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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-06

L. A. FpiederichS,
y)HYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Linden, Iowa
/ county, Wisconsin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-06
Cothren & LanyOn,

4 TTDRNEYS AID NSEL0RS,--oycr post
\ office Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-06

LEG BRoKE.-Jacob Chin Of this
city, fell on an icy street and broke
his leg, last Saturday. evening.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer states that
Senator Gordon is perfectly confident that the
cotton tax will finally be returned to the treas
ury of each State, ''thus relieving the General
Government of the trouble and expenses of
detailed distribution. Seventy millions of
dollars of the tax collected have reached the
Treasury. In the distribution proposed,
Georgia will receive $4,000, 200, Alabama
about $10,OO0,OOO." How very kind. This
is merely one of the Confederate jobs which
it is proposed to put through, should the
Democrats obtain possession of the National
Government. 1t is an integral part and parcel
of the same general conspiracy to reimburse
the Southern States for their rebellion ex-
penses The refunding of the direct war tax
is another pet idea with the same men. These
schemes would take over hundred million
dollars out of the National Treasury, and
greatly enrich claim agents and other jobbers
who have bought up claims for refund for
few cents on the dollar The entire purpose
and design is TO benefit the reactiOnary South
ern States, which have thus far shirked, as far
as they possibly could, every burden made
necessary by their own rebellion. During the
rage which now prevails among the DemOcra-
cy to investigate the acts of Republican Off
cials it will be more than ever the part of
wisdom for the people to watch Legislation
with sleepless vigilance. The Democracy can
not be trusted.-l Pits. Com.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
The Secret Service Fund.

The cry of horror which the Democratic
organs have raised over ex-Attorney- General
Williamss testimony in relation to the Secret
Service fund is ridiculous. Probably the ek-
pendture of thirty or forty thousand dollars
of that money in payment for the work done
by Mr.. John l. Davenport : New York was
a gross irregularity, but there is no evidence
that it was intended for any corrupt purpose :;
and if Mr.. Davenport cannot show that he has
kent within the letter of the law in his dis
bursements We can only say that we have
greatly underrated his shrewdness. He was
appointed Supervisor for the purpose of cut
ting down the Democratic vote in this city,
notoriously swollen by fraudulent naturaliza-
tions, by colonies of repeaters, and other de-
vices of the old Ring, far beyond its legiti-
mate proportions and although he went at
his work with good deal Of violence and a
contempt for the rights of citizens who did
not like Gen. Grants administration, it would
be Unjust not to confess that he did purge the
registry of many names which had no right
on it. For that service the President seems
to have authorized the payment of part of
the Secret Service fund, and if the money
was appropriated by law for the expense of
detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty
of crimes against the United States" Gen.
Grant and Mr.. Davenport may certainly ask
whether crime against the United States does
not include illegal voting. 1t is no satisfaction
to decant Americans, however strongly they
may be opposed to the present Administra-
ton. to hear the President denounced as a
corruptionist only saved from impeachment
by the approaching end of his term, because
he ordered payment which may have betn
equivocal, but which was at least technically
correct. 1t will be time enough to accuse him
of purchasing his reelection whenwe have
some proof of it. We carry already in the
eyes of the world as heavy load of disgrace
as we need care to shoulder. IN. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
A MADMAN As A WITNESS.
Climax OF the Effort to Implicate
President Grant i'm Infamy.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Democratic
members of al least one Of the House Com
mittees to-day discredited themselves far more
than they can hope to disgrace the Admins
tration in the history of the session. Thus far
the cutters of politics and society have been
raked to make a case against the Cabinet.
Bank accounts have been ransacked, the tattle
of frontier camps has been listened to, and de-
tectives have been made oracles to prove high
officials of the Government guilty of crime.
1t was only few days ago that a committee
permitted false and malicious statement to
lie telegraphed throughout Christendom that
the President had been detected in taking
money from the Treasury to purchase votes,
but it was left for the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the Interior Department to-day to
surpass all others in the attempt to "catch
Grant.
The Democrats on the Committee had
caused all the Republicans to be notified that
an important witness was to be examined, and
that all should be present. No hint was given
of the nature of the expected evidence, but the
fact escaped from some of the less careful
Democrats that the Committee held President
Grant in the hollow of their hand. The Com
mttee had been sitting with open doors, but
mysterious witness was produced, and the
doors were barred for two hours. The witness
upon whose lips the fate of the President of
the United States hung was an ordinafy-look-
ing business man. The Democratic members
were on tiptoe with expectation. Republicans
were interested but ignorant of the forth
coming result. The witness was almost indif-
ferent. His marvellous story was this:
Some years ago a person in high station did
him great injury. 1t became important to
the peace of mind of that great parsonage that
the witness should be harmless. He hired q
detective, and soon hurried him to the Govern
ment mad-house. He was kept there, friend
less and powerless, for months, when one day
an agent of this great parsonage approached
him, giving him the choice between life i'm
prisonment with lunatics, or life of exile in
Europe. He chose the latter. Detectives
ACCOMPANIED him to the steamer, and he LETT
for Europe. Becoming weary of Europe, he
returned and appeared before the Committee
today to tell his story. The Committee seem
ed paralyzed-in part with astonishment, in
part with diabolical joy. Who was that great
parsonage that wronged you, asked the Chair
man. "The President of the United States, !"
was the reply. What wrong did he do you
There the witness paused. He would die
before he would tell It was q delicate sub
ject and should not be mentioned. For an
hour the Committee piled him with questions
They threatened him with imprisonment with
.evere punishment with the terrors OF con-
tumacy. The witness yielded. He. said the
President of the United States had done him
mortal wrong; that he had ruined his the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

