The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-22
Later Fl ON he Guer4 lila Raid.
The Invasion of Indiana at an End.
me HORSE THIEVES GATHERED IN.

THE GOkSE INA u Els UAI HEhED IN.
1t is gratifying to learn that the insult
offered to our State has been speedily
wiped out
This band of horse thieves crossed the
river on Thursday between Leavenworth
an Rome, using an old scow as ferry
boat, and swimming their horses across
the deep water, which at that point is
very narrow. Their number is variously
estimated at from 60 to $50.
After crossing they pushed rapidly to
the interior, and, before they were met
by the home guards from Mitchell, had
reached point within six miles of Or
leans, Orange county, passing through |
Valeene and Paoli, stealing few horses
at each place.
In the fight near Orleans the Home
Guards were repulsed with two wounded
and twenty captured. The guerrillas
then tnrEed in the direction of Salem
By this time the whole country had be-
come alarmed, and loyal men were every
where rallying to destroy the traitorous
thieves or drive them from the State -.
On Friday morning Provost Marshall
Merriwether organized force of con-
valescent soldiers from the New Albany
Hospitals and started to the invaded dis
trict
By this time the situation had become
interesting and exciting generally, and
the thieves began to feel that Indiana was
bad State to invade, and beca me some
what anxious to behold the sweet fields
of Kentucky
But their anxiety came too late.
A Union man of Kentucky who had
seen them moving in the direction of the
Ohio took the feetest horse and bore the
intelligence to Greensboro.
Captain Hornbrooks company of the
Goth was at once in motion, the boys 5e-
ing wild with delight at the opportunity
of hunting butternuts in Indiana. The
whole border was now in blaze. All
the boats along the river were secured
and all possible crossing points securely
picketed, and in the expressive language
of Captain Jim Lusk, "every tree from
New Albany to Newburg, had Union
man and gun behind it while hundreds
of brave aud indignant Hoosiers, were
closing in on all sides of the guerrillas
rendering their escape impossible,
From Mr. George Foster who arrived
here from the East Saturday evening,
via, the O. & NJ R. R., we learn that IF
ty five of the thieves had been captured
and few killed
tured, ten killed and several drowned in
attempting to recross the river
Whether the ffty-one are part of the
tfty-tive mentioned by Foster we are not
fully advised, but however, that may be-
we are confident from the situation OF
affairs that scarcely man of the gang
will be allowed to reach Kentucky again.
This is part or all of the company
that made the raid on Elizabethtown, in
Kentucky, and was led by Hines in per.
son.
1t was reported that Hines himself had
escaped across the river, but this was not
generally believed
Com. Mitchell, of the gunboat "76,"
was at Cannelton when the alarm was
given, and during Friday night held two
fords near Tell City, completely cutting
off all retreat by that route
Some of the captured guerrillas had
arrived at Cannelton, and others had
g been taken to Leavenworth.
The Little Grey Eagle brought down
a company from Louisville and turned
them cut on the Indiana shore to assist
in picking up the balance of the skuIk.
ing thieves.
We hope to hear, before we go to press,
that the last one of the rebels have been
secured-and- hat-+AA-4EAAs-.l>.,e,- tl,e
border have been ornamented with their
Infamous carcasses, as warning to 9TH
ers who may contemplated horse stealing
excursion into Indiana.