dations, and, with the exception of the loss of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad bridges, he achieved nothing to add to his reputation as an adroit and subtile partisan leader. The New Albany and Salem road was fully repaired on Monday, and trains passed over as usual. The Louisville and Jeffersonville, and the Indianapolis and Cincinnati roads are again intact, and likely to remain so. Damages on the Ohio and Mississippi road will be repaired during the week.

The record of the guerrilla in the state does him no credit. He has refused to fight the despised militia, time and again, and appears, when pretty well-cornered, to take the first dirt road or bridle-path that offers. If he has not deviated from his projected route, he certainly entertained great respect for our internal improvements when he fixed upon it.

The voice of the peace democracy in Indiana on this occasion was for war. None held back debating whether it would be constitutional to shoot at a rebel in Indiana, whatever it might be in Virginia. But it must be kept in mind that, butternuts have horses and milk-houses to defend, and bitter experience has taught them that the ungrateful rebels jayhawk from all alike. The guerrillas did not attempt to disguise the contempt they felt for their cowardly half-way friends. Lieutenant Adams, of Morgan's band, with a squad, after burning a bridge north of Salem, went to a quaker-farmer's house hard by, and asked for some milk. The friend demurely accompanied the lieutenant to the spring-house and told him to help himself and men. While drinking the milk, the following

conversation occurred:

Lieutenant Adams-"You're a Quaker, ain't you?"
Friend, (very soberly)—" Yea."

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Then you're an abolitionist?"

Friend, (soberly)" Yea."

Lieut. A. (fiercely)—" A staunch union man?"
Friend, (emphatically)—" Yea."

Lieut. A. (after a pause)—“Got any butternuts around here?"
Friend-"Yea."

Lieut. A.-"Then why in —, don't you hang them? We have a way of choking such people down our way."

The ignorant classes in the rural districts talk of nothing but "gerillus," and are in fearful tremor lest the "reebils should come and burn more breedges." We saw a rascally trick played on an old farmer, by some of the railroad boys attached to the construction train. The old man was plodding his way homeward from mill, and had his sack of meal thrown over his saddle before him. The railroaders ambushed themselves, and, as he approached, they went for him with a terrific whoop. The old man wheeled his horse around, and, dropping his meal and hat, galloped off hotly in the opposite direction, ducking his horrified countenance, and yelling at his equally terrified horse. The boys kept up the chase for nearly a mile, but the old gentleman had distanced them by that time. One of the militia secreted himself in a wheat-field, and remained there for two days. These, and like incidents, are facts, and are current food for laughter among the more enlightened residents of Washington county.

From other sources we gather some

Incidents. Upon reaching Corydon, a general thieving commenced. Watches, pocketbooks, knives, jewelry and liquors were seized everywhere. Hon. Mr. Wolf lost his watch and purse, and there was no respect paid to party, so long as a man had plunder. The liquors of the hospital, where some of their own wounded lay, shared the same fate with those of the drug stores, hotels and saloons. For a space of ten miles in width every horse was stolen, and individual resistants were insulted or killed. The same policy was pursued at Salem, and all along the route. Ransom-money or the flames were the alternatives presented to every wealthy manufacturer or miller, and everything was merged in the one desire-plunder. Singularly enough, greenbacks only were current, and all money was required to be in treasury notes. Nearly one thousand horses were taken between the river and Vienna, and in Salem alone three citizens were each put to a ransom of one thousand dollars to save their mills.

Two things are to be noticed. Morgan knew, before he crossed the river, who were his friends and who had arms. Upon entering Corydon he showed a list (and so at Salem) of every citizen who had a Henry rifle or other improved arm, and immediately sent patrols to bring them in. In Corydon the spy was a young man who visited there three weeks before, and returned with Morgan. At Salem, a deserter from the 66th Indiana boldly joined Morgan, and was armed by him, but was subsequently captured and is now in the Salem jail.

Good guides were always found, and, strange as it was, money, in specific sums, was demanded from persons who thought only their best friends knew they had it. Yet, with much of local treason, the people as a mass were true, and Morgan himself, in some instances, swore roundly at some who boasted that they were opposed to the war, and repeatedly showed favors to others who bravely maintained their attachment to the union. With here and there an exception, there was no favor shown the copperheads or those who skulked from the defense of their homes in avowed sympathy with the south. Where the Knights of the Golden Circle were thickest, there was full information in Morgan's possession of all he wished to know; but, when he got what he wanted, he treated his tools as badly as he did his enemies, and bade them good-bye by taking the horses with which they had followed to guide him.

