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(In) WoHling, looked out uf his cab window on his moriiin c trip Juno 2 li raw a beautiful young woman approaching, on tho track. llo whistled uu alarm, uml hlie t ! i lightly und gayly oil tho track lib) train was travel- - j ingto the oIIht true!:. liut it was evident to the engineer that (Im noiho (if liitt t ruin had drowned tho roar of another train ni.jiroiv hinn from behind her in this oppoHit.! direction, and that she, was una wa roof her peril. Hi) iioU'd tho several puffs tit wliito Hiioko tliat swiftly arotw from tlm locomotive bearing down iixm her, but she evidently hoard not tho whistle's frvipidit warning of danger. H'PP W'w hi rdi'i'ith WiiHrcr- - tain liiilfsn In) could in wmio way atliact her utti-utio- to ln r jmtiI. 11 v.uvcd liis hand to her warniiiKly, lmt kIih evi-dently lui.MindiTKtood it H iiiraiiiin;, fur khn Klaclicmid her jiacc, looking nt hua inoro cariDtly. Id immediately rev. rHed the lever and turned on the Hteam hraltcn villi a xiid- - ' Uenn(;sH thatalanned tliels'iiK,,r. H opranK to tho hidu door of the enh, and ; hh loeiiiiiotivo liad romu to tt utandntill he li'aped to tho oppoil.) track , j unt a his fUKino fot nl'i-eati- of tlw youiiK woman and t ho other loeouiotivo Lad iiliinB.t reached her. i With hi rcule.'iii ittreiiKth and lii;ht- - iiins DwittneHH ho caught h'-- r up ho'iily j mid leaped with ber Ixy.i'd the tia l;x jiiht an tin other niK'ii" itwept hy. Then ; h" Mink to tho ground, overi l.y tlio (Oort and the iiarrowne h of their s-- cape. The p;i were loud in their ' pniiws ( f hii heroic conduct, and tho yoiitj woiaau won uluioot with fchoek, whilo over'oitio willi at tho nohlo condui t of her J rs-- j server. Cor. I'liilail'-lphi- Iiepiirer. By order of the secretary of war. E. V. ToWNfiEND, Assistant ndjuUint general. Col. Lawrence W. Anton, United States Army, Siecial inspector general. WAn Dkpartmkst. A. (. "., I WAsnisoTox, D. C, May 25, 1SG3. f Maj. George Dunlap, assistant qiiarterinastcr, is hereby relieved from duty in this city. lie will report immediately to Col. Anton, special inspec- - tor general, for duty. By order of the secretary of war. K. 1). T0WK3END, Assistant adjutant general. Maj. Ceorgo Dunlap, assistant quartermaster on special duty. HKADouAiiTnns Dept. of the Ccshierijnd, I MfitKHEEBDOKo', Twin., May ail, K03. f Joi.nNi3L-T- ho major general eoniinandiug nie to say to you that he desires, if you spare the time at present, that you will inspect his outposts before drawing up your report for the war department at Washington City. All commanding officers of outposts will aid you in this matter to the best of their ability. The general desires me to give his respects to ' T'aui, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. A. Gaiiftkld, Volunteer chief of staff and acting adjutant gen-eral. Col. h. W. Anton, cavalry special Inspector gen-eral. Tho envelope containing these papers hore on its face the following: Headquarters Dept. of the I Mi nFitEESBORo , May .W, lrxj.j. I1 guards and outposts will immediately pas without delay Col. Anton and his assistant, Maj. DBy command of Maj. Gen. Eoseeraus. J. A. Garfield, Volunteer chief of staff and assistant adjutant general. ' Tbei documents were all forgeries. 1 be bearers were Maj. W. O Williams and I ieut W O. Peter, of the Confederate-a'rmv- ' and they had come direct from the enemy's lines. The papers, however, were ' skillfully prepared to account for the pres-- 1 ence of strangers at that time and place, The first and second in order gave a reason for new inspectors in the west. They had been relieved from duty east Tho just ihird would show that the commander of accepted the detail and the department duties according to the spint of in-ductions from army headquarters. The fourth was intended to facilitate access to and camns. The author of these n"pm Col. Williams, had been en officer of the United States army when the war it wns nothint,'"at all. The niMi hecamo impatient ut t!ie delay of Cel. Ilaird, and linully dcinaniled explaitfitwus from Col. Wat kins. Jio told them fnu!Jy that they were under suspicion and surrounded by guards. When Col. Ilaird ramo on the scene tho arms and uniforms of tho prison-ers were minutely examined, and it. was found that with tho exception of souui outer covering nil their property and equip-ments were marked "C. ,S. A." Jieauwhile, us fioon as Col. Watkins ex-pressed to Col. liiird at. the llrst meeting doubts of tho geimiiicni ss of the sii hd Inspectors, tho latter had telegraphed to Uosccraus' headquarters and ascertained that there were no such oliicers