The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1875, Page 3

THE WHISKEY A Startling Statement by Ex-Col- lector Murdoch, GRANT'S GUILTY KNOWLEDGE. Dyer and Henderson Aoquit the President. Meeting of thew. Bank Depot. 0? xo the east ‘ot the German Uptown’ sky} “imation of the MORE PRESIDENTIAL INTERF know) «. ber > ots» An Attempt to Throw Out Secretary p,,.‘4w and Solicitor Wilson. CHICAGO REVELATIONS. Sr. Louis, Mo., Dec, 14, 1875. When I called upon Mr. Henderson this morning I found him reading the Heraup editorial on bis removal of last Saturday, He said:— “I beg you to thank Mr, Bennett for this splendid article, which expresses all my sentiments better than J would have done. 1 was going to write an open letter to Secretary Bristow or Attorney General Pierrepont, Dut the Hxxany has put me in so just and clear a posi- tion before the entire country that it is unnecessary.”” EXPECTED BXIT OP SEORKTARY BRISTOW. Mr, Henderson, in the course of a long conversation, expressed his opinion that Secretary Bristow would have to go before long. This he based principally on two grounds. In the first place, because, as he under- stood, Bristow had opposed his removal in the Cabinet meeting, Second—Because Bristow had been too active and energetic in these prosecutions, ‘My crime,” reiterated Mr. Henderson, ‘‘was not that I madea speech, but that Babcock wag indicted. It was not thatI accused the President of being implicated in the frauds, for I did no such thing, WhatI did was to denounce the revocation of the order of Douglass by the President asa tyrannical and unjustifiable act, prompted by political motives, ana I only regretted that in the coun- try corrupt men could use party considerations for their own dishonest purposes. 1 never charged that the President acted dishonestly, but only that he acted os @ partisan, and that through allowing himself to be used for party purposes he did perpetuate the Whiskey Ring in St. Louis, “You see, the President had no wore to do with that arder than the Emperor of Japan. The law provides expressly that the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, make these transfer, and Douglass himself did not know What the law.was when he testified that Nbe President’s sanction was necesvary.”” A LETTER PROM ExX-GOVERSOK PALMER, ‘The following very characteristic letter was received by Mr, Henderson this morning from John M. Palmer, ex-Governor of Minois:— Srminaris.y, Dec. 13, 1875. Hon. Joan B. Hunprnsoy :— vm Dean Sm—As amomber of the legal profession of more than thirty years service, for myself and many otbers whom I have consulted, I desire to thank you for standing by your speech in ‘the Avery case without explanation or apology. It is not necessary for me to express an opinion upon the meri(s of the argument, as a whole, or of that portion of it which, it is reported, gave offence to the President. It is enough that you inade iton your responsibility as counsel in the dis- charge of your duties, and that you refused to explain the language used’ or to apologize to any one for its use. For this you deserve the thanks of the. profession and of the country, and you will receive the honors you deserve, think I may trutfMfully say that no one cherishes feel- ings of higher personal respect and regard for the repu- tation of the President than I do, or tbat any would more readily resent improper imputations upon him than I would. Idid not favor his election in 1872, but my opposition to him was political, and there are mat- ters of higher moment than mere triendships and one of these is that the legal profession, to be useful, must be independent and must not submit to be challenged even by the President and his Cabinet for honest words spoken in the courts in the line of duty. I trust that you will find in the increased respect of the Bar and the people ample compensation for any mortification you | may have for a moment felt at the reported untavora- | ble judgment of the President and his advisers upon Your professional conduct, Respectfully, JOHN M. PALMER. Mr. Henderson has received many letters trom other | distinguished public men from all parts of the country. MURDOCH'S DISCOVERIES. Some extraordinary facts have come to my knowl. | edge which will soon be spread broadcast before the | world with the intention of dragging the President of the United States into this great Whiskey Ring con. | fpiracy, and itis my painful duty to chronicle them, Jt appears that in 1873. collector of internal revenue tn the Fourth Congressional district of Missouri, Lindsay Murdoch by name, vate information of the going on in St Murdoch's received _ pri- frightful frauds Louis, According to | story, as he retailed ‘it to &n official of this city, he came to St. Louis, investi- gated the statements made (o him, and became con- vinced that Joyce and McDonald were at the head of a vast ring of conspirators, He determined to notify tho President of this state of things, and made an affidavit as to the facts, Which ne mailed on the 6th of of June, 1873, to the President, with the request to re- turn it to him if notused. He took a verified copy of this aM@davit, subscribed to before a Circuit Judge, and there are now two copies of this in the city, one in the hands of District Attorney Dyer, and the other im those of Mr. Henderson, Both gentlemen refused, to-day, to give tt to me, but it is uot the contents of, this paper which is so remark- able as is Murdoch's allegation that ho waited fer a month and heard nothing of it; that he thon sent another copy of the statement to Babcock, and, finally, a third to the then Secretary of the Troasury, Richard- fon, without ever receiving an answer from either of these dignitaries. Murdoch has witnesses to prove that he sent this disclosure of the Ring by mail to the three porsons named, but, “Unfortunately, there is no evidence except that of ordinary common sense to establish the fact that it reached there, Atall events, it was never used to pro. tect the public treasury from the depredations of Joyce MeDonald & Co,, and it must have been communicated to the very men whom it was designed to thwart if Murdoch's story is trac, He says that after the con- viction of Joyce he came to this city to col- lect $150 which Joyce owed him. Joyce decoyed him to his room, Where he met McDonald, and the two, after secretly locking the door, there swore at him and said furiously, “You are the man who bas brought all ‘bis trouble on us,” and they assaulted him, MURDOCH'S IDEA is that Babcock told these mon of the statement he had sent to Washington, and the whole matter will be used ‘a8 evidence against Babcock to show, in the first piace, that ba suppressed documents addrossed to the Prosi- above NEW ‘YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DKUKMBER 15; 1875.