The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-07-28

10 ouiS 10 CHiiSVhiaS is COiuinH.- Ie
has seen his men---two hundred, pick.
ed, and every one clamoring for
pickings. Hines, who carries tho
bag, is to give him ten thousand
greenbncks, to stop their mouths and
stuff. their pockets, at nine ipAAhe.
morning. f f.1 hro. ~
"And, tomorrow night, welt have
them, sure2 And, how say you, give
you shackles and a dungeon ?',r asks
the Commandant, his mouth wreath
ing with grim wrinkles o5sp. si,3sgs,
Anything you like. !, ANYTHING to
blot out my record Of tredsony's7cs. ~
He has learned tho words-they'
are on his heart, not to he raiHcd cut
forever. '-.'le 7ns! 80 2, u!9
When he j. ,syne. w,s sr,a A.. ..,ss,O
room goes the Commnndant, as Is his
fashion. lie is playing a desperate
game. The stake is awful. He holds
the ace of trumps-but shall lie risk
the game uponY At half past eight
he sits down and writes o dispatch To
his General. In it he says: bsl,sisA
"My force is, as you know, too
weak and. much oyerworked@Aonly
eight hundred men, all told, to guard
between eight and nine thousand
prisoners. am certainly not JUST.
fed in waiting to take risks,N and
mean TO arrest these officers, ifpos-
siblc, before morningn I DO 7sdmla
The dispatch goes off, hit. still the
Coumandant is undecided. H. he
strikes tonight, Hines may escape,
for the fox has hole out OF town,
and may keep under cover until
morning. He is the king devil md
much the Commandant wants to cage
him. Besides, he holds the bag, and
the Texan will so out of prison
pcnniless man among strangefs.-
Those ten thousaut greenbaekslnre
lawful prize, and should be the couu-
try's dover with the maidcn,y But
are not republics gratefully Did not
one give mansion To Gen. McCIei-
Ian 7 All! Capt. Hines, that Svas
lucky for you, for, beyond q doubt,
it saved yonr bacon NOOL x o
The Commandaiit goes back ~
camp, sends for the police. and gets
his blue coats realty. loAtatwo'o'elock
they swoop TO The prey, and before
dayhreak a hindred1birais aresin.thc
talons Of the eagle Such, another
haul of buzzards and night hawks
never was made since, Gabriel Gagged
the devil and the dark, angels :
AT the Richmond House Grcnfell
was taken in bed with the Texan -
They were clapped into irons, and
driven or to Tho prison together. A
fortnight later, the Texan, relating
these details to stranger, while tho
+ Commandant was sitting by at his
desk writing, said: 20
"Words cannot describe my relief
: when those handouts ,wero put upon
us. At times before, the sense Of re-
sponsibility almost overpowered me.
Then | felt like q man, who has Just
, come into fortune Tic wonder To
me now is, how the Colonel could
have trusted so much to q rebel"
, "Trusted r. exclaimed the Com.
. mandant, looking upirom his writing
II had faith in you;oI thougt you
wouldn't betray mo; butlI trusted
: your life in your own hands, that was
p all. Too much was Mt stake to do
more. Your every step was shadow
ed, foom the moment you LEFT this
I, camp till you came back to it in irons.
. Two detectives were continually at
G your back, sworn 70 take yonr life if
) you wavercd for half a second.
!, "Is that true asked tlie 'TexaH
D in musing way, but withent imov-
Q ing muscle. sdidultknowit, but
felt il in The .nir!n1r4o
Q In the room at the Richmond honsc
on the table around which they dis
cusscd their hellish plans, was foand
e slip of paper, and on it, in pencil,
I was scrawled the following,;sdnrh
! CoLoSEL; Your maa leave this
= house t0-nght. Go to the Briggs
| House tonight. 'n'f j. ffEnDiSi.
Q Fielding was the assumed name Of
- the rebel who burrowod with Hines
t ont of town, where not even his fellow
= llends could find him. Did the old
iox scent the daneer2 I1seyona n
q doubt he did Another day aud, the
J, camp might have been sprung upon
a little too suddenly! SO the Com
: mandant was none too soon and who
o that reads this can doubt that ithro'
Il it all he was led andogaided by the
good l'royidence tnat guards his
/ country. r..r 4..-.ii,
K But what said Chicago, when il
! awoke ia the mornina2' Let one OF
h it's own organs answsGi3lahirads
1t IA shivcr Of genuine horror pass
cl over Chicago Yesterday Thou
II sands Of citizens, who awokc to tho
Y peril hanging over theirls property
n and their hcais in the form or n stu
y pendous foray upon the city FROM
Il Camp Douglas, led byrehel, oilicers
in disguise, and conc9cted by home
. coppcrheads, wRbsc heuscs had been
g converted into rebel iarscnals, ,lwert
Y appalled, aS though an earthquake had
0 opened at their. iecta Zoo +niNt
g Who can picture the horror 10 follow
: the letting loose of 9,0DO reidi pfis
ii oncry np6n Sleeping city, alfNNcon
,, sciors of tho coming sa,alHche
With arms aud alpiulitiom stored nj
IcouycUiont locations, With. Conlydrr
G atcs distfibntGd here aud There ready
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