The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-26
DAILY LEADER
me YELLOW FEYER PLOT


Additional aud Startling DesafIs-sVhe
statemezt Of BIaekbarns Aeeom-
p~nee--stuart B0bsmsOa sud DOViPG.
tOn Hebels KhOW1ng Of the CORspI-
Tsey.
The Detroit Tribune publishes Q Ions &C
count supplementary 70 the detAils We
have already given respecting Dr.. Blsck
burns atrocious attempt 70 introduce y6-
I low fever into Eastern ports. The Tn
bulSs narrative Is based on the confession
OF q man whom II calls Harris, but which
lena Arkansas, where, having endured
come hardships at the hands Of Union
troopa, be become very bitter in his feel
ings and went 70 Toronto. There he iell
in with DR. Luke Blackburn, Confederate
agent Of Mississippi This was in the fall
Of 1868. Harris met him at the Queens
Hotel. He Wa introduced 10 Blackburn,
he says by no other than the rebellious
Rev. DR.. Stuart Robinson, Of Louisville
hlalkburn brOachsd ms detection tcneme,
and promised Harris 500. 900 if he EHs sue
oessiul in carrying out his plans. Heseem-
ed ,ather short Of money, however; at the
time, borrowing money from DR.. Robinson
aud Others. He also received $40 from .
Mr.. Preston, q Manufacturer of tobacco,
formerly Of Covington, KY, and now in
New 70 K for his health. BE next went
TO Montreal, and then 10 Halifax, having
with him 3 young maj from Cincinnati
named w. W. Haines, on his way South.
de had been sent for 10 go there from I in-
ciDnsti he had = foundry there, and wa
to make shot and shell for the O~onfedeTscy
lived st Covington. Ga the 22d of June
last Harris reached Halifax, where he met
Blackburn, who had bsen to Bermuda in
the meanwhile. He brough five infected
trunks with him, one containing smallpox
clothes. He told Harris 70 smuggle them
into Boston, aud take two thence TO Wash
ington, one to Norfolk, and one TO New
bern. Harris succeeded ia getting into
Boston with his pestilential baggage, and
sold some of it in Washington, bat was
prevented from going to Norfolk by But
ler's non intercourse orders. At Newborn
be sold some Of the trunks, and heard soon
afIer of The yellow fever rigging there, and
wondered it did not take in the other
places he visited. He returned to Mon
tresl, and was very short of money, but
got very iJle aid, except in promises, Js-
cob Thompson giving him, however, $50,
from his rebel acquaintance. He then
went to the Canada side Of the Niagara
river.
When at Niagara, McGrsgor, Clay,
Holcomb, Preston and DR.. Blackburn said
they would raise 100000, bring an i'm
nense quantity of clothes, infect them with
pOK and diseases which would rage
In cold climates; yellow fever for South
ern towns; send the goods to Liverpool
and tiGnship them from there to the to the
various places in the North they would
me to superintend it all; some
would be distributed by sending $1,000
worth of goods t0the SAINT ~ Commission
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and
from Washington Blackburn said when
he wa going t. Bermuda last August that
he wss going to import more goods with
the feyUr to operate more extensively
other physicians at other points were TO
manage IN small pox, "etc.
Harris at last began to think he had been
dupsd and turned against his employers,
the story of which we have given
The points. The Tribune expresses its be-
lie from c~orroborsting circumstances, in
The general truths Of of his statements.