...Hastings's presence was known among the leading secesh at McMinnville, they conceived the brilliant idea of bagging his entire command. Hon. Andrew Ewing, the invincible pike-man, Judge Ridley, and Judge Marchbanks , engineered the plot, and Andrew Ewing, who has determined, I suppose, like Gov. Harris, to take the field, actually got on the outside of a horse, with a single-barrelled shot-gun for his weapon, a...