August
16th. It says:
"I have the honor to report that I had another
Interview last evening with Major —, whose die
closures in relation to a rebel plot for the release of
the prisoner, at Camp Douglas I gave you in my let
ter of the Stb Inst. I have cansed inquiries to be
made In. Canada about Major —, and understand
that he 'does possess the confidence of the rebel
agents.,:hnd that his statements are entitled to re
spect.
'lle now inform. me that he proceeded to Toronto,
as he stated he would when I last saw him; that
about MO picked men, of the rebel refugees In Can
ada, are assembled In that place, who are armed
with revolvers and supplied with funds and trans
portation tickets to Chicago; and that already 150
have proceeded to Chicago. That he (Major
and the balance of the men are waiting for instruc
tions from Capt. Hines, who Is the commander of
the expedition; that Capt. Hines left Toronto last
Thursday tor Chicago, and at this time Is doubtless at
Niagara Falls, making the final arrangement& with
the chief rebel agents.
" Major states that Sanders, Holbrook, and
Colonel Hicks were at Toronto, while he was there,
engaged in making preparations, ike. The general
plan Is to accomplish the release of the prisoners at
Camp Douglas, and in doing so they will be assisted
by an armed organization at Chicago. After being
released, the prisoners will be armed, and being
joined by the organisation In Chicago, will be
mounted and proceed to C..mp Morton, at Indiana.
polls, and there accomplish a similar object In re
leasing prisoners. That for some months rebel
emissaries have been traveling through the North-
West; that their arrangements are fully matured,
and that they expect to receive large accessions of
force from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. They expect
to.destroy the works at Morton.
" Major -- says further that he is In hourly ex
pectatidn of receiving instructions to proceed to
Chicago with the balance of the party ; that he shall
put up at the City Hotel, corner of Lake and State
streets, and register his name as George —; and
that he will then place himself In communication
with CoL Sweet, commanding ni Chicago."
The Major did not "put op at the comer of Lake
and State streets," and that fact relieved the Gov
ernment from the trouble of estimating the value of
his services, and, what is more to be deplored, ren
dered it impossible for the Commandant to recog
nize and arrest the rebel leaders during the sitting
of the Chicago Convention. What became of the
Major is not known. He may have repeated of his
good deeds, or his treachery have been detected
and he nut out of the way his accomplices.it be noticed how closely the rebel offleer's
disclosures accorded with the Information gathered
through indirect channels by the astute Com
mandant. When the report was conveyed to him,
he may have smiled at this proof of his own sagaci
ty; but he made no change In his arrangements.
QnleUy and steadily he went on strengthening the
camp, augmenting the garrison, and shadowing the
footsteps of all ' , widow; newcomers.
At last the loyal Democrats came together to the
great Convention, and with them came Satan also.
Bands of ill•Givored men, in busby hair, bad whisky,
and seedy homespun, stamered from the raallway
stations end hung about the street corners. A reader
of Dante or Swedenborg would have taken them
for the delegates from the lower regions, had not
their clothing been plainly teirishable, while devils ,
wear everlasting garments. They had come, they
announced, to make a Peace President, but they
brandished bowie-knives, and bellowed for war in the
sacred preclnts of the Peace Convention. But war
or peace, the Commandant was ready for It.
For days re-enforeements poured into camp, until
it actually bristled with bayonets. On every side it '
was guarded with cannon, and day - and night
mounted men patrolled the avenues to give notice
of the first hostile gathering. Bat there was no
gathering. The conspirators were there, 2,000 strong,
with 5,000 111 in to back them. From every poingof
the compass—from Canada, Missouri, Southern 1111-
nobs, Indiana, Ohio, New York, and even loyal Ver
mont, bloody minded men had come to give the
Peace candidate a red baptism. But "discretion is
the better part of valor.' The conspirators saw the
preparation and disbanded. Not long afterwards one
of the leaden said to me, " We had spies in every
public place—lu the telegraph, llIce„ the camp it
self, and even dose by the Cemmendant'e head
quarters, and knew hourly all that was paesing.
From the observatory, opposite the camp, I myself
saw the arrangements for our reception. We out
numbered you two to one, bet our force was badly
disciplined. Success in such circumstances waa im
possible; and on the third day of the Convention
we announced from headquarters that an attack at
that time was impracticable. It would have cost
the lives of hundreds of the prisoners, and perhaps
the capture or destruction of the whole of us." So
the storm blew over without the leaden rain, and
without the accompaniment of thunder and light
ning.
A dead calm followed, during which the Mini
slunk back to their holes the prisonere took to
honest ink- the bogus " B utternuts " walked the
streets clad like Christians, and the Commandant
went to sleep with only one eye open. So the world
rolled around Into November.
