The new South. (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, October 17, 1863, Image 4
A Brooklyn (N. Y).. Soldier Hung in Rich- i
mond.?The Riehinomjk^jjj^rs contain accounts
of the execution, at that place, on the 2oth nit,
of Spencer Kellogg, hung as a spy. The Richmond
Whig in its account says:
" A short but impressive prayer was then offered
l?y the minister, at the conclusion of which the
condemned man, unaccompanied, mounted the
the scaffold In a few moments Detective Cope'
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nart loiiowed, anrt commenced to aojusi ine rope |
Over the neck of the criminal, in which he assisted. '
nil the while talking with the officer. On taking j
off his hat to adiriit the noose over his head, he !
threw it one side, and, falling off the scaffold, it
strnck a gentleman beneath, when the prisoner 1
tnrned quickly, and> bowing, said : ' Excuse me.
Sir.' After getting the rope on his neck arranged 1
to his satisfaction. Detective Copehart commenced
to pinion the arms of the condemned, to which !
he submitted composedly, simplv remarking, i
* Ain't this hard. Oaptain?f Ilis ankles were then
tied together, and his hat given to him, which he j
held in his hand behind him.
Copehart then shook hands and left him. A :
hegre next caihe on the scaffold with a ladder, j
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beam, the prisoner meanwhile regarding him with
the greatest composure. The rope being fastened
the negro was in the act of Coming down, when
the prisoner, looking np at the rope, remarked,
* this won't break my neck ! 'Tis'nt more than a
foot fall! Doctor, I wish you would come up and
.arrange this thing! I don't want to have a botch
job of it!' The rope was then rearranged to his
satisfaction, and the cloth cap placed over his
head. Tie condemned man then bowed his head
and engaged a few seconds in prayer ; at the conclusion
of which he raised himself, and, standing
perfectly erect, pronounced, in a clear voice,
4 All ready! ' At five minutes to 1 o'clock the
drop fell, and the condemned man was launched
into eternity. He struggled violently for about a
second, the rope swaying to and fro like the pendulum
of a clock. He was left hanging thirty
minutes, when he was cut down and pronounced
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been broken in the fidl. The body was then
placed in his coffin and sent to the burial ground.
Kellogg was a man of rather prepossessing
appearance, about five feet eight or nine inches
high, with sparkling light blue eyes, sandy hair
and beard, and a slight mustache. His skin, from
liis long confinement?some fifteen months?had
become as fair as a female's. He wore, at the
time of his execution, a chirk blue coat and brass
buttons, light blue pants, a blue check shirt, and
black wool hat He was apparently about 33
years of age.
The wretch had previously confessed his guilt,
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iLie suuMxvnce ui wnicu cuiuesniuu wan um uc uuu
liired himself in the Confederate Engineer Corps
at Island No. 10, for the purposeof gaining information
for the benefit of thttFeder&l Government,
and though at last detected, he died with
the conviction that he had furnished more valuable
information, in the character of a spy, to that
Government than any other ten men in the
United States service."
The real name of the young man whose tragic
fate is narrated above, was Spencer Kellogg
Blows. His parents formerly resided in the city
of Brooklyn, emigrating hence to Kansas in 1854,
Spencer being then 12 years of age. His father
was founder and third part owner of the town of
Ossawatomie, celebrated in the annals of the
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Border Ruffians, and the whole of Mr. Brown's
property destroyed, while Spencer, the subject of
our sketch, was carried off by the ruffians, v ho
kept him prisoner in Missouri for six weeks, only
giving hiin up on his release being demanded by
Gov. Geary. Spencer subsequently was maltreated
by the Border Ruffians. In 1861 he went
to St Louis, where he enlisted in Captiin (afterwards
General) Lyon's company of Regulars.
Receiving his discharge from the Regular Army :
from General Fremont, he was given a commis-1
sion as First Lieutenant to recruit the Lyon's j
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.Legion, but he lost this position on uie aispuu-ement
of General Fremoxt. Nothing daunted,
and feeling that his place was iu the front of his
country's enemies, he joined the iron-clad gunboat
Essex (Captain, now Admiral Porter), as a common
sailor. Here his meritorious services soon
gained him promotion, and his Captain gave him
the rank of Fourth Master. He was in the engagement
having charge of a gun, when the rebel
ram Arkansas was destroyed. He was then sent
by Caphtin Porter to destroy a rebel ferry-boat
near Port Hudson. He had accomplished this
duty successfully, and ta?qttturaing to his bout,
when, being alone, thr&% gM^illas rushed from
the bushes and seized hiim^rlis execution, it is
stated, creates the utmost surprise and indignation,
as by no pretence could he be regarded as a
spy. "We hope our authorities will not suffer such
au outrage to pass without retaliation.
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General Gielmore ox Lares, Cements, & .?
