The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-27

| Inc pane ana curse OF carrying Oul
anything in this country is the sur
veillance under which we act. Detec
tives, or those ready to give informa
ton, stand at every streetcorner. Two
or three cannot Interchange idea:
without a reporter.
] DECENTRALIZATION OF THE "SoNS OF
LIBERTY.
The Presidential election has so de-
moralized the leaders of the Order
of the 'Sons of Liberty" that new
organization under new leaders has
become an abs olute necessity. This
is now going forward with great
vigor and success. The new order is
styled the "Order of the STAR There
is general expectation that there viii
soon be new draft, and the members
swear resistance to another draft. II
is purely military, wholly independent
of politics and politicians. 1t is given
out among the members that Stone
wall Jackson is the founder of the Or,
der, and the name has its significance
from the stars on the collars of tbs
Southern officers. There is no ground
to doubt that the masses, to larg4
extent, of the North, are brave and
true, and believe Lincoln a tyrant and
us1rper.
WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM.
During my stay in Canada, great
amount of property has been destroy
ed by burning. The information
brought me as tothe perpetrators isso
confiiction and contradictory that l am
satisfied that nothing can be certainly
known. Should claims be presented
at the War Office for payment for this
kind of work, not one dollar should be
advanced on any proof adduced until
all the parties concerned may have an
opportunity fo- making out and pre-,
sentiDg proof. Several parties claim
to have done the work at st. Louis,
New Orleans, Louisville, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia and at Cairo.
MYSTERIOUS PLAN.
Within the last few days, DIR. l. K.
Stewart, of Virginia, has reached this
place, and very misteriously informs
me that he has plan for the execution
of something which has received the
sanction of the President. He is in
want of money, and states to me that
you gave him draft on me for $40, 00O
in gold, which ras been lost on the way
He has sent back to Richmond for a
renewal. He has rented large house
and moved his family into it. / can
not doubt i.is word, but, of course, 1 do
not feel authorized to advance him
money without your authority or that
of the President. 1 have, however,
been constrained to advance him $500
in gold, on his written statement that,
unless the money was in hand, the
lives and liberties Of high Confederate
officers would be imperiled.
aIR. CLAY AND THE REBEL MONEY.
Owing to the health of Mr.. Clay, We
separated at Halifax, and since then We
have not lived together, although We
have been in consulting distance. A:
the money was all in my name, which
| supposed to be controlled by US joint
ly, and as he desired to have a sum
placed in his hand as at all times sub
ject to his personal control, transfer
ed to him S93, GA, for which / hold
his receipts, and for which he promises
to account to the proper authorities at
home. Including the money turned
over to Mr.. Clay, all of which he has
not yet expended, the entire expendi-
lures as yet OH all accounts is about
$500, 900. / still hold three drafts for
$1,000 each, which have rot been
collected. Should you think it best
for Inc to return, / would be glad to
know in what way you think 1 had
best return with the funds remaining
on hand.
DANGEROUS TO MANY OF THE
PROMINENT MEN IN THE NORTH"
l infer from yonr personal in the
New York Ne10s Democratic organ
Ed. Chicago Tribunel that it is your
wish that should reiuain here for the
present, and shall obey your orders.
indeed l have so many papers in my
possession, which in the hands of the
enemy, would utterly ruin and destroy
many of the prominent men in the
North, that a due sense of my obliga-
ton to them will force on me the ex-
tremest caution in my movements.
REBEL soLDIERY IN THE
NORTH.
For the future, discardiDg all de-
pendence on the organizations in the
Northern States, our efforts, in my
should be directed to
those who are conscripted in
the North, and utterly refuse to join |
the army to fight against the Confeder-
ate States, to make their way south to |
Join Our service. II is believed by many |
that a number sufficient to make up a |
division may be secured in this way |
for our service before spring, especially
4 our army opens up road to the
Ohio. Some are now on their way |
70 Corintb, which at present is the
point of rendezvous.
BURNING WHEREVER PRACTICABLE
And to operate on their railroads, and
orce the enemy to keep a guard on all
heir roads, which will require q large
tanding army at home, and to burn
shereyer it is practicable, and thus
nake men of property feel their inse
urity, and tire them out with the war.
he attempt on New York has produc-
d great panic. which will not subside
t their binding.
This letter, though long, does not,
am aware, report many things of
iinor importance which have occurred
uring my sojurn in Canada; but i
nall omit them at present. Very re-
pectfully your obedient servant,
J. THOMSON.