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A FISH STORY.

Chauhcey M. Depew is a New York lawyer. He has been the legal adviser of Wm. H. Yanderbilt for several years, and from his connection with that monied magnate has made a great deal of money. He has been a persistent lobbyist at Albany and Washington for the New York Central railroad, and in one way or another, particularly another, has been uncommonly successful in easing the burden of the law's obligations on the wealthy corporation he represents. He has made several unsuccessful efforts to be elected Senator from New York, but his reccird as a railroad lobbyist has always stood in the way of the realization of his ambition. He is now president of the New York Central railroad. This Chauncey 1|£. Depew, a few weeks ago in a speqA, libfore the New York Chamber of Commerce, at the time of U. S. Grant's death, took occasion to intimate that he had some startling information on the subject ef Grant's relations to President Andrew Johnson. At the time the nature of this information was published by several papers. Depew now makes his information public in a letter to Col. Fred Grant, which that person certifies to as correct. What he says now is the same as the papers at the time said it was. Briefly told, his story is that some four years ago he sat beside U. S. Grant at a public dinner and that on that interesting occasion he gave him quite a great deal of interesting information. One of these pieces of news was to the effect that by his talk with the Prince Regent of China and afterwards with the Mikado 'of Japan, when he was on his tour around the world, he succeeded in preventing a bloody war between China and Japan.

The other news is to the effect that Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, was a bloodthirsty monster who wanted to hang all the prominent rebels after the war, and that he was only prevented from doing so by Grant's firmness in declaring that he should not do so if he, Grant, General of the army, could prevent it, and that after quite a deal of angry controversy he succeeded in thwarting his purpose. The special reason given for Johnson's animosity towards the Southern leaders was that they were aristocrats and he had risen from the people. This part of the story is contradicted by the fact that as Senator from Tennessee before the war Johnson was on teims of personal intimacy with these leaders, whom Depew represents Grant as saying he wanted to hang after the war for asocial ostracism before the war which certainly never existed.

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But this remarkable yarn goes on and gets fishier as it proceeds. It then undertakes to say that Johnson, by the cajolery of the leaders whom he was only prevented by Grant from hanging, suddenly became their tool and that he was then prevented by Grant from doing all sorts of things, unheard of except in this narrative, for making the South supreme in the Union and placing the North in subjection to it. In order to accomplish his hellish purposes Johnson was to override the constitution and really subvert the Union, recognizing rebel representatives and giving power to an unconstitutional Congress. Grant is supposed to have bulldozed him out of this scheme. tJtv-

As to this remarkable narrative it is charity to suppose that it was after dinner chaff and that both gentlemen were more or less in their cups. Andrew Johnson had his faults, but he was a great man, a statesman, a patriot and above all an honest and a fearless man. He knew and he revered and he loved the constitution. No man in the country made greater sacrifices to preserve the union than did Johnson. He was the heart and soul of the union cause in Tennessee. He sided with the union in a rebel state when it took nerve and courage and conviction to do so. To talk about his scheming to override the the constitution, whioli he had made twice the sacrifices that Grant did to re a a A

He did not, it must be said, get along well with Grant at the end of the war. All the world known of the controversy between them. They know that he appointed Grant ad interim Secretary of War. They know that a controversy arose between him and Grant about the limitations placed on the latter in that office. They know that a question of veracity arose between them. They know that Grant stated that the agreement was one way and that Johnson and Seward and Welles and the rest of the cabinet said it was an other way. They know that Johnson bore himself clean and clear of all suspicion in the presidency and that he resolutely refused all bribes in the guise of presents. They know that he was a true friend of the whole Union. They know that the presidency of his successor and traducer was one monstrous succession of scandals and that the constitutional rights of the southern states were overridden. They know

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States were held by the throat by the federal administration while thieves of the Moses stripe plundered thera. They know—but why rehearse th9 story of that disgraceful era?

