Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-05

dale Secret Police" etc. The Cincinnati
COMMERCIAL Of Nov. 3, says of the Union
"The Nashville Union 10 On unequivocally On,
ion and immediate emancipation newspaper
There Ia 70 discount on Il in thas respect. D.
With this indoaement We lay the greater parl
Of the article in question before the reader, and
ask him to ponder well over its revelations:
Never was gtosser imposition praoticed
upon the public than tho pcetepce that the Police
originated, organized, conducted and controlled
By Trueedsil, was either necessary or useftfl
ia detecting illegal practices, arreating Snug
glere, OF preventing correspondence with the
enemy: The organization, there 10 strong rea-
son TO believe, was designed by It's author to
subseryo private ends, while its reputation for
promoting the welfare Of the army and the
good of the nation was manufactured by cum
ningly wrought tissue OF craft and deceit
One single instance of the mode inv hioh Trues.
dali arrested smugglers We will present as an
illustration Of its whole procedure. The can
nails of the Army of the Cumberland" written
BY member Of the Police, has given partial
and highly colored veraion Of the story, which
We shall give as reported by Stevens himself, the
police who WAS the chief actor In the Disgrace
Stevens came to Nashville az deserter from
the rebel army, and was soon employed by
Truesdail as detective to dog the steps of
those whom he wlshed to viclimze and plunder.
Sometimes his victims were officers In tbs
Federal army, sometimes crippled soldiers who
were trying to earn few dollars honestly by
telling neWspapere. In the present Instance
the victim Was MrH. Yeargin whose husband,
at the time we write of, was sick Confe derste
prisoner, lying In the hospital st Murfreesboro,
Trueadail became acquainted with these facts,
and Immediately seized the opportunity to
display his astonishiBg ssgecity and expertness
in arresting contrsband traders. He immedl-
aiely sent Stevens to Mrs. Yeargin, who felt
all Wife's natural anxiety 10 hear some tidings
Of her sick husband. The detective entered
her house as q friend, told her that he had
served in the same army with her husband, and
that If she wished to visit him In his etfiicton,
where her attention and ministTation would bs
so acceptable, he would get her q pass to 60 to
Murfreesboro. Mrs. Yeargln told the detsc.
tive, to whom che felt profoundly grateful, that
she did not wish TO violate any military order,
and feared the request for pass would he i'm
proper. The detective told her that there would
be no difficulty, that he would got her pass;
and that she had better carry along some clothing
for her husband, as he was no doubt destitute.
Mrs. Yeargin was afraid that THE might sub.
ject her to arrest Stevens said not as sll, be
could easily arrange all that He then said he
would like to sell her coat which no had worn
In the rebel eervice. She purchased 1t, ss II
was offered low. He then told her that ehe had q
family to support by her own exeftione, and thai
as shs would be in the South she had better
take with her some medicines to sell. She obs
II "a. krk pr6a1 hot kfSvao q
right, that there would be no risk 10 Ii at all,
and that he would make 10 all right. He finally
prevailed upon her TO take the drugs, which he
bought himself. He next bought her carriage
and pair of mules, but she preferring a team,
which he had Of his own, he swspped with her,
exacting large amount Of boot. Finally, she
started taking q coat, gloves, and uuderclothes
for her husband, and the medicines which
TfuesdRil's q man had purchased for her. srE
Stevens accompanied her TO the pickets on
the outskiIt, of the city, where according TO pre-
vIous arrangements they we're both arrested
Truesdail then took from her three hundred
dollars in Southern money, six buudred dollars
In gold, her mnles, carriages, clothing, and
medicines, and after stripping ber of everything
she had, sent her beyond the picket lines and
gave orders that abe should not be suffered to
return 10 the city. This consummate piece of
meanneas and rascallty reached the ears Of
Gov. johnson, Tfueadall became alarmed, let
her come back, and refunded the three humid
red dollars Of Southern money which he had
robbed her of, but kept the six hundred dollars
In gold! He wanted the gold TO buy cotton
with Doubtless. Why did he refund o portion
of the money, II he had q right to take aoy Of
it2 and by what authority did he retain the
gold2 Certainly meaner and more dishonor-
able piece of sWinding, ooEardice and extor-
tion never was psrpetRated by the viless tool Of
jeff. Davis. Nothing more unmanly car be con-
celved Of. A detective, under the mark Of friend
ship goes to tho house of woman, wholly
unsolicited, and urges her, by her affection for
q ack husband lying In distant hospital re-
motto from hia~ a~frlends, to violate the laws OF
military rule against her own will. Nay, he
even becomes her accessory and partner as well
as her counsellor. The miserable detective ap
peals to the hoblest feelings of wife's nature,
affection for her husband, to tempt her TO vlo-
late military order, that he may draw her in-
to snare. aud enable the crafty Truesda'i, In
uuisitoR General of the Secret Police, to rob
her of her goods, and of every dollar che had,
and turn her adrlft among strangers, to beg or
stafvc.A AudthisEeafe. graycly told is an ad-
mifabIe method OF stopping illegal traffic!
The prayer which Christ taught his disciples
waE sour Father who art In Heaven, LEAD Ua
NOT isTo TEmrrATioR! - eSbut here We see Trues.
dali and Bis tools with devilsh ingenuity, FIRE.
tempting, aud then plunderlng woman. Mrs.
Yeifgln did wrong, but what being, who has
the soul Of D man, or even the spirit Of dog
WeplI. not: ten thousand times rather act tht
part she was tempted to perform, than stop tc
the degradation of Trueadafi3