Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-11-20

Our town ana county were thrown into con-
siderable excitement on Thursday evening last
by the reception of a despatch from Adjutan,
General Hill, calling out the 5Oth o. V. Militia,
to report to brig. Gen. Cox, at Sandusky, at the
earliest moment. The despatch was sent to
Col. Nat. Haynes, and was as follows:
Columbus, Nov. IL, 1863.
Cot Nat. Haynes Turn out your whole regi-
mcnt immediately, and as soon as cars can be
obtained, move to Sandusky, and report to Brig.
Gen. Cox, for duty. See that every man is pro.
yided with cooked rations for at least one day,
in mess packages or otherwise. When you
leave Fremont the men should take blankets
and their own overcoas. Ammunition and ad-
ditional arms and accontrements for eight hum
dred men in all, will be sent to you at Sandus-
ky. You will get camp and garrison equippage
there. Reply to this and say when YOU will
move. CHAS. w. HILL,
Adj. General.
Although it was seven o'clock in the evening
when this despatch was received, by o'clock
the next morning four or five hundred men of
the Regiment were promptly on hand ready for
duty. They got off about noon for Sandusky,
where they arrived in the afternoon.
The immediate cause for calling out this Reg
iment, was the following dispatch, addressed to
NiiS NhHyOiS VI Duudlo, OlSNeldUu, Dd00uSky |
city, Toledo, Detroit, and other Lake cities:
WAsHINGroS, DC, Midnight, Nov. IL, SO.
The British Minister, Lord Lyons, has Off
cially notified the government that from tele- |
graphic information received from the Governor
General of Canada, there is reason to believe
that Plot is on foot by persons hostile to the
United States who have found an asylum in |
Canada, to invade the United States and destroy
the city OF Buffalo; that they propose TO take
possession of some of the Steamboats, on Lake
Erie, to surprise Johnson's Island and set free |
the prisoners of war confined there, and to pro-
coed with them to attack Buffalo
This government will employ all the means
IN It's power to suppress any hostile attack from |
Canada. But as other towns and cities on the |
shores of The Lake are exposed TO the same dan
ger, it is deemed proper to communicate this in
formation to you in order that any precautions
which the circumstances of the case permit NAV |
be taken. The Governor General suggests that |
steamboats, should be watched, and that any |
steamboat or other vessel giving cause for sus-
picion by the number or character of the ner- |
sons on board, shall be watched.
You viii please acknowledge the receipt of
this telegram, and communicate to this Depart
ment any information you may now or hereaf-
ter have on this subject Edwin NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War
The news communicated to Lord Lyons by
the Governor General of Canada, was from the
most trustworthy sources, and deemed to be
entirely reliable. Ex-Governor Morehead and
James Clay, of Kentucky, and Marshal Kane, of
Baltimore, who are now refugees in Canada, are
said to be at the head Of the conspiracy. VAL
landigham is also implicated. They had fully
arranged for the passage through the Welland
Canal of an armed steamer, whose mission was,
LIST, to open the prison doors for the captive reb-
els in Sandusky Bay; ID, to arm and equip these
veterans, over 1000 in number; Sd, to seize as
many propellers on Lake Erie as were needed,
aud arm and man them; 4th to make Buffalo
heap of ashes, and her vessels in port charred
skeletons; 5th, to burn Cleveland; 9th, to wipe
out the commerce of Lake Erie; 7th, to consume
Detroit, and, in fact, destroy the commerce and
cities of the Lakes from ogdensburgt to Chicago
at blow.
Ii is estimated that there are now from $4,000 h
to 10000 secessionists, deserters and copper
heads who have gone there To escape the draft,
ia Canada, many hundreds Of whom are with
out money or business, and unable to obtain
employment who are ready for any desperate
that win promise them provisions and
plumber.
Lord Lyons got out of bed at midnight to
this news TO Mr.. Seward, and af-
forwards the Secretary Of War got up and COM
munieated it as above stated.
The prompt action Of the Government has
nipped the conspiracy in the bud and the whole
plot has undoubtedly been abandoned, and we
will probably hear no more Of it, for the pres
ent at least.
This conspiracy undoubtedly had aders and
abettors ON this side of the Lake. A prominent
of this county and candidate for
one of the county offices at the recent election,
remarked to Union man a couple of weeks
since. YOu'll see fun in Ohio yeti"
p. s. The 50th Regiment arrived home yes-
-erday noon, after a six days term of soldering
ID the lake shore.