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/*• • * ( /y * I I THE ASSASSINATION PLOT.
(^COrnitl QGUflUl) C! f lfOriUJu. Exculpation of Jcfler?on Davit—Minority Re-
•J -r. - I port of Judiciary Committee—Astounding De
velopments of Corruption—Subornation of
THE DANGKK3 AHEAD.
The Philadelphia Convention is the bow of
promise to the American people in this hour
of gloom. Upon its results ban", for years
to come, our destiny ns a notion. Wo shall
Perjury—Demand for the Trial of Mr. Davis.
Hon. A. J. Rogers, a member of the Judi
ciary Committee, to which was referred an
investigation as to wliat complicity, if any,
Jefferson Davis, Clement C. Clay, George N.
Sanders, and others had in the assassination
their counsel made such examination of the | they woulc nut the laugh on the other side off S oin ?- and Emitted that he had received in |
witnesses to this as might have been expect- j their moutis in a day or two, and adds Cono-1 ?” r a " gr ?-? atc ,. of si * tll ° usand do1 ;
i ri>. « • <- * : of 3!r. Lincoln, on Saturday made the follow-
disorder, sectional Imie and sectional tyranny, j j n g minority report to the House of Represen-
or wo’shall sink deeper in the mire of politi-' tatives:
cal trouble. Jt is a mistake to suppose that,
terminate us it may, we shall remain ns we i*. 00 '** *2 "h** complicity, if »ny jeffereon
_. *. . , . Clement C.C ay, George N. Sanders, sod others hadii
are. The conservative sentiment of the coun-! the .i.-MMinatfon of Mr. Lincoln.
try will cither succeed in putting down the When I entered upon the duties of this ia
fell spirit of consolidation and oppression, or
the former will be crushed out under theheej
of the latter, and the whole country becomca
prey to the worst of human passions.
Wc think we do not exaggerate the issue.
With whnt concern, then, should eTery pat
riot of the land look to tho organization, de
liberations and final action of tho grand in
quest at Philadelphia ? How important it is
that every obstacle to n harmonious and sat-
isfactory result should be removed as a griev
ous rock of offense ? IIow essential it is
that passion, party, self should all
be buried, and the pure, honest,
unadulterated patriotism of the country bo
allowed to assert its authority and reign su
pretne f Tho man that goes to Philadelphia
witlx mischief in his heart, with a desire to
serve himself or promote the interests and
honor of those individuals with whom he
may bavo been associated in tho past, is worse
than a traitor to his country—he is a road
man, a trifler on the verge of a volcano that
may in a moment burst in angry fury orer his
head, and with its fiery torrent sweep away
and bury forever both him and the liberties
ofhis country.
This is no fancy wrought picture, but a
faithful reflection of a dread reality in store
for us if we fail to approach this momen
tous crisis in our history as honest men and
patriots.
There arc two great dangers to be appre-
li ended at Philadelphia, either of which is ca
pable of destroying the usefulness of the Con
vention and bringing all its counsels to nought.
Against these wc have spoken before, and
often, in these columns; but we cannot, on
the eve of the great convocation, resist • the
temptation to raise once more the voice of
Warning,
The first of these dangers is to be found
n a doss of men—perhaps we should say
politicians—who, apparently forgetful of the
magnitude of the peril and the powerful agen
cies necessary to avoid it, have assumed to
;-ay what particular classes of men, to he
tested by past associations and views of po
litical policy, shall be allotted to enter the
Convention and lend their aid in sating the
country from destruction. This is not only
unjust, but it is the very climax of folly or
political perfidy. The danger is great, the
enemies of free government are powerful and
desperate, vast in their resources and reck
less in the use of means. We shall need eve
ry man wc can get to combat successfully
with such a host; and to say nothing of the
question of right, it will be n willful and un-
pardonable disregard of the public welfare
to mako any such distinctions. It seems to
proceed upon the idea that the Philadelphia
Convention is called for the miserable pur
pose of giving honor and place, and that
certain men must be kept out lest by force
of intellect or ingenuity they may come
and share the spoils of victory to the exclu
sion of some, others. Rather than this
should happen, these politicians would pre
fer not to make the fight at all, and not even
to organize an army, against the enemies of
the country! Such conduct as this should be
scorched and withered by the blaze of pub
lic indignation. The patriotic people of the
country will not tolerate it for a moment,
and wo warn these political tricksters to be
ware 1
The second danger is to be found in the
manifest desire of tho Democrats of the North
to uso the Convention os a stepping stone in
their own restoration to power at a party.
This sentiment is unworthy of the occasion,
and wc warn the men who indulge it that
their cherished schcrn' will meet with opposi
tion from a quarter wnenco they least expect
it. Mr. Seward never spoke a truer word
than when be said that no political party
sow existing could be depended on for a res
toration. of the Union and tlie preservation
of the Constitution. This is manifestly true,
vestigation, I did so with a deep sense of the
importance, difficulty, and delicacy of the
task imposed upon the committee. The Gov
ernment, by the offers of enormous rewards
and the wording of its proclamations, spread
over the land a belief that Clement C. Clay,
George N. Sanders, Jefterson Davis, and oth
ers, were or might be, implicated in the as
sassination of the late President Abraham
Lincoln. Tho historic importance and re
cord of the accused were of a character to
make the truth of this charge a disgrace, not
only to any one particular section of the
country, but to tlie whole of it; and the ad
ditional crimes thereafter imputed to them
ed. The reason was obvious enough, how-1 ver: “Tli conspiracy'was talked of at that ■ I:l J s / or T l li ! information from the Government
eT 5J* . time about as commonlv as one would speak tle States, through the War De-
The prisoners, said to have been incited to | of the wenher.” | pn rtnK> nt. r or his testimony and services,
murder, by bullet, by infection, by arson, and
: alone, the sum of six. thousand dollars in the
, . . .. | , , —. Conovernsserts also, that Sanders spoke to alone ’ , . ... ...
