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He never knew a member who was not a Democrat , and no one of another party could have got in, unless he professed to e a Democrat. That was a sine quit non. L'here were two organizations in the Drier—the civil and military, one within the other. The civil organization, which composed the mass of the members, he considered as purely political, to bring a full Demoratic vote and insure party success. It was understood that the Administration party would not allow the I femoerats a fair vote, and they had determined to have a free vote or a free fightThe military organization was confined to a committee of the Older unknown to him. The purpose of that organization was to separate the Northwest—Missouri, liliuois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky —from the Eastern States, and form a Northwestern Confederacy, or j.iiu the South. This was what w as communicated to the members of the civil organizations. lie would not have known it but for his officered position as Deputy Grand Commander. The military plan was probably known to the leaders and to the Committee of Thirteen, who were kuowu only by the G rand Commaudci and themselves. They expected to con trol the civil organization by their influence. Dodd was a military leader, but Dr. liowles was above him. The military officers were above the civil, and controled and directed the arming of the order and its movements, lie learned this from James 11. Wilson, Adjutant General on llowlen staff. From him he got all his information about the Order, after his return from French kick Springe, where Bowles lived. He had never understood that the rank and file of the Older were to be armed at its expense, but at their own. Those under control of the military officers were to be armed at the expense of the Order. The military chiefs detailed men to go into the various townships and pick out a certain number of men to be armed. Reports of arms and ammunition on hand were taken by these men and reported to the branch iples, I think in secret cypher to the county Temples and State Council. Dr Wilson once, on his return from Bowles, when several of the members of the Or der were resisting the draft, pulled out i roil of money of 81,000, which he had just got from Dr. Bowles to purchase arms, and said there w-as plenty more where that came from. He said half a million dollars had been sent to Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and other States by rebel agents in Canada, to procure arms for the Order in these Western State, Dodd and Walker had received 8100,000 •acli, and Bowles had received the money for his part of the State, it was expected, for arms and ammunition for the military part of the Order of American Knights, Sons of Liberty. He learned this 1 Wilson, in June, 1804, about the time of the Graud Council at Indianapo-lle never heard how or by whom they were to be destributed, but supposed they w ere for the Order, and were expec-o be used by the leaders for revolution, to etablish a Northwestern Confederacy, and, in the event of failing, to join the South.In the February meeting of the council, arming the Order was talked of by members, and conversationally by J r. Bowles in August. He learned there wits to be an urprising of rebel prisoners to be released in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The arsenals in those States were to be seized and the prisoner- armed with Unarms taken from them. Gov. Morton to be taken and held as hostage forprisoners in this uprising. lr. Athou to be Governor by virtue of the State law, which provides that the Secretary of State should he Governor in case ofacaucy caused by death or other removal of tlie Governor, and Lt. Governor Athon was to call out the militia, and the Order were to have things their own way. In case they failed to secure Governor Morton as prisoner, he was to he made away with, but the witness never understood how. The State and government was to go on as usual. This revolution was to be accomplished by the military part of the order, and as many others as they could bring into it under the exitement of the moment.This scheme was not imparted to any but members of the Order, and to the leaders of the Democratic party ouly so farthey were members.I think Dr. Wilson said he was at Chicago.The Committee of Ten was to take care of Governor Morton. Ten men of the Order were appointed for that purpose.Mr. Dunham, counsel for accused, purged himself of auy knowledge tliatHeffrcu was to turn State’s evidence.Mr. Hcffrcn has been one of the prominent leaders of the Democracy in this State, and his testimony shows up some of the hideous features of this conspiracy, which Bingham failed to disclose.The cross-examination of Heffren will be resumed at 2 o’clock on Thursday, November 10th, to which time the Corn-missiou adjourned.James B. Wilson of Wasliingtou, Bowie’s Adjutant General, lias been placed under arrest.rhe Collision of s Passenger 1 a Cattle Train—The killed ai ed—Horrible Scenes—The Co| From the Lafayette Courier, November l.JOne of the most frightful accidents in the annals of railway travel occurred on the Lafayette and Indianapolis Road at 55 minutes past three o’clock yesterday afternoon. The regular Cincinnati E press due here atTour o’clock in the afternoon, by the new time card, collided with a cattle train on a curve one and