—~TRIPLE- SHEET. 8 / Mation to the Ring of the doings of their enemies. GRANT LIABLE FOR CONSPIRACY. ‘The story was toid me—not by Murdoch, for he lives out im Marble Hill, Mo.—by an official of high stand- ing. While Murdoch is inclined to think that the President never got this statement, and that it was intercepted by Babcock, this official declares that he knows the President did receive it, and that General Grant is also indictable for conspiraey in failing to act upon it and allowing information as to its sender to be given to Joyce and McDonald. Mr. byer, a very obliging gentleman, but one who has a very high idea of official duty, declines to give @ copy of Murdoch’s statement on the ground that he will use it as evidence against Babcock. Neither he nor Mr, Henderson think that it inculpates the President, because there is no evidence that be received it, but # few otbers who know its vathink {t does, and say so, There are even ina RING, /Sssaarrrereccceeemce” DOOKE psy ‘hat an effort will be made to procure an Indiciwen, aseuct the President before the new Grand Jury, called for January, but Mr. Dyer denies this in emphatic terms, However, all these statements are significant as showing the excited state of public feel- ing in St. Louis on the subject of these gigantic frauds, when the probable indictment of the President of the United States is cooly discussed'as a contingency not at all impossible to happen. SENATOR MORTON AND THE GRAND JURY. § In connection with the calling of ths new Grand Jury a gentleman who was\a member of the last Grand Jury told me that an attempt will undoubtedly be made to indict Oliver P. Morton, the Senator from In- diana, This gentleman says that a letter from Morton was presented to the last Grand Jury, in which the Sen- ator asked the members of the St, Louis Whiskey Ring to raise money for the campaign of 1872 from the dis- tillers, and that other evidence exists to connect Mor- ton with money raised by the crooked whiskey distil- lers, ‘This, taken with the fact that McGuire admits that the Republican State Central Committee of Missouri were in debt to the amount of $17,000 in tho campaign of 1872, and that the Jate Henry 7. Blow stated publicly before the Republican State Convention. of 1874 that the deficiency of $17,000 was made up by the liberality of federal office holders of St. Louis,fis certainly very remarkable, and there are ‘those who say maliciously that this money went to Indiana, and not to Missouri, At all evehts, whether the story be true or not I give it as coming from very trustworthy authority. . This new Grand Jury will also, probably, investipate the frauds, alleged to have been perpetrated in :) » building of the new Custom, House, and if they at same time set to work to indict Grant and Mortor «; rumor has it, they will have their hands full. Lucky, the President, as 1 am informed bya very eminent lawyer of St Louis, cannot. be tried during his term of office, 80 that the greatest scandal and fall that has ever happeried in this country would be spared to us, A PRIEND OF THR FAMILY, At the instance of General Grant, an old family friend of the Grants, ex-Governor Reynolds, who will be Temembered as the Confederate Governor of Mis- souri, was asked to-day to accept the position of spe- cial assistant prosecuting counsel for the whiskey fraud cases, but he declined ‘this afternoon without stating reasons, It was immediately sutmised that Governor Reynolds was too strongly im sympathy with Hender- son to accept such a position, but the old gentleman es- pecially requested. me. to, say that thiewas not true, and said violently :— } “Tnotonly am not in sy with Henderson, ‘but I think he hag doted like & p Diackguard, and if old Jackson had been President I know he would have come down and thrashed him.” This is interesting as showing how an intimate friend of the Grant family feels on the subject, Reynolds) appointment at the direct instance of the President, and unasked as it was by Dyer, who wanted no addi- tional help, has caused here much surprise, and has been commented upon in a tone very unfavorable to the President.. It is generally understood that Reynolds is pot only a most intimate friend of Grant, but aiso of Babcock, and that the President after Henderson’s successor has been duly installed, and when the proséeation required no additional,assist- ance, should have gone out of his way to add to ita most intimate friend of Babeock is generally regaraed as a most unfortunate exhibition of his desire to shield his private secretary. Reynolds, who is a high toned, honorable man, would not be forced into so unpleasant a position of duplicity, and as he would have done his duty if he had accepted the retainer of the govern- ment, he very discreetly and honorably declined it. 100 MANY LAWYERS, But even froma purely economical point of view | this interference of the President looks strange. Dis- trict Attorney Dyer had asked for no additional aid, ‘and why spend more of the people’s money than there is any need for? Mr. Dyer has three able assistants, Eaton, Bliss and Peddrick, all three energetic and bright lawyers; and he has also Brodhead, who hasa rotainer of $1,000 already in his pocket, This makes fivejlawyers, which ought certainly to suffice for the pros- ecution of these cases, and it does in their own opinion, and nevertheless the President goes to work and ap- points one of Babcock’s very best friends as an addi- tional special counsel, Certainly the ways ofthe Presi- dent in