Who wrote the article.
--The New York
Herald recently published a letter, in which all the defences at
Wilmington, N. C., were pretended to be described, the troops numbered, and with it a map of the fortifications.
The Wilmington
Journal, of Tuesday, says:
‘
The "
Baron Von Konig," who said he had been an officer in the Austrian service, came to
Wilmington from
Nassau.
arriving here on the 21st of last August, with the professed purpose of offering his services to the
Confederate authorities.
The said authorities at
Richmond, being telegraphed, knew nothing of the aforesaid ‘"
Baron Von Konig," ’ and declined his services, so that the
Baron returned to the place from whence he came, and on board the steamer which brought him over, without receiving a command or being permitted to travel farther through the
Confederacy.
’
Whether the
Baron, who would appear to have been a mere military adventurer, of which many are to be found wandering over the continent of
Europe, really did desire service with us or merely came as a spy, is more than we can say. Now the man, a tall, portly, and rather imposing looking person, over middle age, calling himself "
Baron Von Konig," whatever his rent name may have been, is pointed out by circumstances as the man who wrote the communication to the New York
Herald, copied into the
Journal of Saturday.
It was not his fault that his revelations were too incorrect to be really prejudicial to the
Confederacy.
He did his best or his worst.
He was no doubt displeased that he could not get a pass to go out of town.
He was not pleased that
Gen. Whiting should proceed cautiously and distrustfully in his case.
Circumstances have shown that the
General was right.
