New-York tribune., 1875-12-10
THE WHISKY RING.

STARTLING SENSATION IN ST. LOUIS.
erN. pABCoCK ISDrCrED-HAvE THE TRIALS GONE
100 F.R-viRrUaL DISMISSAL OF COUNSEL HEN
pERsoN FROM THE PROSECUTION BY ORDERS
PROM WASHINGTON.
iBr TELEGRAPH TO TAR rRIDusE.l
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 0.-Two exciting events IN the
campaign against the Whisky Ring have taken place
to-day. One was that the Grand Jury found an in
dictment against Gen. Babcock this forenoon. The
news of this by some means soon obtained circula-
tion on the street. The Grand Jury it appears, dis
cussed the subject yesterday, and separated with
the understanding that the ballot to be taken at
IL o'clock this morning. The result was that the
Indictment soon after was presented to the Court
The effect is simply one of general satisfaction J;
and it is believed that the verdict of the Military
Court Of Inquiry in Chicago can have no effect, IN
one way OF another, as we'll that the District
Attorney here will do his full duty in the premises
This indictment is calling fOrcible and speculative
attention to the expression of the President here
upon an occasion when Mcdonald sent up his card
OF the hotel. Gen. Grants reply was that he could
hold no communication with a man under indict-
ment for defrauding the Government.
Another sensation, entirely distinct has been
created by an announcement of the nature Of dis
patch, received by District-Attorney Dyer from
Bluford Wilson. Solicitor of the Treasury. 1t Is
stated, upon what appears to be good authority
that in the dispatch mentioned, Mr.. Wilson uses the
expression, "We1l all have TO fall together" and
the impression has obtained that there is danger of
general removal from place Of officials who have
offended in the prosecution of the whisky cases
The fact of the dispatch can be stated as not ex-
actly a certainty. The District-AttOrney naturally
is reticent but the effect exists.
BY far the greatest sensation of the day, however
has been the receipt of a dispatch from Attorney
General PierrepOnt instructng the DistrctAttOrney
here, in substance, to discharge ex-senator Hender
son from the prosecution, if guilty of alleged relec
tons on the President in his speech in the Avery
trial The District-AttOrney teegraphed back to the
effect that Mr. Henderson did not in his speech go
outside of propriety in his references, and he asked
that Acknowledgement Pierrepont reconsider the
matter Mr. Henderson also telegraphed TO Mr.
Pierepont stating that he considered the first dis
patch equivalent to a dismissal from the prosecu-
tion and asklngwletheritw was so Ornot. ToMr. Hen
derson's dispatch an immediate reply did not come.
To the dispatch Of the District Attorney, Mr. Pierre
pont answered that if Mr.. Henderson had not been
guilty Of the fault alleged, not TO dismiss him; if
guilty, to let him co. The District-Attoney again
replied calling attention TO the copies of Mr.. Hen
derson's speech in Mr.. Pie rreponts posses
sion and asking for final and definite
instructions in the matter. The result of
all this has been TO excite the public
pertinent to a remarkable degree The whisky men
are jubilant as they have to be- since in the
removal of Mr. Henderson, who has been familiar
with the details of tho Ring for months.
their chances Of escape are greatly in
creased. No new man can take up the COM
pcated threads of evidence, as to became
o. dangerous prosecutor. Under the circumstances,
il is not too much to say that the removal is consd-
cred high-handed and arbitrary exercise of power,
which. if not in the interest of the Whisky Ring,
amounts in its results 10 the same thing. 1t is
known that verbatim report of Mr. HendersOn's
tpeech was sent to Washington some days ago, and
there can scarcely be the professed ignorance there
of its real nature Mckee and Mcguire have sue
eeeded IN geetng their cases transferred to the
Circuit Court and the trials postponed until the
first Monday In January. Another point for the Ring