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LOUISIANA POLITICS.
Radical Raving.
By Telegraph..
if for latest telegraphic news Bee second page.
HORNING DISPATCHES.
■ omumsiun of the President-. Dispatch
to Queen Victoria.
Heart's Contest, July 31.—The President’s reply
to the Queen was acknowledged from Osborne st 5 p.
a. or one hour and eighteen minutes after Its recep*
. here. It passed through the cable in eleven
tutrates. A royal salute was fired by the Great East-
era. and the American flag was hoisted on the Tele
graph building.
-Minnesota. Democratic Convention,
ib Pacl, Aug. 1.—The Minnesota Democratic State
c mention elected delegates to the Philadelphia Con-
Tiation, and passed resolutions in favor of the imme
diate admission of the Southern States to the Union.
Arrival of the Virgo at lew York.
Sew York, Aug. 2.—The steamship Virgo arrived
beta Savannah.
"tsiousin Democratic Convention.
lUnsos, Aug. 2.—The Wisconsin Convention to-
elected delegates to the Philadelphia Convention,
- nailing Senator Doolittle and Postmaster General
aadiiL
fen York Market.
Hoiui, Aug. 2.—The demand for cotton is light:
'' t plands 36J4 ; Middling OrlesDB 385539.
G..J, ii.-. Flour drooping. Wheat dull and de.
Pott lower, and dull at $3 60®*3 68.
Expert Swindler—The Government
'.^tp in the Sum op $50,000.—A few
a gentleman pf good address,
that were supposed to be genuine
fallals and representing himself as a
™v.’m the United States navy, appeared
at !i;-\av
Wtio:
y Department and presented re-
to the amount of $50,000, lor
a waraut covering this sum was
• The warrant having passed through
^culinary channels of t he Treasury De-
fttwent and undergone the scrutiny of ex
perienced officers, who certified to its cor-
fectness, finally reached the office of Treas-
Mer, who issued^ his draft, payable
Pith United States Treasurer at-
“hiladelpbia. Hastening to Philadelphia, the
iwindier deposited the draft and two thous-
«t(l dollars in national currency in the First
National Bank of that city, stating that he
would ietura in a few days, by which time
“ e imped his draft would be duly cashed by
Assistant Treasurer. True to his word,,
called in a day or two, and, receiving the
amount of the draft, together with his $2,000,
in Government funds, decamped for parts
Unknown.
The swindler gave his name as A. R-
j~‘ en ; and the fact that there is a purser of
JPat name serving in the navy, and the ap-
Pwent genuineness of his paper*, induced
JJ* Department'to proceed with the settle*
?- n t of his claims. Every means have been
i ^en to secure the arrest of this bold forger
S® swindler, who up to this time eluded all
•U'irts made for his capture.— Washington
"fmotiedn.
From a lengthened report in the New Or
leans Commercial, we extract the following
paragraph, illustrative of a Radical mass
meeting and its incendiary purposes:
From the Dryades street stand, in front of
the vestibule, there were, a9 speakers, John
Henderson, Jr., Mr. Judd, Rev. Mr. Horton,
Judge Hiestand and Dr. Dorstie.
Judge Hawkins presided. The Secreta
ries were A. Valias and Horace M. Jordon.
Mr. Henderson made a speech at consider
able length, allndiug, in complimentary
terms to Gen. Lee, and declaring that after
the constitutioualamendments were adopted,
he would be one of the first to ask a full par-
doD, and become endowed with all the pow
ers of a reconstructed citizen. Bad as it was
to be a rebel in war, he regarded it as much
worse to be a rebel in peace. The Convention
will meet. He, as a member, wanted no arms.
He had the arms of the State and the arms
of the military authoiities. The Convention
and the Constitution had been supported by
two Presidents, and by the army and navy.
Mr. Judd, the next speaker, said the ob
ject of this assemblage of the people was to
strengthen the coming Convention, and to
give it backbone. It would meet and hold
its sessions spite af all the elements arrayed
against it, with Judge Abell thrown in, as
‘‘lagniape.” Most ot those before me owe
their freedom to God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Ghost. (A female
voice—“Hallelujah! hallelujah! Give God
the glory.”) We were beaten by the rebels,
he said, till 200,000 native born men, now
citizens, were enrolled, and then we licked
them by the Grace of God. He urged edu
cation of colored children, and closed with
“all honor to the soldier of Louisiana with a
dark skin—all honor to the little redheaded
Phil Sheridan—all honor to the flag of our
glorious country.’’