a halt miles this side of Culver’s Station, about seven miles from this city. The passenger tram was twenty minutesbehind but wait,ng the requisite time at fetockwell, obtained the undoubted right of the road, and was moving at rapid speed when ou turning the curve beyond Culver’s Station the cattle train was observed, but too late to avert the COLLISION.Both trains were heavily laden-one with seven coaches and five hundred and eight souls, and the other with nine freight cars filled with Government cattle The enginer, George Lamb, of the cattle train, had observed the smoke of the passenger engine just beyond the curve, and reversing kig engine, had partially checked the speed of his train before the dread collision. He stood at his post, pale as marble, until the trains were bat a few rods apart, when he jumped for his life, and with the fireman and breaks man escaped unhurt. John Whitten, engineer of theexpress, having, as he thonght, an undoubted right of the road, was unsuspicious of danger on the curve, and did not see the other train until too late to materially check the speed of his own train, much less avert the disaster. He had barely time to reverse his engine and jump for his life, when the massive lolt;# motives aud all their precious freight of human life collided, with a loud crash and a power which shook the earth.— Hcad-lights, cow-catchers, and all the igliter works were crushed like tinder, and the massive iron boilers received the full force of the collision. All was over the twinkling of an eye, and in lose time than it takes to read this paragraph twenty-seven souls were swept into eternity.THE FATAL CAB.Next lo the engine as usual was the baggage car, belonging to the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad, next was afirst class ganli belonging to the Michi ntrai road, and this was the fatal which Death held high carnival. The baggage, ear was about 11 inches larrower than the passenger coach, and , little higher on the trucks, and the orce of the concussion drove it like the mailer section of a spy-glass, into and through the passenger coach immediately behind. The baggage car remained intact, and narrower, as we have said, came crushing through the coach, sweeping off the top but leaving the sides of the car unbroken. Like a monster battering ram it swept everything before it, and scarce a single passenger in the for ward part escaped instantaneous death.As it entered the coach it jumped the forward trucks upon which it rested, and the end dropping about twelve inches, for want of support, gave the baggage car an angle of about thirty degrees.— Aud to this simple fact the escaped passengers of the ill-fated coach owe tbeii lives. Had the baggage car gone thro’ ou the same line upon which it entered, not a soul could have escaped. Thus it was that the forward passengers were instautly crushed to death. A little further, and the elevation of the death-dealing car brought in line with the tops of the seats, and here it was that heads were crushed like egg shells. A little further, and I hose only who were standing were struck down, while but a step beyond, passengers escaped without a scratch save from the spliuters of the wreck.AN APPALLING SIGHT Language has uo power to depict the scene. Within the cefmpass of a few feet iuside that fatal car was compressed the bruised and bleeding bodies of the dead, the maimed and the dying. The red velvet cushions had a deeper dy from the life blood of the victims, aud the removal of the bodies, living and dead, from the debris of the car was full of horror.A number of ihe dead were so tightly edged between the bottom of the baggage car aud the passenger coach that the baggage car had to be raised by jack-screws before they could be taken out. The car drippedjwith blood like a slaughter pen.NO LADIES INJURED.No ladies were injured. Conducto Wright informs us that he was standing in the third ear, and scarcely felt the force of the collision. Indeed, he had idea that anything serious had occured until he went forward.NAMES OF THE KILLED.Lowin J. Laplant, Co. B, 11th Iowa, Marshalltown, Iowa ; Henry Stongh, Co. B, Ilth Iow a ; John Bennie, I, 52lt;1 111, Dundee, Lane . III.; James Iloss, Jackson, Tp., Clinton Co., Ind., citizen ; Robert D. Nelson, F, 11th Iowa, AVashington Co.,—this young man was his way to be mustered out, after thirteen months’ imprisonment in Libby Prison, and three years’ service; James R. Ewing, K, S4th 111., Biggsville, Henderson Co , HI. John H. Munlove, G, 11th Iowa, Mount Pleasant, 111.; Simon S. Huyler, B, 128th Ind,, South Bend ; Charles M. Hanville, D, 128th Ind., Mishawaka ; George P. Cumming, H, 102d III., Ke-wanee, Henry Co. III.,- Moses Kelett, E, 25th Michigan, Middlebury, Elkhart Co., Ind.; B. Winans, Lafayette, Ind., citizen; John H. Knight, Morgantown, Ind., citizen. Railroad tickets were found on his person to La Crosse,citizen, died this morning—tegs cut off just below the knee. Henry Tkresham, citizen, near Attica, lives in AVarren Co. Ind.; William Kernan. Co. C, 93d III., Bather, Peru Co . 111.: Uenrv Perrington, F, 11th low*, Linn Creek, Washington Co.; Joseph Ballien, H, 84th IU. Warsaw, 111. ; Robert Nelson. F, 11th Iowa, Noah Fry, Muscatine Co. Iowa, aged 23, discharged ; Cornelius Harrison, Cambridge City, Ind., citizen ; Abram A. Carter, First Lieut. Co. I, H6th Ind.