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10 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OQUTOBER 25, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. : ... ee f ‘wo had got some country; I then knew TRIALS vase Seieeteiossce ss ase THE FENIAN se desired not and toree gion | ot the county of Tome oer aticers | sna“tmceasian head arabs area; ine engageest W YORK NERALD. Fore eee tay way, ex. | whe were dromed common rua of 86 | then became gencral; ‘tere was ‘woods ‘om esch SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TWE RE! '* bas the did not welcome them iB eng Wey; S25 | Fonlane; the a a] aide of cur front; ‘the. red coats, were in Arraignment of Colonel Lynch at 7 sronte— he effect of Alling out wah tae and | ot A hats; ere Eye lm yen} pg when they ad- Hig Fiende Not, Gellay 00 oe bh yt onan Ee yet veorse | &, umber’ oF men; General | “aceq t tone of my mea fl; soy two men fall | IB tbe city of TOY. gu the east bank of the Hudson Fa ae ate ene or the asus of | O'Neill wos pointed "out Sdout two feet in front of me, belonging to my company, | river, are situs" sg’ ine two celebrated and rival ron! 4 yee. Gathering of German Radical Re- the others, and to anewer, to oar 18m one ot Teter eomen from the Wet thoes whe sacked Si see Ptnem tio; | cmablehmer ie, Lnown asthe ‘Troy Iron and-Nail Fae: |“ publicaus at the Thalia Theatre. Specckon under the bame of Robert % ‘Zaieinen, thet a mam in | them saw 0 body Of ne Queen's Own, the Thirteenth battalion | %°°7,” “ened by Henry Burden & Sous, and the Albany | by Frederick Scheetz, Gen, Carl Schure, En pation would have kuown better’ than to have | his and the other companies retired, Trea Werks, owned by Erastus Corning, Jobn F. Wins-| and R. Well von Gernsbach, mixed bimeelf up with the eoum of }, with whom | thoy wore sean Gein | Orne cant was privaie Joh White-I belong to low & Company. The Thalia Theatre was densely crowded from pax Be appuare to Have been ye mone tends Ped we Bema; don't | the Queen's Own, votive aims and lost soy arm on thas } For thirty yoars past they have been rivals, side by | quet togsilery last evening by a gathering of German; eries of those who fell upon the field of battle, Tt tea | thoee outside ‘many around sion; was shot while on the retreat, side, conducted thelr business with wonderful energy | radical republicans, who assembled to hear a discussion solemn gentlemen, in which that man is plaged, | General O'Neil ‘kaon ears ‘The next witness was Adjutant Otter—-Am adjuteat of and success, growing larger and richer year by year, till of the political issues before the country by prominent thd'it {e's solemn duty which you have to perform | Sulakde of the marching whom I | the Queen's Own; was at the fight as Ridgeway; was and no fimit | German speakers, Toward the front of the stage and’ regard to him It is well for him, im | ¢dnotnotioe; they were camped ou farmsalong the road; | with the reserve on that ‘as commanding off- | there seems to be no end to their greatness, and no a in which he ia that he is w be saw a.mumber of persons frem the American side com: cor; I recollect the opel the engagement; saw | to their enterprise and wealth, Out of this rivalry has | near the middie a bust of Abraham Lincoln was upheld triea by thas British pe ing and to 800 what was going on; I would not seviral of our mea ‘wounded, both of our men and of | grown the famous hook-headed railroad spike machine | by s pedestal surrounded by numerous small flags, A have been so ready to condemn. He feels certain of a-| take a man into my confidence; those | the Thirteenth battalion; those wounded were wounded te tid be- | wreath of laure! leaves was bound upon the brow of biaseed trial, that nothing will be urged ‘had only an interview of a few moments with the | by those who attacked us in our front. patent case, now twenty-four years old in the courts, a gainst him either in the pert Ed ; 1¢ was net through me that the prisoner was ‘The next witness was Lieutenant Bcolfield—Am an offi- | ginning in the year 1842, and now before the court on | thissembiance of the martyred President, The sides sat or i he ow pola ae Be ES rem | a et cane we mGTarriwon, tovden: | Sob ta ‘the Weland, Canal Battary; afer lonvine Port | then "$0000. H Pocrlag.vacioua inscriptioas, fue. fruiteat sosaiteet mice Nodiing in tes Le cocsat saan eee it ths Seen Tl acon = Fore Colborne ‘we embarked at Fort Erie and scoured the seventy-sixth years, isa native of Scot! puntance—-Mémphis, New Oricans and Platte Citys Bere vo prosecats him or in the jurors tends to show thet Erle: when I’ saw the prisoner at Fort Erie | country; we had on that day three officers and Sifty-four | chanic and investor. “Woodford—True as woldier, true as ao citi- what would be the expectation of apyoneofher | >¢ wore a black bat with a wide brim; } men; they were dressed in the artillery uniform; came | and perfected the spike mach’ zen;” “Do not trust the repentance of these Majesty’s subjects in a similar situation would be | the goatec and mustache were then the same as he wears | in comtact with the Fenians on that day about three Winslow traitors ‘until you have seen the fraite of their peni- denied to him. eed not have the slightest fear of | DOW; of that Iam itive; I am positive that the pri- | o'clock; we were drawn up with the Dunnville Naval | of invention, exercised the app tence; “The government of the people, for the : judice against him except that which nataralty arises | #0uer at the bar ts the same that I spoke to at Fort Erie | Brigade; they had no uniform; the naval brig- | priating Burdeo's invention aud by the penple shall vot disappear from the of the position in which be now ‘and from | 8 Colonel Lynch; the sword he wore was similar tothe | ade was inf our front when we saw a patent, and making and selling boo! the eartp;—Abraham Lincoin;’? “Iti an understecd the recollection of the pall and "which vvorspread one our own cavalry wear, with an iron scabbard; he | body of men coming down the road, andthe first thing I | the market to the damage of said Burden and in breach Seay thas the Temveracions ef -Cieir Beate. Sipinia-engoety the country tn comsequsnes of te aote, Seemed at the time to be in command; he was walking | noticed was a man with a white fia, who calied on us to | of his patent right, opon the consent of Congress.