The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-18

are reading tho card Beware Of pickpocketsV
and We suppose somebody viii be wheedled
out Of Irh money by swindling agent in ten
minutes after he has read this paragraph.
The Hon. Bon Wood and HIS Twenty
Avs Th0ussnd.
That draft from Montreal upon the City
Bank of this city, last August, for twenty
five thousand dollars, paid to the Hon. Ben
Wood, has been ventilated in the court en-
gagged In the trial Of the assassination conspira-
tors at Washington, and from the crushing
evidence presented the fhct is clearly estab-
lished that
Birds Of feather
Flock together
Our theory of August last concerning that
mysterious twenty-five thousand is fully and
completely confirmed In a court of justice. A
manager Of the Montreal Ontario Bank testiles
that the money was Jake Thompson's rebel
money, drawn from the rebel treasury at Rich
mond, by way of Liverpool, and part Of the
fund SO acquired and deposited by Thompson
in said Ontario Bank. Judge Russell and
George Wilkes, of this city, identify Ben Woods
endorsement on the back Of the bill, and thus
the fact is fixed that last August the Hon. Ben
Wood, at that time member of the United
States Congress, and drawing his compensation
as such from the United States Treasury, at the
rate Of three thousand year, was financially
mixed up with q Canadian band Of rebel con-
spirators Of the blacklist description, and
giving "aid and comfort to the enemy" In
the publication of . daily newspaper in
This city, in the service Of JEFF. Davis and
the rebellion. This, as case of treason,
is black enough, but, to make it still blacker,
other contributions Of money were furnished at
the same time, and have ever since been and
still continue to be furnished for the support of
Ben. Woods reasonable newspaper, from the
treasury of New York city, and through some
corrupt agreement between the Tammany, the
Mozart and Gunther factions
It has not been, and perhaps cannot be,
legally proved, unless through Jake Thompson
as States evidence, that the Hon. Ben Wood
was paid this sum of twenty-five thousand dol
lars from the rebel treasury in consideration Of
the services Of his newspaper a. q laborer In
the same vineyard with Thompson and his hired
Canadian gang Of rebel spies, pirates, highway
men, yellow fever distributors, incendiaries and
assassins; but who can doubt that Ben Wood
was in correspondence with these men! What
. food Of light, too, these developments
Of the Jake Thompson rebel detached ser
vice" fund throws upon the aSons Of Liberty"
and the " Knights Of the Golden Circle, J" in the
West, and the July riots Of 1858 In New York;
and upon the sickening orgies Of the Chicago
Shentper-Shent Convention, and vallandig-
ham and Company and their peace-atany-price
Chicago platform. We can now realize the
hideous character Of that nest of unclean birds
in which General Mcclellan was sacrificed as a
burnt offering to JEFF. Davis.
We have had some curious disclosures from
Richmond bearing upon all these matters.
1t is said that after the battle Of Gettys-
burg the rebel leaders, becoming desperate and
utterly reckless, resolved upon the experiment
of this detached service" business on grand
scale; that, accordingly, In the secret sessions
of their Congress appropriations for that ode
tached service" were made, amounting to FIVE
millions of dollars and that the purposes to
which this money was to be applied were indi-
Gated in the discussion Of the appropriations
as embracing the blowing up and burning of
United States vessels-of-war, transports, maya
zines, arsenals, &C., in the loyal States; the
burning Of Northern cities, and the bribing of
Northwestern Governors, Legislatures and poll
ticans, including the managers of the Chicago
Convention, and the purchase Of Northern
newspapers.
The evidence bearing upon that twenty-five
thousand dollars Montreal draft Of Ben Wood
removes all doubt in regard to where that
money came from. What the President intends
to do with the Hon. Ben Wood We cannot say;
but we can say, in the name Of the loyal
citizens of New York, that henceforward It will
be an outrage upon them, by our city authori-
ties, if they contribute any more money from
the city treasury, in any shape or form, for the
support Of Ben Woods Daily Ne'os.
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