The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-24

Mooie nut the line was repaired on to-day Friday and
was in working order last EVENING"
FROM WILMINGTON.
WILMINGTON N. c.. Sept. 90, 1861.
Everything is quiet here. No officer has been appointed
here under the Sequestraton II should be attended
TO without delay Many efforts will doubtless be made
to cvadc the law and the the law enforced the
better for the confederacy.
IMPORTANT ARRESTS IN PHILADELPHIA.
OUR PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %, 1861.
Treasondtte Agencies Broken UA Ems1e Spy and Troit
rss Discoc,ed-She Travels Repeatedly TO Richmond
and Bock-Erploits IF Lincoln and Scot Detective
Arrest Of the Wife of a Tinted States Lieutenant in
Ne,cdrk, ~ ia Baltimore Israelae Uader Arrest
Explanation Of Srecd Tricks Of Neso York Merchants
Hedry Haul Of C0ntrdtdnd Goods, Dr., dc.
The most important that have made during
the rebellion light in this city to-day Nest OF
those previously ncaceraed in Fort lafayette had been
devotpg their influences TO treason but the parties here
arrested were contributing arms and munitions Of
daily, brbg officers Of the United States Army to fur
Their their designs and had organized system of treason
so skfu and complete that only after the utmost vgi
lance, and when the detectives had tested all means TO
entrap and decoy them, the full proofs light
The names of these men James NJ. Hag, F. Wyatt
and William Gilchrst. Hag is Baltimore Israeite,
epaulettes sword handles, &c. He had obtained hay
contract from the United States government to more
eectualy conceal his plans, and armed with hume
letters from federal that intended to
produce in emergencies. This conducted con
trahand trade from Baltimore until General Dix
and the Provost Marshal showed him up. He
first observed in this wAse:-A package, con
tanning several thousand friction tubes and primers
had been left at Adams express Office in this city ad
dressed to well known firm in Baltimore Being threat.
RS thau
were the agents of Jas NJ laig and it was further
educed that the same shipped under fictitious
by William Gilchrist
Detective Benjamin Franklin, sagacous and fertile
Philadelphia officer, deermiped seduce Haig to
this city for which purpose he resorted to certain ngen
Gus means not now ripe for publication Convinced that
heavy orders awaited him here, and that Philadelphia
was less under espionage Than Baltimore, Hag
celebrated Lincoln detective took part in the mat
ter and the by which they Dveged all the parties
constitute the richest item in the history of criminal
VIGILANCE. The israelite played upon that he
yet Of the enemies who ruined him. and when
matter the whole party taken up their goods
and papers seized, and they Fort lafayette
having gone forward on Sunday night.
William Glcrst Is razor and cutlery importer whose
establishment is situated at Fifth and Commerce streets
He has taken the oath Of allegiance, being Eng
lshman. His game to pretend himself federal
agent until the worst came, when he TO claim the
privileges of British subject. In his establish.
ncnt found surgical instruments, caps, pistols,
bowie knives &C. packed and directed to go southwark
The property amounts to SO 600 in value
f. Wyatt is Vrgnian. formerly in partnership with
c. B. Campbell 205 North Water street. He has always
been rabid traitor aud his wife has been six times to
Richmond and back within as many weeks, taking each
time trunks heavily filed with weapons and goods
rabad She passed cur lines by brbmg officer of the
army who obtained passes for the purpose Said officer
has been arrested and will probably be shot AT Wyatts
house extensive correspondence with parties in the
South found, and his completely with the rebels
proved by his papers in tho absepse Of other
other evidence. Among other articles seized there
pair Of epauettes, marked with the name OF Capt Rich
ardson officer in the rebel army. There also
Photographic group OF worthless, Of which Wyatt the
centre. gentleman who is familiar with the kenesses
says that they represent Capt Richardson, Capt John A.
CnllD Lieut. c. u. Finley, Of Macon Ca, and Bodgett,
Mayor Of savannah, all decided rebels
The hay contract in which Haig engaged to
have been worked TO good advantage Two vessels
loaded with bales Of hay and the other with bales
tanning munitions, to have been despatched up
the Potomac. and at Aqua creek, at given signal, the
bogus hay would have been under the rebel batteries
All this proved by seized letters, and also the fact
that the late captures of federal soops and small craft by
the rebels off tho Potomac and Rapahannock rivers were
the work of design and not o accident, the
tanning ntraband matters New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore merchants thus implicated and the proofs
plain and startling TO be aside. These three
eagued together and among their several
respondencc late letters from rebel contractors
| knowlcdging the receipt Of pistols and sidcarms.
After being arrested, they were shifted from station
houses TO prison, being night taken out of town to
of judicial decisions wrs Of habeas corpus, &c
Finally Sunday Narshas jenkins and Steele drove
them the New York boat Wyatt defiant, Gcrst cow
cd and sulen. and the sraelite trembling like leaf
part Of the correspondence duplicating them OBJ
tanned from the wife Of lieutenant in the federal army
who had been rather delicatciy implicated with n Fl.
Wnder, in Fort lafayette. She has been arrested
| IN Newark, n. J. where she resides.
The government decoy who assisted detective Franklin
in these labors Is said to be daring Californian full
and fertile in eXpedens, who has been twice
Charleston and thrice in Richmond since the battle Of
Bull run His manner of making the arrest
be disclosed although it rivals In danger the
exploits OF the best Bow street officers