Show by tele telegraph graph AMERICAN washington 27 official returns made to the tho bureau reau of statistics show that during luring the fiscal year ending june 30 jo SO 30 1876 there arrived in the united states chinese immigrants of whom only were females during the corresponding period of 1875 ista ile lle the total immigration to the vi United lUni ted states from china was of whom eight eighty C etwo two were females fi Jg luford wilson late solicitor of the treasury appeared today to day before the house committee on whiskey trials in st louis and gave in detail his knowledge in regard to the late whiskey prosecutions in the west and particularly in regard to the connection of general babcock with them he related with great minuteness various conversations which he had with general horace porter bristow pierrepont and finally with the president himself on the subject it ift seems that a letter of his to the prosecuting officer in st louis in i n citing him to the greatest activity in bringing to justice everybody from the lowest to the highest engaged in the conspiracy was obtained by babcock Babco babeo ek and falsified by interpolating the letters so as to make mali it intimate his belief in the participation of the white house in the conspiracy this letter thus falsified was exhibited to bristow pierrepont and also to the Pr Adent and although the press copy cops of it in wilsons Wil sons letter book was produced to prove the forgery he seems to have been unable to shield himself from the charge of having employed spies even against the president wilson said that there was no lack of operation cooperation co on the part of the president in the whiskey cases generally until babcock became involved involved when a coolness between the white house and the treasury department arose he also testified that in conversation with general horace porter soon after the discovery that the sylph telegram was in babcocki Bab cocks hand writing porter gave an explanation of the dispatch to the effect that it related to the movements of certain parties ging going to st sll louis on bridge business andraid and baid said the signature Big nature arose in this way there was a certain woman who had given the president much trouble babcock and mcdonald being together anwash in washington one ona day saw her and ric rie mc donald recognizing her exclaimed there is sylph babcock said do you know that woman mcdonald replied 1 I know her very well then said saia babeo ek 1 I wish you would get her away from herol here she Is annoying the president certainly said McDon mcdonald did ild that is easy I 1 can manage her and he did so tha the term sylph became a sort sod of standing joko joke between babcock and mcdonald and they then addressed each other and and signed their communications in that way when charged with having set spies on the president wilson in self defence told the president of his suspicions of babcock and related the explanation of the sylph given by porter the president indignantly denied the story brushed away with a contemptuous proceeded with his remarks on the subject of the fraud saying that lie he believed that babcock was innocent but that if guilty ho he was the most guilty wretch in in the country and that no punishment could be too severe for him when whon he first heard this story from porter ho he believed it to be false and he be still believed so he will bj ba further examined tomorrow to morrow NEW KEW YORK 28 the past week wees deaths occurred in brooklyn being less than during the previous week the births during the same period we were re philadelphia 28 there has been some apprehension here re garding the action of congress in deciding that the articles on ee exhibition hibi tion at the centennial expos espos tion might be sold and removed from the ground at anytime it was felt that it mio might t and probably would result in the the serious deterioration lo of the exhibition today to day however lio iio wever the customs authorities of the exhibition gave an explanation that it is only duplicates of exhibited articles that are permitted to be taken away CHICAGO 28 the E evening Telegraph telegraphs 8 washington special says it is believed at army headquarters that the forces of crook and gibbon are not over eighty miles apart and can readily be brought within supporting distance crook feels that he is going to havo have hard fighting but intends to mako make it decisive it is said that there are at least warriors in the field under sitting bull it is feared that the sioux may have received accessions from the sioux in ln the british provinces which might swell the hostile forces to the sioux if driven to the wall by the troops will go north and take refuge in the british possessions washington 28 the civil ler vice committee to whom was referred the charges against representative purman parman report that no bribes were received by purman for appointments and that the evidence wholly fails falls to establish the sale of federal offices william H corbusier of california has been appointed assistant surgeon burgeon in the army SAN BAN FRANCISCO 28 among the passengers by the city of san pran fran dmeo GISCO are the tho few New south wales of capt J mcgarvie smith and 1 H maddock of the first regiment of rifles and D gee