this Babcock business ‘are queer to say the least. NON-ARRIVAL OF BARCOCK, General Babcock did not arrive to-day, as had been expected, and Judge Krum, his counsel, now thinks he will not be here until Thursday, Judge Krum con- fidentially declares that there are no despatches from Babcock to tne Ring beyond those already published, while I haye the word of Mr. Dyer and others of the prosecuting counsel that there are. In fact, I know on the very best authority that their number is very large, over Ofty. Judge Krum says that the defence are will- ing to try the case immediately. This bears out what I telegraphed you yesterday, that the present de- moralized condition of the prosecution would be gladly seized by the defence in pressing for an immediate trial, Judge Krum declares that Babcock was as in- nocent of any complicity in this whiskey business ag the Heap correspondent, which is saying a good deal, As the cases of McKee and others have been transferred to the Circuit Court, Judge Dillon, the Circuit Court Judge, will sit at the approaching trial, together with Judge Treat, so that redoubled judicial wisdom will illuminate these cases when they are tried to January. “GENERAL” M’DONALD, McDonald, who will spend his holidays here in jail, awaiting sentence, was visited to-day by your corre- spondent. He is still called “General” by his jatlor and all his subordinates and treated with great deference However, ho looks careworn and haggard. His eyes aro sunken, and his face expres- ses much mental suffering, His cell ip luxuriously furnished, and as the jail is a model in point of cleanliness, ventilation and light he appears to be very comfortable, Itcertainly is better lighted and ventilated than ning-tentbs of the hotels of New York; and McDonald said, “Why, if Tam to be logked ‘ep, I'd just a8 leave stay here as in the Southern Hotel.” It’s only the feeling of being locked up. that im disagreeable, that is all,” McDonald expressed him- self in bitter terms of reproach at what be called the unfairness of the prosecution, “I don’t think that the Prosident’s injunction, ‘Let no guilty man escape,’ is being carried into effect,” he said to me. The prosecu- tion have only tried two or three out of seventy that have been indicted, and a great many who are sworn to have been in the Ring, as it is called, | have not even been indicted, I remarked that this might probably ke explained by the fact that they bad turned State’s evidence, but be insisted, in atone of great indignation, that there were many who had not turned State’s evidence, and e continued 4m the service of the government, ‘THE UNINDICTED. ‘There is Busche, who was a storekeeper in Ulricis? distillery and whois now a letter carrior in the St. Louis Post Office, he was not indicted. Andrew MeGrew, who for two years was foreman in Beayes’ distillery, is a stamp clerk in the Cincinnati Post Office and has not been indicted. Henry and Chatfield Hardway, the one a storekeeper and the other a gauger, through whom McGrew operated, ac- cording to his own admission, when he was paymaster of the Ring, have not been indicted. Philip Warner, a gauger in Beavins & Thompson's distilleries, has not been indicted, and I might go on a long time with this list. McDonald was of the opinion that Babcock was perfectly innocent, as innocent as’ he (McDonald) was himself, and as to the “Sylph’” despatch, that re- ferred to some man or woman he did not know who was appointed to some position—be did notknow, what. HENDERSON'S DISMISSAL. T am glad to say, for Mr. Henderson’s sake, that McDonald expressed himself in terms of emphatic ap- probation of bis dismissal. I am sorry to say, for Mr. Broadhead’s sake, that hedeclared Mr. Broadhead would do his duty like a man and prove far superior to Henderson, As to General Grant’s rumored complicity McDonald said this:—"I have known General Grant as wells any man has, I have known him intimately for twenty years or so as @ personal friend, and I am _ convinced of his innocence as Iam of mine.” This emphatic declaration I should think would make McDonald a valuable witness for the defence if the indictment against the President is ever found, and is. tried after his term of office has ex- pired. THE FEELING IN WASHINGTON. ATTEMPTS TO INCITR THR PRESIDENT TO MOVE AGAINST: SECRETARY BRISTOW AND SOLICITOR WILSON—DELEGATIONS OF PROMI- NENT) POLITICIANS FROM CHICAGO—MORTON’S DENIAL. Wasurxerow, Dec, 14, 1875, There are no public developments of importance about the whiskey suits here to-day, ‘put the intrigues and quiet attempts to impede the St. Louis trials and to influence the “President against those who are active in prosecuting these trials go on vigor- ously, but so far unsuccessfully, A brisk war has, been opened on Solicitor Wilson, in which those ‘who are working in the interest of the Whiskey Ring have joined hands with those who sought his removal last winter on account of the energy with which he prosecuted the safe burglary conspirators, but the Secretary of the Treasury stands firmly by Majo Wilson, and Wijson’s removal at this time would un- doubdtedly lead to the immediate resignation of Secre- tary Bristow. : The President has so far refused to listen to those “who urge bim to remove Major Wilson, and has told them that he approves of the vigor and ability with which the duties devolving on the Solicitor of the Treasury in connection with the whiskey frauds havo been performed. THE INDIANAPOLIS FRAUDS. The developments in the whiskey trials at Indianap- olis begin to attract attention here; and it appears that a number of local politicians and several old hangers on of the Internal Revenue office when Mr. Delano was Commissioner are deeply concerned Jest all the facts in Connection with the. operations of the two Brashers should be developed. Some of the parties im these Indianapolis trials have made confes- sions and statements which are now in possession of the government and which prove to be of great import- ance, not only in themselves, but as helps to further investigations, which it is anticipated will secure other indictments, CHICAGO AND SECRETARY BRISTOW. In connection with these cases, and