Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-07-05

ted and discharged.
In consequence Of his long i'm
prisonment, his business in life
was destroyed, and every farthing
he had in the world had been
exhausted in paying costs, and in
feeling lawyers. He came out of
jail an innocent and heart-broken
man. The sufferings he endured
demanded redress; but none was
to be had. He had been made
the victim of a body of the vilest
villains and cut-throats that ever
lived; and, to know it, was to know
that he had nothing to hope for,
even at the hands of that govern
ment which had been duped by
Kelley and his association of cut
throats. l believe he did receive
some little sum of money from the
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Woodbury., when he left the
Washington Jail; but it amounted
to nothing more than his incident
al travelling expenses from the
Capitol to New York.
Kelley, though he managed to
convict Henry White, did not sue
ceed in getting any ten thousand
dollars reward.
The Secretary of the Treasury,
who had paid some thousands of
dollars to Kelley, which had been
exhausted ill collecting his gang
of cut-throats, and in subornation,
and in rioting in the taverns and
brothels of the city, declined pay
ing any specific reward for services
rendered in conviction. He did
pay, I believe, per diem salary
to Kelley; beyond this, he could
not and would not go.
Finding, after the conviction of
Henry White, that public opinion
and the Secretary were both chang
ing and rapidly assuming a hostile
attitude toward him, Kelley, in
fit of Indignation produced by dis
appointed hope, vented his denun-
citation and .malediction against
the government and the adminstra +.
ton, and boasted that he had
duped and bamboozled both. His
suborned witnesses, disappointed
in not sharing with him the antic-
ipated reward of ten thousand dol
lars, "threw up their hands" and
boasted of their infamy.
There was not the shadow of
shade to justify the charge that
had been preferred against the
Whites; nor is it probable that the
government would have dreamed
of prosecuting them had it not
been ascertained that they had re-
sided at one time in one of the
moral towns of Vermont, where
had lived a Judge Peare-1 do not
recollect his christian name-who
had been detected in perpetrating
numerous frauds on the Pension
Office; and who, to avoid the igno-
minious punishment which was
sure to await him, had committed
suicide by blowing his brains out
at Gadsby's Hotel in Washington.
This Judge Peare had been a
member of Congress, and held, |
think, seats in both houses. Be
this as it may, he had secured
the confidence of the Government,
and had been appointed to the Of
flee of Judge of the Supreme
| Court of the United States. At
/ the time that he committed suicide,
or shortly anterior to the act, the
Whites had been seen with him,
and it was said that, when he de-
stroyed himself, he was fearful
that the Treasury Buildings would
escape the match of the incendiary.
At any rate, he became desperate,
and he did the deed.
General Jackson, / believe, ultl-
-
mately became satisfied of the IN
nocence OF the Whites and of the
guilt of somebody else; but as
Judge Peare left behind him a
family that Iwould not otannoy, and
which cannot be held responsible
for the delinquencies of a father
and husband, l will not longer
dilate on this most unhappy and
unfortunate subject.