Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-08-02
From the New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, July q, 1866.

From the New York Herald
! WASHINGTON, July 81, 1866.
THE HERALD REPORT OF CONSPIRACY.
| My disclosure, few days ago, of portions of
the evidence educed by the Judiciary Committed
of the House of Representatives developing the
diabolcal conspiracy of certain radicals to impli-
cate jeff. Davis, by means of bogus witnesses, in
the assassination of President Lincoln, and pro
cure his trial and conviction by military tribu-
na occasioned in diverse circles here variety of
sensations and exuberancy of EXPRESSION both Sc
rious and amusing The little bout in the House
to-day between Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, and
Jack Rogers, of New Jersey, members of the said
committee, resulting from the refusal of the for
mer to allow the latter access to the testimony and
papers before the committee, because as Mr.
Boutwell, declared, some important portions of
them had been communicated to and published in
the New York Herald, has intensified the inter-
est excited by my letter, and furnished '' confr-
nation strong as proofs of Holy Writ " that my
disclosures, astonishing as they were were per
fectly correct
The secesh who sympathize with Davis and re-
gard him martyr of holy cause are highly
lncensed and VOW vengence the conspirators
the moment their names shall transpire. All hon
orabe men-republicans as we'll as democrats
are indignant at the cowardly attempt to murder
Mr.. Davis by military commission and false tes-
timony, and demand that the guilty parties shall
be vigorously dealt with, if there is anv law to
are ever ready to Justify any excess committed by
any Of their faction chagrined and grieved at
the den0uemeW, and affect to doubt the guilt of
their fellows, but declare that if they did as
charged, the end i'll view justified the means, and
that it is sometimes necessary to do evil in order
that good may come. The conspirators them
selves, or such of them are here, are intensely
alarmed If one may Judge from the long faces
they wear and the extra attentions they bestowed
on members of the Judiciary Committee for sew
eral days succeeding my disclosures and are now
daily bestowing on Mr. Boutwell,. The committee
itself, at least the republican members thereof
are enraged at the unauthorized publication of
their proceedings and the testimony and papers
before them, which MI. Boutwell, AYERS they used
great efforts to keep secret, and declared that
either The walls have ears or that the Herald
employs sprlght correspondents, who move about
unseen III all their caucuses and committee rooms
approprlahng their secrets, else that somebody
has OutrageOusiy betrayed their confidence
Several parties, reporters and others, have been
suspected of pertidy, and severely questioned-
But the suspicion of more than one member has
fallen on Mr.. Rogers, who, from the beginning of
the investigation, has been satisfied of Mr Davis
innocence, and endeavored by rigorous cross
examination of the witnesses to impeach their
testimony.
It is quite probable that the Jealous efforts of
Mr.. Rogers to acquit Davis, whom one of the com
mittee has prOvokingly denominated his '' client"
has contributed in some measure to unravel and
break down the conspiracy but it is certain that
the Herald is not indebted to the New Jersey
gentleman for the information it has promulgated
and is about to add in regard to this interesting
and mysterious affair."
JACK ROGERS HERALD REPORTER.
The suspicion that Mr.. Rogers had furnished
the startling intelligence to the Herald, and his
subsequent employment of rebel phonographer
to assist him in examing the testimony and pa
pers, furnished Mr.. Boutwell, with plausible pre-
text for refusing him to the records, espe-
cially of the papers in custody of the COM
mittee were 'contidential papers of the War De-
partment and could not safely be exposed to gen.
eral examination"
THE CONFIDENTIAL PAPERS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT,
The ''confidential papers," however, [ have
high and unmistakable authority for stating, are
nothing more or less than the dispositions of
Campbell" and ''Snevel," already published in
the Herald, and of other bogus witnesses made for
the Bureau of Military Justice, and of state let
ter found in the archives of the rebel War Depart
ment addressed by a soldier to jeff. Davis propo-
sing to dispose of Lincoln & Co., if authority and
means were furnished him by the government to
carry out his plans, together with letter from
Davis to Jake Thompson rebel agent in Canada,
expressing impatience that certain project-not
named but supposed by some to be the assassina-
ton of Lincoln and his Cabinet-had not been
carried ont, and urging immediate action in the
matter These the only papers in the custody
of the committee that by any construction or dis
tortion can be made to bear in the slightest de-
gree against Mr.. Davis,
BOGUS WITNESSES
Campbell and Snevel, who it had been discov-
cred by the friends of Davis, had made false de-
positions for the Bureau of Military Justice, i'm
phcating the accused, were, by splendid man
nuvre-a sort of flank movement-induced to go
before the committee and acknowledge that their
dispositions were a tissue Of lies from beginning
to end But the other witnesses for the said Bll-
reau, who Campbell declares were bogus like him
self, not brought before the committee to
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examination by Mr.. Rogers and as Campbell had
himself to be per- jured scoundrel, the
committee have right to re ect his assertion that
the other witnesses are bogus like himself, and to
the most important confidential papers Of the
War Department" that the committee have in
hand.
BOGUS EVIDENCE OF JOHN PATIEV.
Two of these disposition-makers cal
ling themselves John Patten and F. B. Wright
The former, in his deposition, says that he is ma
tive of Georgia, and is we'll acquainted with Mr..
Davis that during the war he engaged in
provisions and stores for the rebel army,
having been excused from military service on fur
nishing a substitute that in the latter part of
June, 1868, an acquaintance of his named Lamar.
also from the State of Georgia, informed him that
he Lamar about to enter upon an enterprise
which if successful would immortalize and enrich,
Ill who engaged in it, and at the same time invl
ed deponent to join him ; that at deponents re-
1uest Lamar explained the nature of the enter
orise, which was to kidnap or kill President Lin
coin that deponent then inquired what plan had
oeen devised and whether the government was
cognizant of or had authorized the project that
Lamar replied that several high officers of the
government were aware of and applauded it, and
hat he was assured by General Winder that Presi-
lent Davis also approved it that he Iamar) was
20 have interview with Davis on the following
lay, when he would present his plans and learn
MS Davis decision. That deponent promised to
enter into the scheme if the President should sane