HOW- SECRETS LEAKED OUT DURING THE WAR.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 24 December 1872, Page 2

HOW- SECRETS LEAKED OUT DURING THE WAR.

A \\ ashmgton correspondent writes : No doubt", it will surprise, jnany to learn thai tho plans of.some of our most important political and military movements were revealed--OUP latß civil wnr to the lenders of tho southern re-' bdbon through the agency of.Henry Wilson, now. candidal* for Vico-President of the United States. Wlu;n tlie rebellion was in its earliest stage, no less a person than (lon.' Lhoni as Jordan, now of Cuban notoriety,, but then a rebel olicer, made an arrangement with the notorious Mrs. OiTenhow (wjm) was afterwards arrested), whereby she was to lorward to the head-quarters of the Southern army such J acts as would be of importance for them to know. Mrs. Grcpnho wlmuipdiiiiel.y proceeded to bccoine intimate with the chairman of the Mil.tary Com,nil tee. This B j, c suecesslully ' accomplished, ami the .chairman was so thoroughly manipulated tnat every plan and every projeeled movement which was known to bun was also .known by her. The dcni"n of the advance of the troops to the Bull'.Run, was cot by her lrom.liim before the l'aet, and forwarded to the Itebcl headquarters through .the agency of Tom iHuette, the brother of Mrs. A. h.. Alason, the lady who a witness in the bi-ench Arms Investigation. As fast as the vigilance ol the Government could detect the leak and arrest it; cccondarvr agents, others would take, their place: After Mrs. Greenhow « early arrest stopped that line of communication, another took her place. The Prince do Joinvillc, in his uelence ana \ indication of McOlellau's of the Peninsula and his movements around Centrcville,' speaks as follows: All of MeClellan s plans wci;e foiled by a clever who,did-the work-oi-espionage for the Confederate duel, who, upon receiving notice of MeClellan's plans of advance, as given by him before the Military 'Committee, forwarded it to the headquarters of tiie Southern army. Upon tms information Lee fell back out of the' net, and ciibtekr] liimsel upon the itapidan," The question is, did this information also come through Henry Wilson, now candidate as \ ice-President of the United States ?