Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-02-19
trOW the SaCrtIHeHIU WHO'LL
Bill for Government of States

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-THE bill reported yes
terday to guarantee certain States whose Govern
ments have been overthrown q republican form
of government, provides for the appointment Of
provisional Governor who shall have enrolled
all the white male citizens of the State and desig-
nate those who take the oath of allegiance and
if those taking the oath shall be onetenth of
those enrolled, the said Governor can call Con-
vention to declare the will of the people. In
forming new State Government no person shall
be eligible to Office who has ever voluntarily
borne arms against tho Government, or held civil
or military office under any usHrping power.
The Convention shall adopt in the State Consti'
tuition the following propositions lst-No per-
son who has held exercised any Office, civil or
military State or Confederate, under q usurping
power, shall vote for or be member Of the Leg
stature or Governor. 2d-Involuntary servitude
shall be forever prohibited and freedom for all
persons shall be guaranteed in said State. 3D.
No State or Confederate Office created by or un.
der the sanction of usurping power shall be re-
cognized or paid by the State. Provision is made
for submitting this new Constitution to the peo-
pie, and if adopted, the President, by proclama.
ton, or Congress- by legislation, can declare the
said State in the Union. 1t further provides that
any person who shall hereafter hold or exercise
any civil or military office in the rebel service,
State or Confederate, shall be declared not to be
a citizen of the United States.
The Escape of Union Prisoners.
BALTIMORE, Feb 1.-THE escaped Union pris.
oners have arrived here. The account of their
escape is full of thrilling interest but for pruden.
tial reasons many particulars are withheld from
publication. They were fifty-o days making a
tunnel Their instruments were caseknives,
pocketknives chisels and files. They had to
abandon the work and commence again on &C.
count of distractions which they could not pass.
They disposed of the excavated soil by drawing
it out Of the hole in a spittoOn, which they at
tached to u cord This would be filed by the
party at work in the tunnel, and pulled out into
the cellar by their companions, who disposed Of
it by spreading it in shallow layers on the floor
and covering it with straw. The work was neces.
sarily slow. 80 close was the atmosphere in the
tunnel that they could remain in 1t but a short
time, when the candles would go out. At one
time they got so near the surface that small hole
was broken through. Fortunately it was not dis.
covered, and was of the greatest use in admitting
light and air in the tunnel When completed the
tunnel was about sixty feet long, and opened into
an old tobacco shed, beyond the line of guards
As soon as they found the way clear, they went
out slowly, in small squads, making their way
towards the Williamsburg road as fast as posi-
BILE. Darkness favored them; and the fact that
rebel soldiers whom they met were clad in the
army coats of Uncle,,Sam which they had stolen,
was of the greatest help to them. Although
many of them had haversacks with them, they
found the National uniform a better disguise than
if they had been provided with rebel uniforms.