The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-04-21
WASHINGTON.

General Emory, in accordance with his
own request. has been retired on the full
rank Of n Brigade -GeneraI. with the retir-
ed pay Of that rank.
The following official order. by which
Army Headquarters are re-established at
the National Capital, has been promulgated
by order 81 the President:
WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON. u. G..
April :, l--6 The AGjutant-Gencra will pro-
mitigate the following order for the information
Headquarters of the Army are hereby re estab-
lished, and hereafter, in time Of peace. shall be
AZ Washington City, and all orders ami instruc-
the military control and discipline N the Army,
issued By the President through the Secretary ~
War. shall be promulgated through the General
OF Army. tsignedl ALPhoSso TAFT,
Secretary Of War.
The 18th n April is the day fixed by the
Senate for Gen. Belknap to appear and make
answer to the Impeachment articles. He
has retained a. his counsel Montgomery
Blair, Jere. :. Black. b. r.. Butler. and
Matt. Carpe ter. II j. understood that the
defense will make application for an extern
sion o. two weeks beyond the 18th.
The examination into the circumstance
OF the Babcock trial by the Congressional
COMMITTEES has developed the following adj
d1tional evidence: Gen. Henderson, OF 81.
Louis, special counsel for the Government.
testified that Attorney-G Pierrepont
told him that he had frequently communi-
Gated to the President the evidence In his
possession against Babcock, but that the
President invariably knew more about IL
than he did, the President having derived
his knowledge from GRANDCHILDREN Fox.
Assistant District Attorney Bliss testified to
about the same facts a. Col. Dyer, and add
ed that Fox had admitted to him that he had
received an appointment for his son since the
Babcock trial. Secretary Chandler testified
that he appointed Detective Bell upon the
suggestion Of the President, who told him
he had been a spy in the army, and that
subsequently the President had told him
that Bell was a scOundrel and ought 10
be dismissed. which was accordingly done.
Mr.. Chandler characterized Bells statement
a. 10 interviews with him, at which the Bah
cock case was mentioned, as unqualifedly
false. Gen. Babcock, Levi II. Luckey. and
A. G. Bradley, OF Babcock's counsel. all
denied Bells evidence a. to the conspiracy
to steal the evidence from the District At
torney's Office. but the latter admitted hay-
H. INSTRUCTED Dell 10 ma out all he cOulQ
about the evidence and to procure copies Of
certain papers.
The House Committee on elections has
decided, by a strict party vote, TO report IN
favor 81 unseating Farwell, OF Chicago. and
seating Lemoyne. his contestant.
Tn President has signed the bill authoriz-
ing the sale Of the Pawnee Reservation.
Col. Whitley. formerly Chief Of Detec-
tives OF the Treasury Department. has CIV
en- before a Congressional committee some
very damaging testimony. II true, regarding
Gen. Babcock's participation in the plot TO
break open the safe in the District Attor-
ney's Office in Washington, for the purpose
OF abstracting certain books and papers,
and then fasten the crime upon Column
bus Alexander and other citizens who
were fighting the District Ring.
Col. Whitley says that he was
sent for by Gen. Babcock to s'put up the
job which be did, in connection with
Harrington, District Attorney. Gen.
Bahcocs subsequently appeared before the
committee and denied in toto all OF whit