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The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

MuFderOus Array at KOkOmO,
Howard County, Indiana
Two Citizens Killed by a Horse
Thief-The Murderer Wound.
ed and Captured-Great Ex.
element.
KoKoMo, May 81, 1858. =
The quiet of this place was terribly
interrupted this afternoon, by an affair
of blood, which has thrown the place In
to state of great excitement:
At about two o'clock this afternoon,
two il.looking men rode into town, from
the south, well mounted on large, fine,
powerful horses valuable animals, in
deed, which answered exactly to des.
cription of two horses lately stolen near
Indianapolis. The newcomers rode up
to the livery and sale.stable of Nelson
Cooper, on the square, and announced
their desire to sell the horses. The
Sheriff came up at this moment and re-
quested the two men to dismount and
surrender the animals, as they were sto.
len property. This the riders refused
to do. The Sheriff thereupon called up
on Mr.. Cooper and the Rev. John Lowe
to assist him in arresting the parties.
This they proceeded to do; but no
sooner had they advanced, as If to seize
the brides, than the desperadoes drew
revolvers, one firing several times, two
of the shots taking effect in the bodies
of Cooper and Lowe, in such manner as
to cause their death within one hour
Having done this, the murderer turned
his horses head and set off on the gal
lop; but the saddle girth becoming IN.
fastened, he slipped of. while the horse
bounded away. The fellow then endeav.
ored to escape, using his own legs, but
was prevented by returned soldier, who
lodged pistol ball In his left hip, as he
was running, disabling him and securing
Ills capture. The other thief, having fed
soGe time before, and taken to the
s%amps north Of here, may effect his
escape; but numbers of the enraged peo.
pie are in pursuit Of him. The priso-
ner, who gives the name (asSumed doubt
less, of Daniel Jones, was taken to the
Henderson House, thence to be taken to
| Jail. He acknowledges that the horses
were stolen, and regrets the terrible
work of the day. He says that when
he and his companion took the beasts,
they swore never to be taken, but to de.
fend each other and their booty to the
last.
The affair has created such on excite
ment that there is danger of the guilty
man being lynched by the infuriated mob,
who surround the house. E. 81.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Loyalty.

! "LOYALIST. A Person who adheres TO his
sovereign. IL webster's DictiOnary.l
Who is lOyalisti 7 This question
now occupies not little the attention Of
the people of the North, and we will,
therefore, conscious of our own loyalty,
give our opinion about it. If, however,
we unfortunately should differ in the in.
depreciation of this word from the Re-
publicans, we think we are able to pre-
sent good and ample reasons for it.
Webster defines a loyalist to be a per-
son "who adheres to bis sovereign" We
heartily accept that definition, because
we believe it to be true and correct. We
are loyal to ''our sovereign" and our
sovereign is not Abraham Lincoln and
his cabinet, but the people of the United
States. The President is nothing but
the servant of the people, his and our
sovereign. All power he possesses
emanates from the people, whose agent
he is.
But what constitutes the sovereignty
Of the people in Republic =? Nothing
but the will Of the majority of the peo.
pie of the country! If, therefore, the
President, or any other person, disobeys
or disregards that will, he is disloyal
and not those who attack and oppose
him for doing so.
The great majority of the people o.
the North are in favor Of supporting ant
maintaining the CONSTITUTION oftbe Uni
ted States. They are very jealous tc
have its provisions strictly carried out
They abhor to see any of its main fea
tures-such as the freedom of the press
and of speech, the habeas corpus, etc,
etc.-violated and offended. They hate
illegal arrests, as perpetrated during the
last two years by the ruling power, They
are for the Old Union, with the Consti'
tuition and Liberty, but against an Abo'
lition New Union, on the ruins of the
country, without the Constitution, and
with despotiSm of all sorts. They love
liberty, but they hate tyranny worse thar
death.
The Administration having become
diSloyal to its sovereign, the people o.
the United States, by violating the above
provisions of the Constitution, found out
last fall that States, such as Pennsylvania
New York, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey
and Illinois, comprising nearly two-thirdt
of the people of the whole North, de-
clared against the violation Of the Con
stitution, against the Republican party
that sanctioned it, and for the Democrat
ic party that opposed it. This fact GER
tainly will show that the Administration
was even in the North in a minority
and as the will of the majority of the
people of Republic is the only sover'
eign, and Webster declares those thai
are against their sovereign to be diSloyal
the Administration and its followers
ought to be careful who they call the
disloyal persons Of the country. Con
stitutaonaL Union.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Judge DrummOnd's Writ DisO-
beycd.