Witnesses betrothed, and since that time the
witness had been prescribed and prosecuted
man.. Hence these detectives; hence these
mad-house liars.
The President Lad frequently come to the
house of the witness about it at the dead of
night, and had importuned him at his bedside
not to ruin his great fame
''But," interposed Republican member,
chow did the President get to your bedside at
that time Of night did he ring the bell =
The climax had come. Democrats were en-
thusiastic in their sardonic joy, and were just
ready to render their verdict against the Pres
ident, when the witness quickly interposed: ::
II want you to understand, gentlemen, that
President Grant in the body never did me or
mine harm; he has only done me that great
wrong as a spirit"
The collapse came. The witness was mad
man. The Committee instantly discharged
him, Immediately ordered the stenographer to
suppress his notes, and begged the Republican
members to keep the matter silent. One of
the latter, with a good deal of indignation,
said that he hoped he might be as mad as the
witness if he kept still.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

therefore, proposed TO appoint some one from
Indiana in the place of J. 5. {. Harrison.
This proposition of Delano's met with such
strong opposition that it was abandoned, and
none of the Directors were removed. We
were engaged at that time in making an active
fight against the Wyoming Coal Company,
which was swindlins the Union Pacific ont OF
$500. 900 or 100000 year, and getting
50 80 for coal when it could be mined for 15
cents. If the committee want that letter of
Delanos they can find copy Of it in the In
terror Department.
THE PRESIDENCY NOT INVOLVED.
Bear in mind that this action ON my part as
Government Director, and the correspondence
to which havexeferred, and the effort on the
part of Secretary Delano to have ME removed
from the Board of Directors, occurred in 1872
and early in 1878, just about the time of the
reelection of President Grant, and when
neither Mr.. Blaine nor any other man was
spoken of in connection withthe Presidency
in 1876. 1t is, therefore, unreasonable to sup
pose that anybody, at that stage of the pro-
ceedings, was interested in defeating Mr..
Blaine's Presidential aspirations.
WHY IT WAS NOT INVESTIGATED.
This whole Little Rock bond matter would
have been investigated by the United States
Court at the time but for the killing off of the
Credit Moblier suits, | showed to Mr.. jerks,
the Government Special Attorney, who. with
three others, was charged with investigating
the affair, this order of the Executive Com
mittee.
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY AT
NEW YORK, DECEMBER Ii, 1871.
'.Ordered, That Morton, Bliss & Co. be au-
thorized to draw on the Treasurer of this
company for S64, 900, payable forty days (40)
from date, and hold as collateral security for
company seventy five land grant bonds of the
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad Company.
Bonds 81, 900 each"
He made copy of it in my presence, and
would have entered suit upon it at once had
not all these Credit Mobilier suits failed in the
courts, being ruled out on demurrer
IN CONCLUSION,
l have to say that am ready and willing at
any time to 60 before the Judiciary Committee
of the House and make oath to the facts in
this statement.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

