Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph

The Indianapolis Journal says it has been informed by the United States Attorney for Indianapolis that a large number of indictments were found by the Grand Jury at the present term against men for writing to friends and relatives in the army, exhorting them to desert, and promising them protection from arrest if they shall desert. The letters, in nearly all cases, have been put into the hands of the authorities by the soldiers themselves, who show by this manly and honorable course how little they are affected by the treason instilled into their relatives at home. The trials on these indictments will take place at the next term of the U. States Court, and then the writers of such letters may find out that encouraging sons and brothers to desert is a bad business.