CHICAGO, June 3.-Shortly after mid
night Judge Drummond issued writ
enjoining the military authorities to take
no steps or measures to carry into effect
the order of Gen. Burnside for the sup
preston of the Times, until an applica.
ton for permanent injunction could be
heard in open court to day.
At half past this morning, after
nearly the whole edition had been work.
ed of, file Of soldiers broke into the
Office and took possession. They re.
NAMED for some time, and left after CIV
ing notice that if any attempt was made
to publish another paper the military
would take permanent possession of the
Office.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
For the Democrat.
Judge G. w. McIIvaine ON
M Leagues.

On last Saturday evenining, Judge
McIlVaine addressed the New Philadel-
phia Union League. The Judge unin-
tentioEally preached the funeral dis
course of that copclave. He declared
that he belonged to League, but not
to this one-that it was wrong for the
League to meet in secret and transact
business in secret-that any good meas.
ure or policy to aid the administration
in the effort to crush the rebellion, would
receive more power and efficiency from
being made public-that it was wrong
to withhold from the public that which
was proper-and it was wrong to do in
secret that which wat improper.
He next demonstrated that the aboli.
ZIONIST of the North and the slave hold.
ers of the South brought this war upon
the country, but that now the slavehold.
ers were fighting against the govern.
ment, while some of the abolitionists are
lighting for it, and in this respect these
aboIitionists are the better men of the
two kinds. He next demonstrated that
a negro is far inferior to white man,
and that therefore he had no right to
vote, nor expect to enjoy equal political
rights with the white man. He next
demonstrated that this government was
made by white men for white people, and
not for the negro at all; and that it was
nonsense to talk about placing the black
race on political equality with the
whites. He next tried to show that
Judge Leavitt was an old Democrat and
good Judge; but be succeeded no bet
ter on this point than if he had attempt
ted to prove that Judge Bostwick was a
Democrat and sound Judge. Every
body knows that Leavitt has not been
a Democrat for twenty years past-that
he became Judge by accident, and that
every good lawyer who knows him con.
siders it an unfortunate accident But
the Judge next, in the most bitter terms
denounced the practice of Republicans
calling Democrats "Copperheads, But
ternuts," &c. declared that all such
wickedness as that tended to divide our
loyal people and produce disruption at
home that be thought just as much of
loyal Democrat as o Republican or
Union Lacquer.
The meeting from first to last wore
the appearance of a funeral meeting,
except that the audience cheered the
Judge twice. The first time, when be
told a small story about some old man
in Mill township, the cheer was faint
The second was most Justify, when the
Judge quit.
The League caughta Tartar this time;
let them try it again. The spasmodic
efforts of the leagues to raise new par.
ty to put life into the dead Republican
organization, under new name, is q
failure, Notwithstanding the fools are not
all dead.
The country may congratulate itself
over the fact that the conservative ele-
ment is uniting under the Democratic
banner, and will yet, it is hoped, be able
to secure an honorable peace to the coun.
try, redeemed and retrieved from the
Spoilers hands. UNION.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
An AbOlitien Paper on the I.ie.
gal Trial of MIR. Vallandig-
hmm.

