sIi.. Ias-tanl to the Presid eat.

 Washington, June q, 1881.

Thc President of the G7nited .stateS::
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 Tie President ef the United stotes:

 SIR: Before leave the city, f seems to be due to the government that should perform painful duty, imposed upon me by the events of the last forty-eight hours. t is nst necessary for me now to detail the circumstances which have convinced nne of the existence of yinslic- tive personal hostility to me among some of the officers of the Government near your person, and supposedeto be in your special confidence, which has been partic uiaflydevclopedwitfi last two weeks, and has finally displayed itself in anattemptto way-lay me, on my way to the office yesterday, as ] have reason to believe, for the purpose of assassina- ton. If you have not already been ap- prised of these movements, you lnty per haps be surprised to learn that tic per sohs concerned in them are Inc late Sc eretary of War and the Acting Seere- tary of War; and that the Second Au- ditor Of the Treasury, Register of the Treasury, ,andthe T feasurer Of tle Unit ed States, were in their company; and that the Treasurel's and Registers rooms, in the lower part tic building Of the Treasury Department, and also grocerv ssere hetNe c. =fs1y It'd gisseess and the office, were alternately occuPi as their rendezvous while lying in wait: the former atIordrg l.1c best apPortuni- ty for observing my approach. Anpris- ed Of these ssnoYenents on my return from taking leave of some of my friends. Hound my self obliged 10 arm, and, ae- conianicd by my son 7fa some ether friends, ! repaired to the elicc, 10 finish the business of the day after which l returned to my lodgings in the same eompang. It is proper 10 state, that the principal peasons who lad been thus employed for several hoHrs, retired from the Department soon after lesntered my room. and that l received no mofesta- ton from them either at my ingress or egress. But, having recruited an addi- tional force in the evening, they paraded until a late hour on the strcetsnear my Lodgings, heavily armed, threatening an assault on the dwelling l reside in.

 l do not present these facts to your notice for the purpose~of invoking our protection. So far as an individual may rely on his own personal efforts, l am willing to meet this peril: and against an assault by numbers, I have found an ample assurance of protection, in the generous tender of personalservice from the citizens of Washington. But they arc communicated to you as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, and most especially ilie District of Coium- bia, whose duties in maintaining eood order among it's inhabitants, ,and protect ing the officers of the government in the discharge of their duties, cannot be un- known to you.

 have only to add that, so far as am informed, all thepersons engaged ii giving eeuntenance to this business. are oilicerssof the Government, except the late Secretary of War.

 have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,

 s D INGHAM.

 