by poison, by Jefferson Davis, were brought I him freelvabout Booth, and feared the latter . , m that cross-examination, fully
to hear these charges and specifications with would male a fizzle, he being reckless and j disproving, lus testmiony in chief, the
irons upon them—with irons, too, of an un- dissipated ' mlttee wraW DOt allow the reporter tot
com
tM/t me u-pntT to tLillS-
usual construction, irritating and painful, well I Conovei said he was all this time corres- - ! ds notes -
calculated to distract their attention from the pondent d tlie New York Tribune. , testimon yof Conover, being wholly in-
savingsof the military prosecutor. The House I Conovei further deposed to a proposition 1 valldated lus contradictions, would
will remember that since the trial af Cran- being male to destrov the Croton dam at | amount to nothing unsupported, with its evi-
bourne, in 1696, tried for conspiring against New York to distress'manufactories, and to dent l le . r J“ rl . es unexplained. When Mr. Holt
the life of the King of England, for raising a distress tie people generally, to Thompson's ^rwarded it with the rest he accompanied
rebellion in aid of a foreign enemy, no prison- saving tint the whole city would soon be des- tb f whoIe ' Vlth a n explanatory argument,
er has ever been tried in irons before a legiti- Itroyed byfire whose every sentence is redolent with the log-
mate court anywhere that English is spoken. Conovei said he saw neither Payne nor «c °f prosecution, and, to me, it almost seem-
The Chief Justice of England said: “Look Atzerodt in Canada, nor did he there ever , as , ^ *’ evc; ded something of personal mo-
i 1.—i.i ...— 1 . I. - - - — ~ — --itive in tlie conviction
their guilt. ~ '° rrovr
W T ho originated this plot, and pW,
Government in so embarrassing an atrii Y*
cannot ascertain. The jealous -ecrecr'*’ 1
care exercised by the gentleman from \ r **4
ehusetts in keeping most of the documl. " 1 ‘
evidence from me for careful peru«af .p 1 )
crecy attending every step of these
ings, makes certainty on my part iia C '
you, keeper; you should take off the prisoners’ I hear the mine of Mary E. Surratt. He said I tive . in . Ul . e conviction. There is certainly
irons wlicnthey are at tho bar, for thev should I that whilein Canada be went by the name of pottung in it of the amicus curia; spirit, notli-
stand at their ease when they are tried.” James Watson WaUace. ia S of tbe searcher after truth, nothing but
But the parties alleged to have been in- Mr. Thompson liad told Conover, be says, * be for blood of the military prosecu-
cited by Mr. Davis did not so stand, but stood I that he thcuglt the assassination of Mr. Lin-1 . r - ^ , selll in g of any argument to con-
in constrainment and in pain, with their I coin and the'Gibiuct would meet the approv-1' ince , * committee was in itself a step of
heads buried in a sort of sack devised to pre- al of the Government at Richmond; that was vcr J doubtful propriety, as the committee
vent theirseeing! In this plight, from dark in February, aril in April when Surratt nrriv-1 wa ( e supposed by the representatives of the
cells, they were brought to be charged with cd from Riclimmd, Mr. Thompson, says Con-1 n . ntlni l to b ® ade draw their own conclu-
liaving been incited by Mr. Davis, and thev over, referred Id the despatchas brought as sl0 . na 5® , testimony, and hence were up-
pleaded not guilty. having furnished the assent. pointed to do so, and the House by appoint-
f? rn ^. t ! enera Ll tween the Government at Richmond and the H olt. nlreadv tendererl Tim n f
ditional crimes thereafter imputed to them that was recommends it and the Serrotnmif I I Holt, already tendered. The sending of an
'I met Conover first by the appointment of i Uad been its mini-ters with crim- s;-
Snevel. Snevel said I could make money out ; b* to the interior civilization of tlie
ot it. Monet - was my motive. I received ' ages, and that we have not to '
§023. I received §100 from Conover and
$500 from Judge ITolt. I got $150 at Boston
and §150 at St. Albans.’
‘I went to Canada to hunt up a witness to
swear false, who was to represent Lamar.—
Snevel and -Conover together arranged with
me to go to Canada.’
‘Snevel saw the written evidence I was to
swear to after Conover wrote it. . ..^ „„ ‘ujiwtiniL-
These hurried, yet correct, extracts from as to the authorship of these ill-linked*^*
the testimony of Campbell before the com- rics. Although I do not attribute the c *
mittee may seem all sufficient to gauge the of the committee towards me to any desi*
value of Conover’s evidence, Snevel’s an* his their part to screen themselves, and I - If**
own; but lest they should seem to lack con- deeply impressed that there must be° ?
Urination, I append extracts from that of somewhere, that I earnestly urge udoi5*v
Snevel, sworn May 24, 18GG. House an investigation of the origin pf a
The deposition he made before 3Ir. Holt plot concocted to alarm the nation, to '
was read to him. J J J: ' 1 ‘
He stated it was ‘false from beginning to
end.’
‘Conover wrote out the evidence, and I
learned it by heart.’
‘I made it to make money.’
‘I received $375 from Holt.’
‘I received $100 from Conover.
der and dishonor innocent men, and’to
the Executive in the undignified position
making, under proclamation, charges -W
cannot, in face of the accused, or even *-
absence, stand a preliminary examination^'
fore a justice of the peace. **■
‘Fnrnliam B. Wright's name is really John
Waters.’
‘John McGill is an assumed name, not liis.’
[These witnesses ot two names each were
witnesses who had been procured by the
are committed by men who have sat in its I i t «» in ^ Tgith I next tc8 ^ es to infection plot I effect of that Iiabit of directing verdicts ac-1 Kureau °f Military Justice, and who' bad
hi„h nlnees blacken the civilimtion of the P 6 ®‘ 1 " ^ 1 » ' ’ ■ 1 *“** ‘
a ., . . ieged to connect Mr. Davis and others with
aud for a party without power, if not post- the assassination of Mr. Lincoln were all ta
large majority of ken in the absence of Mr. Davis and of any
come forward and counsel for him and of any person capable of
cross-examining and expliuning the testi-
In the words of the late Attorney
tivcly odious,
the States, to
drum that the country, if saved
at all, must be saved under its auspicics, is
a pretension as irilqlcrnble as it is foolish.—
The Southern people feel under many obli
gations to the Democrats of the North, but
wc wish them to understand that no memo
vies of the past, no good intention* for the fu
ture will weigh a feather in the minds of a
people whose cahsc has been betrayed and
whose chains have been rivited by a struggle
for party ascendency by their professed
friends. If Democracy wished to stink in the
nostrils of every Southern man, it has only to
let its aspirations for power to interfere,
directly or indirectly, with the beneficent
•bjosta of the Philadelphia Convention. We
cannot afford to be sacrificed, even by our
friends.
But we trust that alt these clouds that now
“lower above our house,” may soon be ‘‘in
the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” Let er-
cry man go to Philadelphia resolved to for
get tho past, and to know nothing in future
but the salvation and preservation of a com
mon country.
In this connection, we would commend the
sentiments of a letter from Judge Richard II.
