The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-08
THE CONSPIRACY.
sk esehes of the Lives OF the Leading
COnspiraGOrs.

rest President johnson has offered 3 re-
ward. The career of JEFF. Davis is well
known. We publish below the sketches Of
the other conspirators: at-~4zas
JACOB THOMPSON OF MISSISSIPPI.
= Thompson is native of North Carolina,
and is now flty-hVe years of age. HeWAs
educated at Chapel Hill University,IN. C.,
and on removing to Mississippi, in 1884,
WAS admitted 20 the bar. He began life,
like JEFF. Davis, as repudiator He was
for many years 5 representative from Mis-
sissippl in the lower house of Congress In
politics be was then known as free trade
and State Rights Democrat, but was not
considered secessionist In 1850 he was
defeated as 3 candidate from Mississippi,
and remained out of public life until 1856,
when Buchanan appointed him Secretary
of the Interior. He chiefly distinguished
himself by stealing 100000 IN Indian
bonds, and decamping with the proceeds to
Mississippi, with which State he seeded.
He served for 8 time on the staff of Beau
regard, but wss never known TO be In any
engagement, though he figured extensively
during the operations before Corinth as 8
flag of truce character. He left the Con-
federacy in 1868, and hss since been en-
gsged in nefsrious prsctices in Canada. He
is known TO have in ,tigsted the st. Albans
and other raids, and it will not be surpris-
ing if he is yet proved to have been prom
inent in concocting the late conspiracy.
.. CLEMENT c. CLAY, OF ALABAMA.
Clement Claiborne Clay, one of the &C
complies of the assassin of President Lin
coin, was born in Madison county, AlSbsms,
in 1919. He is the son of Clement Conner
Clay, formerly Governor of Alabama, snd
who still lives in Huntsville, Alabama,
subsisting on the bounty Of the United
States government. TIE son graduated
at the University of Alabama in his six
teenth year. He then become private
secretary OF his father, at that time Governor
of the State. He was subsequently, sent to
the University of Virginia, where he COM
pleted his studies. He married IN early life
Miss Virginia Carolina Tuns all of Virgin
ia. He returned to Huntsville, began the
practice of law, and in 1912, 1874 and 1s45
was elected TO the State Legislature. He
served from 1876 to 1s48 as Judge of his
native county. In 1854 he was elected TO
the United States Senate aud in 1857 was
reelected. He resigned in 1861 and was
immediately returned to the rebel congress
being elected Senator from his State. In
1864 he escaped from the confederscy and
reached Canada, where he has been eagsg-
cd in plotting treason and murder. D..
GEORGE n. SANDERS, OF KENTUCKY.
Sanders and Tucker match admirably as
8 couple of drunken, unprincipled sdven-
turers They are really unworthy the hon
or of hsvir price set on their heads
They were never worth twenty-five thous-
and dollars to their owners and if the re-
ward is paid to the criminals in person they
can very well afford to deliver themselves
up, as their heads could be little use to
men s. constituted, mentally and corpore-
ally.
Sanders, like Davis, tried to disgrace
Kentucky by being born in it, about forty
five OF fifty years ago. He has been all
his life engaged in political schemes Of 3
visionary character. None ofthe admins
trations were corrupt enough to openly
recognize him except that OF Pierce and
Buchanan. Under the memorable reign
OF the first Sanders was appointed Navy
sgent at New York, and under the other
received the appointment TO the consulship
of London, England. While acting ss
Consul be originated the famous 0stend
Conference scheme for upsetting the Euro
paan monsrchicsl governments. He used
the official ministerial mail bags to such an
extent in the distribution Of his circulsr,
that attention was called to il by English
authorities. He returned to this country
in 1861, and st once embarked in the Wis
ionary scheme Of Southern COnfederscy,
which he looked on with the eyes of Je-
remy Diddler, rs fine field for speculs-
tion. In 1861 he was at Nashville, where
he was very short of money-so short in
deed that he had to leave his wardrobe IS
well as that of his wife, with the hotel
keeper as an assurance that if he should
ever obtain funds sufficient he would pay
for his bread and meat Sanders was en-
gagged in several visionary schemes for in
cressing the rebel navy, all of
which failed. In consideration of
the fact that he was permitted to subsist on
the secret service fund of the rebel govern
ment he sppesrs TO bsve entered into the
scheme which, originally intended for the
capture, eliminated in the assassination of
the President, Many FEARS since, Sanders
gave evidence of his disposition to engage
IN wholesale slaughter by projected in
vention of q steam guillotine, which he
claimed to be q great success, though he
had no very clear idea of how it was to be
fed with victims. He may find the same
final use for Improvement that Guillotin had
Tor the original machine. Sanders lately
grew very indignant at the jdes of being
charged with completely in the murder of
Mr.. Lincoln, and, from his safe retreat in
Canada, proposed to come to New York
for the double purpose Of standing his trial
and giveing his sceusers Chance TO prove
his charges. kHe did not however, deny his
completely in the act and is not at all like
ly TO come except on compulsion. Sanders
is large, stout man, weighing over two
hundred ponnds, with curly hair and thick
whiskers. heavily tinged with gray.
BEVERLY TUCKER, OF YIRGIEIA.
Beverly Tucker is described by one fa-
miliar with him as So drunken vsgsbond
in consequence of being nephew of John
Mason, Cf Virginia" He wss born in
Winchester, Va, about the year 1927.
He was for some years editor of the Wash
ington Sentinel. short lived State rights
paper Of little ability. In 1857 he was sp-
pointed by Buchanan, through hsson's in
fiuence, to the position of consul at Liver
pool, which he held and misused until 1861
fuckers energies during his whole public
career nave been chiefly devoted to the de-
velopment of his great natural abilities in
borrowing money and drinking alcoholic
fluids. He has been residing for year OF
two past in Cansds, where he is under
bonds for infringement of the Neutrality
laws. He has published letter denying z
any completely 10 the assassination of the
President, and assumed q tone of injured
innocence IS meek as any ever assumed by
Mr.. Pecksnif. t
WILLIAM c. CLAREY, OF KENTUCKY.
Csrey is designated in the proclsma-
ton Offering ten thousand dollars for his
head ss the clerk of G q. Clsy. He is q
native of Kentucky, and wss q mem Der Of
the Kentucky Legislature of 1860. He
has been living 10 Canada for two years
psst and is now under eight thousand