The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-17

sent It easy to procurcirhe "Sylph was mere
act Of fthourhtlrssne.s or playfaluces Of which I'll
Of us are guilty mt some time oi another. The
sucuker here referred to the letter stolen from
Rogers and given 10y Mcdonald to liahcOck, Nc
u nald having given 1t to him rs a utouf that
blAckmailtug wts hring carried on he re-. and had
convinced him that 1t MAS his duty to in 'erfero
and stop II. Hence. he took II to Douglass, and
told him thero was something wrong. He did
not hear OF the letter again until the next sun
day, when he accidentally met Douglass, and
learned that the raid hal been given up Nc
Donald had discovered this fact four days he
fore and had sent this dead dog telegram to
joyce, after which he started for -. Louis
he not have told Mcdonald OF the abandon
mont Of the rald1 But he did not, and when
Batcock found It out four days later he tee-
graphed Mcdonald that no had succeeded In
convincing Douglass tnat tho schcmo had been
Tor lacknailing, ana tnat brooks anu lloge
would noi 60 Tnat MSD9n Ssn ds statement ndSC
doubt. as at that very time hOge, one Of the
men who were TO make the raid, carried in his
pocket $4,000 brit c paid to Mn hy thu p,.g.
Referring to the despatch OF Doc. 3, 1874, which
IA one Of the three teiegrams not passed upon
by the court. and which reads as fOllOws:
" Have not heard that anybody has gone or is
going" Gen. Williams said lilbcock does not
remember having sent It,, and heLce requires
the Government to prove It. liabcock was on
intimate terms with tho President. and II was
the custom Of officers all over the country to ad
dress him relative to anything they desired TO
DAD out or secure, 40 uabcOck, knowing Joyce
only "a an houest official, answered the atters
inquiry as to whether agents were coming
ries. No one suspected at that time that Joyce
was trying TO do any hing but HIS duty toward
the Government. hut this very telearan shows
that Gen. Babcock was not an interested friend
Of The Ring, for the reason that II the very time
when he sent this telegram the raid had been
planned anu brooks w's In New York intend
ing to come here. THIS SHOWS Gen. Btbcock
ignorant OF affairs which he should certainly
have known had he held tho relations with the
Ring that are charged
Ihe testimony Of Everest shows another trick
of joyce. lie dd not place the letter privately
lH.N Nlt.I Il Il
act hut he got $lOO, paradod two envelopes
addressed to labcOck and Avery, pretended to
put money in each, aud sent them by Everest to
the mail. This was ONLY damnahle trick of q
desperate villain to convince the distilyrs
through Everest Of their security. That no mo-
ney was sent TO Dahcock would be proved
to the satisfaction of the Jury before the
case was closed. The whole case shows, and
attempt was made to sacrifice BabcOck, In order
to serve the fraudulent purposes Of Mcdonald
and Joyce. Much stress had been pla ed on tho
fact that Babcuck had COrresponded with Nc
Donald under cover to Major Gtimes, hut let
this ne explained II was at that time charged
that oil the Government officials here were
IN the King, ana at Washington II was
thought tnat the distillers we're working re-
venge upon the Government authorities by
cock WAS warm friend Of MIR. Mcdonald. and
believed him innocent. The newspapers nai al
ready printed the names OF AMY persons auout
the country, and attached 70 trivial circum-
stances acnil'y meaning. Gen. Ba' cock. very
naturally. shrnuk from all1wiug tho fact II his
corrc.poudrure with Mr. Mcdonald To- B., 'ome
In ,wn. kGowin. IL would be INTERPRETED a. evil
denco II guilt. The con ents OF those letters
had not been shown, and they could not he
proved TO TO OF guilty Import. II will
le shown, furthermore, that this man
llosc was in the Ring. giving Information ns
early "a May uf l>,i, that while enJ oying the
conlleuce " the defendant he was receiving
brioes irfm the Kne. Gen. DAoc0ck had no
me fns u obtaining Information from the de-
pattment but Hore had. and he prob bly, sent
the tutnrtation. Evidence will be adduced to
show that Gen. Bibcuch had no part IN induce
President ~
ferring supervisors and revonue agents but 10y
the Presidents own deposition, IL will he proved
this reyoc ton wa@ ordered tn the pre.enc, ana
through the representations and influence Of
SuutrvisDr Tuition.