Andrew Johnson was the peer of Ulysses S. Grant in everything except military achievements. In knowledge 9f and reverence for the constitution of his country in a knowledge of and obedience to the laws in courage, in honor, in truth and in honesty he was vastly his superior. No scandals ever did srr.irch the character of Andrew Johnson living, and no mud thrown at him now that he is dead can tarnish his great name and fame. ,,

REFERRING to a recent Indiana appo ntment by President Cleveland, the Indinnapolis Times (radical Republican) says: •'He is an able man, and the appointment is creditable to the administration —from a Republican standpoint.. But to those Democratic members of the last Legislature, who are simply palpitating for office, it will appear far different. Think of it! A five-thousand-dollar position, with assistant clerks, thrown away upon a man that never packed a primary nor stumped the state. What are we coming to?"

It looks very much as^if we were coming to a better state of things than existed before Grover .Cleveland was elected President—as if we were coming to an era of sweeter manners and purer laws.

LILY LANGTRY has been sued for household debts inourred while living with her husband. She wants to have her late brevet husband, Mr. Langtry, pay them. Why not send the bills to Fweddy Gebhardt or to Sir Something-or-other Chetwynd and Lord Whoknows, who cuffed one another in the street of London about her. a few months ago?

JUDGE FORAKER is going to Virginia 'to help Billy Mahone hoe his stumpy row. Foraker is now revising his Ohio speeches so as to substitute taffy for the South in the place of the bloody shirt argument he used in the Western Reserve. It is a good thing, however, for

Forak' to go South., He will find out that the war is over.

BOSTON Irishmen have pledged themselves to give Parnell $10,000 to conduct his parliamentary campaign. Yotes will evidently command a good figure at the coming election.

THE Ohio Republicans concluded it was best to burn the bloody shirt before it got back into the hands of Mr. James G. Blaine. The Buckeye Republicans know how to kill off their rivals.

IN the next Congress the Democratic majority in the House will be fortythree.

BOLD BAD BEN.

His Brother Tells What He Knows of he E at

He Tried to Dissuade. Him From the Purchase of Le Paradis,

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Statement From G. £. Hosford, About the "Deal in OJd Vf 4 Mexico"

From Tuesday's daily. rj

How Benny Hied Him Hence. It seems a pity to spoil the story that Blaachard went away in petticoats and that other story of his discovery lying on the front platform by a brakeman, but if what G. E. I. Baggageman Seymour says is true they must both go. The train stopped, to register at the train despatehers office as stated and some parties may have got on there but not Blanchard. He boarded the train at the I. & St. L. crossing and right into the baggage car and apologized for doing so, saying that he ii tended to get on the sleeper but it stopped too far down He staid in the baggage car until Hillsdale wr reached and then went back and got off at Dan ville Junction. He seemed very talkative and cheerful (bis creditors will be glad to learn) and when Van Sickles, of Hillsdale, asked him bow business was he answered "booming."

D. C. Bridges Not Here.

There was a report that D. C. Bridges, th«fGreencastie banker who is reported to have been heavily struck by Blanchard, is in town, but if so he could not be found at any of the hotels. ,A "FATHER HENSON."

Old man Henson came down from Newport this afternoon. He says he is stuck for $300 salary. He had gone to Newport to get work but did not expect anything of this kind.

HIS UNCLE KNEW HIM.

A gentleman returned from Newport says the people laugh at Terre Haute for being deceived by Blanchard. One man says Blanchard's uncle refused to endorse for him for $1,000 saying he had raised him and "knew the little rascal too well."

THAT FLYING TRIP.

It now turns out that Blanchard' got his special engine and train to go to Newport a year ago rather than wait an hour for a regular train not because he had some great transaction, but because be wished to get to the bank there and deposit .$1,000 before his check reached the bank on the next train. ..

WHAT HIS BROTHER SAYS.

Will Not Say That Ben Wiilfully.Lied But— James Blanchard, the elder brother of Ben's, being asked as to Ben's whereabouts said he hadn't the remotest idea where he is. "I haven't seen him for three weeks" he added. 1 "But won't he write to you?" '•If be is eluding the police, I wm oe the last person he will write to, as, of course, they will watch me. As to the Paddock embezzlement case we could easily beat that. I do not know whether there are other cases or not, but I do not know of any out of which, in my knowledge of law, embezzlement could be made. Ben usually submitted his operations to me as a lawyer and unless he suppressed some of the facts he has not been guilty of embezzlement."

