--A number of Baltimorean have recently arrived in this city by is very circuitous and dangerous route, occupying two weeks in the accomplishment of the journey.
They had been marked by the
Federals as men who sympathized with the
Southern movement, and but for their timely escape would doubtless have been arrested are this.
The party consists of
John F. C. Offutt.
J. Pierson Wight,
S. D. Fletcher,
Capt. Timothy Webster. Wm. Cooper,
James Cooper,
Anthony P. Ross,
Joseph Lowenbach,
Lewis Lowubach,
Lew is
Smith,
Capt. Joseph Scott, and James Ford.
Two of the number,
Messrs. Offait and
Fletcher, belonged to
Marshal Kane's police, every member of which is regarded with suspicion by
Lincoln's Government Several of the party have families in
Baltimore.
