The New York herald., 1864-10-26
Personal Description Of the
Raiders.
The Leader Of the Gang Claims to Have Rs
seivsd His Orders from Gen. Early.
How Their Pistols were Fur.
nished Them.
Trial Of the Captured Raiders ~
St. Jshns, Canada,
Asss &s.. ~,

Trial OF tho Raidors at st. Johns, Ca0a-
da-George N. Sanders Managing tho
Cause OF the RebeIs-Hc says This IL
| Only tho First or Series or PIander-
ing Expeditions TO Take Place on tho
| Frontier, &c.
| ST. JoHNs c. F., Oct. go A, N.
Nothing OF special Importance taken place regard
to the 81 Adams tvt) raiders since my account.
Tho raiders understood to have engaged counsel
| Hon. j. J. Abbott and Messrs Carr and Lsaamme, or
! Montreal, and Hon, J. II. Cameron, OF Toronto.
The examination Is conducted with closed doors, only
the and reporters OF press being admitted
The notorious George NJ Sanders Is here managing thu
OF the rebels. He says they belong she nrst
families OF Kentucky, and formerly belonged to John
Morgans forces
This raid he asserts, is only the first Of series OK
plunderng expeditions take place the frontiers
Of the States. Had he known before OF this affair he
would have prevented 1t, IL conducted too
small scale.
F.G johnson, Queens Counsel, OF Montreal s hero as
counsel for the Canadian authorities.
MONTREAL Oct. 26, 1864.
The trial OF the Vermont raiders at st. Johns 10
have begun yesterday, but their counsel were absent
and the proceedings postponed until to day. Ths
have taken the deposition OF Mr. Bishop, the
teller Of the IS. Adams Bank.
tho Raiders.
The following letter, published in tho Burlington Times
from ST. Johns Canada will be found Of interest," giving
as does, further information regard tho raid into
ST. Adams
arrived here this morning, and found that some 0l
the already arrested confined In the district
jail here. The prisoners all young men, nail from
kentucky, are well dressed and appear 10 good Spirits
very much out BY their hard ride from ~
Abans to Canada. Their and follows:
telegraph 's 70 csors. sanders from Fre,shs,
burg Charles Swegen twenty Burnett Young twen.
one George scett, swensy two Samuel Gregg, twenty
or the above Young was n command o the party, and
service Scott and Gregg wore arres.ed At West Farm
ham, Moore at Waterloo and the rest Of she party At STAN
| bridge.
| Bernard Bevlin eminent counsellor OF n ntreal,
Hon. George f. Edmunds Of Burlington, and hessrs. IL.
haf Of our authori,iss The prisoners are cooped in
separate calls not allowed with each oth1
Of the prisoners young man Of nineteen, have
| made confession. He alleges he s Que OF HQSRnn 8
10 aIS Inc ssrv duly for
the purpose This leader said TO have made Burlington
is ascsrtaned that four OF the party Left the OTTAWA
Hotel Montreal, ON tho morning OF the raid for tho
| States.
7P. MA special train from Aliens Corner, the
Montreal and Vermont Junction railways nasiog on
board Judge Courso ond party has just arrived having
In custody six more OF the robbers
From Edward A. Sowes, ESD, OF Sc Adams, pas.
since the rad gather the following Interesting ites-
On Thursday morning. man came into tho depot at
Farnham TO take the train tor Montreal HIS behavior
was deemed suspicious and he was arrested. Three
thousand dollars Was found upon his person IN bills IN
the St. Abans Bank as well as photograph Of Captain
Young, taken at Richar dson 8 gallery In 81 Mbans
Thursday night another mau Samuel Gregg, was So
cured by The stage driver He had $50 ip money and
quite Iamc having spraned his ankle duripx the raid.
Upon him were found eight photographs supposed TO DO
Of members OF the gang These pictures were marked
the back taken somewhere in Keutucky. Gregg
| said he had been two years In the Confederate
service and profess that the band entered this expo
dton under orders OF the Confederate government Tho
prisoners captured a Frelghsburg found In farm
houses barns, &C. and made resistance Among tbis
dressed in ST. Abans by the lille OF Ce loneL" some Of
the robbers stated that they from Canada, and
pistols by OF their number n mo
saloon the passenger after leaving kouses Point
From those prisoners Sl7 600 recovered and two q
them were recognized connected with the robbery Of
the First National Bank and one the cashier, Albert
Sowles, Is the man who drew pistol on him.
small federate money found upon each
| OF them They declare that their intentpn was 10
burn the village Of - Abans. but portion otheir
the statements OF those thus FAR cnp.ured those who
ddhe work at 81 Adams numbered exactly twenty hvo
On Judge CoursoPs arrival At stanoridge ,hs morn
ing Justce Wckham promptly delivered over the iour
prisoners he had and soon after two more were oroush
IN having 10 their possession thirteen thousand dollars
prisoners that found
between 81 Adams aud the line much more diicut 70
traverse than they expecsd the roads 10 the worst COO.
Of their number came rear drowning while crossing
creek having stepped r,m los ana site,waIos are
line threw away almost all their arms, doing ting,
they say, under instructions from superior officers
Upon these men, however, several pistols were found,
very bloody. They stated that one OF ths
party was wounded the leg nj -. Adams These men
recognzed those who entered the 81 Adams Bank
The 81 Albans Messenger OF Saturday evening has tho
following
Tho confederate gentleml as tho raiders csim
themselves to be, for the mast part intelligent and
good ng,meu. some Of them, on being arrested,
that their work was not hsii aceonps ned o"los
to the being obey cd they declared u war
their burn Albaus the1
TO swantoo aud Sheldon and ire those places roDOag
the banks Mt the same time. The man. who gave MS
name az alace. NJ, and who Is denty one ~ tho
leaders has the appearance OF being Southerner
Ills talk and manner Indicated that he nas
vice southern army. AS 10 tho perfect identi-
ncaton Of many OF the raiders there can be doubt
of citizens who have seen the Conlederss
sentry since their arrest can positively swear 10
Their Identity In ac the arrest OF Of tho party
and bis recognition, he confessed what ne bad d,ue
his confession was Forwarded TO the Gov.
erpor General OF Canata, and the particulars are nos
known.
An unnecessary excitement has been gotten up rss
tive 10 our banks. The ST. Alhaus Bank mas, at tns
writing recovered all except 500 600 OF the en funds
The bank ID doing business usual, dscounng hosvs,
&c. The Suffolk Bank Of Boston takes the bns a. the
their counter which Is pr, of enough tnl lhp ~
"Ml right" Should the bark recover 90 ne nm
stolen funds, IL IL IN good condition. n tne piu"es
aremept Of IL had lard away nearly this amount s sur
plus fund for vet day. The Franklin Soo y p.ns 80
TOR the time suspended ana o,deea ~ ab s to make Their
bills worthless for the time Bus am .,i mn " rn,n. 60
the bills be alarmed as ms W. ,asan ,ou ~
rr.s,,n Co,r,v panh Is bewee $4,000 and $50 oooo-
zoo ooo az which nns. learn. oten recovered. Inc
SatIona Rank continues TO do business snd no one need
na nnv hes,tsncy TAXI their bills, which are,
- ~ snesk q as good as the wheat"
There are only eleven o. the raiders thus ,sr esared
keers no the most hrnzcn efrootery Ito de.
slarss ia, he confsdoa.e ocer and that his orders