THE annual report of the Secretary of State
contains tabulated statement of mortgages
on railroads recorded in the State during the
year ending June 80, 1875. The total amounts
to S296, 1893, which is rather alarming.
Among the items given in the table, however.
is mortgage of $15, ,OO0, 900 on the Michigan
and Ohio, an imaginary road, and this mort
gage, having been recorded in nine different
counties, is counted as many different times,
whereas the actual incumbrance upon the
road, if it existed at all, is but S15, 200.
Eight times that is S12O, 900, by which
amount, at least, the above table should be
reduced in order to arrive at anything like the
actual incumbrance on Ohio railways.-TO. S.
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
New Series-Vol. l6. No. 16

Thomas \. Scott concerning bonds of
the Little Rock ard Fort Smith Road
or the bonds of any other railroad, or
any business in any way connected
with railroads, directly or indirectly,
Immediately or remotely. never had
any bu-IneSS transaction whatever
with the UnIGn Pacific Railroad Com
pany or any of its officers or agents or
representatives and never in any man.
ner received from that com pany, direct
~ or Indirectly, single dollar in mon
ey, or stocks, or any other form of val
ue. And as to the particular transac-
tion referred to, never SO much as
heard of it until nearly two years after
its alleged occurrence, when it was
talked of at the time of the Credit
MUbilier Investigation in 1873. Bu.,
while my denial ought to be conclusive,
should greatly regret to be compelled
to leave the matter there. | am fortu-
nately able to sustain my own declar.
alton by the most conclusive evidence
that the Case admits of or that human
testimony can supply. If any person
or persons know the truth or falsity of
these charges it must be the officers of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
l accordingly addressed a note to the
president of that company, gentle
man who has been director of the
comIany from its organization I be-
lieve, and who has a more thorough
acquaintance with its business transac-
tons probably tnan any other man.
The correspondence which here SUBJ
NIT will explain itself and leaves moth
ing to be said. l will read the letters
in their proper order. They need no
comment:
WASHINGTON, D. G., April 13, 1876.
Dear Sir: You have doubtless observed the
scandal now in circulation in regard to my
having been interested in certain bonds of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith road, alleged to
have been purchased by your company in
1871
1t is due to me, l think, that some state
ment in regard to the subject should be made
by yourself as the official head of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company.
We're respectfully, J. G. BLAINE.
SIDNEY DILLON, ESQ.,, President Union Pa
citic Railroad Company.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

THERE should be an arrangement by
which the opponents of the silver cur
reucy should frame . consistent course
of hostile operations. One lot Of the
persons who are disturbed by the sp-.
pearance of the bright aud beautiful
preciou, white metal, claim that as its
value per dollar 10 less in gold than the
greenback, the laboring man who tskes
the silver is robbed. The difference u
very small, however, and, like the sur
reptitious baby, is such little one thar
there need not be much fuss about It.
Another lot OF persons are claiming
that silver will be boarded, and can not
be kept in circulation, because people
prefer it 80 much to the fractional cur
rency that they will not allow 1t to slip
through their fingers. Now, both lots
OF persons can not be right, and both
are actually wrong. The Substitution
of silver money for the fractional, dire
soaked paper does not wrong anybody
and silver is Just in such relations %
the arser green nbacks-both silver and
greenbacks being OF less face value Than
gold-that 1t will hoat.-C6lcss''ots
Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

