The Shasta courier., 1864-10-08
Envelope indorsed:
Free.
JAMES w. WALL, q. s. s.
aton- Daniel Voorhees,, Terre Haute, Indi-
z. ". CARR TO JAMES W. WALL.
PHILADELPHIA, August IA. 1868

E.w. CARR TO JAMES W. WALL.
PHILADELPHIA, August IA. 1863.
lanes W. Wall-Dear Sir: Your letter,
with one Inclosed about rifles, has been 70
c&ved. If the parties wish to buy them the
n$st way would be for them to have some one
New York appointed to purchase them
I'D confer with you and me.
am satisfied that this is the very article
they want, and rs you know all about them
yss can = speak by th cardn Youhave seen
article tried and no doubt are we'll salts
fxl that It will speak Ioadiy in good cause
Ne will sell thGA. y. hea3 finrtaep dAI-
n1d'l hAy4 y4A1 lfs NINA 3ropsr
q erse i pursseI ~ dutT ~ ~ renaittal].
rines are better and cheaper than any
ting ever offered 10 this county, and as good
az any ever imported. We challenge com
prison with any rife execution whatever.
There are about twenty thousand rifles,
aid we desire to sell them all llatonce. They
are great bargain, and are worth to-day
mare IN Europe than we offer to sell for here.
The price of firearms will advance within
year at least thirty-three per cent, as arms
are ID demand all over Europe. As YOU
know, there is no more effective arm in the
world than this
lam, with great respect, yours. truly,
E. w. CARR.
IL. BINGHAM TO DAN. vooRHEgs-HAvE THE
SOUTH RESOURCES ENOUGH TO KEEP THE UNION
FORCES AT BAY? III
INDIANAPOLIS, July II, 1861.
My Dear Voorhees, would like your pri.
vate opinion as to the prospect of affairs, so
that may have me basis to go upon Do
you think the South have resources enough
to keep the Union forces at bay, and finally
force recognition of their independence, or
will Lncoln's army crush them out? You
must have sources of information which
have not to enable you to form some opinion
upon these matters
Ifthe Congressional Globe and Appendix
is published and bound | should be obliged
to you for a set, and other public documents
OF general interest.
think there is reaction taking place in
IT, Llama in reference to the war, and Mr..
Llncoln's Message and Chase's report will
aid it. Let me hear from you at the earliest
convenience. What is Morton doing in
Washington? Yours, truly.
J.J. BINGHAM.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GENERAL CARING
TON AND D. W. VOORHEES,.
Correspondence of the CINCINNATI Gazette.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind, Aug. 20, 1864.
Some time since copies of the ritual of the
@. -. h. we're found in the, Office of D. w
Voorhees,. at Terre IIaute, which naturally
led to the inference that they were the prop
ersy of d. W. Voorhees,. He has made de-
NAL to Colonel r. w. Thompson and to Gen
eral Calrington, which occasioned the follow
ing reply. That the people may know the
truth and judge for themselves, we lay it be-
fore our readers:
LETTER FROM II. B. cARRINGToN TO D. W. vooR-
HE'S.
INDIANAPOLIS (Ind. J, August 16. 1864
D. w. Voorhees, Member of the United
States Congress, Terre Haute (Ind.):
have received from you copy of your let
ter to Colonel r. w. Thompson, Provost
Marshal. and his reply. The following la
comic note accompanied them:
General Darlington As you published
this falsehood in the newspapers, | shall ex-
pect you to correct it. as Colonel Thompson
has done. D. w. VOORHEES,"
The assumption in the above is ground
less. Your name is not mentioned by me
in my reports, neither have published any
thing about you whatever.
You insist upon my answering your note |
10 Colonel Thompson. The points you make
are:
First" That the Offices in which it is said |
hese papers were found had not been occu-
pied by you, or by any one connected with |
you, or been in any way under your control
since last November"
Second-You ''desre to ascertain wheth. |
sr the circumstances connected with the dis |
,overy of these papers in that Office led to
The supposition that you placed them there |
,r was even aware of their existence
You desire this :: that the people may know
The TRUTH" and mot that you attach any
particular importance to the documents"
The papers referred to are one hundred
md twelve copies of the ritual of the O. A. |
K, reasonable Order, aiming to overturn
she Government of the United States, of which |
you are a member.
The gentleman who found these papers"
told me they were found in your office.
The following are . some of the circum-
stances" that led me to suppose they were
in the suppostion
Your law library and Office furniture were
in the Office where " these papers" was
found.
You had declined the nomination for Con-
yress, and the Office was reported as not for
rent as late as April, 1864
The ritual had been issued in the Autumn
IF 1868. Your Congressional documents
were in the Office where "these tapers''
we're found.
Your speeches up to March, of your entire
Congressional career, with the ''Jobn
Brown" speech, were in the Office where
. these papers, were found.
The correspondence of Senator Wall. of
New Jersey, under his frank, indorsing a
proposition tofurnish you with twenty thous-
and stand of Garibaldi rifles, just imported,
: for which he could vouch, +" was in the Office
where these papers were found.
The correspondence of c. L. Vallandig-
ham, from Windsor. Canada West. assuring
you our people will fight, " and that . he is
ready" and fixing a point on a. the Lima
road. at (which to meet you, and was in |
the Office where these papers, were found.
The correspondence of Joseph Restine,
Auditor of State. declaring that q he would
like to see all Democrats unite in bold and
open resistance to all attempts to keep ours |
united people by force Of STEEL" and that
= this was war against the Democracy, and |
bur enly hope was the successful resistance of
The South, was in the Office where these pa /
pers were found.
The correspondence of E. c. Hibben, who !