The Presidential election was near at hand—the
great contest on which hung the fate of the Repub
lic. The Commandant was convinced of this, and
wanted to marshal his old constituents for the final
a'ragglo between Freedom and Despotism. He ob
tained a furlough to go home and mount the stump
for the Union. He was about to set out, his private
secretary was ready, and the carriage waiting at the
gateway, when an indefinable feeling took posses
sion of him, holdieg him back, and warning him of
coming danger. It would not be shaken off. and
reluctantly be postponed the journey until the mor.
row. Before the morrow facts were developed
which made his presence In Chicago essential to the
safety of the city and the lives of the citizens. Thu
snake was scotched, not killed. It was preparing
for another and deadlier spring.
On the et November a well-known citizen of
St.. Louis, openly a secessionist, but secretly a loyal
man, acting as a detective for the Government, left
that city In pursuit of a criminal. He followed Lim
to Springileld, traced him from there to Chicago,
and on the morning of November 4th, about the
hour the Commandant had the singular Impression
I have spoken of, arrived in the latter city. He soon
learned that the bird had again flown.
" While passing along the street," (I now gaol ,
from his report to the Provosteldarshal.General, et
Missouri,) "and trying to decide what coerce to
pursue—whether to follow this man to New York,
or return to St. Louis - I met an old acquaintance.
a member of the order of " American Knights,"
who (wormed me that Sturmaduke was in Chicago.
After conversing with him a while, I started up the
street, and about one block further on met Dr. E.
W. Edwards, apracticing physician in Chicago, (an
ether old acquaintance,) who usked me if I knew of
Seethes n soldiers being In town. 1 told him I did ;
that Marmaduke was there. He seemed very much
astonished, and asked how I knew. I told him.—
He laughed, and then said that Marmaduke was at
his house, under the assumed name of Burling, and
mentioned as a good Joke, that he had a British pass
port, eised by the United States consul under that
name. I gave Edwards my card to hand to Marren
duke (who was another old acquaintance,") and
told him I was stopping at the Briggs House.
"That same evening I again met Dr. Edwards on
the street, going to my hotel. He said Marmadukg
desired to see me, and I accompanied him to hie
house." There, In the comae of a long conversa
tion, Marmaduke told me that oe and several Rebel
officers were in Chicago to co-operate with other
parties in releasing the prisoners of Camp Douglas
and other prisons, and in inaugurating a rebellion at
the North. He said the movement was under the
auspices of the " Order of American Knights " (to
which order the society of the Mini belonged.) and
was to begin operations by an attack on Camp Doug
las on election day."
The detective slid not know the Commandant, hut
he soon made his acquaintance and told him the
story. "The young man," he says, " rested his
bead epee his hand, and looked as If he had lost his
mother.' And well he might! A mine has opened
at his feet; with but SOO men in the garrison It was
to be sprung upon him. Only seventy hours were
left! What would he give for twice as many?—
Then he might secure reinforcements. He walked
the room for a time in silence, then, turning to the
detective, said, "Do you know where the other
leaders are 1" "I no not." " Can't you find out
from Mannadtthe " I think not He said what
he did say voluntarily. if I were to question him
he would sturpset me." That was true, and !derma
duke was not of the stuff that betrays a comrade on
compulsion. His arrest, therefore, would profit
nothing, and might hasten the attack for which the
Commandant was so poorly prepared. Ho sat down
and wrote a hurried dispatch to Lis GeneraL—
Troops ! troops ! for God'a sake, troops! was Its
burden. Sending it off by a courier—the telegraph
told tales—he rose, and again walked the room In
silence. Alter awhile, with a heavy heart, the de
tective said "Good night," and left him.
What passed with the Commandant dung the
nert two hours Ido nut know. He may have pray
cd—he is a praying man—and there was need of
prayer, for the torch was ready to burn millions of
property, the knife whetted to take thousands of
lives. At the end of the two hours, a stranger
was ushered into the apartment where the Com
mandant was still pacing the floor. From the -lips
and pen of this strarater I have what followed, and I
think it may be relied on.
He was a slim, light-haired young man„zitta fine,
regular features and that indefinable air Which de
notes good breeding. Recognizing the Command
ant by the eagle on his shoulder, he said, " Can I
see you alone, sir?" " Certainly," answered the
Colon °dicer, motioning to his secretary to lave
the room. " I am a Colonel in the Rebel army,"
said the stranger, " and have put my life In your
hands, to warn you of the most hellish plot In his
tory." " Your life is safe, sir," replied the other,
"If your visit Is an honest one. I shall be glad to
hear what you have to say. Be seater"
The Rebel officer took the proffered chair and sat
there till far lete+ the morning. In the limits of a
magazine article I cannot attempt to recount all that
pursed between them. The written statement the
Rebel Colonel has sent to me covers fourteen pages
of closely written foolscap; and my Interview with
him on the subject lasted live hours, by a slow watch.