A RESOLUTION was recently intro
duced in the Lower House of Congress
by Democratic member, and adopt
ed, directing the Committee on Ways
and Means to inquire into and report
upon the expediency of authorizing
the refunding of the direct war tax
on lands collected under the, act OF
Congress of August 5, 1861, imposing
tax of sc, ,OOO, 600 upon the various
States, under which nearly Sic, ,OOO, 900
were collected. An examination OF
the resolution shows the rebel cat in
the meal tub. The law provides that
any State or Territory might assume
the duty of collecting the tax and pay
its proportion into the National Treas
ury, In default of which it became the
duty of the President, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, to appoint
commissioners to make the necessary
assessments and collections. All but
Colorado and the eleven rebel States
assumed the responsibility, and paid
their quota, except New York, Wiscon-
sin, Kansas, California, Colorado,
Washington Territory, Utah and Ore
gon, from which there is . small unad-
justed balance due the United States,
in the appreciate to 81 ,2S,-
BIZ. The Washington. correspondent
of the Bunalo Commercial Advertiser
states in the following tabulated form
how the accounts stand with the elev-
M ~ rabal Cfofos.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

DoNS PIATT is "Reformer of the noisi-
est kind. Yet he took fee of 100000, in
the way of percentage, for using his influence
with Belknap in favor of a moth exterminator
for use in the Bureau of Clothing, in the War
Department, and when the percentage was
stopped he denounced the exterminator as
fraud,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
New YORK, April G, 1876.


Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry we
beg to say that no draft, note, or check, or
other evidence of value has ever passed
through our books in which you were known
or supposed to have any interest of any kind,
direct or indirect.
We remain very respectfully, your obedient
servants, MORTON, BLISS & Co.
HoN. JAMES G. BLAINE, Washington, d. G..
Some persons on reading the letter of
Morton, Bliss & Co., said that its denial
seemed to be confined to any payment
that had passed through their "books, :"
wereas they might have paid a draft
in which l was interested and yet no
entry of it made on their "books. !"
On this criticism being made known to
following letter:
New YORK, April 13, 1876.
Dear Sir 1t has been suggested to us that
our letter of the 9th instant was not sufficient
ly inclusive or exclusive. In that letter we
stated THAT no draft, nste, or check, or other
evidence of value has ever passed through our
books in which you were known or supposed
to have any interest, direct or indirect" 1t
may be proper for us to add that nothing has
been paid by us, in any form or at any time,
to any person or any corporation, in which
you were known, believed, or supposed to
have any interest whatever.
We remain, very respectfully, your obedient
servants, MORTON, BLISS u Co.
Hon. j. G. BLAINE, Washington, d. c.
The two witnesses quoted for the
original charge having thus effectually
disposed of it, the charge itself reap
peared in another form of this effect,
namely: That certain draft was
negotiated at the house of Morton, Bliss
& Co., in 1871, through Thomas A.
Scott then president OF the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company, for the sum of
S64 200, and that $75, 600 of the bonds of
the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail-
road Company were pledged as collat-
eral; thst the Union Pacific Company
paid the draft and took up the collater-
al; that the cash proceeds of it went to
me, and that had furnished, or sold,
or i'm some way conveyed or transferred
20 Thomas A. Scott these Little Rock
and Fort Smith bonds which had been
used as collateral; that the bonds in
reality mad belonged to me or some
friend or constituent of mine for whom
was acting. / endeavored to state
the charge in its bolde5t form and in
all its phases.
desire here and now to declare that
all and every part of this story that
connects my name with it Is absolutely
untrue. without one particle of foun-
dation in fact and without little of
evidence to substantiate il. L never
had any transaction Of any kind with
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