evidently be- cause they fear further developments, it ts known that, prominent, republican politicians are busily en- gaged in attempts to undermine Secretary Bristow with the President, They are helped in these efforts by those who are interested in stopping proceedings in Chicago and Milwaukee, There is good reason to believe that the day of exposure for the Chicago Whiskey Ring is near at hand. A MOVEMENT AGAINST WILSON. ‘The efforts of the persons concerned in the Chicago Whiskey Ring are directed with the greatest vigor against Solicitor Wilson. ‘Ward, the displaced Dis- trict Attorney, has, it is said, started a story that Wilson urged him to indict Hon. C. B. Far- well, and look for evidence against him after. ward, Several prominent citizens of Chicago have been here, within a fow days, using every effort to dis- cover the points of the government’s case against the Ring in that city, but they have not succeeded, Their prominence in Chicago leads to the behef here that their anxiety means something, and that when tho lightning strikes in Chicago it will makea great sensa- tion throughout the country, SENATOR MORTON'S DENIAL, Senator Morton is indignant at the chargee mado against him; in Yhe accounts from St. Louis, He ex- pressed himself to day in the following vehement lan- guage : “The despatch in the New York papers of to-day from St. Louis that Mr. Dyer, the District Attorney in St Louis, attributes the fact that his name has Hot been sent in by the President to the Senate to the opposition of Senator Morton because of his exposure of the Morton campaign fund of 1872 is utterly untrue, never heard of Mr. Dyer using a word about mo, Don’t believe he ever did. I never interfered against him with the President or anybody else, The allegation of the exposure of the camipaign fund of 1872 is utterly ‘untrue, The paragraph described as coming from Senator Morton to a distinguished man who vis- ited St. Louis, is absolutely false. I never heard of any such scene in the Cabinet Don’t believe it oc- curred. I never mentioned such a thing to a human being, and the whole statement in every particular, so far as 1 am concerned, is an utter falsehood.” Mr. Morton reiterates what he said the other day, to the effect tnat the despatch demanding: money for cam- paign purposes was entirely false, The whole despatch, 80 far as it relates to him, is an unmitigated falsehood, he says, and he believes it was cooked up in Washing- ton and sent to St, Louis, thence to New York. THE HILL TRIAL, Inpraxarouts, Ind., Dee. 14, 1875, The entire session of Judge Gresham's Court to-day was occupied in hearing the arguments in the Hili case, Hon. Nelson Trussler and General Brown for the gov- ernment, and Hon, A. G, Porter and W. P, Fishback for the defence. CHICAGO OROOKED WHISKEY, CONGRESSMAN FARWELL SAID TO BE IMPLI- CATED—IMPORTANT EVIDENCR sUDMITTED ‘TO THE GRAND JURY—RUMORS AS TO THR CHARACTER OF THE FORTHCOMING REVELA- TIONS, Cuicaco, Dec, 14, 1875, Those who have best‘facilities for gathering news re- karding overations of whiskey man im this eitv, and who Bearest to the prosecuting powers of the go- we t, already begin to give out strong hints of a new departure. which will most assuredly bring to the dock a number leading and influential citizens, Politica) and , who have thus far in the course of the unearthing of frauds succeeded in keeping their connection with crooked operations a profound secret. It has been Mmtimated in the public prints that C. B. Farwell, a well known member of Congress trom Chicago, liag become involved in the violation of the Ree laws, by having connection with a prom- inent malt house in which A. C. Hesing, editor of the Staats Zeitung, andJ. Rehm, late City were associated in business relations. In view of the charges against him Mr, Farwell hag seen fit, in the Chicago Trtb- une of to-day, to disavow any sort of connection with whiskey business, and to charge the origin of the rumors topersonal enmity on the part of the witness who made the charge before the iast Grand Jury, and also on the part of Solicitor Wilson, of the Treasury Department; the latter occasioned by an attempt on the part of Farwell to have Wilson removed. All the proceed- ings, Mr, Farwell says, have been governed by & desire on the part of Wilson to punish and injure him, Logan and their friends. On the other hand, it bas come to the knowledge of a few that the next Grand Jury, whieh meets here in January, will, beyond all doubt bring in bills against Mr. Farwell and Messrs. Hesing together with a few others who have, unfortunately for themselves, got into a position which, to say the least, is an equivocal one, Itis alleged that one distilling firm, that ot Roelle, Jurker & Co., lately indi¢ted, and one of the largest of the Chi- cago crooked operators, paid to C. B. Farwell, at the time of the lastelection, $6,000, and it was no part of a campaign fund, Mr. Farwell’ was also charged by whe jbefore the Grand Jury, of bav- ing interested’ himself to get a quantity of ilbcit whiskey out of hand, wien it was being hunted pba eos and altho Mr. Farwell has ear- endea\ to smooth away this charge, it stands bold), inst him. Government detectives are bending all energies to this one end of establish- Ing the connection of Farwell with the Whiskey Ring, and with a prospect of success, A mass of evidence has already been collected, which it is impossible to make public at this stage, which will startle the coun- id and cause the utmost consternation in political and other circles here, and it all bears upon the connection of Farwell and the managers of the Chicago and North- western Malt Company with the crooked operations, pede A MONSTROUS MURDER. MYSTERIOUS | ASSASSINATION OF A YOUNG AND HANDSOME WOMAN—THE VICTIM FOUND IN A FIELD NEAR THE JAMAICA PLANK ROAD— THE BLOOD-STAINED WEAPON—A THEORY, BUT NO CLEW TO THE ASSASSIN. One of the most mysterious and most monstrous murders that haye ever been brought to, light was perpetrated in that suburb of Brooklyn known as New Lots op last Monday night. ‘The crime is one, of peculiar interest, inasmuch as the victim and the slayer are both entirely unknown in the