New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-19
FEOM MISSOURI.


Secassiouissy.
FTcm Our Own Core pondslt
81. LOuis, June &C. $50
a sensation for the West is pending. General
Mekiostry has forwarded TO Washington a letter
addressed to Gen. n. C. Meigs, Quarternsster-
General, in yndication of himself from the attacks
7 ana aspeisions Of the Van Wyck Commttee-the
iioit-Campbel2nd ayis-War.C Claim Commission
and public journals and Congressional ASSISTANTS in
? general. 1T a proper time, have 10 doubt YOU
VIII puDllsh tie whole OF the aothors text if not
most OF the appendix containing 90 letters, sidays,
dis. aiehes, ETC., forming the testimony on which
Gen. MckinsTy bases bis deiense. IL is not NV
intention therefore to attempt anything like synopss
Of this letter, which is now before me in panpblet
form, bat merely TO notice few points whiehpossess
a national interest.
Gen. McKinstry CHARGES, in the first place, that
notwithstanding the long period that has elapsed
since the assaults UPON hin commenced he bss never
been allowed g. trial or 3 court OF inquiry, or any,
thing like fair charce 10 vindicate himself. His
friends assert that he peyer would have written
Ibis yiUdcaiion if he could have had military or
civil trial, iof tie frauds indirectly imputed to him
by bis eucnies But, passing this by, the GFst thing
which must erile the reader Of bis vindicalion il
the perfect control Of the Quatermasers office lat
critical PERIOD too, OF the country cxis,ence) ex-
ercised by politicians and oicehoders, az well as
the subordinate position occupied by that officer in
tire presence of Commanding. General. His bands
we've tied excepting as to the most common place
things. where anything "big" was TO be given
out, there was superior power behind the throne
"grester than the throne itef" ready TO jump upon
A :. / y
trate this statement.
The Van Wyck and Holt-Davis AMI Campbell
Committee have urged with great .,sess The extrav-
agant manner Of purchasing supplies G..hout adver-
tisement, and allusio 10 MADE to cYi.af' contracts
with zone Lamb" OF Springfield, H. This Mr..
Lamb was introduced IL stcKinsry BY the following
letter:
WASHINGTON. September 10 1861.
j. McKIxsrHI, nrgaIis,-G,ne,q! ard Qee'is'sa'te 81
Lars.
PeInl. ng q introduce JaEes L. Lamb esq, of Spring
hay, known Mr. Lamb for great many years His rerr.
taon for lgdty and ability TO ciy out his enssseuentl
with public good, that yu viii purchases of him
Of coy army supplies needed IN y0sr Department.
Your obedent servant, a LtCOLf
Accompanying this was letter from Secretary
Cameron indorsng Mr.. Lamb as personal friend of
the President and adding: " II Won can do anything
obli9c, provided be viii make his prices sit you.
McKnstfy, it seems, did not feel at liberty to ignore
such credentials.
NcKinr.ry make a strong roint against NJ. Hugh
Campbell, one of tie War CLAIMS Commission by
showing tia, while 2 member Of the frw Of Robert
Campbell & Co. of 81. Louis, lie allowed the claims
of that iiru 20 he audited nj the fall amounts while
other parties for the suppIies were compelled
to guler DEDUCTION. Another instance Of Mr..
Csmpbers farmers msy BE- found in the deduction
Of Child, Pratt & Toxs Lis for blankets from = 20
a. 20 ger pair TIE amusing feature OF this trans
action IL thai the identical blankets were purchased
from A.r. C.mpbells own store at an average II
81 CJi per pair. M Campbell as Commissioner
reflects on biz own honesty tradesuan!
Tie correspondence attached 20 this vn1ication is
liehly interesting. The name Of Frank r. Blair,
IT,, hgre5 conspicuously in it. Here il Of Bairs
letters:
DEAR MAJOR: wish you to give Jim Veal .r
chance Tie as personl friend OF min9 sna sound JHon
nan ~ oy.r! AIM yor ~ i ,2.x ;51 =, ;iyo,
"Coloue., De-. Regiment 10. Vols"
IS tie Congressional investigating Committee and
The War Claims Commission put down &C Jim Neal'
az a great rascal, this rocomn endeton Is rather
heavy, or the So. Louis Representative. lie igIres in
other letters 70 McKiustly. He eays bis fcendJohn
II. Bow q" is an night and wants hcKnsiry IN
arother motel to buy wagons from Esreuscheii Il
Keara Cormans Is Murphy : Verdin me Secession
isls. He also wants contract for Alex. Peterson 70
buy horseq, rs he is . good friend Of nine He
AXIS that Col. Bogy, member 0! the State Conyen-
lion. may have a contract ior horses. But for lie
tie following is the best.
Or>HrN: NJ r. Ohlrd 10 the party Of whom s2ose %
whom sent vou r1eAsas' oy Ni-cy t4fatas
H. ,I 3, O. arHth s0Bs f,s JJ. no breylreat S-e lids
~ +. .r,. 4efs Youf., Sc, FRANK p. BLAIR, ir
McEns;ry, in tie tex, says Col. Blair sent more
anprcarts to him than any other ten lien in he
country.
perlap5 members Of Congress nay remember
Iag which prohibits any Of their members from par
trip.,.us in aly Government contract. II go, here
is O. Sc which they may think demands attention.
Tef,. il u etter from Mr. James S. Rollins:
PIAN4sks' HoUsE seyt T. 1851.
GpS !. NcHrys.ny-Ds.v 81: / lave ja's received
d racA tDat hea ~ mules - ''H'''oh IVY
,,.t h. mach OBLIGED 70 you e You would Give 'uc
r % our Inspectors auh0Tlinz one Of them 20 g. up oy
uo.ulng train snd 4'1end TO tne Duness -
d te oI-- Vail 40 zee N i.spc zoe 20 hSa. OK
yesy s1y e. tne no-a- eHd IN liLe .o wv ~
tlst th,ir se.yic.s needed Here, lave 10 IonOIMr.
service would GO ~, AID ths t.'r % W., 20 % nm,
and iu i,i viii see me A. Ao~1 no zee you IA
ssn ge tie oid,r lam tss er9ict b'caa 'e''fe 70 nees
y,.auff ~ p. yQccR.e1s ia ne couHnsni hf0ag. M
iaF lam very respectfully y9gl 9ssdr0s bGits
Ibave thus given you few points Of the inside
workings of contractors aud politicians, iEem Gen.
McKingr,'s books The moral to be derived from
this expose is--Gen. Mehins,ry paid high prices be-
cause he was IN a hurry because lie was ordsyed 10
favor the favogitcs OF saperors and because there
10, T..a- 1ap tsofI t.iar, cxriY,g