as Col. Anton and Maj. Dunlap Known there, "False in 0110 thing fal..e in all," and hence if the Uosecrans order wa bogus the rest might be taken for granted. A drumheud court-martia- l was culled at once at iiair I's hendipmrtcrs Fort Granger and all tho forls in the vicinity wi re put under arms, ns it was supposed (hut the spies were co-operating with some Confederate at ta king column. As soon as tho court was organized tho prisoners confessed, mid at :i:'.SU o'i lock oil tho moriiin;of June i', less than telv8 hours after they had entered the Union lines, tho spies were under doom of deal u. An hour later Oen. Itusecrans telegraphed liaird to hang them nt once. Tho prison-ers protested, denying that they were spies, although admitting their disguises. Fi-nally Williams appealed to Rnsccransby telegraph for clemency "for the mm of Cant. Williams, who fell at Monterey, Mexico." A m eoiid apieal asked that tioth might die the death of a soldier by bullet. fill was dcniiii, and at t o'clock in the forenoon the spies under n, cherry tree on t he banks of tho Ilorpeth with tha .opes dangling alio'. e t hem. The was alTeeiinc;. From the mo-ment of the startling denouement the ut-most cordialit v had prevailed Is-- t ecu the prisoners and their judge. I 'ol. v iitiiins, one of tho old nrmv Willi illiams, took charge of the ellei t Of the eond-mm- -d men, and Williams prerf-lile- lo former comradu the mail l'i whom he ('! th'! fearful doom bclore him his black war stallion as a memento ( f old times. At the last moment l.h 'it. Peter broke down, when Williams rallied him by calling out. "Dry those tears, Peter; let us dm Ilka brave men." Among the effects were two lockets, on confainiiig the iK.rtniit of Williams Kieanor Lee, the other the wife ot Peter. They wro attached to chain worn about the neck, and were left upon the bodies when buried. From the !r.,-- t at Arlington, on the Poioiw-- , to the gallows at Fort Cr inger wa a crooked ptli for a heart capable of su-.- devotion aud dnng. Tiiis, like c loynl ofacer, ho promised, and !ouht less intended to do, hut lfl;u a loyal lover, also, he crossed the Potomac secret-ly and kept regular trysts with fair Elea-nor. Uutsomo telltale evidence reached tho ears of Scott, and tho daring Kotneo was sent away to prison at Fort Lafayette, New York harbor. He was released from Lafayette in June and immediately entered tho southern service. Williams was the son of a prominent topographical engineer of the regular army, was a descendant of tho Custises and Martha Washington, and therefore a relative of Mrs. Robert K. Lee. Tho service performed for the south by Williams before his advert --is a spy had won him a place on tlio-f:?- of Gen. liragg in Tennessee, where, also, his cousin, Lieut. Peter, another scion of tha Custis branch, was on duty. When tho mysterious pa'r came before Col. Baird at Fort Granger that evening their forged documents had tho desired effect. Laird was a volunteer colonel and not very particular as to forms. There were nianv discrepancies patent to any soldier on "close inspection. Besides, they were not written on the printed blanks customary in the army. To account for their general condition the strangers stated that they had been surprised by Confed-erates on their way, that their orderlies and baggage had been lost in the skirmish and that two citizen's overcoats which were strapped on their saddle bags had been obtained as sulistitutes for the ones lost. They inspected Fort Granger min-utely, and after borrowing fifty dollars of Col. liaird to help them on their journey rude, off in the darkness toward Nashville. While they were passing out of the fort the commanderof the Union cavalry under Baird, Col. L. D. Watkins, rode in from the outposts, and catching a glimpse of the strangers as they crossed the light of a camp lire ho guspected something, and went at once to Baird for explanation. Baird answered accordingto his belief that tho men were inspecting officers on duty. Watkins said promptly: "There must bo some mistake. I recognize one of them as an old army officer, now in the Confederate service." With these words he started, fol-lowed by his single orderly, to overtake the strangers. Oncoming up to them he politely stated that Col. Baird wished to see them further, and after some hetitation they returned, acting as though they had every confidence in themselves and those about them. They were armed .and might have fought oil these two enemies easily. Col Watkins escorted the pair to his own camp, nearer to the scene of encounter Mi ifeigl LOVE romance, though crowned with ignominy and ending in