Beall

John Young, a Confederate guerilla, born in Virginia, Jan. 1 1835; was appointed an acting master in the Confederate naval service in 1868. On Sept. 19, 1864, he and a number of followers were shipped on the Lake Erie steamer “ Philo Parsons”? as pa engers, and at a given signal, took po e ion of the ve el, making prisoners of the erew. They also scuttled another boat, the “ Island Queen,” and tried to wreck a railroad train near Buffalo, N. Y. In spite of a proclamation of Jefferson Davis a uming the responsibility of this expedition, Beall was hanged on Governor’s Island, New York, Feb. 24, 1865, on the ground that, if acting under orders, he should have shown some badge of authority.