Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 March 1876 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRRK HAUTE, TMARCH 4, 1870.

TWO EDITIONS

O: t»in Paper are published. Tbe FIRST EDITION, ou Friday Evening has a large droalatlon In the surrounding r^towM, where it is told by newsboy* and agent*. The SECOND EDITION, on HatarOay Evening, goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city, anil the farm ers of this Immediate vicinity.

JCrery Week's Issue Is, lu fact, two newspapers, In which all Advertisement* appear for

OWE CHARGE.

TUB Carllst war in Spain has finally •'patered out."

Sknator Sharon, of Nevada, was sworn in on Monday.

Arrangements arc being made to bring Colorado into the Union a*i a State.

It is sold that Tennyson'S "(}u&jn "Mary" has proved a complete failure asj drama.

A mix has been introduood in the House declaring the Black Hills ojen to a jttlemont.

The treasurer of the Centennial fond for Indiana reports a balance on hand of about H,000.

Wapdkll wanta the franking privilege restored and has introduced a bill in the illooso to thnt effect.

Mr. Charlks O'Connor did got well after all. He mado public spoech

NEW York last week.

Therk is little doubt now that Governor Hondricka will be tho Democratic nomineo for tbe Presidency.

WK judge from occasional references to it In the Indianapolis Journal, that Indianapolis wants a coal road.

Thkrk is only one German in Congress, Gustuve Schleicher, of Texas. How lonesome Schleicher must feel.

It. G. Hamino, banker, of Kfttngham, Illinois, failed Saturday. Indianapolis Toal estate is said to have floored lnm.

Thk Indianapolis Turnvereiu will memorialize the School Board to introduoe gymnastic exorcises into the public schools. __________

It is a singular fact that in tho hundrod years of our National existence 110 member of the Senate has over been •electod President.

Thequestion as to who is Mnj*or of St. Louis has at last locn settled. Mr. Britton surrendered tbe ofllc© Monday to Mr. Overstolti

Hon. WillCumiiack's lecture is entitled "Tho Invisible Some People," but 1*, more properly speaking "a drive at oommutiity gowip."

Minihter ScnENcK is on his way home from England to appear before the investigating committee in regard to^his connection with the Emma mine. 1

A Maryland editor says: "We black our boots with 15,000,000 boxes of domestic blacking a year." Wbat fearful boots that editor must have, to be sure. ,,

THK Senate Committee on Retrenchment and Civil Service Reform (oh, bosk!) have agreed upon a bill to reduce the salary of the President tp $25,000 a year. \V 11 kn the cat's away tho mice will play.n Speaker Kerr not being In tho chair Saturday, Mr. Lander* took advantage of the opportunity and got in bis currency speech.

Thk Scientific Amctican advocates auothor neglected industry—mushroom raising. Evory variety of the toothsome fungus can be raised in our climate with very little care.

Thk State of Maine has just abolished capital punishment, and Iowa after a few years of abolition, has restored and extended it, by making not only murder but rape punishable by death.

I THK Vinceunos Sun foots up the result* of Dr. Munbull's work In that city with the following accessions to the cburche» nailed: Methodist, ICS Baptist, 38 Christian, SO Presbyterian, 67: total, 202.

Sksator Mortox Is

thought to be the

necond choice of a larger number of Republicans than any other candidate mentioned for tbe Presidency, and this counted on by his friends to give him th«

nomination. Blow, solid, stcpld old Porkopolls went cr**y, Tuesday, over the Mardi Grai fooltshnces. \Vho would bare believed it of her? This much, however, «an be said In her "fcror she mw 4ioes anything by halves—or^tQ^BialrJng a fool

0^**251|^^mbbh*

Tn papers have referred to tbe storm last Sunday by about all tbe names known to wHiff* ecieuoe. II baa ben a tempest, a Mom, a wind storm, a whirlwind, a blast, a norther, a tornado, a hatrrteano, a eyetoa*a*4 evotjthlaa oiseihM'a mean. msmmmmmrnmmmmm

PuiAKci Atu wwrrka ttw po^Nntenal Democrat*. H*y are unable to agree any policy, and every Monday (nwtatksa day) Morrtoon has to fewo an adjournment to prevoqjl eome laSattooW from kioklng out of tbo party tracoa and forcing the House to a vote on tbe jag-

