Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-14
BaS-A COUPLE OF Tn1ADELpu1A Csc.

summon some witnesses from the neigh
borhood of TriadeIphia, where it is well
known secesh do much congregate. The
result was good deal of alarm among the
white feather up there. Two violent and
out-spoken secessionists, named William
Patch and James Burrows, among others,
were struck with a panic something like
the panic at Bull Run. They imagined all
sorts of things such as guilty conscience
is likely to suggest, and being firmly of
the opinion that if the Marshal got hold
of them, the Grand Jury would have the
dead wood on them, they made up their
minds that as for them they would make
trucks. This they accordingly did.
They took the cars on the Hempfeld r.
r. Mt Roney's Point, Wednesday afternoon,
and were set down at Washington, Pa. in
the evening. They appeared to labor UNI
der good deal of trepidation, for con-
science doth make towards of all secrsh
They paid their fare on the train with IL
Wheeling FIVE, and on receiving their
change in the same currency, told the con-
dnctor that kind of money would be of no
account to them at all, as they were going
over in Ohio. The conductor remarked
that he thought they were going rather
curious direction to reach Ohio. Fenrin-
they had betrayed themselves, or that they
were suspected at least, they set up and
told great story about one of them get
ting letter from Ohio that his brother had
just died, and that they were going in re-
Spouse to the letter post haste by way of
Washington, aud thence by coach to Pitts
burgh, and that they must reach there by
half-past ~ next day.
They got 10 Washington in the evening,
and manifested Il great deal Of anxiety to
get away, told everybody the story about
the dead brother, and by their general un
easiucss OF manner attracted considerable
attention. Slept very little that night
dreams disturbed by visions of Judge
Jackson and Marshal Norton. Up in the
morning long before day they annoyed
everysnLy they met with heterogeneous
about the coach. Finally they got aw'y
in the coach, and arrived in Pttsburg just
in time to find out that preparations had
been made by the city authorities there to
give them public reception, and to see
the dead brother vanish IN dim distance.
While they had been worrying them
selves to death for fear somebody would
discover their hcgira, some ncighbor from
Triadelphia had quietly come down to
Wheeling and deposited information of
their flight, and long before they got TO
PittsLurg, that terror to fugitivcs, the teI,-
graph, had silently conveyed to the ac-
thorities there the following despatch:
WHEELING, VA, Sept. IL.
Arrest and hold james Burrows, Il tall
man, with large black whiSkeyS, stoup
shouldercd, and about forty-iv years of
age; also, VIM. Patch, II spare man, Large
wh.skcrS, dark ompleXiou-both left ia
the coach from Washington to Ptttsuurg
this morning.
T. NJ NORTON, Marshal, West Va.
WIN. A. HARRISON, U. s. Atty.
What followed we will let the Piltshurg
Gazette tell:
Miyor Wilson detailed officers Gumbert,
Richardson aud SmithSon TO the MonOngh-
hela House, in the afternoon, 10 await the
arrival of the stugc from Washington. As
soon rs the coach came in, it WAS bcSicgod
by the police, and the Virginia gentlemen
were politely requested to step down TO the
Mayors office. Arriving at the latter
place they were informed OF the tenor of
the dispatch received from the United
States authorities at Wheeling, which
caused Patch To boil with indignatiOn-al-
lcgiug, in a bonstful manner, that he had
money enough to bug aud sell that scoun-
drcl Norton" The Mayors Clerk remind
ed Patch that the question was not on" OF
dollars and cents, but whether he WAS pre-
pared to defend himself against Charge
of treason.
AS this remark Patch began berating the
Uuion men in his neighborhood, alleging
that on Tuesday night IL party Of these
"d-n scoundrels' had searched his house
and stolen rifle from him which cost
twenty dollars After Patch had given
vent to his indignation. he and his more
rcticcnt companion were furnished with
quarters in the lookup, OF which they
soon after complained very bitterly, alleg-
fng that they had been better raised
than to be subject to such treatment
They were soon after committed 10 the
county Jail, where they were to spend the
night, in anticipation of an early return TO
Wheeling.
From what we can learn those meu re-
side i'll Trindelphia, seven miles from
Wheeling, and are rebels of the r"nkest
school The Union people OF their neigh
borhood have no doubt made it too hot
for them," and they thought to escape by
coming North. 1t is not known where
they intended going, if they had not been
arrested, but their present destination was
happily guessed by Patch, who, turning to
Burrows, with staggering air, asked,
Jim, do you know where we're bound
for !'' To which Jim replied, Indifferent