Mr. Blanchard said further, that if his brother Ben had received sums to invest in Kansas lands and had not done so, it was breach of trust. "What do you think he has done with the money?" '),•'*

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"Oh, he was awfully extravagant. When he subscribed $4,500 to a church I came down to raise h—1 about, it because I knew he could not afford it, and people thought I was crazy or had been drinking. And last summer I dropped my business at Newport to come down here on purpose, to beg and plead with him not to buy that palace car. I couldn't keep him from it, but I refused, positively, his invitation to accompany the party to the Yellowstone. He wanted my sister, when she was married, to use his car to Chicago but she refused. "Why, do you think, did he buy the car?" "Oh, I don't know. He seemed to be a monomaniac on show. I sometimes thifak his mind was not right. "What do you think will become of him?" "If they press him he will go to the wall, but there are two or three trades on hand, which, if completed will bring him out all right." "Is the 'deal in Mexico' one of them?" "Yes and I think it can be brought to a successful termination. The parties sailed from England last month. I have just sold the only piece of property I have and intend to use the "money to push that trade and pay off Ben's creditors." "How much does he owe?" "The sum is greatly exaggerated. I do not think he owes, all told, including mortgages, above $100,000." "How much will his commission be in the Mexican deal?" "Nearly $100,000." "Suppose he does not get that, has he property enough to pay out?" "Yes if he could sell what he has he would just about get out even."

When the reporter left Mr. Blanchard he said he was on his way to see after Ben's taxes and remarked that not only Ben's but his mother's things were levied on for taxes. "Ben turned in to the assessor $25,000 worth of personal property," said Jim, "and everyone knows he did not own

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

"I do not say he willfully lied about "Oh, it has a $2,000 mortgage on it.' it, but he either did so to bolster up his said Ben. credit or else he was laboring under a "'Makes no difference'" I replied "I'll hallucination and thought he had a take it'and I made him deed it to me.

great deal more than be really owned. "How much cash did he report?" "Nine thousand dollars. I am going down to the bank to see how much, if anvthing, he had on deposit at that time."

Mrs. Insley's Unbroken Confidence. A GAZETTE reporter sought Mrs. Dr. Insley at her house, 308 south Sixth street, this morning. She was quite averse to talking, but, in answer to a question, as to Blanchard's whereabouts, said she had not seen him since the hour stated in Saturdav's GAZETTE, when he left her house early that morning. Of the skirts he escaped in she knew nothing, for she did not give them to him. She expressed the utmost confidence in him, and thinks he will come back soon and settle everything. His present difficulties she attributes to persecution.

He is Secured.

"I understand you had"eoine transaction with Blanchard," said a reporter to Attorney D. N. Taylor this morning. 'I did' was the reply 'but I have been secured in good Vigo county land.' 'What was the amount?' 'Six hundred dollars.' 'How did you come to invest?' 'It was through another party. It .was not land investment, but a loan and good rate of interest was paid.'

ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE.

A Circumstantial Account of How the Spider Invited the Fly to Walk Into His Parlor.