A National convention of colored men roeeta at Nashvillo on tho 5th of MBffc, to consider the interests of the rsoe in politic*

Joan W. BINGHAM having entered a plea of guilty to a crooked whisky indictment in the court at St. tools, before entering a plea in Indianapolis, Judge Gresham lias decided that undor tbe rules governing tbe judiciary, the St. Louis court is entitled to the first turn at him in determining his punishment. =sea

Thh Mary Bell, tho largest river steamboat in tho world, was destroyed by tire, Sunday afternoon, at Vicksburg. She was lying at tht» landing taking on cotton when the ilre was discovered.

much

Her entire cargo, consisting

of over six

thousand bales

of cotton

and

other valuable freight,

as WOLL as

all the passengers' baggage was lost. She was on her way to New Orleans and had on board over

two hundred

Mardi Gras excursionists. No lives wero lost and nobody injured.

TnE Bessie Turner now going around the country telling "The Reason

Why"

is not, it appoars, tho real Bessie Turner. Tho sham Bessie lectured in Cincinnati Sunday night, and tho Commercial describes her as about thirty-six years of age, tall and plump, weighing about one hundred and eighty pounds, with darkbair and eyes, a double chin, largo mouth, rather pleasant expression, pleasant delivery but not enough strength of voico.

things of tho slashing, audacious sort, ho hasn't, perhaps,

I11 the name of twenty thousand colored voters of Indiana, I protest ajialnst the nomination of that man."

was ASKED to give his

reasons for

the objections, when he stated in substance that when Branham was a member of tho Legislature, and it was proposed to make one of his race, Mr. Hinton, Canal Commissioner, Mr. Branham objected and left the State House, so incensed was ho that a colored man had received an honorable position—A crumb that had fallen from the Republican table. The colored people would have nothing to do with David C. Branham, "and all the people said amen," and David was permitted

to retire to

privato life. :jS

It will bo In tho nature of a surprise to many to find that the greenback dollar will at present purchase more gold than will the silver coin of likj denomination, but such seems actually to be the case. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Commercial soys that "Mr. Kelly has prepared a statement basod upon a calculation made by a Congressman from tho Pacific

Ctoast, which

brief is in these words: 'With gold at 11 1 the greenback dollar is worth eightyseven and seven-tenths cents, with silver at 11C per ouncc of fine in gold coin, tho silver dollar, containing 347 and 22100 grains of fine silver is worth in gold coin eighty-four and threo-tcnths cents. Consequently tho greenback dollar is worth three and feur-tenths cents more than tho siver dollar, consisting

of two

half dollars, four quarters, five twenty cent pieces or ten dimes." This stato of affairs seems

havo Leen brought

about by the constantly Increasing production of silver and the discontinuance by innet of tho commercial nations, of its use hs money in sums greater than Ihe equivalent of ton American dolUrs.

Tin Louisiana Legislature on Monday, by a vote of CI to 45, adopted resolutions impeaching Governor Kellogg of "high crimes an dmisdemeanors." The Senate fonned itself into a court of impeachment and at 7 o'clock in the evening acquitted the Governor of the high crimes and misdemeanor" by a vote of 25 to 9. Governor Kellogg telegraphed to Washington urging that tho President be requested to sustain him, hut Grant declined to interfere. It Is Mid to be the purpose of the members of tbe Louisiana House to oust Kellogg, (ken to Impeach, and thereby depose, I Iraltir-* Governor Antoine, who would succeed to the office of Governor, wfcaaoupon the speaker of tho House wm beoome Governor, The Legislature wotoid then adjourn aiae toffrtag tho Democrats In poMtfon of tho State Go 1 si Wnl until after tho Mil aioetton, at which a BOW Ocwnof and o*er State oAoezs are to bo elected. Unq—ItonahlyIt la pnoty apolitical •tore In which Mlthsr tho bwftnoM ma of New Orieane nor the Slate at Iwgatafco aaystoek aadK Is a ttooo•niyttfas that tho Men la It ooolda* bo aha! op in tho jwiltsntlary or some other oseure plaee until after the Presidential election Is over. "V rt

ANYBODY who has careftilty read the able financial articles of home manufcoture that have from time to time appeared in Terre Haate newspapeia, or listened attentively to the easy solutions of the whole dlfflculty aa explained by various local financiers of communicative proclivities, In private conversation, must feel profound adrrow for those benighted onea who do not enjoy like privileges. .Anybody who cannot comprehend tbe whole science of national finance Is really to be pitied.

