The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-23

The War in Ohiol 1t must seem
strange to n foreign observer, having
witness sed, perhaps with strong surprise,
the uprising of the Northern people, at
the outbreak of the Southern rebellion
who saw the outburst of patiotism which
spread like wild fire through the land
when Southern treason, for months and
months threatening, while apparently, ,un-
decided, at last eliminated in open re-
bellion, and attained fiery, murderous
and vindictive life at the attack on Fort
Sumter, to witness the gradual change
from loyalty to apathy, and from apathy
to rampant treason, which the efforts of
traitors in our midst haye been only too
successful in producing. In talking with
the Union inhabitants of this district in
which, unlike its neighboring county
Noble county-the majority are Union,
all this great change is attributed to the
teachings of such political demagogues
as Nallandigham and Olds, &C., and the
operations of the peace Democrats, 9TH
erwlse known as butternuts and copper
heads; and the charge is made with all
the acrimony and vehemence which
characterizes all those who have been
ffeft5 5HbetAd1 1bU Providence as to live in the
1t is strange and perhaps unexpect-
ed sentence with which to commence
this letter-the war in Ohio-but accor-
ding to present appearances it seems
more than likely it will be substantiated
by events, and if the inhabitants of the
neighborhood should persist in their mad
determination, must be inevitably in
augurated.
On Monday, Ma ch Sth, detachment
of four men, In command ofCorporal Jo-
seph Davidson, left Cincinnati for Hop
kinsville, with the intention of procuring
the arrest of two men, j. W. McFarreL
and w. G. Brown, both residents of that
locality. McFarren was deserter from
Company G, 18th Ohio, while Brown was
charged with having written letters to
McFarren, inciting him to desert, and
which were generally of REASONABLE
character One of these letters arrived
after McFarren deserted, and was open
ed by the Colonel of the regiment, who
on discovering its reasonable character
forwarded it to Governor Tod and he al
once ordered the arrest of its author.
The Corporars squad arrived in Hos
kinville on Thursday morning, having
met with many difficulties from the hos
tility of the inhabitants, who did all il
their power to interfere with their object
They found in their journey that th'
proportion of Union to Secesh inhabi
tlnts was one to twenty. The Union mel
were living in a state of continual fear
being afraid to express their sentiment
on account of the threats which wer
freely uttered by their traitorous neigh
bors. All the Union men know eacl
other well, and are in the habit of hold
ing stolen interviews with each other al
ter the manner of the Vaudean peasant
| in the time of the Catholic prosecutions
talking over the prospects of their cour
try, and hoping and anticipating the tim
when freedom shall once more reign i
their native land. At all the houses c
these people, the corporafs company me
with the kindest treatment, and were tf
ken care of free of charge, while at til
neighboring houses they were turne
away and refused mouthful of bread O
a drink of water, Notwithstanding thei
offer to pay literally for it. "Pay me i
Southern scrip" said one old traitor
"your greenbacks won't be worth Ger
in six months. "Your backs won't b
worth d-n when the Government
got through with you" was the laconi
reply. Just as they were nearing Ho
kinsville, they perceived that they wer
expected, and were told by Union ma
that the inhabitants were prepared fC
them, being fully armed, and in number
about one hundred, and that they inten,
ed to capture the five men, take the
arms, and parol them not to take u
arms against the Southern Confederac
They afterward found this was the inte
ton of the people.
They had not gone far before the
found party of about fifty drawn up
line, fully armed with rifles and revol
ers, and ready to resist them. Th'
. made detour, and came on the villas
in the rear, taking two Union inhab
ants, one of them named Hardy schoC
master, who has been member of Il
Ohio Senate. to point out the two me
The company then separated, one par
proceeding to McFarren's house and Il
other to Browns, but at each place th
found the birds had flown. BY this tin
the Butternuts got wind of their havil
= passed them, and returned into the =
: lace. when the CORPORAL thought &C pr