The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-13

From the National Capital.

The Committee on Expenditures In the
War Dedartment to-day, examined C.S. Bell,
whose testimony was to the effect that the
President. wishing TO satisfy himself OF the |
guilt or innocence OF General Babcock, sent
him to st. Louis to ascertain what he could
on the subject. Babcock and Luckey, |
knowing he was going to st. Louis on that |
out of the District Attorneys Office in St |
Louis. This he did not do, but related Bah |
cocks and Luckey's proposition to Mr..
Dyer, threw up his case and was discharged. |
Babcock denies the story.
The Senate on April 4, in executive ses-
sion, rejected the nomination OF Richard III.
Dana, jr., to be Minister to England. The
President nominated Charles Mcmillan, OF
New York, as Consul General of the United
States at Rome, and John M. Baalt as Post
master at Sandusky, o. The vote on Mr..
Dana's confirmation was about: Yeas, II
nays, 81.
The first steps in the impeachment trial of
Belknap were taken, on April s, in the Motif
cation of the accused. The following were
assigned to be managers in the impeach-
ment trial before the Senate: On the rules
Representatives Lord, Lynde, jerks, and
Hoar; on ings-Representative Knott,
Mcmahon, and jerks; on the jurisdiction of
and Hoar; opening by Representative
Lynde; on the preparation of the trial of fact
and the examination of witnesses-Repre-
sentatives Mcmahon, Lynde, and Lapham;
on the questions of law on the trial of fact
Representatives Lynde, jerks, and Nc
Mahon on the final ubmission--.R epresen-
tatives Lord, Knott, aud Lapham........
Chandler was before the Investigating Com
mittee, a few days since, when Mr.. Danford
read, seriatim, the questions and answers
given in Bells testimony, at considerable
length, relating to the conversations that
Bell says he had with Chandler, about the
Babcock case. He branded the testimony,
in whole and in part, SO far as it Preferred to
him, as absolutely and unqualifedly false.
He said that Luckey never had a converse
ton with him about Bells connection with
the Babcock case.
By direction of the President the follow
ing order has been issued:
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 5, 1876.
The Adjutant-General will promulgate the follow
ing order for the information of all concerned:
The headquarters of the army are hereby re-
established and hereafter in time Of peace shall be
at Washington City, and all orders and instructions
relative to military operations affecting military
control and the discipline Of the army issued by the
President, through the Secretary Of War, shall be
promulgated through the General of the Army.
lSigned,1 ALPHoNso TAFT,
Secretary of War.
Attorney General Pierrepont, before
Clymer's Committee, contradicted Detec-
tive Bells story, in every essential particu.
lar.....James Trainer, post trader at Fort
Conche, Texas, testified before the Investi-
eating Committee that he paid A. G. Leigh
ton, who went to Fort Conche with letter
of authority countersigned by General Bel.
KNAPP, $4,000 in greenbacks and afterwards
paid to Hendrick 81 1000 through II mail con-
aA hu IN
rup q Chick, bankers, of New York. The
agreement between the witness and Leigh
ton was that he was to pay $4,000 cash, and
1000 year If the post paid. lie also paid
draft for 81 900 drawn by Sawyer, mail
contractor, now dead, and does not know
for whom it was intended. Sawyer asked
for it and he paid it without asking ques-
tions. He also paid some seven or eight
hundred dollars to General w. T. Clark,
member of Congress from Texas. This wss
paid out at three different times-..the first
payment being in currency, at the st.
Nicholas Hotel, New York, and the other
two by drafts. He always regarded these
payments as charity.
southern Items.
Alta recent meeting of the Southern Re.
publican Club, at New Orleans, wrangle
occurred over the adoption of the minutes
oil the previous meeting. A fight ensued,
and during the row three men we re shot.
one of whom, Lucien Adams, .jr., will die.
The others wounded are Lucien Adams, ST.,
and John w. King. Others are reported
wounded, but their names are kept secret
by the members of the club.
Disasters by Fire.
A fire at Fairmont, West Va, DESTROYED
about one-half of the business portion of
the place. The town was not prepared with
either hook and ladder, engine. or
bucket brigade, and had the wind
been blowing the whole town would
have been consumed. Twenty.three
buildings were totally destroyed, and a mum.
Der of others injured. The Postoffice and a
portion of the mail was burned The fire is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
The loss is estimated at fully 500, 900: in.
surance $4,000, principally in Wheeling
companies. A large amount of merchandise
and household goods were consumed.
Items In General.
The Revolutionists under General Diaz.
in Mexico, on April 2, attacked and cap
tured Matamoras.. .Thaxton T. Robinson
and Jesse Mitchell, young men highly con.
nected in Campbell county, Va, met re.
Gently at New Providence Church, near
Rutsburg, in that county, to settle an old
feud with pistols. Robinson was shot in the
abdomen, and Mitchell received one shot in
the hand, which, glancing, went through his
cheek and lodged in the back of his head.
and another one in the breast. The latest
report states that Robinson is dead and
Mitchell could not survive. The difficulty
Is understood to have been about woman.
Robinson was a Lieutenant In the United
States army, and has been absent
several years on duty on the Texas
frontier, and Mitchell has been recently
appointed United States Gauger
The earliest election returns from Connect.
cut indicate the election of Ingersoll, Demo-
crat, for Governor, and the Legislature is
Democratic by large majority. There are
Republican gains in the State. In Ohio,
ut the municipal elections, the Republicans
have carried Cleveland and Toledo.....In
cincinnati for Board of Public Works, the
Democrats elected three members and the
Republicans two. The vote was light.
In the municipal election at Minneapolis.
Minnesota, Ames, Democrat, was elected
over Bracket, Republican, by over three
hundred majority. Two ladies, Mrs. Char
lotte o. Van Cleve and Mrs. Charlotte
Winchell. were elected School Directors on
the Republican ticket, in Democratic wards.
...... Thomas Tracy, living about six miles
east OF Gainesville, Illinois, shot his wife a
few nights ago, then killed his little
daughter, six years old, with the butt end of
the gun, and cut his own throat with
butcher knife. Tracy and his wife lived
unhappily, and she threatened several times
to leave him. That night she attempted to
put her threat into effect, and the above was
the result.....A rumor comes from Column
bus, Ohio, that Patrick Pickering shot his
son. aged seventeen, through the breast
while at prayers and instantly killed him.
The father was intoxicated, and the son had
been disobedient during the day in associat-
ing with Objectionable boys.....At New
york, box was picked up recently in the
hudson river, at Stuyvesant Landing, and
on being opened was found to contain the
remains OF woman, cut into small pieces.
....: The steamer Fannie Davis was wrecked
against the bridge at Bonneville, Missouri,
on on tne Mississippi river, on the Sd of April.
len men were on the barge, only four of
whom were saved.
On April ., about five o'clock in the af.