He disclosed all that Judge Holt has _made public,
and a great deal more. Sixty days previously he had
left Richmond with verbal dispatchea from the Reb
el Secretary of War to Jacob Thompson, the Rebel
agent in Canada. These dispatches bad relation to
a vast plot, designed to wrap the West In flames,
sever it from the - East, and secure the independence
of the South. Months before, the plot had been
concocted by Jeff. Davis at Richmond, and in May
previous, Thompson, supplied with t 250,000 in ger-
Hug exchange, had been sent to Canada tow ierin
tend its execution. This money was lod in a
bank at Montreal, nod had furnished the fun a which
had fitted out the abort iv e expeditions against John
son's Island and Camp Douglas. The plot embraced
the order of " American Knights," which was spread
all over the West, and numbered 500,000 men, 350,
000 of whom were armed. A force of 1,10:1 men—
Canadian refugees, and bushwhaekers from South
ern Illinois and Missouri—was to attack Camp Doug
las on Tuesday night, the Bth of Noxember,‘ liberate
and arm the prisoners, and sack Chicago. This was
to be the signal for a general uprising tbrongh the
West, and for aahnultaneous advance by Hoed upon
Nashville, Suckner upon Louisville, and Price upon
St. Louis. Vallandigliam was to bead tke mote
moat in Ohio, Bowles in Indiana, and Walsh in Illi
note. The forces were to rendezvous at Cincinnati
and Dayton in Ohio, New Albany and Indianapolis
in Indiana, and Rock Island. Chicago and Springfield
in Illinois; and those gathered at the last named
place, after seizing the arsenal, were to march to aid
Price in taking St. Louis. Prominent Union citi
zens and officers were to be seized and sent South,
and the more obnozions of them were to be assassin
ated. All places taken were to be sacked and de
stroyed, and a band of a hundred desperate men was
organized to burn the larger Northern cities not in
eluded in the field of operations. Two hundred
Confederate officers, who were to direct the military
movements, had been in (Tanana, but were then sta
tioned throughout the West, at the various points
to be attacked, waiting the outbreak at Chicago.—
Capteln Hines, who bad won the confidence of
Thompson by his successful manerement of the
escape of John Morgan, bad control of the Initial
movement against Camp Douglas; bat Colonel
Orenfell, gestated by Colonel Marmaduke and a doz
en other Rebel officers, was to manage the military
part of the operations. All of thew officers were at
that moment In Chicago, waiting the arrival of the
men, who were to come In small ennuis, over differ
ent roads, daring tha following three days. The
Rebel officer had knoWn of the plot for months, but
its atrocious details had come to his knowledge on
ly within a fortnight. They had sp; him; and
though he was betraying his inc._ s, and the
South which he loved, the humanity in }aim would
not let him rest till he had washed his hands of the
horrible crime.
The Commandant listrnad with tieiTo2l ttlbgett
to the whole of this recital ; bat when the Southern
Officer made the but remark, ho almost groaned out,
" Why did you not come before ?"
" I could not. I gave Thompson my opinion of
this, and have been watched. 1 think they have
tracked me hem My life nn your streets wouldn't
be worth a had hail dollar."
" True; but what must be done ?"
" Arrest the ' Butternuts ' as they come into Chi
mgo."
" That I can do ; but the leaders are here with
live thousand Illini to back them. I must take
them. Do you know them ?"
"Tea; but do not know where they are quarter
ed."
At two n'eloek the Commandant showed the Reb
el officer to hie bed, but went back himself, and pac
ed the floor until sunrise. in the morning hie plan
was formed. It was a desperate plan ; but desperate
circumstances require desperate expedients.
In the prison was a young Texan who had served
on Bragg 's staff and under Morgan In Kentucky,
and was, therefore, acquainted with Hines, Greaten,
and the other rebel officers. He fully believed in
the theory of State Rights, that is, that a part is
greater than the whole, but was an honest man,
whose word when given could be trusted. OM)
glance at his open, resolute face showed that he fear
ed nothing; that ho had, too, that rare courage that
delights in danger, and courts heroic enterprise from
pure love of peril. Early in the war he had encoun
tered Colonel Deland, a formetcconuxumdant of the
post, on the battle-field and taken him prisoner.—
A friendship then sprang up between the two which,
when the tables were turned, and the captor became
the captive. was not forgotten. Colonel Deland
made him his chief clerk in the medical department,
and gave him every possible freedom. At that time
it was the custom to allow citizens free access to the
camp; and among the many good men and women
who came to visit an aid the prisoners was a young
woman, the daughter of a well-known resident of
Chicago. She met the Texan, and a result as natur
al as the union of oxygen and hydrogen followed.—
but since Adam courted Eve, who ever heard of
wooing going on in a prison? "It is not exactly
the thing," said Colonel Deland ; " had you not
better pay your addresses at the mys house, like
a gentleman ?" A guard accompanied the prisoner ;
but It was shrewdly guessed that he stayed outside,
or paid court to the girls in the kitchen.
This was the state of things when the present
Commandant took charge of the camp. Ho learned
the facts, studied the prisoner's face, and remem
bered that he, too, once went a courting. As ho
walked his room that Friday night, he bethought
him of the Texan. Did he love his State better than
ho did his affianced wife ? The Commandant would
test him.
" But I shall betray my friends ! Can Ido that
honor V asked tho Texan.
" Did you ask that question when you betrayed
your country?" answered the Commandant.
" Let me go from camp for an hour. Then I will
give you my decision."