A well known young man, whose frugality through several years has enabled him to accumulate a snug little sum of cash, related his experience with Blanchard last night to a GAZETTE reporter on promise that his name would not be used. Though annoyed and provoked, he could not help laughing at the ludicrous incidents connected with the affair. Blanchard often approached him, having learned that he had some money in the bank, to take "a deal" and referred him to Will Donag hoe and others who had done business with him satisfactorily. This was when Blanchard was in the hey day of his success, and he was told by all the parties Blanchard sent bim to see that, as far as they knew, Blanchard was all right. He finally put in $3,000 in a sort of blind pool and the profits in sixty days were about $400. "The day it was due" he said "Blanchard drew a check of the original sum and profits, on the First National Bank and it was promptly paid. This turned my head and when, after keeping the money for eight or ten days, Blanchard said he had another 'good thing' I snapped at it like a mackerel at a piece of red flannel. He said this 'deal' wonld only take thirty days that he expeoted to put in $3,000, another party who did not want his name known, $3,000, making a pool with mine and that he would issue all the certificates in my name. He said my share of the profits would be $250 and possibly $125 extra. At the end of thirty days I went into his office and he said, with a sweet smile, 'well I have your money. I made' you the extra $125, too.' 'Blanchard,' I replied 'I don't want the earth. The $250 is enough. Its all I expected to make.' 'No he said, 'the extra $125 is your's and you've got to take it,' and he drew a check for the whole amount and that check was paid. Think of it! Near ly $800 out of a few thousand dollars in three months!" "Blanchard told me to keep the mat ter to myself that he didn't want every one running after him, and so I denied to everyone, except most intimate friends, that I had any dealings with him. I was afraid if the big capitalists heard of what a great 'speo' it was they would come in and take all the fine chances and crowd a small fish like me out. Well, I got into 'another one' as soon as I could and then I just let the money stay in Blanchard's hands, re-investing the principal and profits, and last winter I was several thousand dollars ahead. At cne time I was in a $15,000 pool, and Blanchard reported the profits to me every month or two, and I thought I was flying high. But about four months ago I began to want my money. I had my suspicions aroused, and I notified Blanchard of my intention. He seemed surprised and said 'What's the matter? going to quit? 'Oh' I said 'I don't want the earth. I've got enough and beside, (I liod about this to give him an excuse) I .intend to go into business and need the money.' Blanchard said 'all right' in the cheerfullest way and told me to come in when that last deal I was interested in was done. On the day set he met me at ten o'clock and said 'Your money is at the office'. I hadn't asked him for it yet, but at one o'clock I went in to get it. It wasn't there. A draft he was sure would reacli him hadn't come. The next day I went in and he stormed about because *i

THE 'DRAFT HAD BEEN MISCARRIED in the mails. He kept up this 'draft' racket for a week till I got tired and then he set a day when he would pay me. I went in and he gave me a Sunday school cussing, saying I had cost him

"How's that?" I asked. "Oh, you are so impatient for money that I ordered a couple of dred head of cattle sold from my ranche. They are not fat enough yet to sell and I will lose $500 on them. If you would only wait a month they will be all right. Come in on day and the money will be here. I kept going in for a week or so and still

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THE MONEY WAS NOT THERE.

that much last April, in this city, and 11 sas land but I wouldn do it Mid the fhinV the tax ought to be remitted in next morning I said say, what^s th^matrfavor of his creditors.'' "Why did he make such a return?"

ter with the property? you turn that over to me?"'

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Finally one day Ben said he had just heard from his foreman that the party to whom he had sold the cattle refused to take them when he saw they were not in fat condition, and that I would have to wait a little while longer. I was now getting 'hot' and would have brained him with a chair (we were alone together in his office) if he had not promised to turn over some property to secure me. He wanted me to take Kan-

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"Will it let you out?" asked the reporter. "Yes, about, on my original investment." c'vn "But Blanchard still owes you the profits?" "Yes, 'Blanchard owes me'," and he *aughed at his folly. The same person said that one thing which made him suspicious of Blanchnrd was the way that wiley speculator had of whispering to his clerks.

C. t. HOSFORD SEEN.

He Explains That Mexican Land Deal. A GAZETTE reporter found Mr. C. E. Hosford this morning at his residence on north Eighth street. "Mr. Hosford," said the reporter, "the GAZETTE would like to find out something about that Mexican land transaction in which it is said you and Mr. Blanchard are interested." "Very willingly," said Mr. H., "All there is to it is this: About a year ago Mr. Blanchard and I entered into a contract with reference to this transaction. He was not known in the nego 'tiations, however. My name was the only one that figured and the relations he bore to the matter were only with me. His credit then was very good. It was a chance when we began, but as the negotiations proceeded it began to grow more valuable. He was to fulfill certain conditions in the contract in a financial way and if he failed to comply he was to forfeit his rights in the matter. I could have forfeited them several months ago, but I did not wish to take advantage of him, and proposed to give him a fair opportunity." "What was the nature of these negotiations?" "It was a transaction in old Mexico land, involving two million dollars, I told Mr. Blanchard at the outset that if we reached money before a year it would be good luck rather than business calculations. The negotiations have been necessarily slow, as tbe points of negotiation are Mexico and London." "When do you expect the matter to come to a head?" "In three months." "What would have been Blanchard's share if he remained in and the transaction was a success?" "Seventy-five thousand dollars." "Is the outlook still promising?" "It is the Blanchard failure has no connection with it at all, except so far as he may not be able to comply with his part of the contract. That does not affect me or the transaction. It benefits me to have him out. Mr. Blanchard wrote to me from Chicago lastweek, before he came here, that he had made arrangements there whereby he would be able to fulfil his part of the contract. I had no other transaction than this with Mr. Blanchard."

