The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-02
THE LATEST NEWS.

COLUMBUS, Nov. 29.-Notbing has tran
spired in regard 10 the escape OF General
Morgan and bis six companions. Not
the slightest clue has been discovered of
their whereabouts or of the route they
have taken. Every precaution, however,
has been taken for their capture.
The Governor has telegraphed all the
military committees of the State 10
arouse their several counties, end Col.
ParrOtt, the Provost Marshal General of
the State, has notified in like manner
every Provost Marshal within his juris-
diction to scour their several districts
thoroughly. gqtgt
The most plausible theory mentioned
here is that they escaped in time to take
the Cincinnati train via Dayton, which
started from Columbus at 2 o'clock, a.
NJ Friday That their escape was con
Dived at by sympathizers there is little
doubt, although no positive proof has
been discovered.
A searching investigation. will be made
on the part of both civil and military
authorities. The manner of their escape
was ingenious, but after all simple enough,
based on the almost certain theory that
they were correctly informed as to the
ground they had TO work through.
The six officers who escaped with
Morgan were confined in the lower range
of cells, as also was. Dick Morgan,
brother Of John. They, by patient la
Dor of nearly four weeks, and by means
of small pocketknives, dug through tie
floors of their cells, composed of about
one foot of stone and brick, down into =
four foot sewer.
Two weeks since one of the escaped
prisoners asked the guard for a few
boards to cover the bottom of their cells,
giving as an excuse that the damp stone
was inj airing their health, and their un-
suspicious guard granted the request.
These boards were used to cover up the
holes they were cutting. On the night
of their final escape on retiring TO their
several cells, Dick Morgan managed to
change with his brother John from the
lower to the upper tier. After getting
into the sewer, they crswled t5the heavy
grating and masonry at its mouth and
found they could not escape by that
route. They, however, made hole up-
ward to heavy pile of coal, which rolled
in on them to such an extent that they
were forced to go further back into the
yard.
They then excavated the soft earth
under the main wall of the prison, and
so correctly was the distance calculated
that they came out into the open road |
way one foot from the foundation. One |
of the party Capt. Hines) was by trade |
a brick mason, and seems to have had |
the management of the whole affair |
Public opinion is divided as to where tie |
blame rests. 1t lies between the warden |
and the military authorities. 1t is prop
er TO state, however, that for the last |
two weeks several of the most prominent |
copperheads of the State have been here,
putting up at the principal hotels, laying
heir heads together by day and night |
without any visible reason.
At this hour GO o'clock the Governor |
and his Secretaries are in the executive |
chamber, telegraphing to all parts of the |
State, and on hand to receive the earliest |
Intelligence of the capture of any of the |
gang.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-The Star SAYS
information from General Burnside as
late IS Wednesday night, the 25th, is to |
the effect that be was then amply provis.
Toned, and fully able to resist the enemy |
until aid could reach him from Grant |
At that time Longstreet was still b fore /
Knoxville, the order sent to him bv |
Bragg 10 abandon the siege and return TO |
him not having then reached Longstreet.
Grant had doubtless cut The road BY |
which LoDgstreet must go to effect
junction with Bragg and as the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee Railroad leading
into Virginia is believed to be in SO Grip |
ped q condition that Longstreet can
neither use it for supplies nor as a means /
of escape, it was thought be will make a
desperate effort to take Knoxville, in Or
der to put himself in possession of sufi
Gent supplies to afford his army susie
nance while be moves away.
A letter received o-day at the Central |
Office in Washington from an agent of
the Sanitary Commission at New York,
says that although there may be some
doubt about the disposition which has
been made of Government stores sent to
Richmond, he has every reason to believe
that supplies sent by the Sanitary Com
mission have been properly distributed.
On Saturday, a flag of-truce boat went
up to City Point with 280 cases of sup
plies from the Sanitary Commission store
house atNorfOlk, chiefly medicines, food,
and warm clothing.
CAIRO, Nov. 3O.-A number of Jews
have BE- en- arrested at Memphis, as par
Elephants in recent frauds on the Revenue
Department. They have been imprison-
ed and their property seized. Sky
thousand dollars in greenbaeks have been
taken from one of these smugglers.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.-The American
says: We have opened correspondence
with Commissioner 0ald, which may
probably lead to the establishment OF
some systematic arrangement for the
care and sustenance of our unfortunate
prisoners at Richmond, until such time
rs al exchange can be effected.