neigh- borhood im which the tragedy occurred, The scene of the murder on the premises of the farm of Isaac Schenvk, in acorpfield about 400 feet south of the Ja- maica plank road, and about the same distance west from the ¢ld toll gate, The lessee of the Schenck farm 1s a quiet, peaceable and much, respected fatmer of German birth, named Rich- ard Wesse In his employ is a laborer named Martin Sigelton. About one o'clock yesterday afternoon Sigtiton was on his way across a jevel tract of field in which was stacked a quantity of corn in eafs, about eight feet in height aud twelve feet in ciroumferened at the base, On the sido of a stack, the furthest from the roadside, was pre- sented to his riew a sight which seat a thrill of horror tbrough the startled man. There lay, with ghastly wounds, disfiguring a comely face, covered with blood, the corpse ofa young woman. Her hands were raised as though warding off the pitiless thrusts of the mur- ‘derer, and the finger nails penetrated the skin, so tightly were they olenched. The eyes were glaring and fixed in agony, while the mouth was wide open, He hastened with. all speed to the farm house and informed his employer ef the discovery. The man was sent imme- diately to the station bouse of New Lots, on Butler Avenue, where word was left, and the fact was sent by telegraph the Twelfth precinct, Captain Crofts, The latter officer hastened to the scene with several men, while Detgctives Butts and Van Wagner were sent out to work upthe case from the Brooklyn Central Office, Coroner Sifmms was summoned and reached the Schenck form by tl o’clock, the body being left in the posi- tion in whieh’ it was found until bis arrival. The Cor- oner, who /é also a physician, found on examination a deep wouhd on the right side of the face, extending from the of the right ear to a point directly at the centre the throat, There was a hole in the centre of thé throat so large that {t would lead the beholder to imagine that the weapon had been turned round in the orifice, cutting out & piece of the flesh large enough to admit of one’s fist, The Coroner is of the opinion, however, that this large opening in the throat is to be accounted for by the gnawing of the flesh by field mice, which are very numerous, thereabout, There was also another hole cr gash on the right side of the face, ex- tending from tlie cheek bone down to the angle of the mouth, On the left side the ear had been sliced in twain, the blado of the knife running down and cutting the throat from that Side right across, severing the carotid artery. Careful examination failed to discover any further cuts or bruises on the body. The theory is entertained from several pe culiar details that the murder occurred before the swow storm on Monday night—that is between half-past nine o’clock and ten, This fact is apparent, inasmuch as the deep gash upon the face was tilied with snow, while the body was frozen fast to the earth in the coagulated pool of blood in which the victim was lying. APPEARANCE OF THE MURDERED WOMAN, The unfortunate woman was not, in the opinion of medical men who viewed the body, more than twenty- six years ofage. She had very dark eyes, straight, dark brown or black hair, and what is termed a “dumpling” face—that is a round one. Her com- plexion was dark, so much so that several of those who were about her concurrea in the opinion that she ‘was an octoroon. Her bust development was very fine, and there could be no doubt, in the opinion of Dr. Simms, that she had been a mother. She was pretty well dregsed, and one might form the opinion Uhat she had earned a livelihood at dressmaking or as @ tailoress. She had on a dove-colored merino dress, a black alpaca overskirt, of good texturo, and '@ dark plaid shawl Her underclothing was neatly worked and exceedingly clean, In her ears were, two handsome gold earrings, with garnet settings in the centre and drop bell pen. dants, Her stockings, which were white as snow, were fastened with stee! garters, In her pocket was found asteel thimble, a new, bright three cent piece da corse handkerchief. She had on neatly laced gaitera. The first thing done by the officers of the law was 10 look about the spot on which the body was fond for the foot prints of the assassin, There were none found in the slender coverlet of snow which covered the level flelds—a cir- cumstanee which clearly showed that the murderer had left the scene of the tragedy before the snow squall, The ‘gner, upon walking around the stack of corn, within a few feet of which the corpse was found, ob- served an opening large enough to admit the body of a man, and he told Captain Crofts to search the stack fora knife. The corn shocks were taken apart by the officers, when in the centre was found THE KNIPX WITH WHICH THR MURDER WAS COMMETTED. It was undoubtedly placed there by the assassin alter the commission of the murder, ‘The weapon 1s of the finest steel, sharpened to the temperament of a pazor, theblade being about three and a halt inches in length and three-fourths of an imch in width, The handle is of black walnut and is crudely riveted to the steel, The blade was thickly crusted with congealed blood, + and _—the mark of three slender, bloody fingers was clearly de- fined upon the handle, It was evident that the man, who was the taller of the two, the woman being about five feet in height, grasped the weapon, with the back of the knife toward his victim, and cut downward in his horrible butchery. ‘the kbife is an’ article such as Gorman shoemakers use, or it may be probably more ied recognized as @ cigar: maker's knife, Indeed, the latter is undoubtedly the strongest clew upon which the authorities bave to work in unravelling the atrocious crime, The woman may bave been a Cuban or a Spanish woman, and if that theory be the correct one it is fair, then, to as- ‘sume that her associations were with her own coun- trymen. Among the latter it 18 conceded that jealousy vegets violent passion, and when blood is to be shed the knife is the favorite weapon. As a yacation cigar about the than this to work upon as yet. Not aperson resi: in the vicinity of the scene of the tragedy has to their Knowledge