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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. Johnson's Island, the new Yankee prison, not heard of till lately in the Confederate States, is thus described in the Chicago Tribune: This beautiful island, which the rebels and the Copperheads call "Lincoln's Bastile," is situated in the bosom of Lake Erie, near the west end, and in full view of Sandusky city, Ohio. Immediately after the commencement of the war the United States rented thirty acres of land lying southwest and facing upon the bay, at an annual cost of $690, during the continuance of the rebellion. They then enclosed fourteen acres with a board fence fourteen feet high, erecting within two rows of barracks which, with other buildings, officers' and soldiers' quarters, hospital and commissary accommodations, cost $40,000. By the side of the fence, four feet from the top, a platform is erected, four feet wide, that is patrolled by sentinels continually.--The number upon it is eighteen, who are re
he Mayor has taken measures to guard against incendiaries. He is also in communication with Gov. Seymour in relation to military affairs. Cincinnati, Nov. 13.--No additional intelligence relative to the Johnson's Island affair beyond that already telegraphed has been received. All was quiet in that vicinity last night. The Gazette's special dispatch from Columbus says that a large force of infantry and two batteries of artillery were sent there yesterday. Gen. Cox left Columbus for Sandusky on a special train last night. The Fighting in Western Virginia. The following are the official telegrams received in Washington about the recent expedition of Averill and Scammell into Western Virginia: Clarksburg, November 8, 1863 To Governor Boreman: Gen. Averill attacked Jackson's forces at Mill Point, Pocahontas county, on the 5th inst., and drove him from his position with trifling loss.--Jackson fell back to the summit of Droop Mountain, when he was reinforced b
ets found concealed in it. The plot is said to have been to seize the United States steamer Michigan and two of the New York Central propellers, and make a raid upon the shipping. Additional information shows their design to turn and lay waste the cities of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and every other town from Ogdensburg to Chicago, and to obliterate entirely the commerce of Lake Erie. Vallandigham, James Clay, and Marshal Kane, are said to have been the "arch-conspirators." Reports from Sandusky say that everything is quiet in that vicinity, and that all the preparations are made to guard against danger. There were no indications on the part of the rebel prisoners at Johnson's Island of an intention to escape. The Washington Star says that Hon. Preston King was dispatched to Montreal on the 14th, to confer with the Canadian authorities-relative to the alleged plot. --The Detroit Free Press gives the following frightened exposure of the plot: The scheme is worthy the ingenuit
ed, the greater part young girls between fifteen and twenty years of age. One mother perished with her five daughters. Two thirds of the victims were servants. Several houses have been noticed by the police as empty, because all their inmales have perished. The latest information is that 1,700 bodies have been recognized. Three thousand at least were in the building, and it is not yet known how many have escaped. Reported Plot to capture Johnson's Island. A dispatch from Sandusky, Ohio, dated the 17th, says that a scout had just returned from a thorough reconnaissance towards Point Pelee, Canada, and reports two or three thousand rebels at Point Pelee, preparatory to a dash upon Johnson's Island. The strictest vigilance is maintained on the island, and several batteries are in position. Point Pelee is thirty miles from Johnson's Island. John Brown, a son of "old John Brown," who resides on Put- in Bay Island, has gone to Columbus to induce the Government to furnish
2d of October, Captain Ashley saw, on the eastern edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, the deck of a ship which had been burned. A major-general in the English army, Lord Stanhops, is on a visit to the Army of the Potomac. A boy of eighteen, named Eads, employed in the quartermaster's department at Nashville, has obtained fifty thousand dollars by forgery and decamped. Six of the thirteen guns intended for Cedar Point battery, at the entrance of Sandusky harbor, have arrived at Sandusky. They are old thirty-two-pounders, rifled, and will be mounted shortly. A blockade-runner, recently arrived at an English port, reports that the Wilmington blockading squadron now numbers one hundred and seventy vessels. The Rocky Mountain News of the 5th says that nearly one hundred persons have been killed by the Indians along the Platte and Arkansas rivers since the beginning of the outbreaks, about three months age. Fifty places of business in Eastport, Maine, were destr
in the rebel interest. More of the Plan for Releasing the Johnson's Island prisoners. Last week the Mayor of Chicago received information that a plot had been concocted by refugees in Canada to sink the revenue cutter Michigan, lying at Sandusky, and release the prisoners from Johnson's island. The following particulars are given of the scheme in a Chicago paper: James Bates, a Southern refugee, purchased of the firm A. M. Smith & Co., of Toronto, the propeller Georgian, represenuld be used as a ram against the Michigan; declared that he had a sufficient force of men for his purpose, and also intimated that he was supplied with arms and ammunition. He had in his possession a very large and accurate map of the harbor of Sandusky, on which was marked the location of the Michigan and the batteries. He was particularly anxious to ascertain whether he would be compelled to open the hatches of his vessel in passing through the Welland canal if a demand was made upon him to
n II. A. Dupont, Fifth United States artillery, and such others as may be assigned, will form the artillery brigade. The troops in the Kanawha valley, commanded by Colonel John II. Oley, Seventh West Virginia cavalry, will form the First separate brigade. Division commanders will at once form proper brigade organizations. By command of Major-General Crook. Robert P. Kennedy, Assistant Adjutant-General. Attempted escape of Confederates from Johnson's island. The Sandusky (Ohio) Register of Wednesday says: About one o'clock yesterday morning, by a preconcerted arrangement, a rush was made by twenty-four prisoners upon the centre of the guard line, on the northwest side of the prison on Johnson's island. The prisoners had improvised eight scaling ladders by attaching eleats to beards and strips — very light, easily carried, and just the thing for scaling the high prison fence. The rush upon the guard at once occasioned the proper cry, "Turn out the guard
founded, and the question of law raised on the trial, the Major-General commanding has given the most earnest and careful consideration to them all. The testimony shows that the accused, while holding a commission from the authorities at Richmond as acting master in the navy of the insurgent States, embarked at Sandwich, Canada, on board the Philo Parsons, an unarmed steamer, while on one of her regular trips, carrying passengers and freight from Detroit, in the State of Michigan, to Sandusky, in the State of Ohio. The captain had been induced by Burley, one of the confederates of the accused, to land at Sandwich, which, which was not one of the regular stopping places of the steamer, for the purpose of receiving them. Here the accused and two others took passage. At Maiden, another Canadian port, and one of the regular stopping places, about twenty-five more came on board. The accused was in citizen's dress, showing no insignia of his rank or profession, embarking as a
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