Rev. Mr. Horton, the speaker who fol
lowed, held in one hand a fan with the ad
vertisement ot an Accident Insurance Com
pany with Gen. Johnston at its head,
and hence he thought they were all safe
here. In the other hand, he held the resolu
tion which had been adopted. He alluded
to the scene in Boston when Anthony Burns,
a fugitive slave, was marched down State
street surrounded by a cordon of bayonets,
to be carried back iuto slavery, and regarded
the present scene as a counterpart.
You, he said, who have been looking to
wards Canada for freedom, do not look
that way to-night. You are citizens made
so by congress in the passage of the civil
right* law-
We are here to-night as preliminary to re
convoke the Convention of 1864 and 1866.
To-night the speaker had rather shake hands
with' the vilest gambler in town, than with
one of the unrepentant divines who espouse
the rebel cause. You who are here, have got
to demaud your Tights, and you will secure
them.
Look at the old flag—the stars are all there,
and more are coming. After having met an
honorable defeat, they who fought againt the
Government come back and say, “We’ll rule
you yet!’’ |_A voice—“Did you ever fight?”
Other voices from colored men in various di
rections—“I have! I have!”]
And so will I, added the speaker, sooner
than they who have been conquered on the
battle-field, shall rule us.
At this point there was swaying to and fro,
among the densely packed audience. Colored
torch-bearers wended their way towards Canal
street, the miscellaneous part of the assem
blage joined in the driftings, and there were
indications of violence. But quiet was soon
restored, and peace reigned.
Judge Heistand was the next speaker. The
decree of God, he said, has gone forth, that
ttioro aiiatl hp universal freedom and univer
sal suffrage througnout tub 1*™™- —
men who got up this war, effected universal
freedom, and by the course which they are
row pursuing they till be torced to yield
universal suffrage.
He spoke of the Convention, and said in
substance, that if the Executive of the State
needed anything to enforce the law, that
oower was here. . . .
The great pow’er of American citizenship is
in obeying the laws.
There is a certain power which claims the
exclusive right of all the voting.
The people of the State of Louisiana are
nearly equally divided—one half wants to do
the voting for the whole, and wants the other
half to do the working for them. This de
mand will not succeed, tor no demand foumL
ed on injustice ever yet succeded.
He asked whether there was any justice in
allowing 25,000 to have all the political
power and do all the voting for 60,000 men
in the State ? Congress is abused for not ad
mitting the representatives from the South
by the mass of those who have but recently
returned from fighting against that very
Government in which they claim a repre
sentation. ... -
They have the modesty to say : W e 11 do
all the voting—you’ll do all the working.
You who have been lately emancipated
from slavery, give the lie by your conduct to
the assertions of those who may say that you
are idle, improvident, inclined to vicious
habits. Above all, educate your children,
and insist upon it that they shall be educated.
By your good conduct shut up the miser-
able recorders’ courts of this town, except for
the use of white loafers. Carry out correct
principles and you will wield the power in
this State by your moral force and your
moral power. The upper crusts of society
are wielded and governed by what lies bi-
10 They who live bv ill-gotten wealth, if the
earth would swallow them up, would never
be missed in the community.
Your former masters say that if you exer-
cise the right of suffrage they can sway it by
the influence over you which they still pos
sess. They do not belive this. It they did
they would be the first to avail themselves of
the effort to confer that right upon you.
Be prudent, be industrious, be good citi
zens, save your money, and as soon as pos
sible cease working for other people, and
work for yourselves. That is the true way to
maintain yonr position as American citizens
and American voters.
Dr. Dostie was the last speaker from this
stand, and some of his expressions were
more intemperate than those previously
uttered. He said if the rebels dared to dis
turb the convention they would be annihi
lated ; and that the conquered should never
rule as conquerors.
ADJOURNMENT OP CONGRESS.
The Work Done—Bills Passed—Closing
Scenes.
