The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26

Grant and COIfax Club.
Being in Brooklyn again, and able
to deliver my correspondence without
mail or telegraphic assistance, I car
write to you again.
was in Washington last week; But.
Ter had his eye upon me, and anything
/ might have written to you or Mrs
O'Lanus would have been seized be.
fore 1t left Washington and incorpor.
ated in the documentary evidence OF
the Impeachment Investigation Com.
mittee, and goodness Fnows what the
consequences might have been.
So | didn't write.
Butler went around to all the banks
in Washington to see how much mon
ey / had on deposit.
He was very much disgusted at the
result. So was Though it was just
what expected.
[ hadn't money enough to buy a
New York Assemblyman, let alone a
Senator Of the United States.
But one of my telegraphic dispatch
es had been seized, which brought me
under suspicion.
Brevity is the soul of economy in
telegraphing, SO l had condensed my
message to the following:
To Titus O'Blique, Brooklyn:
WASHINGTON. Nav 20.
B. laid out, Anthony caved, P. O.
all right. G.. o. l..
was subp9naed before the Managers
to explain this nefarious dispatch,
which was clear and conclusive evil
dence Of corruption as Butler read it.
"B," he said meant laid out on i'm
parchment. "Anthony caved," meant
the Senator from Rhode Island. "P, "
stood for Pomeroy, the "O," he
couldn't see through.
AS an American citizen with inalien-
able rights l at first refused indignant
ly to explain this strictly private dis
patch; but when Butler ordered the
Sergeant-at-Arms to look me up in
Winnie Ream's studio with the bust of
Lincoln, my courage failed me and L
deciphered the dispatch which referred
to nay personal prospects for Postmas-
ter of Brooklyn; Boggs' was laid out,
Anthony Campbell had given up and
gone home, land that | was all right for
the Postoffice.
So thought, but like the Impeach-
ers, was disappointed.
Butler was not satisfied with this ex-
planation and threatened to send for
Boggs, to see if he couldn't pump a
contradiction out of him.
1t wouldn't have been the first time
that Boggs has rode into publicity on
a pump.
After this narrow escape | curbed
my epistolatory zeal, and avoided the
Postofiice and telegraph while | re-
manned in Washington.
Since Woolley has been provided
with free lodgings in the Capitol, sew
erai families who complain of high
rents have offered their services to the
Managers as contumacious witnesses,
but as there wouldn't be apartments
enough in the Capitol to accommodate
them without turning Congress out of
doors, the offers have been declined.
Butler thinks witnesses without cap
ital are not worth lodging in the Cap
itol. But a witness worth twenty
thousand dollars is chance Of getting
at the money.
| called on Grant and congratulated
him on his nomination, and assured
him of the support of the Weeksville
Grant Club, which l intended to join
as soon | got home.
In that charmingly terse and non
cOmmittal way he responded: "Mar-
shall Browns pups have got their eyes
open ~
After this explicit response there
can be no doubt that the devotion of
the w. G. C. will be recognized when
Grant is President.
| then called on ColfaX and assured
him that he had been the choice of
Weeksville from the start, that the
resolutions endorsing FentOn were
merely complimentary, out of graft
tude for the pardon of relative of the
Secretary of the club, who having no
funds of his own at the bank, had used
the name of a gentleman who had, on
a check for a thousand dollars, for
which the prejudiced criminal author
tiles had sent him to Sing Sing.
| also reminded Schuyler that we
were brother typos. He was printer
in his early life, and you no doubt re-
with gratitude how l came
to your assistance at that time of the
printers strike, and set up portion
Of my epistle.
Imeant to have followed it up and |
become regular printer, but when
Mrs. O'Lanus heard that you were
young ladies to set type,
she objected.
She said it wasn't proper for mar
RED man to be setting up with the
girls.
AS Grant has so elegantly expressed |
It, l said, "Let us have peace" and |