—has relatives in this city ; James T. Huff, recently discharged from the 2d North Carolina mounted infantry, a resident of Knoxville, Tenn., where his father now rc-—a letter was found in his pocket addressed to Capt. Jamca R. Turner, Decatur, 111. Fredrick Kamp, soldier, residing at Danville, III. We could make out neither hii company nor regiment. Lewis W. Norris, B, 194th 111.; Richard N. Hoag. B, 101st 111. David S, Hoffman, E, 84tli 111.; Fayson Adams, —, — III.; John W. Robinson, Pontoon, 111.Two bodies—one a soldier and the other a citizen—hAvenot yet been identified.NAMES OF THE AVOUNDED.Bernard Fitzgerald, Detroit, Mich., badly; lias AVing, discharged soldier, mortally, Oscar Davis, D, 8oth Illinois—dying at 3 o’clock; John V. McIntyre, St. Catherines, C. AA’-; AVm. Burns, A, 128th Indiana; Joseph L. Laplant, B. 11th Iowa; James B. Abbott, A, 102d Illinois, slightly; John Kelly, Sergeant Co. I, 60th Illinois; Jeremiah J. Castella. Co. G, 84th Illinois; Robert Otis, 52d Illinois; Chas. J.Shriver, Co. G, ilth Iowa; Reul Newton, Co. A, 89th Illinois; Joseph King, Co. B, 11th Iowa; Peleg Carber, Co. F, 1st Michigan light artillery; Wm. Ford, Co. L, 2d Michigan cavalry; John Wesson, Co. I, Ilth Iowa; Chauncey Pattengill, drafted man, AVorth township, Boone county, Indiana; Wright Simms, drafted, Worth township, Boone county, Indiana; George J. St. Louis, Co. A, 72d—lives in Chicago, his friends in AVtscensin; John R. Gressler. Co. I, Ilth 1-owa; G. W. Gregg, Orderly Sergeant, Co. C, 102d Illinois; Daniel Kinneman, drafted man, AVorth township, Boono county, Indiana; J. Lawrence, Co. B. 11th Iowa.INCIDENTS, PERSONAL, ETC.Rev. B. E. Winans, recently appointed to the Presiding Eldership of the Indianapolis District, was among the first taken from the wreck. He was lifeless, so bruised and distorted iu features that a friend who has known him as a brother helped to lay him out for burial whithout a recognition. He did not know that he was among the dead until it was announced in the Journal this morning.Lieutenant Carter, who was instantly killed, was formerly engaged in the grocery business in this city, iu company with Mr. Dugan. He was to have been married in a few days to a lady of this city.Esquire Ross, of Clinton, another victim, was a mau of wealth and character. He had been devoting himself for weeks, without fee or reward, to filling the quota of his township. He was returning from Indianapolis on his business yc-ster-THE DEAD The dead were laid in two rows near the wreck, and as soon as identified cards with their names were pinned to their clothing. Coroner Ingersoll took charge of their effects, including a considerable sum of money. After the wounded and the passengers had been brought to the city the special train brought up the dead, and the ghastly row was arranged in the freight-house at the foot of South street, to await the Coroner’s inquest.At an early hour this morning Coroner B. E. Ingersoll, having made the necessary arrangements, proceeded to hold an inquest.Proclamation for Thanksgiving.Washington, Oct M2,1864. By the President of the United States of America.FROCLAMATIQN.It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designstram abroad, and vouchsafing to us in Hi mercy many and signal victories over the enemy who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while he has opened to us new sources of Health and has crowned the labor of our working men in every department of industry witn abundant reward. Moreover, he has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation the cause of freedom and humanity; and to afford to us reasonable hopes of ultimate and happy deliverance om all our dangers and afflictions.Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens. wherever they may may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God, the beneficent creator and ruler of the universe; and I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid that on that occassion they do verently humble themselves m the dust, from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land, which has to assign ns a dwelling-place for ourselvos and our posterity throughout all generations.In testimony whereof, I have herauato set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.Done at the City of Washington, this 20th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, thousand eight huhdred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the Uhited States the eighty ninth.ABKAIIAM LINCOLN.By the President:Wm. H. Seward,Secretary of State.but few exceptions the victimsNcuj jVDocrtiscmcnts.PIANO TUNING.HW. CHANT, begs respectfully to . cWxesaofLap........and having some make must beg their indul u he will be on hnod.LAPOETE ACADEMY,LaPorte Academyn Monday, Nov, 14th. All \Nov. 9. 1864-17* WANTED.BOARD in a private family, by a young man of H of good steady habits, who la willing to make hm ■elf useful about the house. For further particulars ei quire at the Union Office, or add ’H., Post Office Box 621, Laporte. ]Hate of Indiana, Court of Common Pleas, Feb. Term Laporte County J A. D., 1864.Zebu Ion M. Ward, »N°the Plaintiff's eompla action, and that the .......»f Common Pleas or Laporte j Court House, in the city of ty of February 1865. JAMES MOORE, Clk. C. C. F. L. C. Noyes . Wbeir, Attys for PlffOct. Sflth, 1864 l5w3Bars to rest.Enquire at t Oct 26, 1864-15 OLD LINESTORE.
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