The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-18

law providing for compensation to
States for expenditures incurred by diff
ferent States in fitting out troops for
service during the war of the rebellion.
A number of bills in favor of individual
States for reimbursement for expenses
Of this kind have been referred to the
committee, and some members advo-
cate this method of determining their
fate, rather than by separate action on
each.
8 CAPTAIN EADs has gone to Washing
ton for the purpose, it is said, Of asking
for the passage of an amendment to the
Jetty bill, providing for payment of the
first installment of money when IA in
stead of 16 feet of water is reached.
He has already secured IS feet, but has
found expenditures largely in excess of
estimates, and is short of funds.
The dispositions of the President in the
case of General Babcock were taken at
the Executive Mansion on the 18th.
There were present Chief-Justice
Waite, Secretary Bristow, Attorney
General Pierrepont, William A. Cook
Zone of General Babcock's counsel),
and Mr.. Eaton (who represented the
prosecution). The President testified
that Babcock had not influenced or at
tempted to influence the Executive in
the selection of any official involved in
the so-called Whisky-Ring; that
he had not interfered in any man.
ner to cause the suspension of the
celebrated order for the transfer of SUI
pervisors, but that the revocation was
directed by the President himself in or
der that, suspicion being removed from
the minds of those engaged in frauds,
they might the more readily be detect
ed in their efforts to cheat the Govern
ment out of revenue on distilled spirits !;
and that he (the Presidency still has i'm
plicit confidence in the integrity of Bah
cock, and is satisfied with his Dab
cock's) explanation of the dispatches
which have formed so important an ele-
ment in his prosecution.
DURING the month of January the
demand for postage stamps, postal
cards and stamped envelopes reached
the unprecedented amount of $780, 900
worth. These figures are considered
indicative Of a rapid revival Of business
throughout the country.
AT St. Louis, on the evening Of the
14th, two men, named Hollan and Will
son, attempted to make away with a
colored woman, named Williams, by
throwing her off the bridge into the
river, having first gagged and manacled
her, and attached heavy weights to her
person. Fortunately the villains were
discovered and frustrated in their dia-
bolical design before it could be
consummated, the woman's struggles
being so great that she managed to par.
TALLY free herself and make known her
desperate situation. According to her
story her would-be murderers were the
two men who robbed the United States
Express car on the North Missouri
Railroad, q few miles from St. Louis,
some weeks since, and she being en-
ployed to take care of Hollan's
room, had accidentally become &C.
quainted with their secret and had seen
some of the plumber in their possession.
To accomplish their purpose they first
chloroformed her, then changed her
clothingfor that of q man, and taking her
in a buggy between them, they drove
out on the bridge and attempted to con-
summate their horrible crime, as here
tofore detailed. Both of the villains
succeeded in getting off, leaving their
horse and wagon, however, which they
had hired from a livery-stable.
THE resignation of DR.. Hambleton,
Clerk of the House Committee on Ways
and Means, has been accepted by
Speaker Morrison. 1t is charged
against DR.. Hambleton that he named
his son John Wilkes Booth, after the
assassin of President Lincoln, and Mr..
Morrison felt it incumbent upon him,
under the circumstances, to
ask for DR.. Hambleton's resignation,
the latter having failed to satisfactorily
explain the matter. 1t is said that Mr..
Morrison was daily in receipt Of letters
from all parts of the country, protest
ing against the continuance of Dr.. Ham
bieton in office.
A WELL KNOWN bank President OF
Worcester, Mass, according to the