Stanton to Show His Hand. A Wash
ington letter says:
An effort will be made in a few days to
“smoke out” Mr. Stanton, and force him to
take a decided position with regard to the
President’s policy. He has thus far failed
to respond to the call for the Philadelphia
Convention, notwithstanding a copy of the
circular call was sent him the d'ay after it
was issued, with the request that he, give
his views upon the proposed convention ind
the principles set forth in the circular. It
is the determination of the President's sup
porters to compel, if possible, a direct and
unequivocal showing from the Secretary of
War, so that it may be known whether he is
in unison with the Radical sentiment, or a
supporter of the administration.
'-A party of (indignant wives attacked a
=Dsy brothel at Sylvania, Ohio, last week,
lj ' : were routed by the tall gypsy woman
■»h kept it, and who had armed herself with
* 'v 11-pole. The husbands then came to the
and compelled the gyspgy and her
t oopanion» to flee.
Th, H~?*Vnf the Tmltr-torv
lathe conclusion,; just before ine *.
hi P*vV:es beer vo:'. - o‘.
to he pniiedStates "Government,
After a session of nearly eight months,
Congress on Saturday last, at 4:30 p. m., ad
journed until the first Monday of December
next. The session has been a protracted one,
bat the business done amounted to little
practical value. The closing proceedings
were charactized by much confusion and ex
citement, but the members generally separ
ated with kindly feelings toward each other.
It is difficult to tell exactly what was done
and what was lett undone at the close. Both
bouses remained in session throughout the
whole of Friday night. The President ve
toed the bill to create a surveying district in
Montana. The bill which passed both houses
to admit ihe territory of Nebraska into the
Uuion was not signed, and is therefore lost.
No attempt was made to pass the Colorado
bill over the veto of the President. All the
appropriation bills were passed, but there
was a severe struggle over the miscellaneous
appropriation bill, aDd it was saved by only
one majority. There was a strong opposi
tion in the House to the increase of the sala
ries of the members, with mileage at twenty
cents per mile, but the measure was finally
pushed through, together with a general in
crease of the salaries of the officers of the
Honse. The salaries of the members of the
Senate and House are increased to $5,000 a
year, and that of the Speaker $8,000. The
bill for the equalization of bounties was
passed as a “rider" to the miscellaneous ap
propriation bill. It will require an appro
priation of about $75,000,000.
The new army bill was passed. It pro
vides for fifty-four new companies to be at
tached to twenty-seven existing battalions,
and eight new regiments, four to he of col
ored troops.
The joint resolution was passed to exempt
the officers and soldiers of the army from
the payment of the special five per cent, in
come tax ; a9 was also the bill distributing
tbe awards for the capture of the assassins
of the late President- The award for the
capture of Jefferson Davis was stricken out.
Mr. Boutwell’s resolutions relative to Jeffer
son Davis’ complicity in Mr. Lincoln’s assas
sination were adopted. Mr. Rogers made a
minority report on the subject. Senator
Patterson, of Tennessee, was, by a vote of
21 to 11 admitted to his seat. A joint reso
lution was adopted authorizing the presiding
officers of the two Houses to grant the use
of a building on the corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Seventh street “for any lawful
purpose, but especially for meetings held
with a view to the liberation of Ireland.”
Among the bills which were lost, was the
one to create a national bureau of insurance,
and the one to refund $300 to each person
who was drafted twice in one year and paid
commutation money, or who, not being lia
ble lo military duty, furnished substitutes.
The bill in relation to the tariff on wool,
which passed the House, was laid on the ta
ble in the Senate. The bill for the construc
tion of au air-line from Washington to New
York, which passed the House, was not
reached by the Senate, aud therefore goe9
over to the next session.
Of the fate of the House bill to modify the
neutrality laws the report of the Senate pro
ceedings is silent, and the probability is it
was lost. The statement that Senator Sum
ner was in l'avor of the bill Was erroneous.
He was utterly opposed to its passage.