Clarice, of this State, which we copy else
where from the New York Doily News.—
Though a Democrat of the ‘‘straightest sect, r
he is a patriot and sees the danger of a colli
sion between the interests of his party and the
welfare of his country.
THE CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.
As many arc doubting the propriety of a
visit to New York, and are holding back
the ugh called thither by important business,
it may nut :><■ amiss to give our opinion on
the subject. We would say on the point that
we Aliould not hesitate to go, did it become
nooessazy in the course of biuinc>.<. Our pri
vate advices confirm the statements of the
most reliable portion of the press of that city,
that there is no epidemic, that tlie very few
oases compared with the population that oc
cur, are confined to the lower classes sml
most filthy portions of the city, and that the
health of the decent portion of the popula
tion was never better at this, season of tlie
year.
We be
think tli<
With tho;
fork nt t
high places, blacken the civilization of the
nation in which they were trained and pre
ferred. ,
On the other hand,if it should turn out that
those charges had been lightly made, and
without satisfactory evidence as to a proba
bility of their truth, tho Government so sol
emnly making them must needs suffer in the
esteem of all good men, as being lacking in
coolness during a general excitement, and as
sharing a fear which it was its province to
dispel.
Knowing the entire unreliability of any tes
timony whose origin cannot be traced beyond
a professional detective, especially when large
rewards stand out in placarded prospective, I
determined, as far os in me lay, to give to ev
ery shred of evidence presented as thorough
an examination as I might be capable of be
stowing upon it; and in this spirit, with no
desire to convict or acquit capable ot master-
tcring my wish to ednee the truth, I tried to
ascertain it; and this report is the result of
the effort.
For some reason orreasons not fully stated,
the majority of the committee determined to
throw tn my way every possible impediment,
not only in any assistance I might try to ren
der them in what I considered a common task
upon us by the House, but when in out any
conclusion for myself, when it became evident
that in this thing they not only would have
none of my assistance or fellowship, but re
sented deeply any attempt of mine to render
any.
I felt I must work out my own convictions,
not with tlie committee, but in spite of it.—
The papers were put away from me, locked
in boxes, hidden; and when I asked to see
them, I was told, day after day, and week af
ter week, that I could not. All sorts of rea
sons were assigned for this, sometimes one,
sometimes another; and, finally, I was told I
should not.
The House will recollect I brought tlie
matters before it, and that the Speaker deci-
cided I was not entitled to see the papers on
which my opinions, as member of that com
mittee, must be cased, till such as the other
members of the committee chose to allow
me, by saying they were done with them;
and it was not till twelve o’clock yesterday
that I was allowed freely to look through
them and derive any knowledge, based upon
examination, for the purposes of this report.
It was said the interests of the Government
required that none should see these papers,
save only Sir. Boutwell, the honorable mem
ber from Slassachusetts, who was preparing
the majority report. I felt hurt at this, but I
should not have allnded to this strange ac
tion on the part of the committee but that it
was necessary to explain any lack of brevity
and clearness that may be apparent in por
tion, or in the whole of this report, which,
awaiting the right to see thi-se papers, or
rather the power, I did not commence till too
late. If, therefore, this report be longer than
it need to have been, or if it be less clear than
such a report out to be, the cause must be
found in those reasons which induced my
colleagues of the committee to endeavor to
k'eep me in the dark till it was too late for
me to use the light.
As the members of the committee arc mem
bers of this House, I jg ill not preninio to say
they bad any fear of an investigation of their
doings in their examinations. As they are
gentlemen, and bound by that character not
to bide the truth, or any part of it, I will not
say they kept me in the dark to the last hour
to prevent my making any report at all; but
this I must say, in justice to myself, that had
they allowed me to use the usual privileges
from which they excluded me, this report
would have been of more benefit to the cause
of justice and of truth, than I can now hope
to make it. I should also have accompanied
the deductions of this report with ampler ex
tracts ot the testimony, showing conclusively
the existence and fostering, the hiring and
the paying, of the most wicked combination
of perjuries the world has ever known.
'flie main portions of the testimony al
He says one Dr. Blackburn packed a num- quireclin the Bureau of Military Justice: but testified to corroborate the testimony of Con
i tn. • A-».1 I j. , J ~ - , T r> u-n j o
jured reporter present, that the chief testi- , says one ur " acau ““ r,Vnrv ?• r v i 1 :
monv alleged to imwlicate Mr Davis ~.,J her of trunks with infected closing. Black- the sending of such an argument
£En; anfSisttSSywoSd iot now“ | an fe..,°I *?{*** «°/fe«>nt,to » desktop!
