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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Washington Volunteers. (search)
inst., by a man — whose name we did not learn — from East Tennessee. He had been seen about there several days, and had excited considerable suspicion — so much so that he was watched. They saw him pour alcohol on the bridge, and was in the act of setting fire to it when caught. He had lit a match for that purpose. He owned up, and was hanged on Tuesday in Cassville. Arkansas Intelligence. Seventy-seven additional persons arrived at Little Rock on the 14th, who had been captured in Searcy county. They were a part of the gang of conspirators whose nest was discovered and broken up in Van Buren county a short time ago. The Journal states that the foul conspiracy (which was the work of a fanatical old free-will Baptist preacher, aided by a few hoary-headed old sinners, who have been long living in crime and wickedness among the barrens of the northern border counties,) has been promptly broken up by the vigilance and prompt action of the loyal citizens of those counti