A large number of nominations made by
the President were confirmed, and many
others rejected. Resolutions complimentary
to tbe presiding officers ot each House were
adopted. They made appropriate responses,
and then formally announced the close of the
first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Of the late Congress the Now-York Herald
vs • The country will feel a sensation ol
0 Je&t renei —— a —
adjoumed sine die, and that, unless the Presi
dent may think fit, under some unexpected
circumstance, to call an extra session, we
shall be troubled no more with the doings of
this corrupt, profligate and expensive Con
gress, until the first Monday in December
next. From the first Monday in December
last down to the adjournment of the 28th of
July, a period of eight months, we have had
a campaign, on the part of Congress, against
the Administration and “tbe Constitution as
it is,” without anything approaching a paral
lel in the history of the country. In the out
set, from the heavy majority of the Radicals
in each House, and from their bold Radical
and revolutionary policy and purposes then
avowed, there were good reasons for serious
apprehensions as to the continuance of our
popular institutions. But President John
son, against even a Radical Congress ot two-
thirds in each House, has proved himself a
tower of strength in behalf of the Constitu
tion, so that, after this “irrepressible con
flict” of eight months of active fighting, he
stands the master of the situation, as the
champion of the people and the Union.
“The cohesive power of the public plun
der” has been tried to the utmost tension by
the Radicals of the two Houses, and it has
Letter from Hon. _v- Stephens,
THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
To the Editors of the National Intelligencer:
Gentlemen :—I as a a place in yonr ,col-
nmns for the enclosed letter to me from the
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. In commit
ting it to the press I am taking a questiona
ble liberty with him, for thclettevis marked
private. But in the present circumstances
of the country, I think it so desirable that
the people should know, the real temper of
the South, that I feel justified in publishing
this letter from one who, at the outbreak of
the war, was the representative man of the
Union party of the South, and is the recog
nized exponent of the Southern sentiment at
this moment.
President Lincoln had great confidence in
Mr. Stephens. He told me repeatedly that
he had offered him a seat in the Cabinet, and
he retained great regard for.l^m to the last.
Yours, respectfully;
jt M. Blair.
Montgomery county, Mil., July 29, 1866.
Orawfobdville. Ga., July 23, I860.
Hon. Montgomery Blair, Washington,D.C.:
Dear Sir:—Your letler of the 17th instant
is before me. I thank you heartily for it.
No man in the United States did or could
more cordially approve and endorse the ob
jects of the proposed Union Convention at
Philadelphia (as I understood them! than I
did; and yet, from considerations of expe
diency, I doubted Ihe propriety of my taking
active part in it. I was also in doubt, to
some extent, whether, with other views on
the part of those who made the call, the
words were not so phrased in the call as to
exclude all who occupied a similar position
to my own, and from other considerations as
those which had occurred to me.
Your letter relieves me from the last class
of doubts, but those of the other class still
exist, notwithstanding your strong views to
the contrary. Individually my whole soul is
eulisted in tbe cause of a speedy, full aDd
perfect restoration of the Government under
the Constitution, and its permanency under
that Constitution as it now stands. There is
notlrng within my power that I am not wil
ling cheerfully to do to effect and accomplish
that end. Indeed, (you will excuse me in
sayiog it, but it is the truth,) I would be wil
ling to offer my life itself, if by so doing this
great result could be obtained, and peace,
union, harmony, prosperity, happiness and
constitutional liberty be thereby secured to
tbe millions now living, and the untold mil
lions hereafter to live ou this continent.
There are many personal embarrassments
or difficulties in the way of my going to the
Convention—these I alluded to before—but I
am resolved to be there if I can. In no event
shall it be ever truthfully said of me ttiat I
failed to do everything in my power to save
the country and its institutions.
. I did in 1860 exert my efforts to their ut
most extent to avoid the late most laments
ble war, and to save the Union on constitu
tional principles without a conflict of arms,
M-ltta A UIU, VW, . _ q- nOWoD
clamorous for what they call “the Union
cause,” were giving encouragement, at least,
to the extreme men at the South by dearly
and decidedly intimating, if not fully ex
pressing a perfect willingness, ou their part,
that “the Union might slide” if the people of
the South so willed it. I was even
taunted with endeavoring to hold our peo
ple on to a Union that was no longer
cared for by leading men ot the dominant
party at the North. I withstood these taunts
even when I knew (or was informed truly,
as I believed,) that there was an organized
body of men in Savannah to seize the Cus
tom House, Fort Pulaski, Ac., in case tbe
State did not secede. All this I stated to
you, and to which you allude in your letter
before me : nor should I have auy hesitancy
in stating it to the public if any public good
could thereby be effected. The public
is my only object. How best to subserve that
consistently with truth, honor and upright-
. _ uess is the only question with me. Pergonal
failed to serve their purposes. Their system intere8tg have no influence with me what-
of Southern reconstruction, originally de- , ,
signed for the indefinite exclusion of the ever. At least, I tbitfk so, and may be ex-
lately rebellious States from the Government,
has been defeated by the President. Com
pelled first to adopt his policy in their pro
positions for an amendment of the Constitu
tion, they have next found it expedient to
yield to him in the matter of tbe dispensa
tion of bis patronage and to abandon the de
sign of the intractable Stevens, of holding one
or°both Houses on guard through all the re
cess till December. The movement for the
Johnson National Union Convention of
August, in Philadelphia, unquestionably had
much to do with this sudden rush to busi
ness in Congress and this hurrying to an ad
journment. The Radicals, especially of the
House of Representatives, in view of this
Convention, speedily began to realize the ne
cessity of an early return homeward for the
purpose of holding their ground among their
constituents, if possible, against the re-act
ing tide of public opinion.
