New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-25

says:
Some time since copies Of the ritual ofthe o. A. X
were found 10 the Office Of ID. W. VOORHEES, OF ierre
Uaue which naturally led 10 the inference that they
werp tie property Of ID. voorhees,. He has made de-
NAL 70 Col X ". Thompson and 70 Gen. Carrington,
which oocasoned the following reply;
LETTER FROM GENERAL II. D. CARRIEdToS TO
d. W. VOORHEES,.
IypiasaroIls Ind. August Is, 1894.
Hon. D. ~ YoOrheos. Member U. S. ConsTs'' Tore
have received FROM you copy Of Your letter 20 Col
X. w. Thompson Provost Marshal, and lis reply. Inc
following aooaic note accompanies them:
General CainstonAs you published thi. fslsehood In
Tso,sn.op NJ. due d. ". vooRHEEs.
The assumut!on In the above Is groundless. Yonr
name is not mentioned by me In my reports, neither
have Published any thing about you whatever
You insist upon my answering your note to Coionei
Thompson. The points you make are
LIST That the oicc in which IL is said these papers
were found had Lot been occupied by you or By any one
connected with you, been IN any way under your con
troll since l.st November"
I'd You desire 10 ascertain whether the ciroumstan
ces connected with the discovery Of those papers IN that
ohco led TO tie fupposition that you placed them there
or was even aware Of their existence p
Yen desire tbs, that the pco,e may know The truth
and mot that you attach any particular importance 10
tic documents.'
The rapcrs referred TO arc one hundred and twelve
copies OF to Ritual 81 the o. A. X. reasonable order
aiming to oyerurn tie government os the med states
OF which you are q member.
The gentlemen who found 'thcso pepers told me they
were found in your Office.
Tho following arc some Of the Circumstances.
that led suppose they were correct In tAe slppo
sition
Yonr law library and office furniture were in the office
where these papers vesc found
You nd declined denomination for Congress ond
the office reported as not for rent as late as April
1854. -
Tie Ritual bad been Issued IN the autumn Of 1863.
Your documents were In the oihce where
there papers" we're found.
"a -, Mar Of
siona career with the John Brown" speech were IN
tie Office where =" these papers we're found.
The correspondence Of Senator Wall. of New Jersey.
under bis frank endorsing propos uon to iurnish you
with twenty thousand stand of GaTbald Iihes just i'm.
ported "ior which be could yOnch." was III the Office
where these papers were found.
The correspondence Of {. l.. Vallandigham. from
Windsor c. W., assuring you 'our people vii! fight
and that "ho is ready" and fixing o point on the IL
ma road" at which 10 meet yon," Wa in the oiiee
where these papers were found
The correspondence of %, ph Ristinc. Auditor Of
State declaring that he ~ ou ike TO SEQ al Demo-
CT unto in bold and open resistance To all attempts
keep united people by force OF steel and that
this was war against the democracy ana our only
hope was the successful resistance Of the South was
in the Office where these papers ! were found
The correspondence Of i. c. Hibben. who assures
Won that "the democracy are fast sifening up when
i- war is to be openly declared bcing wsged o- the
purpose OF freeing the negro" (which viii arouse
another section Of the country 10 arms and declaring
ma, Lincoln bay are shouldered for oodboOded
found.
The correspondence OF J It6rtlest who wants you
10 have that hundred thousand men endy az we 40 NOT
know how soon We may nOed them, Was IA the once
here this ritual was found
The correspondence of. j. Bingham, who asks you
II you think the South has resources enough TO Keep
the Union forces ut bay" and says that '!ou must
have sources OF Information which ne mas ho'' Vas IL
the office where 4" these papers were found.
The CORES pOndcncc Of John O.. DAVIS informing you
That certain New York Journal lis wondefiuly eher
csed about secret anti'war movements anu ueh"t ~
their boots in view Of the terrible reaction winch is
sure 70 await them" was In the ONCE "AeFc these
papers" were found.
ont OF the war they trying TO crest him for
officiating in ecret societies." incosing the oath OF the
h Co. Cs prior that Of the D. A. H., was in the office
where "these pgpers' were found.
The petition of C. L. Valandighan. y. W Voor.
bees md BENJAMIN Wood In favor Of two republics and
united South. IN the Office where these pdpers'
were found.
The corrosponderce Of Campbell who says the dem.
ooraoy not afraid let their purposes out TO day
light" but that NOW ii is deemed best to wo-k IN sc
orot. and asking your consent" were In tie Office
where these papers" were found.
The correspondence OF Il. Etheridge, clerk OF the
House Of Representatives. giving official notice that
your credentials ne member OF the thirty eighth Con-
gress have been received and filed in the proper Office"
and for you "to come on" was in the oh.oe where
these papers" were Jound.
The correspondence II George II. Pendleton. which
states that Eherdges plan 20 organize Congress, viz
10 elect himself clerk end Cox a. speaker" Though
he Oendleoa) will not facilitate the denomination OF
Gpy man as clerk whose programme Is for his defeat as
sueaker' suggesting to you to have 1t whispered in
ear u Eherdge, TO recprocate iaVore and oppos
lion and do this GuthortaNely, but not from him,
g. was In the office where these papers were found.
The correspondence vi j. hcD0n Id. who had in
teryiew with Perkins in one of his (perkinss) acd
Intervals" with regard to The dscOvery OF the Mort IL
west pessGge' by Perkins. for which he claimed the
credit etc. in the Office where these papers we're
found.
And so Of b. w. Hanna, who wants good place in
the rogua, army and 50 OF liannegan. aud oil W. D.
Pierce, who will show the Beasts that Lincoln las
turned out to be- monsters In le6;' and Of Bigger
and Deyin and Dodd &c. whose said correspondence
was in the office where these papers were found.
These are somo OF the circumstances" that led me 70
believe that these pip0fs' tho ritual Of the D. a. Ia,
were found in your Office.
looked upon these circumstances ss PLAIN Juror
might be supposed 70 do aud not as statesman, and
nnoccny supposed that such papers as these fspared
from the fire, would be In the possession OF re ner,
and that the office Of the owner woild Re the place
where these papers would be found.
And yet With Colonel Thompson, ehoeriGIy accept