—Andrew Job: Bep-- 3 will now briefy run over the evidence which it is | UP and down the road, and stopped when I spoke to him; | surrender; we paid no attention to mee when they | ing atemper as to sags mnoticed, tember, 1865, to Governor Marvin, of Florida,” and, proposed to'adduce upen thie indictment, The indict- | } think that the at the bar is Robert 8. Lynch; | fred, and Captain King of the Welland battery, was | therefore “Fenton, a loyal Governor-for a loyal State,” comprised: Pepa -rcpemaclraiieapmget Ag rigioentmadpag gy n| ‘ing 30 ia my interview with a; hit in the leg; a ae in the ankle; Rob- she es tag Lene hr aga gle reite, " nothi was shot through thigh, Robert previ ane us his-expedition was at this country, No ove nee Oy, ie eee eee) eens of eiteak Beate, by Dickens, in'whieh, the Chancery suit)| acceeoar parnie enttaes insmeslately before she ; of Jarndyce BAN Jarnd: Pel re tard pani a rd i | meetin was Deel mar :peeceenion of th Me torlous world, and uot the ‘moral ef oteran Club ent u eatr ipeceaed which bas been a Parliamentary Reform of the Englith ioe recency pening the. Pcie fol Chancery Court, was no caricatnre im view of this case, | yidge vox has saved, the ballot box will save the coun- Indeed, trath ta stranger than fiction. try,” “What we fought for in bloody conflict let us pro~ ‘The suit was brought in the Circuit Court of the United | tect against treachery,” and “The policy of Congress States for the Northern district of New York, before Mr. | reans to advance. ’? Justice Thompeon, who was eucceeded in the caso by Mr. Ateight o’clock the mecting was called to order, and Justice Nelson. The first and seed ox J in the case gave | Mr, Frederick Schuetz was appointed chairman, Mr. Burden a verdict for the amount of damages claimed, REMARKS BY FREDERICK SCH Exceptions were taken to tho decision by the defendants, ‘The chairman, Mr. Scnuerz, was greeted with eathu- and a further hearing was had at the following teria of | siasm, and addressed the audience, remarking that he with | the United states Circurt Court, held at Canandaigua, in | thanked them for she honor of being made presi- with an | June, 1843, when the motion for anew trial was denied, | dent of so large.an assemblage, In looking at the bust and leave given to Mr, Burden to perfect his jndement | of Lincoln he could not but remember tha noble heroism. on the verdict, thereby fully eatablisting the validity of | which characterized his iife in the cadke of treedom. the patent and the originality of the ‘nvention. An ¢xe- | ‘fhe republican party bad always fought against tyranny, cution was sued out and pnt inthe hands ot the then | and it wae their motto still. They should be Marehal for the Northern district of Now York, who de- | in their contest against the traitor, Andrew Johnson. ed to collect this debt so Jong as to compel the paten- (Applause.) The speaker alluded to the hial of Me mn aga = te Creoapnes cond for Rien be aay. In Leirypel the rebellion when the people arose in: of im she of the column; and too msolf; this was on the eae jefendante go stoutly resisted the payment the principles represented by Lincoln, and con- perp aia tread amet Sage ceacrra ; whether they bad uniforms; I| June; I saw the Fenian surgeon, Tr. Don- | the judgment which waa not satisfied until the “atsnal | tinge their’ exertions unt? Fuchouad ial) a holding 1 command; he was seen marching with | &W two or three officers king to @ man named nelly; be had no arms, he was dressed in biack; | rerzed and levied upon the hardware then in the store of | the rebeliton was crushed, Hietory had never recorded these people; he was. ‘seen returning after the fight, and he | der, who lives in Black Rock; the prisoner was among | saw half a dozen of the other officers; tho other oflicer the defendants ai Albany. At this juncture the defen- | a more thorough triumph against r: wn when Lincoln Jury, the counsel for defendant challenging twelve out “ef twenty-four jurors. Olerk—Are you ready for trial? Colonel Lynch—Yos, ‘The-Clerk then read the indictment—the same as pud- ‘Mehed in the Huxatv—and the prisoner pleaded ‘‘ Not ‘Mon. J. H. Cameron then proceeded tocall the names @f the witnesses for the Cro:n, who were ordered to uamawer to their names, and retire the court into the room. Gerk then read the indictment, to which the e men with whom he was associated and authority in him; that he was recognized 7 38 4 e : H 3 i 3 ner bas already pleaded not guilty, during which pe stood u} nhies cai ‘was thus treated from the time hecameover op the Istof | the column; he had marched past while they were | whom I had seen was dressed in ovvillan’s lothes; two | dante paid the judgment, thus satisfying tbe action a% | ontered Richmond a second Washin, , and the prin- The Hon. J, H. Cameron then called the Crown | June till his arrest on the 2d. We have those who will | speaking to Fader; the prisoner was among the officers; | of the officers I saw were dressed in uniform; I took tea | law. The defendants discontinued the infringement ciples of equal rights to all were again asserted. The owitnenses. tell you that they were attacked by a large number of | 1 did not cause the arrest of prisoner, bnt | with several of them; one of them, who claimed to be a | from thia point untit October, 1845, Mr. Burden giving | war closed and Lincoln fell by the hand of a traitor, Mr. Martin—1 would move your lordship to order all ; it number of the Queen’s sul came to the and the prisoner when | quartermaster, had no coat on, the evening being very | them the time between the settiemont of the original | Tho Union shall be in future a home for all nations and ‘the Crown witness out of court. Mr. Cameron—I am only calling them for the purpose ef peeing if they are here, When the trial commences they will not be allowed in court. . J. H. Cameron rose at twelve minutes past one, tn opening the case, addressed the im the fol- Soulag words: cand GanTixwxn or THe Juny—This trial is one of great im- Lansing only to the country at large, but also as I saw him the jail, after they were drawn | warm Ming! saw. Seppe pare several me iow who were | suit in mee ao Joly of the omy sire tig ue bd men of any color. The North, exultant over the victory, batter large number came across; that arms | UP in line: did not ki that Mr. Newbiggin recognized | over years of age; ‘not see O'Neil or Colonel | Iron and Nail Factory Corporation becamo the plaintiff’, | wag deeply moved by the murder of Lincoln, While ne ven cate while ail went to show that the evident | the prisoner; Tec Starr; bave not the slightest knowlege of having | to discontinue the use of the patent and account for the | the murder of Lincoln waa still fresh in the momories of Perl Ay of these men was to subvert the government | the whiskers of hte afeengee sr ynarighataare ane poe seen them; they told me that we were mistaken | damages. Tho detondants refusing to do thie, the plain- | the people, the copperheads did not dare to propose of the Queen; to levy war against her, and if succeas- | be bad a satchel with him when I firet saw him; I can- | about the nam! of men they had at Ridgway; | tists filed their bill on ithe 10tn day of July, 1648, im the | yoinstating the Union on the old footing of ‘and ful, to make this country a stand point from which they | 00t see any difference in bim now than when I saw him | don’t remember having ever seen the prisoner at the | Cir-uit Court of the United States for