The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-15
Arre., of Union Wen m Rlchmond.

On Saturday night Capt. Goodwin, by order of
the Government, proceeded, with party of Sc
lectmel to the farm of John Minor Bolts, and
took him and all OF his papers and private cor
respondence in custody. Leaving an officer in
charge of the papers and house of Botts, Capt.
Goodwin brought MIN prisoner to this city, and
lodged him ill McDaniels negro Jail, situated in
Blankinship's alley, some fifty yards north of
FRANKLIN street.
Captain Goodwin then went to the farms of
Valentine Heckler and Franklin Stearns, and
took both these well-known Union men, and all
! of their papers and letters, and brought them
to this city.
Botts's and Heckler's letters and papers have
not yet been examined. Stearn's letters have
undergone only a cursory and partial examina-
ton, and, so far, nothing of interest has been
| found among them, except several letters from
| his friend Bouts, begging for money.
We are under the impression that, as get, the
| Government is Ia possession of no positive in
| formation that would convict Bolts of treason.
| But he is known to be the recognized leader of
all the disaffected, all the low Germans of the
Red Republican, Carl Sehurz school, and of the
vile remnant of the Union party.
! Against Stearns' and Hecklers LOYALTY the
| Government has been for month in the pos
session of the most conclusive evidence; and il
| feels confident of its ability to prove that both
| of these men have been lond in their denuncia
| tions of what they have been pleased to term
the Rebellion" and have, over and over
again, expressed their willingness TO sacrifice
their entire property to restore the dominion
in the South of the United States Government
The man Wardwell, another party arrested,
has, since the beginning of the war, been
known to every citizen as blatant and defiant
| Union man.
Miller, who has also been lodged in Jail, is the
chief or high priest of the secret Black or Red
German Republican Societies of Richmond,
| some of whose members, it can be proved, have,
since the reverse of our army at Fort Donelson,
boasted that they had thousands of arms and
abundance of ammunition concealed in the city,
and that the men were enrolled who would use
them on the first approach of the Yankee army.
An lrish6an, named John NJ Higgins has
also been arrested and put in the same prison.
Higgins is connection of Col. Corceran sf the
Yankee army. Two of Higgins aunts married
two of Corcoran's uncles. letter from Cor
coran to Higgins advising the latter to send his
wife and family North, and containing assurance
that he (Corcoran) would have them safely con-
veyed under flag of truce, has recently been in
tercepted by our Government. Whether our
Government has any evidence Of Higgins In
tention to follow Corcoran's counsel, has not
transpired.
1t is said that Stearns, the whisky man, ON
approaching the prison, surveyed it with a most
contemptuous expression, and remarked, "If
you are going to imprison all the Union men,
you will have to provide much larger Jail than
this" Mr. Stearn will, we think, be not a little
mistaken in his calculations
1t will be recoIlected that, on Thurday last,
John Gold and Elias Pauldng were arraigned
for having made use of reasonable language,
ana f3At 1t appeared on investigation, that Gold
had claimed himself Union man, and an
nQu that the stars and stripes would soon
wave rom the top OF our capitol, and that Elias
PauldiDg amended Colds announcement with an
, emphatic "That's So" We stated in our last
paper that the Mayor had turned both parties
over to the Confederate authorities. In this
we were mistaken. The Mayor had merely com
rnitted them for further examination, and they
were accordingly brought into court ON Satur
day, and again committed till this morning.
lRighmond Examiner, March 8.