Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-02-15
The BabrOck Trial.

| In the DlDcuck lrlal az 81. Louis, yesterday,
Judge Porter for the defence concluded his ar
| gumcnt against the admission Of the kilograms.
| His conclusions we're that they were merely
writings, and whether proven to be what they
purportcd to be 10 origin or destination it was
still question Of law whether they could be
admitted az evidence, and even if they we're
decided to be evidence they could not be intro
| duced until it was established that Gen. Bah
| cock had Knowledge of the existence of a con-
spiracy, and that has not yet been proven. On
| reassembIing in the afternoon the decision OF
the Court on the point raised was given. The
| decision was that the dispatches must be re-
ceived II was for the jury to decide upon
| their relevancy, but they must be taken for
naught if the defendant is not proved to have
| taken part in the conspiracy. The Judge re-
served his decision as to two kilograms, one of
which was the dispatch said to have been sent
by Babc1ck to Joyce, the original of which
could not be produced. Ex, Commissioner
Douglass, Deputy Commissioner Rogers Cash
| Ter Gil6llan aud other witnesses ia the Bah.
cock case, having testified on Friday ADD Sat
urday, returned to Washington yesterday.
One Of them says that the strain upon General
| Babcock sell III, to be telling upon his physical
endurance very much, add cites as au instance
| of that circumstance the reply Of the general
| to question from a friend to the effect that
| being under frp ia the ARM would be absolute
| pleasure in comparison TO his present ordeal
| Speculation Is very busy 10 the Treasury De-
| partment and elsewhere throughout Wash
| ington as to the probable result of the trial
| The return OF number OF treasury officials
and others from St. Louis is giving an i'm pctus
| 10 that direction to the great interest telt in
| the case.
Rev. James a. Harold, minister of the
Gospel, lately sent petition to the Senate,
stating that he was stationed at Falls Church,
Virginia, in 1861, and that by order of Gen.
Wadsworth it was deemed necessary to destroy
his house and effects, aud for the o,s thus &C.
casioned b. claimed $ll75S. The Committee
on Claims say, iD their ADVERSE report, that the
property de,crl bed in the schedule was not re-
ouiled Tor the use of the army aud they need
-clrcely add that the library, manuscript ser
mons, pliuting,, 81 forming v,ry large part
of the claim, could not be properly devoted to
the use oil the army. Then, 100, for aught
that appears, the destruction was due to the
Wauton acs of soldiers and others, TOR which
the Government should no, b. held liable. AS
to the reverend gen'eman's claim for rcmunc-
ration for services in aiding IN reconstruction,
and giving Information which saved train
from drStruction, the committee think he did
nothing more than a go)d and faithful ciIz n
should do, with Ut hope or prospect of com-
pausation frnm the public treasury; aud, there
lore. they coocIudc that while the petitioner
may have met with heavy losses, yet 10 view
Of the facts they are clear that the Government
cannot be held responsible for them.
Considerable eXct,m mt was created 10
Washington yesterday by an attempt 90 the
part of cripple, named Eugene q. Moore, to
kill himself bv shooting.