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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Contraband trade in Illinois--Seizure of medicines, &c. (search)
nth a large amount of glut braid and lace, with valuable medicines, was captured by Dr. Arter, Surveyor of the port of Cairo. They were discovered hidden under some logs on the shore, near where some negroes were seen to be hovering in a boat with muffled cars. Most of these goods it is ascertained came from Cincinnati. Captain Stewart, of the Independent Cavalry, has for two weeks past been scouring the country in Southern Illinois, between the Illinois Central Railroad and the Mississippi river, for a distance of fifty miles, in the hunt of smugglers. During the "rampage" he arrested a number of parties accused of and engaged in this business. No very severe punishment was inflicted on them, but he has so completely scared these lawbreakers as to stop their operations altogether. Some twelve negroes — runaways — came into our lines at Fort Holt yesterday. They reported that they had been collected together by a party of rebels, to be sent to Columbus to work on the en