tho Northern Dis- despotism. As the result of the war, true freedom lasted were to go over in some mysterious way to capture Ire- | St Fort Erie; did see General O'Neil; the prisoner was | bar before; when tea was ready Mra. Kempeon came up | trict of New York, Mr. Justice Nelson presiding. Thie | put a short time when clouds of treachery arose, and land. re have his own ission that he came over; | the only officer I recognized; thore was an said tea wag ready, I did not want to take tea with | prayer of the plaintifie being denied, the case passed up | Iyritory and corruption, such as were never seen before: we have his letters which show, however, that he officer who came to our who wanted 1m at frst; but one of them said we should have wa, | to ibe Supreme Court of the United States on spree, ipa free State. That man who was chesen to the men; that were killed, We have the teetimony of the men of the Wel- | & wegards the prisoner bimeelf, for the issue of life and come over as a man of war, but asa man of peace, | his breakfast, who had on a uniform of dark blue, with if there was any room at the table they would join | coming before that tribunal at the December seasion of | chief istracy of the nation, gave the victory into death 4 don upon your verdict, The prisoner at the Pane correspondent of some Y » 1 believe, and he | ® green a wore a black mustache, but was stouter | us; there were preacnt during tea several Fenian off- | 1849, and decided in favor of the plaintiffs on the 18th of | the handy of the conquered rebels. The Aberin of’ har is indicted ander a statute passed under very iar @ that he mixed with the le for the purpose of | than the prisoner; I don’t know who was chief in com- | cers; after we had tea we roturned to tho sitting room; | January, 1453. Andrew Johuson gave to the South a guerdon of slavery discumetances, a great of ago. ey re- ning that information of w! he was in quest, He | mand; did not see the commanding officer; I saw one of | we had liberty to go into the yard and goabout the house The first effect of thie decision was to remand the case | and despotism. After the ballots of the November elec- membered the year 1837, when Glithoult ioe arose between should have felt, at least, that it was a dangerous pos- the officers talking about elght_o’ in the morning, | wherever we pleased; they did not treat us badly, and | back to the Circuit Court below, with instructions to take | tion, the sun of trath and liberty will arise and pierce ‘the two sections of the province, when armed bands ar- | tion to occupy ; but with regard to that we have evideme | and went over to them; one of the men J saw talking | were quite gentlemanty to us while we were prisoners, account of the damages, bt the clouds with its splendor. The policy of the traitor, wayed themselves against the peace of our country. It | which is strong and conclusive that he was not in ttat | was the , Thomas Riley, the tnformer, was next examined. As already stated, the Supreme Court of the United | of corraption, of murder, will be destroyed, (Applavee.} waa believed at that time that the law was not in @ pro- | capacity, but that he had a sword by his side, and that J. H. Cameron—You have no doubt that the prisoner | His evidence was mainty corroborative of that of the | tates at Washington gave judcmont io favor of Burden, | 1¢ depends on the result of this election. Are the sacri- state with respect to the ly Justice that ought | he was in command; that he was one of those who came | at the bar is the one you saw? other witnegses. ihe Coort then adjourned. | after a well eontosted and vigorous fight, lasting cleven | fices of blood and treasure involved by the war against follow those in commission of such a | over here to regenerate their country, and to upon Witness—Not the slightest. TT years, in 1858, establishing his patent and his claim for | treason for the welfare of libegty am, the country to be The law therefore passed had the effect of | our necks institutions which we repudiate. We wer to The next witness was Joseph Stephens, He said:—I SPEECH OF HON. €. H. ANDERSON, AT LOCKPORT, N. ¥, | dem ates azainst Corning, Winslow & Company (Horner), | unavailing? Only by the defeat Of the President's be ground down if a sufficient number of men and | reside at Fort Erie; was there in June last; saw the for infringement, and a reference was ordered by the policy can there be a lasting pear Only then will there means could have been obtained, and they were to «m- | Prisoner in June; when I first saw the prisoner he was On the 27tb instant Hon. E. H. Andersen addressed | Court to take and sate the amount of Burden's | be true happiness in a pation ich has been rent by civ! pel us to socept of laws which we did mot love, Phis | in the road; it was them about six or seven o'clock IM | 11.4 onizens of Lockport on the sutiect of Southern rep- | SNAR* " dissensions. An aristocracy in the South sought t@ de- ‘waa to be done, not of our own free will, in a peaciable | the morning; he was then getting hia men into line to i Mr. Barden had been successful, and it only remained | gtroy the independence of the country and trample the and quiet way, but over the dead bodies of our sonsand | march; he was armed with a sword, nothing | resentation in the bals of Congress A‘ter stating that | to show how much he had suffered by the infringement; | rest of the community under foot. When this victory a brothers. else; he wae commanding the other men; the | he was a democrat, and sbould continue to adhere to ther words, how much they had made by using his ined the first real victory will havebeen won, He gassed away; but it still was allowed to remain upon the Gentlemen of the jury, it required the time which 1 | Fenians bad taken me prisoner his orders; somes jnece, S Mventon. Burden’s clatmn was large, amounting to over | forward with hope and confidence to the coming Novem- ‘state book, that those in after years making similar have now eaten ef tinededsec = ‘that somesbort | I suppose there were several others eM, with mes democratic principles and support democratic nominees, | pate 4 miition of dollere, ber election. Tapolaecs’ The martyrs of civilisation attacks would be amenable to its law | history should be given to show how these uities | I heard the prigoner making use of words of com: he said: — : Both af the parties were wealthy and wilfal, and the | are arrayed on the side of the President's Reliey: the for trial by court martial; that the crime of | arose. The prisoner. is to be defended bya pits while held as a prisoner; he ap) to be in command; 1 shall now proceed to discuss with you how far the | Magnitude of the interests and claims made it an object | spirits of Washington and Lincoln are with of Com treason be a crime of felony, though the penalty | of ability from Mr. Martin, and by agentle- | 1 was held about fourteon or fifteen minutes, or until we | southern States have furfeiied thelr rights ag States and | Of the first importance to bave areferee, master or com- The spirits of our fallen heroes in the war of ‘would still refhain the oo that the ordinary tri- | man from our bar, I before that he is as safe with | marched about three-quarters of a mile; heard no con- | how far the relatinns of each ~tate to the general govern. | Miseioner of the very highest character and standing, a# om are enrolled in the cange. The principles of Wenals of the land be use of when such circum- | regard to hie trial here asin any other part ofthe | Vereation among the men: some of them were kind of | ment have been chanyed. 