After reading the 46th and 47th numbers of the Freeman's Journal, loaned to him by Patrick Quigley, he has decided, with four other democrats to subscribe to the weekly. The others are General William w. Smith, John Hoey, John Fortune, and John Thompson. He has long intended reading the Journal but has been prevented doing so from monetary losses suffered during his imprisonment at Fort La Fayette, at which time abolitionists and anti-Catholics tried to ruin him financially, politically, and socially. William H. Seward knew that Jones was a strong Union man from his correspondence with the State Department and that even in his letters to Jefferson Davis he opposed secession and told Davis that if he would stay in the Union that Jones and other Northern democrats would fight to protect the people of the South in their rights. But Seward told a Major General in the U.S. Army, soon after Jones' imprisonment, that it was necessary to punish him as an example to his two sons who had gone South to join Davis, although only one had gone and he without the knowledge of Jones, his wife, or other children. Jones has authorized S.L.M. Barton and E.R. Meade as his attorneys to bring suit against Seward for false arrest, but no suit has yet been started. He told Barton and Meade to seek advice, but has not learned whether they have spoken to anyone yet. He wrote to John Van Buren, but that Man's late war speeches, with those of Brady, have sickened Jones of them. He was told that suit could be started by attaching Seward's property. Does McMaster intend to bring suit for his own imprisonment? He writes to McMaster because of their old acquaintance through several meetings in New York and Washington, and having suffered like McMaster, Dr. Guinn, Staunton, Faulkner, Lanona and others have done from the acts of the tyrants in Washington he feels an attachment to anyone who has been similarly situated. If it wasn't for the timidity or corruption, ignorance, or all three of such men as Stephen Douglas, Andy Johnson, Meigher, Corcoran, Lincoln would never have been able to raise his 75,000 volunteers to invade sovereign states. Douglas alone could have smothered such an attempt and Lincoln's other efforts at the establishment of a stratocracy at Washington to which the late conscription act is the final stroke. The people may bow their heads in submission now, but not much longer. McMaster's efforts to oppose their schemes will be crowned with success and his work will be praised in future generations, if not now. He said McMaster's advice as to his suit and if he knows Barton and Meade, he may talk to them and to D.A. Mahony of Dubuque, who is now in New York. ` P.S. He repeats the names of the other subscribers to the Journal. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.