Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-22
AnARING rNrERPRasE.

4 DARING ENTERPRISE,
From the Atlanta Conlederacy 18th.
On yesterday morning, while the regular mail
and passenger train on the State road was stop
ped at Camp Mcdonald, or Big Shauty, aud the
engiueag, conductor, ald passengers at break
fast. some four men, As yet unknown, after hay
ing cut loose all but the three foremost cars, got
upon the engine, put on steam, and shot away
ike an arrow, leaving the baggage and paSsen-
ger cars, passengers, conductor, engineer, and
Jrain hands, lost in amazement at tins unpsTai-
leled and daring outrage
Some distance above they tore up the track
! Ind cut down the telegraph wires, and went on,
stating to those who inquired who they were,
or what such an unusual train meant that they
had some car loads OF powder, and thar tne en-
gines and train had been pressed that morning
| BY the government IN g-eat taste TO carry the
powder to our forces near Huntsville
| They arrived at Kingston, where they met the
/ down frieghr train and went upon the turnout
showing that they understood the schedule and
minutest workings of the road. As the trains
passed them, the conductor thereon made the
same inquiry of them concerning the unusual
| train and received the same ausweT-tGkInr pow
| der to Gen. BesuToEaTd's army. As soon as the
down train passed and the switch could be
| changed they shot away with all their speed and
| mystery
! We learn that q train has been put in pursuit
/ of tnem-havng repaired the tTack-and hopes
70 overtake them before they reach any OF the
many bridges across tEa Lh-nsHa--'a' amt other
streams No doubt they are Lincoln emmi. sa-
/ ries, sentdown among us 10 destroy those bridges
70 retard cur movement ottoops, and Tie thought
! Is a very serious one 10 Us.
For cool impudence and reckless daring, this
beats anything we ever heard or read OF. We
are in au agony Of suspense 70 near the deHOr
,lsHt of this strange and daring achievement.
/ F. PS-Slnce the foregoing was IN type we have
received additional particulars, though nothing
later
The conductor at Big Shanty 5ir. Fuller, a'
soon rs be found his engine gone IN 50 mysterl
Gus and startling manner, brought into requlsI
ton hani-caT, which, luckily, was at tina
f place, aud followed on with all speed. lie soOI
came to where a rail had been torn up, and va
carried Off but the haud-car was soon lifted owe
( and again IN hot pursuit On the way he learne,
that the engine had stopped 20 take in wood ant
3 yyater--TepTessn.iag tha, they had powder IN tn
= cars for the army
$ At Etowah Mr. Fuller oJtained an engin
( from Major. Cooper and pressed on with it.
Arriving at Kingston, he got the Rome rOs
engine, with its engineer, all In tine condition
with perhaps forty armed men, and pressed OF
= He was lust twenty-five minutes behind the tugi
tive tram when Le let. Kingston.
v At AdaIrsviiio the regular passenger trains,
aud down, meet, and the thieves would have
! pass them there The down train, due here at
@ p. H.. has not yet @ P. NJ arrived, and 1t
o t-sred there has been a collision with the eugn
n though the torn up track may be the cause
: the delay.
d Various suImises looking to q solution OF th
!, mystery. are INDUCED here. Everybody at hI
= concluded that it was q most daring effort
- some Linc0lnites to burn the bridges, 10 stop q
q transportation Of troops over the State road.
!, is reported that the whole of the troops at Cam
= Mcdonald were going OF yesterday morning
~ and a large number Of soldiers from ---- ,au
y through here last nigh. on their way to tue sceI
n of action
~ Some said there really was ammunition in u
- three boz cars which they carried of, and tn
the object wss 10 t,.ke It TO the enemy at y ant
vile. We. however, learn officially that 8
- cars attached to the engine were empty.
= Another solution, which has gained crede1
n and is not at all improDable, is, that they we
,. simply thieves on a large scale, and took Il
Il method to escape. We learn that very lar
T. amount of money was stolen ID this vicInI
y night before last, and it is not improbable th
a these men were the thieves, and took this meth
NJ 10 escape
a5 5l7 LArER The Atlanta Igtaliigsacer Of the Il
~ has tle following.
just before gong .a press We learn that fl
- more Of the rsscals were captured beyond
:, Tenresses line. by Col. Phillips and his par
Is sud have been brought to Marietta, and are Ii
'af lodged iu the Jail there.
- Two moro were arrested at Camp McDona
rel and it is TePOted that two others also have 0
caught.
,,, The captured scoundrels have made " a cl'
W breast of it," Twenty three in number comp
'- the band The lsedeI, JE captain, as they te
a3,t their CHIEF, has not ygt been 1auglt II
~ mission, as We stated above. WAS to spy out
''- land, to buln and destroy, especially the und
,al of the State road