1. do vot know of ony arga- | 4 lewyer, sans peur et sama reproche, Hence this was ® | humanity must wiumph and will triumph: (Great ap- stances as those should hereafter arise. It me Leta | world, ‘The crown did not challenge tany one bras saucy, others of them asked me how far it wag across | ment so weak, so erroneous, so anconvincing, and to my | Most vitally important stage of the case. Plause.) ehervative, either that a court martial be assem! oF | and while gentlemen bavea great abhorrence of te | Canada, or if it was only seven miles; J said it was about | mind go distasteful, az the ono which declares that after | The late Samuel Stevens, of Albany, was at this time THE RESOLUTION, at the judges of the tribunalg be allowed to | crime with which this prisoner is charged, yet if Colon’ | ten miles; ‘they said they intended to take | the southern ~tates bad rebalied, and the reboilien had | BUrden’s counsel, and he was one of the best natured The resolutions were then presente’ by Mr. Alfred pate their Under that statute you, gentlemen, | Robert Lynch should be successful in csiablishing ba and each of them was to bave deen ernshed, they were entitied to their former rights | 824 most confiding of men. He had long kuown and | frbe, and unanimously approved. ‘ihcy expressed: — ae now empanelled to. try Seip mee at the ber | plea he would say to him in the words of the clerk ¢,| farm; I was a prisoner all tho first day in my-own bouse; | ; and that on that ground, and on thatground only, | Practised Inthe courts of hon get oe is Btate before | First, a determination #3 stand by the privciples of the aay Saw yore ieee the that law was | arraignment in olden times, “May God send you saf(| they put me in my own bowee until they wont away. | those States are eptitied to represemtation; 4t would be | tbe Hon. Reben Hyde Walworth, Hor, and srt | radical republican part at all hazards, ax’ to assert and frst passed. We will give these people the same | deliverance.” and kept a guard over me; I did not see land; saw | as well to say that the prodigal eon forfeited no rights | Of Professional reépect bad grown up in his mind for | carry out the principles proclaimed on the birthday of fair trial as we would one of our own people placed Sxantnaniow’ cp wrtwenees. no act of violence committed ; saw no fighting, 88 they | when be left his father’s roof, or that a wire forfeited no { that eminent legal funciionary. | He regarded bim as @ | the republic, in accomplishing the reconstruction of the im a position of this extraordinary macure. (Mr. | ano pret witness for the crown was James Severs, Gov-' bad nobody to Nght with; was at home én Satarday; | rights when she abandoned her husband, but it would be | iUtist of learning and virtue. Ruben Hyde Walworth States; second, a of the constitutional: amend- -Cameron here read clauses of the act of Parlia- ‘ernor of the jail, who testified as follows :—I hav go (800 no fighting on that day; I reside one mile below equally an error to assert. that the prodigal son had no | 284 been upon the woolsack as Chancellor eighteen | ments: third, the right of Congress alone to pase s gen- ment passed lant session, and then tojd the Jury that that | Or'in6 Fenian ‘prisoacrs (ihe witness was here handed | Fort Erie; did not see the fight on Saturday, as T was | yigiits as a son, the wife wo rights. as a woman. No | Years, when the constitation of 1846 swept him from his | eral act of reconstruction; fourth, the desire that ‘the yaa the law under which the indictment waa framed.) | two letters, and identified them as ones written by the | 2! Much on the muscle, and preferred to stay at homme. | offender, no runaway com, no runaway wife, no criminal, | PeTcl and retired him to the salubrious waters and shady | “euiprit (Andrew Johnson) should be arrested in bis in- Me said —Your duty is to inquire whether either of the | Po ner at the bar); they are both in hie handwriting. Croms-examinod by Mr. Martin—Nover knew the pris: | no thief, no murdoror, no folon—ond aftor this category | fTove# Of Saratoga, He had written eleven votumes of | sane carocr, and be impeached by Congresa according to Fe argh etree aid gg, J. H. Cameron then read the following letters, which ner before until I saw him nt Fort Erie; it was about | will you permi: me td udd—no Southern seceder, but re- | Chancery decisions, Known aa “Paige's Reports;” also | the provisions of the constitation;”” fifth, apeidote the f a conviction you all ww. It was well known were given in as evidence. The first is a y of a iotter six o'clock in the morning when I saw the Fenians; did | tained some right in the eyes of God and man. Now, hiv Rules of Coart, amounting to two volames more, and, | support given to the Congressional policy by the veterans. Sronghost the: world that these people canst from | Tent S'General ONele ‘oom not see them when they landed; they took me @ prisoner | what are these rghts which @ man to all appearances | ™# the great cxemplar of temperance, he hed literally, | of the army and navy; sixth, the ratification of the ayre- & country at peace with us hed no quar- : and made me get them my harnees; saw the prisoner at | ever so guilty, surrounded by the most damning evi- | Upon the bench, k more cold water than all the | cusp platform, and the candidates nominated for vel with the Bi pcg of that country, mor are | 9, 5, Pm hig: oe Bepenro, suly 2, 1866. the bar about one hour after I was taken prisoner; did | Gence, 3 to the last? Among those rights are | Other judges in the State during the same period. officers; and seventh, that it was not enough to simply ‘we desirous of such an event, but wish 10 parse oer ey eet in ee eerie with others, charged Ot 8ee the prisoner crossing; he muat have crossed with | tho right of trial by jury and the right of counsel, | _ Sam Stevens did not late this lattor habit at 1t8 | gain a victory where the danger was #0 great, bot to gaig avocations in uninterrupted peace. Weare anxious to | with eing connected with the Fenian army on theirinvasion the others; he could have crossed without my knowing | And go as it is not in Keeping with the dictates of a free | Teal worth, but ho really had unbotinded confidence in | euch an “overwhelmin: