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6 POLITICAL. Hopes of the Democrats and Fears of the Republicans in New Hampshire. THE PRIZES THAT AWAIT THE VICTORS, ¢ —$—e———— Possible Enforcement of the Religious Test Against Catholics. * Effect: of the Belknap Expose in Virginia. ; POSITION OF THE INDEPENDENTS. Relative Strength of the Presiden- tial Candidates. Conconn, N. H., March 12, 1876, As election day approaches, or, as everybody in New Hampshire says, as town meeting draws near, the con- | fidence of the républicaris is on the wane amd the hopes | of, the democrats increase. No party ever had.a Stronger motive to work earnestly, aud eyen unscrupu- | lously, than the republicans of this State this year, for _ the loss of this election is the joss of everything, What gives especial significance to this is the fact that Gov- | form ofthe convention by whi | ON intimate terms with the Preside: | wrnor Cheney must be elected by the people if he is | lected at all. tannot expect to be re-clected, because it ig easier for the republicans to carry the State than to securéa ma- Jority in the Legislature. After canvassing the situa- Bon as carefully as I cun, {do not see that it {8- por sible for the republicans.to contrel the House of Rep- Pésentatives unless it is done ‘ BY POLITICAL CHICANERY. Men as well informed as Mr. Wiliam E, Chandler put Whe majority in the House as Jow asten, and this makes the chances too even to give the republicans much hope, ‘They will straur every nerve, however; to | accompiish it in some way. Thero is a United States Senatorship at stake, and this isa much more impor- | Jant matter than the election of a Governor, Fortun- sjely for Mr, Cheney his election must not be a ques- Won for the new Legislature, and this is the only thing | that saves him from utter neglect in a campaign where the Senatorship ty the real issue, If Mr, Chandler or Mr. Rollins is to suceeed Senator Cragin it can only be through the election of Governor Cheney next Tucsday, apd (hose astute politicians are well aware of it ’ ’ WHAT BAY WE DONT: ty case the democrats have a smali majority in the Legislature is already a sybject of auxiwus discussion, The House of Representatives (s a flexible body, so far as: numbers aro concerned, and there is danger of a larger representation than the population warrants in order vo save the Senatorship. There may be also a re_ If he is not chosen by the people he | | ency of their records. | without intlueace, who avow themselves, | put I do not think the Governor has much popular hgious difficulty, A nuthber of the democratic candi. | fates, are Roman Catholics, and all members of that Church are incligible to oilice in this State, Btitution in this respect is seldom or NEVER ENVORCED, but it ig not Impossible that this year the election of a ited States Senator will depend upon its enforce. ment, and already a good deal of anxtety is manifested in consequence. To-morrow is the last day of the canvass, but except as regards getting out the vote and manipu- lating the voters the campaign is already virtually closed. The result will be very close and nothing except an unexpected revolution in the polities of this Btate can give either party more than a bare majority. VIRGINIA POLITICS. YHE POLITICAL CALDRON SEETHING WITH 4 NEW INGREDIENT—ATTITUDE AND STRENGTH OF THE INDEPENDENTS—THE PROSPECTS FOR THE COMING GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN, Ricumoxp, March 8, 1876. co there would have been people Three or four days bere and elsewhere in Virginia—not a few—who would | have acknowledged that the result of the coming State elections was somewhat doubtful. shai a variety of circumstances had occurred to shake the serene security with which the conservatives have held their ascendancy in Virginia ever since the color line was so successfully drawn in their politics in the campaign of Colonel Withers against the Underwood tonstitution, It will be in order to refer to some of these causes and circumstances hereafter, At present it appears that the Belknap scandal and the prospect of other developments affecting the good character and ordinary honest name of the Grant administration have struck the repubhcans a blow so staggering and Severe what their recovery in time to make a suc- ceasful canvass seems quite unlikely. This result will largely depend, however, on the vote of other States which are to hold elections before Vir- ginia. If the republicans hold their ground in these trials of strength at the po'ls the party may be in- spirited and emboldened here; but if the returns shall show any diminution of radical strength in Now Eng- lard there will be a still more absolute disintegration of the carpet-bag and negro alliance than