" Very well."
And, unattended, the Texan lelt the prison.
What mussed between the young man and the
young woman during that hour I do not know, for I
am not writing romance hot history. However,
without 'Ming the veil on things sacred, I can say
that her Lust words were, "Do your duty. Blot out
your record of treason.' God bless her for saying
them ! and Amen be said by every American
woman.
On bin return to camp the Texan merely said, " I
will do it," and the details of the plan were talked
over. He was to escape from the prison, ferret out
and entrap the Rebel leaders. How to manage the
first part of the programme was the query of the
Texan. The Commandant's brain is fertile. An
adopted citizen, in the scavenger line, makes peri
odical visits to the camp in the way of his business,
and him the Commandant sends for.
" Arratt, per Honor, " the Irishman says, " I ha'n't
a traitor. Bless per b eautiful soul ! I love the kin
try ; and besides, It might damage me good name
and in party prortstalon."
He is assured that his name will be all the better
for dieting a few weeks in a dungeon, and—did not
the some thingmake Harvey Birch immortal ?
Half an hour before sunset the scavenger cornea
into camp with his wagon. Ho fills it with dry
bones, broken bottles, decayed food, and the rubbish
of the prison ; and down below, under a blanket, be
stows away the Texan. A hundred comrades gath
ered round to shut off the gaze of the guard ; but
outside is the real danger. He hai to pass two gates,
and run the gauntlet of half a dozen sentinels. Hie
wagon is fuller than usual ; and the late hour—it is
now atter sunset—will of itself excite suspicion. It
might test the plikk of a braver man ; for the sent
ries' bayonets are fixed, and. their guns at the half
trigger ; but be reaches the outer gate in safety.—
Now Bt. Patrick help him ! for he needs all the im
pudence of an Irishman. The gate rolls back ; the
Commandant stands nervously by, but a sentry cries
out—
• .
" You catil pass ; tiglu orders. No waging
tin go out after drum beat."
" Arndt, don't be a fool ! Don't be after abstime
tin' a honsat man's business," answers the Irish
man, pushing on into the gateway.
The soldier Is vigilant, for his officer's eye Is on
" Halt !" he cries again, " or I'll fire !"
" Fire I Waste yer powder_ on yer friends, like
the bloody-minded spa/peen ye are !" says the scav
enger, cracking his whip, and moving forward.
It Is well he does not look back, if be should, he
might tee melted to his own soap grease. The sett
try's musket is leveled ! he is about to fire, but the
Commandant roars out—
" Don't shoot!" and the old man and the old
horse trot oil into the twilight.
Not en hour later, two men, in big boots, slouch
ed hate, and brownish butternuts, come out of the
Commandant's quarters. With muffled faces end
hasty strides, they made their way over the dimly
lighted road Into the city. Passing, after a while,
before a large mansion, they crouched down among
the shadows. It is the house of the grand Treasur
er of the Order of American Knights, and Into It
very soon they sec the Texan enter. The good man
knows him well, and there Is great rejoicing. He
orders op the tatted calf, and soon It Is on the table,
steaming hot, and done brown in the roasting.—
When the meal is over they discuss a bottle of cham
pagne and the situation. The Texan cannot remain
In Chicago, for there he will surely be detected. He
meat be off to Cincinnati by the first train; and he
will arrive in the nick of time, for warm work is
daily expected. Das he any moneyabout him. No,
he hasten it behind, with his Sunday clothes, in the
prisora Be must have funds; but the worthy gen
tleman can lend him none, for he is a loyal man ; of
course he is! was he not the "people's candidate"
for Governor ? But no one ever heard of a woman
being hanged for treason. With this he node to his
wife, who opens her purse, and tosses the Texan a
roll of greenbacks. They are honest notes, for an
honest face is on them. At the end of an hour
good-night is said, and the Texan goes to find a hole
to hide In. Down the street he hurries, the long,
dark shadows following him.
Ho enters the private door of a public house,
speaks a magic word and Is shown to a room In the
upper story. •Three tow, prolonged rens on the wall,
and—be is among them. They are seated about a
small table, on which Is a plan of the prison. One
is about forty-five.--a tall, thin man, with a wiry
frame, a jovial face, and eyes which have the wild,
roving look of the Arab's. He Is dressed after the
fashion of English sportsmen, and his dog—a fine
gray blood-hound—is stretched on the hearth-rag
near him. Ile looks a reckless, desperate character,
and hart an adventurous history. In battle ho is
said to be a thunderbolt—llghtoing harnessed and
Inspired with the will of a devil. He Is ust the
character to lead the dark, desperate Won on
which they aro entered. It is St. Leger renfelL
At his right sits another tali, erect man, of about
thirty, with huge, prominent eyes, and thin, black
hair and mustache. lie is of dark complexion, has
a abarp, thin nose, a small, close mouth, a coarse,
harsh voice, and a quick bolster ous manner. Ills
Lace tells of dissipation, and his dress shows the
dandy ; but his deep, clear eye, and pale, , arrinkled
forehead denote a cool, crafty intellect. This Ls the
notorious Captain Hines, the rightband man of
Morgan, and the soul and braise of the conspiracy.
