The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1862, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. —=—— PRICE TWO CENTS. “WHOLE NO. 9307, a NEW YORK, WEDN#SDAY, MARCH 5, 1862.—-TRIPLE SHEET. ns > ne ane THE PRESENT AREA OF THE REBELLION. POOP PI OA NRA DOI AAAI PAPEL RANI DOOD ELD IROL DONS The Loyal States and Territories of the Union in White, the Disloyal in Black. ¢ | th = FOATCIESG RR ITD DIAN 9 ~——- Riven ToWsN x eX TA) s Se }. ‘ ae Ee Se FORT MOULTRIE: AiG r\ 3 : ae rORT SUMTER = AYA % : a 3 § : : re PORT ROYAL ENTRANCE \ K é pei > \-FORTS WALKER & BEAURE! ORTS PULASKI a VACKSO SERNAN DIN aaiFORTS CAPRON EM HUH} THR RT HARRISONY ' SADE ORT MEV ERS Bk 0 Fouansorre Hane 68m fie : SSS a oe eee oat ; —— Sa FORT C SIATAMORAS. = : . POINSETTY APE SABLE Vi DRIA® “ite, wa ME cor oS INTERESTING SOUTHERN INTELLIGENCE, | poimtment as Avcistant Sorgeom. Yn this ko was not { was marcned from the jail, doubly handeuffe!, ag well ws | Pee ane oan, Successful, but he was elected Second Lieutenant of Com- | some others, to James Thomas’ tobacco house, on Main | three, gunce vials, abd $ r ce vials, and pl ED SCALE OF MILES” Lefaucheux & Bro:., Par.”” It may be hero remarke"t volt CLARKSVILLE CORRESPONDENCE. that (his pistol is one of @ lot of 65,00 of a similar pat- | Cranxovnt, Tenn. Fob 19. 1862. aS bo tiie Ceradinves fico renee by Grete, Since my last letter there has baen mo change in te I ERE OS pany K, Captain Burns, and in that capacity entered tho | street, whore he obtained a breakfast of corn bread, bull | Wh, » flasks were received the Lic noey,an! which were roorives : " Tho Retreating Rebels from Columbus, &e,, to | LUM reciment. Daring the battle Lieutenant | beet weil peppered, fried fatpork and rye colfee, without his opportunity, break the flasks, throw away the | thai succeeded in running the bloc Position of affvirs at this place, save the arrival of more UMDUS, UE, Briges was voverely wounded, having his right foot | sugar or milk, Broakfast over, Lioutenant Brigge, with | jhiskey,and apply tie que fortis to his prion bars. | side. there cas a Ay ag tle 8 AN dead rebel @ | troops from St. Touis and ihe reception of large amount ar @ ! "i é if was A long, slow , todion #2, Occupying, fe, Abo ‘ " © three incl " iwate 4 Make.a ftand at Memphis-—59,000 Strong. badly maimed by & musket ball. Ho roceived other | two hundred and Afty other prisoners, took the train for | interyats daring which Liontenant B. found. eppertunity | wide. From lettering upon the cap ati! on thecnat of the | % S¥Pblies, ammunition and stores, that indicate the oc: wounds during his captivity and subsequent excape, an | Weldon,N.C., en route for New Orleans, Armong those | to work, some two months. It was executed in this mau- | rebel, it was ascertained that he had been a member of | cupancy of this place as a base of future operations. nn ~ account of which will preeently appear. who shared his captivity at this tina werethros or four | Mer:—Taking a siring of yarn Crom his woollen stocki the Second Alabama regiment, who haya won consiler- | Tho Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville rotd furnishes | Licute.ant B. would saturate the yarn with the agua | able reputation for their daring. railread communication between Bowling Green and Co- proceed noiselessly to saw away at # bar until Leaving Jackson, Mississippi, Lieutenant Briggs anid Particulars of the Upon his capture at Bull ron Lieut, Briggs was eoizod | Sixty ninth troops, the bulk boing composed of the Ver- | 7, , Escape Of | yy the hair of his bead, and pulled about halt a mile mont First, Wieconsin Second, Ohio Firet, Indiana £0 | he had sawed it though. Altogether there were some | party proceeded to'@ town callod Canton, on tho Missis. | lumbus. ‘The bridge is s beantifal stracture, fourteen Lieut. Briggs, of Opio, in that manner. His eaptors then placed him in a box | cond and Illinois Third troops. From Weldon the prison. weg aga of them Jottired a weenie jabor | Sippt — Railroad; thence to belly erring Ra pao hundred and seventy fest in length. Tt is a Howe's trass 8 4 ‘ i : ati pose, and he was watchedalmost | sippi; thence to the rand junction of the Memphis and cartand Bavled him to Manassas, At this place he ro- | ers were hurried over Capo Year river, under a strong inually. He sneceeded in makiog an aperture about | Charleston and the Miseissippl Contral. From there they he ee seven spang, rosting on stone