The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-05-04
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THE GUERILLA QCANTRELL.-Th arrest of a
man, supposed TO be the noted guerilla Quan.
trell, in New York City, or. or aboutthe 18th
OF March, has been already noticed. II seems
that the police received information that the
suspected person was living in honse np
town under the name OF Hamilton and upon
receiving authority for his arrest from Wash
iugton, the officers proceeded to the house
and learned that the person known as Haml-
ton was nj dinner. The servant was told to
request him to come down as = gentleman
wished to see him. The supposed guerrilla
complied, when be was taken into custody.
The baggage of the prisoner was searched,
and number of important documents aud
letters discovered. They were subsequently
forwarded to the War Department.. The pris~
oner asked why he was arrested, and upon
being Informed that he was suspected to be
the guerrilla 0nanuell, he replied that it
was II mistake that he was not the man. He
confessed having been trooper in the Con.
federate service, but positively denied being
the guerrilla Quanlrell.
Senator Lane of Kansas, and his wife, were
telegraphed for, but on their arrival in New
York Mrs. Lane failed to positively identity
the prisoner as Quantrell, whom she had seen
while on raid through the State of Kansas.
Before seeing the accused she gave discrip.
tion of Quant-ell, witch tailed with that of
the prisoner. Tie Senator not having had
fair look at the guerrilla during the troubles
in his State was, of course, unable 10 say
whether " Hamilton !" was Quantrell or not.
Several conversations took place between
Mrs. Lane and the prisoner, but the lady was
uaable to take the responsibility OF swearing
mat he was the man who had burned down
her house in the summer of 1864.
The prisoner was sent to Washington in
irons. 1t is understood that there we're no
less than 20 indictments for murder found by
the Grand Jury against Quantrell at Lawrence
Kansas. The prisoner is man sbaut 35
years of age, with blonde complexion, pale
golden hair and beard, aud bright blue eyes
OF compact and sinewy frame, and with re-
fined manners. These characteristics are
said to be strkingly similar to those odserv-
able in Quantrell
HEATHEN RITES = FEEDING THE
DEAD.-The Chinese keep up their
heathen practices as regularly in this
land of their sojourn as in their own.
The Marysville appeal, of the 9th ult,
says: Yesterday our Chinese popula.
Lion made their annual visit to the
dead>Afeeding the dead as the Nell
can men call it, The two PARTIES
the two rival Companies=-sent out
delegations, we'll laden with commits,
sary stores, and the usual ceremonies
over the graves, where their dead
companions were buried, were per-
formed. 1t is an old custom, and we
Christians cannot "see it," We sup.
pose, however, it is oil right. We see
no. fasaa4fidfssttiieS practice, and so long
as the Celestials believe that their
dead friends are hungry, let them be
fed. There was large attendance Of
spectators at the ceremony, though
many arrived after the ceremonies
had closed. 1t had been customary
with the mourners, till last year, to
leave their roasted pigs and other eat
ablos on the graves, but this custom
has been broken up by the Diggers,
who, as soon as the Chinese leave the
cemetery, come down on the proven
der, carry it off, and have great
feast.
SIMcoE PRESENTATIONS "A correspon-
dent of the Bulletin. writing from Lew.