existed before the defeat of Judge Hughes for the gubernatorial » ebair. A SRW ELEMENT of the political situation is the body of so-called Inde- pendents and self-styled reformors which has recently gained some strength and made some headway in va- rious cities of the State, and potably in this city, The very unchallenged superiority of conservative num- ders, organization and power has been a factor of | division and an occasion of weakness in their lines, Thus in somo quarters of the State nominations have The con- | It cannot be denied | | Sneceed: | become so intenwe as to lead any men, with no reason | except unfounded rumor, to be willing to attempt to sto the attitude of the conservatives of Virginin toward General This Pid known that the plat- was ral nominated contained a plank which pledged the con- servative party of the State to make no fictions opposition to the administration. he intro. made | (who afterward ran for | | duction of this plank was understood to have been James Barbour an by. Mr. Congre: as independent in the Eighth district, agarnet ral Hunter and Colone? John 8. Mosby, who is now a resident of Washington and strll | with whose third | term aspirations he is an acknowledged sympathizer. | There were, agit 18 known, men high ih party thority im te State who -leaned very strongly tow: Grantism, and who expected to ace a great third party organized, a kind of imperial and personal party, of moderate and rational principles, which would engage theirsuppors im the claime of security, solidity, equal deat Lo all sections and tbe blessings of peace and jaw. The course of the President in the Louisiana usurpation went far to dissolve these dreams; and, as an evidence of the instability qd inconsistency of the pautigians, it was observed (hat the conservatives who jad been loudevt afd readiest to sound the iden prin and to bint at the advantages of a close allrance ween his forianes and those of Virginia were now so | treme in the other direction a8 quite to drown out the voices of other men who bad all dlong opposed and denounced the unholy treaty, 1 might be more ex- pilot here, but there is no occasion, and we might as Well keep our slit linen at_home to be mended and our soiled linen to be laved. Lo! but whatever sparse | ds-ot ntism might stil) have lingored in this part of the viney have been still more scattered it not wholly uprooted and destroyed by the BELKNAP INVESTIGATION. It to say that Grant stock was never quoted Jower than it rules jn the Virginia market at this tim ‘be scrip of the worst broken doWn railroad that ever went into the bands of some truly loyal and traly pious recetver would fetch more now than any quaptity of Grant stock that could be offered in the, market, And,» though the republican party of the State is declarod to | be generally for Hiuine, these scandals will react on the whole concern and very materially add to.| their demoralization.. Indeed, it is tairly tobe doubted | whether the radical party has really stood for Blaine. | That pretence I have always regarded asa mask, The’, white radicals of the State, being made up almost | without exception of office-holders and office-hunters, | have no souls which they dare call their own, and they are for that man and ng other who will be elected and afford them a new lease of official enjoyment, I think: they are all at heart Grant men, and would really PREPKR A THIRD TEND, on the good ground that they are already recipients of | Grant's favor and are well disposed to let well enough alone, The Conservative State Committee meets in this city on the 16th inst, to call a convention for the purpose of reorganizing the party and appointing delegates to the St. Louis Convention. There is a considerable demarid in some quatters for the chtire recast of the State Committee, on the ground | that some of its members apd. officers hi openly idontified themselves with independents and opposed. the regulit tickets of the party. Whether this de- mand will amount to anything remains to be seen, for ibmay prove that the mdependents are strong enough to hold their places, notwithstanding the imeconsist- It is impossible to forecast the | decision of the Convention with respect to the Presi- dential question, Itis Likely that the Convention will content itself by electing good men and true, to whom the enuire responsibility will be remitted of selecting a | strong, safe and popular candidate to succeed Gencral | Grant in the White, House. They will probably go to . the Conyention CNPLEDGRD AND UNINSTRUCTED. The conservatives of the State are reatly at sea with Fespect to the choice of the party for Presidential honors. There are many who prejer Senator Thur- man, on the ground, principally, as it seems to