SOUTHERN NEWS: CONDITION OF THE PRISONERS; ANOTHER PLOT DISCOVERED (2/13/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/13/1864

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From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 8.

For several days past the Government has been in possession of facts that hinted, beyond a doubt, to the existence of a secret organization Of disloyal men, having for its object the forcible release of the Yankee prisoners held at the Libby and on Belle Isle, the assassination of the President, and the destruction of the Government buildings and workshops located here.

We find the following interesting intelligence our late Richmond files, the receipt of which we have already acknowledged:

Capt. MACCUBBIN, chief of the detective corps, was assigned the duty of penetrating the mysteries of the case, and threading the details through the labyrinths of rumor to their head and source. That official put the matter into the hands of two of his most experienced detectives, Messrs. REESE and MITCHELL, who immediately set to work, and, on Saturday night, they arrested, at his house, on Seventeenth-street, between Main and Franklin, a German named A.W. HEINZ, a baker, upon the charge of being a prominent member of the treasonable association. He was further more charged with inciting Confederate soldiers to mutiny and the assassination of the President. The detectives seized along with HEINZ a great number of the most important papers, including the roll of membership of the organization, and documents of such a character as to leave no doubt of his crime, and the criminality of others. The documents were taken possession of yesterday by Gen. WINDER, who ordered HEINZ to be placed in secure quarters at Castle Thunder, and to allow him no communication whatever with any outside parties.

HEINZ, the reputed ringleader, has always been looked upon as a disloyal man, and his associates in treason are all pretty much of his own character and social standing.

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Southern News: Condition of the Prisoners – 2-4
General Butler’s Department: A Bloody Tragedy, Almost – 4, 6
From Washington: The Deficiency Bill Considered in the Senate – 6
Proceedings of Congress: House of Representatives – 6-7
News from Tennessee: The Situation in East Tennessee – 7
From Mississippi: Natchez and its Defences – 7
Department of the South: Reoccupation of Jacksonville, Fla., by Our Troops – 8
The War in Arkansas: Condition and Station of the Rebel Troops – 8
The Army of the Potomac: Additional Particulars of the Late Fight at Morton’s Ford – 8-9
Editorial: Unreasonable because Unreasonable – Mr. Sumner’s Proposition – 9-10
Editorial: The Present and Prospective Strength of the Rebel Armies – 10-11
Editorial: the Conscription Bill as Passed – 11
The Scatteration Policy Again – 11