Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-10-26
Series---Vol. XVIII. No. 81.

Commander is c. L. Vallaudigham. The
following persons held principal offices
under this organization Robert Hollo-
way, of Indiana; Dr. Massey, of Ohio
Charles L Hunt, Charles E. Dunn, Green
b. Smith and James A. Barrett, of Mis-.
souri,; III. III. Dodd, Horace Hefron, w.
NJ. Harrison, W. H. Bowles, John c.
Walker; L. p Milligan, Andrew Hum
phreys, DR.. Athon, and Joseph Ristne, of
Indiana; Judd and b. b. Piper, of Illi-
nois Judge Bullitt, DR.. N. F. Kalfus and
w. r. Thomas, of Kentucky, and in New
York, DR.. r. f. Stevens
The Temples" or "Lodges" of the or
der are numerously scattered through the
States of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri
and Kentucky. They are also officially
reported to be established, to q less extent,
in Michigan and other Western States, as
we'll as in New York, and also in Pennsyl-
vania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Della
ware aud Tennessee. Dodd, the grand
commander of Indiana, in an address to the
members in that State of February last,
claims that at the next annual meeting of
the Supreme Council Gin February, 1869
every State in the Union will be represent.
ed, and adds This is the first and only
true national organization the Democratic
and conservative men Of the country have
ever attempted"
It has been asserted by delegates to- the
Supreme Council of February last that the
number was there represented to be from
$o 000 00n H. WI.
in his speech last summer at Dayton, Ohio,
placed it at 100000, which is probably
much nearer the true total The number
of its members in the several States has
been differently estimated in the report
and statements of its officers Thus the
force OF the Order in Indiana is stated to
be from 10000 to 125,000; in Illinois
from 100000 to 10000; in Ohio from
$4,000 to 108,000: in Kentucky, from
10000 to 10000; in Missouri, from 90.
900 to 10000 aud in Michigan and New
York, about 20, 900 each. 1t is noted that
the Order, or its counterpart, ia probably
much more widely extended at the South
even than at the North, and that large
proportion of the officers of the rebel army
are represented by most reliable witnesses
to be members. In Kentucky and Nilsson.
| ri, the Order has not hesitated to admit as
members, not only officers of that army,
but also considerable number of gueril-
las, q class who mighS be supposed to appre.
ciate most readily its aims and purposes.
1t is fully shown that as lately as in July
last several of these ruffians were initiated
into the first degree by DR.. Kolfus, in Ken.
lucky.
The great object Of this association is
military service against the United States,
and armed resistance to the laws. The
members are drilled regularly, as many
arms as could be collected, have been
bought and stored away, and the conspira-
tors seemed to have anxiously awaited the
time when they could strike blow. The
number of fighting men belonging to the
Order has been represented to be as many
as 34O, 1000, which is likely to be an exag-
geration.
Green B. Smith, Grand Secretary of the
Order in Missouri, states in his confession
of July last ID knew what arms, mostly
revolvers, and ammunition have been pur-
chased by members in st. Louis to send to
members in the country where they could
not be had !" and he subsequently adds
that he himself alone clandestinely pur-
chased and forwarded, between April 18th
and 10Th last. about two hundred revolver,
with about five thousand percussion caps
and other ammunition. A muster roll of
one of the country lodges of that State 10
exhibited, in which, opposite the name of
each member, are noted certain numbers,
under the heads of" Missouri Republican"
'.St Louis Union," .'Anzeiger," "Miscella-
neous Periodicals" ''Books," "Speeches,"
and "Reports;" titles which, when inter-
preted, severally signify single 6arreled
guns, double barreled guns, reuolvers, pri-
Uate ammunition, private lead, company
posccter, company lead; the roll thus actu.
ally setting forth the amount of arms and
ammunition in possession of the lodge and
its members.
The ritual of the Order, its signs and
passwords, have been fully made known to
the military authorities. A seizure of one
hundred and twelve copies of the "work
of the Order" was made in August last in
the Office of the Hon. d w. Voorhees,, NJ.
c., for Indiana. Copies have also been
discovered in other places. The order is
sprogressive." Many of those who FIRST
enter it, suppose that it is an ordinary
Democratic Association for political objects
only But they are led onward by degrees
until they become deep in treason. The
oaths are very severe, and impose upon the
neophyte as the penalty for infdehty a
shameful death, haDing his body cut into
four parts and thropn out of the four gates
Of the temple. Members are Instructed that
the oath of the Order ia superior to all other
oaths, and that ii is their duty to perjare
themselves Whenever their evidence would