The rest are the meaner sort of villains Ido not
know how they looked, and it I did, they would not
be worth describing.
tithes and Grenfen sprang to their feet, and grasp
ed the band of the Texan. He la a godsend—sent to
do what no man of them Is bravo enough to do—
lead the attack on the front gateway of the prison.
Bo they affirm with great oaths as they sit down,
spread out the map, and explain to him the plan of
operations.
Two Rebel refugees from Canada, they
say, and a hundred "butternuts " from Fayette and
Christian counties, have already arrived ; many
more from Kentucky and Missouri are coming; and
by Tuesday they expect that 1,000 or 1,200 despe
rate men, armed to the teeth. will be In Chicago.—
, Taking advantage of the „excitement of election
night, they propoae, with this force to attack the
camp and prison. It will be divided Into five par
t'ts One squad, under Greaten, will bo held le re
arms a few hundred yards from the main body, and
will guard the large number of guns already provid
ed to arm the prisoners. Anothescommand of which
is offered to the Texan, will assault the front gate
' way,and engage the attention of 800 troops quarter
ed In Garrison equate. The work of this squad will
be dangerous, for it will encounter a force four
times Its strength, well armed and supplied with ar
tillery; but it will be speedily relieved - by other di
visions. Those under Marmadake, Colcnel Robert
Anderson, of Kentucky, and Brig .-G eneral Charles
Walsh, of Chicago, Commander of the American
Knights, will simultaneously mail tbree alder of
l'claeniquere, break down the fences, liberate the
prisoners, and, taking the gerriega In the rear, ooat-
pel a general surrender. This accompliehed, small
parties will be dispatched to cut the telegraph-wI
and seize the railway-stations ; While the main body,
reinforced by the 8,000 and more prisoners_,
march into the city and rendezvous in Court-House
figure, which will be the bun of farther operations.
The first blow struck, the Insurgents will be join
ed by the 5,000 Tillni (American .nielits,) and, sea -
lu• the arms of the city, six brass field-pieces and
800 Springfield muskets, and the arms and ammuni
tion stored In private warehouses, will begin the
work of destruction. The banks will be rob b ed, the
stores gutted, the houses of loyal men plundered,
and the railway stations, grain elevators, and other
public buildings burned to the ground. T. facili
tate this latter dogleg the water-plues have been
marked, and a force detailed to set the water run
ning. In brief, the war will be brought home to
the North ; Chingn will be dealt with like a city
taken by assault, given over to thotorch , the sword,
and the brutal lust of a drunken soldiery. On it
will be wreaked all the havoc, the agony, and the
desolation which three years of war have heaped up
on the South ; and its upgoing flames will be the
torch that shall light a score of other cities to we
same destruction.
It was a diabolical plan, conceived far down In
hell amid thick blackness, and brought up by the
arch-fiend binelleic who eat there, toying with the
hideous thing, and with 415 cloven foot berating
merry tune on the dcath'a-bead and crosa-bones un
der the table.
As he concludes, Hines turns to the new comer—
" Well, my boy, What do you say ? Will you take
the poet of honor and of danger r ,
The Texan drew a long breath, and then, through
We barred teeth, blurta out:
" I will."
On those two words hang thousands of live",
millions of money!
" You are a trump !" shouts Grenfell, springing
to his feet "Give us your hand upon it!"
A general hand-shaking follows, and during it,
Hines and another man announce that their time is
up:
"It is nearly twelve. Yielding and I never stay
In this d—d town after midnight. You are fools,
or you wouldn't.
Suddenly, as these words are uttered, a clenched
hat, listening a: the key-hole, pope up, moves soft
ly through the hall, and steals down the stairway.
Half an hour later the Texan opens the private door
of the Richmond House, looks cautiously around
for a moment, and then stalks on towards the heart
of the city. The moon is down, the lamps burn
dimly, but after him glide the shadows.
In a room at the Tremont Home, not far (ruin
this time, the Commandant is walking and waning,
when the door opens and a man enters. His face is
flushed, his teeth are clench, his oyes flashing.—
He is stirred to the depths of hie being. Can he be
the Texan f
" What Is Ole matter?" asked the Commandant
The other sits down, and, as if only talking to
himself, tells him. One hour has swept away the
fallacies of his Ilfe-time. Ile sees the Rebellion as it
Is—the outbreak and outworking of that spirit
which makes hell horrible. Althea°, that night,
he had acted from love, not dug. Now he bows
only to the All-Bight and the All-Beautiful, and in
hie heart Is that psalm of work, song by ono of old,
and by all true men since the dawn of treatlon:
" Here am I, Lord ! Send ma!"
The first gray of the morning is streaking the cast,
when he goes forth to dnd a hiding-place. The sun
Is not yet up, and the early light comes dimly
through the misty clouda, but about him still hang
the long dark shadows. Thla is a world of shadows.
Only in the atmosphere which soon enclosed him Is
there no night and co shadow.
