The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-04-18
Startling Intelligence.

ID yesterday morning, while the regular
mai ana passenger train on the State Eoad
was stopped at Camp Mcdonald, or Big
passengers ~ breakfast, some four en- "a vet
aukno~n, after htvihg cut loose all hut he
foremost three cars, got uron The engine put
ON steam and shot away like ain arrow, ieav.
ing sas Saysaxe and passenger cars, passen.
gers, conductor, ca sineer, aud train hands,
lost IN stnaxement Al this unparalleled and
daSfaK outrage
Soms distance above they tore up the track
and cot DOWN the telegraph wires and went
on, stating 10 these who inquired who they
ware, or what such unusual train meant,
taat mad some car loads OF powder, and
mat tie 6; gtas mud train had been pressed
that morning. By the Government in great
hhs.e tai carry the powder 70 our forces near
Huntsville.
They arrived al kingston, where they met
the down freight train and went upon The
,arE ont, howina that they understood the
schedu lie and m In atest workings of the road
As tue train passed them, the conductor there.
on M ade the same inquiry of them coIc.rn.
lag the dnasaai tram, and recei we'd the same
auswer-'skGnE powder to Gen Beaurepard,s
army. IS soon rs the do wn tsain passed and
he switch could be changed, they shot away
w. All their oeed amd mystery.
We learn THAI "A train = an been mt n f,ur.
SAT- Of tnem-Laviax repaired the track-and
hopes 10 oNartake the m before they rsach An v
ef the many bridges across the Dhicksmausa
and other streams No doubt they are Lilo
iaose bridges TO letard our movements or
iroors, aad the thought Is Il very se,ioux ore
10 Us.
tor cool impadeIes and reckless daring,
toss beats anything we ever heard or read OF
~e ara IA az agony OF su.peT Sc to hear she
G'aoa@sai oi this strange anG daring achieve
fnsnf.
l.. S.-SiEce the foregoing was ia tyre. we
nave received addition Il par ticu.srs, though
nothing lG{e..
Ihe ec1 dactor g. Big Sbanty, Mr.. Fniler.
AZ seen as ne founa Ia engine eoasin 80 IN Us.
FERROUS and startling 3 manner brousht i r IN
reqGtsitloD u hand CIR. which luckily WAS
"a that p!acc, and followed OF WITH 81 spt ed
BE soou came 70 where ii rail had been torn
up AID was carried CIT; hut the hand car was
s9en ititrd over ard again III hot pursuit
Tn me way he learned that the eng, re ha d
stopped 10 tas- iR wood and water. repre-
seni'ne taA1 they had po WIDER in the cars tor
oar Ally.
Al Ltowah M. Fuller obtained an engine
isom M>J>r GooneT aEd pres SD or with it
arriving AZ kihston he COZ tns II ONE roG
enaiEe, with It's engineer, all IN fine condi-
iion, with perhaps "a E,en. and pressed on -
lie ~as last - "a n utes be hind the fugitive
train when he left kiEstou.
AT AdaIfsYiiie tue regular passenger trains
CUP ard d9wn) meet, and the thieves Won Iii
have TO pass t.se III there. The down train
aus here u T y +, ISIS yet % =. M AZ.
rived, aud II IS fe9rc3 there has been z COLI
siol with The engine, though The torn up
rncA may be ~ cause OF the delay.
- ar 7Ni III '>Ss iooAtuk 10 soiduoH CT
fhe mystery, are Ipduiged heTe. Every body
at irst conci aided that 1t was d most daring
efurt Of some I.incoinites To burn the bridge
10 stop the trGnspor tatioE OF troops over the
STATE Road. j. is reported that the whole OF
tas troops Mt Csmp Mcdonald were going CT
yesterday inoFGiLR; and Il large number CT
soldiers Irop - came through here iasL
might on their ~ ~ to tbs scene Of action
some said there really WAS ammunition in
the tnree box ca1Awhich they carried Of and
That the ob]ac. was to tase IL 10 lie enc: ny Il
Huntsville. We, however, learn CficiaiIe
that the cars attached 10 The engine were
empty.
Another solution, which has 2aioed cre-
dsGcs, and is not III All improbable, is, that
Jhty wee Simply thieves on = large scale
lsd TOOK ibis method TO escape. We learn
fh&t very large amount OF money was
stolen IL thus Viaini nieat before IL st, and il
i not iuprobahls thnt these men were the
thieves, and took Ibis ,rethod - escape -
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