An AbOliticn Paper on the I.;e.
gal Trial Of MIR. Vallandig-
ham.
The New York Evening Post, Cad.
ministration,) after copying the Wash
ingham National MteHigencer's article
upon Judge Leavitt's decision, says:
"This law, which appears to have been
carefully drawn, proceeds upon the sup.
position that in a time Of civil war there
may be conditions and circumstances of
society in which the President ought to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and
order the arrest Of troublesome or mis-.
chievous persons. He is to act when
ever, in his judgment, the public safe.
ty' may require such action. But the
law at the same time obviously regards
such occasions as transient or temporary
and directs mode for the proper judi
cial trial of all who may have been ir.
regularly seized and imprisoned. Itsays
their names must be, 'as soon as practi.
cable transmitted to the Judges of the
Circuit and District Courts Of the Uni
ted State, for presentment or indictment
by the Grand Jury, and in the event that
the Grand Jury adjourns without finding
bill against them, the Judges are to
discharge the accused. Nothing can be
clearer or more explicit than this; moth.
ing shows more tender regard for the
rights of the citizens; or q strong deter
mination on the part of the law.giver
to keep the military power subordinate
to the civil power. While it admits the
occasional necessity of arbitrary pro-
ceedings it takes great care to prevent
abuses.
"Under the provisions of these stat.
utes Vallandighami is prisoner of State
and the Secretary of War is bound /.
report him as such to the Circuit Judge
of the district in aOhich his supposed
offences Uere committed, TO be REGULAR
ly tried by The civiL tribunal. Ther,
rs no escape from The plain demand
Of the la,c, even if there were desire t,
do so, which we cannot suppose, and W
expect to hear in a few days that th
culprit has been handed over to the onl
Legitimate authorities"
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

The League Convention at Utica,
N.Y.---The Chase, Seward and
Lincoln Leagues.
A great League Convention was held
at Utica, N. Y, on Tuesday, May 26,
at which 1t is said every county in that
State but two was represented. Gen.
John Cochran was made President OF
the Convention. Thecircumstances con-
nected with this meeting are somewhat
peculiar. 1t is we'll known that there
are two League organizations in New
York as we'll as in other States-oue
called the "Loyal League" and the 9TH
er the "Union League" The latter is
known as the Chase League, and the
former as the Seward League.
The Seward League under the lead Of
P. M. Wetmore called mass meeting
to be held at Utica on Wednesday, May
81. But the Greedy. Chase League i'm
mediately devised plan for business
meeting at the same place the day be-
fore, in order to steal q march on the
other side, intending, of course, to have
only their side represented. BSt -
turned out that there was large HA1
senta.ion from the Seward faction @Bo!
There was much jarring in the proceed
ings, but the Chase side was evidently
the stronger of the two.
Resolutions and an address were
adopted. During the discussion on the
address the fact came to light that a
League organization was started in Ken
lucky, and now exists in Washington
and other cities, having, in addition to
the title of League, that of "Sons OF
Washington. This organization is un'
derstood to be the one that is bringing
forward Mr.. Lincoln for the Presidency,
whose claims to a reelection to that Of
fee were so strongly urged by the New
York Herald week or ten days ago,
when it announced the fall of Vicksburg.
The country is, therefore, blessed with
three sorts of secret leagues-Chase
Leagues, Seward Leagues, and Lincoln
Leagues. How many more secret con-
claves of similar character for like
purpose will spring up before the next
Presidential election comes of, time only
can reveal. Statesman.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

The Chicago Tribune learns from a
gentleman who participated in the re-.
cent campaign of Gen. Grant, up to the
time the enemy crossed the Big Black
in the retreat towards Vicksburg, that
in starting on the movement the General
disencumbered himself of everything.
setting an example to his officers and
men, He took neither a horse nor a
servant, overcoat nor blanket, nor tent,
nor camp.chest, not even clean shirt.
His only baggage consisted of tooth
brush. He shared all the hardships Of
the private soldier, sleeping in the front
and in the open air, and eating hard
tack and salt pork. He wore no sword,
had on low crowned citizens hat and
the only thing about him to mark him as a
military man was bis two stars on his
undress military coat On the battle
field he was omnipresent, riding every
where, generally alone, into the very
thickest of the fight, inspiring the troops
by his imperturbable GOODNESS and brav.
cry.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Gov. Tod before the Fairfield
County Court.

CINCINNATI, Juus Gov. Tod ap.
peared before the Fairfield County Court
Of Common Pleas syeSterday, in obedience
to his recognizance, to answer to the
charges filed against him by DR.. Edison
B. Olds. The attorney for Gov. Tod
fled motion declaring that as he-Tod
was Chief Executive Of the State, he
was not liable to arrest until he vacated
his Office, either by the expiration of his
term or by impeachment. He therefore
could not be punished now. The case
should be removed to the Federal Court,
under the provisions of the act passed
by the last Congress.
The Governors case was then continu-
ed by consent, and he entered into a
new recognizaDce to appear at the next
term Of the court.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
The Seat of War i'm MississipDf.

