Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-04-21


ter's flee, where be died. Mr. Swim lived some
where ar Casey, in Clark county, where he leaves
wife aud three children Hti spoken OF by all as
having been al excllent soldier and a good citizen
| William II Hart, Deputy Provost MAJ shal was shot
in several places in the head and vitas his wounds
are probably mortal. James Goodrich, company @,
9th Illinois, received a shocking wound being shot in
the bowels Il wound, we lear, will prove mortal
Unarmed as boys were, Col. Mitchell soon raj.
lied all be could, ctZ and soldiers, and improvising
such could be bad, gathered at the southwest
corner of the square, the insurgents reteated down
the street. running east therefrom. Dispatches we're
sent TO Mattoon for soldiers and three hundred were
| soon the way The in urgents halted somewhere
Mrs. DicksOls, and renamed for time, then
turned and went off Beyond j. Ii. o Hairs residence
they gathered together consulted for time, and then
moved off in northerly direction, cutting the tele
graph wires rs they went, unortura y before dis
patch could be sent to DR.. Yorks family at Paris,
| giving notice Of bis assassination.
A bout five o'clok k the renforcements from NATION
| arrived, aud while in the Court House yard, Mr.. John
Cooper, from Salisbury captured and brought in
as prisoner, by Mr. w. III. Noe, and soldier. MIR.
Cooper had taken tctive part III tie atray when
in front of Jenkins store be attempted TO escape, and
when commanded to halt refused to do So whereupon
Mr. Noe fired over Mr.. Cooper's head, who in return,
hreda at some OF our when orders given to fire
upon him, which done, and he tell dead at Jenkins
door, Unfortunately of the balls passed through
the closed door and struck Mr.. Jno Jenkins in the
groin, producing serious and probably mortal wound.
Mr. Cooper was shot through the neck AMI shoulder
When the insurgents halted Mrs Dickson's,
he heard to say that they now had no leader be
ready TO lead them back and kill the soldiers
and burn the town, die In the attempt and at
rous places he heard to threaten to cut out the
carts of The - Abotionists" and krdred ex.
pressions.
How many there were of the insurgents do not
know nor can we estimate the lumber save by the
szo of the squads that rereated in several directions
We think there may have been from hundred to
one hundred and fifty, and all mounted. Who their
leaders were we do not know precisely j. FL. O'Hair
Sheriff of this county to fire three times at
the soldiers John Frazer, while sitting on his horse,
to deliberately fire five times at them, and
then leave. Others of less prominence were equally
| warlike.
The st. Louis Democrat says:
1t is nothing that in many portions of Illinois,
particularly the southern portion, there have existed
the most dangerous element The worst kind OF Cop.
perheads to be found there. Not only are resident
lllinoisans to be found amorg them, but considera
bic number of dangerous characters properly belong ing
to this State have taken shelter there where they have
found congenia company, and would not be likely to be
closely watched by the military authorities here
We have not failed to give timely warning, as far as
we had the ability, of the movements of these men,
ling our Union neigh ghbors the river to be
heir guard against them. Ehis warning is more
appropriate than at the present time. The Presidents
amnesty proclamation has brought rebels in large
bers among us from the enemys lines, many of whom
may find it agreeble to extend their travels to points
where they are not 30 we'll known as here.
Another letter from NATION, dated the 3lst ut,
says:
Throughout last night and all of this morning the ex-
citement continued among our citizens, and The most
vigorous measures i0 progress to resist the ap
pretended attack but 1t that the capture OF the
spy last night of more Importance in military
point of view than at first believed He ia
ken in a suspicious locality, and at owned his
mission On being pressed ne gave full information
relative to the position of his friends stating there
large force of them at Windsor, in Shelby coun-
ty, about eight miles west of this place. the Terre
Haute and Alton Railroad, and also at Copnims
Mills, few miles south. His aggregate numbers, in
some instances as high as fifteen hundred
Yesterday, it is positively known, the Ii surgens
near Windsor took vote in their camp and unani-
mously resolved, with much enthusiasm, to move at
once on NATION and release the prisoners. |
The failure of their scout, above named to return,
dampened their ZEAL and when it became known that
he arrested the leaders of the gang became fright
ened, and after much hesitation, the whole movement
was given up.
The Copperbead party from Neoga twelv5 miles
below this place, have returned home telling their
neghbors that there five thousana Federal soldiers
Mattoon, and that it to try to release the
prisoners wise conclusion, bnt accepted little too
late for some of these fellows.
The th Indiana ordered here from Indianapolis have
left for Cairo route for New Orleans, there being
adequate force here without them. he 4lst Illinois,
Colonel Pugh who ordered here by telegram from
Camp Bever, have gone into barracks, and will const
'tute Tie garrison IO snort Ine 1nere is no uOuDt
that the thirty Copperhead 10 custody will not
only be held but will have plenty of company. Pr-
sOners are continually coming in. Everything lndt-
Gates the murdet0us and re5eOs intent Of these
who lacked only numbers to continue open they
bad begun. Last night the body OF of our suttlers
found the railroad track shot through the head.
The most intense I'M gnaion prevails among the loyal
men, and many, of before doubtful procvites, have
got their eyes opened to the real inents of their
ciates.
DR.. Shubal York. of the 4th Illinois regiment, MUIR
dered in the first outbreak at Charleston, spoken
of the Union candidate for Congress in the seventh
district, in place of John r. Eden. The Copperheads
claim that the original disturbances grew out of some
heated remarks Of the deceased called cut by Edens
assault upon him in speech to the meeting held at
Charleston on Monday Dr. York gallant and
estimable and officer and connected with the
regiment from the time of its first organization at Anna
in 1861. The main part of the 54th regiment, as be-
fore stated in your dispatches was here at that time,
but was forthwith sent to the scene of the affay.
The Copperheads at the very outset Of the disturb
cut the wires East of Charleston with the design
of preventing aid being summoned from Indiana, but
in this they failed Help enough has been received
from all quarters utterly to the insurgents who are
disbandng more rapidly than they assembled 1t will
doubtless appear whether they have discharged all
the debt they owe the Government by sinking
home. The Union men of this sectoa insist that the
Government shal take such will rid this
section of the pestent gang of home rebels whose
treason has been declared and placed within reach
of punishment. Mattoon citizens will forget how
sear the war came home to them.
The Chicago Tribune has the following article on I
the affair:
Both Coles and Edgar counties furnish striking proof
and warning all other counties IN the State that 60
local Office can safely be entrusted to dsloya men,
Two meaner tools of the rebellion cannot be found in
ro;o %Lo ipfa Nm