Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-18

two more of the K. G. C's. Consider |
able trouble was expected, Judging from
the excitement and threatening demon |
strations made when Court was arrested |
on Monday. Deputy Smith was pre-
pared for rough reception, aud Was de-
termined to have his men.
Contrary to expectation he met with
no trouble, the tone of popular senti
ment having changed greatly, and the
arrest OF Court being now generally CON
ceded to be right. About noon on
Wednesday, he succeeded in arresting
Dr. j. NJ Christian, a leading Demo-
cratic politician of Marion, and Thomas
Holder, editor of-the Marion County
Democl attic Mirror. The arrests were
made quietly, and the men were brought
away on the cars without any great ex-
citenent. What feeling there was dis
PLAYED was in favor Of the Marshal.
/. The men were brought here last even
ing and after brief examination before
U. S. Commissioner White, were re-
leased on bail Of $4,000 each. The
further examination is set for 10 A. NJ.
Wednesday, the 18th inst. Mr.. s. B.
Prcntiss is retained for the defense. =
DIR. J. NJ Christian has long been
known as an active Democratic polite
ian. and until the death of Douglas pro-
fcssed to be an adherent Of his princi
Piles. 7. S. Holder, the editor Of the
Democratic Mirror, was another full
hlooded Democratic leader. The tone
of his paper has been SO treasonable Of
late that threats were made to mob the
Office, but it was feared that the attempt
would bring down bloody retribution
from the traitors leagued with the edi-
tor.
The following afidavits in reference
to the men, Frederick Court and DR.. j.
NJ. Christian, have been made in Marion
| County:
State of Ohio, lNarion County, S. S.
1, James Fletcher, resident and cit
izen of Green Camp Township, in Marion
county, Ohio, being first sworn, depose
and state: That about the first of Au
gust last, at the Robinson Saw Mill, in
said township, Frederick Court, then
also resident Of said township, said that
he wanted to speak to ME. and took out
paper and wanted me to sign it without
reading it. I told him that l would not
sign it without first reading it or hear
ing it read. He then read it to me; and
the paper stated that the object Of the
association which was called by him the
SC olden Circle, was to prevent men
from going into the war against the
South, and to prevent the Democratic
party from being mobbed. After he had
thus read and explained to me the OBJ
ject of the Golden Circle, signed his
paper, and he then administered to me
the two following oaths, the terms of
which | distinctly remember, and which
he told me | must remember until he
saw me again.
THE oaths are precisely the same as
those published by us i'll the account Of
the arrest of Court,
After l had taken these oaths, Court
explained to me the certain signs and
grips, by which l would know brother
of the order when | met him. There
we're several names on his list at the time
Court said there were three hundred
members in this county, and nine hun
dred in Columbus.
Deponent further says: That at the
same time and before he signed said
paper aud took said oath, Court said
this was an unjust war, and Democrats
ought not to support it. lie also said
it was an abolition war, and that all
Democrats who were sensible would
have nothing to do with it; and those
who put their names down on that
paper would be saved After had
taken the first oath, Court asked me in
whom | put my trust? and instructed
me to answer ain God" which did
Court then said: "Your trust being in
God, I will give you the seal that will
release you out Of the camp of your
enemy" These questions and answers
deponent distinctly recollects. Court
then said that was all at present; he
would have something to tell me when
he saw me again. He has not, however,
said anything further to me on that sub
ject
Deponent further says that after re-
fecting over said oaths and his connec-
tion with the order of the Golden Cir
Gle, he became satisfied that he had
done wrong, and determined to disregard
the obligation he had assumed in that
particular. JAMES FLETCHER.
Sworn to, before me, by James
Fletcher, and by him Subscribed in my
presence, this, the 9Th day Of October,
A. D. 1861.
JNO. B DAVIDS, j. P.
I certify that some time, I think
about the middle of July last, l was in
Berwick, when Frederick Court ap-
preached me and called me out, and
privately requested me to join an order
called "The knights Of the Golden
Circle 1 asked him the object of the
order. He said it was to prevent any
one from volunteering or being drafted
in this war; that it was an unholy and
an unjust war. I refused to join, be-
lieving it to be wrong to do so.
o a. H. KEPYAR.
Greencamp Tp., Oct. s, 1861.
MARION, Oct 5, 1861.
On the 5th day of July, 1861, in the
evening, on the pavement in front of
w. A. Turner's JeweIry store, in Ma
rion, Ohio, / met j. NJ. Christian and
friend of mine, when Christian asked
me if 1 was out last night? l did not
tell him, thinking it was none of his
business; when Christian remarked to
my friend saying: II guess he does
not understand the ropes; [ guess We
had better show him, to which the other
man replied: 81 guess we had better
show him. They then. took me up
the front stairs, in the railroad bnildipg,
and down the back stairs, at which