The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-29

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in the vicinity of Louisville, and the farm Of
one Moore, in the neighborhOod, lat whose
house alsol meetings were held Is indica-
ted in the testimony as one Of the localities
where such recruits were so rendezvoused
and employed.
The same facilities which were afforded
to recruits for the Southern army were also
furnished by the Order to persons desiring
to proceed beyond our lines for any illegal
purpose. By these Louisville was gener-
ally preferred as q point of departure, and,
the Mississippi river, . particular steamer,
| the Graham was selected as the safest con-
veyance.
s. Fx,nishing the rebels With arms, am
mMssitsOn. 6c.-In this, too, the order, and
especially its female member and allies, haa
been seduously engaged. The rebel women
of Louisiana and kentucky are represented
as having rendered the most valuable aid
to the Southern army, by transporting very
large quantities of percussion caps, pow.
der, &C., concealed upon their persons, to
whence they could be readily conveyed to
those for whom they were intended. 1t is
estimated that at Louisville, up to May
last, the sum of $17, 900 had been invested
| by the order in ammunition and arms, to
be forwarded principally in this manner to
the rebels. In st. Louis several firms,
who are we'll known to the Government,
the PEluCAp6A Va WHICH ID DoouS "AS " w.!
have been engaged In supplying arms and
ammunition to members Of the order, to be
conveyed to their Southern allies. Mary
Ann Pitman, reliable witness, and,
q member Of the D. A. X, who will here
after be especially alluded to, states in her
testimony that she visited Beauvals Il Co.
three times, and procured from them on
each occasion about eighty dollars worth OF
caps, besides number Of pistols and cart
ridges, which she carried in person TO For
rests command, besides q much larger
quantity of similar articles which she
caused to be forwarded by other agents.
The guerrillas in Missouri also received
arms from st. Louis, and one Douglas. one
of the most active conspirators OF the 0. A.
Price, was arrested while in the act oftran-
sporting box of revolvers by railroad TO
y guerilla camp In the interior OF the State.
Medical stores in large quantities were also,
by the aid of the order, furnished to the
enemy; and q surgeon IN Louisville Is
mentioned as having" made V5.OOO by
smuggling medicines" through the lines Of
conveyed to the enemy through the me-
dunn OF protested loyalist, who. having re-
ceived permits for that purpose from the
United States military authorities, would
forward their goods, as if for ordinary pur-
poses OF trade, to q certain point near the
rebel lines, where, by the connivanceof the
owners, the enemy would be enabled to
seize them.
Incorporating with the Enemy in Raids
and Inuasions.-While it is clear that the
order has given aid, both directly and in
directly, to the forces of the rebels, and to
guerrilla bands, when engaged in making
incursions into the border States, yet be-
cause, on the one hand, of the constant re-
straint, upon its action exercised by our
military authorities, and, on the other
hand, OF the general success Of our armies
in the field over those of the enemy, their
allies at the North have never thus far
been able to carry out their grand plan of
q general armed rising of the order, and
its cooperation on an extended scale with
the Southern forces. This plan has been
two.fold, and consisted-drst, of q rising of
the order in Missouri, aided by strong
detachment from Illinois, and a co-opera-
ton with rebel army under Price; second,
of similar rising in Indiana, Ohio and
Kentucky, and q cooperation with q force
under Breckenridge, Buckner, Morgan, or
some other relel commander, who WAS 10
invade the latter State. In this case the
order was first to cut the railroad and tele-
graph wires, in order that intelligence of
the movement might not be sent abroad,
and the transportation of Federal troops
might be delayed, and then TO seize upon
the arsenals at indianapolis, Columbus,
Springfield, Louisville and Frankfort, aud,
furnishing such OF their number as were
without arms, to kill or make prisoners Of
department, district and post commanders,
release the rebel prisoners at Rock Island,
and at Camps Morton, Douglas and Chase,
and thereupon join the Southern army at
Louisville or some other point in Keuiuc-
ky, which State was to be permanently
occupied by the combined force. At the
period Of the movement 1t was also pro-
posed that an attack should be made upon
Chicago by means of steam tugs mounted
with cannon. A similar course was to be
taken in Missouri, and was to result in the
permanent occupation of the State.
This plan has long occupied the minds of
members of the order, and has been con-
tinually discussed by them in their lodges.
A rising somewhat of the character de-
scribed was intended TO have taken place
in the spring of this year, simultaneously
with an expected advance Of the army of
Leo upon Washington; but the plans Of the
enemy having been anticipated by the
movements Of our own Generals, the rising
of the c0nepirators was necessarily post
poned. Again, general movement Of the
Southern forces was anticipated to take
place about July 4, and with this the order
was TO cooperate. A speech to be made
by vallandigham at the Chicago Conven-
tlon was, it is said, to be the signal for the
A.SAne' c~< VAC pocsRohCAASoS Va eAC NOA-
vention, as well AS the failure of the rebel
armies to engage IN the anticipated move
ment, again operated to disturb the
schemes OF the order. During the summer,
however, the grand plan of action set forth
has been more than ever discussed through
out the order, and its success most CONT
IDENTITY predicted, while at the same time
an extensive organization and preparation
for carrying their conspiracy into effect
have been actively going on. But, up to
this time, Notwithstanding the late raids Of
the enemy in Kentucky, and the invasion
Of Missouri by Price, no such general &C.
ton on the part Of the order AS was con-
templated has taken place-a result, in
great part, owing to the activity Of our mil
itary authorities strengthening the detach-
ments at the prisons, arsenals, etc., and in
causing the arrest of the leading ccnspira-
tors in the several States, and especially in
the seizure of large quantities Of arms
which had been shipped for the use OF the
order in their intended outbreak. It was.
doubtless, on account of these precautions
that the day last appointed for the rising
of the order in Indiana and Kentucky
august lfl OASsod nv with l,.,t eli ult die