The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-08
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
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FREDERIcKsBURG, June 9TH, 1861.
Though i am not i'll the habit of writing for
news parers, feel it my duty, as n Southern
man, to make known through you, some facts
which you and others may think important
l am, you see, near our borcer, and hence
have opportunity To see and hear much. go
to Aqua Creek two or three times a week
marking closely men and things. Yesterday
morning ] went over, as usual, and after a.
irving there, q fellow who cane down in the
same train with myself stepped up and iu
QuiTed of me the nun ber CT men at the bat
teries, and several other ques tions of the
same character. Discovering at once that he
had Northern tongue, gave him such
swers as l thought II Southern gentleman
should give q Northern y;ndal, for such l at
once regarded him. | soon discovered him
and two others, out in the swamp near
the point, pretending that thcy We're
looking for pieces of she'll. | inquired
of several of the soldiers TO VINO they
were, one of whom told me that
he thought that they came there for the pur-
pose of laying off batteries" L then Went
10 two of The officers. They told me that
they were some gentlemen who came down on
the cars. No disposition seemed to be mani
fes as to who they were or where they came
from. l was surprised at tins carelessness,
and determined 10 keep an eye upon them as
long as could. When the train left | was
"aboard," and after leaving the Greek a mile
or two, l determined to see il they were on
the cars. l went through the train from the
first coach to the last. and could not lind them.
four or five miles, the cars stopped, and then
it was that I discovered that the same three
chaps referred to were aboard, either with the
engineer, or on the ''tender, y or in some other
place where it is not usual for passengers to
90 They got off there the farm OF Mr..
Hedgman. | soon discovered that one of them
carried u surveying compass, which he planted
a few steps from the railroad The cars lett;
| watched them until | was carried away,
and they were lost i'll the dis tance. The last
l saw of them, the three Were standing
a few feet from the instrument, (standlng o i
three legs) and seemed to be in close consul
tation about something. They spoke the dia-
lect OF the North. They spent their time al
the Greek nearly the whole of ii away from
the crowd, out in the swamp, perhaps to see
whe Lher it was firm enough 10 carry troops.
They did not leave then in the cars, yet they
came on them or under them, to the place
above referred to, and then at o'clock-know W.
ing too that it was the last train for the day
they We're put down, prepared TO survey the
country about them. Not a man in the cars
or at the battery, Semed 10 know any hine
about them. | believe that they were Yam
kee spies, here for the purpose of plotting our
destruction. This is only one instance in
many L could give you. The border of Nir'
gina is being overrun by these wolves IL
sleeps clothing, and Virginia men, who oughl
TO take this matter in hand, must wait until
they get "something to prove" before they art
imprisoned as they should be. Delta