The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-05-22
Ren. RutIer at Work.

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post writes:
Ben. Butler is settled in Washington for
the summer, according to his own averment,
and apparently the season is not to be one
of eanui or inactivity. He is already en-
sconced in one of the finest up town man.
sions, and his official apartmeuts-that is
to say, library with vast pretenSions to
the varieties and profundity Of literature
are scarcely less sought and wait!d upon
tby certain classes) than the audience room
of the White House. The town is in con.
slant hearing of strange conferences going
on under tie Butlerian roof tree. Now it
is the Chief Justice who is paying court to
| ''the man who live in bott and is fed
with spoon, and again it is a judge Of a
| tribunal about to arrange Surratt. While
/ these movements involve themselves in un.
fathomable perplexity as regards the entire
end sought, there is no sort of mystery or
reticencc observed by Butler upon one of
his most jealous undertakings, and which
Is constantly avowing itself in his iterations
that that man Bingham will rue the day
he ever crossed my path.
Since the Butler Bingham tracas in the
House, the former has applied himself un-
remittingly to turn the tabls upon his vic
torious adversary. The public may depend
| upon it that these researches are intended
to be applied to material account upon the
araignment Of the son of that murdered
woman and there are those who have
been trusted parties to this opening of cid
wounds, who do not scr lple to believe that
the Doctor of Lowell will offer no ordinary
zeal and valuable knowledge in the pre-.
misses, as a1 inducement IL his retention
among the counsel engaged for the defense.
For weeks past Butler has impprtuned, by
correspondence. d visit from John L. Ford
ot Baltimo' e--famous as the owner and
manager Of the theatre in which the trage-
dy of assassination transpred. Now it il
obvious that Butler has nothing to ask of
Mr. Ford that does not directly affect the
conspiracy and tend to bring out hidden
facts thereof. The inducement undoubted
ly lies in the knowledge that Mr.. Ford was
kept close prisoner in Carol Prison for
some six weeks after the assassination, TO.
gether with other parties who were under
stood to be more or less intimately known
to the principle c9nspirators. ID.
| During this TING Mr. Ford kept journal
not alone Of his own impressions concerning
the exciting events then transporting outside
his jill, bnt also inclusive of conversations
and involuntary remarks, growing out of
the discussions that ensued between him
self and the others whom suspicion had ap-
pretended and detained. The witness
Weichman was Of the party, and under the
sore fear that at that time possessed him,
Of being irretrievable involved in the assas
sination plot his intimations and gratuitou,
rous remarks in selfjusti6cation were OF the
last Importance in making up 10 theory
those portions of the dreadful plot which
only the active participants could circum
stantialy have supplied. Having noted
these impressions, and prison life ohserva-
tions with careful exactitude, Mr.. Ford :
journal now comes to be thing of coveted
regard by Butler. Everything goes to show
that in the qualification Of this craving,
Butler has sucee ded. Ford yielded to the
consultation desired about fortnight ago,
and i himself individually anxious tina; all
he knows Of the great tragedy of his stage
NAV be fully and off ,iallv sot forth.