I feel com
place his own
publicly known bad it not been published in I ?' S i A ” *s Thompson did - Blackburn of- views so before the committee as to render in-
Cincinnati through Pitman’s violation ofhis {? red ’ ac ™ rd ' Dg \° ? r OD ° T T; riLTt vestigation a mere matter of form; and I be-
oa tlj * thousand dollars to Mr. John Cameron it he I licve this was done to hide the disgraceful
flavin"- arrived at the manner in would accompmy him tv Bermuda to take fact that the assassination of Mr. Lincoln was
this' testimony was taken, there now re- ®? ods t inf ^ 1 VoS chv^CamJ u P on “ a P™** t . to . haten charges
m-lined for me onlr tn pseert.in how f.r it and bnn g tIlcni to N&v york clt Y- Game- against a number of historical personages, to
could be relied on, and wliatft profesJd to ron, fearing the fever/or himself refused. Ja- blacken their private characters, and to afford
nrove It is a tbcorvr.f rourt* lmlitan- that I °° b Thompson wasdie money man furnishing excuse ter their trial through the useless
wWthe ao£t*d St thelunds - Jacop Thompson and Mr. Cleary, form of a military commission! and through
scl the nro-ecutor technically tamed “thr- Conover knows, approved of and were inter-1 that ductile instrument of vengeance in the
^ ara t SS-2r * *K*e*n, and he thinks Lewis bands of power, murder them. °
J as well a» plead’the accuration—in°facL bS ?» ™ ^ nt whcn Blackb um spoke I do not say that Judge Holt did himself
sort of amicus curia; not only to tlie court, ‘V t ent S rpns ‘r T ,. originate the charges, or organize the plot of
but to the accused. Messrs. Davi« Clav In June ’/ orndhe ® daaua !7* accordin" to the peijurcrs, because I do not know that he
1 I the correct — 1 J — * 3 —
Thomnson et nl had no counsel of rnnra» ru i Jur,i 041113 wuc iuca aix i merciy say luat a piot, oasea on tuc
and the only lawer for the other accused ’ of poisoning the Croton reservoir was dis- assassination, was formed again*.Davis, Clay,
■ • - • -» ... . - - I cussed. Blackburn knew the capacity there-1 and others, and that the plotters did, and do
noble of orasnin" the subiect was insnltwl t«r ousseu. uiuuvuutu Knew uie uapamtj mem- ana oiucrs, ana mat me plotters aia, ana ao
the cou rt manner 8 so ren ucrnVn t t onei^ °f and had “ IcuI » tod the araount of str J ch - even yet, operate through the Bureau of Mili-
sonal self-rcsncct and nrotlssfoml dimlitv I Ilinc an< l other poisons necessaiy. Thomp- tary Justice, and that Uie argument forward-
tbat be left^it^and in lieu of cross-exammin^ I son bought they could not get enough poison ed by Mr. Holt to the Committee on the Ju-
the production of an argument against the S rS. P ror thc P 1 ? 11 ® 13 . ; extoideA it may be,
constitutionalitv of the court—an nmnmant Lou,s ’ Dr - Stuart Robinson, Lewis Sanders no personal animosity to Davis, Clay,
whose soundness lias been endo'raed bv the ^ov^d'^nd^f Pallan ^ndotiiera 1?'° ° thCI3 '' ? X - tCnd ( 3 fi d ’ ifc ma y be . wj tb a desire
%SS%$Z&$!Sl C Thl lawyer I tliongbt^t coul^be mmia^I^fronr'Enrop^jfro^thecl^^e of^mving^been fSSSfc
soSited wd w feared^‘as JSnJteTS ConOVer ,a - VS he Sa ' v Surratt in Canada to the mistak^ of a vagu°e apprehension, the
of the United States, whose reputation is sec- J?*? wereThiXek blun ? ere f cxcitcmcn , t !' hicb U
ond to none in this countrv-once an Attor- Uearag that ofbcers werc on his track) Province to allay or control, not to increase
ney General of the United States, and for l befled I - w =mi
years the leader of its bar.
or share, but still extended over acknowl
Then says Conover: . I edged, self-convicted, most wicked peijuiy.
Thnt T etinniri hn i.ainn.w.'.ni.i^^i I “When Nr. Thompson received the des- And the fact that Mr. Holt did himself pay
commit tee from ifiviL'mitiiio ' C P»tch from Richmond, in April, assenting to money to more than one of them, to those wlio
SSL*"J’ the assassination, there were pr^ent Mr. Bur- acknowledged they swore for money, may
in" J - tint tlm "nntlr-rm Jvmm urncaoeii.icntt mtt > General Carroll, of Tennessee, I think awaken a suspicion that there was bribery, as
ZV Mr. Castletor, and I believe there were one or well as pe.jury! perhaps not conscious bri-
“ d two others in the room, sitting farther back, bery, but the payment for false testimony was
inrl menne <iA«r.te/i in- 11 Gen. Carroll participated in the conversation, I committed ; and although it may have been
and cxprcssedhimself as more anxious that Mr. done innocently, it produced the usual effect
t0 their I Johnston should be killed than anybody else of subornation of peijmy.
thnrj.fr.rji noftiml tliot i n j He said if the damned prick-louse was not For the sake of humanity and justice, I
inve-rt^’f c thn ^f 1° ki, led by somebody he would kill him himself, would in this report press upon the House
P AT 1-, - 5 J*} C ‘G mad ® His expression was a word of contempt for a request that the cross-examination of Merrill.
w S J attempt at tai ^80 i hav e always understood him. At be translated and published. I am aware
cpiwlnnfT «T«miiioti^ 1 i I1 tn , th t0 i. P i^ e TTl. an ^l tbis interview it was distinctly said that the that the Executive, acting under the advice
the tMtimonyj'should'lTOd nm'tOMSuspect^tiiat I ^vprise of assassinating the President was [ of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, and
these charges were
1 . n j r S*” j I foil J confirmed by the rebel authorities at other gentlemen of lovalty no less known,
ZESftSfiiM&SS' KicU«.d.” / handed Mr.CI.ybnpL.Ic.i.cUbattui
and that the President lias been misinformed, | say S Conover, went by the nick-1 release is in itself an acknowledgment that
and wilfully or recklessly misled when he ful- name c f p e t ? and Conover adds that lie saw the President disbelieves, not only Merritt's
nf him in conversation with Thompson and testimony, but also that of every one of the
prominent, andjust then the observed of the J g aun< 3 ers> an d heard him so called by Cleary, members of the plot. But this is not suffi-
nation. Inis secreeyon the partof the court, I Conover, on die 27th of June, being sworn, cieht. It is due to all the accused that the
tins avoidance of legitimate scrutiny, led me wag asked if the following testimony was nation at last see and recognize the flimsiness
to conclude that my first duty was to ajeer- iven , llim on thc 19th 0c t. 1805, in the and malice of these monstrous peijmies.
tam the chanmter of tlie witnesses, to sift it § t Alba J n3 case . Let it be recollected that CSnover’s own
tlioronghly, and to ascertain bj what if any, jj e sa j c j t yes, but that it contained the tes exposition of his peijuries was madein Cana-
motives they were actuated in the delivery I Hmonv of other witnesses who testified. I da during the trial, and then how are we to
of their oral evidence and written affidavits. 1 j^pg Batson Wallace, on his oatb, says: account tor this man’s not only being left at
canfonl Conover, tlie principal witness and “I am a native of Virginia, one of the Con- large, but being sent as a competent witness
originator of all the oral testimony relevant federate States. I resided in Jefferson, in to testify before a Judiciary Committee of
procured by the Bureau of Military Justice to g^e. j i e ft that State in October. I this House, and this testimony, already dis-
es abash the guilt of Mr. Davis, was examin-1 j^qq. j a mes A. Seddon was Secretary ofWar I approved, accompanied by an argument from
ed by the Committee on the Judiciary The last ycart &c ^ &c . * * * I Judge Holt shaped to induce a belief in it ?
method of ms examination was this. The tea-1 « ^v| le n I was in Virginia I lived in my own The testimony of Henry Finegas going to
timony lie had given at the mock trial on the | boilse un til I was burned out, and my family implicate George N. Sanders and William C.
over and Merritt, as Campbell and Snevel
did.]