MONEY in London is worth in the open
market only one and three-eighths per cent.
per annum, and yet specie payments prevail
there and have prevailed there for hall GEN.
tury. Here is a chance for sermon by the
advocates of more greenbacks to show how a
specie currency raises the rate of interest and
oppresses borrowers N. Y Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
OFFICE UNION PACIFIC r. r. Co., ,
New YORK, April Is, 1876. }

Dear Sir: have your favor of the 18th in
stant, and in reply desire to say that have
this day written Colonel Thomas A. Scott,
who was president of the Union Pacific Rail
road Company at the time of the transaction
referred to, letter of which | send copy
herewith. On receipt of his reply will inclose
it to you. Very respectfully,
SIDNEY DILLON, President.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, Washington, d. c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
OFFICE OF THE UNION PACIFIC r. r. Co., }
New YORK, April 10, 1876.

Dear Sir: The press of the country are
making allegations that certain bonds of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, pur-
chased by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany in 1871, were obtained from Hon. James
G. Blaine, of Maine, or that the avails in some
form went to his benefit, and that the knowl-
edge of these facts res:s with the officers of
tie company and with yourself.
These statements are injurious both to MIR.
Blaine and to the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany. There were never any facts to warrant
them. and think that statement to the pub
lie is due both from you and myself. | desire,
as president of the company, to repel any such
inference in the most emphatic manner, and
would be glad to hear from you on the sub
iect Very respectfully,
SIDNEY DILLON, President.
COLONEL THOMAS A. ScorT, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
BELMONTCHRONICLE.
ST. .CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY. MAY 4, 1876

The Democratic Committee the other day
had madman on the stand to testify against
Grant. The insanity of the witness was not
discovered until he had been testifying to con-
siderable nonsense. He was then dropped.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
OFFICE UNION PACIFIC X. r. Co.,
A. ....:l % 10 -R

Dear Sir: As advised you some days ago,
| wrote Colonel Thomas A. Scott, and beg
leave to inclose you his reply.
| desire further to say that | was director
OF the company and member of the execu-
tive committee in 1871, and to add my testi-
mony to that of Colonel Scott's in yerifcation
of ali that he has stated in the inclosed letter.
Truly YOURS, SIDNEY DILLON, Pres't.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, Washington, ID. e.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

WATTS MEMORIAL Hall, erected to the
memory of DR.. Isaac Watts, in Southampton,
England, was dedicated few days ago. 1t
comprises a block of school buildings cover
ing the site of Dr. Watts garden, and stand
ing near the chapel in which his first hymn
was sung. The building cost about $50, 900.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from
n Nervous Debility, Premature Decay. and
ali the effects Of youthful indiscretion Will,
for the sak ke OF suffering humanity. ser free 90
ell who need 1t, the recipe and direction for
making the simple remedy by which he a.
ysrtisers eIperienee can d. so by addressing
in perfect confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN.
DEC. ., Is75-sm 42 Cedar st., n. Y.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04

Wanted, Agents-Canvassers should secure
territory at once for The Life ans Public Ser.
Woes Of Henry Wilson, by Rev. Elias Mason.
Fer & rms address the Publisher. B =. Rus-
sHLL, IS Cornhill Boston, Mass.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-04
en- ex.rebel States:
Ss,sSe,oOo

Total SS,0oS,evS
In 1865 the collection of the tax was
suspended until January 1, 1869, but no
further attempt has been made to re-
new the collecting. The design Of the
measure is not only to save the ex-
rebel States from the uncollected
amount of 8, ,66I, ,776, but also to pay
back the s5,153,ss6 already collected
from them. The Democratic majority
in Congress cannot repudiate the na-
tional debt, but 1t can at least dc its
best to save the South from bearing any
share of the burden incurred by the
shareholders rebellion. And it is do
ing its best. with will.-Pittsburgh
Commercial.