A squad of three rebels, at Salem, went to the stable in which was the splendid stallion, Tempest, owned by Mr. George Lyman, of New Albany. On entering the stable, Tempest gave the first rebel a furious kick. On the other two he made demonstrations with his teeth, which kept them at bay. An officer then went off, swearing that he would bring a squad of men which could take him. He started for the new squad of men, but, in his absence, the groom jumped on the back of Tempest, rode away in a gallop, and soon rassed beyond the rebel lines. animal was valued at $1,000.

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Mr. William Clark and another man were sent out south of Salem, for the purpose of learning what the pickets had heard of the coming rebels. They fell in with the enemy, some of whom proposed to trade horses. The two men swapped horses with them over twenty times, and one of them came out with a better horse than he began with. They both said it was the greatest day of horsetrading they ever had.

In Clark county, there was found a man, who, thinking to save his horse, professed to be a southern rights' man. Morgan told him he ought to be willing to do something for the cause," and asked what he would give to have his horse spared. He answered, "Forty dollars," which was paid; but, to the sympathizer's chagrin, the horse was taken also.

Morgan's invasion of Indiana was but a flight from the union troops of Gen. Hobson. He left the state on the Ohio border, and the further history of his ride is given elsewhere in this work.

Indiana suffered somewhat from the disloyal elements upon her own soil. Governor Morton, in his message of 1864, gives this brief sketch of what has been termed the "great conspiracy" of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which, for a time, appeared ominous of evil.

Some misguided persons who mistook the bitterness of party for patriotism, and ceased to feel the obligations of allegiance to our country and government, conspired against the state and national governments, and sought by military force to plunge us into the horrors of revolution. A secret organization had been formed, which, by its lectures and rituals, included doctrines subversive of the government, and which, carried to their consequences, would evidently result in the disruption and destruction of the nation. The members of this organization were united by solemn oaths, which, if observed, bound them to execute the orders of their grand commanders without delay or question, however treasonable or criminal might be their character. I am glad to believe that the great majority of its members regarded it merely as a political machine, and did not suspect the ulterior treasonable action contemplated by its leaders, and upon the discovery of its true character, hastened to abjure all connection wit it.

Some of the chief conspirators have been arrested and tried by the government, and others have fled; their schemes have been exposed and baffled, and we may reasonably hope that our state may never again be endangered and dishonored by the renewal of these insane and criminal designs.

On the 20th of May, 1864, a butternut mass meeting was held at Indianapolis. This had long been preparing, and was dreaded as an event likely to bring the horrors of civil war upon the state. From far and near the disloyal and disappointed elements had been gathering for this great meeting. In the result, however, the apprehended opening of bloody tragedies, partook of much of lhe comic in its nature, judging from the account given of it, the next day, in the Indianapolis Journal, which properly belongs to the history of the times.

We do not know whether the managers of the mass meeting (May 20,) are satisfied with its numbers or result, but are sure that union men have no cause for discouragement in either. It was a large meeting, and it contained a most offensively visible element of as mean treason as ever went unpunished, but it was not large enough to be alarming, and its action was by no means as unanimous or mischievous as those who called it together hoped to make it. There were probably ten thousand persons present certainly not more-and these included, as the progress of the proceeding proved, a very large proportion of union men. We expected a larger crowd, and we strongly suspect that the more sanguine and sanguinary of the copperheads regard it as a failure. There was but one stand for speakers, and the crowd around that was at no time larger than the crowd around the same stand at the union convention in February, 1864, when Governor Johnson was speaking, and two other stands were occupied and surrounded by immense audiences at the same time. The chief speakers, too, who were to have given character and impulse to the affair, did not come. Seymour excused himself, Vallandigham was prevented by "circumstances over which he had no control," and Cox and Pendleton, of Ohio, staid away without an excuse. hort comings of orators and audience were about equal. Voorhees and Henicks had to fill the breach, assisted by a Mr. Merrick, of Chicago, and a Mr. Eden, also of Illinois, the two latter men unknown this side of the state line till yesterday, and not likely to acquire, during the remainder of this century, a reputation robust enough to bear transplanting outside of the little patch it was cultivated in at home. The entertainment was certainly not luxurious, but it was good enough, what there was of it, for the crowd, and there was enough of it, such as it was.

