Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-05


! Mas. J. Tom nITE, a ais.sr Of Mrs.
President LincnIn. wMs rebel spy aud
sympnthiZcr- When she passed toto the
Coutederacy a few days ago, Uy way OF
Fortress Monroe, che carried with her in
her trunks all kIuis of contraband goods,
together with medicines, ptp-rs, letters,
etc., which will dpuOtieSs be- ut the great
est assistance 10 those with whom she con
sorts.
When General Butler wished to open
her trunks, as the regulations OF transit
there prescribe, this woman showed him
an autograph pass or order from President
Lincoln eujoiuing upon the federal officers
not TO opeu any of her trunks, and not TO
subject The bearer of the pass, her pack
ages, parcels or trunks. to any inspection
or annoyance. Mrs. White said TO Gen.
Butler, or the officers in charge there, in
substance, as follows: "My trunks are
filled with contrAbaud, but l defy you to
touch them. Here" (pushiug it under their
noseR), "here is the positive order Of your
master!"
Mrs. White was thus allowed to pass
without the inspection and annoyance so
peremptorily forbidden by President Lin.
coin in an order written and sigaed by his
own hand, aud TO day the contents OF his
wite's sisters trunks are giving aid aud
comfort 10 the enemy-nor least in the
shock which these facts will give to the
loyal hearts whose hopes and prayers and
labors sustain the cnuse which is thus be-
irayrd in the very While House.
Tie above article We Cut from the New
York World. and that paper claims 10 copy
from the New York Tribune, and also adds
its guarantee that the statements therein
contained ale tncts. The WOri3 is Cop
perhead paper and the Tribune is opposed
TO Mr.. Lincoln. So thus the case stands.
Ii is due the President that the facts, what
ever they may be. come out. 1t will not
do to lie under such an imPn'a;ion. The
public should. however, take all such
statements from interested sources, these
election times, with many grains of al
lc vance. We cannot ourselves believe the
above article to be true. Il would argue
a weakness and an in6delity on the patt
Of the President that We should deeply la
ment to discover. We hope his immediate
frie uds will at once put forth the true and
straight facts Of the casei and show what
foundation, if any exists for such story.
THE STORY pIsCREDITED.
Since the above was written, we have
found the following counter-statement,
sent from Fortress Monroe to the New
York Herald:
From I.te personal interview with Ma
jor Mulford. commender Of our flag of
truce boat, learn thHt the article does not
contain one word OF truth. Our flag boat
has lately been making one "Trip per week
to and from City Point, and the Major
brought up copy of the Atlanta (Ga.) pa
per eJntainiog the substance OF the above
article two weeks prior 10 his carrying
Mrs White through our lines, aud the la
dy herself spoke Of baviUg seen the article
before leaving Washington.
certainly think the Tribune'S CORES
poudent should pay more attention to the
truth and less to giving publicity TO de-
kArnatory articles III regard To our officers,
when those articles are stolen
by him from rebel newspapers, instead OF
being STATED in best informed circles in
Washington. FERITAs.