The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-14
THE NORTHWESTERN NSPIRACY-
TOUEbING DEVELOPMENTS.

FOUNDING DEVELOPMENTS
A commission is in session at Indian
apolis, Indiana, to investigate the case OF
II. L. Dodd and others, charged with
being connected with a reasonable or
gani2aton for the overthrow Of the
United States. The cross-examinatiOn
of Felix ). Stiger, the Government wit
ness, brought out the fact that the revo
lutlonary programme Of the Order OF
the Sons OF Liberty" of which DIR.
BOwles is military chief, included rebel
lion in the West in cooperation with an
invasion by the Confederates- Accord
! ing to this programme, Illinois was to
furnish fifty thousand men, who were to
concentrate at st. Louis and 70 co ope-
| rate with Missouri, which was to furnish
| thirty thousand and these combined
| forces, to cooperate with Price, were to
| invade Missouri with twenty thousand,
| or what force President Davis could fur
nish and that the one hundred thousand
| in all were to hold Missouri against any
| Federal force brought against them. In
| diana was to furnish forty thousand on
| sixty thousand men to cooperate with
whatever force Ohio might send; and all
these were to be thrown on Louisville,
and were to cooperate with whatever
force President Davis could send to East
ern Kentucky, under Buckner and BreCk
inridge, or whoever he might deem bes
to conduct tho operations. This was tht
programme DIR. BowleS gave the witnes:
| in the early part of May, 1864 Early il
June, of the present year, DR. Bowlcs
told the witness that the uprising would
take place if they could obtain the co
operation OF Colouels Jesse, Siphert and
Walker, in Kentucky. a report of th'
) ! testimony says:
/ William Clayton, another witness TO
the Government, testified that the or
ganization first contemplated bringing
the Democratic party into power, ant
was only understood to be politica
organization; afterwards, the officers in
formed the members that il was "a mill
tary organization. The authorities VIII,
had control of the Government were sale
to be tyrannical, and that they were
, trampling us under foot, aud that w
, should have to resist by force OF arms
I. and the members Of the Order are ex
pected to Iise to maintain their rights. -
The Order frequently drilled, and hav,
been drilling for year About two
| | thirds of the Order are armed, some witt
| rifles, and others with Tevolvers and sho,
guns. The m,isterroll OF our township
was over one hundred. DIR. Mccartney
who is Grand Seigneur of the county
informed the members that there wer,
forty thousand in the State Of Illinois
| well armed, and that they could dcpent
! upon eighty thousand iii that State
There were about forty thousand in Mis-
souri,, twenty thousand being IN st
, Louis and vicinity
nj The officers said that, in May and June
there was to be an invasion at thre
I points: into Ohio, to be led by Morgan
o Wheeler; into Indiana, to be led b.
n Iongstreet and into Missouri, to be lie
q by Marmaduke or Price, and, in cas-
the rebels came into Illinois, the brethre
n of the organization We're to shake hand
q and be friends An assessment was mad
5 on the lodges for the purcha Sc Of arms
Their lodge was assessed for two hundre
o dollars, i, was collected by Colon'
/ Barry, or Barrett, Of st. Louis. III
/ arms were to come from Nassau to "a
t NADIA, and were to be brought to the -
}. NADIA line by the Confederate author'.'c'
d but the Order was to pay the cost
y transportation from Nassau 70 .ne sA Iaa1. ~.
n line 1t was understood IN the uraei WV
g the signal for the uprising woa,o p0e 0e,ss W.
/ by the Supreme Commander, y. l.. ss
0 ,andigham. Next to him IN com ma'