Posted on 11/13/2023 5:21:17 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
BUFFALO, Thursday, Nov. 12.
The following was received here to-day:
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 11 -- Midnight.
To the Mayor of Buffalo:
The British Minister, Lord LYONS, has to-night officially notified the Government that, from telegraphic information received from the Governor-General of Canada, there is reason to believe that there is a plot on foot by persons who have found an asylum in Canada, to invade the United States and destroy the city of Buffalo -- that they propose to take possession of some of the steamboats on Lake Erie, to surprise Johnson's Island, set free the prisoners of war confined there, and proceed with them to Buffalo. This Government will employ all means in its power to suppress any hostile attack from Canada; but as other towns and cities on the shores of the lakes are exposed to the same dangers, it is deemed proper to communicate this information to you, in order that any precautions which the circumstances of the case will permit may be taken.
The Governor-General suggests that the steamboats or other vessels giving cause for suspicion by the number or character of the persons on board, shall be arrested.
You will please acknowledge receipt of this telegram, and communicate to this department any information you may now or hereafter have on this subject. (Signed,) EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Thursday, Nov. 12.
It has been ascertained, on inquiry at the proper Bureau, that there are now over 2,000 rebel officers on Johnson's Island, Sandusky Bay, together with 42 others, classed as guerrillas.
Eighty officers recently captured by MEADE's army are now on the way to that place.
Several days ago there were indications, or perhaps suspicions, that the rebels on that island contemplated a combined movement
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