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But if the meeting was incomplete, its result was no less so. It began with an exhibition of loyal feeling that would have constipated the verbal flatulency of Voorhees for a week, and it ended in a regular out-and-out union meeting. On each side of the stand was nailed a national flag of rebel disaster. On the right, was the old flag of the gallant 7th, with "Winchester" inscribed on it, and the bullet holes of its rebel enemies shining through it. On the left, was the flag of the "old guard," the noble 13th, torn and faded in many a battle and march. We could not help wondering what those brave, true men would say, if they could see their flags made to do honor to a party against whom they had uttered the severest censure that any party ever endured, in solemn and unanimous resolutions, with whose sentiments they have no sympathy, and whose conduct they denounce without measure. It was well that the 7th was on the Rappahannock, and the 13th on the Blackwater, or those flags would have speedily gone back to their honed rest in the state library. But we must go on with our story.

While the misused flags were flapping about in the morning breeze, and probably a thousand persons were gathered around the stand, or scattered through the grove, a union man mounted the platform and shouted, "Three cheers for these flags, the government they represent and the war they have done such gallant service to!" and about half the crowd cheered heartily. The other half stood silent and angry. Thus the meeting began. It ended still more strangely, and disgustingly to all genuine copperhead feeling. When the question was put

on the adoption of the resolutions a loud and astoundingly-strong negative vote was heard, followed immediately by "three cheers for Lincoln," three cheers for the war," and "three cheers for the conscription act," all of them given with a will and strength that showed how big a kernel of loyalty that butternut had contained.

The meeting adjourned in disgust, and the union men at once took possession of the stand, and several speeches were made, the most striking of which was an account of the treatment of our prisoners by the rebels, by a sargeant of the 85th regiment, whose name we could not learn. Thus the meeting ended. Its resolutions, like its body, were an unfinished production. We are informed that in the committee no less than three sets were introduced, one rabidly treasonable, one moderate, and the other tolerably loyal. The first set was rejected at once. The other two were finally patched into a report, which is more remarkable for what it don't say than what it does. It denounces arbitrary arrests, and military usurpations, and denounces the arrest of Vallandigham, but it don't denounce the rebels, it don't denounce the war, it don't declare opposition to the conscription act, and it don't indorse the repudiation of the interest on the public debt, nor it don't demand that the interest shall be paid. It is a queer medley. The meeting was a queer medley. There was disloyal feeling in it, and enough of it, but it didn't get to say what it wanted to, or do what it came for.

Incidents. While the great body of the meeting was orderly, evidently indisposed to excite a disturbance, and evidently in no expectation of encountering one-a fact which we gladly attest-there was a considerable section of it eager for a row, and well-armed to make a row a serious affair.

The number of revolvers seen, fired and captured during the day is almost incredible. At the police court about forty were taken from persons arrested for carrying concealed weapons." On the Lafayette train, as it was returning in the evening, pistols were fired in such numbers as to resemble the "fire-at-will" practice of a regiment. It was a perfect fusilade till the weapons were emptied, and that they had to be emptied at all is an ugly proof that they were brought here for no pacific purpose. On the Terre Haute train fully five hundred shots were fired. This occurred just west of the soldier's home, and the bullets flew over, around and into the home as thickly as if it were a union hospital in range of rebel rifles. They rattled on the roof, fell on the floor and whizzed through the trees, and the adjacent buildings received a liberal share of the same storm. It may have been accidental, but the bullets didn't get into the pistols accidentally. The soldiers, used as they were to being shot at, were no little surprised at this unexpected volley. From one of them, we learn the facts we have stated.

On the Cincinnati train, also, a great many shots were fired, and in a part of the city where lives might have been lost by it. So, too, on the Peru train. These little exhibitions of copperhead sentiment were not lost on the military authorities. A gun was placed on the track of the Central road near New Jersey street, before the excursion train left, to stop it if any such dangerous demonstrations were made. The train came up loaded, inside and out, but halted before it reached the gun, and backed down to Virginia avenue. There, an infantry party surrounded it, and a policeman boarded it and demanded the surrender of all the pistols on it. They were handed over to the number of nearly 200.

