The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-24

SOUTHERN HH1oINES.
INTERESTING ADVENTURES AND ES.
OAPES.
No one trait Of the human character has
been % fully demonstrated during the history
Of this war as that Of the heindomitablec courage
Of our Southern ladies. Incidents without
number have occurred in illustration OF this
fact, and the following Will only serve to
develops the special cases In point:
Miss Billie 4. q. PooL1.
We published yesterday letter to the Phi
ladelphia Pres, written from Washington, In
which is given an account OF the Washington
female prisoners. Among the prisoners
named is Miss Ellie u. s. Poole. OF whom
number of things 10 said which have no foun-
dation In truth. Tho No.folk Day Bosk, Of the
szd instant, says:
Dag Of truce steamer, and we had the plea
sore Of an interview with her. She is an
intelligent and pleasing lady, and, withal,
possesses a fervor Of patriotism which no tor
lures OF the enemy could dampen. Our con-
versa ton with her convinced Us that shs 10
q rrue- Virginia lady, and we congratulate
her upon her escape from the thraldom of
Lincolndom and her restoration to Southern
soil and society.
Miss r. was arrested in Wheeling ON the
2Sth Of SepteInbe last, by order Of the Sstre-
tary OF State, charged with conducting
cOrrespoudence with Southern "rehSiS."
On account of indispOsition, she was not re-
moved from her home, but was allowed to
remain in her room-a guard being placed at
the OF of the same and also guard on the
outside of the building. The door Of her
chamber was. securely locked and the key
taken by the officer Of the guard. Previous
however, to the lock being turned, thorough
examination of the furniture, &C., in her
room was made.
while this search was going on she sue.
ceeded By 3 r0se, III SO tar diverting the at
terticn of the officer conducting the exami-
nation as to give her an oppoT unity of re-
moving certain manuscripts which she had
placed in her guitar case. These she con-
cealed about her person without the move
ment being observed. During the night she
secured a key, or rather found one which had
been mislaid, which, on tryi ing, she found to
fl the lock OF her room. With this she un-
locked the door and made her exit through
the basement. She then made her way to a
long there before information was conveyed
to her that the guard WAS on her track.
She made her escape through the back en-
trance Just as the guard appeared in front OF
the house, and proceeded to another place of
refuge, from which she was again hunted
This was repeated four times, but at length
she eluded them and went forty miles in a
skif. down the Ohio river to MartinsVille.-
Here she took passage in a packet to Par
kereburg. and again from Parkcrsburg to
Cincinnati. From Cincinnati she proceeded
to Louisville, during which journey she had
the escort Of u Federal officer, who, not be-
In aware of the position she occupied. talked
rather freely to her about the affairs of the
Government.
while at Louisville Miss p. visited several
who sympathiZed with her in her political
viavyS and when terminating n visit of
this kind at the Gait House she took her de-
parture, she discovered that she was followed
by detective Blygh, the best detective in
Louisville, and who, she afterwards learned,
had been delegated by General Sherman ex.
pressly Tor the purpose of effecting her arrest.
She escaped his vigilance, as she thought, on
this occasion, left Louisville, and proceeded
to Mitchell, in Indiana. To her surprise she
found him in the same train with herself
apparently unconcerned, get closely watch
ing her movements in order to obtain some
clue which would justify her arrest He was
not aware that she knew him, but he was
mistaken, as she had accidentally learned
who he was, and was watching him as close
ly as he was her. From Mitchell she went
to Eincennes, where she was finally arrested
by this hound, Blygh. His behavior towards
her after her arrest was coarse and rude
Just such as might be expected of q Lincoln
detective. He took great delight in alluding
to her as she passed crowd on the street, as
a "SeceBh' prisoner, acei in various ways
endeavored to offend the refined and delicate
creature, whom the authority OF base mis-.
creant had made his captive.
Her baggage was all searched by this fel.
low with the hope that he would find some-
thing in the shape of manuscript which
| would serve to convict Miss. p. of the charge
against her. Nothing was found, however
| She was then in charge of this Blygh, return
| ed to Louisville and presented to Gen. Sher.
man at his headquarters. Gen. S. confessed
| that he did not know what disposition to
| make Of her case. but concluded to send her
| to Washington and ha We the matter disposed
| Of there. On the way she was again subj CT
I ei to the insolence of this fellow Blygh, who,
| at every station took occasion to make some
| reference to her in terms calculated to give
| pain. On her arrival in Washington she was
i'm mprisoned in tine house of Mrs. Greenhow
| and in a room adjoining that occupied by
| this lady, where sne remained up to the time
| Of her release.
While a prisoner Miss Poole underwent
| very many privations-being under the strict
| and constant surveillance Of a guard. and
| was subjected to many inconveniences and
| annnoyances of an unpleasant and distaste-
| ful haracter. She was not, however, alto.
| Eether without friends, and she refers with
kindness performed for her by Col. e r
| Keys and Lieut.. N E. Sheldon, Of the Fede.
alarmy. These officers, to their credit bs II
| spoken, Gid all in their power to render he1
comfortable, and by their tender solicituds
and sympathy shed CLEAN Of sunshine
| through the gloom which surrounded her,
ITO them she expresses herself as being yery
/ greatly ln0eOt0Q, ana at uSf request this b.
lie acknowledgment 1s made.
In the letter to the Philadelphia Press. al
luded to in the ou.se Of this article, Miss
Poole is said to have escaped from the prison
at Wheeling, by means & OF tying her sheet
| window The only prison in which sh
was confined at Wheeling was her own home
and the manner in which she capped there.
from was not by lowering herself from the
window, but in the manner related by u,
| above.
II is also said In this letter that Miss p.
when arrested the second time, had on hel
| person 81, 500 of unexpended money, furnish.
ed her by the " rebels" This Is also false, 81
Is likewise the statement that on her arrival
In Washington she was placed in Jail.
EoRAH x'cARrHY-A RExINIsoRNcH OF THR MS.
soUsI CAMPAIGN.
[From the Nashville Banner, Jan. l5th.l
| During tho stay Of Col. Jones in Mash VILE
l we had the pleasure of many fireside talk,
| with him upon affairs in the West, which hi
discusses with ready frankness, interspsrsed
| These stories have led us to believe that, thu
| far, Missouri has the better of other seats o
| hostility for the real romance Of war; Mos
| assuredly the fight there has been wagel
NJ with fiercer earnest than almost anywhere
else. The remote geography Of the country
| the rough, unhewn character Of the people
rhe intensity and ferocity Of the passions ex
cited, and the general nature OF the compli
| zan and frontier, gave to its progress 3 wile
| aspect, peculiarly susceptible to deeds, ans
suggestive Of thoughts, Of romantic interest
None of these struck US more fOrcibiy thar
| the story Of Norah McCartey, the Jeanil
| Deans of tho West.
| She lived In the interior Of Missourt--a lit
| tie, pretty, black.eyed girl, with q soul a
/ huge as q noun tain, and q form a. frail as {
fairy's, and the courage and pluck of q buc
cancer into the bargain. Her father was ax
old mana Secessionist. She had but a sin
! gle brother, just growing from boyhood Il
youthh0od, but sickly and famed. The famil,
. < ad lixad In Kanaaa during tha fennhlas a