seen the wor heretofore, nor could the officers learn of any sti Man and woman being noticed in that viclnity on Monday night, T! indjeations are, however, that the murderer al Victim to a point as far k from the road and mote from interruption or surprise, after nightiall o1 Monday last, as to clude all danger Of recognition, and | that whatever transpired between them before the fatal blows were struck must forever remain unknown to the world, save alone through the contession of the murderer. The latter has had the advantage of his pursuers by at least thirty hours. Last evening the body was moved to the Butler avenue station house, as the re- quest of Captain Crafts, and the people of Kast New York for miles around came in and viewed it, but no one could identify the features of the dead as belonging to any one seen there in life. The conductors on the several railroad lines were interrogated as to whether they had carried any such passengers the evening previo bat they had no recollection of having done so, Altogether the tragedy ig one which is surrounded by as much mystery as was the Goodrich tragedy when first discovered, The boay will be removed to the Brooklyn city Morgue to-day d a post-mortem examination will be made by Dr. A. Simms has empannelled a jury nanaet i. Morrow, grees rorget that upon the referenee of the matter te the States for ratification there will probably be a fresh local agitation In each, such as carried New Jersey and Ohio for the republicans on the school issue a! the last elections in those two States, President Grant anticipates this likelihood and counts upon it as ‘8 determining issue in the Presidential election next year. The school question may not set the people by the ears in that election, but the local Legislatures will be chosen with reference to their predilections for or against ratification of the constitutional amendment, and it is easy to see how Grant, Chandler and Edmunds will so manipulate the canvass in each State as to make # vote for tha amendment a vote for Grant and the third term, The Tepublicans are, therefore, going into the campaign with two plans of battle. If the democrats in the House should reject Blaine’s amendment, which, ac- cording to their present tactics, they will not do, the republicans would make politieal capital out of the fact and try to use it to the defeat of their opponents as they did in New Jersey and Ohio, But if thedemo- crats in Congress adopt the amendment the republican will transfer the issue to each of the thirty-eight States next fall, and go combine it with the local elections for the Legislatures as to materially help their cause by catching the bigoted element of the voting population, The ex- tent of tne conspiracy involved in the school question’ WASHINGTON. The Perturbed Spirit of Louisiana Still Threatening. ATTITUDE OF BOURBONS AND MODERATES, Republican Movements for the Presidential Succession. A RELIGIO-SCHOLASTICO CRUSADE, Democrats and Republicans Reverent Before the Corner Stone. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONENT, Wasuincrton, Dec. 14, 1875. THE LOUISIANA IMBROGLIO IN SENATE AND HOUSE—MR. WOOD AS THE CHAMPION OF THE SOUTHERN IMPRACTICABLES — THE ANTICI- PATED MESSAGE ON SOUTHERN AFFATRS. The Louisiana question will not down. It turns up in some shi nd threatens to be a disorganizing ele- ment in both parties. In the Senate Mr. Pinchback again demands a seat, In the House Mr. Wood's life has become a burden to him because of McEnery. In Louisiana McEuery may succeed in breaking up the conservative organization into its two component parts, whig and democrat, which, under the most favorable circumstances, find it difficult to work harmoniously together, The McEnery men form the Bourbon faction in Louisiana politics, and they are as active and irre- pressible as they are impracticable, They have as their allies the Sheriff of New Orleans, many politicians, and a part of the city government McEnery’s opponents include almost the whole of the business com- munity, who, though they dislike Kellogg, are do- sirous of peace and are strongly opposed to a revival of the troubles of last year, The most influential politician of the Red River parishes, Leon- ard, of Shreveport, is also opposed to McEnery, and on the ground that the Wheeler adjustment put Kel- Jogg in by general agreement as de. Governor, It is not believed that McEnery expects to expel Kellogg. He is intriguing for the future and keeps his claims alive in the hope that his followers will make him Governor in next year’s election or United States Senator or both, and he means to break up all other combinations and defeat all other candi- dates to secure his own success, His schemes would have little importance if it did not begin to be sus- pected here that he has been shrewd enough to make alliances with some Northern democrats, whose leader is Mr. Fernando Wood, This suspicion embittere the feeling against Mr. Wood and has caused a determination among the moderate democtats to defeat, if possible, his claims to the chairmanship of the Ways and Means. Those who oppose Wood assert that he made a solfish attempt to secure himself a preponderant Southern influence by encouraging McEnery’s pretensions; that he meant to lend his own power in the Honse to give prominence to committees and otherwise to McEnery’s allies; that he forced the Louisiana question upon the House upon this general theory, and that therefore the defeat of the democrats, which still stings them, was not a mischance, but the result of a delib- erate and selfish plot of Mr. Wood to secure himself a Southern following. These matters are common sub- jects of conversation,in democratic circles, Meantime Mr. Wood's friends are not inactive, They assert his‘ claims before Speaker Kerr, and this evening there is a story that a “Round Robin” is preparing to be signed by all Mr. Wood's friends, and then to be sent tothe Speaker. This movement is caused by a report, on better than usual authority, that Mr. Cox had been decided upon by Speaker Kerr for the chairmanship of the Ways and Means) Mr. Wood’s friends, among whom are several of the older ineixbers