The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-02-19


A Lodge Of the knights OF the GoIdenT
Circle Smoked Out In Owen Crunty,
Indiana.
Two or three daysago lieutenant Haa-
cock, Of ourll9th Regiment, Weht down
to o web County, to reclaim sotie desert
sts who were bidlhg there, taking with
him little gu,fd Of three msu--Setg't.
VIM. Lundy, Of the esd; Richard Max
bury, OF the 7lst; and Oliver Hbbbell,
Of the T9th They passed on through
Spencer. ;he county seat, without discov"
ering their men; but pretty late in the
evening, found one. n-med William Ant
bus, OF Company B.3lst Regiment, ata
little town called Freedom. Taking him
lin charge, they went on abou, four miles
TO village call,d Middlt town, where
there was another deserler. named Fire.
baugh, we believe, whom they Intended TO
take that night. Il was about one clock
possibly later when they entered the
street Of the s'rsgglipg little town, butas
late as the hour was. Lieut.. II neock no
tived a light burning in a scbool'h house
they were approaching. lie asked Anti
bus The prisoner, what il meant. "Why."
said he, dis meeting" "What sort
of meening can be held at this time o.
night?" asked the Lieutenant. "The
Knights of the Golden Circle" was tht
> reply. The prisoner then stated that the
purpose Of the Order was to protect det
, serters, aod that he had frequently beer
assured Of the protection Of its members
Thinking 1t likely that in an assembly
Of this character deserter would proba'
bly, be found, Lieutenant Hancock order
, ed couple Of the CARDS TO 60 10. and the J
; went in. A seutihel was standing insidt
the door with gun. He had been or
guard od'sid4, bu, at so late an hour he
had probably thought that thrre was NJ
danger of interruption. and he'd goDe il
10 hear the speeches. There were som'
Iorly or &fty persons present, ss well al
j soldiers could judge, aud they were lis
e teuiug to Mr.. Thomas Landrum read
3 New York paper. Mr. Lindsay G. Anri
presided, or appeared to be the presiding
officer, AS soon as the audience notice,
o the soldiers they rose up in alarm, bu
$ Mr. Lauerum not eing them. kept on
d Some one ssked what they wanted
I and Sergeant LundySs answered tia
he had come To hunt for deSerter. an,
y .he meant to du it," This'announcemcn
. cleared the house Landrum rolled u
II his paper and sunk out oil sight. ABR
$ followed the crowd out and coming up /
u Hancock whom he knew as an old neigh
y Dor. aud Democratic suppWter in pas
. lines, asked for some whisky. He wa
Q answered that the party had none. H
:, then tld Hancock that he, chad bstte
i, be getting away. as there was dagger.
o Hancock showed him a revolver read
J cooked, aud suid . Il have a party Of
q hurdred cavalry back here in the woods
! l and II ther4 is any tpoub!e made here
y viii be a bad p,b for those who mako it
AT this the party broke in mos admire
: disorder, anc scattered off mall directi, m
! There. .wab mol a soul visible in a half mir
l. ute afterward, Knowing that after sue
an alarm it would be useless 10 hunt fc
u the other deserters, the party oatae o
70 home. What sort ofa meeting it NM
e have been with an arm sentry at II
81 door, sitting at one O'clock III the morr
ing. ana thrown into the panic Of tetrc
'e by the announcement that tbs soldiers {
u heir own mama. blool anil birth. W,
!. within sight, any body can guess. IL
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