And there are such

of them—and see

can so

Her lecture is about

Honesty, which, under tho circumstances, seems rather an inappropriate subject.

MI'rat Uai-shcao, chiof editor, proprietor, and controlling spirit of tho Cincinnati Commercial, is REGARDED as one of the foremost nowspapor men in the country. As a writer of red hot editorials,

stinging

A superior in the

west. HiK remarkably vigorous manner of sailing into everything and everybody with which or with whom I10 doesn't agree, has mado him and his style

familiar

to a.L. Tho Mail

pleasure, in this issue,

has tho

of introducing

him to its readers in a new role— as a writer of fiction. On the second page will bo found A western sketch, or short story, entitled "Tho

perusal.

Black Wafer,"

Murat Halstead. It

will

repay

a op refill

Tub Indianapolis People speaking'of tho late Republican State Convention, tolls that when the name of David C. Branhaui was mentioned for Governor, Mr. McCary, a very intelligent colored delegate from the Fourth Ward, Indianapolis, arose and said:

people—thousands

how they are groping

in the dark. A proposition has been submitted to the Government, and also sent to Mr. Cox, and by him laid before tho Committoeon Banking and Currency, of which he is chairman, that the Government appoint a committee of scientific experts to ascertain: Urst, whether men of science themselves can agree as to whether thero is,or

not, at

present extant, sych a truthful, systematic, exact, and logical conception of the foots, laws and nature of the subject of money or currency as

to constitute

scienco of money and

the

second,

if they

agree and if (1) there is such a

science now known, then to agree upon and to make, IF possible, a concise and intelligible restatoment of the same and if (2) there is not such a scienco known, then to evolve, discover, or creato, if possiblo, such a science, and to stato it in tho most intelligiblo form upon which they can agree. Now all those people really need is to subscribe for and attentively road our Terro Haute newspapers. Of course it would be great additional advantage If they would come out here and spend a few weeks in familiar intercourse with our able financiers, but that not boing practicable, rending tho papers will answer.

Tiie

paragraphs, and other

accounts of tho terrific storm

which sot in Sunday evening show it not only to havo been of unusual vio-, lencebutof WIDE area. Tho destruction of property and injury to individuals seem to havo been the greatest at Princeton, Indiana, and St. Charles, Missouri. At tbe former place almost fifty houses wero totally demolished and oight persons seriocisly injured at tho latter, two persons wero killed and three or four badly huit,and twenty or more buildings blown down. Jmmonsc damage was done in Henderson and Christian counties, Kentucky, and disasters of different degree are reported in a number of other places. Tho noise produced by the tornado is described as having been terrific, the popular description being that it resembled multitude of railroad trains passing at full speed ovor a long enclosed bridge. It only lasted 0110 or two minutes but its furv was enough to appall the stoutest heart. The damage to property in the towns of Princeton and St. Charles will not in cither place fall short of $100,000 and it is estimated that this will not represent a tenth part of that throughout tho country. Tho storm traveled in a northoasterly direction.

The following is given by the agent of the

Associated

Press at Washington as

the origin of the Belknap investigation While in search for a bouse for his family, in December, Hon. B. B. Lewis, of Alabama, was referred to O. O. Armis, a real estate agent in this city. During a search for a house Mr. Armis, in conversation, stated to Mr. Lewis, that ho had formerly belonged to the army, but was dismissed through the enmity of Belknap that if he bad the assistance of*a member of Congress be could in sixty days, develop facts that would force

Belknap to resign. Lewis tendered his assistance, and they subsequently had several interviews. Lowis being impressed, sought tho advice of Kandall who advised that the facts be brought before Clymer, chairman of the Committoe.on Expenditures in tho War Department. Lewis and Armis gave Clymer a list of witnesses, including Marsh. Afterwards Clvmor thought Armis was aetirg in bad faltb, as the Secretary said Armis had proposed, if he

was restored

had furnished the names of witnesses, that they BA called and examined,which wan done."