put the case in this way. Mr. Wood has seen fourteen years’ service and is the only democrat now in the House, besides the Speaker himself, who has served on the Committee of Ways and Means. He has seen long service op that committee and has, they say, always been one of the working members and one of the most practical, At the same time his prominent standing, | as a leader of the minority, entitles him to the position, and that he also has astrong claim upon his party for the social services he has rendered it by giving tt, through his parties and receptions, the vantage ground of a social position. It seems to be agreed that in case Mr. Wood were offered socondary place he would be perfectly justified im de- clining it, and some of his friends do not hesitate to predict that he will take this course, even if he is offered the chairmanship of Foreign Affairs, There is much talk over the prospect of such a refusal on Mr. Wood’s part to serve in an inferior po®tion, and the effect it will have in promoting differences and divisions which are already too marked to bode good to the dem- ocratic side, Thus the Louisiana question has really developed here into a strife for the mastery of the House between | the moderate or progressive and the reactionary dem- ocrats. Mr, Wood appears to have mado a mistake in believing that the Southern demoeratic members would generally favor reactionary measures. The leading Southern republicans are not of this mind, as the vote on Morey’s admission showed, as also the declaration of Colonel Lamar that he did not desire to re- open the Louisiana matter, There is some reason to believe that the democrats from the cotton States will prove to be the most conservative members of thetr party in the House, and thatthe leaders in any Bourbonism will be mainly Northern men. Mr. Pinchback will probably go over until after the holidays, when there may be a struggle over him. Meantime it is possibie that the President may surprise Congress with ® message on Southern affairs, based «on recent investigations of his own, made through especial agents, some of whori | were personal friends. One of theso has lately ro- turned from Mississipp!, and those with whom he has pokenjhere say that he gives a bad account of Governor Ames, and declares that most of Ames’ partisans are shamelessly corrupt and deserved to be defeated, and | that the repuplican party cannot support such men orsucha policy as that of Governor Ames. It fg sald that the President trusts the gentleman who makes this report. If he should act in accordance with bis report he would produce a surprising effect in Mississippi, whero the honest republicans assert that, if they can only be rid of the Ames influence, they can pet on very well, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, — Wasutxetox, Deo, 14, 1875. THE WORK OF THE SESSION COMMENCED IN THE HOUSE—MR, BLAINE’S SCHOOL AMEND- MENT—EFFORTS AT TINKERING THE PRESI- DENTIAL TERM AND THE NATIONAL FINANCES, Both branches of Congress were in session to-day and presented the first semblance of hard work visible since the opening, The democratic caucus of yester- day having raised the siege upon the admission of bills ‘and resolutions a flood of both was poured into the House, Ex-Speaker Blaine was Orst to get the floor, He introduced his proposed amendment to the constitution preventing tho diver. sion of school moneys to tho suppory | of sectarian or religious schools, offering it in the shape of a joint resolution, The resolution was re- ferred to the Committee on Judiciary, aud the amend, ment to the constitution, if ratified, will be known as the sixteenth amendment The resolution will be acquiesced im by the democrats and passed. This is the party programme of the majority. Acquiescing they draw the sting of Blnine’s act and they take the wind out of Grant's sails, By acquiescence they spike the great republican gun for the Presidential campaign of 1876. That the scheme of Grant is deeper laid than the democrats fancy is more than suspected by those who aro watching the contest from an impartial | standpoint Those who think =the agita- tion about the school question ts going to die out with the adovtion of the amendment by Con- may thus be seen, When Senator Morton drafted the few lines upon which President Grant made his Des Moines speech he gave the cue to Chandler and Ed« munds for the grand plan of action which has just been sketched out The President followed up tha School question in his Message, and Blaine, in intro« ducing bis amendment to-day, which he so fondly, hoped was to pave the way for his own nomination to the Presidency, has only played into the hands of Grant and his two crafty allies, ‘The next most important feature of the day in ther House was the presentation of Randall's proposed amendment to the constitution to lengthen the term of office of President to six years and to make the incum- dent inoligible to re-election, The resolution contains a proviso that it shall not apply to the candidates at the next election or term of office of the President to be then chosen, the reason of which is quite obvious, Tho democrats are quite willing that Grant should be tho republican candidate in 1876, and by no act of theirs would they prevent him. In the flood of bills spoken of above were no less than eight to repeal the act of last January, providing for resumption of specie payments; and one only, that of Farwell, of Chicago, to facilitate that measure, There was another to equalize the boun- ties of soldiers, and a duplicate of the Sen- ate bill to substitute legal tenders for national bank notes, The democrats let themselves loose, The first squabble of the day took place when Fort, of Illinois, introduced a resolution declaring it the judgment of th House that allits subordinate offices should be filled with wounded Union soldiers, mot tncapacitated for work, in preference to all other persons, which was rejected by a strict party vote, Holman and Wood, of the democrats, keeping their seats and de- clining to vote either way. The republicang cheerfully accepted this glorious defeat, which they had of course invited, but to be