Snevel further says
‘I told Conover that I was coming on here
to testify to the truth; that, I had not had
any rest sihee I swore to what I did. He
said I would be in a worse fix then than I was
now. This was last Saturday. He said
things would bo settled, and there would be
no further trouble. When the false evidence
I was to swear to was read over to me by
Conover, Campbell and Conover's brotber-in-
law, Mr. Ansen, were present.’
‘Conover said he knew what Holt would
ask me, and Conover asked me the same ques
tions. I gave this false evidence before Mr.
Holt. When I got wrong Conover would
nod his head. Conover was present when I
was sworn by Holt. When Conover would
nod I would correct it as near as I could.—
Campbell and I rehearsed at tlie hotel in
Washington.’
Conover in his testimony 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 was an agent of the Government
to hunt up evidence.’
Having but little time to end this report,
I will not swell it with any additional ex
tracts from the confessions of these people.
Conover was present when Campbell and
Snevel testified thus plainly to his villainy.
I must inform the House that Conover alias
Watson, alias Dunham, etc., eta, was not or
dered into arrest; that tho committee, at his
request, permitted him to go to New York
to procure other testimony. One officer was
sent with him, and Conover effected his es
cape, of course; has not been heard of since,
and lias probably left the country. Wheth
er any efforts have been made to catch him,
I know not; but as be was the teacher and
guide of peijuries committed by the other
witnesses procured through the Bureau ol
Military Justice, it would seem the solemn
duty of this Government to apprehend, try,
and punish so foul a criminal, and in bis tri-
It was not till noon Friday, yesterday tL
last day but one of the session, that the ci
mittee and the gentleman from Massachu*!
allowed me to read the testimony or mi?
thereof that my memory alone should notu
trusted to report. It was then within tv*
ty-four hours of its adjournment that Cr,'
gress, through this committee, allowed m/f
get ready to prepare this report, when th,
unfinished business of the session was crovi
ing upon me, and no time was left me to
sue to the head these villainies I detected ;i
the hand, or I might have been able plaint!
to tell Congress and tlie country that if j:
this plot we bad a Titus Oates in Conor?!
so also we bad a Sbaftsbury somewhere.
Had more than twenty-fonr hours been v
lowed me, or had those twenty-four W
been less burthened with other duties reoi*
ing immediate discharge, I might have (*“, I
able, in addition to exposing the peijurr, t3
have told this House who concocted it-yv.
screened it—I do not attack the committee 0
why it was concocted and screened- and!
finally, why a committee of Congress acted
towards one ot its own members like a Vtn e
tian council of ten, whose legislation and ; B
qniries were being kept secret for the bentf
of some Foscari. •
al, ascertain what temptations, and through
29th of May. 1865, was read to him, and lie
said it was all true. In that testimony he
was asked, being duly sworn:
Q.—State your full name and present place
of residence.
: this
no r<
exposure
drink.
statement to be true, and
il Cause for apprWien tiou
e whose bositicm calls them to New
■ e pr. i nt time, provided they avoid
and are prudent in their nu-nt and
mony.
General. “Most of the evidence upon which
they are based was obtained ex parte, with
out* notice to the accused, and whilst they
were in custody in military prisons. Their
publication might wrong the Government 1
—mark, the Government, not the accused.
The Secretary- of War, February 7tb, I8G6,
writes to the President that the publication
of the reports of thc Jndge Advocate General
on this matter “is incompatiblcjwith thepublic
interests.” This report, in the testimony it
quotes, will show that the interests of the
country would never have suffered by the dis
pensing with illegal secrecy, bnt that thc in
terests and fame of the Judge Advocate Gen
eral himself would suffer in the eyes of all the
truth-loving and justice-seeking people on
earth.
Secrecy has surrounded and shrouded, not
to say protected, every step of these examina
tions and even in the committee room it
seemed to be acting with a sort of secret
council of inquisition, itself directed by an
absent vice inquisitor and grand inquisitor
too,
How such an un-American mode of proce
dure for the discovery and prosecution of
crimes cognizable by tne civil tribunals of the
country could ever exist in it, I find it impos
sible to fully understand or explain.
The substance of tbe testimony rendered
before tbe committee, viva eoce and documen
tary, is fresh in my memory, and also thc re
sult of some of the investigations made into
its credibility. It was in ascertaining the
latter that I fonnd myself forced to travel
over the nebulous and extended region of the
so-called “assassin trial.”
There arc two reports of this trial—one ap
proved by Mr. Ilolt, revised by Mr. Burnett,
and tbe Associated Press report, published
by Peterson & Co., of Philadelphia. What
ever of suspicion may naturally attach to thc
former, none can to the latter.
It will be remembered by the House that
four persons were hung by the unconstitu
tional tribunal referred to, and that it was
before this house, court, commission, or what
ever you may choose to call it, that Jefferson
Davis wns, alter the military manner, charged
with “combining, confederating, aiul conspir
ing” with Booth, Surratt, et all. Thc specifi
cation to the charge went still further, for
that accused them with inciting and encour
aging John Wilkes Booth, e: al.
At this trial, the firet and most important
part of a long tissue of falsehoods was intro
duced to connect Mr. Davis with the assas
sination.
Tbe parties unconstitutionally killed
through the subservient instrumentality of
this so-called court or commission were all
charged with conspiring with Davis, and it
did seem strange to me that neither they no f
A.—Sanford Conover. Montreal. Canada.
On the 8th day of June I find he swore
“upon the Holy Evangelists” that his name
was not Sanford Conover, but Jas. Watson
Wallace; and in tbe same positive manner he
denies under oath in Canada all he swore to
in Washington, and ends by making the fol
lowing proposition:
Five hundred dollars reward will be given
for tbe arrest, so that I can bring to punish
ment in Canada, thc infamous and perjurer
scoundrel who recently personated me under
the name of Sanford Conover, and deposed to
a tissue of falsehoods before the Military
Commission at Washington.
James W. Wallace.”
Conover having finally admitted that lie
and WaUace were one man with two names,
and Wallace swearing that Conover is
scoundrel, whose testimony before the Milita
ry Commission was but a tissueof falsehoods,
might well relieve me from all analysis otthe
testimony .given by liim until such crime as
peijury in two courts, delivered from any mo
tive, becomes a certificate ot truth-telling in
the other.
It were needless to detail here what Conover
alias Wallace deposed to at the mock trial,
and that is the testimony of his which Mr.
Holt forwarded to the Judiciary Committee.
