Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-11-10
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signs these papers, and you need go no far
Their. | said that that was a good point
gained, and would save a great deal of
trouble. Witness then left the office, agree
ing to call again in the afternoon, and accord
| ingly he called. At that time there was a
clerk sitting in the office, behind the register
book Witness remarked that he did not
want his writing to appear in any of his coun-
| ty votes Ferry said: You can take the
| clerks place and copy there, and l will put
| him on your list" The witness accordingly
| went to work. Witness here pointed out in
the book the place where he copied these
names. Ferry took his list, and witness went
| to work with the 10th New York cavalry
the lists that witness copied were signed c.
| u. Arthur. Ferry added the words ieuten-
ant commanding witness thinks and, on
some of~rhem, captain and A. A G. Wit
ness desired to send few of these papers to
New York, but Ferry objected, as it was ne
cessary to wait for Donohue, who was in
| Washington, and said he would telegraph
! him. He Ferry then telegraphed Mr.. Don
| ohue at Washington. to come at once; and he
| said That when Donohue came he would have
these fixed for witness, and ne could send
| them On.
1t should beexplained here that the sol
| dlers' power of attorney contains blanks for
the Insertion of four Names that of the voter
| himself, the person authorized to receive the
| ballot, and the witness to the affidavit, and
| the officer before whom it is made. 1t APP
| pears to have been so arranged, that a differ
ent person filed each blank.
| Continuing his evidence, Mr.. Wood said
that on Saturday afternoon last he met DOno-
| hue and Edward Newcomb, also of Albany,
at Ferry's Office, and considerable converse
ton ensued about the latter's telegraphing to
| Washington for Donohue to come to Balti-
| more. Donohue said he was on the eve of
starting for City Point, as he had received a
pass &C, from the War Department. The
| party then separated for the night, all having
| agreed to meet next morning and tx up pa
pers to keep Ferry at work. In converse
ton before separating, one OF them said that
things We're going an all right, and that there
were about twenty men in Washington ope-
rating On the work. Donohue said they were
sending them off in dry goods box fulls.-
| Witness met them again Sunday morning !;
all were present; Newcomb sat at one end
of the table, filling out the descriptive portion
of power of attorney; Donohue was writing
the names of the officers who purported to
| take the atfidavits; NewcOmb wrote one name
| in the blanks, and DOnOhue another, gene
rally the last.
The prisoner here interrupted the witness
| with the remark, "Do you swear | wrote a
soldiers name ?" Mr.. Wood replied, "
do"
Several blanks were produced, all bearing
the signature of G. G. Arthur, captain and A.
A. G., as the officer in whose presence the
! affidayits were made, and the signature of the
witness affixed. Full sets Of powers of attor-
| ney blanks were all filled and ready to be de-
posted in the ballot-box as soon as ticket
was inserted One package Of thirty, in
which names had been forged was identified
by Mr.. Wood as the work Of Donohue.
Among the names fraudulently inserted were
those of Lieutenant Colonel Murphy, of the
18th New York artillery, and Captain Smith,
of the 93d New York.
The witness continuing, said thirty Of the
proxies were from Clinton county; package
of fifty-f was to be sent to General James
Farrell, commissary general of subsistence OF
the State of New York Ferry remarked,
while writing that Donohue had letter from
General Farrell enclosing a list of the soldiers
who resided in his county, and that he had
fixed ffty-fve proxies which were ready to
be forwarded to Farrell. Donohue said he
would make out FarrelPs list and send it, to-
gether with what Ferry had prepared. The
| following Is a lnttor from General FARRELL,
found in the Office of the State agent:
NEW YORK, October 20, 1861
| Edcard D0nob1e Jr., Esq, Baltimore:
| DEAR SIR Enclosed in this package you will
find tickets also list of of actual residen
of Columbia county, now members of the 12Stt
regiment. With my best wishes for your success
! l remain, &c,
JAMES A. Farrell,
Commissary General.
The examination was resumed. Wood sale
two soldiers came into Ferry's Office and sign
ed the powers of attorney. Each placed the
| Union electoral and Democratic State tickle
in their envelopes, but Ferry distracted the
Union ballots, and put in those containing
names of the Mcclellan electors On Mon
day Wood went to the provost marshal, Colo
mel Woolley, and informed him what was be
| INC done. The office at IS West Fayettt
street was then visited. Donohue and Ferry
were arrested, and the books, papers, &c.
taken in charge.
The books, &C., of Ferry and Donohut
were exhibited to the court, including
number of letters, among which was the fol
lowing, which was found in the package o
fifty-fve votes addressed to General j. A
Farrell, Hudson, n. Y, with. the words ''Nev
York State Agency, So West Fayette street
Baltimore, Md" printed on one corner, ant
letter marked personal" 1t will be per
ceived that it is an answer to the lette
above:
NEW YORK STATE AGENCY, BALTIMORE, }
So West Fayette St., Oct %, 1864. :
General J. A. Farrell:
My DEAR SIR:-I send with this ote a number O
ballots for your county. 1 have made out mum
, | Der from the list you sent l also send pack
age put up by Mr.. Ferry. State agent, and you will
find note from him explaining things. l CUES
you have enough. Fearing that you might not,
| enclose you envelopes and power of attorn ey
sworn to. You can fill up for Columbia an,
other county. You can fill them up well in you
county as We can here. If you want names OF en-
listed PERSONS ascertain them from the supervs
J or's list OF any county.
In haste, your friend, E. D., Jr.
P. S.-You can procure large envelopes for at
torneys' names at Albany. Put in some goo,
names for attorneys.
A roll, purporting to be a list of sick an(
wounded New York soldiers under treatmen
: at Jarvis Hospital in this city, was shown
1t contained about 400 names.
Mr.. Wood testified that Ferry remarked
to answer to question, that dead or alive
they had all cast good vote"
The following was among the papers founC
on the person of the accused by the sheriff
of Albany, New York:
SHERIPF's OFFICE, ALBANY, October IA
Z. DonaItue, Esq, Baltimore:
DEAR SIR: Your telegraph of the 10th, and also
your letter of the 10th and 18th instant, came tt
| hand in due course of mail. l answer your teIe
| graph by sending Edward Newcomb, and you have
of course got the answer before this time. How d.
| y0u like 1T?
| I saw Mr.. Cagger and sh owed him your telegranb
He does not want to spare Barney. If you want
| more help, l will send some one. As to sending
| the proxies, you had better send them by Mr. Val
lace He always calls at the State Agency wher
coming this way. Send them as fast as you gel
| them, first to me. All is well here, and we arr
confident of complete success. 1t is unnecessary
to saw that all here have entire confidence in vo a
| skill and abetting. and hope you will like YOU,
help Please keep me advised. Yours,