Tjtk New York Sfln recommends, as a real measure of resumption, the re-en-actmeut of tho law of February 25,1802, with two modifications. This Is tho law: J.

Any holders of

tTnlfed Slates

wofes

depositing any sum of not 1cm than ?50, or some imilltplo of $30, with tho Treasurer of tho United States, or cither of tbe Assistant

Tieasurers,

Khali receive

in exchange thercfyr duplicate certificates of deposit, one of which may be transmitted to tho socretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon Ifsue TO the holcfer an equal amount of bonds

tho ITulted States, coupon or registered, as MAV by said holder be desired, bearing Interest at tho rate of six per centum payable seinl-annually, and redeemable at the ploasuro of the United

States af

ter five years, and payable twenty

years

after the date thereof, And tbe Sun defines the two modifications as follows:

One of these is the reduction of the rate of Interest to four per cent, instead of six. and the other is to make tbe bond run thirty or forty years, Instead of making it a five-twenty."

Tax Cincinnati Times has this to say of tbe World's "Political Horoocope Tbe Hew York World's figure-mail, who. four years ago, so repeatedly and so brilliantly elected Mr. Greeley, has emerged from his retirement, and again frolics amid tho mysteries of tbe electoral vote. We print his calculations elsewhere. Tbejr are easy reading. One does not need to have a table of logarithms Oy Mn side to study them. Their simplicity Is their stioaigth. He redness tho whole problem to the carrying of 46 electoral votes, Then be wins tbeaa by two or three strokes of the pen. Ine ease with which the World carries elections in advance, Is only equaled by the grsoe with waieh It explains. suowquently, why It did not carry them.**

WHAT man will be inaugurated Prwident one year from to-day

LEVI P. Lucunr has resigned aa Private Secretary of the Preaident.

TRYINO times for tbe B's—Bcocher, Bo wen, Bingham, Babcock, Belknap.

The Belkdap sensation has laid the Schenck business entirely in the shade.

TNH Belknap affair is the most startling sensation the country has bad for somp tiinb. _________

General Bauoock, very sensibly, declined serenade tendered him by faithful but indiscreet Washington friends.

This is an unfortunate year to Invite tho mother country to come over to celebrate her offspring's centennial birth.

Wkkntunu matches are comln into favor. They are certainly a great improvement over tbe brutal prize fight so popular a few years ago.

The President has appointed Secretary Robeson acting Secretary of War. It is reported from Washington that the place will be tendered

Hon. John C.

New. MinisterSchenck mailed his resignation from London, February 10th, and the document IS daily oxpected Ly tho Stato Department,

says

special of March 1st.

a Washington

It is rumored that Minister Cusbing is about to return from Spain to devote himself to his private business, which has become very much complicated by tbe death T»f hfs brothor.

Talk about high water! A Vienna dispatch reports that fifty-fivo Hungarian villages, near tho border, are entirely submerged, the water over some of them being nineteen feet deep.

The women of New York are going amongemployers and inducing t! era to "pay off" on Mondays instead of Saturdays, in order to lessen tho

Saturday

night and Sunday dissipation.

The Indianapolis Journal predicts that tho not result of tho Emma mine investigation will bo tho proof that Trcnor J. Park and James E. Lyon aro two of tho most colossal scoundrels unhung.'

It is said that Don Carlos owes $5,000,000 in England, and bis projected visit to that country is to settle with his creditors. He has amplo means, having inherited ?40,000,000 from the Duke of Modena. ________

Thk evidence of Belknap's guilt seems undeniable. It is a caso of such downright dishonesty anil official corruption as fills the breast, of every American citizen with feelings

of indignation

Tho revelation

to tho army and certain

other conditions complied with, he would drop tbe matter. Lowis said if Armis was seeking only to levy blackmail, of course they would have nothing to do with

it but

advised,

Armis

and.

shame. __________ John J. Burnett, contractor for the crection of the State Centennial building at Philadelphia, writes that it is nearly completed and will be entirely so in a week's timo. The cost is to bo about seven thousand dollars.