me, that he ts anative of Lynchburg, Va., from whieh city, itis humorously or sitirically stated, all the great men | of the country co! There are some, and those not TILDEN MEN, strength with the masses. Many of the country people never even heardof him, Uniess | mistake there is grad- ually growing up aconsiderable party which believes | that, in view of the revival of the war and sectional | issues by Mr, Blaine, it would be a good antidote to that genticman’s poison to place General Hancock on the democratic ticket, Ther® are not a few whose views on the subject of the Presidential preference de-' | pend on probable effect on the claims and chances | of ex-Goyernor Gilbert C. Waiker for the second place on the ticket. There are sectional adherents of Mr. Bayard, Mr. Hendricks, of Mr. Kerr tlt bis recent ill- ness, and once in a while. loose-money gentleman who wants to seé Mr. Pendleton or Mr, Allen ia the chair, THK GUBKRNATORIAL QUESTION. Who Is to be thé next Governor? 1 a question more easily asked than answered, Itts understood to le between Hon, John Goode, now member of Congress from the Norfolk district, and Major Jobn M. Daniel, now State Senator {tom Lynchburg, who lacked but two votes in the conservative caucus last December of ing Judge Jubnston in the United States Sen- ate, ich of these gentiemen has a strong personal following, and both will command an enthusiastic sup- port, Both are statesmen of whom the people are proud, and cither would make a canyass that would cause the hills to echo to the seashore. Major Daniel is acknowledged to be the foremost orator in the Com- monwealth, and has largely added to his reputation in that respect during the present session of the Legis- lature by his speeches in favor of seating General Johnson and in opposition to the Texas Pacitic subsidy resolutions offered in the Senate by Judge Critchen, of Westmoreland. POLITICAL NOTES. The Racine (Wis.) Journal (rep.) asks :—‘'Has Grant's administration been a failure?” That depends a good deal upon what might have beon expected of it, In some things it has been a decide. success. The Buffalo Commercial (rep.), referring to the town elections in Eric county, says:—‘‘While the result is not as good as we had hoped for a week ago, it is far better than wo have had any reason to expect since the terrible disclosures connected with Genefal Belknap’s | downfall and disgrace were published, The republicans have held their own remarkably woll in the face of that most discouraging circumstance,” Says the Hartford Courant (rep.) in regard to the in- sinuations against Postmaster General Jewell:—‘The sources from which these insinuations against him have emanated prove their bitter partisan character, ang it is only to be regretted that partisanship should ever | smirch the character of an honored feliow-citizen.”” Tho Quincy (Ii) Wig (rep.) puts a point in this re- froshing way:—‘Mr. Clymer, in his reformatory zeal, appears, unluckily, tohave got himself between the devil and the deep sea Whereas ho undertook to shear arepublican hog, he finds it emitting a democratic | 4, | squeal and yielding rather more democratic bristles been made which great numbers of the party did not | spprove and would not sustain, and these nominations have Jed to schisms and splits which bare given no end of trouble and menaced much danger to the ascendancy of the now dominant politics. The alliance between the independents and the Custom House is attended with two or three effects Ol divided weight in the political ducl It leads to the bomination of men of a better class and higher social influence and position than ever opposed the conserva- tive tickets when the lines were squarely drawn be- tween the white and black parties, for it need hardly be stated that the independents have done all the “moving” and the radicals bave done all the voting in {tis curious copartnership of extremes that mect to carry oat the common political purpose of ousting from power some of the conservative leacers. Another consequence is that the elections are held with more Bonesty and fairness, and if the ballot is tampered with at all the blame of it and the consequences of it are more likely to be traced home and visited upon those who thought to bs benefited by it Thus, the con- servative House of Delegates refused to seat some con- vervativo contestants, sent other eleetions back to the people, and admitted other conservatives to ther yeats—or rather confirmed them im their seats—by rotes so close as to graze the gentlemen uncomfortably closely. Thus, also, the conservative Senate unseated the sitting conservative from Portsmouth, and seated General Bradicy T. Johnson in the Richmond district, by a voto so close that one republican member's