The publication,*! this moment, of a stout octavo
on "Limes, Cements, and Mortars," by one who
has made his name illustrious by setting at naught
the binding powers of these substances on the
walls and foundations of forts, has almost the air
of a practical joke : but General Guxmore inform
h us ir? an introductory note that the exneri
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merits and researches embodied in the work were
conducted under the authority of the Engineer
Bureau of the War department, and were completed
ill the summer of 1861. It will prove a
valuable contribution to the engineer and architect,
into whose arts the elements under discussion
in this work enter for so much. General Gillmore,
unlike the majority of the graduates of our
military school, who rest quite content with
what they have learned in the text books, is for.il
of original investigation, and he has a talent for
recording the results of his investigations. His
report of the reduction of Fort Pulaski, overleaping
the narrow limits of a mere official paper,
assumed the form of a comprehensive and instructive
memo}re on the breaching power of rifled
ordnance, and takes itsplace as a valuable piece
of military history. Tne present monograph,
though on a mote specialized subject, is an important
contribution to the branch of practical
engineering which it covers. Such a wofk, em
bracing all the results of the latest e^yiments,
both in this country and in Europe, ^^as very
much needed ; and General Gillmore's detailed
and exhaustive treatment conipletA fills the
desideratum. ^
" It is needless in a "work of so purely technical
a nature as the present to do more than briefly
indicate the scope of its contents, as professional
men, who alone will "be interested in it, will
doubtless procure the hook itself. General Gillmore
begins with a survey of the geographical
and geological distribution of limestones, and
stone suitable for hydraulic lime or cement
throughout the United States. It need only be
remarked that nature has supplied us with these
elements in great profusion and endless variety :
but the most extensive hods have thus far been
discovered in the valleys of the great Appalachian
chain of mountains, as they traverse the States of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Tennessee, and the northern portions of Georgia
and Alabama. He then gives the method pursued
in testing the mortars winch furnish the basis of
all tables introduced into the report These tests
are with a view to determine (li their capacity to
a fronwersp strain : C2) their relative hard
ness ; (3) their adhesive properties. Chapter I,
is devoted to the celebrated Koseudale cements,
so named from the fact that the stone was first
discovered in the township of Rosendale, Ulster
County, in this State ; the different kinds and
qualities of this cement are described and analyzed
and the various manufactories of the cement are
given in full. Chapter IT, goes into the subject
of lime, its characteristics, tests theoiy of its
induration in the air, classes of hydraulic limes,
intermediate limes, natural " pozzuolanas,"
4 tra?s," "arenes," hydraulic activity and hydraulic
energy, artificial "Portland" cement,
strength of certain mortars, d*c. Chapter V, treats
of limestones, kilns, mode of treatment, Ac.
Chapter VI, of calcareous mortars and "aggregates,"
the process of makiiig them, by mill and
hand, and the mode of application to j^astering.
stucco, Ac. Chapter VII, of "coiyite" juul
"beton," their uses, mode of maimractnre in
! Europe and the United States. Chapter V ILL, ol
| the devices of laying stone under water, Ac.
i Chapter IX, of mural efflorescences, their causes
I and remedies, and the general methods of artifi!
rial induration. The volume is issued in Mr.
j Van Nostrand's accustomed excellent manner, in
an elegant octavo of 333 pages, copiously illusI
trateiL?Army and Kavy Journal.
News F^m the North.
By the arrival of tne Kurnak on Tuesday evening
last, we have New York dates to the 9th inst.
The news from the Southwest is very important
Nashville, Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Up to a late hour this evening information from
Chattanooga at Murfreesboro did not tell of a
general engagement The two armies still remain
in front of each other, fortifying. Irregular firing
was of constant occurrence.
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the part of the enemy that seemed odd and mysterious,
but not positively threatening. I do not
pretend to give these as positive facts for I got
the information through a source that is indebted
to others for the same.
Neither railroad nor telegraph communication
is open to Stevenson, Ala., from Nashville ; but
the news brought is not depressing.
Headquarters, F. S. Forces, Texx., )
Wednesday, October 7?i P. M. \
The reports received up to this time at Mnrfreesboro
are conflicting, and though of impo.-tnnce,
are by no means certain. It is considere 1
beyond a doubt that the enemy is being rapidly
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pursAi by otir forces^ and that while he may stop
to do sonaedaniage to the railroad, he will have
to retreat with rapidity. If Geti FofefcEtfr is rein-1
forced by infantry, then there is a possibility he
can stand ; but it is hardly probable he can get a
sufficient infantrv force for this purpose.
On the railroad referred to above, extensive
means, both in labor and military force, are being
employed on our part to restore communication,
and both it and tne telegraph will in a very short
time b? again in working order.
REBEL REPORTS.
Fortress MoSroe, Thursday, Oct. 8.
The Richmond Enquirer of to-day contains the
following dispatches .'
"We opened upoti Chattanooga at 1 o'clock A.
M., from Lookout Mountain and points along our
line.. Our shell exploited in the enemy's cainp,- I
as well as in the city, setting tire to one house.
The enemy replied briskly from Moccasin Point
to our mortars on Lookout, ahd feebly from Star
Fort The firing still contintieS/
" The Tennessee river is rising rapidly. It has
swept away the lower p ntoon bridge of the enemy
and submerged the trc; tie bridge.
41 Major Mitchel, Chief Quartermaster of Gen.
Loxgstbeet's corps, died last night.
44 No firing on either side at 11 o'clock last night/
REPORTS FROM NASHVILLE.
Rumors prevail here that a force of rebel cavalry
have captured and entirely destroyed Shelby
ville, Tenn.. taking our forces there as prisoners.
No particulars have been received here/
The truth of the report is questionable. Gem
Mitchel with a large force of cavalry w as pursuing
the rebel cavalry, but we have no reports of
his being within striking distance. The telegraph
is working within three miles of Chat.'anooga.
A large force is rebuilding the railroad track
recently torn up. Probably the rel>el cavalry
have divided, part making toward Kentucky to
harrass Bcrxside's lines of supplies, and a part
going southward against Rosecraxs.
There is no prospect of a rise in the river.
The latest advices from Chattanooga say that
all is quiet and there is no prospect of an attack.
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