The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-10

interested parties. / desire the truth
should be known. Very respectfully your
Obedient servant, GEORGE Rye:
The reply of CLEMENTS is long and te-
dious. 1t confirms fully the charge made by
RTE, and names Mr.. WILSON as the per-
son who, in the interest Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, offered s2,-
100000 for the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad.
Governor Wells and the Missing Let.
ter-Its Owner ON the Track OF the
Guilty Parties. .
From The Record, March 9th.
We have understood for some time past
that certain letter, written by W. H. Sam
uel, ESQ.,, of this city, in the month of
December last, and addressed to Edgar AL
Ian, ESQ.,, Farmville, Va, had by some
means got into the possession of his Excel
lency II. H. Wells, and that he refused,
when called upon, to give the name Of the
psrty from whom he obtained the same.
The following aflidavits, furnished us, throw
some light on the dark transaction, and call
loudly to the Governor to sustain his own
honor and vindicate the rights of the in
jured parties:
State of Virginia, City Of Richmond, S.:
This 9Th day Of March, 1869, personally
appeared before me William II. Samuel,
who deposes and saith: That in the month
of December last he sent o letter to the
Richmond post-office addressed to Edgar
Allan, Prince Edward county, Virginia
that this letter is now unlawfully in the
possession of H. II. Wells that he called
on Wells and claimed the letter; that
Wells said he had seen the original, but
declined to give it up that Wells said, 1t
is of no use for you to try to find out how
got it, for you cannot tell" or words of
similar purport. W. Fl. SAMUEL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me:
Y. A, FAyIER, J. ?.
State of Virginia, City of Richmond, to ,0it:
That this day personally appeared be-
fore me, V. A. Fayier, justice of the
peace III and for said city, Alexander Bur-
rell icolored), and made oath that during
the month of December, 1868, he was en-
gagged as messenger at the Grant and Coltax
Club Rooms, No. S Twelfth street, in the
city of Richmond aforesaid 3; that about the
middle of the month of December, 1868,
(being on the day Mr.. Samuel, the secre-
tary of the State Central Republican Com
mitsee started on O visit to his family IN
Baltimore,) he was sent by the said Mr..
Samuel to mail letter directed to one Ed
gar Allan, at Farmyille, Va. that when he
reached the post Office one Mr.. L. Edwin
Dudley, the chairman of the State Cen
trail Republican Committee, accosted him in
side the said post-ofice, and requested to be
allowed to look at certain papers and mail
matter which he held in his hands that he
gave into the hands of the said l.. Edwin
dudley the papers and mail-matter before
mentioned, together with the letter ad-
dressed to Edgar Allan; that the said L.
Edwin Dudley examined the superscrip-
tions upon all the papers and mail-matter
aforesaid, together with the letter addressed
to Edgar Allen and that he, the said
Alexander Burrell (colored), afterwards
put in the letter-box at the post-office the
letter SO directed to Edgar Allan.
Given under my hand and seal this
third day of March in the year Of our
Lord 1869. Y. A. FAvIER, J.P. [Seall.
State of Virginia, City of Richmond, to aoit:
This day personally appeared before me,
VA. Fayier, justice Of the peace in and
for said city, Edgar Allen, Of the county Of
Prince Edward, and State of Virginia, and
made oath that for some time past he has
had reason to believe that q certain letter,
written by one W. H. Samuel, of the city
Of Richmond, and addressed to him, the said
Edgar Allen, ct Farmville, Va, was unlaw-
fully in the possession of his Excellency
H. Fl. Wells, Governor of Virginia that
on or about the 9th day of January,
1869, he, the said Edgar Allen, in COM
pany with the said W. Il. Samuel,
called upon the said Il. II. Wells,
at the gubsrnatorial mansion, in the city of
Richmond, and then and there charged that
the letter before mentioned, or copy
thereof, was unlawfully in the possession
Of the said Fl. Fl. Wells; that the said H.
H. Wells acknowledged having seen the
original letter above mentioned, and took
from his desk letter which purported to
be copy of the said letter, and read the
same in the presence Of the said Edgar
Allan and w. H. Samuel; that the said
Edgar Allan alleged that he had never re-
ceived the original letter Of which the letter
go read as aforesaid purported to be copy;
that the said Edgar Allan remarked in the
following words-to wit, swell, Governor,
l have never seen the letter nor heard it
read until this evening, and it is evident
that an outrage gross outrage upon
my individual rights has been perps7
trated in this matter, and I am here
TO demand the means by which you be-
came possessed of that letter, as you alone
can unravel the mystery in which 1t
is enveloped, and your own honor and my
rights in the premises sustain the de-
mand u: that the said K. Il. Wells replied
in the following words-to wit, Well,
now, Mr.. Allan, 1t is not worth while for
rae to furnish you an enemy to punish, and
am not going to do it. You can't even