Soon the Texan's escape Is known at the camp.
and a great hue and cry follows. Handbills are got
out, a reward is offered,and by that Sunday noonbla
name is on every street corner. Squads of soldiers
and police ransack the city and Invade everry Rebel
asylum. Strange things are brought to light, and
strange gentry dragged out of dark closets ; but no
where la bound the Texan. The search is well done,
for the pursuers are In dead earnest; and, Captain
Hines, if you don't trust him now, you are a fool,
with all your astuteness!
So the day wears away and the night corneal.—
Just at dark a man enters the private door of the
Tremont House, and goes up to a room where the
Commandant is waiting. lie sports a light rattan,
wears a stove-pipe bat, a Sunday snit, and is shaven
and shorn like unto Samson. What la the Cora
141Pkidant doing with such a man ? Boon the gas is
lighted; and 10, it is the Texan! But who In crea
tion would know him 1 The plot, he says, thick
ens. More "Butternuts" have arrived, and the
deed will be done on Tuesday night, as sure as
Christmas is coming He has seen his men—two
hundred, picked, and everyone clamoring for pick
ings. Hines, who carries the bag, Is to give him
ten thousand greenbacks, to atop their mouths and
stuff their pockets, at nine In the morning.
" And to-morrow night we'll have them, suret—
And, how say you, give you shackles and a dun•
geon ?" asks the Commandant, his mouth wreath
ed with grim wrinkles.
"Anything you like. Anything to blot out my
record of treason
He has learned the words—they are in his heart,
not to be razed out forayer.
When he is gone, up and down the room goes the
Commandant, as le his fashion. He is playing a
desperate game. The stake is awful. He holds the
ace of trumps—but shall be risk the game upon It?
At half-past eight he sits down and writes a dis
patch to the GeneraL In it he says :
"My force Is, as you know, too weak and over
worked—only'eight hundred men, all told, to guard
between eight and nine thousand prisoners. I am
certainly not justified In wailing to take risk, and
mean to arrest these officers, if possible, before
month:1: 1;3 "
The patch went off, but still the Commandant
is undecided. If ho strlkPa - to.nlght, Hines may es
cape, for the fox has a hole out of town, and may
keep under cover until morning. lie Is the king
devil, and much the Commandant wants to cage
him. Besides, he holds the bag, and the Texan will
go out of prison a penniless man among strangers.
Those ten thousand greenbacks are lawful prize,
and should be the country's dower with the maid
en.- But arc not republics grateful? Did not one
give a mansion to General McClellan? Ah, Captain
Rine, that was lucky for you, for, beyond a doubt,
It saved your bacon !
The Commandant goes back to camp, sends for
the police, and gets his blue-coats ready. At two
o'clock they swoop to the prey, and before day
break a hundred birds are in the talons of tie
Such another haul of buzzards and night-hawks
never was made since Gabriel caged the Devil and
the dark angels.
At the Richmond House, Grenfel was taken In
bed with the Texan. They were clapped into Irons,
and drove off to the prison together. A fortnight
later, the Texan, relating these details to a stranger,
while the Commandant was sitting at his desk writ-
Ing e said :
Words cannot describe my relief when these
handcuffs were put upon us. At times before, the
sense of responsibility almost overpowered me.—
Then I felt like a man who had just come into for
tune. The wonder to me now is, how the Colonel
could have trusted so much to a rebel."
"Trusted I" exclaimed the Commandant looking
up from his writing. " I had faith in you, I
thought you wouldn't betray me; bet I trusted poor
own life in your own hands, that was all. Too much
was at stake to do more. Your every stop was alalui
owed, from the very moment you left camp till you
came back in irons. Two detectives were constant
ly at your back, sworn to take your life if you wa
vered for half a second." "Is that truer asked
the Texan in a musing way, but without moving a
muscle. " I didn't know it but 1 telt it in the air 1"
In the room at the Richmond House„ on the table
around which were discussed their hellish plans,
was found a slip of paper, and on It, in pencil, was
scrawled the following:
" Comm. :—Tota must leave this house tomfght.
Go to the Briggs Rouse to-night. J. An..DING."
Fielding was the assumed name of the Rebel who
burrowed with Hines out of town where not even
his tollow.fiends could find him. old the old fox
scent the danger! Beyond a doubt be did. Anoth
er day, and the Tones life might have been forfeit
ed. Another day, and the camp might have been
sprung upon a little too suddenly I Bo the Com
mandant was none too soon ; who that reads this
can doubt that through It all he was led and guided
by the good Providence that guards his country ?
