New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-23

Who disclosed 10 this curious and scotfug Yen.
Grafton the great Tucker and Sckles correspond.
ence his Is the question which now assorSs
the public mind aid which is literally aud frsakly
considered on another page ofthis paper. BIZ psr,is
interested Through what agency did any new.
paper receive copies of those elegant speci.
mems of the epistolary art in which Mr. Tucker
and Mr. Butterworth and DR.. l.. W. Ogden of
California, discussed the prellminaries Of deadly
duello, with such exemplary prudence snd dscre
toni Was it Mr. Tucker We don't believe !.
for he csme Of second best IN the correspondence
and couldn't have desired To make them known.
Was it l.. W. Ogden, VI. d., of California Impa,.
sible: besides We have his circumstantal denial
Wa, II the Hon. ). r. Buterworth, We don't
bsieye it. fer he wss cut Of town al the time Of
the publication engaged in the piou, duty Of get.
ting Messrs. Sche and Blrds,l turaed og, of
Office; and he, too, repuilates The Suspicion that
be- furnished copies Of the letters for the
press. Was it the Hon. d. T.. sekle.' W,
don, believe that either. for he'i. spcrfcct gen
tleuan as well "a \ Member OF Congress Tas
tossed shout amid conflicting improbsbiies, h.
mud exhausted BY the difficulties If the great
problem, az last rcsp.c' into the proioundcs skeP
tlcism. and. ready almost to doubt everything
ri, cts all human Intervention. aud attributes the
publication TO demonac influence. The dcyi ws
10 IT, and that is enough.
For our pant. ia the face Of sich conclusion
We hasten to di-claim all responsibility in the nat
Ter. All that sc know Of L j., that Ne rrad IN The
Freri,g Posf--ior the mosf part very s'aid and
raie going cid journal--Nhs' purporled TO be acoT
oi tn, mott interesting corfesponi,nce. Accord
ing a. hst excellent authority, Mr.. G j. Iuckr
uur Secretary Of State for the state Of Now-l ea.
bad addressed letter to MIR. sicke-, requesting
him to "rominats . day for conference ~iIh
Or. Ogden. With 4 view, 40 doubt. Ia ncmlns's
aEotber day for repairing b. armed means certain
injuries doGe 10 Tucker and the Fucker family
And then followed various letters e.chaneed NJ
tween DIR. Ogden. the friend nominated in iA b.
ter of Mr. Tucker and the lion. :. y. Basn.
worth, the friend Of Sickle,.
Upon iLese documents thus produced BY TAI
Er,nisg Pot, We made such comments a.
due sense of public duty dictated. But now
il appears that, like others who put faith 10 the
spiritual manifestations Of the day, our 'eneraoe
contemporary was deludei by the dark and my''en'
Gus agency through which II received the ucmen'
dous revelation. We have had the honor 81
a visit from the author Of the Iniiis'ory letter"
Mr.. Sickk.; We have aso had the honor oi eE
ter from The Secretary OF State himself, which W
duly lay before our readers; and We are thus 60
abled 10 state that il was not the Hon. Gideon y
Tucker. who, contrary to the Law OF the s~v'
whereof h. is n most deserving pillar, desired,
a certain contingency to have the blood OF Sickks
but Mr.. J. c. Tucker, relative Of the Secretary
and citizen Of California, newly returned from
thar part OF the world where pistols are regular
attendant upon politics. THIS being the case ~
desire hereby TO be- understood as retrsctng GER
tain inferences cone ming the Hon. q. j. Tucker
drawn from the corresposdence. One OF thee
differences was that he had made an ass Of hn
self, but "a the premiss has been removed %
which that rather violent geological impu'a'"o
was founded, sense of proPriefy requires "
publicly and explicitly TO withdraw IT, as We no"
do; and 50 of amy other imputaticns int Which We
msy have been led agAns, our will by oyer"ee0ns
confidence ia the testimony Of the hitherto u~'
worthy journal in question.
We beg to suggest with all modesty tn" Nv
Post ought also to make some correction and aPo'og!
In this grave matter At the same time LEI H. y"
can or if it dare, she'd little light on the ques'o'
of how, through whom. and for What motives tnc''
surprising letters were published to the world.
TT-cEFp rsrJyyC, orr SICKLES.