Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-11
4 Dangerous Organization.

REUBEN STOUT, company K, Goth Indiana
volunteers, convicted of desertion and the
murder Of SOLoMAN HOFFMAN, at Madison
Caro- Il county, Indiana, on the 18th of March
last, was shot on Friday, the 23d ult
Stout left statement, which is published
in the Sandusky papers, from which we ex-
tract the following:
| staid with my company and regiment
until Nov. 25th, 1862, when we got furlough
to 90 home-the regiment having been cap
tured at Crane River, Kentucky, and parOled
as prisoners of war. We were sent to Indi-
annapolis to be exchanged and draw arms
again All the men of the regiment got fur
loughs for a few days to go home to their
friends | went home and stayed out my
time, and then started to 60 to my regiment.
| went as far as Lafayette, my wife and her
sister going as far as Dayton, Indiana. | took
sick at Lafayette. and stayed there about five
days Ny father-in-law took me home to his
house to stay till | got well. After / had
been there about two weeks, | was advised
by various persons not to go back to the ar
nv. They said this was only an abolition
war" and advised me to stay at home and
they would protect me.
aras induced to 90 to a meeting Of tie so
called ssHniqHts of tie Golden C5rcle,' and aoas
naaole a member of that organization. TIE OBJ
Egatioa of that order bound as to do all IRE
co,1ld aqai,ast tie 1car-to resist a draft, If one
should be made and Hke1gjSe to resist and oppose
confScation and Emancipation measures in eperY
possible acau. We JCere S1C0ra TO stand By each
other IN all measures Of resistance We were
pledged to do all we could to prevent another
man or dollar going from the State for the
further prosecution of the war. | met with
this secret meeting several times, and enter
ed into their views and plans.
The testimony of this unfortunate man,
given at the point of death, in reference to
the existence of secret disloyal organization
in the Northern States, is of great impor
lance. Its truth is unquestiOnable, as it CO.
incides with large amount Of other tastimo
ny on the same subject. There has been
and is now, existing in the loyal States, a Sc
cret reasonable organization, whose object
is in the words of Stout, ''TO DO ALL IT CAN
AGAINST THE wAR-To RESIST 4 DRAFT, IF ONE
SHOULD BE MADE, md GkeaciSe to resist and oD-
pose confScation and emancipation measures IA
egery possible ray"
4 SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST Elk LIEUTENANT
Col. LEHMAE.-A complaint involving a Sc
rious charge, is now on file in the Circuit
Court Clerks office, against exit Col Leh-
man, formerly of the cavalry company raised
by Capt. Won Deutsch of this city, and after
wards Lieut.. Col of the Goth regiment, but
who resigned and came home. He Will also
Ut AttOiiCNN'N % 1iiO Pu-lL''AStAo itii'h hllO
assaulted the local editor of the Sentinel for
something written about the Colonel, and he
got fined for il
The complaint is made by German named
Verhein, who charges that his daughter, a
girl of about twelve or fourteen years Of age,
was sedcced by the aforesaid Colonel. The
latter is keeping the old Higgins" place, on
the toll gate road to Wauwatosa, and accord
ing to the complaint the girl was attending
the I'd Ward School, when one day dnring
pic ME, she and some of her companions
went over to Lehman's to pay a short visit.
The other girls came away leaving the Yer
helm cir! behind, who the complaint alleges,
was induced by Lehman to remain.
he then effected the seduction of the girl,
and she started home, but was taken sick be-
fore reaching home, and had to be carried
the remainder of the way. Her father keeps
a German hotel in West Water street, some
where near the Second Ward Bank. The
complaint is for civil damages, which are laid
at 8, 000.--NitJgaukee Wisconsin