The Peru and Cincinnati trains were also intercepted and nearly 200 revolvers taken from each one. Altogether about 1,000 pistols were thus taken from persons attending the meeting. Undoubtedly, the owners were Knights of the Golden Circle, with whom a large portion of the democratic party have no sympathy. During the progress of the meeting revolvers were frequently exhibited, in two cases drawn in anger on the guards in the state-house yard, and most of the arrests made in the yard were for carrying concealed weapons.

The anticipation of trouble from these Knights of the Golden Circle, of whose purposes full warning has been received, and the probability of a collision occurring, which might spread into a general riot, induced General Hascall to order out a considerable body of troops to protect the arsenal and other public property, and to suppress any riotous demonstrations. Four companies of the 71st regi

ment were stationed in the governor's circle all day, on account of its central location, but none of them were called on for service, and they had a jolly good time pic-nicking on the soft green in the shade. A few soldiers were placed in, and near, the state-house yard to protect the meeting, or suppress disorder, but no military force, except these patrols, was allowed near the meeting, though a good many soldiers, on leave, contrary to orders, were there unarmed.

The proceedings of the meeting till 12 o'clock were undisturbed. After that time, an occasional scuffle, or arrest for carrying concealed weapons, made a disturbance on the skirts of the crowd, but did not interfere with the meeting.

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About half-past twelve, Samuel Hamill, of Sullivan county, who had been upon the stand from the first, and had got himself loaded with a speech, seeing but little chance to blow off his swivel among so many big guns, started another meeting on his own hook, near the south fence. Mounting a dry goods box, he commenced to speak. He said, "he was a genuine, live butternut," and followed this interesting declaration with his opinion of the condition of the country. He said that "we had a revolutionary government at Richmond, and a revolutionary gov ernment at Washington, and that there was as much oppression of the people by the Washington government as by the Richmond government."

It this point he was interrupted by cries of "Come down!" "Come down!" "Come down, butternut." Some of the butternuts asked those who were thus vociferating, why the speaker ought to "come down?" "Because he compares

our government to Jeff. Davis,' was the answer. The excitement increased and the speaker stopped. Some soldiers in the crowd "went for him." He made no attempt to proceed further, but quietly said, that he had no desire to raise a fuss, and stepped from the stand amid loud applause and cheers for the union. No more speeches were made from that stand.

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There was no disturbance after this, of any consequence, till Mr. Hendricks had been speaking some time. Then, in reply to some mean, disloyal remark of his, a union man in the crowd called out something which we did not hear. copperhead seized him, and he rushed toward the stand. A scuffle followed, which was ended by the soldiers entering the crowd and taking off the man who committed the assault. Mr. Hendricks finished his speech, though interrupted occasionally and improperly, and the resolutions of the committee were read by Mr. Buskirk and adopted, and the meeting adjourned sine die, regularly, and without any row at all. It was then that the union men and soldiers took possession of the stand, and held a meeting of their own.

We learn that about 1,500 revolvers have been taken, with a large number of knives. One knife, two feet long, was found and taken out of the stove in one of the cars of the Cincinnati train. On one woman no less than seven revolvers were found. They had been deposited with her for safe-keeping, under the impression that she would not give them up. But she did. A large number of pistols were thrown out of the windows of the cars, when it was found that their possession was likely to prove troublesome, and many were found by boys on the. track, or in the creek which borders the other side of the track. The service of capturing these implements of Knights-of-the-Golden-Circle loyalty was performed chiefly by the 71st boys.

The firing from the cars, which forced the military to the search for weapons, was more serious than we at first supposed. From the Cincinnati train a number of shots struck the dwelling houses on New Jersey street, East and Noble streets, and several persons narrowly escaped death. One ball passed between the head of a woman sitting in her front yard, and the head of her little baby whom she was holding in her arms, just grazing the temple of the child.

We also heard that a man was wounded by one of the shots from the Bellefontaine cars, but we could not learn the truth of the report. The bullets that rattled so rapidly around and through the soldier's home, we were told,, were fired from the Lafayette train instead of the Terre Haute. The whole number of pistols taken will reach 1,500 or 2,000.