victory as to strike rin the @altivate al! the arts of peace and to extond the future of | of Canada, although ting I was only so us fares being it; he must have crossed in some boat, as it government or a Christian sense of justice to condemn | “Yd admiration for ‘he late Chancellor, and freely ad- | heart of the trator, and to cruah out all farther thonght eur own aoe > the way which wil) best suit our own to the Louisville press. This can be substantiated was fmipossible for him to wade; when I | without due trial the meanest man in the land, however | Vited bis lent (Burden) to agree upon him asa referee. | of violence and rebellion.” Fa gong and beowrsagpart pb agra _ by Mr. McDermott, by whose instructions Icame to Buffalo saw him he was marching uj and down | fon} the eri ‘with which he ‘de charged, neither | Mr. Myirden did agree to it upon the strong reprosenta- RRMARKS RY GENERAL CARL we remain at peace samity with those hving which Prisoner lauched at the oddity of the wit- | war has condemned or punished without due | Compunetions. He urged against it that the Chan- | greeted the appearance of General Carl Schurz bx Mrs Newblggin, In) whose ‘oreheed your snes: wens ‘ene ete); did not see any other person giving ordera only | yin “Me ‘ues "Woy wicca pupscies ‘upon a footing | ceilor and Corning, bis adversary, were old political | subsided, that gentieman proceeded to discuss the ques. Campod, iaentifed me as being tn command ar the camp and | bim;' the ouly movement Teaw wes the. things the | Tae thove nations which, for having denied their rebok | ctoules of the democratic party, to which he was op- | tions now at imac, enying’ that he felt desply moved. ty Funted me, colona, which statement he, has sworn to; Fenians were moving, each as furnituro out of howsen; | Hous or conquored ‘ubjects he rame privilege, we have | Prwed, that their social relations, were too intimate 10 | the reception which nad ust been ‘elven Rita. “He: say : ; 4 be other, srhese news | dea's' oe ee er = 1 oe raat * both of my i 1 saw pris- | characterized as nations tyrannical and despotic? Should | leave the learned Chancelior unbiassed and impartial, | many faces before bim with wi he became known nwore to in order; had some pees T | that it was more a matter of business and less a legal | curing thet the war." He had seen Scone ab More Hie 2 was te comnsneesd and forsaee the mon |' 04, and JE oll lr ‘him, I think; T peed Se ace eaviend pep aetiheey aeotae ewe question than would be likely to interest so distinguished | the smord in hand. pete eae say their oe the life of ime see who those men take me for.and how they dow't know where they went after they eft | Samtitted of late, in soine shape or ocher, those provi ® jurist, and that he would prefer more of ® business | These he needed not to thank for the heartiness of thie should be thus mistaken; but such will be their testimony me; the prisoner had a sword and in scabbard, but bad | to representation, have not those nations accordingly | ™an. reception, He knew them and they knew him, aed it Ste all th m y pay ip Rory Plan reg hte Boge NL Me gtd on no uniform; after we marched some distance he or- | risen in our esteem and respect? * * * © J say, But Stevens ooeeenees pe eae be pene be te A rgd rufficed to simply say that. Jt was almost unnecessary trary. Tam therefore obliged to appeal to you, a having dered .us to fall out to the right, and I was very‘lad tofall | thorotore, for our sake, and not for the sake of the | 4! panegyric upon t omyoemger intimated to | for bim to ray ® word about the resolutions, as they command of the Fenian army whisk invade Canada, for Out; I would know the prisoner among a thousand; he | south, we should insist’ upon its being represented. J | Burden a thing = be th ia mind, on on were adopted unanimously, In every political revotn- an afidavit as to whether you had koown gne to ‘have. looks alittle darker than when I first saw him; be | have no sympathy for the rebellious South; scarcely Ff elmwn reed namely—ti (oda Reh abn ny re Ti | tlon there were two periods of ‘i danger—the resnit spy posiuon or command in that army, or in ‘looked g)ittle tanned then; he looks the same, ho enough pity for that portion of it which has innocently e Chancellor, and he would do about as be wanted him | of the war and the dangers follow the reason. any manner connected with it, ether ‘commissioned ever, hen I first saw him. suffered; an abhorrence of the leaders of the rebellion | %. Burden consented, and there was where ho wi This revolution or war had, by its successful termination. fm rot Men peo offer <4 petra oe The next witness was Thomas F. Bosworth—I reside | anu of those pests of the democratic party who have en- | Worsted. Corning beat him on the referee. Poor Ste- | alwred the character of the corptry entirely. The ong to is ‘an euek withows your knet rwill'wot St Fort Erie; recognize the prisoner; saw him on the | deavored to look with leniency upon the errors of seces. | Vens passed away about this period of the case, and Mr. Py Phave be Med rite apie Pe nee Ot ot she eampaiee. | the: Toad; he seemed to have the most lip of any of the | would I have the leaders of the rebollion, now that the | tion of his counsel, bat not without, as I believe, | — The wild and vociferous cheering and ry fag thus no cause to induce hostility between these two countries, there must have been something to have jus- tiled the outrages committed upon us, These people Glaim to be citizens of the United States, and claim the rights of its citizens; but they bad no right, without any eause, to make raids upon us, to kill our people, to de- roy our habitations, orto levy war against our sove- theQueen. Whatever @oming again: wegard Le ope, in their own country, that ground on which to base attacks against us.’ Our laws go rights and justice to all, and it is bard to for what or for what object they thus - first danger was clearly escaped whom the Seuth ame to bring this strife and dloodshed iuto the country. | Seiay'in going before a foning Of she noeoe and Peak inte road leading to Fort Erie on the morning of the Grst of | sion, Ihave no svtapachy, Tay, tor these men or thew | Burden was left s lone wen ina strange court. His ad- | was conquered; but now the country bad merged into ‘We know the efforts made by miszuided men some years | afidavis. | acknowledged I was ut the comp at Fort Erie, June; can’t recollect whether he had any arms; saw him | cause. sy whole heart is fur the welfare of the republic | Vérearies had it all om own way. In the year 1855 the | the middie of the second danger. The reaction had com- age, sad bow jogos) alate Te of om but in the ea) of an American citizen, without arma in in the forenoon the second day, about eleven or twelve | of which I am a ciuzon, and it is in order that the wel- | case came into the Chancellor's hands by appointment of | menced. New