THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 605, 27 May 1876, Page 3

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The following special despatch appears in the New York World, in which it is alleged that the President would be implicated in the sale of post traderships “ Washington, March 14—A letter has been received by the committee on expenditure in the War department, from a reliable quarter in every respect, stating that the President was fully cognisant of the circumstances attending the disposal of the post traderships and the post sutlerships on the Upper Missouri River. He gave the names of persons who can fully prove his assertions i The letter states that A, L, Bonnafon, of Philadelphia, being apprised by Orville Grant of the President’s action, informed Harmon, pos trader at Fort Rece, that the President had ordered all bid licenses to be cancelled. By

this information Joe Leighton, post trader at Fort Peck, secured the right to retain three posts—viz, Fort Peck, Belknap, and Furney —from Orville Grant, he being obliged to pay to Bonnafon and Grant 800 dels for each post p r month. A telegram from Orville Grant to Ex'Secretary Delano, concerning the removal of Ramond’s license as v.osfc trader, is now in the possession of J. (V Ramond, -c Bismarck, Enclosed with the communication is a letter dated November 27th, 1874, from Orville Grant to Wm Harmon, complaining that a Mrs Gilpin had opened a stock of goods and began to sell them at Standing Rock. ‘This,’ Orville writes, ‘is contrary to all agreements, as you told me if I bought your goods Mrs Gal pin would not open, and that we would not have any competition. How is this, with competition, there is no money to anyone?”’ The com mittec on expenditure m the War Department has sent a letter to the President, requesting of him certified copies of all orders issued by the Executive since March 4 h, 1869, relating to the extension of certa n Indian reservations, with special referen e to that of Standing Rock agency. President Grant is much indisposed, and receives no visitors; his illness creates considerable anxiety at the present moment, in the midst of so many political troubles.