Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-11-10
Nrw YopE MY. 2.


The New York TI-i5tn.e's Washington spe-
cial says of the soldiers election frauds:
Ferry and Donohue have been sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. The Secretary
of War has approved the sentence, and it
will be carried out Immediately. New York
prisons will not be selected. ~
Marvin Jones, Col North's Chf Asst, con-
fined with him at the Old Capitol prison, has
made a full confession of his completely in
the voting frauds and says that the business
has been carried on at Col. North's agency
much more extensively than anything done at
Baltimore It is understood that Gov Sey-
rnours special commissioners are staggered
bv this complete implication of Col. North in
the frauds. The end is not reached.
Messrs. Parker, Allen and Kelly were again
present at the Military Court to-day, and ev-
cry facility was extended them to prepare a
defence for Col, North, which they improved.
This occupied the attention of the Court IN
til it adjourned. They expect to resume the
examination of the papers seized and the
consideration of the case tomorrow, but it is
not expected they will be prepared to put
Col. North on trial before Friday or Saturday.
Newcomb, who was released, was in court
this morning to testify.
Among the papers seized at the New York
York man for place in Col North's Office as
clerk He writes, Il have been discharged
by the Sanitary Commission for disloyalty
His discrimination was rewarded. Col. North
Immediately employed him at $40 month
more than he received from the Sanitary
Commission.
The Times Washington special says:
A careful examination of the facts and pa
pers in the case has convinced Judge Parker
and his associates that the matter is much
more serious one than they expected or an
ticipated prior to their arrival, and assumes
with them the proportions of grave crime
against the purity of the ballot box and the
rights of electors. The case of Col. North
and his co-conspirators was to-day again ad
journed till tomorrow, to enable him ard his
advisors to prepare for his defense. All his
assumed carelessness is gone and he is devOt-
ing himself seriously to clear himself from
the accumulated evidence. Hon. Ransom II.
Gillet has been retained as counsel for North,
who will be defended with all the zeal and
ability that can be brought to bear in his be-
half.
-. - o. NEW YORK, Nov. 4.
The Times Washington special says Ferry,
who was convicted and sentenced to State
prison for life, is now disposed to be more
communicative. He says that for some time
previous to his arrest he was only waiting to
receive replies to letters addressed by him to
Peter Cagger and other Democratic politi
clans in New York, which would place their
completely beyond all peradventure, VIII. he
intended to voluntarily make complete ex-
position of the whole thing, and that if
the arrest of himself and confederates had
been postponed week he would have been
able to fix the guilt of the transaction, from
its incipiency, where it properly belongs.
This morning Capt j. F. Gaines, of the
10th .. S. infantry, arrived here from the
front, having in charge 1t. Murphy, of the
7th New York artillery, who it is Said is i'm
plicated in the election fraud by signing the
blanks. Murphy was arrested by order of
the Secretary of War, and has been commit
ted to the Old Capitol to await Investigation.
The Worlds special says, the New York
Commissioners, appointed by Gov. Seymour,
left for Albany to-day, having failed to &C
complish the object of their mission. The
report, together with all the correspondence
held with the Government, will be delivered
to Gov. Seymour Oh their arrival. .....