Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-04-17

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were breakfasting, they detached the loco
motive and three box-cars from the train,
and started at full speed for Chattanooga.
They were now upon the field Of the peril
Gus operations proposed by the expedition,
but suddenly encountered unforeseen obsta-
cles. According TO the schedule If the
road, of which Mr.. Andrews has possessed
himself they should have met but single
train on that day, whereas they met three,
two of them being engaged on extraordna-
ry service. About an hour was lost in wait
ing to allow these trains to pass, which ena-
bled their pursuers to press closely upon
them. They removed rails, threw out OBJ
structions on the road, and cut the wires
from time to time, and attained, when in
motion speed of sixty miles an hour but
the time lost could not be regained. After
having run about one hundred miles, they
found their supply of wood, water, and oil,
exhausted, while the rebel locomotive which
had been chasing them was in sight. Un-
der these circumstances they had no alter
native but 10 abandon their cars and fly to
the woods, which they did, under the orders
Of Mr.. Andrews, each one endeavoring to
save himself as best he might. .....
The expedition thus failed from causes
which reflected neither upon the genius by
which it was planned, nor upon the intrepid
| ity and discretion oil those engaged in con-
duc,ing it. But for the accident of meet
ing the extra trains--which could not have
been anticipated-the movement would
have been complete success, and the whole
aspect of the war in the South and the
| Southwest would have been al once changed.
The expedition itself. in the daring of its
conception, had the wildnes> of romance
while in the gigantic and Overwhelming re-
| suits, which i; sought ard was likely to ac-
compli,h, ii was absolutely sublime The
estimate of its character entertained in the
South will be found fully expressed in an
editorial from the " Southern confederacy,"
a prominent rebel journal. under date of
the 18th of April. and which is appended
to and adopted as a part of Mr. Pittineer's
deposition. The edi or says: "T The mind
and heart shrink back appalled, at the bare
contemplation of the awful consequences
which would have have followed the sue
cess of this one act. We doubt if the VIC
tory of Manassas or Corinih were worth
as much to US as the Illustration of this grand
comp d'etat. 1t is not by any means certain
that the annhilation of Beauregard's whole
army at Corinth would be so fatal blow
to US as would have been the burning o.
the bridges at that time by these men,"
So soon as those composing the expedi-
tion had left the cars, and dispersed them
selves in the woods, the population Of the
country round turned out in their pursuit
employing for this purpose the dogs whicl
are trained TO hunt down fugitive slaves o
the South. The whole 22 were captured
: Among them was private Jacob Parrot o
J Co. X, SD regiment Ohio volunteers
When arrested he was, without any form
, of trial, taken possession of by military
officer and four soldiers, who stripped him,
bent him over stone, and, while two pistol.
were held over his head, lieutenant il
rebel uniform inflicted, with raw hide, up
, ward of hundred lashes on his bare back
| This was done in the presence of an intu
rated crowd, who clamored for his blood
: and actually brought a rope with which tt
4 hang him. The object ot this prolonged
scourging was TO force this young man II
> confess TO them the objects of the expedi
! tion and the names of his comrades, espec
tally that of the engineer who had run tn
: only to take the life of the latter. if idenii
: fled, but to do so with every circumstanc
h. of humiliation and tortnre which they coul,
. devise. Three times in the progress of thi
: horrible flogging. it was suspended. and Mr.
: Parrot was asked if he would not confess
e but steadily and firmly, to the last, he re
e fused all disclosures, and it was not till hi
e tormentors were weary of their brutal worl
1 that the task of subduing their victim wa
4 abandoned as hopeless. This youth is al
f orphan, without father or mother, and with
: out any of the advantages of education
f Soon after the rebellion broke out, thougl
: but eighteen years of age, he left his trade
: and threw himself into the ranks of ou
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