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diately given, and kept up until darkness set in and put the suspicious steamer out of sight. On the following morning (Sunday) she was again discovered about twelve miles ahead, and the chase was renewed and continued through the day. At one time the vessels were but five miles apart, when the stranger lightened ship and kept steadily on her course until darkness again set in and rendered the pursuit useless. When lost sight of, she was inside the lines of our blockade fleet off Wilmington, North Carolina, and it is thought she did not escape. The plot to release the Johnson's Island prisoners — what was to be done with Chicago. The Chicago Tribune gives what it insists is a full and correct account of the plot, so recently frustrated, which had for its object the release of the Johnson's island prisoners and the "capture" of the city of Chicago. It says: A force of about four hundred men — K. G. C.'s, bush whackers and guerrillas — were to be assembled at Chicago, an<