A garbled report of it by Pitman, bearing
the unsatisfactory authentication of Mr. Holt
and Burnett, will lie found in Pitman’s report
jage 28. A report, correct to a word, taken
jy the reporters of tlie Senate corps, and "iv
en by Holt to the Associated Press, will be
found in tlie Associated Press copy of “Tbe
Conspiracy Trial,” published in Philadelphia
by T. B. Peterson & Bros., page 137.
Tbe testimony of Con over, had it been
credible, would establish the guilt of Jefferson
Davis, George N. Sanders. Jacob Thompson,
Clement C. Clay, Dr. Blackburn, Beverly
Tucker, Wm. C. Cleary, Lewis Castleman, tlie
Rev. 31. Cameron, 3Ir. Horterfield, Dr. 31. A.
Pallin, Capt. 3Iagruder, Gen. Frost and Gen.
Carroll, with whom, he says, he was intimate-
acquainted in 3Iontreal. Canada, where
he had resided from October, 18G4. He
says lie saw Surratt on the 7th of April,
18G5, describes him, and sap be heard
a conversation between him and Ja
cob Thompson in the room of the lat
ter, whence it appeared that Surratt bad
brought Thompson dispatches from Rich
mond, one from Benjamin, and also a letter
in cypher from Mr. Davis. “Previous to
that,” says Conover, “I had had a conversa
tion with 3Ir. Thompson relative to the plot
to assassinate Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet,
and I bed been invited by 3Ir. Thompson to
participate in the cnU;priThompson
laid his hand on the dispatches brought by
Surratt, Conover asserts, and said, “Tbis
makes tlie thing all right,” referring to the
assent of tbe rebel authorities. 3Ir. Lincoln,
3Ir. Johnson, tho Secretaries of War and of
State, Judge Chase and General Grant, were
to be the viccims. Conover asserts his first
interview with Thompson was in February,
1S65, and that at that first interview Thomp
son said to him, “Some of our boysarc going
to play a grand joke on Abe and Andy.”—
The joke Thompson explained to Conover at
this first interview was to kill them; and at
tbis same interview, Conover says that
Thompson explained to him that thc killing
of a tyrant was no murder—that it was only
removal from office. Thompson told Cono-
(T, too, that lie had cmumis-ioned Booth,
and all engaged to do the killing would re
ceive commissions, and if they escaped to
Canada they could not lie o —fully claimed
under the extradition treaty.
Conover states further, that thc very day
of the nssas-inntion, or the day before, be had
a conversation with Cleary at the St. Law
rence Hotel, Montreal. They spoke of the re
joicings in the North over the surrender of
Lee, and Cleary, according to Conover, said
were turned out by the Northern soldiers. I Cleary led me to investigate his character and
(Signed) J. Watsox Wallace.” credibility. I find be was almost reared by a
Tbe council for the United States objected man named Price, in Boston, now residing in
to the whole of this evidence as illegal, irrele- Washington, and known as a gambler and a
vant, and foreign tothe issue, and they con- prize fighter; that Finegas adopted and fol-
sequently declined to cross-examine. lowed the professions; that he went with
The testimony of Merritt was not, as atready Butler’s expedition to New Orleans, entered
stated, accusatoiy of 3Ir. Davis, but of those the service, held a commission, left the ser-
persons who, according to Conover, acted for vice on account of misdemeanors known to
3Ir. Davis, or with his assent, in Canada. General N. P. Banks; that Finegas next ap-
Merritt says he was introduced to Geo. N. pears a detective in Norfolk, and for certain
Sanders by Colonel Steel; that he (Steel) said crimes is expelled the Department of Virginia
of Lincoln, that tbe damned old tyrant never and North Carolina, in company with another
will serve another term if he is elected, and detective, named Long,
that Sanders then said he (Lincoln) would And thus one by one I find each and all of
keep himself mighty close if he did serve the witnesses brought forward at the so-
another term. called trial to implicate Jefferson Davis, Clem-
“About the middle of February a meeting e nt C. Clay, Jacob Thompson and others, to
of rebels was held in 3Iontreal, to which I,” be either convicted perjurers, or men of in-
says Merritt, “was invited by Captain Scott, famous life, and, therefore, the first conclu-
I should think there were ten or fifteen per- s ion to which I arrived is, that all the testi-
sons present Among them were Sanders, mony taken to establish said complicity, un-
Steele, Scott, George Young, Byron Hill.Cald- der the pretence of proving a general conspi-
well, Ford, Kirk, Benedict, and myself. At racy, is wholly unworthy of credit, and that
that meeting a letter was read by Sanders its ex parte reception even by that court, and
which he sard he had received from‘the Pres- the protection of the witnesses, was an act
ident of our Confederacy.’meaning Jefferson higbiv reprehensible, discreditable to the
Davis, the substance of which was that if the officers of tlie court, a disgrace to the nation
2.. n 1 ilw. Cnnflinmniv in fllA ,1 , tlltn... Knmn'nn imdcn n rrt IfionnllDO
people in Canada and the Southerners in the
States were willing to submit to be governed
by such a tyrant as Lincoln, he did not wish
to recognize them as friends or associates, and
he expressed his approbation of whatever
measures they might take to accomplish this
object The letter was read openly in the
meeting by Sanders, after which it was hand
ed to those present and read by them, one
after another. Col. Steele, Young and Hill,
and I think Captain Scott, read it. I did not
hear any objection raised.”
Merritt goes on to say that Sanders then
named a number of persons who were willing
and ready, as he said, to engage in tlie under
taking to remove the President, Vice Presi
dent, Caoinet, and some of the leading Gene
rals, and that there was any amount of money
to accomplish the purpose, meaning the as
sassination—and gave thc names of Booth,
Harper, Randall, and Harrison (Surratt), and
Plug or Port Tobacco (Atzerodt.) Sunders
said, according to 3Ierritt, that Booth was
heart and soul in this project, because Beall,
bung in New York, Svas his cousin. Sanders
thought disposing of the leading men would
satisfy the people they had friends in thc
North, and incline them to grant the South
better terms.
3Ierritt also says, that on tlie 5th ot April
last, in Toronto, he met Harper and Ford.—
Next morning Harper. Caldwell, Randall,
Holt, and a man called Texas, met him at thc
Queen’s Hotel, and said they were going to
the States to kick up thc damnedest row that
had ever been heard of. An hour or two
after, meeting Harper again, 3Iemtt says Har
per told bint it be did not hear of tbe dentil
of Old Abe, and of the Vice President, and of
General Dix, in less than ten days, he (Mer
ritt) might put him down as a damned tool.
This was thc Gtli of April. Booth was men
tioned as being in Washington. On the 8th
of April, 3Ierritt says be found that Harper
and Caldwell hnd started for the States.