Thu Belknap investigation had been in progress several days?, but had been conducted with so much secrecy that very F&W persons outside

tee bad any idea

the commit

what was goiug on.

was a torrible shock to

tbe country. •,

"If," says a writer in tho New York World, "when you were a boy,youover carried tho family saw to the locksmith's to have it filed and set and waited until the job was dono, you mny havo some conception of a spoeeh by Congressman Holman, ot Indiana."

Twkxty-kivk per cent, reduction

regular rates is tbe best that has so WR ljoon offered in tho way of transportation to and from tho Centennial. The popular impression is that thatwout do. We know plenty of people who will walk before they will pay more than half-faro.

Thk penalty imposed by the statutes, should Belknap be tried

by a criminal

court, is a fine equal to five times the amount of, feloniously accoptod money and imprisonment for threo years. This is more severe than any sentence which oan be imposed by A high court of iuipcachmont.

Thh "Jubilee Hintrors" NR^ NOLV IN England, and aro immensely popular. Mr.Gladstone invitpd them

take

tea

with hiui ono evening and treated them with grent consideration. He was much pleased with their ilnging of John Brown and declared -that there was "real inspiration in tho song."

Oxb of the most interesting features oftbe Centennial exhibition will be the collection of American newspapers. At present, including The Saturday Evening Mail, there are 7fi70 periodicals published in this country, and visitors who ait down and undertake to read them all through, will get their money's worth, if they do not die of indigestion before concluding their labors.

TUB editor of the St. Louis GSloboDomoerat knows how It Is himself, and tills is what bo says of the round-dances and their votaries: "The young men of modern society havo got in a free-and-easy way of conducting themselves in a ball-room. They do not go to a dnoee to contract the habit of easy, gentlemanly deportment, whleh la ssaeh tlaUy one of the most important phaasa oftbeiocrsation tbey go to bug tbe

WORTHY OF WMTTIE1L (lad. HctmM.] Mrs. Hettio A. Morrison, of tlilW dty, baft a beantiftil poem In the last edition ot the Terro Bsnto Ma'L

of Whltttor.

N worthy

THB specific charges against Secretary Belknap, of the War Department, are that through an arrangement made by hie former wife, he haa for three or four years psst been receiving several thousand dollars a year from a man named Marsh, for appointing the latter to tbe position of post trader at Fort Sill, Marsh himself farming out the position to a man named Evans for a bonus of 012,000 a year, half of whioh he has been paying regnlarly to Belknap. The proof is complete and the charges have indeed been admitted. Tbe Secretary at ten o'clock

Tbarsday morning, tendered

his resignation, whlch-was immediately accepted by

the

President. Tho House

unanimously adopted resolutions impeaching tbe ex-Secretary, and he will be brought before tbe Senate for trial as soon as articles of impeachment can bo prepared. Tbo National character and public morale alike require that ho Bhould receivo the foil measure of punishment which bis crimes deserve.

TNN first intimation President Grant had of llelknap's fall was from Belknap himself, when he callod at the Executive Mansion with his resignation. From tho hurried and incoherent manner of Belknap's communication to LIIM, tbe president drew tho conclusion ihat Mrs. Balk nap and not her husband, was the guilty party, and that the general assumed all responsibility and censure in order to shield his wife. Although ho did not inform the president that he was actually guilty himself, bo confessed ho was not free from blame. The president says that if he had known the full measure of Belknap's guilt, liO'WOHld not havo yielded so readily to Belknap's appeal in accepting his resignation in the terms he did, but would havo demanded that official relations between them should immediately cease, and that Belknap should at once vacate his office and take all conscfjuenoes of his official misconduct.

