Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-04-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON ID. c., April 1, 1876.
The drag net of the ex-cOnfederates
brought in notable witness before the
committee on war expenditures, on
Friday. He is one G.. 5. Bell, who
halls from Jackson, Mississippi. He
said that he applied to Belknap for a
post.tradership, and was offered it for
one thousand dollars u year, but de-
was appointed IL detective in the Inte-
riOr department, and was sent by the
President and Attorney General to st.
Louis rs a spy upon District Attorney
Dyer, during the whisky trials. He
says that Babcock and I.uckey paid
him to steal any papers from the Attor-
ney's Office that might injure BabcOck
in the trial. The fellow unblushingly
admitted that he was thief and spy,
yet he is accepted by the Democrats as
u good witness. He is about on a par
with all the other deadbeats and dis
charged clerks they have had before
them.
The articles of impeachment against
Belknap have been presented to the
House, and on Friday night the man
a yers were elected. Every seven-by-
nine country lawyer on the Democratic
side was II candidate, and Knott, the
Duluth jester from Kentucky; Lord, IA
country practitioner from Utica, New
York j. nks, another FROM Brook vile,
Pa Lynde, from Wisconsin, and Me-
MahOn, of Ohio, were selected from
the horde o. candidates. H0ar, of Mas
sachusetts, and Wheeler, of New York,
Republicans, are the the only lawyers
of reputation among the managers. If
Belknap is convicted it will tie by the
skill of the Republican lawyers.
The House passed bill making sill
yer dollars legal tender for all sums
coins for all sums under twenty-five
dollars. The bill also authorizes the
Secretary OF the Treasury to coin and
issue silver money for the redemption
of practical currency. The deficiency
in the printing and engraving bureau
was supplied on Friday, and the en-
ployees of this bureau who were dis
charged sixty days ago, and many of
whom have been in want, will resume
work on Monday Of Tuesday.
Senator Chrlstiancy's resolution,
which was accepted rs a substitute for
Senator MOrton's providing for com
mittee of five Senators to examine into
the Mississippi election last fall, passed
the Senate on Friday. 1t is to be hoped
that now 1.-THE bottom facts" will be
reached of the outrages, murders and
crimes which eliminated in the elec-
ton of Lamar to the Senate, and the
of the Republican State
of Mississippi. When
they are known, the Democratic and
Democratic papers may howl
about the "blOody shirt" as much as
they please, the people of the country
will be shocked at the tale of horror.
One of the bloo,iiest pages in history
whose every line is written with blood,
will he revealed and a condition of bar
,arism hitherto undreamed of will be
shown to exist in Mississippi. Men,
women and children shot down to Sc
.ure the election Of Congressman and
Senator'S will not be pleasant story
or the people OF this country to read,
when il il remembered
hat the Supreme Court has just de-
ided that the enforcement law Is so
detective that the general government
) powerless to interfere and protect its
itizens. Every Republican should
onsider it his highest duty to see that
ood and true men are sent to the next