channels must now be found wherein to Canada. with no hostile intenuon, ey | on ie business o'clock; had a conversation with the prisoner; some one | fare of that republic may be insured that | advocate the on whieh t came. I had @ letter to r. McDer- said in my presence that he was a Fenian, avd he ea'@im | cause I do. or master, whatever he was called, and he opened his | that the peop! the United States Circuit Court as referee, commirmoner | jead the thoughts of the people. The danger now waa troops. So con- i im contact with a few of her Majest wi ty’s le would not ki how to maki of ther battle that the locality at ould uot kaow how @ ase « eemptible was fpolt, informing me of your being at Nashville, As reply that he was a reporter; this was when be was ar- anaeh court at Saratoga, in his office, It has been there now, | their advantage, and wouki have to start from the Which It took place. haw become a byword” and | 1cuppoted ip coe ot oon mh Fy ge oY AN INDIAN OPINION OF CITIZENSHIP, im that came office, thirteen long years, and if repori | very inception of the revolution, in order to accompliaty as expression of contempt. Those men on the present | Tuere are about ninety prisoners here charged with being — Cross examined by Mr. Martin—I live abont half a mile a , says true—and the elaborate evidence 1m this case docs — the legitimate purposes of the war. Every one interesied Secasion cold not think that they would be able to re- | connected with the Fenian movement. I have written also from Fort Erie; it was about six in the morpivg when I | qhe remnant of Narragansett Indians living in Rhode | BOt deny it, as will hereinafter be seen—it is better by | in the future prosperity of the country must se clearty dvesa their supposed grievances or to attain thelr ends | tC cionel Starr for a similar affidavit. | I bave the honor to was first able to recognize the Fenians; they marched “ea Deen invested by the Legisiat h the | MALY tens of thousands of dollars to be referee, commis. | the time the people had their fate in their bands, te which the people of this province on that former | >*. General, yours faithfully, ROBT. B. LYNCH. t my house; after formed I could not see who | Island has been inv by the Legisiature with the | sioner or master than to bea chancellor. It ia not too | thr: things must ba restored forever—first, the Umon: eccasion have shown their aversion. They were not J. H. Cameron—Are you aware thaf’England and the Rien, ‘but they were by some one; I #aw some | prerogatives of citizenship, and a committee which was | much to say, in view of the startling pecuniary relations second, peace, and third, justies. Peace they had gained @atisfied to make attempts im their own land, but they | United States were at peace since June 27 rson riding ; as far as T caw recollect the man riding was | appointed for the purpose held aconfercnee with them | of this case yet to be referred to, that six months’, nay | by force of arms, and without peace there could bene gaust come to this, where people from their own count: Witness—Yes, sir. n uniform ; don’t know who had command ; did not notice | ob the 9th instant. The remarks on the part of the com- | three months’ time, honestly devoted to the subject of | Union. But witho ave sought to obtaih that peace and happiuness whic! The next witness was Thos, Newbiggin, who testified when they were moving who was in command; when I | mittee were to this effect:—‘That there had been a | the reference would have acc all ‘they said they could not obtain at home, where institu- | as follows:—I reside near Fort Erie; resded there on Sons are fair and equitable, and where we have hewn | Ist of June last; reounize the prisoner at the bar; first @ut for ourselves comfortable and peaceful homes. They | saw prisoner on lst of June, in the Fenian encampment have come to a iand of peace—a land lying at their door, } on my father’s farm; { went to the encampment to use aed in consequence we, instead of cultivating the arts | my influence with the Fenians to take care of three jnaticn there could be no ujom, complished all that was | pecanse without justice there could be no inating peace. jfirst saw the prisoner he was about ove hundred feet | tendency in the public mind toward the conclusion that | called for or expected for the court above to make @ de- | Jeave out one of these and the others would fall to the from them; he was walk: 5 at the head | all men in equal conditions should be equal before the | cree upon, ground. If Union and peace are desired, then justice them, but I think he near the end of the column; | law, without regard to race or color; that this idea had ‘A reference of an entirely similar character as toim- | tnust be made the basis of ail political action. culminated in the enactment by Congress of the “Civil | portance and elaboratenese was made about this time by | ‘The mpeaker here discussed at length these amends g a 5 i Hy Rights bill,” which was now the law of the land. That | the Court in the case of Elisha Foote ve. Silsby and | ment in all their oearings, strongly sdvocating them, ‘ef peace, had-to apring to arms to resist the ors to | my father’s horses; I asked the pickets at Frenchman it was @ matter of concern in the Legislature and | others, wherein the Court and administering a revere reboke on Prenident ‘Sonmen, force upon vs an authority we did desire, and to | creek to let me see General O'Neil or Colonel John | norni among the people of this State, tbat thie tribe, to | pro hac vice. In this case iw almost the same manner which was reported yester- defend with our blood our hearths and homes from | Hoy; they said Moy was gone to | in Fri whose our ancestors were under so many | and made his report in day from bis Brooklyn addreg. thee who thus sought to destroy our inatitetions We | Fort Erie, and General 0'Neil was busy in cam obligations, should still still claim to owe allegiance to | then held to be a very long time—rendering « REMARKS OF Tt. W. VAN GRMMNACH, @i¢ not know untila years ago that there were men | bot referred me to their tribe, rather than to the State, and to maintain | for for per diem services amounting to $258, Mr. An address was delivered whe were plotting againet the Queen, or of | 1 asked to sce General O'Neil; he directed me to O'Neil’ even a semblance of another jurisdiction us. | Master Boyce took fourteei wach, in which he apphed one of teeth making thie country stone from which their pny wlhgeme ny finn Age dye in nine months, for whieh the court allowed him. Stories to the preseut «tate of American affairs. Tt im- Zerpomen could be efected lately we knew that that there ought to be no priv! class in the cents fobo, summing plied that God had allowed Saino to do anything he Po 8 gathering woe in existence from which a con- and that no right or privilege ought to be ‘by one But with tbe case under plesaed with ail countries except America