Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-04

/ OF military trimmings. epauletteS, sword ham
dies, &c. He had obtained heavy contract
/ from the United States Government to more
| efTectualIy conceal his plans, and was armed
with numerous letters from Federal function
ries that be intended to produce in emergeu-
| cies. This gentleman conducted contraband
| trade from Baltimore until Gen. Dix and the
| Provost Marshal showed him up. He was
| first observed in this wise: A package con-
tanning several thousand friction tubes and
cannon primers had been left at Adams Ex-
| press Office in this city, addressed to we'll
known firm in Baltimore. Being threatened
| with arrest. the latter firm confessed that
| they were the agents of JAS NJ. Haig. and it
was further educed that the same was ship
ped under fictitious name by William Gill
christ
Detective Benjamin Franklin, sagaeious
| and fertile Philadelphia officer, now deter
| mined to seduce Haig to this city, for which
| purpose be resOrted to certain ingenious
| means, not now ripe for publication. Con-
WINGED that heavy orders awaited him here,
and that Philadelphia was less under espion-
age than Baltimore, Haig came on. A cell
ebrated Lincoln detective now took part in
the matter, and the means by which they in
Weighed all the parties constitute the richest
item in the history of criminal surveillance.
The Israelite was so played upon that he is
not yet aware of the enemies who ruined
him, and when the matter was ripe the whole
party were taken up, their goods and papers
seized, and they are now in Fort Lafayette,
having gone forward on Sunday night.
VIM. Gilchrist is a razor and cutlery i'm
porter. whose establishment is situated at
Fifth and Commerce streets. He has never
taken the oath of allegiance, being an Eng
lishman. His game was to pretend himself
Federal agent till the worst came. when he
was to claim the privilege of a British sub
Ject. In his establishment were found sur
gical instruments, caps, pistols, bowie knives,
DC packed and directed to go Souihward-
The property amounted to $4,000 in value.
f. Wyatt, is Virginian. formerly in part
nership with G. B. Campbell, 205 North Wa
ter street. He has always been rabid trait
or, aud his wife has been six times to Rich
mond and back within as many weeks, taking
each time as many trunks heavily filled with
arms and goods contraband. She passed our
lines by bribing an officer of the army, who
obtained passes for the purpose. Said officer
has been arrested and will probably be shot.
At WAITS house an extensive correspon-
dence with parties at the South was found,
and his completely with the rebels was proved
by his papers even in the absence OF any 9th
err evidence. Among other articles seized
there was pair of epaulettes, marked with
the name of Capt. Richardson, an officer in the
rebel army. There was also Photographic
group of worthless, of which be was the cen
tire. A gentleman who is familiar with the
likenesses. says that they represent Captain
Richardson. Capt. John A. Cullin, Lieut.. G.
D. Finley, of Macon, Ga. and Blodgett, May
or of Savannah all decided rebels.
The hay contract in which Haig Was en-
paoed was 10 have been worked to good ad-
Vantage. Two vessels, one loaded with bales
of hay, and the other with bales containing
war munitions, were to have been dispatched
up the Potomac, and, at Aqua Greek, at
given signal, the bogus hay would have been
run under the rebel batteries. All this was
proven by seized letters. and also the fact
that the late captures of Federal sleeps and
small craft By the rebels off the Potomac and
Rappahannock. were the work OF design, and
not of accident the same containing contra
band matters. New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore merchants are implicit I'd, and the
proofs are too plain and startling to set
aside.
These three men were leagued together,
and among their several correspondence, were
late letters from the rebel contractors, &C
knowledging the receipt of pistols and side
arms
After being arrested, they were shifted from
station-house to prison. being one night taken
out of town to stave off judicial decisions,
writs of hdbeas corpus, &c. Finally. on Sun
day Marshals Jenkins and Steele drove them
to the New York boat-Wyatt defiant. Gill
christ cowed and sullen, and the Israelite
trembling like a leaf.
part of the correspondence duplicating
them was obtained from the wife oil aLieu-
tenant in the Federal army, who had been
rather delicately implicated with n. ID.
Winder, now in Fort Lafayette. She has
been arrested in Newark, n. j., where she
resides.
The Government decoy who assisted Frank
lin in these favors, is said to be a daring Cal
iforniau. full of nerve aud fertile in expedi-
ents who has been twice in Charleston and
thrice in Richmond, since the battle of Bull
Run His manner of making the arrest can
not now be disclosed. although it rivals in
interest and danger the exploits of the best
Bow street officers.