Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-12


patches about the way Boston IL
FiIIinR her ouOtR.--A Curious
Scheme OF BmiErHtiOns-NoVe Pro-
eeedInBB.
We published yesterday dispatch show
ing how Boston Is filling up her quota in
the army. The following is full expIa-
nation of the dispatches, and is given by
the New York Post:
The British steamer Bellona, which left
this port on Saturday last, had few days
before quietly landed on Deer Island, in
Boston harbor, between four and Eve hun
dred men. She did not touch at any wharf
in Boston, and after leaving the men put
out of the harbor and sailed directly for
this port, bringing few bales of rags,
which constituted her entire cargo.
Two other similar trips have been made,
The first vessel came from Ireland, the
other from Hamburg. Most of the men
brought on these three vessels are now in
the Union army, though the emigraDts
from Ireland did not enter the service i'm
mediately, some of them having been pur-
shaded by their friends that they could do
better. They began their voyage to the
United States, however, with the intention
of entering the service, and their passage
WAS Idk6u WIN kuhI UNDERSTANDING. 4u6lE
failure to do az they had agreed in Boston
involved heavy loss to persons who had
paid their passage money.
The second company, as soon IS they
arrived at Boston, put on the federal uni
form, received their bounty money, and
went into the ranks; Thus providing eX-
emption from the draft for several hundred
BostoniRns, whose business engagements
did not admit of their personal service in
the field. Four hundred of the emigrants
who came on the Bellona also enteted the
service, thereby e1emPting four hundred
other Bostonisns.
A majority of these emigrants had al
ready been trained to the use of arms and
some of them had been in battle. 1t is be-
lieved that they will do good service in our
ranks.
TIE sEoRET OF TIE MOVEMENT.
The secret of this business, by which
Boston obtained substitutes, and two or
three persons obtained large amount of
money, was at first we'll kept.
But it finally got out; desperate man,
a Servian by birth, who arrived on board
the BaIIona, and was afterwards brought
to this city, has divulged the scheme
to several INSCRIPTIONS individuals who
say they are lawyers, but who possess
neither ability nor learning, and are with
out character orlinfence-yetithey promise
him that they will get money for him; and
expect to get more for themselves, if he
puts the case in their hands.
The New York shsrpers are unwilling
THAT the gains OF the Boston men should
be 30 much, and their own 30 little; and
threaten to put an end to this kind of en-
igrstiou by goiog to Europe and making
Representations about it unless the Bosto-
mans pay them for keeping silence.
HOW TIE EMIGRANTs WERE GATHERED.
A part of the story of this curious emf
grafton scheme is not secret, but it ia
novel and interesting. The men who came
in the BelonR were of different natiouali-
ties, but were collected in Belgium under
the direction of Julian Allen, formerly
colonel of the we'll known organization
called the "Polish Legion" of this city-R
regiment which it was proposed to recruit
at the beginning of the war among the
Polish refugees in this country-but its ranks
we're not filed in time and the men were
consolidated into other regiments. Mr..
Allen went abroad to assist his country
meu in their late struggle for indepen-
dence, and he is now doing what he can for
American interests.
Six hundred men were gathered within
three weeks, and constant accessions were
made to their numbers. 1t was not diff
cult TO collect them. The people of Eu-
rope are acquainted with the efforts ma
king here TO obtain recruits; any many
persons, desiring to come to this country,
frequently make application to our consuls
surprising, not unuaturally, that some
facilities for transportation hither might be
afforded by our diplomatic representatives,
but those officers, in accordance with the
instructions of our government, reject the
| proposals.
When, however, it became known at
Antwerp recently, that Mr.. Allen would
receive persons and send them across the
ocean, the tidiugs were quickly conveyed
to the principal cities near the seaboard of
| the continent; and Immediately men came
from all directions. They walked about at
Antwerp 10 crowds. A part of them were
so much elated with the prospect of going
| to America, that they marched in process
sions, carrying rags to represent banners,
on long sticks like fsgstafs, much to the
sstonishmeut of some of the towuspeople
and the amusement of others, who thought
new society had suddenly sprung into
existence, and that raggamuffiDs were the
only members.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.
The Belgian government would not per.
nit the examination of the emigrauts with
out careful embsrkatiou Of them, and
the signing of a contract by each person,
which was to be a certificate that he went
at his own desire. This paper Tor copy
Of it, was to be left with the customs Off
GERS, else the necessary clearance for the
| vessel could not be obtained
The contract bound the signers, when
they should arrive at the United States, to
do whatever might be required of them;
and all the men were asked by the officers
if they understood what the contract i'm
piled, and if they we're willing to abide by