Mrs. Brownlee.

Pursuant to appointment made on Monday a GAZETTE reporter was dispatched to the pleasant residence of Mrs. Brownlee on east Main street thin morning. She had not yet ascertained whether the securities and deeds Blanchard had given her are good or not and desired that nothing be. said on this point at present. She talked quite freely but asked that what she said be not reported. On the one point, which is in everybody's mouth, viz. that she and Blanchard were engaged to be married she expressed herself with great decision, scouting the idea and saying she had as lief taken any other boy as him "to raise."

The report that she had gone to the depot to meet her brother she denied and said she was expecting a friend that or in 4

"The Reading Hour."

One of the amusing things now recalled about Blanchard was his Utopian ideas of conducting an office. He paid, or rather he agreed to pay, everyone who worked for him considerably more than they had been accustomed to making and all had every privilege that could be desired. For awhile on the tap of a bell at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the curtains were drawn up, all business suspended and an hour spent by all in reading. The library is quite complete, particularly in the "Saints' Rest" style of literature, and the binding of the most expensive character.

,vV, Mexico. 4' NEWPORT, Ind., Oct. 21.—[GAZETTE special]—It is believed here generally that Blanchard has gone to Mexico.

1 1 N A popular new song: "les, Blanchard owes" me."

Mrs. Brownlee went Blanchard's security on several pieces of paper. Blanchard and the school trustees are weeping in each others arms in Canada.

Blanchard said he was going west from Danville Junction. Ergo, he went east to Toledo.

For Blanchard's next birthday it is proposed to send him that big cactus. It will eerve as an easy chair.

Superintendent Lawlor says that he will beta month's salary that he has caught Ben Blanchard before one month passes.

J. S. Whonhart says that when he asked Blanchard for his money Ben replied "Why ain't your profits credited on the books?"

Dr. W. H. Hall returned from Chicago this morning. He secured from M. G. Lee a deed for a house and lot in Garden City which will, he says, let him out all right. "Did you lose any thing?" was asked of Mr. Geo. Faris. "Not much and I am not squealing," was the response.

Wm. A. Griffith has brought suit in foreclosure against John P. Henson, wife, Ben Blanchard and Nathan Newby. The note is for $2,000 and is secured by a mortgage on city property.^ It was executed Oct. 7,1884.

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The Count Will Finish Tonight, -v/y CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.—If there is ho delay on account of the controversy over the imperfect returns it is probable that the official canvas of the Hamilton county vote will be completed today. The count at noon had gone through the Twentieth ward, leaving but five more wards to canvas. There are two precinets, one in the Ninth and one in the Eighteenth, not yet counted and this may cause a delay, but enough will be known by night to show the final result. So far both sides are claiming the election of the legislative candidates.

Tho total vote on the first twenty wards of this city, omitting the two precincts whose returns are irregular and which are both Democratic, gives Hoadly 22,556, Foraker 21,858, Leonard 715. The vote on senators Democratic, ranges 22,137 to 22,701, Republican from 21,421 to 21,540. After the city vote is counted the country precincts remain to be counted which will prolong the work until late tonight.

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are the words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicians, and left to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave^her bed, from all those distressing diseases peculiar to suffering females, such as displacement, leucorrhoea, inflammation, etc., etc. She began taking Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription," and also using the local treatments recommended by bim, and is now, she says, "as good as new." Price reduced to one dollar. By druggista

Notice is hereby given that the expir ation of the time for paying county taxes will occur on tbe first Monday in November and that taxes will have to be paid by that time in order to avoid penalty. So it behooves taxpayers to hurry up and settle and avoid any unnecessary penalty.

Let the taxpayers of Vigo county bear in mind that, in order to avoid paying penalty taxes must be paid to the County Treasurer before the second day of November, which is the first Monday of the month. After that date penalty will be collected. flvw frjgig JAMES COX,

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