even with them Sunset Cox moved an amendment that, the States being all restored to the Union, no distinction should be made as regards persons from any section thereof; and true to his reputation for making a joke on the most serious occasion, he explained thatthe amendment was of fered inthe nature of anamnesty. Both resolutions wore referred to some deadhouse of acommittee jor eternal slumber. The democrats broke ground for an investigation ¢ the President’s action in dismissing General Hender* son, of St Louis. One of the incidents of the day was the presentation by Randall, of Pennsylvania, of a peti» tion for the repeal of the stamp duty on checks, The petition was subscribed by 30,219 signa tures of persons in thirty-three States and five Terri- tories, and was a continuous patch of paper an eighth of amile jong. It was mounted on a spindle ard em closed in a large box. Mr, Wilks, of New York, introduced an importam Dill, one affecting the commercial interests of his State. It provides for the expenditure of $1,000,000, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for ‘such improvey ment of the Hartem River as shall render it navigable throughout its length, from Ward’s Island to the Hud son River, for the largest vessels, including foreign vessels, The bill was ordered to be printed and referred tq-the Committee on Commerce. It is to be hoped that the merchants and capitalists of Now York city will d¢ ‘what they can to create public opinion in favor of the bill, The total amount required is $2,200,000. THE LABOR OF YESTERDAY IN THE SENATE-* THE DEBATE ON THE LOUISIANA QUESTION. Many of the republican Senators were absent to-day, but nearly every democrat was in hischair. After several bills and petitions had been presented and re- ferred to the proper committee, the monotony of the proceedings was enlivened by a spirited debate on Me- Millan’s credentials and the Louisiana question. In spite of an apparent dislike to agitate this subject, it bas come up in both houses of Congress. The demo- crats seem to think the Kellogg government a fair target for sarcastic insinuations, and nothing pleases them more than to quote from Mr. Carpenter and other members of the Louisiana committee in support of their assertions that McEnery was really elected by a majority of tne people of his State. The debate on this question grew out of the motion made by Mr. West, of Louisiana, authorizing the withdrawal from the files of the Senate of the credentials of McMillan as Senator from that State. Senator Morton said that, so far ag | be was concerned, he was indifferent as to what was done with McMillan’s credentials, whether he was allowed or they were allowed, whether they were laid upon the table or under it, They wero asham anda fraud. According to Mr, Bayard, of Del- aware, the credentials were a part of the record of the case, He asked to whom they should be delivered it given up by the Senate. They came from one claiming to be Governor of Louisiana, They did not belong to McMillan, but to the archives of the United States Senate, He believed in his soul that McEnery was the lawful choice of the people of Louisiana and that he had been kept out of office by the usurpation of federal power under the direction of President Grant (Ap- plause in the galleries.) It was decided to allow Mc- Millan’s credentials to be withdrawn, but the repub- licans were only two in the majority, Mr. Dawes voting with the dergocrats. Tho first bill which has passed the Senate this session was carried to-day. It is the bill introduced yesterday by Mr. Edmunds to extend the duration of the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama Claims until the 22d of next July, Mr. Merrimon followed up his beginning of yesterday’ by introducing, to-day, a bill to remove all disabilities. from penstoners whom the law does not recognize be- cause of their disloyal antecedents, and, having made the way clear for them to receive a reward from the government, he to- presented a bill Fenn es sions to the surviving soldiers and sailors of the Mexi- can war and of tho war of 1812. His motives are ap- parent when it is remembered that most of those who served {n Mexico were Southerm men and recently fought under the Confederate flag. THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. Odell is favorably mentioned for the Committee on Naval affairs, The friends of Wood and Cox are press- ing them respectively for the chairmanship of Ways and Means, GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH, Wasnixatox, Dec, 14, 1875, CONFIRMATIONS BY THE SENATE. The Senate tn executive session this afternoon con: firmed the following nominations :;— Richard Gibbs, of New York, to be Envoy Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru, vice Fran- cis Thomas, resigned; Christian Wall Weber, of Iowa, to be Minister Resident to Ecuador, vice Thomas Bid~ dle, deceased; Gratiot Washburne lo be Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg; Henry Vignaud, of Louis~ jana, to be Seco Secretary of Legation at Daniel 8. Richardson, of Callfornia, to be of Legation at Mexico. Consuls—William G, Riley, of Vermont, at Zanzibar; George H. Owen, of Vermont, at Messina; Lewes Rich. mond, of Rhode Island, at Cork; Joseph Knotts, of lowa, at Chinual Volney V. Smith, of Arkansas, at St. Thomas, Charles P. Lincoln, of Mississippi, at Canton. Supervisors of Internal Revenue—Thomas J. Brady, vice 8. T. vowel: resigned; George B. Chamberha, vice P. W. Perry, resigned. of S Trow- bridge, for the First district of Michigan; Thomas 2 e Ninth district of Illinois; Charles B Kenney, for Pottenglll, for the Eighteenth district of Ohio; W. & Holden, for u los M. Sixth district of Reareety) Charles , for the Nitfeteenth district of Peunsyivanias Andrew Clark, for the Second district of Georgia; J. H. Sturgeon, for the First district of Missouri; Robert T. Van Horn, Sixth Missouri; William F. Green, Sixth Tennessee; Elisha H. Rhodes, for Rhode Island. Collectors of Customs—Wilham F. White, Si. Marks, Fin; F, B, Grossman, Fernandina, Fla; Moses Lowell, Saco, Me.; W. ©, Marshall, Belfast, Mo.; Elias Root Oawava N.Y; A. 3. Dewolé Bristol RK