MauSh's statement before tho Committee was, in cfl'ect,that bo and his wife spent some weeks at Long Branch in tho suinmor of 1870, and on theix return to New York, Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Bower visited them. During this visit, Mrs. Belknap ono day asked him why he did not apply for a post-tradership on the frontier, explaining that they were very lucrative offices and within the gift of ths Secretary of War, and tha$ if be desired her to do she would ask the Secretary for ono. Sho was careful to warn him that if ho made tho application, ho was to say nothing to the

Secretary about presents,

as bo

had

once kicked a man out of tbo offico for offering him |10,000 for a tradershlp

see

THE LAST SEN8A TION.

this kind. Mrs. Belkuap and her sister returned to Washington and, in a few weeks thereafter, Mrs. B. Bent him word tocoinc and

her. When he went

she explained tbat tho tradershlp at Fort Sill was vacant,that it was a valuable post, and that she had applied for it for him. llo called upon tho Secretary 'and made an application for tbe appointment on ono of tho regular printed forms, and was told that ho would receive tho appointment if he could bring the right kind of recommendations. Ho was also told that the present trader,

John L. Evans, was an applicant for reappointment, and that he had better nee Evans as he was in the city. He did see

Evans, and Evans agreed to give him twelve thousand dollars a year, payablo quarter'y in advance, if ho would allow him (Evans) to hold tho place and continue the business. Whon Marsh received tho Urnt installment of money,ho promptly sont one-half

PuiuADELPHiANsare much elated over the complete success of an experiment recently uudcrtakon, to supply tbom with fresh beef AT 33 per cent, less than the prices they havo hitherto been paving. The meat, proporly dreswd and prepared In Chicago, Is packed In cars kept at A uniform low temperature, transported to Philadelphia, and sold direct to consumers. The result lias beon that all tho city butchers have put down the price

THE BELKNAP DISGRACE.'

fSpedal Dispatch to tbe Cincinnati Gosctte.] WASHINGTON, March 2. Washington, in all itsofficial and private life, was startled and shocked thb morning by the news that as telegraphed to the country lagt night concerning Secretary Belknap. A midnight scarce a score of people in tbe city knew even the outlines of the story, ana not even that number outside cf the members of the committee engaged in tbe investigation. Besides these members, there were a few lawyers who had been consulted, one or two members on each side of the house, and four or five correspondents who had the main facta. the wife.

Chivalry, and gentleness, and manhood, can not conceal or execu.«e tiie facts which, by this day's doings, have entered into national history. The wife, frightened by her indiscretion, by her tail, awed by tbe dangers whicb 'threatened her husband, would have the committee and the world believe that tho husband knew nothing of this bargain and its infamy. The committee did not believe it the world .«carcely will. The contract thb A begun was loyally fulrilled.

The bribe-givers were faithful in their pledges. They regularly paid the price of their dishonor. The payments were as regularly received. The war minister receipted to the express company for the spoils received for the sale of office. The story is all like that. It has made the men of all parties heartsick.

BRl-KKAl* TBYIXO TO SHIELD HM FAMILY. The only material evidence taken bv the committee not read at the clerk'B desk, were checks and express receipts and similar papers, whicli were referred to, but not submitted to tbe house. The proposition wtts submitted by the counsel of Belknap, Montgomery Blair, and was in substance an urgent entreaty on the committee to .strike from the testimony, and suppress, the portion relating to his two wives and his child, and thai if the committee would agree to do this, he would submit a written confession, and take upon himself the entire responsibility for all transactions which had been brought to light. This the committee unanimously rejected, it will thus appear that the secretary of war did not Eeck to shield himself behind his wife. TI^K 1IUSUAXD AND WIFK EACH STRIVING

TO SHIELD TKE OTHKit.-I.

Mr. Blackburn, of the investigating committee, makes the following statement: "Secretary Belknap, on learning that serious charges were made against him before the committee, aeketi, through his counsel, for permission to mate a sworn statement, which was granted finally by the committee. He appeared at the time set, and heard the charges read. Facing the com mi tee with 'considerable manliness and resolve, with tears streaming down his faec he said, have heard tho charges read. Some things arc true, some things are not true, and some things I know nothing about but make out your charge and put anything in it you may pleafc. It makes no difference what, as to my guilt, which I will acknowledge without reserve, only grant my wish that this investigation shall be

Eer

of It

to Mrs. Belknap. Mrs. Belknap died a few weeks after tbe lirst payment was made and Marsh attended the funeral, lie went up stairs with Mrs. Bower to soe the baby, and while there arranged for the money's being in the ftituro sent direct to the Secretary, and it was

sent

from that time on, though the amount was subsequently cut down one-half ou account of his having made an agreement by which Evans was to pay $0,000 instead of |12,000. Tois change was mado aftor tho second year. The whole amount ho had paid to Belknap was about FW,000. ..

beef fivo

cents

per

pound, and a further decline is anticipated.