A lynch and J J slade biado queensland during the passage of the immigrant ship windsor castle from london the tho starboard watch showed signs of mutinous conduct by forcibly rescuing a sailor from irons the captain obtained the assistance of fifty immigrants and arming some headed by the mates males demanded possession of the prisoner oner which was granted during the melee two of the mates and the tho carpenter were wounded philadelphia 2 28 wool colorado washed 18 ao 20 di unwashed 14 0 16 extra and merino pulled 25 6 30 no I 1 and super pulled 25 D 30 california and medium IS 18 0 22 coarse 14 E 18 this lils llis afternoon a prize fight came off at Penns pennsville ville N J twenty eight miles from this city principals P 1 s john keenan and james collius 21 1 i both of this city ninety four rounds were fought occupying ono hour and thirty eight minutes both men were very badly cut over keenan was declared the victor actor collins colling failing falling to ito put in an appearance on the nin ninety ety fifth round about a hundred people mostly from thia city witnessed the fight NEW york 28 A terrible panic occurred on the steamer sunshine one of the many excursion boats running to rockaway beach and coney island late this afternoon the engineer left his post for a few minutes when a small hole was blown in her boiler several persons were slightly scalded by the escaping steam which enveloped the boat so that that objects two feet away were invisible the wildest w scene of confusion followed J women fainting men crying fire and the boat nearly sank by the passengers collecting aft the steamer at last was towed to coney island where the engineer narrowly escaped lynching lunching lyn ching for deserting his post the tribunes washington special says the testimony given by wilson today to day before the committee would have caused a marked sensation in the capitol had it not been given in a comparatively private meeting of the committee 3 so that its character was not generally known at the capitol before the adjournment of congress this evening it is almost the exclusive subject of discussion about the hotels and other public places criticisms on the president for the indefensible course which ho he ha has pursued not only during the progress of the babcock trial but subsequently after the conius conclusion lon ion of evidence of the connection of babcock and porter with the notorious us black friday conspiracy was placed in his possession havo have not been indulged in by political opponents alone this story told in detail in the regular dispatches has rarely been equalled equal led in the annals of official crime and disgrace C while major wilson imputed to the president no dishonest nor dishonorable motive ills his testimony and the documentary evl evi evidence derce by which it was supported pro 1 d I conclusive y what had been wo rno 0 than suspected that the president was directly and personally engaged in throwing obstacles in ih tho the way of the prosecution and in flie his zeal to savo save gen babcock had mado made the condition of others more difficult and doubtful the president himself is responsible for the famous circular letter to the district attorney notwithstanding Pierre ponts ponta assumption of it the effect of which letter was to dis courage witness before it was the president who complained to solicitor wilson of accomplices and witnesses against their co conspire acors although at this time only one man had been allowed to turn states evidence an and d this was not in a ease case in which babcock was involved the testimony also showed that the president sent for solicitor Wil wll obtained from him hlin important information of the character of the evidence against babcock which he communicated to babcock on the same day that babcock afterwards said to wilson in effect that whatever was communicated munica ted to the president in regard to him was the same as though communicated to him but the most startling disclosure was that concerning babcocki Bab cocks connection with the blaek black friday conspiracy only a vague hint of which had previously found its ity way to the public on this branch of the subject wilson testified as he had throughout the whole in i investigation on only to his personal knowledge go should bristow feel at liberty to go upon the stand and to teil tell tell teli what took place between him and the president when this disclosure was made much more that is interesting and sensational would be added to the disgraceful story the president was fully apprised of babcocki Bab cocks betrayal by his confidence of his connect connection ion ioa with the black friday conspiracy of the means which babcock resisted to shield himself from criminal proceeding in civil courts by securing securing the appointment of a military court of inquiry and the detail of asa bird gardner whom he had made his trustee and who was therefore bound to shield him as judge advocate of the court after he knew all this and after he became convinced that he could not retain babcock as his private secretary without baingi bringing ng scandal and disgrace upon himself he not only allowed him to retain the office of commissioner of public buildings and grounds but also to retain nia hia position in the army while the president had