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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
, under date of Oct. 23d, has a very interesting letter, from which we extract the following. A few days since. Gen. Polk sent an embassy to the commander at Cairo in relation to an exchange of prisoners, but Gen. Grant declined to act upon it without orders from higher authority. A correspondence has since taken place betweMcClernand, Brig-Gen. Commanding. Headq'rs 1st division Western Dep't. Columbus, Ky., Oct., 24, 1861. Brigadier-General John A. McClernand, Commanding. Cairo, Ill. Sir: I have received your note of this date, horne by Col. N. H. Buford, of the 27th Illinois regiment, responding to the overture made by me to General G, for which they gave receipts that they were to be used for the Confederate States, and turned them over to our forces under Gen. Pillow. Thomas then went to Cairo, as a spy, according to this relation, and on this trip discovered that the free negro Isaac was engaged in ferrying across runaway slaves. Thomas made a pretende