Merritt says he then went to ’Squire David
son, a Justice of the Peace, to have them
stopped; but Davidson thought tlie thing
too ridiculous to notice.
[Tbe only Justice of tlie Peace of that name
in Canada denies receiving any such informa
tion trom 3Ierritt at all.]
arerritt says that in February, 1805, Mr.
Clay told him, in Toronto, that lie knew all
about the letter Sanders had exhibited in
3Iontrcal, and upon Merritt's asking what he
thought about it, be replied that he thought
that thc end would justify the means. 3Ier-
ritt swore to Aiken, in cross-examination at
thc trial, that he had neve r received one dol
lar from the Government for furnishing any
information from Canada, nor had he receiv
ed anything “from thc rebels for services
rendered them.”
To all this Merritt swore.
I cross-examined him under oath, and in
that examination he contradicted all thc fore-
and its military service, under a misapplica
tion of thc powers and regulations of which
this conspiracy to alarm the people and jeop
ardize the reputation, liberty, and life of in
nocent men was fostered and partially con
sum mated.
With the testimony taken at the celebrated
trial was forwarded from that strange recep
tacle ot evidence, “the Bureau of Military
Justice,” affidavits taken since.
Among these was the affidavit of one Camp
bell, acknowledged by him to be such, and to
have been sworn to at the said Bureau.—
Campbell was brought before us and asked if
the contents of that affidavit were true. He
said it was all false. He was then asked—
‘Why did you make it ?
‘I was informed by Conover that Judge
Holt had offered a reward ot one hundred
thousand dollars for the capture of Jefferson
Davis; that he [Holt] liad no authority really
to do it; that now 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 interested in the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln so as to justify him in paying thc
one hundred thousand dollara.’
‘I never lived in New Orleans.’
[In his affidavit lie had sworn he did.]
*1 never wns in Richmond.’
[He liad sworn to residing there.]
•I do not know John Surratt, and never
saw him.’
[He had sworn to conversations with him.]
“ I never saw Jefferson Davis. This evi
dence was prepared by Conover. I saw him
prepare a p'-rtion of it. I never was in the
Confederate service. I never saw Benjamin.
Conover said I flioulfl be well compensated
for my evidence. 3Iy proper name is not
Campbell, but Joseph Horne. 3Iy evidence
was tnken in Judge Holt’s office.
Speaking of tbe other witnesses, Campbell
swore:
Joseph Snevel is not his real name; his
name is Roberts.'
Farnam B. Wright is not his real name; it
is John Waters.’
‘John H. Patton is not his real name; it is
Smith.’
Sarah Douglass is not her real name. Her
name was Dunham.’ [This is Conover's true
name.]
There was another woman sworn. She
gave an assumed name.’
‘One of these women was Conover’s wife;
the other his sister-in-law.'
Conover told me that if I engaged in it, it
was not going to hurt anybody. Jeff. Davis
would never be brought to trial, and that if
this evidence got to him he would leave thc
country. Conover directed me to assume the
name of Campbell. There was a person des
cribed by that name whe was supposed to be
whom they came, led him to the manufactur
ing of so awful a plot. Conover it was who
found 3Iontgomery; Conover it was who
found 3Ierritt, Campbell, Snevel and the rest;
who rehearsed and taught them, and, as pro
fessor of perjury, watched his pupils in their
delivery thereof at lesson-time, betore Judge
Holt.
Judge Holt himself was a witness before
thc committee. He of himself knew nothing,
of course, but he swore to his own opinions,
derived from the trustworthy testimony of
the parties described, for whose testimony
they say the Judge himselt paid them.
The testimony and revelations of Campbell
and Snevel, the absconding of Conover, were
not needed by me in aid of forming my opin
ion of the value of 3Iontgomery’s peijuries or
those ot Conover; still, when they testified
so clearly, when the females of Conover’s fam
ily were shown to have also been sacrificed
by him to tbis demon of falsehood for lucre,
the cool turpitude of the whole crew sickened
me with shame, and made me sorrow over
the tact that such people -could claim the
name of American, while I wondered who
the bidden arch-conspirator behind Conover
might be.
The transparency' of the whole plot, the
imbecility of it| organization and manage
ment, its case of discovery by the poorest
tests ot tbe cheapest logic, betrayed in tho
framer so complete a reliance in popular cre
dulity, so thorough an appreciation of the
maxim that the masses of men believe im
probable lies more readily than those colored
with an air of truth, that I could scarce re
sist the desire of having Campbell, Conover,
Shevel, the women, and tbe rest, all arrestee,
and handed over to the reliable civil tribu
nals of the country, charged with peijury.
■ The proof was within easy reach, plain,
and cumulative. I felt the honor ot the na
tion required tlie punishment of these people,
were it only in atonement for the credulity of
those in high places, who had so readily cred
ited or appeared to credit and act upon such
a tissue of absurdities, and so stated my views
to tin: committee.
Not one ot these witnesses, nor flic parties
using and instructing theta, if any besides
Conovei, possessed any peculiar talent for
imposture other than impudence and military
power to awe all questionings. A man of
sense by trying to give this plot an appear
ance of probability would most likely have
failed soon and no* less signally, as wise men
often do in addressing a multitude, from not
daring to calculate upon thc prodigious ex
tent of their credulity,.especially where the
figments presented to them involve thc fear
ful and the terrible. Dr. Pallin, the man
Blackbum, 3Ir. Robinson, and other innocent
citizens, nearly fell a sacrifice to the fury and
fear of poison, arson, and murder which these
witnesses created, and owe their safety only
to a peculiarity of our national temperament,
We are most easy ot all people satiated with
bloody punishment. Other nations are like
the tame tiger, which, when its native appe
tite for slaughter is indulged in oue instance,
rushes on promiscuous ravage. We rather
resemble tbe sleuth dog, which, eager, fierce,
and clamorous in pursuit of liis prey, desists
from it as soou as blood is sprinkled upon liis
path.
The whole of this affair, which would sim
ply pass down to posterity as an absurdity
unsurpassed in tbe history of nations, were it
not for tbe serious dangers and consequences
it came near entailing, was drawn into the
arena of politics.
A few weeks ago a radical editor wrote:
“ Would that the band of Booth liad been
less steady, that of Atzerodt more sure;” and
a woman.' in the employ of the Government,
published an accusation against thc President
as one of the conspirators against thc life of
3Ir. Lincoln. Recollecting that the taking of
his own life was a leading object of Atzerodt s
anti Booth’s, one may say of Andrew Johnson
what a writer of tlie Popish plot said against
Charles the Second: “ He should be tried for
conspiring liis own death and hanged in ter-
rorem."