The following facts connected with
the district of country in which the ma.
tional army is now operating in Missis.
sippi, will prove interesting and useful
at this time. The district may be said
to include three counties. viz: Warren.
Claiborne and Kinds. Warren is that
in which Vicksburg is situated. Clai-
borne includes the mouth of the Big
Black River. jackson, the capital Of
the State, is located in Kinds. The.
population of these counties, according
to the census of 1860, was as follows:
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Black Soldiers CAPTURED.

The report is confirmed that on Mon.
day Of last week party of Livingston's
men captured twenty-five negro soldiers
and five teams belonging to the lst Kan.
sas Colored Regiment, and sent out from
Baxter's Springs, Missouri, on a forage-
ing expedition. About half the men
were killed. Colonel Williams, from
Fort Scott, is out after Livingston.-
Missouri Republican, 2Sth.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

A correspondent Of the New York
Herald, who visited the battlefield Of
Bull Run q few days since, says:
The ground is covered with the debris
of battle, unexploded shell, solid shot,
burnt caissons, broken muskets and small
arms, skeletons of horses and, to add to
the mournful vividness of the scene, Skel.
etons Of humanity lying about loose in
all directionS-handS, legs and limbs, in
dreadful profusion. Bull Run battle
ground bears uumistakable traces Of the
scenes Of carnage enacted on its face.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Proclamation from VaIIandig-
ham.
We find the following in the New York

MILITARY PRISON,
CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 2:
the Democracy of Ohio:

O1NOlNNA1li OhlO, Mdy a.
To the Democracy of Ohio:
Banished from my native State for no
crime save Democratic opinions and free
speech to you in their defense, and about
to 60 into exile, not of my own will but
by the compulsion of an arbitrary and
tyrannic power which | can not resist,
allow me parting word. Because des.
potism and superior force so will it, I 60
within the Confederate lines. Iwell un-
derstand the purpose Of the order. But
in vain the malice of enemies shall thus
continue to give color to the calumnies
and Misrepresentation OF the past two
years. They little comprehend the true
character Of the man with whom they
have to deal. No order of banishment
executed by superior force, can release
me from my obligations, or deprive me o.
my rights as citizen of Ohio and of the
United States. My allegiance to my
own State and Government shall rec
ognize, wheresoever l may be, as binding
in all things, just the same as though
remained upon their soil. Every senti
ment and expression of attachment tt
the Union, and devotion to the Consti
tution-to my country-which I have
ever cherished or uttered, shall abid'
unchanged or unretracted till my return
Meantime, ! will not doubt that the peo
pie of Ohio, covering not moment be
fore either the threats or the exercise o
arbitrary power, will, in every trial, prov
themselves worthy to be called freemen
@. L. VALLANDIGHAM.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
The Clergy and the COnscrip-
tiOn--A RumpuS i'm Lower To-
phet.

Tne CIerBy ana the COnSCrlp"
tiOn.-A RumpuS i'm Lower To-
phet.
A clergyman in Pittsburgh paper,
thus howls over the conscription law:
"a few years ago no one could have
supposed there was country under
Heaven where any religion was received
and believed, whose rulers would be so
short-sighted or reckless as to attempt
to degrade that religion in the eyes Of
the people, by dragging Its priests from
its altarS and placing them In the ranks
of militia, side by side, cheek by jowl,
with the verieSt blackguard able to bear
arms, whose name happens to be drawn
from the wheel at the same time. This
is disgraceful punishment. next only to
that of death" t.g
Those who live by the sword die BY
the sword. Did these political clergy
who left the gospel Of peace to preach
the red banner Of war, expect that THEI
would escape its penaltiesH They werc
mistaken, and row they howl, Oadii
Sentinel,
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

