Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-09
THE. GALLANT, CAPT. MORGAN AGAIN
rs Z ..,.s MOST DARING FEAT VET

"A
MOST DARING FEAT YET, -
: The Atlanta Gontedsracy Of Tuesday last saws,
The newspaper fraternity owe heavy deb, of
gratitude to that partizan leader Captain John NJ
Morgan, Of Kentucky, for furnishing them d,rinr
the past few months such abundant material for ths
mostspicy paragraphs and interesting articles h,'
his many dashing exploits against the Yankees y
He is necessarily onTthe move, appearing sudden.
~ and unexpectedly at one point, and within ,ha
next twentyfour hours quite as suddenly and u .u0
eApeet,y al some other place more than HUNDRED
and has insprited them with greater fsar .L
the army Of Gen. Johnston besides He ,aa sh al
we are Just apprised of by gentleman direct rro ,s'
Louisville and is the most daring and successful
have yet recorded, 'N0e''ioi we
e., on sunday The 10th inst, Capt Morgan, with
10 iOr'y OF his men, suddenly appeared at GaI,st;n
lenn., 70 miles the other side of Nashville ssa,,
catching all the Union meG in the place and conSu
ing tnem IN guard house, Captain Moran dressed
10 d teoefal uniform, proceeded to the telegram
III '''I ia.oao depot short distance from
sns .,Hn' hhtef'hg the Office, the following con-
versation took place between Capt MORGAN and tha
telegraph operator, clustering fellow o' "''0 '''
captain Morgan" Good day, s;rl What n,.ua
have your" Nat news
operator" Nothing, sir, except it is renorted
that that ID rebel, Captain John Morgan + tho
sue OF the Cumberland, with some Of his cav.Irv
wish could get sight of the id rascal, I'd maj.
hole through him larger than he would find Meas.
ant" "N p''as'
While thus speaking, the operator drew fine
navy revolver and hourshed it as if to satisfy his
visitor how desperately he would use the ins,ru.
ment IN Case he should meet with the lannon's rehol
Captain
"Do you know who ann" quietly remarked
Capt. Morgan continuing the conversation.
>" have not that pleasure" remarked the oper
ator.
"Well, l am Captain Morgan" responded that
gentleman
At these words the operators cheeks blapched
his knees shook the revolver dropped from his
hands, and he sunk to the floor He literally
'wilted'
After the frightened individual had recovered him.
self sufficiently, Capt. Morgan required him to tee
graph some messages to louisville, among others,
one to Prentice, of the Journal politely offering to
act as his escort his proposed visit to Nashville
Then taking the operator with him as prisoner.
Captain Morgan with his men awaited the arrival Of
the train from Bowling Green for Nashville
In due time the train came laundering in. Capt
Morgan at once seized it, and taking five Federal
officers who were passengers and the engineer Of
the train prisoners, he burned to cnders all of the
cars with their contents, and then filing the ocomo-
tive with turpen:ine shut down all the valves and
started it towards Nashville. Before it had run
eight hundred yards, the accumulation of steam
caused it to explode, shiverng it into thousand
atoms. Capt Morgan then started Southwark with
his prisoners and made his way safely to the Con.
federa'c camp.
T:.v bridge over Barrea river beyond Bowling
Green. LIS not yet been rebuilt, and the Federals
had oily one locomotive and one train of cars with
which to d" all their business between Bowling
Green and Nashville. The serious damage inflicted
UPON the rederals by this dashing exploit may tie
appreciated from this fact
The Deaf Mute Casket published in this City at
the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the
Blind has the following:
1.-The following note speaks for itself:
"The Deaf and Dumb pupils ask Mr.. Palmer to
buy bundle of unbleached cloth, to make shirts
| for the poor soldiers at knston. They have Just
contributed $3.50 They say if you have some
money left. after buying the cloth, they wish you
to buy socks. The girls will sew the shirts them
| selves"
We publish the above to show that our pupils
feel deep interest in the welfare of those who have
come FORTH at their counrys call to drive the inva-
! der from our State Soon after they heard of our
defeat at New5ern, and learned that many of our
brave soldiers had lost all of their clothing, except
what they wore, they of their own accord, made a
contribution for their relief The blind pupils have
! made contribution for the same purpose. And
not only on this occasion have they manifested de-
sire to aid the soldiers, but they have several times
before done all in their power for this object"
YANKEE DEMOCRATS GROWING. Rhode Is
L. a. AZ