left the prison-rooms and returned home. We paid all our expenses home. The food furnished us, while in prison, consisted generally of old bacon, sometimes very badly tainted, and sea biscuit or pilot bread, and occasionally baker's bread. We had nothing to eat with-as knives, forks, and spoons-until some of our friends brought them. We also ourselves, in consequence of the bad food furnished us, had to purchase our own provisions out. In consequence of this imprisonment my health was seriously impaired for several months. From cold and exposure I contracted cold, which settled upon my lungs, and until within the last three weeks, I have been unable to do a day's work. Question by Mr. LASSELLE- Who is the Mr. Browne you allude to as having arrested you? Answer-Thomas Browne, of Winchester, who is now a Senator here from Randolph county. Question by Mr. GIVEN Were you acquainted with Browne prior to your arrest? State whether at the time of your arrest you demanded of Browne his authority for arresting you. Answ-I did. His reply was, I have not arrested you without affidavit; I have the affidavit of several of the citizens of this place; but refused to show his authority. Question by Mr. GIVEN— Do you know who the persons were that made the affidavit? Question by Mr. FERRIS State the facts in regard to the truth or falsity of the charge that you aided and abetted in resisting the draft. Answer-It is utterly false that I did either; on the contrary, on the day the ballot-box was mashed, I used all my energies to prevent the trouble, and twice succeeded in getting the prime mover in the difficulty out of the court-house, and was myself at the time of the mashing outside of the court-house. Question by Mr. FERRIS What did you do toward getting a hearing, and with what success? Answer-We urged a hearing, but got none. Question by Mr. FERRIS What was your treatment after your arrest and until your incarceration in prison here? Answer-On our way here we were guarded by soldiers and refused the privilege of conversing with each other. Upon our arrival in this city we were marched through the streets, and held at the street corners for some time as if on exhibition, and then we were marched through the camp. Question by Mr. LASSELLE State by what authority or by what officer you were detained in prison, so far as you know or believe. Answer-My opinion is that it was by authority of Marshal Rose, and my reason for this opinion is that those who had the custody of us quoted him as authority. Question by Mr. GIVEN Have you a family? Answer-Yes, sir; a wife and three children. . Question by Mr. GIVEN— What political party did you at that time belong to? Answer-The Democratic party. Question by Mr. GIVEN State, if you know, to what party Mr. Browne, who arrested you, belongs. Answer-I understand he belongs to the Republican party. At or before the draft in your county, do you know any thing about any secret organizations in your county to resist the draft? Answer-I do not. Question by Mr. GREGORY Did any one in your county before the draft, secretly or otherwise, advise or counsel with you what to do in permitting the draft to be carried out in your county? Answer-They did not. Question by Mr. GREGORY State whether you were called upon by the Provost Marshal to assist him in completing the draft, and did you so assist him? Answer-I was called upon merely to stand by and see that it was done legally and right—not asked to participate in the drawing. The request was from the Provost Marshal. I stood by the Commissioner when the drafting commenced, but left the room, taking with me the leading man in the disturbance, Williams, out of the house, and having taken him out the second time, he slipped me, and the draft-box was mashed up while I was out of doors. Question by Mr. GREGORY Did you refuse to act as the Deputy of the Provost Marshal in making the draft in that county? Answer-Yes sir; I did refuse to take any part in the drawing," further than to stand by and see that it was legally done, as I have before stated. Question by Mr. GREGORY State whether this Williams, who resisted the draft, was arrested for his conduct? Answer-Not to my knowledge. Question by Mr. GREGORY Did you, as Sheriff, do any thing to cause said Williams to be arrested? Answer-I did not. Question by Mr. GREGORY State why? Answer-I had no warrant to do so, and beside this, I was arrested the second day after myself. Question by Mr. GREGORY State whether you caused or directed any one on the day of the difficulty to pursue and capture said Williams? Answer-I did not. Question by Mr. FERRIS Was the Provost Marshal himself present at the time of the draft, and if so, did he order the arrest of said Williams? Answer-He was present, but did not, to my knowledge, give such an order. Question by Mr. FERRIS Why did you not arrest Williams? Answer-I considered I had no legal right to do so. I was not acting as Provost Marshal, nor as his Deputy; did not see the draftbox broken, and had no lawful warrant to make an arrest. Question by Mr. FERRIS You have, in your testimony, alluded to your action in endeavoring to quiet Williams, who mashed the box. Now state what occasioned Williams' dissatisfaction? What did he say was the trouble? Answer-He complained that he had been enrolled in the wrong township-a township he did not reside in. The township in which he alleged he should have been enrolled, was subject to a draft of only two men, while that in which he actually was enrolled required a draft of thirty-eight men. Williams' statement as to his residence was correct, and the necessary change of his location was made prior to the attempt to execute the draft. ANDREW BRICKLEY. FRANK M. TAUGHINBAUGH SWORN. Examined by Mr. LASSELLE Answer—F. M. Taughinbaugh. I am in my thirty-third year; a farmer; my residence is in Blackford county. I have resided there, mainly, for eighteen years. I have a family—a wife and three children. I was arrested at midnight on the 9th of October last, at my own house, some ten miles and a half from Hartford City, by a file of eight soldiers, under the orders, as I understood, of Thomas Browne, of Winchester, in Randolph county. Upon my arrest, I demanded their authority and the cause for my arrest. This was refused. On the next morning they started with me for Indianapolis, where we arrived on the 11th of that month. At Indianapolis we were placed in the cells of the Post Office prison. I have heard read the statements of Mr. Brickley, before this Committee, and I corroborate his testimony as to our incarceration in prison, treatment, and final release, having been confined with him in the same room, and released in the same manner, and at the same time, and by the same person. The charge, as I learned after my arrival in this city, was, that I had participated, or aided and abetted, in resisting the draft at Hartford City. The charge was wholly false. I did nothing of the kind. I knew of no secret organizations at the time, designed or intended to resist the draft, nor do I believe there was any. I saw the draft-box mashed, and saw but one man (Williams,) engaged in it. I saw the sheriff (Brickley) take Williams out of the room twice, and know that he used his efforts to prevent the mashing of the draft-box. Question by Mr. FERRIS . State what, if any, efforts you made to procure a hearing in your case, or a release. Answer-I asked the guards who had charge of us, when our trial was going off; and they said they knew nothing more about it than we did. Question by Mr. SHOAFF Did you, at any time, send a written communication to the Marshal, demanding a hearing? Answer-I did not. Question by Mr. FERRIS Did you ever apply to any person having you in charge for the affidavits filed against you, and, if so, with what success? Answer-We employed Judge Roache to do so; and he informed us that he could not get to see them. Question by Mr. FERRIS What was your treatment, by those who had you in custody, upon your arrival in this city? Answer-They took us off the cars between guards stationed on each side; marched us through the streets to Camp McManamee, and circling around to the front of the Post Office, where we were detained for an hour and a half or two hours, subjected to the jeers of the bystanders, and then we were marched up into the cells. Question by Mr. FERRIS To what political party do you belong? Answer-I am a Democrat. Question by Mr. FERRIS Do you know whether any affidavit was ever filed against you? Answer-I do not. I was arrested, so far as I know, without any warrant. Question by Mr. MORGAN Was you in the court-house when they were preparing to make the draft, and if so, how far were you from the box? Answer-I was in the house, about five feet from the box. Had you ever spoken to any person about resisting the draft? Question by Mr. MORGAN State what you heard Williams say about resisting the draft? Answer-He said he was enrolled in the wrong township, and if |