at first, and spiracy wea to tarn Ireland into a republic, This went man of mature age ané@ sound mind, who Bot for. | been worn out, and how’ ‘fmaliy gave him control of this land, when the briberies ‘em by degrees from ene small circle. Vory rapidly the Felted Sky ete © ee, ES was Oe open be on- | im framing and casting and and corruptions that now Rarrass the land came upon it vumsors grew more extended, and from one section of the Joye by every man. That the committee, haw. | crom-interrogatories, until ae 8 penalty, He wonld urve the Gorman citizens to to the other the rumor went abroad that in every ‘ever, had come there to obtain information, and that | and witnesses, all sight of the simple ‘exert themee!vex im the coming election, an it decided ta the Union men were in this cause. Arme they would gladly listen to the views of the officers and | them, stagger om an important iseue, He was confident of the success of ‘were pow purehased, men were and means were members of the tribe, and that they would hear the | mony in wandering mazes lost. the ratical republican party, yreparet to 5 = car Views of others interested in the investigations of the | thet such » reference con! unless | The speaker was frequently appiand!, Ata late hour sovereign. Still, however, thus far ing pointed matters before them.”” there was « placer of gold in el the andieuce dispersed. ‘te Ireland as the soi! npon which the battles were to be ‘The reply made by the Indians to this expression of | sides, and unles: one party wae interested in delaying fought. Within the ast twelve months is was that the opinion was substantially ae aed and could have delay ’ m c datentiow of theee eeema to have been directed to We have not sont for this committee, and we know of | The sequel will MISCELLANEOUS. Caneda instead of Ireland as the battle field. Thue was no Se occasion for its visiting us at thie time. | case has CARD TO THE PUBLIC—A QUESTION AN- (hie country singled out ae the field of their depreda- So far as we know, we are at peace and enjoying a good After ‘Weary years had been spent tn the refer. A ewered:— ween ig a us in every degree of prosperity, It js said by the committees that | ence, and after the referee, been ie it Chat ‘how two large stores in the Cooper In- Gévection. The people were hurried kept under arms there is a desire that we should be made citizens, and be | accou his fees utr, OO the corner of Astor place, are crowded fe yepel the threatened assault, and the country was subjected,to the duties and given the rights of white | of $14,000, Burden, seeing no en | Morning til night with customers, to the no small chagrin opt im & condition of great auxiety as to the operations citizens, “We bave travelled much over the country, | to the prejidice of tin case) Se seer eles an ne eae ft our expected enemicn Yet for a long time have visited many States, ‘and have seen many men, ‘was made up and delivered. But pe ol! ot” un fae (roby tamed G04 yongnidoont ott of res we herdly could ourseives to believe that both white and ik. ‘e bave heard much said about og advantage of this, eonth Goods, China, Ulaes, Silver Plated thie = sasault, when aid happen, really bad the rights of the negro; of negro citizenship and negro | to pay the referee, or max! s enaite thernin comtatmed ‘taken place. In fact, that auch a siate of things equality; but we have not found the place where thie was to be 00 end as long yy paid; 80 they stopper, with the greet qood judgment of large Bed ever any actual existence; for we knew equality and these rights exist, or the nogroes who enjoy | andthe case came to ihe eutfoce again in wn applicn- eo—and exemaively for caek on $hat with that people we never had any cause of quarrel them. " Negro citizenship, as we have sven it, means the | tion by the referee, or masier, to the United Siates Cir. al, amr ah quests Reser We nee a Ye this tumors became more a men right to have the negro vote for somebody but mot to de | cuit Court, Judue Neleon, witting at Albauy, for the pay- wore of the tetas there to buy.” ‘s what’ came to te inform us of the threatened voted for; no white man voles fora negro; we do not | ment of bis fees and charges, he baving completed his (Re peaier, imvasion. Sales werden anak Jane. The bur. want this negro citizenship, and if we are to have some | report, to which it ie said, though this last statement T LVWARD D. RASSPORDS Great Hooreksepers Basner, en of the tpformation was the attempts were w other citizenship, we prefer to eee oe ae cannot vouch for, that Corning and Winslow had lost | Cline, Glass aud Crockery Emporiam, Cooper Institute made ene moat scale, that different points cleo before we accept it. We do not wish to jump off | money in making spike, and that there is nothing dato | MullMing, Ketile-on me the sce ‘Croes-examined by Mr. Martin—tI first eaw the prisoner | the foundation where wo stand until we know where we | Burden. Ba. A «are ne an len ad of armed bat led | on Friday morning about eight o’cloek, near the lower | are to jump to, We are not negroes, we are the heirs of On this application to the court the ptalottf (Barden) GPRMAN — OINTMENT.-WaR had were to ferry; the tower ferry is at Fort Erie, opposite Biack | Ninagrit and of the great chiefs and warriors of the Nar- | got an nity to be heard, and be hes pleced on so cute. withont the slightest dauger, for the disaffected in Rock there were nt when I saw the prisoner | ragansetts, when your ancestor stole the | the of the court a sworn statement, which in its | Piles, Old Wounds, Se Balt Khe i Rane ‘amd enabled several hundred; wi they janded first they must have Ry ty, Africa item atrong us, and made | chat and imputations against the Inte Chaucetior of | Rein Diseases, ac. For at 83 Bowary forces moved to the village and then came back to where they | a slave of him, we extended to bim the bard of friend- | this revives the wnplensant memories attaching to | Pa! dcugeiste. people ni landed and then moved to Frenchman's creek; never | ship and itted bis blood to be minged with ours, | several English Chaneeilors in the mos! corrupt periods, ae to at. raw the prisoner before; the prisoner, when I ¥ and to be told that we may Aside from the delay and mockery of justice, tet me from the him, bad on a dark coat and sword; I thiuk they all by ‘We claim that while one drop | look for a moment at what It costs to havea reference thieg was over, or at least nntil the eame description of swords, with steel seal ; | of Indian remaine in our veins we are entitled to eminent man, they heard that men calling themselves Fenians hed they were dressed in dark clothes and ali sorts of ‘ieed by your ancestors aMidavit referred to, and which I herewith ap- tended upon our shores carried fire, desolation and bate: they were mostly binck hats; I was within fifty by solemn treaty, vue, without a breach of | pend, nets forth that the defendauts, Corning & Com- the ito our peacefal habitations, and that our | gle ferry about daylight, and at they marased on to | feet of them; there were very few middle aged men | faith, you cannot rivlate. We not &, to the white paid the said master large sums of money ‘brave young men had gone forth to battle for the de- | my father's farm; 1 ¥ Temained there until, I think, | among them; there was only one other middie aged man | inan, but the white man came to use. When we were yard. N. B.