THE NATURALIzED CITIZENS AND THE
Wharf.-The way in which the Secretary
of War has treated General Meagher
and Sigel, representing the Irish and
Germans, is positively shameful. Those
gentlemen ought to have active COM
mand in the army, and that they have
not proves that Mr.. Stanton is tainted
with a remnant Of that detestable Know
Nothing spirit which became rampant q
few years ego.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
The Free Negroes and the War

We are glad to perceive that Gov.
Tod, Of Ohio, and Gov. Andrew, of Mas
sachuSetts, and other individuals, are
exerting themselves to raise negro troops
to fill the places of the white men who
are now returning home from the South
after two years. hard fighting. The
universal freedom of the negro race is
declared by the radicals to be the main
object Of the war. 1t is but meet and
right that the free negroes should lend
hand in such a work. The blood oi
white men has been shed very copiously
in the cause of the negroes. Let the
negroes themselves now bleed little, il
only for sake of variety. 1t is very hard
to catch them but let them be brought
speedily under the constraints of the
ConScription act, and we shall soon have
large ebony army to march South
ward We shall thus get rid of th,
blacks, and the places will be well sup
piled by the study and more intelligen
labor Of healthy Irish and German emf
grants, who will become good citizens ii
FIVE years. We have no need of negroe
at the North. Let the whole race b
sent South, and let some thousands 0
mean whites Of the stamp of Theodor
Tilton go with them to take command
If these fellows will not fight, they vii
do well enough to run away; but W
hope they will be caught by the enemy
: and never exchanged. The countr
will have good riddauce Of them. IN
Y. Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Disregarding Order No. ss.

Gen. Burnside urges all to "avoid par.
ty epithets" in this emergency. All
right. But the Cincinnati Commercial,
Ohio State Journal, Cadiz Republican
and other Republican journals are still
abusing Democrats as ButternutS, Cop
perheads, &c. They are disregarding
the "orderS" of General Burnside, and
should at once receive notice from him
But they will not, as Order No 3S was
only intended for Democrats and Demo
cratic newspapers. .--Cadiz Sentinel.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

WASHINGTON, June 2.-O6icial dis
patches received from Vicksburg up to
the 29th of May, indicate no change in
affairs there, but the prospects of Grant
are still encouraging.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
The Scare at Washington.
New YoRK Jnne Q.

The Posts Washington dispatch Of
this afternoon says nothing fnrther is
known in reference to the movements oI
Lee, but there are many exciting ru'
mors. One is that Lee is marching on
Washington.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Lynch Law i'm Indiana-AH Horse
Thief and Murderer Taken
from Jail and Hanged by a
MOb--His AecOmPlice Caught.

OHIDI NH"J w.
The horse.thief who committed the
double murder, at Kokomo, was taken
out of the Jail, last night. by mob of
three hundred citizens, and hanged up.
on scaffold erected in the public square.
The mob were nearly two hours in break.
ing open the Jail. The Sheriff refused
to give up the key, and resisted all at.
tempts to take it from him by force
The accomplice, Joel Sutton, was caught
this morning, twenty-one miles north Of
this place, and is now in our Jail.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

W Some twenty-five negro recruits,
principally from the neighborhood of
Flushing, left Cadiz, Harrison county,
o., on last Friday morning for Boston,
to join q Massachusetts regiment, and
to be credited to that State.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Negro Regiment Captured and
Hung.

LOUISVILLE, June IA special to
the Journal from Murfreesboro, May 80,
says Marmaduke is reportedto have cap
tured Helena, Ark, and regiment Of
negroes, who, together with the white
officers, were hung.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
Totals........l9,125

The slave population, it is seen, is al,
most two and half to one Of the whites.
The latter has, of course, been reduced
largely by the withdrawal Of men for the
army. .....-
The following table of distances will
be useful for reference
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

As each station between Jackson and
Vicksburg may become Of prominent in
terest during the forthcoming operations.
it may be as we'll to point them out in.
dividually, with their respective distap-.
ces from each place: ......
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

CINCINNATI, June "a general or:
der from Burnside prohibits the circula.
tion of the New York World and Chi
cago Times in this Department,
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

B- Colonel Granville Moody, Of the
T4th Ohio, has resigned on account OF
i'll health, He will probably receive an
appointment in the regular service aud
be assigned to post duty.