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Show The I'resitR'UtniHl Ilrislow. New York, 11. The lhrahV Washington special says: The president presi-dent is profoundly convinced that he was the victim of treachery in his cabinet. He is persuaded that Bris-tow, Bris-tow, while procuring tho punishment of the western whisky thieves, in which it is asserted ho had always the countenance of hia chief, used his op-poi op-poi tunity to c;is( dangerous and unjust suspicions upon the motives and course of the president; that whileoue eye of Bristuw rus fixed upon the put lie service tho other was fixed upon the president. Tho charges against Briatow are that he filled the offices with devoted personal followers follow-ers to advance hia personal lortunesa'. Grant's expense. Grant's friends say that Bristuw'q reputa:iun with the public is undeserved; that he is a person per-son of no ability and ignorant of public affairs, being merely a good detective ollieer and a man of unscrupulous unscru-pulous personal ambition, which lie attempted to gratify by basely allowing his folio ivers to attack tho admin iet ration mid the character and fair tame of his chief, who raised him out of obscurity and whom lie ought to have sheltered against attacks. |
