Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-30

will be proud to know you as brothers.
have sent a Commissioner to your State,
ssking her to be one of us.
Nothing would give me more pleasure than
to see Missouri and Mississippi in this crisis
side by side and shoulder TO shoulder. This
being the case, we will meet the common
enemy on the North border of Missouri.
s1t Respectfully, your friend,
JOHN j. PETTUS.
Mr.. Wilcox examined:
Q.-State if you have any acquaintance
with the prisoner, Ogilvie Byron Young,
and ifso, when you first saw him2 I'D
AL first saw him on the mail. boat Tele-
graph on the I'd of April, a short time after
we had left Louisville. He was talking Sc
cession violently
Mr.. Pugh-I object to that question. This
conversation has no reference to the seizure
Of Fort Moultrie, or either of the ~arsenals
named in the indictment.
The Court decided that the witness must
conform his testimony to the specific allega-
tons.
Mr.. Pugh objected to permitting the wit
ness to proceed at all, as the conversation
was had out of the district. He likewise
commended that when a man obtained a
knowledge OF any treason, he must disclose
itin the district in which he first learned it;
and to conceal it in another, was no crime.
Mr.. Johnston said that such q proposition
was ~untenable; the party must disclose the
knowledge, wherever he was; and if it was
proved that he had a knowledge, within the
district Of Kentucky, aud did not disclose II,
it was only e question whether he had for
gotten it, in his passage to Ohio, and if he
had not forgotten it in Ohio, he was guilty
there also.
The Court, of course, overruled the unten-
able position of Mr.. Pugh.
Upon further examination is was discov-
cred that Mr.. Wilcox had had no converse
ton with reference to the particular mat.
tiers mention edin the indictment.
Colonel Anderson Examined: Q.-"Are you
an officer in the United States Army2
H. Al am.
T. GLOW long did you remain in Fort
MUultrieP
A.-Until the evening of the 26th of De.
cember.
Q.-How long in Fort Sumter2
+ ,A.-Until the l4th Of April last.
Q.-When was the Arsenal at Charleston
taken by the rebel forces2
Ado not know Of my own knowledge
1t was successfully Judge Johnston tina
Msjor Anderson might have better know,
ledge of the fact, having been on thu
ground.
Colonel Anderson then stated that on tn,
Firth, or the morning of the 2sth, the United
States flag which had been flying over tn,
Arsenal, was taken down, and another haI
raised IN its stead. man I{-
n He also learned that ii had been taksl
possession of by South Carolina troops.
II Q.-When was Fort Moultrie taken pos
A.~On the 2sth of December BY an
thority of the Sovereign State Of Soutl
Carolina, and by order Of the Governor Q
To.STnder what Government were 20
G.SUndsr the Government Of the UniteI
States. bafsEdafal
lns answer 70 another question: oolone
Anderson said rl.
General B~eauregard claimed to be Geners
Of what they called the Confederate States Q
America. His title was Brigadier- Genera
commanding the Confederate States {
America, ss .
Q-Was there any force colecteu VIM
you were in Charleston Harbor, in arm
against the Government Ofthe United States
AYES. At this time Colonel Anderso
sent his Adiutant to the force protesting
have command Of Fort Moultrie, to ascertai
whether they would permit the removal {
the property in the fort belonging to th
United States, and private property. Th
reply was that private property might !
removed, but Il Raa ordered thai no publ
property should be removed. Witness state
that the Star Of the West was fred into o
. the 9Th Of January BY batteries from Aorr
Island; there were also one or two shots IRE
from Fort MOultrie, but they were out
, range. They-in Fort Sumter-suppsse
! the vessel had been fired At for the purpoi
of making her show her flag, and they FIRE
, into her from Norris Island. ~ o
The witness said that on the 18th Of Apr
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