The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-06
Indiana ItemS.

annapolis Journal of Tuesday;
We learn from a gentleman who came
n on the Lafayette road yesterday that
n attempt to arrest deserter near
rhorntown, Boone county, on Sunday,
vas resisted by the parents and other
members of the family; that squad OF
Home Guards had been sent for from
rhorntown, who went and arrested the
whole family. They were brought to
,his city yesterday.
An incident occurred the other day on
the farm of Mr. Fletcher, near the city,
in which a Butternut and soldier were
the actors. The Butternut was talking
about the war, and while disclaiming any
sympathy with the South, said he was
still opposed tothe war, and that very
large portion Of the North entertained I
the same sentiments. The soldier went
close to him, and putting his head right
at the others face said, " That $ a ID
lie" The conversation stopped
The defeat and capture of Morgan,
and the general prostration OF the rebel
cause, don't seem to Nave abated the
rancor of the Copperhead tribe OF lndl-
ana at all. We see notices on all hands
of fights. fires, murders and neighbor-
| hood riots. caused or committed by them.
Brown and adjoining counties, to the
| number of 600, under the lead of that
noisy little whelp of traitor, James ).
Hester, marched upon the town of Edn-
burg with the avowed intention of burn
! - uhn haH ma q
lot of secession sympathizers strip Oft
! their butternut emblems, were not sur
rendered to them. Some sort of adjust
ment of the matter was made, but no
sort of adjustment that don't put Hes
ter s neck in halter will be pleasing to
God or beneficial to man.
Agaiu, in Brown county, where Union
men have always been ruled by the ter
rorism of the K. G. C.'s, and subjected
to annoyances, insults and injuries,
which richly deserved bloody repara-
ton, there has recently appeared a fear
full epidemic of murders and incendiary
fires, of which Union men in every case
are the victims. The Columbus Repub
tican says that about two weeks ago the
residences of three loyal men, theil
stacked wheat, hay, and some other prop
erty, were burnt in the night time, and
some days afterwards. citizen who haC
been in the army, but was discharged fo
bal health, was shot down while a
work in his field by cowardly, lurking
assassin, from covert of bushes abou
twenty-five yards from the place wher'
his victim fell All this occurred in
| neighborhood in Brown county iu whlc
number of deserters are lurking, en-
couraged and harbored by men who in
duge freely in shouting for JEFF Davi
and John Morgan, and threatening vic
lence to the persons and property c
loyal men and resistance to the draf
The loyal men of the neighborhood, no'
that these have been fulfilled, are col
tinually in apprehension of attempts g
assassination by lurking traitors, to
cowardly to make an open attack, BIT
who will stealthily or covertly attemI
such wicked and traitorous work Viii
- >'.--N'- ~, go 80
count. of the arrest of some deserter
there, who had been harpored by tn
Copperheads, and the delight with whic
the.story told by our troops, that the ywer
: Morgan men, hunting recruits, was re
: celved, from which our readers NAV eai
lily judge af the depth of the treasonabl
spirit instilled by the Sentinel Perkins
and Hendricks, but the utter defanc
at which law, as we'll as patriotism
set, will be a little better seen in the 70
lowing fact related br the Noble count
Journal:
! In the early part of last month youn
: man, IN Whitley county, by the name {
John Egolf, went to a man owning
cooper shop, in broad daylight, and toll
him to get mp and leave,as he was goingt
burn his shop, and he would burn him u
In 1t if he did not hasten out of the wa,
The desperate held cooked pistol in hi
hand, and stood with it to prevent an
one from extinguishing the flames.
We are also told by Quinn, who wa
one of those arrested there by the compa
MES from here, that this Egolf also drov
his father from his own house, which wa
near, and which the father feared woul
catch fire by the sparks from the shor
The father, by threats of being shot, wa
forced to deslst attempting to save hi
own property, which fortunately did no
catch fire. Now for the sequel. Thi
most dangerous criminal is boldly stay
ing here by the scene of this last crime
and is working in the harvest fields with
out any arrest whatever. 1t is reportet
that he can not be taken. The provoca
ton that Egolf is said to have agains
the man whose shop was fired is, that h,
Informed some one of his (Egolf S
whereabouts as deserter.
HE DRAFT IN WASHINGTON CRY
The draft is evidently DO respecter o
PsfSSn or FasffFs9p' as is fully .sxengE6se
the District of Columbia. Among those
who drew prizes we find the following
distinguished names:
Department commissioner Mcpherson
OF the Internal Revenue Bureau; John
G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to the
President; j. R. Hood, Reporter for the
Chronicle; Return J. Meigs, Clerk OF
the District Supreme Court
A large number of Department Clerks,
members of the City Council, &c.
A large number of rebel sympathizers