The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-31

uecency OF 1nc0FruptlUulktAA AZ may ms 80.
terday I WArned Dexter and aver 20 nas -
onIy With sweet and Smith. Please let me
know whether q. is such graceless scamp
O. TO have really blackmaiied the Secretaries.
7 hone this outburst OF malice in<the I. y:
will oyrshoot it's mark, and tnsteau OF
making breach between the President ana
hfr. Bristow, have an opposite enect, anu
unite them more firmly in the light agatnsI
corruption. It looks as IL the time is coming
when all good men OF all parties must pane
together against rascals. as the only way IN
which the country can be saved. But we
shall soon see. Write me few WORDS OF
truth and soberness.
Truly yours, y. u. WEbslhh'
Hon. Btltord wilson.
FALSE STORY.
On the 18th OF December, while in the
city OF St. Louis, wrote the fresldehS o.
the United States this letter:
Mn Dear Mr.. President: Pardon me FOL
troubling YOU to read the enclosed clipping
| from Yesterday mornings Chicago Tribune
| I might, under ordinary circumstances, DC
quite content to let the matter rest where
Mr.. Wards explanation leaves it, and to
permit that gentleman and Hon. G. b. Ear
we'll to settle their own differences in thell
own way. In view, however, OF the many
misstatements in relation to myself that have
reached you, and of the fact that dld mol
care to 90 into the matter with reporter, ]
wish to say to you that the whole story OF
Dir. Farwell, as it relates to me, Is utterly
and unqualifiedly ialse; even as a joke, 9
poor one at best. It is wholly without foun.
dation or warrant in any word or act OF
mine. in reference to any case inside or out.
side OF the whiskey ring suits. II it comes
| in your wav, I will be Obliged il you will
show this to Mr.. Farwell. II he has been
at YOU with his complaint against me, will
take it as a favor ii you will call his atten-
ton to nv answer. The situation here and
at Chicago seems to be satisfactory. re-
turn to Washington tonight.
With great respect, your friend,
BLUFORD WILSON.
BELLS EMPLOYMENT.
wrote that letter in reply to the charge
which Farwell caused to be telegraphed tc
the Chicago Tribune that had on the occa
sion OF a certain visit to Chicago said to j.
d. Ward, while he was district attorney, that
he must indict Farwel and Logan, and
when Mr.. Ward asked me for evidence,
said to him, "D-n the evidence, .indicl
them first and find the evidence afterward.' -
l will state that the Chicago Tribune article
referred to stated that telegram was sub.
mitted to Ward, under Mr. FarwelPs In.
structions, upon Mr.. Farwelfs statement
that Ward would confirm; and upon Mr.
Wards confirming and corroborating it, il
| should be published Upon its being sub.
mitted to Ward, he repudiated it in toto,
and denied ever having had q conference OF
conversation with me upon which any such
Interpretation could be placed. TO the re-
porter OF the Tribune, who came to me fol
denial, I simply said: ''I have none to
make to so utterly absurd q charge
In further response to the question
OF the committee, both the Secretary
and myself were very early led to
| entertain grave apprehension rs to
| what the issue would be in the Babcock
matter, for the reason that learned from
the President and from G.. S. Bell himself
| that the President had recommended him to
90 to st. Louis. learned from the Presi.
dent, from c. 5. Bell, and from the Attor.
nery-G eneral, that it was in contemplation
to employ Bell to 60 to st. Louis and to re.
port, not to Mr.. Dyer, but directly to the
Acknowledgement, and that the reason for
his retention was that the President under
stood that Dyer and Henderson intended to
implicate him in the fraudsi il possible.
BELL GRANTS SPY.
On December IS, 1875, wrote to Mr..
Dyer rs follows:
And now word of caution: You have
made mistake in trusting. c. S. Bell. lie
has been pretending to know that you have
been endeavoring to implicate the Presi-
dent, and it is possible that he may return
to st. Louis. II he does, put your best man
on at once and you will soon see where he
trains. II he calls upon you don't let on
that you suspect, but don't trust him, and
have him watched. Mind what say. I
know what I am writing about and you
must burn this on your honor.
Twill state further,that / made such re-
presentations to the Acknowledgement and
to the President, when learned that it was
in contemplation to send this man Bell to
their proposed action, and he was not EN-
ploycd. 1t is fact that the President was
intensely in earnest in the Babtock matter
in opposition to the views OF the-Secretary
and myself.
On the 25th Of December he sent for me
and confronted me with the charge that it
was reported to him that I was trying to
have his brother, Orvil Grant, and his son,
Colonel Fred. D. Grant, indicted for COM
plicity in the frauds.
BELIEF IN BABCoCK's INNOCENCE.
In the course OF the conversation he again
asserted to me his earnest belief in Bah
cocks innocence, and his sense Of the great
outrage that had been perpetrated upon him
by Henderson and Dyer in refusing to send
to the military court at Chicago the original
evidence contained in the records OF the
civil tribunal at St. Louis. As illustrating
the personal attitude OF the President to
myself, may mention that Colonel Grant
told the reporter Of the New. York Herald,
in December, that Babcock's indictment
was the result OF conspiracy between q
prominent Treasury official (meaning my
SELF and Carl SchurZ. This state because
the reporter, Mr.. Meeker, told me 80 the
same evening, as did also Mr.. Nordhoff, and
because brought the attention OF the Pre-
sident himself to it and also on the I'd day
of January the attention Of Colonel Fred.
D. Grant. -
I now come to the celebrated circular let
ter. On the 9th day OF january, 1876, L
received this note:
:. Executive Mansion, Washington, Janu-
ary p, 1S76-12:15 P. M.-My dear Mr.. So
licitor: The President says to drop you q
note, and ask you to come over to. see him.
Very truly yours, LEVI P. LUCKEY.
/" Hon. Bluford WILSON, Solicitor OF the
Treasury"