Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-27

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failed to perform single achieVsmenttbat
will be remembered. JEFF. Davis ought to
court martial him and hang him to "sOur
apple tree" I'll
A Concentration With ono of inorganic
Men.
We had a conversation yesterday with
one of Morgau's raiders, who is now
prisoner in the Atheneum. He was cap
tured by Captain Milhous at Georgetown,
in Harrison County, on Saturday, and
brought here for confinement. His name
is Paley and he is from Allen county, KY,
and he has been with Morgan about year.
Paley is young man, abouttwenty two or
three years of age, perhaps, and although
not a man of much education is rather sharp
than otherwise We had good deal of con-
versation with him about Morgan and the
raid, it's origin, objects aud the war gen eRal-
ly,but he was not much inclined to be either
laxative or communicative. He says he
is tired ofraiding and that if he had known
Morgan was going to make such an eIPe1
dition as be has made, he would never have
left Kentucky with him. Out of twenty
eight days past be says he has bad but two
nights sleep, and, indeed, his appearance
gives every indication of physical prostra-
ton. he is badly sun. burned and jaded
aud as he talked he was constantly yawn
ing. He had on the same shirt that
he started with from Kentucky, aud it
is faded yellow and become brittle
with perspiration. He says that Morgan's
men despaired of reaching home many
days ago, and that they rosmed about
without any special or definite object be-
yond the faint hope of finding an escape at
some unguarded point. He considers the
expedition in point of achievement fail
ure aud not what the raiders expected.
They met with very little sympathy along
their route, contrary to expectation, the
people generally giving them the cold
shoulder. He says that they had plenty
to eat, but not much time to eat it in /;
that they generally sent out details of men
through tue day to steal or buy provisions,
and that these details carried sacks with
them in which to put their plumber The
raiders made it point to take every horse
they met with that was worth anything,
aud when they did SO they generally turned
out to grass some jaded animal III place of
it. Paley seemed to know very little
about Morgan personally, but believed in
in his dash, intrepidity and dare-devilisn
81 a leader. He predicted that we would
never take Morgan alive. We asked him
if he did not think that it was deroga-
tory piece of business to be engaged in,
this thing of stealing private property,
and burning houses aud wheat stacks, and
molestiug quiet innocent people. he said
he did not think it very, respectable, but
that it was war aud our side had done the
same thing in the South. We asked him
whether he considered Kentucky in the
Union or not, and whether it was not very
ing Kentuckians when that State still sd-
hered to the Union. He said, in reply,
that NO person felt certain whether Ken
lucky was in or out of the Uuion-that his
side claimed she was not, while ours
claimed she was; that he did not care much
whether she was or not, and that for his
part, he believed all the South ought to be
out of the Union. He said he bad NO
slaves, and that his father was farmer in
moderate circumstances in Allen county,
aud was strong Breckenridge Democrat
He told us in reply to question as to
what his ideas OF this war were, that he
believed it was to put the slaves and the
white people of the south on an equality,
and he had no idea of being niger him
self. We asked him if he knew anything
about the breaking out of the war and
its attendant circumstances "No" he
said "Pm never much of reader, but
was told that the abolitionists wanted to
steal the niggers."s When we related to
him some facts aud incidents connected
with the origin of the war it seemed to be
q matter Of news to him, but be took it
rather incredulously. He WAS, however,
apparently good deal impressed with
questions as to whether he and such men
ms him would be likely to come out of this
war with any more liberty, prosperity,
property aud chance in the world than they
had before, He was puzzled to. see. he
confessed, how the success of the rebellion
could rebound to spersOualiuterest, aud
also confessed that he had always had all
his rights so far as he understood them, and
ths. he did not know of any additional
ones that were coming to him. Finally he