piers, and sonted some insult from ® rebel, who called him ‘an | guard, for Wilmington, N. C.; thence to Kingaville, 8. ©.; | three feet sy rough which himself and threo | went through Jackgon, ‘Tommessce, to Wort Point, ‘Twn ‘urbished with a swing draw at the western end for the WHAT ‘THE REPELS SAY 1 PRIVATE, | adoliiionict —— ——,” when ho received a dagger | Columbia,S. C.; Miflin, Ga.; Macon, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; | fellow pi ners foally gent 5 making ae nessee, and thence (o Navhvi!lo-all by railway, without | passage of steamers, It is approached from tho east by ut (thy ft " . escape, about one o'clock, on the morning of | intervention ‘ thrust through the fleshy part of the left wrist. From ; Columbus, Ga., to Montgomery, Ala of February. His’ fellow. prisoners, “who | Lientenant Rriges was in Nashville on the 16th inst, | ° Digh earth embankmont, several hundred foot in lengily. loading from the high land back of the river. From the and Cy P ; 4 Unt eee ole! led South west the approach is by hoavy trestle work, eleven hun- Charles Blaisdell, of Ohio, algo of Company G, same reg!- | ‘not to take up arms against the Ko-cal vathern con- . , train, on ment, and Dustin Marshall, of Burlington, peivate in Com. | federacy, mor an mate Of Tent This oath was | red feot long, crossing the bottom lands that border the ly. On their arrival at tho end | pany K, same regitn After making tie aperture their | adtminiatered by Ishman J. Harris, Governor of the State, | river at an elevation of from twonty to twonty-five feet. were obliged to walk some nine | escape was vot yet red, as there was those who took it bein; Piers to respond, word for | The bridge itself was not injured by the force from the Battle and St. Charles steamers to M Charles Tilton, of Boston Manageas they took him to Richmond, under a guard o@ Curious Documents Found in the Rebel | me twenty-dve men, and on arriving at the Broad | whore they took the lake steamers Calif strect railway station an attempt was made to plac- | and reached New Urleans, via Lake Ponte! Camp. Handout upon hia wrists, but tho Tieutenant re- | moraing of the 28th of histed, and they did not then succeed in raanacling | of the lake the prisone He remained there one day, stomping at the City Hotel with bis party. They were all obliged to take an oath vate in Compan: » Viret Obio; First Li him. Hiseaptors now stacked arma, nud carried their | miles to the city, under an eecort of some three or four | WP! aed the prison yard, to be se word, kueeling. ‘They thon told Lieut. B. that if he wae | cunvoats, General Halleck having given special instrne- ¥ Thy 1 , si d rl rms is hands, fight: vi le , THE PEOPLE CONDEMNING THEIB RULERS, { prisoner to tie Richmond jail, where, by tho application | thousand rebel troops, nil sanalcarerrearins att bone then Seales ott North against thie Beath, 06 Py ees tions for Its preservation. Several lengths of tho trestlo~ avily armod with Freneh | attractinguttention, All four then n aa ‘ Of chlorofurm, they succeeded in stupifying the Lieute- | rifles, sabres, huge bowie knives, French navy pistols, &e, | road, intending to reach Jackson, MI . nant, and finally managed to get the handcuff mpom him, | TRON sceNES IN NRW ONLEANS—tTI8 NeCAYR AND rLucur, | UULO! the city they kept to the wood THE REBEL CIRCULATING MEDIUM, . | When he awoke he fougd what had decn done, discovered | On reaching New Orleans Lieutenant Brig was piaeod | furyo sugae. planta fhe sponge with which the chloroform had boen adminis. | in confinement in the parish prigon, tho tuajority of nin my be ah he mie ane aera, work, howevor, were destroyed by chopping and burn- o purchase the pistols Lientenant B. at a offering for them eighty dollars oach | i"e» 80 a8 to necessitate their ere om order bout twenty miles | inecrip of the Confocerate States, or scrip of tho bank of | t® admit of the further pansage . Toe this plantation, in a | Tennesses, Tho offer was refused, Lieat. B. stating that | can bo accomplished, if it shall ever ve Mes bie for be shown him, The rebels off and his party by ical their nm (Ceamer’s) tae rearté &e., &e. ke. : ’ ” tored, found that bis wound had b follow prisoners being sent to the l*s8 comfortable quar- vealed, and at night again pur- | the scrip they offered was of” no account in the United " ona three to five days. The swing was ean aE fustbiehbere} ibnetainec tise Ss'hact bane tertonen cee | 1 ‘of