In tbe outset a long editorial summing up
most ably the manifold enormities perpe
trated by the late Congress, the National
Intelligencer of yesterday says:
'•The Rump Congress has adjourned- Its
session of eight harrowing months, boding
ill like.au impending pestilence, has at last
gone past, aad is of the dismal things that
were. Convolving clouds have darkened
our sky ; the lightnings of a fell_ revolution
ary pof pose have flashed across'tbe gloom,
but the blpt has not descended, and the wild
sweep of the storm of civil war is, thank
Qod, for a time arrested.
“This Congress will ever be most conspic
uously infamous in the category of the worst
organizations baveing governmental functions
that have dishonored and shamed enlight
ened society in all the world’s history. Its
dispersion from ihe Capital to widely sepa
rated and remote localities is a welcome re
liet to apprehensions arising from ,tbe bodily
presence of concentrated misqbtef; Auch a*
in tbe material world takes tOYtselt the form
of the ‘plague that stalketh at noon dtv.’ ”
A Substitute for an Ice Pitcher.—
People who have no ice pitchers will be glad
to know that there is a very simple method
of keeping ice water for a long lime in a
common pitcher. Between two sheets of
paper place a layer ot cotton batting about
half an inch in thickness, and form a cylinder
bv fastening the ends of the paper and bat
ting together. Then sew or paste a crown
on one end, so as to make a box t e shape of
a stove nine hat, minus the nm. •. f he cylinder
should bff made large enough to go entirely
over the pitcher, so that tee open end wiU
rest nnnn tbe table or sideboard, and thus
be a r. Any one trying this
simple method of. keeping ice water cool,
will • ii&toniahedM th>- len-’th ot MSi** it wui
prts‘'tie coldness of the
cused for saying so. Had I been governed
by personal feelings, I should have had noth
ing to do with the late troubles, further than
entering my earnest protest against them.
Aud had I been governed by personal feel
ings I should not now be in the situation I
am.
If the Union shall be restored under the
Constitution, as I earnestly desire to see it
•done (and I am willing to do all I can to
wards that end), it is my fixed purpose to re
tire forever from all connection with public
affairs. So that while it would seem that
iny present efforts are tending to a result in
which I have more or less personal interest
—that is, my admission as a Senator in Con
gress—yet I assure you I never expect or in
tend to bold that position long, even if the
seat should be awarded to me.
Yours, truly,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Another Fenian Scare.—The Fenian ex
citement is again raging in Canada. T$£ re
port in Toronto, on Friday evening, was that
live theusand Fenians were landing at Fort
Erie. On the strength of this the gunboat
Rescue was ordered in that direction, and
General Napier spent a sleepless night. The
rolling stock of the Grand Trunk Railroad
was removed from the vicinity of the threat
ened point. At .Montreal the most efficient
military measures were taken to crash the
movement. It turned out that a large num
ber of persons had crossed over from this
side to witness a prize fight without inter
ference from the police.
