Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-23

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A correspondent, writing from Winches-
ter says that Fremont has an organization
OF bold Western frontiersmen and hunt
ers. called the Jessie Scouts" Fremonts s
Jessie, who has been with her husband un-
til lately, frequently saw these men, and
became very popular with them Hence
their present attachment to her They
swear BY her, and wear her initials upon
their coats, inserted in very modest but
coarse style. The men seem equally de-
voted to Fremont himself Their number,
when full, is twenty-fouE Three Of them
have recently been taken, and three of
them have been detached for service in
Haiieck's Department. One of the recent
recruits is bold, dashing, fne-looking
young man, a son Of Brigadier General
Kelly's, who has been in service IN Vir-
ginia for more than year. He, therefore,
has had frontier experience enough to
qualify him for the undertaking.
-, THE CAPTAIN OF THE SCOUTS.
Their Captain is Charles Carpenter, Of
Kansas. Born in Ohio, he went, at the
age Of sixteen, TO the border Of Missouri
He at once, with the ardOr of his charac-
ter, entered upon wild, rowing life. He
has tried his hand at eyerything-hunting,
farming, roaming, fighting Indians, Mis-
souri, border rufians, and occasionally
sciayhawking.P He was at one time with
Montgomery, at another with Jennison,
and again With Cleveland. AT the open
81 L.,
mont, and went with him to Springfield,
actively scouting during the whole Of the
uhundred days" Before Fremont left St.
Louis he detected, in company with an
other scout, two men who had ingeniOusly
connected a WIRE over eleven hundred
feet long, With the regular wire over the
North Missouri road, and took off regular
ly the dispatches sent by Fremont to his
officers in North Missouri. Through these
men Price obtained information of Ere
monts order to Sturgis to advance to the
assistance Of Mulligan at Lexington.
These two men these scouts were compelled
to kill ere they could get possession of the
wire Their bodies found the bottom of a
neighboring river.
HIS ADVENTURES DURING THE WAR.
Once be entered "Jef. Thompsons
camp, when he threatened to take Cape
Girardeau, and cross the Mississippi river
upon foray into Illinois. The agreeable
time he spent there was luxuriated in as
an insane person, amusing the men and
officers by his curious antics and monkey
tricks. For. two days he drove team for
Sterling Price, leaving his lines to procure
forage taking care not to return. Taken
prisoner with his present Lieutenant, Robb
back Of Paducah, they were carried for
some distance towards Union City.
At night they escaped by killing three
men of the guard and the proprietor of the
house a violent secessionist. z Taking
their horses, and assuming the garb Of
Confederate soldiers, they passed by Forts
Henry and DOnelson without the slightest
interruption. Robbs ability to forge
passes was Of signal use to them on reach
ing Louisville
Since he has been in the Shenandoah
valley he has sold horse suspected Of Sc
eeSsf07t DToeftVidss TO a man purchasing hOr-
ses for Ashby's Cavalry, and then tOlled
him and his horses into Fremont camp.
The purchase money, consisting Of good
Confederate notes, and two horses, were
lnuS feSlOEeu " luo Duioif anu n CtlHui-
date for promotion to permanent resi-
denee at Fort Delaware procured.
APPEARAEcEt OF THE CAPTAIN.
he is bronzed so that his neck is black
byiexposure to the weather and sun. The
eye is light blue and the hair dark with an
inclination to curl The face bears a very
youthful appearance, but looks thirty in
stead of twenty-five, the real age Of Car
penter He is not above FIVE feet six, and
Of light, sinewy mould. His weight is
certainly not over one hundred and thirty
five. The careless, frank, western style
of manner and address belongs to him.
Ready for fight, fun or frolic he is said to
have mingled with his dash and boldness
remarkable prudence and caution. These
qualities, united to his almost slayish de-
votion to Fremont make him and his band
invaluable to that commander.
His dress consists of a pair Of pantaloons
skin. The coat is made of the dark gray
material Of which frontiersmens hunting
shirts are mostly made; it is a loose sack,
trimmed in the cape and sleeves with
fringe, gathered in the back, Immediately
under the shoulders, in folds or plaits. This
is bound at the waist with his pistol belt
His Only arm Of defence beside the six
shooter is breech-loading rife, weighing
about ten pounds, and good for eight hun
dred yards. Such is a brief outline Of the
career and appearance Of one of the most
marked and eccentric characters now in
this valley, waging war for the restoration
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