The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-26

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The st. Louis Post Dispatch prints fac SMILES Of
three letters received by Gen. Mcdonald during
the prosecution by Secretary Bristow of the whis-
ky frauds-one signed Horace Houghton," and
two B. F. Finch land also fac SMILES OF two
letters from Major G, E. Babcock-one to Melon
aid and the other TO Judge Chester H. Crum. The
letter signed Horace HOughton and the two let
ters signed B. F. Finch seem to be in the same
handwriting as the letters from Gen. Babcock,
who, 1t will be remembered was at the time Of
the whisky frauds President Grants confidential
secretary and q member OF his household The
FIVE letters have been submitted to experts, who
declare that they were all written by the same
hand and the two signed by Gen. Babcock have
been definitely identified as from him.
The letter signed Horace Houghton" Is as fol
lows:
DEAR FRIEND:-Keep steady on. Do not lose
your gait. Some Of the gaugers and distillers
want to squeal and have by such action defeated
the cause in measure. They will not be allowed
to turn informers and then go free themselves,
Whoever goes to your city Will be instructed to
make no such promises. When the attention of
the public Is called TO Milwaukee, Chicago, Ey-
ansville, Cincinnati, as 1t will in a very short
time no special attention will be called TO your
city,
You want to help any one that goes to your city
and trust to the reliability OF the friend to whom
you telegraphed. Sorry your officials have to
learn the service. Steer your ship in the tempest;
any one can do 1t in the calm Yours truly,
HORACE HoUGHToN
May T. rs.
The first letter signed "FlBcb," is as follows
DEAR FRIEND: Your enemies, In my opinion,
to do you harm, report to the Secretary that you
and h TIT Il,
terest of some Kentucky people, and boast tEat
you can prove It, &c, &c. tell him am sure 1t
is not so, and that your business starts these st0-
ries, A lot Of gaugers or stOrekeepers want to
peach, and say that they can prove that Melon
aid is in it, &c, &c No such person has been al
lowed to make any such statements, as they won't
be protective. Keep your head level and under.
take nothing you cannot carry out for certain,
and beware of skuDks, who profess to be friends
that wish simply to deceive you
Your sincere friend, B FINCH,
May IA, 75,
Send under cover to Geo. D. Bel Ljamin, 2 100 Pa.
avenue.
The second letter signed "Finch" is as follows
DEAR FRIEND:-Got yours of 18th; glad to hear
all will be right. Shall do all in my power to re.
tain your friend. Will not be my fault II | do
not as will convince you when we meet. don't
think Dyer your friend, l still believe there is
some one near you or the Col. who betrays you
Trust no one. Where is the Col?
Regards to all. Keep cool. viii explain good
many things when see you, Yours truly,
B. F, FINCH.
Gen. Babcock's fetter to Judge Crum was as fol
lows:
CONFIDENTIAL
LINDELL HOUSE. 500 P NJ, Feb. %
DEAR JUDGE:-Can you see Geo. Med, or II
you cannot see him write and tell him how sorry
| am that Judge p attacked him 80 bitterly.
spoke to him the last thing before left the no.
tel and asked him not to attack Mack. | eau
toned him also in the morning, but you know
what 0 bitter fellow he Is In speech, and | sup.
pose he forgot | know Mack will know II was
not my wish, but want him to know that l took
pains to request him not to do so, for l do not
wish to add one single pang to his pains, for
know he would not to mine, and, on the contrary
would help him rs | know he would help me-
Attend to this to night and oblige,
Hon. CHESTER H, CRUM.
Babcock's letter to Mcdonald over his own sig.
nature is as follows
Cor. PENNSYLVANIA Av. AND 21sT ST.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May Z, 1878
DEAR GENERAL Your letter at hand, | shall
send the photograph 10 day or two, and will
try to get Gen. Belknap's, Sorry your assistant
here resigned; It must keep you quite busy.
have delivered your message. Hope the bull was
good traveller. Your friend is doing the best he
can; you can, believe, rely on him The new
Commissioner takes his place on the l5h and
changes generally will take place at that date,
though your services will be needed till the first
Of June, All we'll here, but busy, Regrets to Mrs,
Med, Joyce and wife, and other friends
Yours truly, 0. e, BABCoCK.
GEN. ]. A. MCDONALD, st. Louis, Mo.
The Post Dispatch also prints the following ex.
tract from McDonald's forthcoming book
As soon as the jury had delivered the verdict Of
not guilty, BabcOck shook hands earnestly with
each juryman. He then left the court room, got
into carriage with his attorney, and was driven
out to the jail to see me, My cell was in the sec.
ond tier, and he came right to me. After few
moments OF general conversation, the cell was
cleared of all but him and me, and we talked ear.
nestly OF the situation. He praised my deteTmi-
nation to keep still, and asked me II l needed
money or anything saying that whatever l want.
ed would be given me at oUCe, | told him | had
$4,000 then in the Celwith me- and that tho ught
that would be ample l told him that did not
want to go to the penientiary, and that he must
see to II that my pardon would be issued at once
after my conviction. | repeated my first state.
ment that would not open my lips, and told him
to assure the President that such was my deter
nation. To this he replied that might make my
mind easy as to the pardon, for 1t would be issued
at once. He added that his acqulttal would be
step in the way of making the whole prosecu
ton appear as a persecution of the Presidents
friendG and Of the President himself, and that
when the popular mind had received this i'm
ter of course.
He then asked me to give him his letters saying
that he was acquitted, and that they could do
him neither harm nor good and that he wished
with bis own eyes to see them destroyed. He
added that he did not doubt my thorough good
faith, but that accidents might happen, and that
he would never be perfectly easy in his mind un.
I'll be knew these letters were put where they
would never see the light, came very near Civ
ing the letters up to him, but | concluded that
thnFn n tna ond
he then became so very impOrtnnate that made
up my mind that my, only chance for speedy
pardon depended altogether on the safe custody
OF these letters. declined to give them up and
he left me at last assuring me that my pardon
would be issued as soon as he reached Washing.
ton II did not come, however, until had been
long in prison.
II was Immediately after this attempt of Bah.
cocks to get the letters that Schaurte and W. c.
Babcock, the Generals buOther, tried to buy the
letters from Thomas +, Walsh, my brother in.law
in whose possession they were.
From the New York Herald
Washington, Aug, 1O.-Gen Babcock, since
change Of administration, has been filing an i'm.
portant position in the Engineer Corps, Of which
he Ia an officer, and Is at present at Fort Henry,
experimenting the construction OF lighthouse.
It will be remembered that prominent with Nc.
Donald was Mr.. John A. Joyce who was clerk
In the Internal Revenue Bureau when Mcdonald
was appointed. The new Supervisor had not
much book learning and requested the office to
give him a smart young man to aid him in keep.
ing his accounts straight That man was Mr..
Joyce. 1t was sort Of Damon and Pythias com.
Since his liberation Mr. Joyce has been
a resident Of Georgetown. He is a smart man,
the best evidence being his confidential arrange
ments with Mcdonald and influence with subor.
dinetes II. the Treasury Department, by which
the King was enabled to anticipate every Sc.
eret movement planned against the "Ring" in ST..
Louis. Meeting him this morning in the shadow
OF the Treasury building, asked him II he had
read the account published in the Herald OF the
forthcoming book, He replied quickly that he
And what have you got to say about the reve.