The Mo. Democrat notices the expected arrival of the rebel General, Buckner, at that city. The statement of the Louisville Journal, of last Wednesday, would have a tendency to render his arrival there rather improbably. That paper says:
Judge Catron, of Tenn., of the United States Supreme Court, holding a session of the Circuit Court in that city, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, for treason, and that an officer left for Cairo Wednesday evening to obtain him at the hand of the military authorities there. It was thought that at Louisville that no objection would be made by Gen. Grant to the proposition of Judge Catron to deal with the miscreant himself. – The venerable Judge is a fugitive from his home in Nashville, and will not be disposed to stand on nice points of law in sending Buckner at once to the gallows, where he may end his ignoble life. Deputy United States Marshal Merriwether carried the process to Cairo.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 2
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