The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-10
From Washingsen.

% astE WARRINGTON, July g.
Secretary Stanton is to-day performing his
official duties as usual.
The National Intelligencer says the Presi-
dent has given no order to suspend official
communication with Secretary Stanton.
All the members of the Cabinet were pres
ent at meeting to-day, with the exception OF
Attorney General Stanbery, who is absent
from Washington, and Secretary Stanton, who
remained at the Department transacting bust
ness. 81 il aa-a.4l.. T. -
The Sehutzenfest which commenced last
Monday, closed tonight.
special dispatch to the N. Y. Times, from
Fort Hayes, Smoky Hill route of the Pacific
Railroad, Aug. 8th, via Fort Harker Aug. 9th
says the Indians have just made three separ-
ate descents on the working parties along the
railroad beyond here. They stole all the stock,
which numbered about forty head from the
eral Indians were killed, among them three of
the Cheyenne tribe. Small bodies of troops
have gone out with the contractors, and they
are again at work. The Indians are in large
numbers all around us.
Assistant Attorney General Buckley has
furnished the PRESIDENT with an opinion in re-
iatlon 70 the application for pardon to Chas.
A. Durham, alais Sanford Conover, which is
recommended by A. G. Riddle and JOS Holt,
on account Of the services rendered To the
prosecution In the trial of Surratt and which
was evidently inspired by j. M. Ashley Mr..
Blnckley gives the petition, and also a long
letter addressed subsequently to July Goth to
the President by Mr.. Durham, in which he re-
veals an alleged plot on the part of Ashley,
Butler, and others, to implcate the President
IN the plot for the assassination of Mr.. Lin
coin, which he says is capable of proof by the
most irrefragable evidence. He SAYS that Ash
ley explained the kind of evidence he thought
most admissible, viz:-That Booth had ON sew
erai occasions paid familior visits to President
Johnson at Sc kirkwood House; that john
son correspondent with Booth; that the plac-
ing OF Atzerott at the Kirkwood House was
only sham, though Atzerott was not aware
Of r. 70 make It appear that johnson was in
tended as victim, and thus detract all sus-
picion from johnson of conniving at Lincoln's
murder; that Booth stated on the 4th of
March to an intimate friend in New York,
whom he had endeavored to enlist in the oon-
spiracy, that he was acting with the knowledge
OF Mr.. johnson, and that it had been arranged
to kill Mr.. Lincoln on the day of the inaugura-
ton, which would account for Johnson's
strange conduct on that occasion, and that
johnson expected the tragedy to be enacted
then, and had Gaken several rotations to COM
pose and nerve him for the event.
MIR. Durham says he assured Ashley he
should have no difficulty in finding persons in
good standing and moral character to prove
these matters, and that it was agreed that he
should do so as soon as released. Ashley and
Butler pressed him to sead for two or three
persons of intelligence, which was done, but
Durham being in jail it was found necessary
for some one else to act as their preceptor,
which was, with slight hesitation, done by Ash
ley, on Dunham's assurance that the parties
were radicals dyed in the WOOL and of honor,
IN whom he could repOse confidence.