Marshall County Republican

FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
The Secret History of the War- Glimpses of our Home Rebels-Military Trials of Indiana Conspirators.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22

The Military Commission for the trial of Milligan, Bowles, Humphreys, Heffren and Hersey, convened yesterday. The charges and specifications are similar to those upon which Dodd was tried, and to which the prisoners all pleaded not guilty. W. H. Harrison, Grand Secretary of the order, was examined in behalf of the Government. His evidence yesterday, confirmed that of Stidger, and others, who testified in the Dodd trial as to the organization and plans of the order. His examination was continued to-day, and shows that in June, 1864, the order numbered 15,000 in this State. It was organized in the counties of Marion, Marshall, Allen, Huntington, LaPorte, Fulton, Cass, Harrison, Crawford, Washington, Orange, Grant, Madison, Perry, Vanderburg, and Warwick and some others, that the witness could not recollect. The boxes containing arms seized in Dodd's building, were shipped by orders of John C. Walker, who notified Dodd to inform Parsons that some boxes would come from New York addressed to him. Parsons was a Son of Liberty, and he stored the boxes in his building, knowing that they contained pistols. The first lot was six boxes. Twenty boxes came two weeks after. A letter from John C. Walker, dated New York, May 4th, 1864, was introduced in evidence, in which Walker refers to a general uprising of the Society, and thinks Democrats should work for that and to that end. A letter from L. P. Milligan, dated Huntington, May 9th, 1864, identified by witness, was also put in evidence. In that Milligan looks forward to the time when bullets instead of ballots will be cast, and when the halter is the preamble to our platform. Without concluding the examination of Harrison, the Commission adjourned to two o'clock, Tuesday.

The Democratic State Central Committee have been in session in this city for the past two days. They were suddenly called together to devise some means, in the alarming state of their party affairs, of carrying the State for the grave digger of the Chickahominy, and against Lincoln They have had a bothersome time of it, one proposing one thing, and another something else, and have finally issued an address to the people of Indiana, which will appear in to-morrow's Sentinel. The address is only a prolonged howl over what they call the tremendous frauds in the late election, and says that in fourteen counties there was fraud enough, on the part of the Union men, to wipe out Morton's majority. They exhort the untried to rush once more to the deadly breach, and are confident that Little Mac will swim in what Big Mac was engulfed. It is evident that they are only whistling to keep their courage up. They don't allude at all to the frauds in the Copperhead counties.

The military authorities are very busy recovering and forwarding drafted men, recruits and substitutes. The 144th Regiment, volunteers, was organized yesterday. There are now about five thousand men in Camp Carrington, and arrivals of troops each day exceed those sent to the field. General Carrington, who has charge of the matter, is entitled to great credit for the energy with which he dispatches the great amount of business which presses upon him.