Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-11-10
THE REBEL PLOT AT CHICAGO.
Confession of Chas. Walsh-Details
of the Plan-The Polls
to be Invaded.
The Prisoners at Camp Douglas to be
Set Free--The City to be
Laid in Ruins.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Elswhere we give an account OF the ar
rest of Charles Walsh on charge of trea-
son. The ex Sergeant alarms has made
clean breast OF it. He is terrified at the
extent OF his crimes, now that sober sec
ond thought supcrvenes on the excitement
of cons piracy. The confession is perfectly
dsmniug. duplicating large numbers of
Copperheads in this city, leading members
of the Invinchle Club. some of them
candidates OIL the Copperhead ticket. lie
confesses to all: yea to much mo'e than
was supposed. We hope to be able to
publish his confession in full tomorrow;
the following are the lesling features in
the conspiracy, to which he admits him
self to have been not an unimportant
party
Walsh admits that the mine should
have been sprang two weeks ago, but for
various reasons the execution of the plot
was postponed till election day. The
plan was the very same at first as subse
quently, except as to interfering with the
election. The internal scheme as last
shaped was follows:
a force of about 400 men-K. G. C.s
--bushwhackers anil guerillas. were to be
assembled here. and with them an attack
should have been made on Camp Douglas
last evening for the purpose OF lii'erating
the rebels confined there. Walsh, with
$50 men, was to assault the east side OF
the camp, and another man whose name
we may not now furnish. with go. wa tn
take the west side. The operation to be
superintendent by Marmaduke. who should
have the remaining 30 men rs reserve
corps ready to sct where wanted. The
programme was to break down the fence.
and stampede the 120U0 prisoners who
were all ready for the work. having been
informed Of it in some way best known to
themselves. The prisoners were to be
armed as rapidly as possible, the garrison
secured. and the garrison made prisoners.
This. it was believed. could easily be done
if the attack were made as concerted. and
indeed there is little room to hope that it
would have been otherwise than successful
had it not been nipped in the bu! by
premature exposure Of the whole scheme.
With Marmaduke at their head. the
rebels were to march into the city, and
take possession Of the Court House and
square the base of offensive operations.
Fhey were then to take possession Of the
polls, voting in each precinct. and
preventing the deposition in the ballot
boxes Of any other than the McClelas
ticket This being accomplished. AMI
majority in the State thus secured. they
were to proceed at once to the work of
destruction. All the banks were to be
robbed, the stores Quilted, and then fire set
to the principal building; for the purpose
Of controlling this latter phase of the
business, the water-plugs had oil been
Masked. aId force detailed TO set the
water running so as to empty the mains
and exhaust the water supply. The
telegraph wires were to be cut on the first
onset, AMI then fire set to the Railroad
depots. the elevators. the shipping. &c
The persons of the leading Union men in
the city were to be seized, and they. with
the plumber. marched off Soui Inward.
1t was relieved that with this force OF
nearly $4,000 men the city could be so
quickly overwhelmed as that effective
opposition would be impossible and that
they conld then. under their leader,
Marmaduke. march in any direction with
perfect impunity.
The scheme was well cencocted. It
lacked only one essential-a successful
Issue. Thank Providence that it was
denied than. They had assembled here,
as per programme. and had the arrests
been delayed single day it would have
been too late--the oft-repeated threat
would have been executed, and rivers of
blood would have run in the streets Of
Chicago. No one can doubt thai, had
they Cncc commenced active operations
they would have been joined by a
sufficiently large number of Chicago
disloy alists to have made clean sweep
of the city and reduce it to . heap Of
ashes.
Walsh is completely unmanned--brc-
ken down by his snflden arrest. the CON-
plete exposure Of the reasonable conspi-
racy into which he has been led. made The
dnpe of persons more designing than him
self, who have manufactured ont of him q
genuine cat's-paw. He evidently fells
that his only chance Of safety is to make
clean breast of the whole matter, and
expose the villains who have overpersuaded
him into this net He now sees the deep
guilt of the transaction and the depth of
the gulf on whose brink lie has been toy
ing.
Marmaduke has made partial confess
sion. or rather q series OF admissions,
which Sc far as they 60. fully sabstanti-
ates Mr.. Walsh's statements. and leave
no doubt that the conspiracy was fully as
in its character as is represented
above. He has made these statements to
q man who formely served under him, and