A letter from Melbourne announces the — By an act of the last Congress a cum-
safe arrival of upwards of 100,000 salmon, mission was created charged with an inquiry
sea and brown trout w , and ssys that 4oi into tbe question of providing a substitute
percent of the whole nrnnbti ere hatching'for cotton in the fibre of ‘ai. or something
in the breeding ponds or. tbe river Plenty, in \ else. After spending $9. <» they report that
Tastuauit. ; cotton is king
A Duel Without Interruption.—Every
day’s experience proves that duels can be
tougbt and difficulties settled without police,
judicial or other interference. Last Satur
day afternoon two citizens met near the
corner of Tenth and Main streets. After the
usual salutations of the day were exchanged,
one of the parties inquired of the other
(who is an active newspaper man), “Well,
sir, what did you mean by what has been re
ported to me with regard to a circumstance
which has recently taken place between t
“Nothing, sir; but if you have felt aggrieved,
and imagine that a wilful misrepresentation
has ensued, I am prepared to give satisfac
tion." “That will not do. I hold you re
sponsible.” “Very well,” says the newspa
per man, “Well arrange that matter very
8 oon ” In five minutes, or, perhaps, a' little
over, two beautifal six-shooters, ready
loaded, were furnished by one ot our most
prominent musical dealers ; tbe disputants
repaired to an embankment next door, and
ihere interchanged salutes without molesta-
tion. The affair waa witnessed from the
house-tops by several citizens, among whom
was one of oqr most successful and well-
known photographists. As usual, the firijj
ronud was harmless, and a second exchange
proposed ; but just at this time the cry of
“Police” was sounded, and, thereupon, the
courage of the belligerents was put to a greater
lest, and the party separated before the
iardians Of the law arrived on the ground—
Tines.
THREATENING ASPECT OP AFFAIRS
IN RICHMOND.
The Negroes Arming and Drilling In the
Streets.
[From the itichmont 1 Times.]
Since the publication in this paper of yes
terday of an editorial denunciatory of "the
nightly drills of the vagabond negroes who
infest this city and its environs, a number of
our most prominent and conservative citizen
have assured us that the outrage is rapidly
increasing in magnitude. The apathy of the
civil authorities, and the apparent approval
of these military demonstrations by the
agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau, are won
derfully encouraging to the negroes. We
shall soon have them drilling on the Square,
and having afternoon dress parades on onr
most fashionable streets, if we submit much
longer to these insurrectionary demonstra
tions. There will probably, in less than a
fortnight, be a negro “flag .presentation”
from the steps of the Washington Monu
ment, if negro insolence is developed hereaf
ter as rapidly as it has been during the last
twenty days.
The negro companies are armed, we learn,
with sabres and pistols. The sabres are not
private property, and they most belong
either to the United States or to the State
Government. If they* belong to tbe United .
States Government, who has armed the negroes
at the very time that the citizens of the State
are stripped of their arms ?
If they have not been lurnisbed to the
blacks by the Federal authorities, and have
been dishonestly obtained, why are the ne
groes allowed to display stolen government
property in our most public streets and
crowded thoroughfares?
Tbe military authorities, soon after the
tall of Richmond, demanded of the white in
habitants and received from them all govern
ment arms. Tbe histoiy of the sabres which
several hundred impudent negroes are flour
ishing about our streets should be ascertained
and thoroughly ventilated. The times are
exceedingly propitious for the vindication of
our civil rights, as well as for the punish
ment of the innumerable insults and out
rages to which the facile tools of the Radi
cals have subjected us. Tbe President will
not turn a deaf ear to complaints against
the outrages of the petty tyrants who have
been lording it at the South.
A FEW MORE FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO M1LI
IT ARY ORGANIZATIONS.
Night before last while Policemen Web
ster wa9 going the rounds ot his beat, near
Navy Hill, he was bailed with “Halt, who
goes dar?” Mr. Webster immediately ad
vaDCed in the direction of tbe parties who
heiled him, and found it to consist of two
negro meu firmed withmuskets.and a corpo
ral with a sword. He demauded their au
thority for hailing him. They replied that it
was the “Captain’s” order. Several other ne
groes crowded round, and the policeman
finding them too strong for him, ’returned to
the station-house, when being reinforced, he
went back, but only found a few unarmed,
innocent-looking negroes loafing around.
A negro came to tbe station-house the same
night and inquired whether people were not
allowed to pass anywhere along tbe streets
they wished—slating that he had been hailed
by tbe negroes, and a musket leveled at him.
He was told that under the existing state of
things regarding the rights of treedmen there
was no help lor it, and be departed wonder
ing at the mutability of things.