the eity calavoose, Frow the 28th of duly uball When within about aaven | States. ‘They wore then allowed to retain thelr urmo, | Out Pu'Poves, in frou ines to ius te ‘ous sda ‘od been stripped of his | tho period of his escape on the Sth of February-—a t. Briggs after an ineflectual attempt to eajole them from them, algo thrown open and saci ? jmutenant Briggs was kopt in close manded th tonant Briggs and party were forvrarded from | graph that cronses the rivor at this point was dentroyed, CAPE OF A UNION PRISONUR PROM NEW } Leutevant’s uniform, soited ae it wae, and supplied with | of over five mouths Another, ontirely new and of confinement in t ORLEANS. Goad material, His aword, | tot gis Buckeye spirit iily brouked thin restrain. He | halt Goren pistols from d ROMANTIC ITSTONY OF THE ESCAPE FROM IurAtson. | YAMCd #8 & presentation from friends, was algo taken was eontinuall cl " ive: P y under lock and key, aad although offwred | thought themseiy MENT 3 NEW ORLEANS OF A UNION PRISONER, from him. Tho Lioutenant describes the jajlasa very | more liberty ifhe would become more reconciled, ho | the scouts of the AITE! port MONTINS’ CONFINENENT.—HI3 ADVEN- | filtity place, tho floor covered with tobacco Juide, and the | Tefused ail offers of commutation. It being ned | course. The rebel #UROUS JOURNEY NorTitw. r 4 it ev d 4 the was a gentleman of medical education, he was | rest tho whole pa Shantust it, WIE Rhein Liemnean cn “ blapkcote uetit even to stand upon. There were about two | Minrelt a position in the rebel hospital, but this he alee | prison; wherenpon firiggs 0 . Lieutenant of the First Ohio | hundred and Atty confined in the joi! at this timo, foclud- | refused. The scouts then fired, regiment, tak\? prisoner at the battie of Bil run, has | ing @ large number of the New York Sixty-ninth prison. Jo the meantime Licutenant Brigge was modituing i the right leg wes Just arrived in thXs city from Now Orleans, rr ie o ther ¥ echomes of eacaping from bit bated confinement. He | able him, He returne Briggs i coe tengo eatin len suty-three when they | had come friends in the city, allowed to visit | ballentering@hout half an inch above of the . : ary fan ete Stroot College of } got him there, many of thom wounded, and groaning ail | him and convey Kim some things for his bodily eomfort, | party than a) @red, avd tho bi nd Bargesu, Now York, He left here xt | night. Officers and négroos, with clubs, woult come | Among other thitge whirkey was not coutvaband; | innumber—took to ¢ bi ing out of the war for Cineinnatt | alo 1 f but in the zine fiaeke suppoced to contain nothtng | the dead body of their ig, and tell therm to“ @Pean, you son ef & bau,’ in ec Supt 6 . 7 ti y . é nd bud whiskey waa conceaiod something better for the ia- | of the dead rebel Ligutensn’ Dative place, expecting © obiain an ap ! On phe next morning, the 234 of July, Lieutenant Briggs teresta Of p empt ve than atrychuire, and (bat was @ p . povg revelver, with six bar prison, He was naturally restive, | aceount ef themselver, Havi ; i oe sore Ci . hen of the At the westora end of this bridgo t# the village of Dan+ os, why joneral ell, at icon oreek, “f Du Kentucky, where they wore cordially received aad | Ville, which, in ordinary times, supports ® population of hospitably eutertainod. ‘They here received the | from six hundred inhabitants, It has now but rae te r fora f youn en Sa wlan te | dean fow male johabitants, one of whom has bis famhy with , fugitives from | on their homeward journey, which thoy resem cou after ashort delay, Ronchiog Louisville, the party were | Dim. ‘The reatof the people had fed after the ccoupe. the recipients of a hearty welcome from tho Provost Mar- | tion of Fort Henry by the federal forces. Their foar of ee one ee om Pe hay eae the Yankee troops is but the natural consequences of the iste there. ‘om this point Lieutenant Mriggs’ friends procested homowsrd, by way of Cincianatl wtite he { terrible aterien that have been carefully circulated camo by way of Pittsburg, arriving in this ety yestor- | throughout the South of the inhumanity and cruelty that day sagen se his — rel arg mk Plaeen characterize our treatment of the people wo meet, with t ud perils in the land ie. jantenan' A father rexiding in Massachusetts, whither jj | Whieh stories the patriotism of the South is frd. The ouledant’* purpose to repair immediately. whole South ft thus alarmed, aod apprebensive only (of #, the invent