That this plot, to prove designs of poison
ing by infection, of complicity with the past
and future assassinations, should have culmi
nated into such absurdities, is natural, for
falsehood run mad outstrips itself, nna the
dangerous allegations of Conover, Merritt,
Ilyams, Campbell, Snevel, Montgomery and
Finegas have tlieir prototypes in other lands
find times, though to Conover, the original
idea of advertising for liis own apprehension
is a false witness is an everlasting claim to a
high place in the pages of the Causes Celt r ns \
of this age. Thankneaven, however, that we now
Need I add in conclusion, that neither i-
verbal or written testimony, there is no credi
ble evidence whatever to criminate Mr. Da^
as an accomplice before or after the fact a
the murder of 3Ir. Lincoln? There is B0!
any evidence worthy of the slightest credit
that connects either Mr. Clay, Mr. Cleary, )[ r
Thompson, Jlr. Tucker, 3fr. Palfin, Mr Stc-
art, nor any others charged therewith, now »•
liberty, with the assassination directly or in.
directly.
Nor is there the slightest possible tin«eof
probability, according to tbe results ofijyej.
tigation, that any plot or plans ever did ex
ist among those therewith to poison or infect
with fevers the good people of this nation.
I cannot agree with the statement made is
the concluding paragraph of the majority re-
port, that—
“It is the duty of the Executive Depart
ment of the Government for a reasonnbl:
time, and by tlie proper means, to pursne the
investigations for the purpose of ascertain;!;
the truth.”
The Government, through the Bureaa «
Military Justice, lias pursued its investigatiwn
over one year with the rigor of military pot-
er, and the expenditure of vast amounts, anj
in Conover, Campbell, Snevel and compsi:
we have tlie result of their labors. How lost
is 3Ir. Davis to lie under these imputation;
without even a preliminary examination ?-
This is worse than the treatment of D’Enni
ton, worse than the quicker cruelties ofu
auto-da-fe. Disagreeing with the majority
report on this point as on most others, I be
lieve it to be the duty of the authorities hold
ing Davis to give him a preliminary examii
ation, as provided by the usages and practia
of all civilized nations. If in that examiu-
tion it be found there remain anything o^_
satisfied, it is the duty of the Government: tad
immediately hand him to the civil tribunal-
that he and the others accused may have op
portunity to show to the world the mafc
and falsehood of these wicked accusations.
The discoveries of thc doings of thc Burn:
of 3Iilitary Justice render it a duty th»
whatever be done in this matter hereafter, hfj
done in a less suspicious locality, and fieri
from secrecy. Evil motives alone fear tin
light. The Government of tbis countiy
should have in this matter nothing to hideor
fabricate in darkness.
As regards the charge of treason, that i>
already before tbe proper tribunal, and I hut
only to express surprise that the judirit
branch of the Government should so Ion;
have deferred tlie trial, and that a prisoner
could be ready for trial so long, ask tor its
persistently, and yet defiance of law ul
usage be so long denied it.
The assertion that legislation by Congre*
is needed ere the crime of treason can brias
a man to trial is whoHy unfounded, *®1
sounds like a shrinking fiom tlie fulfilment f<
a most plain duty.
July 23, 1866. A. J. RogerJ.|
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J3ir*Detectives from thc city of Richmond I
arrived in the city yesterday for the purpos I
of identifying Chas. Damont, who has bte I
in our jail for some time past. He was re I
cognized at once as the man who hadkilW* I
woman at Richmond, and then shot the police J
man who attempted to arrest him. He will J
be returned to Richmond in a few days, ui I
it is hoped he will not escape from those hat, |
ing him in charge, as did his accomp&t J
Young.—Atlanta Intelligencer, 5th.
ESP" "We learn that a duel was fooii-
across the river in South Carolina, on S»k:
day last, between two young men front;
bert county in this State, named Burch 1
Knight, in which 3Ir. Knight was she: I
through the thigh—3Ir. Burch wasuniojure-
Wash. Gazette
Tiie Weather.—Since our last issue tkrt
has more or less rain passed over this con* 0 !
vegetation has revived again to some eita’y
bnt not sufficient to repair the damage t» I
crops have suffered by the drooth. I® I
county it will require a careful husbanding c -1
all our resources to keep up the fan® 5 * 0, |
another year.—Sanderstille Georgian, W-
ESP A wide awake minister, who found £ 1
congregation going to sleep one Sunday J
fore he liad fairly commenced, suddenly - 5l, T I
ped and exclaimed : “Brethren, this 15 ^l
air; It isn’t giving a man half a chance.-' f
AVait till I get along a piece, aud then ” , I
aint worth-listening to, go to sleep; butdo»j I
go before I get commenced; give a
chance.”
J3?”By an act of the last Congress a <*** |
mission was created charged with an ia
into the question of providing a subs)
for cotton in the fibre of flax, or someth^ I
else. After spending $9,500 they report & |
eotton is king.
Dentil of a Well>known Politician^
Richmond, Va., Aug. 4.—Col. J.
lord, who piv.-ided at t'u: r.-au: I
tbe State Central Committee, died 8 . V'-1
la-t night at an advanced atre. He . P
several years Lieutenant Governor o' 1 I
ginia.
ST* It is stated that the salt mines ^
vada throw into the shade all other.’ >- I
in the United States. One bed is IV I 10 ?5. ■ I
cover 15,930 acres,yielding 2,000,0C0. ,,( . -' ; ..|
annually of salt, per cent. fine. A'°
salt bed has ever been dtacoveTC •
to this
The Secretary of the Treasury
tliority by the recent law to suspend
the c
lection, in any of the States hereto! 1 ’- .
dared in insurrection, of the direct ta
posed by the tax of 1861.
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Tht
fa
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pos
are only to blush at the fact that, upon tlie ; country
accusation of thc most infamous of mankind,
common informers, incited, it not bribed, by
offers of reward, of these scourgings ot jails,
implicated in that affair, and I was represent-1 :tn d the refuse of the detective office, a Cov
ing that party.’ eminent like ours should brand those wlio
Robert Bonner, since bis last pn*
esses the six finest horse 3 '•
They cost him about
. , H -i i*
^/"Dispatches have I-eon m ' 1 ' 1
Montgomery, Ala., from Baltimore, :li yy
ing the serious indisposition of f' 1 ' 11,
E. Johnson.