Canton Weekly Register

The Indiana Treason Trial.

(Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.)

INDIANAPOLIS, November 1.

The examination of Horace Hefren was concluded before the Military Commission to-day. He testified that in the Supreme Council of the Sons of Liberty, held at Chicago, all the States, North and South, were represented but five, two of the five being Florida and South Carolina. A meeting of the Order was held at Chicago during the Democratic Convention, for the purpose of concentrating votes enough to defeat McClellan's nomination. Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, of the Confederacy, went to Nassau, from Wilmington, last summer, to arrange with Commissioners from the North to have the arms then at Nassau, en route from England to the South, which could not run the blockade, shipped to Canada for distribution through the Northwest for the military posts of the Sons of Liberty. A portion were to be sent to Chicago. Some time last summer a man called at Galena with a small box containing Greek fire, shells and hand grenades, professing to be from Kentucky, and a member of the Order. He recognized the hand grenade from the nipple, when he first saw it in court. These things were to be used to destroy Government property. He also had the ritual of the first degree of the Order. This man wanted to know if the witness had not seen this Greek fire and hand grenades, and said that is what destroyed the Government stores at Louisville and elsewhere. The personal appearance, voice, nativity and characteristics of the man were those of Bocking, with whom the witness had been confined in prison. That person claimed to be a Son of Liberty. So did Bocking. Subsequent events proved he was. Bocking was released on parole, and took out with him a letter for a rebel prisoner in the next cell, putting it in a secret pocket in the back of his coat. He saw him at Salem in May or June. The witness has received no pledge or promise from the Judge Advocate or General Hovey in regard to the withdrawal of the charges in case of testifying, nor had he informed Colonel Warner of what Bocking had done as a means of gaining favor with the military authorities. He had an interview with Governor Morton to warn him of the danger he was in, but this arose from his old friendship for him, having always been a personal friend, though politically opposed.

He corrected his statement that he had initiated McKerr in three degrees. He had given him but one.

INDIANAPOLIS, November 13.—The Military Commission was occupied yesterday in hearing the testimony of James L. Mason, Senator elect from Hancock county, and Harrison Cornell. Mason's examination was another evidence of the astonishing ignorance of the Democratic leaders in reference to the secret in the party. Mason knew nothing about the Sons of Liberty, but finally managed, after a polishing of his intellectual nerves, to recollect that in 1862, a fellow Democrat, from Rush county, read to him the obligation of a secret Democratic Order then existing in that county.

This man, John Hall, seemed to be an evangelist of the secret Order. Beyond this Mason could recall nothing.

Cornell testified that he had been a member of the American Knights about two years, and was present in January, 1864, when a number of persons were initiated into the Order. John W. Stope, who initiated them, made a speech, in which he informed them that they were sworn into the service of Jeff. Davis. The witness had gone with Stephen Horsey, one of the defendants, down the railroad to a point in the woods, where he found a keg of powder, some lead and percussion caps. Horsey told him to take it home and take care of it, and he did so. The ammunition was hid in a granary, under threshed oats.

Other important witnesses not having arrived, the Commission adjourned till 2 o'clock Monday afternoon.