But what said Chicago when It awoke In the
morning! Let one of l a te own organs answer:
" A shiver of genuine horror passed over Chicago
Yesterday. Thousands of citizens, who awoke to
the peril hanging over their property and their
heeds in the form of a stupendous foray upon the
city from Camp Douglas, led by rebel °Moons in dis
guise and rebel guerrillas without disguise, and con
cocted by boron Copperheads, 'whose houses had
been converted Into rebel arsenals, were swatted As
though an earthquake had opened at their feet. • •
Who can picture the horrors to follow the letting
loose of 9,000 Rebel prisoners upon a sleeping city,
all unconscious of the coming avalanche? With
arms and ammunition Moral at convenient loca
tions, with confederatan distributed here and there,
ready for the signal of conflagration, the horrors of
the scene could scarcely be paralleled In save his
tory. One hour of such a catastrophe wo urd de
stroy the creations of a quarter of a century, and ex
pose the homes 01 nearly 230,000 souls to every con
ceivable form of destruction."—[Caicago Tribune,
Nov. Bth, 1/36C.1
But the men of Chicago not only talked t they act.
ed. They went to the polls and voted tar the Union;
and so told the world what bonnet Illinois though t
of tmason.
Wore arrests were made, MOTs arms take; but
ea.oo per annum, in advance.
0 1 ,11111110DOIM1
the grat blow was struck and the work over. Its
had gone, the Conspiracy was dead, and it only re
nuked to lay out Its lifeless trunk for the burial.—
Yet, even as it lay In death, men shuddered to look
on the hideous thing out of which had gone 60
many devils.
Mr. Nuby Lays Down a Platform for the Clam
ing 0 arapaign.
SAINT'S Res?, (wich is In the Rtalt tiv
Noo•Gensy,).fane 23d, VOA
These Is dark days nv the Dimocrisy. Tho nda
forchoons that befell our armies in front In Melt
motul, the tall nv our kappytul, foliated by the sur
render nv oar armies 2 Grant and Sherman, hex hurt
us. Our leaders- air either phgn In loathsome
dunguna, inkarserstiti by the lieven-datyln, Kan
destroyin, tyranikle edit nv our late lamented Pres
ident, or air baskin In the free air nv Italy and Wan
ady. We hey no way us keepin our voters together.
Opposin the war won't do no good, far before the
next eleclushon the heft nv our voters will hey dhe
kivered that the war la over. The feer tit drafts
may do stithin in some parts nv Pennsylvany and
Southern Illinoy, ter some time ytt , but that can't
be dependid on.
But we hey wan resource fer Ishoo—they will al
luz be a Dimocrisy, so long ea ther's a Nigger.
Ther Is a uncompromlain dislike to the Nigger In
the mind nv a ginoolne Dimokrat. The Spanish
ball-fighter when he wants to inflame the bulitoex
tra cavorts, waves a red flag afore him. Wen yoo
desire a Dlmokrat to froth at the month yoo will
find a black lace will anser the purpas. There 4 the
nigger is, too-day, our beat and only holt. Let us
use him.
Per the guidance of the faithful, I abel lay down
o few plain mole to be observed, In order to make
the most av the eappytlo we hey:
1. Alluz assert that the nigger will never be able
to talk care tiv hisself, but will alluz be a public
burden. He may, possibly, rive us the its by gain
to work. In sick a emergency the dooty nit emery
Disnokrat Is plane. He must nut be allowed to
work. Associashen• must be orgenir4 pie nee-
ther to give him employment, to work with to
work for cony one who willgive him work, or pat
ronize easy one who duz. (I wood West that doh
uv us ez Isez bin ioretoonit muff 2 git credit, pay •
trifle on account, so m to snake our patzonlge worth
suthin.) This course rigidly and persistently tolled
wood drive the best uv ens to stmlin,and the balance
to the poor houses,provin wot we hey allot clamed,
that they air a idle and vistas race. Thinly my
brethren, was a inspirin effeck our poor hostels en 4
Jails full cm Niggers wood hey on the people I lkfy
sole expands ez I contemplate the deliteftd vishun.
2. Likewise assert that the nigger will cum north,
and take all the good places, throwln all our ak iM
mcksoiks out nv work by underbiddln sly ens. This
mite be open to 2 obgemhums, to-wit : It cross elite
ty Roca the 1, and men mite nay, ef there's get enuff
later ter wat's here, why not perhibit furriness Mares
cumin ? I Buser.. Its the hiznis nv the voter to me.
motile the contradiksbun—he may bleeve eether or
both Ez to the sekund obgeekshun, where le the
ifimoknit who coodent be übderbld and stan It even
to starvashen, ef the underbiddin wstz dun by a man „
or the prond Kaukashest race! and where la the
Dimoltrat so lost to manhood ez not to drink bind,
cf the same nnderblddin is dun by a nigger? The
atervin for work aint the question its the color tre the
cause us , the etarvaaheu that mares the Mem:a
Nigger equality msy be worked 2 to advantage.
All men, without diatinekshun or seeks alrl'ond uv
flatrin theinselves that somebody's lower down in
the skate nv humanity than they Is. Ef tenin't fey
niggers what wood the Dimocrasy do for snmboddy
2 look down upon f Its also 'sheer to enlist stun
stile ay wimmin on our side. In times gone by roe
notlat gnehtn v , Irpfins us , 45, fall 16 hands high and
tuff ez wire, holdln aloft banners onto with wuz In
scribed "Save us from Nigger Equality." You see
it soothed em 2 hey a chance UV adveytisin let, That
they win ttale, helpils critters, and 24, That anahent
and tuff es they wur, sum one wus still goin ter em.
