Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-02
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Southern News.
A BIG PLoT DlEcovERED

BIG pLoT DlGc1vERED. e
From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 23l
War 10 always fruitful of plots The Yam
kees have discovered one In Canada, and our
vlgllsns authorltles think they have discover.
cd one here In Richmond, which will, prove an
Offset to the "mare's nest" among the lakes.
In both instances the plottefs bad the same
object ia vlew-the releaee of pFis0ners--and
both were successful--nIpped In the bud
ding eo"
The YeDkee counter plot TO release the
prisoners beld In Richmond, and facilitate their
escape In the ipdlscrimiDate elsughter Of
guards and popuaoe, was brought premature
ly to light through intercepted correspondence,
and lite mechinations involved the prisoners al
all the prisons, at the Libby and tributaries on
Belle Isle, and at Castle Thunder. On night
prearraDge1 they were to rise EN- masss OF the
ttolling Of the midnight hour, oyerpower the
comparatively few sentinels, and possessing all
the arms within their reach, move at "doubla-
quick" In the direction Of Wil smsburg & York
toVn,f beiors reaching which they were toibe
met and suocored by large cavalry force OF the
enemy, also In the secrets OF the plot, and 77ho.
on the same eventful night, we're to make
rapid raid In the direction of Richmond and
meet their friends half way, The bosom of
destruction was TO mark the track Of their tri.
! umphal march back from bondage Richmond
and the prisons were to blaze at their backs
and the flaming homesteads that dot the Will
lismsourg road were to form their girdle -.'fs
pillar Of fire by night. cloud by day"
Thus jourueyingy like the fleeing Israel.es
led by Moses ont from Egypt aud the bondage
Of Pharaoh, the Yankees we're to reacb the
promised land before aud spoil their enemies
behind. Meal Dow, it is taid, was tho chosen
l n q o nrnfn Il hail h. ao.t,
ing 10 hasten the distribution OF Yankee cloth.
log and rstions to the prisoners, in order that
they might start out we'll shod and clothed, AID
with full bellies and hRversacks for the i,ur-
ney. 5lr-t.s. eI.r .. -.. .fH.
What pity that suoh lively programme
should come 10 Daught, and ell through an In.
tercepted letter!
| We are informed that, az soon as the exie-
ttnce OF such q plot was made apparent 10 the
auhoriti,s 9, they were fully alive TO tue exigen.
cleo OF the hour, and equal to its emergencies.
The guards around the prisons and on Belle
lsle were Immediately doubled, aud the citizen
militia,b order Of the Governer, nightly pa
Iaded, and made show of exceeding stt eHgth
In the Vicinity OF tho prisons Additional
pieoesI? ?f cannon Were planted on the nights
overlooking Belle Isle, and the fullest prepar-
atlons made 80 blow the Yankees out OF exls
tence upon !he frat symptom OF revolt. The
plot Withefed under these exraneons inhuen
ces, the Yankees looked contsnted in their
tprison quarters, and Spears' cavalry did not
dash ont of Williamsburg. The tempest"
was sin tsapot," and ''all's well that en1s
well.n FlJo5 isgEe g1&1 a,.sar aa.-
The plot TO liberate the prisoners, 0Vsr power
or murder the guards, and burn ss much as
possible Of Richmond, which plot vas ventilat-
ed In ftheee columns yesterday, IL SCENE, was
frat disclosed to the authorities thr ough Que OF
the Yankee prisoners; and m iuvessig cation i'm
4 m ediately Instituted disclosing the startling
fact that guch plan Eaa, really on foot, and
that its timely disccv.fy 'Aione prevented the
\ sttenps being made @h2II Ith, A-3.
4 The first revelations we're made sbont the
9Th Of October, and again abont the 3lst adj
ditlonsl aud more positive evidAoce was brought
Ito light through vsrious coofbinstions early 10
November. Soon after the plot was deemed
serious enough TO equash before it came TO
lheading, and Is Was sccome elt.hed in such q
lmspner as to Indicate TO the ten or twelve
i thousand conspirstors that their game was ID
our hands and that the authorities we're "mas-
ters of the situation"
II 10 very positively asserted thst the Yankee
commander at Fortress Monroe was 10 the
secrets OF the conspirators, who we're 10 receive
1 very material aid from men who are seen (but
i not known upon the Rti eete OF Ricbmop
Ieyery day Fortupately for The ,Coutederscy
tue disclosures that have followed the denoue.
msnt have fixed the argus eyes Of tho Cove n
ment upon such, and, true as daylight lows
darkness, they will one day be brought to stapd
lin an ignominious light before the public, Il not
10 hang In state of suspension between heav-
On and earth ct Camp Lee.
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