, 1876-02-26
An important Witness Who Did
Not Testify in the Bab-
cock Trial,
Motions Entered Yesterday for o
New Trial In tho Mckee
Case,
How Pierropont's Remarkable Letter Of
Instructions Got into Print.
THE RECOlL.
"DE NO LoN0ER sECRETAH7 or MINE"

Sp<e1as Atskateh 10 Tbs Chicago Tribune.
WAhl11H0ToN, D. g., Fob. 25.-Tho ofroct OF
tho Babcock trial Is not confined to his acquttal,
but 1t has vcry important bearing In otllor d.
reottons, which wero fully consldcted In tho
Cabinet to-day. and certain determinations ar-
rived at In tho first place Con. Bsbcock will
retire from the WLte House, and ceaso from tho
present tmo to act as tho priYato secretary OF
tue President. Gen. Grant several days ago re-
solved In ls own mind that Gen. Babcock should
no longer act In lis old capacity, md
to-day he apoko OF the matter in tho Cabinet
meeting, and his decision uaa commanded by all
tho mcmbcts preaons Thu Prcstdons Is still
firm In tho belief TINT Babcock had no guilty
connection with tho Whisky niug, nnd hia con-
fldoncc in h!s seoretatya honesty is nat impair
ed. but ho thinks
pAncocK WAS 1ED,sonEET,
and he h!Ao b1amos him for hoepiuE cortafQ iu1-
portant papers from his attention relnting to St,
Louis officers which were necessary for iutelIi-
gent notion.
Gen. Dabeoct will probably bc continued On
perintendens Of FublIo Buildings 1''1 snd md
tho Government Water- Works. Sir. Levi
p,u.. ?: Luekoy, Who ts r. reality tho
smo has boon fioquently mentioned e IN eonnso Mss
tton With tue whisky frauds "a tho friond Of
Avery and Babcock. Is also, It IL understood, to
RETIRE FnoM TIE WHITE HOUSE
from tho present time. Probably y. q. Grant,
Jr. young man of excellent promise, will suo-
Another effect OF tue B.bcocs trial will be tho
speedy displacement Of District Attorney Dyor,
whose language tn the closing. speech Of tho
prosecution WAS somewhat too pointed to suit tho
pEosidont, md beside which tho lepoHcd Hon-
deEaone Ia regarded ns mild and blind. This nut
ter waa nso brought to tho attention of tho Cabl.
net, and IT VAS tho united opinion thas, like tho
rH f1f hf1HA eHStr
sAmo course taken With Henderson
WILL De PURSUED WITH DYER.
Tho President and hts Attorney General will
iifat aacartatn II Dyora words wero corrootly re-
ported. The sworn statement Of the short-
hand srisor covering tho actual words spoken
will ba sent for, aud II thoy ero Of tho sanao
tenor as those already printed tho too-zcaloas
Datrict-AttoEney will go tho way Of al oFonding
every 1nenber Of the Cabinat fayors his displaco-
ment. TbIH was tho ssntimont "a developed to-
day. or contao, no judgment "a to hia suc-
ocssor can yet 10 formed. e1cept that tho presi-
don't, III tho absence Of Republican Senators aud
members from Missouri and having wtdo per-
Bonnl knowledge OF St. Louis people, will proba-
bly, make his own cho!co.
II the clos. O., the silsbo@ sboost tr,., b.v.
bearing Oh tho relations Of tho Cabinet. It would
soem to render tho Ectirolnent Of Gen, Dsietow
less certhin. Alcmbera Of tho Cabinas say, with
tho strongest assurance of knowledge, that Dris-
~" u au!o u Ie4naln, HhIlo AeotucKg 1rt9ndH OF
tho Secretary, who arc on tho closest ta,ms OF
Intimacy with htu,, Bay that hia carly retirement
IL determined.
WILL ASK FoR ANOTHER INVESTIGATION,
Gen. Dabcock Ia expected 10 arrive tn WASH
ington Sunday morning. It Ia understood from
htB friends that Ia order to remove from his rep
utatlon as an oflicet OF the arny al! stain Ipoi-
dent to tho accusations which havc recently boon
nado againat him, and Lis indictment and tr1al
baforo civil court, ho will demand An inmsdi-
ato Investigation boforo = military court OF in-
quiry. Such court would now be hble TO wntgh
and consider all tho testimony which has boen
submitted 10 tho court at st. Louie, aud other
facts and circumstances not 0dmsalhtp az eYi-
donce, and to do!crmino thoir exact bearing upon
his cha1actor aa m of1lcor aud gentleman.