dis-aster, will ever bo surrounded with pathos and color-ed with an cle-ment of poetry. Col. William ton Williams, C. S. A., who with his cousin, Lieut. Walter G. Pettr, was executed hy the Union author-ities in June, 1863, opened his career ' n the civil war with an affair of the heart foil ended it on the gallows, "all for love." is a matter of astonishment when one links of it that intelligent men should place their necks in a deadly f wse by taking up the role of a spy. The Iws of war admit of no evasion. A soldier f"ind in the opposing lines in disguise, no iatter what his errand, has forfeited his ' fe- The actions of Williams and Peter, and for which they suffered the full pen-"- were of the boldest and most reckless known in military history. While Rosecrans' Army of the Cumber-lau-d was lying in central Tennessee in the ling of 1803 the advance lines extended ;"om Murfreesboro', on Stone's river, to ;;auklin, on the Harpeth, thus covering ashville, which was the Union base of applies. At Franklin the extreme right vas guarded by Fort Granger, a large forti-ratio- n on a bluff 200 feet above the river town, and commanding all the bridges ."' the vicinity. In front of this fort in ,!i.v. 1S63, was stationed a force of Con-era-cavalrv, under Gen. Earl Van Ujni, while Wheeler, Forrest and Morgan 'ere circling about the Union flanks, seek-- a loose joint in Rosecrans' harness to '"rust a column between his main army fiw his base at Nashville. At Fort Granger, especially, the out-Pos- ts were wary, and in ftict there was instant skirmishing between Union ckets und mounted Confederate scouts ''"us point. It was therefore with surprise that the vidette--. before Jp fort oue evening saw two men in the iforms of Union officers riding boldly y from the direction of tho Coui'ederate ar-s- On examination it was found ,:lt they bore orders from the Union ,'tary of war and from Rosecrans' ':c 0 amrters, and they were admitted and r, : t More the commandant, Col. John P. ; ' "ru, cf the Eighty-fift- h Indiana volun-Th- e ofScial papers presented to Baird were as fellows: Wab Departkest, A. O. O.. I WAsaii-aios-, D. C. May , v-- ur'jL rence W. Anton, cavalry. United States 'y, and acting special inspector general, is " tby relieved from duty along the line of the He will immediately proceed to the toa minutely inspect the "department of Ohio" and the "department of the Cumber-;- a m accordance with SDecial inspectors' in-t- Gs and 140, furnished him from 'Lie ar,d tDat ot the pavmasfor general. UeorK8 Duaio agsjtant q,uirt.master, reUeved from duty in tiiis city. a rqc7 immpr1frhr- -. jintn far duo. THE TKTST. familiar with the forms of began, and was Williams and ilSProbable that t hey hoped .. A Williams, was in the brother, Potomac. When the Union army n the v,ar broke utnynct0n. He was then paying a suitor & who '"rfS'ton debating on which waS 1 cX risited the Lee side to Ur,ottea and when fhomve atiArSUngW Jjta injunc' communica- - cf.ase his TO BE IMMEDIATELT HASCF.D. than was Baird'm and sent for that officer. As soon as the suspect were seated in the tent a cordon of men surrounded the ou side, and thua guarded they met a second interview. The collapse of the scheme was rapid and complete, as is the ca with all high .landed conspiracies when they come to grief A more moderate effort might have earned through, notwithstanding fe flaw dmnat.M or . rjcre the tn-"4!-0- !l l'lm Twenty-fou- r Hour Tlnm Kjtm. j Tho twenty-fou- r hour system is likely to '.;omo Is for) many years. Accord ", to tho inquiries of coiiimi tteo of thu American Society of Civil K,!:ne-r- , it np)x-a- : that no l''-- ' than .'! officer, president, ni;n rintciid-tit- , enginii-rs- , etc., fully 1".'.I mihscf railroad, e:prer-- them-eh-- is in favor of the change. Tho n jn-r- nay that in nil ;i promincntim-.- i in every nt the country havo answered tho cimiuiitti 's on t!i B'lhj .f t. uml of the-x- j only an small perceiitu-'- e havtt u,,-i-- the cii.'t'.ge. Lurinif X'J, l re,iiej r ceivi d, of which .H wro f4Vor aldo and 17 unfavorable. As to thu tinio of making tho h;ingi 27 of tho SC.j orAonM who ;ravt a favuralilo answer rmiiu-- 1 !, ''H ' :;' 1 'i. "" U favored im Th'Tf wcr W who g,iv5 no time, end thu report lluit tin ') wimM go with th majority ar.d ma':o a hcivy of Wiiiiii n in favor of .1 time later than WA. New York T- - A C0M3INE. Ehe came hero from the miltlf wst, id yet the had, te tl of.U-hms- A Jx'n air around le-r- ; A CurJ fiigiit. a f hiti. An earw- - kr i, a c!"ar pray eye; And no for b'-- r 1 taw t s.lga. And iiw and cuanuia? i'uM her. 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