—My Anderson does 1’ fence of their boloved country and had shed their bearts’ midnight on Friday; the next serning ther was but | whom I noticed, and he was talk! with | powerfn! and be was weak, he claimert our protection sein Look for # Bowery. PERN ‘Diced in the maintonarce of our institutions and our | one man to be seen, who was desthying arma bayonets | the prisoner when I first saw him; no | and "we extended it, We are now wenk, and our | —THE GREAT CHARM OF METOALTE tawa These things, I say, the people of the province | and ammunition; there wore détroyed ninety cases | conversation with the prisoner; I saw him again grasping neighbors, of a race, ure secking Ay the iho emmy Yaw ts te mnemy pesescaty ‘ware slow to believe. butat lat ‘the truth burst upon croar ia tras act Spee coRsing outbound | at Frenchman's creek, “he "was then talking Fewaming remnant of our inheritance, and will L096, | toeffeat a cure. One dose ‘forty drops’) gives ineiens ee them that though we were wo with the | dalle and caps; in one iire I saw \inety-sewn burned | to another gentloman who had a sword also; not give over while an inch of our territory and, thrice repeated, seldom fails to ~ Duited Stater, whose government we ed had every berrela of muskets, the stocka of which were | only saw the prisoner for afew minutes; this was in the | remains to us, and until the members of our tribe th been paid—$14,000 by order | Perfect heat, Genire to fulfil the international obt that thoug! burned; there was a number of \ther fires, but I | afternoon; could onl; see « portion of bis face on ac- | are beneath the soil, or are scattered to \he winds of the Court by each of the partien in equal amounts, and A® ABSOLUTE DIVORCE ORTAINED 18 ANY STATE the military commanders profeened to en! toward | did not count the namber of arms bent; I found forty | count of bis hat; don't think there is any difference be- | of heaven, They propore no measures for our but | by the defendants, unbeknown to the piamtiffs, 24,209, withoat publicity ur exngemre, No Pee te. of honor fail th- | rifles and muskets In the mouth of tle creak adjoinin « | tween the prisoner at present and when | saw him inst; | oment onr quarrels, trespass upon our tuhoriiiece’ de. | making in all $48,200 already received by the master nee le granted. GECNUE LINCOLN, : ried to | the river; the brand on the boxer chtaining the cart- | he is alittle paler and had a little more beard; be look and he now asks the balance in the snug little eum of | “8! Street, New York fff 00 ———= to See oe Arsenal, of New York, | bolder at present. 943,985, ON, HOUKS—BROLOWSY «AND THIRTY. Wiha» 008 cartridges; Va og A ail seemed | ‘The next witness wae an_officer a mht ee tyr Mg review, Tt Dee jandsomely frrnivhed io ned | alike; the rifes wore all , 1864," on the | Queen's Own Volunteers. —We left Toronto fences, appears trom the argument of Mr, Witliame A. Beach that | snd for families and gentiemen. Table Lad hag | stocks; I found mumber of satchels, & cans, feather | om Friday morning, Juse 15, and Port Colborn soon pass from their hands, and the homes upon | the referee or waster im his affidavits actually admits | private. moderate, = crocks of butter, sacks of clothes ia same day, Colonel Densieon wan in command; | am now which they rely for shelter in age, and it may be in | diintory and that it was dewigned, aewell se the | 1 ivoncee GRGALLY OBTAINED) IN NEW YORK the camp when they four of the | Major; my commission wae dated but I was thea in a taken from them. Your imperious wrong Ob judicial partieanehip, and for this reason ‘eithout pndlio.y of fee Ul abeotute Oa men wore United States wore green f com: of a company of the Own; we were cannot touch us now; we may volunteer to fight . Beach that the present presentation VOree RTRELEE CNET NRA ee or 18 Nesenn of a ee ae ; some | ordered on Saturday morning to ‘and meet Colonel | your battles, bat now you cannot force us Into the ranks | of the case the court is forced the M, HOWES, Comnealior, Me. h-ananndl devotedness mani. | of canterne were flanne! ; Posecck: we lefvee ove A. It; we had with ue five han- of your army 10 ve shor down without our consent, ‘And | complainants. ‘we have their captions and dilatory 730 FO THOMAS Ch de REENWICH AND hed our these mis: Teboals an cap Want Sy ausabered over 10,000; they | dred men of the Queen's Own, the York and Caledonia | as right of | what is it worth? We do not | expediente to by the master to proiong the Murray streets. where you will find Teas, Coffees, men bad evoty hope that the would rise | carried fags coe Which had s crowi surmount. | rifles an@ Thirteenth battalion: the Queen's Own wore | want it now. We to vote for the great and good E poadingbefore him, ‘The argument also al. and everyting else cheaper than any store in Sar ames ialieed of whee came stele Pee Ph Al they had several fingn; did uniforma; the Thirteenth battalion wore scarlet, the | Lincoln. Had we been gratified, we shoold have also that the of counsel } Yore — ‘ears; inetead of which came the from which | net them sty what their Intention was, it heard a For and Caladonia wore the rife uniform, dark green; voted for Andrew Jobneos. Tne joy of baving voted for and witness alike, interfering wh tre ontanee T\PERA GLASHE® AND TELESCOPES, ralflens fied in yg 4 disorder, and | prisoner say Mey 41d not intend to molest aly peaceful ‘we wore all armed, and ammunition was served out be- | the one would have been LT age presentation of rverting the course of testimony 0) for Hardou's celebrated Opers, Race ‘hroughout the ised voice. of mourning | citinens, bet that fore we left: we embarked at station | we had voted for the other. We are to the tre- | and provoking diseusmions, te the prejudice of pleal, Besine end Poekes ref A ge : and took up our line of merch at @ after | ditions of our fathers. dag of pe ROS nica aoa ‘word of wes beard for mx, and advanced into the country im the | kings Our tithe deeda came from the great The master is aleo clipred with deliberately and tte- woo rw ha «nner deve of a | M4 Seco competent tap teeoeean ae tet inthe | We deuy ‘Sour Tight vo. tke fran we ibat which beter | pezpons of private Fain, Keehn eaters iam Yor the De ge ee ee ly jen; my company was a w val and Co A anow white; toby © meres mala hp colama; the edvanes svaye comme Goebhing bask afler came from you, potion eaainat seomtees ty anubeene cb Serereriag BILLOX & VOUGAM, 5 ; :