Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-05-22

No. IS.


terms of intimacy one especially we now remember
with pleasure for be YVES assduOus in his attention and
every scrap of information which he thought might be
OF service he impaired and to him and few Others, all
of whom we hold in grateful remembrance and would
gladly name it prudent, indebted for much
useful information. When the brunt of battle falls en-
this city, as fall it must, we Think we would if we
could like the angel of old and Lot, from the
impending doom many good men and true aye, and wo
men too, whom we know there
A gentleman from Carroll county, KY, was invited
to meet US at certain house one evening politics were
lgnOred-bIt at taoe one was relating his experience
in Parkersburg, Va, and among other feats OF tie
Federal arms, he stated that the Clergyman with whom
be boarded had been interdcted from preach g by
sou Of his Southern sympathits. Another rebel sympa-
tiser, who owned foe farm and elegant house IN the
Isnburhs had been driven from his hOme and everything
he had was confscated We had put up with all thus
far, but now we interrupted the narration by asking
what be called Snch proceedings for said We we think
it downright and cOwardly robbery. The Keutuckian
said not a word, simply raised bis eyes towards
ours We were entirely Ignorant OF each others
sentiments on this engr0ssng subject. We adjourned
to the parour and as chance would have It, We we're
left alone for few minutes before tie others joined US.
From one simple question: and the it put,
we found out our man. The question was IN relation to
the capture Of Mason and Slde. So, sid We turning
full upon him. you are OF those contound2d rebels.
His establishment was perfect; but we instan y put
him at bis by few WORDS, when he informed US
whom he had %, he was picking up odds and
ends preparatory to slipping over the border and joining
Keutucky's idol, Buckner. His father IS or was
wealthy farmer and supposed to be, as was bis son,
stauncEy Union He gave US an invitation, should our
schemes fail, to make his house our home.
Cincinnati had 10 Notifications ii we except two or
three guns on Mount Adams and some talked OF on
Vine Street and Sycamore Hills. These hills, which
environ and protect the city on three Sides some
GOO feet above the oceans level and probably 300 or
400 feet above the rivers aud IN the basin lies the CITY,
ampitheatred so to speak, by those hills; opposite are
The cities of Covingt0n and Newport the Sticking river
| flowing between them and spanned by suspension
bridge Large fortunes were beng made out Of army
contacts and stupendOus frauds are beng pTactsed
lot of 1900 great coats came under cur notice. wbcS
were intended for the 2nd Ohio bat It's Colonel refused
to accept Them they were worthless indeed SO gross
was the attempted imposition, that the garments went
begging DO one could be found baroacad enough to
either avOw the ownership or even 10 acknowledge Inc
manufacture OF them They were held fer an owner, IN
Government hands, who had not presented himself wien
we left, weeks afterwards
Miles Greenwood, the founder and inventor OF the
steam fire engines, had a contract tor the MISSISSIPPI
feet guns also for what vas called the Greenwood re,
an old arm altered. They were fac 700 cr him, con
seouantly poor one for the Government. we visited
his shop which was perfect hive OF Industry forging
deatb-deaug implements to cement the Union with the
ileblOOd OF the South!
There was a crack regiment called the Guthrie ireys
which, being deceived in their promised Through when
thew returned from Western Virginia. and were carried
Dast Cincinnati to Louisville mUtnled, and despite all
that Gen Buell. could do up they came, peI-me!l, to
their homes aud families An order was issued Tor their
being disbanded but it had to be Snothefed and the
BOYS having had their roc were received back INTO
favor Great dissatisfaction expressed ~ many
repineuts who had been months in the service and had
not received anv paw. An Irish, called the bloody
Irish" and German regiment, we forget their nun
bers and Colonies, en- route from Kanawha 10 Louis
ve rnutined and positively refused to pass Cincinnati
unless their arrearages were forthcoming
At the risk of being accounted prolX, we shall as
briefly as may be- give little sketch OF the manner 10
which arms were introduced into the South by 8ympa
thisers ard show how resOute and daring man sup
piled MANY hundreds OF which found their way to the
capital OF oar own State.
There was in Louisville an ardent Southerner, an eX
eusive wholesale dry goods man, who, While me Nash
vile road was opn in the habit OF frequently vls
ting Cincinnati and purchasing large quantities OF arms
principally revovers, fer the 0seoS6te OBJECT OF selling
them at home bye and bye suspicion began to attach
to MIR. Jones' (sou de guerre9 and Vol'sa tll Of
pistols was detained the express Olce IN Louisville
A bOv from the Gait House, instructed as to his de
pertinent, was dispatched 10 enquire t2r Ar. Jones
trunk or vaise when the clerk told him that Mr. ones
must come for it hms If the boy answered that thf
gentleman had been travelling all night ard was theE
asleep in his ROOM Well says Mr. expressman, be car
| come for it when he gets up. QllCk as a flash, Mr.
Jones. who was close by, confronted the astoni8heC
] clerk and, shaking his list IN his face, exclaimed
|" Now, sir, | am MIR. Jones gov k"0W me, and I
you've got any thing to say, say right here boy taxi
I'D that trunk and carry IL TO my r0oE and you SIR,
. you are q better than L am, dare You 10 put
finger Oh it, so saying he turned his heel and follow
ed his cOutrabaud home. But the time had arrives
when all intercourse was inerdtcttd and friend J0ne
: had lot OF several hundred Navy revoves, arcl
that would pass muster with either ALr Guthrie
or Collector Cotton SO he set bis wits to work. an
Ill -FtN4Ly TO
cer just Inside the Tennessee line, he procured one
those bic country Wagons, half caravan bali oah sart
and caused false bottom to be made tor II, aud betwee
y decks lie carefully slowed away his dogs OF war"
There be purchased fae bull calf and SOW, both
the most approved English beds aDd valuable spec
+ mems He then got bis driver, having previously OF
liberated tie marks OF the fresh work, aud also cartfu
) lettering the Wagon bed. He told bin to take I'll
team and get the animals which he was to convey wit
O all care and attention TO Mr.. - giving him specl
instructions not drive too fast and 30 ICED and wat
the stock regularly. The boy perfectly Innocent OF
# but his living freight started with bis papers and pc
nit while Jones himself followed in his buggy keepn
:, well in bis rear and in this buggy he had just
4 pistols as he could stow away comfortably. All We1
. on smoothly, until arriving al town some 81 md
from the Hatene, where the Wagon was stopped by
o set of Union men the boy well Intercepted, bl
~ as he knew nothing more than that be had beea hire
o 10 carry the animals to this stock rasr, whom the
# men knew we'll of course he could not keep from telL
straight story, and was permitted to depart Jon
held back to allow the Wagon to get good start thG
b drove briskly up to water bis horse. He was VIZ
e known here and himself, knowing all the business ms
h of the place. saw that the group who soon surround
II him. were about equally divided Union and Southa
i rights men, Rumor had credited Jones with the IeF
,e tafion of a smugger, ard now the UoiOn M
k closing around accused him of carrying arms 6out
ne and they must search his buggy. Dropping t
r rens on the dash board, his resolution was tori
ne ed in moment; tbrusting his hands into /
re pockets and puillDg out leNoi'ei II" e"0ii' =.