The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-01

by law. See testimony of Samue
Price. Henry NJ. Mathews and others
to be hereafter produced.
SIXTH CHARGE.
Your memorialists charge that th'
said Harrison permitted one Hercu
les Scott to qualify as Deputy Clerk
of the Circuit Court and Deputy
Recorder of Mercer county, withou
tsking the oaths required by law. Sci
certified extracts from the records o
said Mercer Circuit Court, herewith
submitted.
SEVENTH CHARGE.
They charge him with wilful anC
corrupt swearing.
SPECIFICATION.
The said Harrison swore when taking
his official oath, as Judge as aforesaid
that he had not sought to exercise tht
functions of any office whatever under
any authority in hostility to the
United States. This your memo
rialists charge is false in the
following particulars: First, The
said Harrison sought the Office of Aid
on the Staff of General Augustus A
Chapman, o Brigadier General in the
Confederate militia Witness, Augusta,
A. Chapman. Second, The said Harri'
son sought an Office in the Quarter
masters Department of the Confederate
army, Through the friendly iptercessior
and recommendation of Major Harry II
Harrison, then an officer in the Gonfed.
crate army. See copy Of letters of IL
II. Harrison and Andrew Beirne, here
with submitted. Third, That the said
Harrison sought an Office under the
Confederate government in the Bureau
of Exchange of Prisoners of War. See
letter of Nat. Tyler, herewith submit.
ted.
In his said oath the said Harrison
swore that he had given no aid or com
fort to persons engaged in armed hos.
tility to the United States, by counte'
nancing, counselling or encouraging
them in the same, which was false, in
this: First, That he voluntarily took
an oath to support the Confederate
government, at Covington, Virginia, on
the - day Of, and at Fincastle
Virginia, on the 10th of December
1862, and that in conversation with one
Thomas j. Niche and others, and
among them several Confederate off.
GERS, encouraged them in their hostility
to the government of the United States
See letters of Thomas j. Niche, Nat
Tyler, and testimony Of others to be
hereafter furnished.
EIGHTH CHARGE.
They charge the said Harrison with
drunkenness when on the bench. See afii-
davit of Samuel Price, herewith submit
ted, and testimony of Benjamin White,
to be hereafter furnished.
NINTH CHARGE.
They charge the said Harrison with
habitually carrying concealed weapons
in violation of law. Witnesses, John
w. Harris, Robert +. Dennis and others
TENTH CHARGE.
They charge the said Harrison with
violating the law in playing cards al
public places. Witnesses, Alexander
Walker and Lewis Ballard, and Others
to be hereafter furnished.
ELEVENTH CHARGE.
They charge the said Harrison with
gross licentiousness and adultery. See
affidavits in support of this charge
herewith submitted, of Mamie Perkins,
Jane Reynolds and Fannie White, and
other testimony TO be hereafter fur
nished,
TWELFTH CHARGE.
They charge that the said Harrison's
conduct has been such as to destroy all
confidence in, or respect for
him, either personally or Off
cially, upon the part Of the great
mass of the people composing his cir.
cult, and that he is therefore totally I'M
fit to occupy his position of Judge.
Your mcmorialists therefore pray that
the said Nathaniel Harrison may bo re
moved from his said ollice Of Judge OF
the Seventh Judicial Circuit by tho con.
current vote of majority Of your hon
orable bodies, and they will ever pray,
LEWIS BALLARD,
T. +. NICKEL,
ALEXR WALKER,
BALDWIN BALLARD,
JACOB C.. ALLEN,
JOHN HUNTER,
GEORGE n. BRowS,
ISAAC MANN,
WILLIAM MANN,
RICHTSON KESINGER
WALLACE ROBINSON