Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-29

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seen In this chronically tranquil town. Gold,
and bfandy-ooats, pants, shirts and shoes, lit
terally took wings and few away4-few knew
where. II was we'll they did, or Morgan would
have taken them, for he seems quite fond OF
such commodities. ..l
Well, We kept looking and looking for our
Dixie visitor, and at 6 A. M. dense cloud Of
smoke In the distance revealed the sad fact that
t.tha Stationn (campbell's. onthe Go r. r.
was in flames. This, with two or three fine
bridges on the railroad, constituted the extent
of his depredations in that quarter, with the
|exceptionof the impressment Of vast number
Of fne horses all along bis iine Of march.
Soon his advance guard entered town. They
came In single file 10 stealthy manner. The
first two gave chase Immediately down Main
street 70 the u. s. mail ,bus then passing on its
way to Wheeling. Il. vas soon captured and
"gutted" and iu fine horses takenr Ia few
minutes the main forces came iD, after signal
was given that we would not fire. The writer
made his way up to ssthe General, and asked
that the men be made 10 respect the rights and
feelings of innocent citlzsns, especially women
and children. He said 1t should be all right,
and that II we did not fire he would not.
His entire force numbered six hundred and
fifty men. They filed their horses along the
streets with their heads toward the houses, and,
unasked, opened stables, took hay, corn, oats,
saddles, brides, brushes, curry combs, without
any apparent compunction of conscience, and
then asked for something to eat for themselves
They got IL and in some cases paid for " In
gold and silver. Much of the ready-made
clothing had been removed; but still they got
some, paying in some cases as above, and IN
others not ct all, or in Southern scrip-that 10,
this they offered. They seem to have plenty
Of money. Our provision stores and grocerles
suffered the most But the burning of the do
Dot was the meanest and severest stroke OF all.
/ asked them why they did it. They said 70
destroy Government arms and supplies, adding,
awe always do It," - so q
These followers Of Morgan are dirty set OF
dogs They seem TO move now more in the Or
pacity Of robbers than soldiers They are much
jaded. u Morgan elept three hours in The
isAmerican," and great many of bic men lay
on the pavement aud went soundly to sleep,
some withA brick, and others with loaf Of bread
for pillow. II mast be confessed, however,
that In general they acted aby-closng
whisky and lager beer shops, placing guards
at dry goods and jewelry stores and doing many
other generous things. What they might have
done, by way Of extortiou II not theft. know
not had they not been made uDceremonlously
to decamp by the appearance of q large force
of Col. Hobsou's Union lroOps. Their pickets
com menced firing and coming in about half past
eleven O'Clock, which soon broke Morgan's nap
Ia bed, as well as that OF hia men on she side-
Wslks. Baog! bang. bang! bang and they are
1up and OF over the bill northwsra toward Cadiz
Harrison ooansy. A splendid corps Of Tenaes,
see and lilinois cavalry, two guus .of. "Wal-
lsce'sD bsttesy, two l2-pousdefs of the 22i
Ohio, just new, three or four compsnies of the
splendid S6ih Ohio infansry. togesb,r With droves
of, ARMED militia from all-quarters, gave chase.
The firing, for the most part, wac directly over
the town. Many Of US have tp-dey witnessed
our FIRST battle. That wbiz Of the Minnie ball
/ will not soon forget tt msde toe women and