Ef there slut no niggers, Elentrel Committis must
famish em. Half a dozen will do fer a ordinary coun
ty; of they wont steel, the Bentrel Committee must
do it their:selves. Show per niggers in a township
In the monsin, and the same tate rob the clothes
lines and the ben roosts. Ever willln.2 sacrifice my
self for the cause, I volunteer to do this latter dooty
in six populous counties.
These Ideas, if follerd, will, no doubt, keep us to
either till our inmates split, when we will reap the
reward In our constancy and fidelity. May the
Lord hasten the day. PETROLEUM V. Na.tnr,
Leit Paster uv the Church up the Noo Dispense
shun.
Alphabetical Record of the Rebellion.
An exchange inabllahee the following:—
A--Btande for Andersonville—the ghastly monu
ment of the most revolting outrage of the cen
ury.
B—fitands for Booth—Let his memory be swallowed
up In oblivion.
C-Btands for Canada—ths asylum for akadaddl
and the nest In which foul traitors haws hatched
their eggs of treason.
D-Btands for Davis—the most eminent low come.
dlan, In the female character, of the age.
E-48tands for England-en enemy in our advmslq,
a sycophant in our prosperity-(Mu lc by the
band; air,
Yankee Doodle.)
F--Stands for Preedom-tbn bulwark of the nation.
0-Stands for Grant-the undertaker who officiated
at the burial of the rebellion.
1:1--Stands for Hanes--his tactics couldn't save him.
I-Stands for laniard-the spirit of trees=
J-Stands for Justice-give it to the traitors
K.-Stands for Kea:merge-tor tactile: particulars
see Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
L--Stands for Lincoln-we mown his loss.
M—Stands for Mason—(more music by the hand;
air, "There came to the beach a poor exile," dee
N—,Staruis for No-where—the present location of
the C. S. A.
o—Stands for "Oh, dear, what can the matter be ?"
—For answer to this question, apply to Kirby
Smith. _
P-Btanda for peace—nobly won by thegallant sold
iers of the Union.
Q--Stands for Quantrell—one of the gorillas in the
rebel menagerie.
R—Stands for Rebellion—which is no longer able to
stand for itself.
B—Stands for Sherman—he has a Mend and vindi-
cator In Grant.
T--13tanda for Treason—with a halter around Its
neck.
U--Stands for Union—" Now and forever, one and
inseparable."
V—Stands for Victory—farther explanation 14 un
nercAaar3r.
W—Stands for Washington—the nation la true to
Ms memory.
%--Stands for %tradltlon—Engllsh papers please
Y--fitaudcopy.
s for Young America—who stands by the
Union.
Z-13tands for Zodlac—the stare are all there. (Mu
- etc by the bane—
' The Star-apangled BannPr, 0 long may It mum,
O'er the Land of the free, an d mum,
the home of the brats')
WHYS TO lIMMMI.
At this warm season, when bathing is so popular,
It will be well to observe the following
hints, wbleb we take from the Lmuion
:
"On first plunging icto cold water, there COMM
a shock which drives the blood to the central part
or the system. But immediately a reaction taken
place, which, assisted by the exercise of swimming,
producing, even In water of a low temperature, an
agreeable warmth.
The stay to the water should never be prolonged
beyond the period of this excitement. If the water
be left while this warmth continues, and 'the body
Immediately dried, the healthy glow over the whole
snafttee mill be delightfoL
To remain in the water after the first reaction ba
over produces a prolonged ehMness a shrinking of
the Scab, and a contraction of the akin, by no mean*
favorable to health or enjoyment ; for It is only in
water, thoroughly wormed by the summer beats,
where we may bathe for many home with impunity.
Certain precautions are necesssry.
Moderate exercise, by summoning Into action the
powers of the eystem, and quickening the circuit'.
tie ,n IS better than Inactivity.
We should never go into water Immediately alter
a meal, nor while the process of digestion is going
forward. Nor should we plunge into the water
when violently heated, or In a state of prelims per.
spiration. Such imprudent:les are often fatal, ea
ally lithe water be unusually cold. If too warm,
the temperature of the body may be reduced by
bathing the body and wetting the head.
Before meals, rather than after, and especially be.
fore breakfast and supper, are proper seasona for
bathing. The heath of the days are to be avoided,
but In very hot weather a bath In used to cool the
blood and secure refroieldng Sleep. If In the middle
of the day, a ahmled plat:cab:told be chosen, or the
head protW.- ea from the s enticed be kept pet. or
by wearing a straw tutt, - as by the Padden
able French ladles at their watering-place& 4
rZ/Ptio Providence frau y
: T bt s man
of our acquaintance living In tuts ci t y wbo boo b een
wanted thirty-now years, has stillwedding snit,
which he has worn every Sunday rinca , end it to dig
in good condition fbr Sudsy tea; Ifs tiss worn It
Inn all sensate= tinadred sad sixty eligtkt days."