New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-03

e Obtisin r ea;lured TesllmosS ags.Iasa MI.
THE DIaTIEsT PIECE OF vILLATNY THAT GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS HAVE EVER BEEN CONCERNED IL.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald writes to thatpaper under date Of
August goth, as follows:
In very few dayssI have excellent authority
for stating. the press will be called upon to an
neunce the release from confinement of JEFF Davis
on parole or bail, to at all times render himself
amendable TO the process Of the court, which, it
Is expeQted will dispose of his case next October.
The conditional release of Davis is favored by
the attorney general, and, 10 fact by every mem
her OF the cabinet excepting Stanton, and the lat
ter far less emphatic in his opposition since the
exposure by the Herald Of heTadical conspiracy
and the publication of the correspondence between
his friend and counterpart Judge Advocate Gene
raj Holt, and his man Friday, Sanford Conover
and the snborned witnesses. Perhaps another
batch of the correspondence between these wor-
thies Will remove the honorable secretary's objec
tions altogether.
The following letter. addressed by snevel, one
of the snbnrned Witnesses to Sanford ConoVer,
at Washington, will give the public some idea of
the manner ia which the national exehequer is
robbed to further the unholy schemes of the radi-
Gals and their pet bureau;
JOSEPH sNryEL TO sANDFoRD ceHovER.
WEsTcHEsTER HOUSE,
New York, November IA, 1866.
Bfr. Sanford Conover.
Dear Sir have been looking for more than a
week for the $500 draft promised me from Won or
the Judge Holt, but have been disappointed /
don't think have been treated exactly on The
square, fdf Campbell has had more u. nearly.
$1,000 than have, and yet | stretched my con-
science just as much as he did and my testimony
as you and the Judge said, was just as important
as his. Idon'b like 10 find fault, bus I like still
less to beg or to borrow, as | am obliged to from
Campbell, when ought to be just as well off as
he. don't mean to complain, for know You
have much TO attend to, and can't do everything
aeonee, bnt as all Che rest have been better paid
than myself, ought not to he forgot Please do
not fail to send the draft by return mail for you
Know this is an awful place to be ia without
money; and your petitoner will ever pray.
Raspsetfp yours, JosEPH SEEyEL
The following letter by another Of the subornsa
Witnesses Q eIerkin the quartermaster's depart
ment, is written on the back Of a quartermasterN
order in blank for transportation from Baltimore
ever the Northern Central railroad, and enclosed
in an official envelope Marked Official business,
Depot Quartermaster's office, Baltimore, Mary.
land II
QusRTBaaAsTERs oFFIGE April ~, 1866
Dear G0a0eer--f received yesterday morning n
letter from Campbell from New York, threatening
to 80 before the judiciary committee and expose
al! that has been devised in the Davis case, and
asking me To- accompany him, as he and all who
will, win get large sums from JETS friends for
doing so. ! started Immediately for Washington
and saw General Holt, and gate him Gampbell's
etteF.
The general assured me that he had known of
!amphelIg detection for some time and that You
rad written the chairman of the committee not TO
Examine HIM and that he himself had arranged
o send q judge advocate to New York that even /
ng to see yeu, with full instructions, and that you