Nebraska advertiser., 1868-10-01
washington Corespondent.

W ASA1NGION, u y. soEPI.zl, 800
Who is this John Nj. Binckley %
asked friend at my elbow this
man who has been preferring charges
against Commissioner Rollins, and
/ who got Knocked out of time in the
second round of mill with District
Attorney Courtney that came of al
/ the AstOr House in New York, last
week? AS my friend, usually well
informed, is reprehensiBly ignorant oi
the antecedents OF Binckiey, it occurs
to me that many OF your readers may
be equally benighted. / am sorry
/ that / cannot give them as much in
! formation on this subject as-its impor-
I tance makes desirableg | have unsue-
cessfuIly searched .. Fistiana" and
/ - Boxiana " standard works, by the
/ bv, which should be in every we'll
/ regulated mily-but Binckley's name
( is not even mentioned among those OF
other distinguished professors of the
- manley art. =" Frank Queen, editor
of the New York Clipper, replies to
| my letter requesting Information, that
/ he does not know Binekley 'by that
name that he must have fought
| before, if at all, under an assumed
name, &C., &C.. Barney Aaron, Sam
Collyer and Billy Edwards, who have
been here lately, giving sparring ex-
/ hibitions, also dIsclaim all pGrsOnaI
| knowledge of Binckley, but state that
according to my description of him,
/ he must have been the man who vol
unteered his services for their srespec-
tive benefits y which they, good
! Judges of a mans capacity and mettle
in their domain of art by his personal
appearance, incontinently declined.
Unable then to speak OF Mr. Binckley's
antecedents in the higher. spheres of
activity, can only speak OF him as of
an ordinary man grubbing for his
bread and butter, like .any other
man"
John III. Binckley was born in Ohio
and is welded tOthe niece of the eX-
rebel General Joe Johnson, which may
partially account for the milk in Mr..
I BinekIev's c0e0anut. He is a regular
" graduated physician, but it would
seem that his efforts to acquire emf
nence or lucrative practice in that
profession were not crowned with sue
cess. as he soon after turns Gup a
portrait paiuter, endeaYOEing to pro-
cure from Mr.. Lincoln the cOnsulship
at Venice, Z" IN order to perfect himself
i'm his art y Unsuccessful, again, Mr..
Bincklev ferrits his way into the Gen.
Land Office in this city and somehow
attains the position OF Chief Clerk OF
the RedemDtiOn Division of that
Bureau. This in 1861. Soon after we
find him out of his clerkship, and un-
successfully endeavOring to exc out a
meaeer subsistence as claim agents.
SignaIly falling to procure clients, he
abandOns the business IN disgust, and
enters the law office of Mr.. Darlington,
US. District Attorney for the District
of Columbia. After the close Of the war
Mr.. BinckIey subsidies into an assis-
tant editor of the National IiateIliqeIs-
Ger, the leading cOpPerhead paper of
Washington, from which position he
glides, naturally and gracefully, after
the rupture between the President
and Congress, in 1866, into clerkship
in the Attorney Generals Office.
Happening by curious coincidence,
to entertain views on all the great
questions before the country, similar
to those entertained by the President
Mr.. Binckley is appointed Asst. At
tOrney General, in which position he
makes mselfcOnspicuOus by furnish
ing "opinions to his august master
during the temporary absence of Mr.. /
Stapberry. Ousted from this office, /
Mr.. johnson appoints him to his pres
ent position, SOlicitOrship of the in
ternal revenue department, in which /
capacity he has added to the nOtOrlety /
previously acquired by furnishing
- opinions, " by trumping up untena- |
hle charges, for paFtisOn purposes, 4
against honest and able public seTvents /
by insulting the U. s. District AttOr-
ney for New York and getting devilish I
wen. and deservedly licked by that 1
official, in the AstOr House, New /
York.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, publisher
of the New York ReUO5sftiOn, is en-
deavoring TO have female delegates
sent to WashingtOn's Convention to
bp held in NeSv York next week ToI
this end she visited the Working
Ivomen's Union last week, when she
and her views were cordially received
one difficulty in the way seems to be
that there is no organization Of work
inpwomen in New York None,
therefore. can claim the right 10
seat in the Convention. Organization
Is the only means by which the work
in0woIuan can, command remunera-
tive wages for their work, and with