Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-07-08

The Detroit Tribune publishes long account
supplementary to the details already given re-
specting DR.. Blackburn's atrocious attempt to
introduce yellow fever into Eastern ports. The
IriJune's narrative is based the confessions of
n man whom it calls Harris but which is not his
real name. Harris was from Helena, Arkansas,
where, having endured some hardshps at the
hands of Union troops, he became very bitter in
his feelings, and went to Toronto. There he fell
in with DR.. Luke ?. Blackburn, Confederate
agent of Mississippi. This was in the Fall of
1868. Harris met him at the Queens Hotel.
lie was introduced to Blackburn, he says, by no
other than the rebellious Rev. DR.. Stuart Robin
son, of Louisville. Blackburn preached his in
lection scheme, and promised Harris SEC, 900 if
he was successful in carrying out his plans. He
seemed rather short of money however, at the
time, borrowing money from DR.. Robinson and
others. He also received ten dollars from Mr..
Preston, manufacturer of tobacco, formerly of
Covington, Kentucky, and now in New York for
his health He next went to Montreal, and thence
TO Halifax, having with him young man from
Cincinnati, named W. ". Haynes, on his way
South. He had been sent for to go there from
Cincinnati he had foundry there, and was to
make shot and shell for the Confedcracy lived
at Covington. On the 22d of June last Harris
reached Halifax, where he met Blackburn, who
had been to Bermuda in the meanwhile He
brought five infected trunks with him, con-
tanning smallpox clothes. He told Harris to
smugge them into Boston, and take two thence
10 Washington, one TO Norfolk and to New
bern. Harris succeeded in getting into Boston
with his pestilential baggage, and sold some of
it in Washington, but was prevented from going
10 Norfolk by Buffers non-ntercourse orders.
At Newbern he sold some of the trunks, and
heard soon after of the yellow fever raging there
and wondered it did not {! take in the other
places be visited. He returned to Montreal, and
was very short Of money, but got very little aid,
him, however, 500, from his rebel acquaintan-
ces. He then went to the Canada side of the
Niagara river.
When at Niagara, McGregor, Clay, Holcomb,
Preston and DIR. Black arm said they would raise
81 900 900, bring immense quantity of clothes,
infect them with smallpox and diseases which
would rage in cold climates; yellow fever for
Southern towns send the goods to Liverpool
and tranship them from there to the various pla-
ces in the North they would employ me to SUI
perintend it all some would be distributed by
sending 81 900 worth to the Sanitary Commission
at Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and to Wash
ington Blackburn said when he was going to
Bermuda last August, that he was going to i'm
port more goods with the fever to operate more
extensively other physicians at other points
were to manage the smallpox, etc.
Harris at last began to think he had been
duped and turned against his employers. telling
the story of which have given the points.
The IrtOunc expresses us OeIlel, from cOrroO0ra-
ting circumstances, in the general truth of the
statements.
President OF WHAT while the soldiers who
caught JEFF. Davis were searching him for what
might be found, Harrison, JEFF. s Private Secre-
tary, came up, saying in very indignant tone,
" Amt you ashamed to treat our President so 2
president p replied one of the SOL
diers, I" what's he President OFF,
Should any sympathizing 'Copperhead, says
the New York Herald, object to the novel and
rather rough method of discovery adopted in this
affair by the Corporal of the guard, he may be
asked the questions, 90 What better could have
been expected from a Western Mudsill-a denizen
of that land from which emanated the uncouth
martyr of Freedom? What should he know
about chivary, and all that sort of thing p
THE KITCHEN OF HEAvEN.-The negroes of
Richmond say that Bishop Moore, of Virginia,
in addressing them GU one occasion, said, " Now,
We servants, keep your kitchen clean, make good,
light bread season and cook your meats to the
taste of your masters, and perhaps by and by
you may be admitted to the kitchen of Heaven
This is fair specimen of slareholding Chris
tianity, and unhappily of good deal OF religious