The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-01
a Batch Of Suggestive Te;es,ans
from Joyce 10 BabcOck Signed
"SyIpE' and .'Gtit"-lsab.
cocks Fatal Reply.

The testimony brought out on the
Avery trial on Monday was of startling
nature, and proves beyond doubt that
Gen. Bobcock was in iull fellowship with
the leaders of the whisky ring. Below
we publish the most important portion
of the testimony:
I The Testimony OF }. w. Douglass.
John W. Douglass, cX-commissioner
| of internal revenue, testified: reside at
Washington, and have since 1863 prior
| to that lived ut Erie, Pa; from April
| 1863, | was first deputy commissioner,
| and in August, 1871, | succeed Gen.
! Plcasanton AS commissioner of internal
| revenue ; ! know Col. Avery and have
| since 1863; subsequent to the New Or
! leans raid, Brooks and Ioge having been
| here and made some discoveries. | want
ed to try 1t over again ! asked MIR.
Rogers to Ia he charge of the details OF
organizing the expedition, and he has de-
| scribed the facts; he came and told me
| that the thing was out and the expedi-
| ton would have to be deferred for awhile:
| after that became satisfied would have
| to make change of officers and ret Me
| Donald and Joyce out of the way | sent
Joyce to California to get him out of the
way, and while he was gone | intended
| TO have this district examined:
HE WAS AMBITIoUs:
Joyce wanted to come to Washington
and made every effort to get there, but
| didn't want him there: had nv suspi-
cions of Joyce and Mcdonald both after
Joyce returned from California he came
to Washington and brought his report
which he requested permission to pub
| lish refused consent and said | wanted
the report sent as Il whole To the super
| visor in California and to the officers of
| various districts to which it referred,
that they might work up the frauds mem
toned in it which related wholly to to-
bacco shortly afterwards | saw extracts
from the report in some of the papers,
and knew that Joyce had gratiied his
ambition; some of my contemplated
raids got out, but have no idea how (:
the raid that proved successful on New
Orleans we had been getting ready for
months.
CRESCENT CITY CRooKEDNEss.
a man brought book from New Or
leans which contained much valuable in
formation in detail we made arrange
ments as to what we would do for him
| | L
away tor my health. and then Chesley
went away and the matter was put in
Sweets hands and afterwards Daoa was
told of II as he was head of the
department of frauds took Mr.. Rog.
crs because in my absence on account OF
| sickness or other cause he would act ms
commissioner and might. not knowing
my wishes, betray the matter from some
information that might come to him
besides wanted him to talk understand
ingly to the others on the subject: al
ways had the utmost confidence in Mr..
Rogers and regarded him as an efficient
officer none except those named knew
of the expedition aud it proved success
lul, all the distilleries being caught with
| full evidence OF fraud in them
HE WANTED TO Koow, You KNOW.
Avery was my chief clerk. but did not
know OF the raid he afterwards came
into my Office with a paper in his hand
and complained that had not let him
know OF the raid, which was an mputa-
ton upon him; ! said that knowledge of
previous raids had leaked out, and as
head OF the bureau, deemed it my duty
TO keep this one a. secret us possible; in
the fall of "a, ! concluded that | could
only uncover frauds in the West by max
'iiS vi supervisors anu
other officers TO do this the approval of
the president and Secretary Bristow was
necessary; | conferred with them and
concluded TO wait till the fall elections
were over, as ] couldn't help but know
that supervisors and revenue officers gen
orally welded great political power IN
their respective districts, ! ioresaw that
great opposition would be made TO this
move.
CAMPAIGN ruND WASN'T IT:
After the fall elections, certain elections
Tor |. ). senators occurred, and DELAYED
until after these; ! concluded that about
midway between elections Tor president
| would De good time for the move, and
accordingly submitted my rccommen-
uition ana programme of change. the or
der was issued TO take effect either ON the
twehiy-seyenth or twcnty-ninth of Jan
uary Mcdonald and Joyce were ordered
TO Philadelphia, and Supervisor sutton
Young, Brooks, Mitchell and IIope were
ordered to st. Louis; Sutton was super.
wiser OF pennsylvania and several sul-
rounding States, and was regarded as
one OF the best IN the service we re-
garued him "a just the man needed here.
Mitchell was good officer, and IIogc at
mat Tine stood high; that order of
ciialge was not carried out because there
was very great pressure brought TO
pear on The president and he ordered
IL recindcd; Secretary Brlstow was much
III i'Nor OF carrying out the order for the