Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-11-24
Ths Lake Erie Rebel Plot.

IPrSna the Montreal Advertiser, Rebel 0TgHn.
The expedition intended to effect the
liberation of the Confederate Off ie-s held
prisoners on Johns ms Island, Lake Erie,
having failed, IL order to rem we the mis-
Apprehensious that may he createi by ,
Federal acc iunts of Canadian plot TO
hurn Western cities, We give below all the
fscfr in WHICH the public is interested, |
vaIeh may, we are assured, be implicitly !
relied on.
The Washington Government having |
refused to continue tiIe exchange of priso- |
ners of war under the cartel, sent the |
Southern officers accustomed to a tropical !
climate to J.hnson's Island, where 1000 !
US them were confined in wreicbei quar-
iers, absolutely uuft to house cattle
There is no reason To doubt that the Offis
GERS selected for this prison were Those
upon whom the cold, damp climate and ex
posture would act most prCludicially. II
was in fact, an attempt to Commit murder
without publicly mourning the odIum of
slaughter. a -.
In these circumstances the Confederate
Government determined to make an at
tempt 10 rescue the doomed officers, and
fur this purpose an expedition was fitted
ont, consisting of thirty-six officers under
fhe command of one who had distinguish
ed himself in similar dashiDg enterprises,
aud three hundred men. The officers em-
barked at Wilmington IN the Cunfe ierate
steamer r. E. Lee. and landed at Halifax.
The cotton and tobacco brought by that
steamer as freight were sold TO furnish the
funds required, amounting to SllO,OOO.-
The men came overland through tho States,
in small parties, to the general reudez.
Yous.
The intention was to surprise the Fede
raj garrison GU JohnsOu's Island, lbrrate
the prisoners, convey them to Canada i'll
vessels provided f T that purpose, and for
ward them by IIalIf4x to Nassau or Ber-
nuda the greater part of the funds being
especially devoted to paying their passage
10 one of these points.
Any further operation on the Lakes
were left to the discretion Of IN officer in
Command, whose orders were stringent and
Teremt0ry to avoid breach of British
neutrality, and to take care that even the
semhIauce Of Intern ational wrong should
be'preverted. Had Johnson's Island heen
taken, it might have formed basis for
other operations against Federal commerce
on the Likes but the real object of the
expedition was to rescue two thousand
valuable lives from the cruelty which had
devoted them to slow bat certain death in
aclimate and situation in the last degree
inimical to them.
From the Detroit Daily AdIertiser.l
The existence Of this plot was orr .inally
discovered in the FLOWING manner =
About two weeks since some OF our .uIi,-
tary authorities here learned that certain
rebel agents 81 Montreal were seeking to
purchase TWO vessels AT that CITY, 20 bS Fl
ted for rebel war service on the lakes
Last week it was ueertaine1 that cetti6n
cltss IF specie deposits, 10 the amount u
ii, least $500 900. on certain Confederate
hanks, signed by Memmihger. the rebel
Score airy of the TreasurI. and COUNTER
signed by Bsnjamin, the rebel Secretarr
1T State, mad p ssed through our post Of
Gee here 10 rebel agents 70 Canada
Tne-e f4cts taken .Ogs-ner. uad sr.iS-
ter aSpec., ani gf-e a rDuau in n.i y IN p
gambler Of our prominent ciizeas, she
f1c.s were communicated tn the American
Cunsul General az Montreal. Mr. CT ld;oes.
BY him, representations we're made t. the
GJvsruUr General nt C,uada winch led Q
The revelations made through LIZ Lyo =
to our own Government. i Will n' seen
that the FIRST clue was ub'sIued in Detroit.
A TIN WEDDING.-We clip the following
'tom from the Springfield correspondence
of the Missouri Democrat:
E.. GoOdel Esq and his amiable lady
have iBsued cards tur n tin wadd mo IN ronr