MASKS.

Tf we could only road "Wtch OTHER'S hearts, wc whonld be kinder to each other.

we knew the woes and bitter

ness and physical annoyances of our neighbors we should make allowances for them which wo do not now. We go about masked, ut'eringstereotyped sentiments, biding our heart pangs and our headaches as carefully aa wo can and vet we wonder that others do not discover thorn by intuition. We cover our best feeling* from tbe light we do not so conoeel our resentment* snddlalikee, of which we are prone to be proud. Often two people alt oloae together, with "I love ywxn

eithar heart aid neither

knows It. Either thinks,

could be

fond but what mo of wasting fond neas on one who doee not care mr itr* andao they part, and go,their ways alone. life la a masquerade, at which tow nnmosk, even to their very dearest. And though there la need of much maaklng, would to heaven we dared show pSinly our real tux*, from btrth todeaib, for then some few, at least, would trnlytowadjotha. must 10—ember that flno-cut chewing tobooeo was invented fifty veant ago by a lady-Mrs. Miller, of Mow York.

ursucd no further, as effects any memof my familv. JlewaR assured that the committee had no such object, and they adjourned under thb motion until this morning to enable him to make a sworn statement he had asked the privilege of making before the committee, and he was notified through his counsel that .1 o'clock to-day was fixed, oh the committee desired to do all they could as lepresenlatives of the house to meet hid views. Two o'clock came and no apjenrance. When near three o'clock word was received from Montgomery Blair, acting as his counsel, that he had altered his mind, and had determined to make no statement before the. committee. One feature of tho case Mr. Blackburn seys,' deserves mention, and that in that Mr*-'. Belknap wished to inflict on herself all the obloquy of the wholo transaction, so that the reputation of her husband as an official should be saved. He never, except oncc, hail anything to do with the money transaction, except during the last Christmas holliday, when she was in New

York making purchases, and thero was a fractional payment, amounting to $750 made to her. Meeting Mr. Marsh, it wa» handed to her. This is the only transaction he had ever any thing to do with. The most remarkablo feature of it that Mr. Blackburn's wife and Airs. Belknap are old schoolmates, from girlhood, and it has been especially tnring to Mrs. Blackburn to listen to the pleadings of Mrs. Belknap at the interviews sho has sought, and which have been forced upon him. lie declares tbe highest admiration for her display of devo(i.iu and fealty to her hnsband, even in the interviews she had witlflbe witness Marsh, in whioh she seems to tamper with him, and the endeavors to make him testify fal»ely, are pardonable, ho thinks as an additional proof of her devotion."

THE PRESIDIXT'a IIXPLAXATIOX. The Democrats aro endeavoring to make much capital out of the fact that the president in his letter to Secretary Belknap used the word "regret." Tho president to-night thoroughly explained this to a prominent western congressman. lie said that Belknap said that some scandal bad been developed about his wife, and that he would assume the responsibility. The president, upon an impulse, immediately wrote the letter, and intended to expre-«s regret that circa instances had made the resignation necessary. The president said that had he then known of Belknap's personal acts, he should have informed Belknap that all official relations must cease, and be must accept the rcsdlt of the crime. 'J'he president then emphatically said, "and no friend of mine will now interpose to save Gen. Belknap." Messrs. Knott, Sayler, Hanooek, and Blackburn hare been selected as four of the impeachment managers on the part of the senate. Allot the post traders are to be summoned as witnesses.. ma ooiMci tirou tki coxxnm. lb. Blackburn says that Secretary Belknap sail il whan ho eame before the like a mn either determined to go over tho precipice and give up all hopa,or to fight the thing out Rke a bulldog. Bot ho did not seem to have the courage to do the latter at the last moment, and hie nerves gave way.

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