, 1864-12-29
from MONTREAL.

FROM MONTREAL.
Recapture OF Five OF The Ra!ders-A
Raider, also Captured
lFron the Mont1ea, Herald, s4th.l
The recapture Of five OF the raider8 dis
charged from custody By the decision of Mt.
Justice Coursol which for day or two was
involved IN doubt and in the case of those
captured at Rcviere du Loup denied, was
yesterday set beyond conjecture By the ap-
pearance Of the fire as prisoners before Mr.
CRED from various sources tho particulars at
tending the arrest Of the raiders. The names
Of those captured arc sBenuett =. Young,
their1eadcr, VIM. H. Hutchinson, Squire Tur-
ner Teavis, Marcus Spur, and Charles Moos
Swager, and the individual who was aFrossed
In Quebec, we believe at the came time With
Spur and Swager, who gave his name as Jo-
seph Buttcrwofth. He denied having been
engaged In the st. AlbnnB mid, but ut Tue
same time said he was kentuckian and IN
officer in the Confederate service, on his way
to Halifax. Spur, swaEer and @ bqtterWof5a' " 3,
lice Of that city-Mr. Bureau, and Detective
D. Rosa. They were not armed, nor was
there anything specially calculated to excite
suspicion found on their persons. They we're
held until Mr. Payette, the jailor, reached
Quebec from this city, he having gone there
day he arrived in Quebec, and at once rccog-
nized Spur and Swager as Two Of the four
teen discharged raiders; but Butterworth, ho
testified, Was not enc ofthose fourteen. They
were brought 10 this city On Thursday night,
in the custody of Chief OF Police Bureau, Of
Quebec, and taken to jall at once.
Chief Mclaughlin, Of the Goyesnmsnt Eo-
lice Force, Of this city, on Tuesday, the 18th
pstant., proceeded to Quebec, asmed with
the wariant of the Honorable Justice Smith,
to arrest the liberated raiders or any Of them
that might be found. Without delay he pro-
Quebec Water Police, three Of whom he de-
tailed at L'Islet, and othcrsnt different points
along the road to Riyiere du Loup. He moy-
ed about for some days between these points
and also secured the country for some distance
inland. On the Goth instant, while IN CONVEX
sutton with furmtr as to the direction Of the
principal country roads, he carried him three
roads ahead towards theprincipal roads to st.
Johns, New Brunswick. One Of these leaves
the railroad at LIslet and the other at Riviere
du Loup, and third at point intermedtate
between the other two. he further learned
that these three roads united 81 d point about
sixteen miles distant, and found the main road
to- St. Johns New Brunswick, in the parish of5t
Francois. He then asked the habitants if
there was any point on the road where he
could command view Of everything that
passed, md wns told that ut the house Of
man named Fournier, who was combination
of farmer and au6ergtste, he would be able to
see any person whs passed towards st. Johns
by that route. The Chiefat once took three
men and hiring two sleighs proceeded at once
to Fournier's house. They kept vigilant
lookout during the entire night, oyerhauling
between eleven and twelve the mail stage and
everything that passed, Without success.
~ IL. 81 4hn fail aox~4 n3y.
gle slcighs with two men in one and three in
the other came along. The men, except the
drivers, were covered up with buffaloes, the
weather being cold. The Chief suspected
that they were the parties be Was in search Of
ard having overhauled the sleighs discovered
n the foremost Young, with the driver and
Hutchinson, and Teayls with the driver In tho
prised 10 find Chief Constable Mclaughlin
ahead of them, three hundred miles from
Montreal and gave expression to that sur
prise. They however, made no resistance
and told Chief Mclaughlin they were un-
armed which proved to Be the case. About
81 ,OCO In gold VAS found In the possession of
the three OF them, and on the person OF Ben
nett b. Young passport duly signed, certi-
fyjpg that !" jas. Irwin" was British sub
ject. Their horses we're capital travellers,
and had they succeeded in eludiug the yigi-
lance Of Chief Mclaughlin, they would have
iM ahon, 1 95 ~ afl miles distant YonnG dec1sr.
I'd that thai he w would have run his horse Of bis
legs before lie would be captured, and In the
woods 1aoo sA'6e'n''' "'"A' '"'' sA ~ lD0
Nv Mel auoh,{r orr,rei1 in this cfty ycsscr.
aor viii hfs e. nt;vcs who wer,. Construed 10
ihS iaiI tn awpit tie action OF Ills Honor
:IndTc Smith.
Tie Chief of the Government Police in Ct.
fcctiug so successfully the capture Of the
three men in q country so open as that in