Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-08-03

michael, saying that he had failed to see
Huichins, but had written to him and
enclosed to Carmichael the substance of his
letter to Hutchins. Seymour's letters to
1utchins were used at
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
aud copy was sent to Fcntou. +. NJ.
Packard, postmaster at Unadilla, saw n
letter from Greeley to Carmichael, dated
last April, urging the latter to stir around
with the Democrats for him Greeley.
Carmichael informed him that lre had re-
ceived the Tribune since April free ofcharge.
Carmichael said when he went TO Albany
to see Pcckham and Cassidy with his
scheme, they called him fool, and told him
to 60 home ard stay there. There is good
authority for stating that Carmichael went
to Mr.. Folet. 4 banker at Otsego, and i'm
parted information OF his plans, when Foet
advanced him money on his wool crop to
pay his expenses TO Utica and New York
TO confer with Greeley and Seymour. lie
frequently visited Folet, and showed him
letters dated last October. Letters received
from Greeley by Carmichael were enclosed
in another envelope and sent to Seymour,
and vice versa. In the course of time they
were again sent to Carmichael with other
letters. William T. Finch, Esq, has had
the special privilege of translating difficult
deal when he is authoritati,ely summoned.
Carmichaels first
INTERVIEW IN THE TRIBUNE OFFICE
| lasted four or five hours. The following
affidavit is by Charles $. Carpenter, editor
Of the Oneonta HerdId, and highly
esteemed gentleman. Other atlidavits will
be telegraphed hereafter
AFFIDAVIT OF MIR. CARPENTER.
! ONEoNTA, July Il, 1S72.-C. S. Car
/ pentcr, being sworn. deposcs and says that
! lie is & resident of Oneonta, Otsego county,
in the State of New York, and that he is
well acquainted with Lewis Carmichael. of
/ Jnadilla. in said county that Carmichael
! has for many years been Democrat. in
tercstcd in county, State and national con-
7 venti0ns, which hc frequently attended, and
( that he has for about II year past been en-
gagcd in seeking q Democratic candidate
for the Presidency that Carmichael was
last fall in correspondence with Horace
! Greeley and IIoratio Seymour, on the queg-
( ton of making new issues, one Of which
was the
! PAYMENT OF PENSIONS TO DISABLED
REBEL SOLDIERS,
rs we'll as Union soldiers, and that dcponent
saw letters from said Greeley and from Sew
mour OH that question; that one of Grccey's
. letters, which deponent recognized by what
he knows of Grcc!ey's handwriting aud by
( the Tribune heading. this letter being an
answer to letter of Carmichael, asking
his views on the confederate pension Ques-
tion-eXpresscd the views of Mr.. Greeley
as favorable to the passage Of Il law pro-
viding tina. the General Government pay
pensions to southern disabled soldiers. al
though he tGireclcyl doubted whether Con-
g.css would pass bill that deponent read
the letter carefully, and this WAS lie true
expression and meaning, and it was freely
discussed between Carmichael and de-
pOnGnt that this letter was, according to
dcponcut's best recollection, dated in
August or early in September, 1871 de-
pontnt saw n letter from IIOratio Seymour
on the same subject at about the same time ;
Mr.. Seymour expressed himself in cppnsi-
ton to making the pension an issue then ;
that dcponrnl also saw another letter of
Horace Greeley addressed to Carmichael,
in which Greeley invited him TO call on him
in New York to talk over political issues
that had been brOached between them aud
Il separate part of that letter. which de-
ponrut did not have an opportunity of
reading carefully, expressed. rs deponent
casually noticed, and was distinctly in
formed by Carmichael, the possibility that
Greeley would accept the nomination for
President if the nomination were rendered
to him in 1872 that Carmichael was alb
sent from Otsego shortly altcrward, and re-
ceivcd from Greeley, rs Carmichael dis
tinc;ly and cmphatically stated to him,
MI. tiREELEY's POSITIVE CONSENT
TO be the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent in 1872, if the nomination were given
to him. The date of this letter was in
October, 1871 that Carmichael endeavorcd
to induce dcponent to consent To advocate
paying pensions To Southern soldiers, as a
measure of Cancellation between North and
South, and to support Mr.. Greeley for the
Presidency that it was fully understood
between deponent and Carmichael that
Greeley was To he pressed for the Demo,
cratic nomination that deponent regarded
Carmichael as Il candid man, who treated
these subjects with the utmost seriousness
and that deponent is fully convinced that
his correspondence and interviews, and
their meanings and results, were described
by him honestly and faithfully.
&C. :. CARPENTER.
Sworn before me this 18th day of July
1872. f. NJ. CARVER,
Notary Public.n
GREAT EXCITEMENT OVER THE NEWS.
BGNGHAMPToN, y. y, July 20.
The disclosure of the great scheme is
causing the most intense excitement i'll this
city. Nothing III past political history has
caused such general interest, and the pOliti
cal pulse is tear(uly high on all private and
public thoroughtares. Nothing else is
talked of, and if outside circles are subiec
to a tithe of the excitement it has caused
here, the political world will be greatly
shaken.
AFFIDAVIT OF DIR IRELAND.
Louis L. Ireland, Of Unadilla, OtscgC
county, New York, being sworn, says tha
Lewis Carmichael, also Of Unadilla, whom
he has known for six years, has frequently
: been in deponent's Office in Unadilla, ant
has shown deponent letters from llorac'
Greeley, of New York, five or six in mum
Der; and one letter of lIoratlo Seymour
f that deponeut did not readily read Gree
) ley's letters, except the heading and sigma
: ture re-Carmichael being addressed a
I.Erinnh C,rmirhncln i'm one or more q