implicit confidence in Bab cocks coaks ba innocence of the crime of vhf which h he was accused and aud believed him to be an upright t and honorable man his defence fince of him though a was S to bay say ay the least excusable 0 baut U t when en he learned Bab cocks cocka true character grant not only became personally responsible to a certain degree for the rascality of his private secretary by allowing 1 him in to remain in places of honor anel and trust under the government but he actually insulted the senate of the U S by sending babcock with a message to that body washington WAS HINGTON 28 before the committee on the whiskey frauds today to day the examination of blufard wilson ilson lison was continued in con lection with mith the statement in his pevi previous testimony of gen porters explanations of the term sylph wilson having refreshed his memory by reference to a letter from a friend in new york testified to the annoyance which it was said the woman sylph gave the president by her efforts to blackmail him in st louis Q 2 by cochrane Coch coeh rano chairman of the sub committee you said in your examination yesterday that from the time of the discovery of the tho sylph dispatch implicating gen babcock in the whisk whiskey ey frauds or tending eo so to implicate him the tho president did not show the same sympathy for the secretary of the treasury or yourself that he kad had previously shown please state any act or acts of the president from that time forward indicating that ho lie was not nut in sympathy with these whiskey prosecutions 11 r 1 A 4 te before foli I 1 proceed to answer that question I 1 wish to make an addition to my testimony of yesterday in reference to the contents of the barnard letter on which the president deni denh mado made the well known endorsement let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided Elther either an ju the body of that I 1 etter letter or in ii an u accompanying document there wasa was a statement from emory S hosten poster of st louis to the effect that the president was himself charged with being a party to th the unlawful combination in that city elty to defraud the of its revenues awant I 1 want that fact tobe to be noted because I 1 have no doubt that the president made his endorsement as much with reference to that fact and that allegation as with reference to the allegations that babcock was a party and that jim casey easey Jas eythe the presidents brother inlaw in law was openly asserting that the secretary of bf the treasury would not hold bold his office for thirty days another point was asked yesterday whether the president consented willingly to the publication of the endorsement on the barnard letter which has been often referred to by reference to a letter addressed to me by gen bristow under date of august vb written in the treasury department I 1 find that the secretary of the treasury had addressed an official communication to the president asking him for permission to publish that endorsement and on that date august ath he had received no reply eor por the purpose of fixing the date when the sylph telegram was discovered I 1 refer to a letter of gen bristow to rewritten me written from new york august 9 and which I 1 have no objection to make part of the record it is as follows new yorki york au aug 11 8 ista 1875 my dear wilson your letter of yesterday with the enclosure glo gio glasure sure is received the tile time is is very near at hand when I 1 must make a square issue with A the thieves and scoundrels who have combined to destroy me I 1 must be supported cordially and earnestly or I 1 must break I 1 fear the complications are such that the former cant be done and the latter must you cant be too careful about talking to anybody I 1 have heard here that the matter about the sylph dispatch and our having in seen it in connection with pierrepont Ire lre pont is fully known to P and B meaning porter and babcock and they are greatly disturbed do not suffer yourself to talk with anybody about it of course this is not meant for censure but caution I 1 suppose I 1 must make up my mind to bear the abuse of the ring papers hard as it is to do they are fighting to keep their friends out of prison and to save themselves from exposure and of murse course they will seek to destroy anybody who stands in ht their way well as for myself fi cannot turn baek bauk nor will I 1 stop to parley with thieves I 1 have no ambition to serve and no purpose to accomplish buethe but the enforcement of the jaw lavor and an honest collection of the tho revenue I 1 will compromise on nothing short of this but on this issum I 1 am ready to be sacrificed any day PS ask webster to aril write to the president fully his views about the chicago custom house and the whiskey whisk eyring ring he has great confidence in webster and it is going to require the utmost watchfulness of his real friends to prevent his being misled by men who profess friendship for him but who are j acting treacherously tell webster to write strongly and give him the plain truth and mark his letter confidential cen B H B now in response to the question of the chairman cb ardlan arDian I 1 may say that the secretary of the tho treasury and myself having been ordered by the president to see that no guilty man should escape |