The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-26
THE REBEL CONSPIRACY IN CANADA.
Personnel ofthe Organixers-The plan to
Sink, Burn and DeStrOy-Where the
Material Game FrOm---A Grave Charge
against Kew York City.

against New York city.
Correspondence of the New York Timesl
ToRoNTo. Nav. 10, 1863.
Now, that "order reigns in War
saw" and the great rebel conspiracy"
is frustrated, you might want to know
something about the personnel of the
leaders, whoproposcd TO sink, burn and
destroy, every Yankee ship sloop, and
schooner on Lake Erie. One of the
peculiarities of every Southerncr is to
freely imbbe the ardent, either pre-
ceding some great event, in order to
nerve himself up to the point, or after
the failure, as in this great plot, to con
sole himself with frequent libations,
and in either case, is very confidential
and will talk.
Well, as all the good citizens of To
ronto know, members Of the escaped
chivalry" mostly congregate around
the billiard tables and bar-room of the
Revere House. We were doing there
last night, overpowered oy heat and a
laudable curiosity--that is, we were
ostensibly asleep to the outer world,
when we cleaned the following delec
table news as to the leaders of the or
ganization of one of the most daring
schemes on record. 1t seems that a
bout the middle of July, James b.
Clay, Marshal Kane and some other
parties of Montreal sent an cmissary
through the United States lines to
Richmond, with some important dis
patches, supposed to be in connection
with this very affair.
As is we'll known here and in Mon
treal, there were many secret gather
ings from July until early in Septem-
Der, when an agent from the Confed-
crate Government (Dr. Pallen) reach
ed Canada, and whose movements were
watched by the Provincial and FEEDER
al authorities, as were those Of Marshal
Kane, James B. Clay, and, others
This real or supposed agent played his
role very well. because nothing was
, discovered about him, save that he had
been in the Southern army from the
beginning Of the war, and that he pro-
, posed. on account Of bad health. to re-
, main some time in Canada. That he
was a most dangerous man, and q di-
pIomat of no mean capacity, is estab
iished from the fact Of the success Of
the enterprise up to tho revelations
made by the detectives of the Govern
= or General. With Marshal Kane and
: James b. Clay, any shrcwd man might
# organize an expedition which present
G ed the feasibility which this did. an(
c which daring and rapidity might ac
. compish.
= Matters went on very smooth Y ant
nnsuspciousIy. until the arrital Of th'
: rebel steamer Robert Il Lee in Hall
Il fax. on the tin orOctobcr, when quit
: u Autttr WAS observed among the es
G capped prisoners AMI other rebels scat
J. tered through Canada Kane, PalIen
: CLAY, &c. rubbed their hands with dc
{ light, aud chuckled with glee. TIN
d long deferred millennium had arrived
G, and enormous results were prospect
u lively obtained, and secesh moved abou
with mysterious air Of certainty
st The Donegana Hotel in Montreal, th
Is Queens and the Revere hotels in To
/ rcnto, were rcdolent with tobacc
h smoke and seccsh gas, for whoesal
J. destruction of "Yankecdom was abou
y to commence.
T. Shortly after the Lees arrival, th
l mysterious gatherings Of the clans OF
y served in Jnly, August an | Septcmbe
Is commenced. and it took quite Il Iarg
III number Of spots to keep up wit
q, the movements Of the "chivalry."- y
However Marshal Kane was. ncvC
Il, without his shallow. AMI the Other
'd connected with him were properI
lc looked aftc'. Not. however. until W
happened todDzc i'm the Revere billiar
G. saloon, dill the pGrS0Aaei otthc eXreh
rd ton come to our knowledge. nOtwltI
no standing every ctfort h@s bcen ma.
al to get the names Of the officers of Il
IL expedition. and all the appliances
te curiosity got to work. The o
OF adngc, 'in rino rert u.s. is II GOO
cd maxim, and we have so found it
Ell There can be no doubt that the h
NO brought some thirty or forty office
and men to Halifax, and that the
were the co.operators of Kane n {
le- 1t is known that the Lee has been cor
k. manded by rebel naval officers, al
Lao that when she was captured there we
none on her, and our communicate
Jul scccsh friend intimated as muc@ to
lr- as that Captain Wilkinson Of the .'
Ith commanded the expedition, and tn
n" Licutenants Brcst, Kelly, LIudkil
NJ Gallatin, Gift, Bradford and Tob
nn were with him other intormati
.,h leads us to believe that one Of the abn
~" w. was no less an individual than l4iel
n% ntS cnant Minor of Merrimac ta".o. The
was also Paymastcr, u Surgeon
,od twdp dpseveral army officers ofno me
Go reputation at homo, full complemC
vol Of engineers and even greasers Il
Wv ~; tircmcn. In fact, everything was co
81 pete, as far as men of known despe
u, tion and courage could make it, Il
", M had it been successful the deeds of
nTh Alabama and Florida would have pa
not @ before the lights of the Michigan
nj had not the plan miscari led, Un
or Sans vessel u war would have sur
md been the rebel privateer upon
w. lakes; and Wilkinson, with such d
~ pcradoes as are associated with h
,tto would have made terrible havoc NJ
W thn lnkns nffnr rnlnnsinr moro Il