The Minority Report on the Case of Mr.
Davit*. i
On Saturday, Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey,
from the minority of the judiciary Committee
of the House of Representatives, made a re.
port on the case of Jefferson Davis. The
Washington Herald says:
plicity charge of corn-
surd, but the mere work of malice and’ava
rice, and claims that the evidence adduced
was a chain of flimsy fabrications.. And these
assertions Mr. Rogers bases upon the testi
mony of the accomplices Conover and Mont
gomery. Mr. Rogers believes that the expo
sition of this plot so invalidates any testi
mony coming through tha hands of Mr. Holt
that it renders all belief in the charges
against Davis, Clay, Tucker et. ah Impos
sible. *
The nature of. this testimony is best shown
by extracts therefrom.
“May 8, 1863.—Campbell’s testimony.—
The testimony of this witness, takem&y Judge
Holt, was read to him in the committee room,
and he was asked if it was true, and he re
plied, ‘No, it is all false.’
“Why did you make it?”
“I was informed by Mr. Conover that
Judge Holt had offered a reward of $100,000
for the capture of Jefferson Davis ; that he
had no authority really to do it; that now that
Jefferson Davis was taken they had not
enough against him ,to justify them in what
they had done; that Judge Holt wanted to
get witnesses to prove that Davis was inter
ested in the assassination of President Lin
coln, so as to justify him in paying the
$100,000.
Speaking of the woman that had testified
in Holt’s office to corroborate Conover,
Campbell says at this examination: “Sarah
Douglas is not her real name. Her name
was Dunham. There was another woman
sworn. Her name given waa assumed. One
was Conover’s wife and the other his sister-
in-law. The one that caHed herself Mrs.
Dunham is Conover's wife. Conover’s name
is Charles Dunham. Conover told gie that
if I engaged in it it was not gotojz, to hart
any body, that Jeff. Davis woultr never be
brought to trial, and that if this evidence got
to him be would leave the country. Cono
ver directed me to assume the name oT
Campbell. There was a person described
by that name who was supposed to be impli
cated in that affair, and I was representing
that party. He met Conover, in the first
place, by the appointment of Snevel. Snevel
said I could make money out of :t.
Money was my motive. I received $625.
I received $100 from Conover and $500-from
Judge Holt. I got $150 at Boston and $100
at St. Albana I Went to Canada to hunt op a
witness to swear false, who was to represent
Lamar. Snevel and Conover together ar
ranged with we to go to Canada. SneTel
saw the written evidence I was to swear af
ter Conovef-wrote it. «
May 24, 1866—Joseph Sqevel sworn; his
right name ia Wm H. Roberta.' His depo
sition before Holt read to him, and signed
Joseph Snevel; he stated was false from be
ginning to end. Conover wrote oat the evi
dence, and I learned it by heart. I made it
to make money. L received $375 from Holt,
and $100 from Conover I told Conover that
I was coming on here to testify to tbe troth;
that I had not had any rost since l swore to
wbat I did. He said I would be In a worse
fix than I was now. This waa onlast
Saturday. He said things •‘Would be set
tled (and there would be no further trou
ble. When the false evidence I was to
swear to was reed over to me by Conover,
Campbell and Conover’s brother-in-law (Mr.
An sen) nre present. Conover told me he
knew wbat Holt would ask me, and Cono
ver asked me tbe same qaestions. I gave
this evidence before *HoiL When I was
wrong, Conover would nod his head. Cono
ver wm present when I was sworn by Hoik
When Conover would nod, I would then cor
rect it as near as I could, Campbell, Conom
and Holt present Campbell and I rehearsed
at the hotel in Washington. Conover said
“I was asked if such a sum would be satis
factory? I said it would. I can’t tell how
much I received. Conover waa an agent of
the Government to hunt np evidence. ,T
Conover has escaped, as already stated.
Mr. Rogers was kept from seeing the evi
dence in. possession of the committee; tot se
lection and arrangement, till 12 o’clock or
Friday, the Honse adjourning, on Saturday.
Mr- Rogers closes his report by urging the
speedy trial of'Me. Davis, and agrtm with
the majority of (he Committee im seeing no
need oi additional legislation totrytwvis
for anything, unless it be the ae«g» fo tr f
him fry er postJccti vets of Contrast
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