Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-05
To the Editor Of the Hartford Courant.l
The Important Arrest In Hartford.

| My attention was called Friday morning TO an
article in the Coursnt headed Important Arrest
which in trivial details is correct but In the grave
charges It involves must not 60 unanswered. The
facts are these:
One Fisher, an officer Of q Tennessee bank, re-
moved Its funds upon the entrance of our forces into
Tennessee. short time ago he offered to return
the money las understood) If he could be pardon
ed, and much sharp correspondence ensued between
Gov. Brownlow and himself on this matter. Fisher
in the end absconded, and happened to be seen by
Mr.. Kan, not long since in Augusta, Ga and they
merely exchanged salutations as they passed each
| other. Mr.. Kahn came lately from Savannah 70
New York by sea, and on board Of the vessel was
Dr. Morton, who resembled Fisher, and during the
voyage Mr.. X. lent Dr. Morton ten'dolars for per-
sonal expenses. DR.. NJ left the vessel at Fortress
Monroe. 1t seems that some informer has suggested
to the military authorities at New York, who are
seeking for Fisher, and think that he has come Ia
Connecticut that Mr.. Kahn knows where he is, and
has thus mixed him up in the swindling transaction
Mr.. Kahn arrested, as the officer stated, to give
information on this point. Mr.. Kahn is as innocent
of the defalcation as myself He like thousands OF
others at the South has been engaged in the rebel
lion, and like them has returned TO his duty Once
at the South, and again al New York, be has taken
the oath of allegiance since Lees surrender and has
his pardon through the proper officials at Washing
ton, from the President with whom he was formerly
fSsolS 10 sui TO0SfA S''b bfospsry
JOHN BRocKLEsBY.
Mr.. Brockesby, az we understand il, Is the broth.
er-in-law of Mr.. Kahn, though in this we may be
mistaken There are other letters in Knoxville
from Mr.. Kains relatives in the East which give
this same version There is no truth in It. Fisher
pretended to negotiate with for terms to return to
aht,il1 al H., L.
terms of Others who accepted, Fisher absconded
from Augusta taking with him one keg belonging
to the Bank Of Tennessee, containing 100000. Mr..
kain was with Fisher in the South and lust before
his late arrest was with him in New York Thew
know each other well, but we know of no intimacy
between them, more than we suspect.
Kahn was indicted by the Grand Jury of this
county for his connection with an infamous drum
head court martial, which, three years ago last No
vember, hung three innocent Union men-Haun
and the two Harmons. He was also indicted by
the same jury for treason against The State and he is
here to stand his trial for these oenses President
johnson was neighbor Of these murdered men
they were Of his county Of Greenland they were
formerly engaged in political life with the Pres
ident Kahn never was, for he was a whig. No
man went into this rebellion who was more anxious
to capture and hang johnson than WAS this man
Kahn Kahn was m exceedingly bad man, and was
the cause of Union men being tied up and whipped
in this town. He was the cause of having Tarwster,
of this county, shot, although Tsrwater was Fed.
eral soldier. Kahn was the provost marshal who
drove Snaps family out of Blountville, and rob-
bed them of all they had. He showed no quarters
to Union families whose husbands had gone into the
Federal army, the Federal lines for protec-
ton.
Aware of his perilous condition, in the hands Of
those he has imprisoned, whipped and plundered he
but the other day offered the sentinel guarding him
bride Of three hundred dollars aud his cutch If he
would allow him to escape. If this man Kahn is al.
lowed to go free or TO come out on bail, we advise
the Federal and civil authorities 10 open oil their
prisons and let all go. Even turn jeff Davis out,
for he Is n better man than Kahn The Union men
of East Tennessee, who have been imprisoned,
whipped and plundered by Kahn, and whose rela-
tives have been hanged and otherwise cruelty MUIR
dered, will settle the tao points in his case If he ia
turned loose here