The New York herald., 1879-03-26

in Mr.. camerons hapdwritng there wss charac-
ter to all of his handwritings there was something
OF erky style. but not tremulous while this letter
appeared to be III trembling hand.
CRoSs-ExAAfISED.
The word Harrisburg was tolerabiy good imr
tatiou and If he it alone he might say that Mr.
Cameron wrote it.
Samuel f. Barr examined by General Butler-He
had been Mr. Caneron's private secretary for six
teen years aud month and had charge of his pri-
vate papers; he clerk of the Committee on
Foreign Relations when Mr.. Cameron chairman
of it, he had seen Mr.. Cameron write u thousand
letters and knew his handwriting well. Secretary
Dristow's letter shownl That is his handwriting
Letter of September 25 shown.) That is not his
writing; he judged so chiefly from the tremor shown
in the writing.
produced by the defendant and given to the jury for
their guidance
witness continucd-Thc tremor either proceeded
from actual nervous affection in the hand of the
writer from tracing counterfeit letter: he
pointed out the manner in which the words wash
in-gton" and 'Sad were divided, and said he never
knew Mr.. Cameron to separate word in that way;
he printer in his carly days..aDd very sensi-
tive. both upon the syllablizins OF words and his
punctuation; he never saw Mr. Cameron sign letter
sc" to any one; he had seen Mr. Cameron after sign
ing his name in full to aetter write .P. s. and sign
as. c.. to it, Mr.. Cameron in tho habit OF using
certain quality OF French paper iurnshed by the
Senate because it took ink freely than tho other;
he kept some OF this paper in his room when he rst
became Mr.. Camerons clerk and this city he
found the committee rooms bosiegcd by lobby men
and bad women; he soon cleared them out and became
known to that class kind of bear; Miss Annie
Davis gave him any medicine to give to Mrs.
Oliver to produce abortion. and the story was
false from beginning to end; he had not seen Miss
Davis for three years; from oil that he had seen
or hoard of her she vrtuous respectable ~ ly
and OF exemplary character; he was not a relative
OF either Mr.. or Mrs. Cameron.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Peters-He certainly was
very friendly tn Mr. Cameron and had given the two
letters Of Mrs Oliver very close examinations; Mr..
Cameron became chairman OF the Committee
Foreign Relations in 1871 at which time tho witness
became its clerk, and remained in that position until
Mr.. Cameron resigned senator; tho bad women
infested the Capitol, but he would not per-
nit them in that room; he Etd Annie
Davis in the room with other ladies; he had
seen Mrs. Oliver about the door twice. but
never in the room; neither had he Mr.
Cameron speak to her. nor had he.ever seen her in
Mr.. Camerons chamber or sitting room at the Con-
gressonal Hotel; the last time he saw her before
this trial began once when she came to the COM
mlttee room ana very desirous Of seeing Mr.
Cameron he took her message to the red room.
where Mr.. Cameron was engaged, and said that the
lady seemed anxious to him and he answered,
"Tell her to 60 to the devil; he went back and de-
livered his message and she sad thatshe would con-
suit lawyer
At this point the Court adjourned for the day.