suf. frage was necessary to his cause, and the independents themselves were satisfied by tho victory of the candi date, whieh was attended with fo many conditions what must have marred its enjoyment for him The result of these contentions is that the independents here arc bent on effecting an organization and insuring the somination of the best and. most substantial citizens only jor places of authority in the conservative organization and for the offices soon to be filled in the municipal government The papers of this morning contain = card, signed by many reform conservatives, which demands = the resignation of the City Executive Committee, on the ground that its members do not faithfally or Guy rep- resent the intelligence, character and substance of the city. Thus, you see, the pot here is considerably boiling and al! kind: of flotsam and jetsam appear from me to time on the disturbed surface, There is no tell- fog What all this might have resaited in except for tne singular and sudden exposure which has cast over the Cabinet of General Grant a shadow so deep and ove! | But even that rule is not infalliblo, as has been seen. than republican wool. Nevertheless, Mr. Clymer, pro- | coed with your shearing.” “The repudhican party is ready to face the issue,” cries the Albany Journal (rep.) The editor has proba- | bly been to see the play of ‘‘Brass,’” | ‘A Westorn paper thinks {t strange that Belknap | should have lost his game when he held both Bowers. Perhaps he did not play bis hand according to Schenck. In these days, when we find the papers teeming with accounts of corruption in bigh places, it is pleasant to read paragraphs like the following, which we find in the Salem (Mass.) Register :— While George N. Briggs was Governor of Massachu- setts a distinguished Boston gentieman called upon him and sugg: sted that frieuds had thought the Governor attended too many temperance conventions and made too many temperance speeches for one occupying so honorable and dignified a position as chief magistrate of the Commonwealth. The Gorervor replied :—''When you see thogg friends on your return give them my best Tespects, and say to them that, in my opinion, to at- tend temperance conventions and make temperance speeches is not only the most dignified, but the most usefal employment the people of Massachusetts can put their Governor to, and that while | am Governor I shall continue at the business," Congressman Purman (rep.), of Florida, against whom charges of corruption have been made, writes to | acolored political chum tn the “Land of Flowers :”— | terest enemies “It makes no difference what impediments or what devils get into our path the party is bound to win again, for I believe the republican party is the special child of God, and that all good republicans will go to to heaven when they aie.” A Florida paper suggests that “the Comptroller's report isa matter of much more conse. | quence to him just now, and the hint which tt conveys to bim of the possibie exchange of Congressional honors for a striped sult in the Penitentiary should | command his most careful consideration." There must be no more cracked china in the Cab- shet.—Pitteburg Commercial (rep.) Many of the republican papers are nominating Jobn | | J. Ingalls for Vice President, This is wrong Senator Ingalls has made @ good record as Senator, His bit- | have no room to maintain the con- ary. He bas looked sharply after the Interests of | Kansas and the entire West, especially in his sharp | scrutiny of the abuses prevalent in the Indian Bureau, Continued tn bis present position he tsa man who can | be of service to the count Elect him Vice Prest dent and you transier him to a circumscribed fleld of action, where the honor may, perhaps, be greater, but the usefulness far less. —Sickle and Sheaf (lowa gran- ger rep.) He (Senator Ingalls) (s too young to shelve in the manner indicated. It Is true that by electing him Vice | President a Senatorial vacancy is created for some aspiring politician to Gli, but the chances are ten to | one that such @ swap would result to the detriment of | Kansas interests, Politically we do not agree with | Mr. Ingalls in his strong support of Grant, but we can- not help respecting his ability and appreciating hie | active care of Kansas tnterests.—/owa granger organ, | All of New England, Wisconsin and [linoi: eo far declared for Biaine.—Fort Smith (4rk) New Bra ver | ing to Keokuk atver the war, | publicans and was rewarded by | friends of being a man ambitious of ‘ALL ABOUT “BELKY.” THE KNIGHTLY KEOKUKER—A FRIEND WITH- OUT FAMILIARITY—-POPULAR AMONG HIS NEIGHBORS—KEOKUK THE HOME OF THE IND- IAN TRADER—THE BELKNAPS AND THE. BOWERS—KEOKUK CURSES AND 15 CURSED. (Keokak eorrespondence St. Louis Republican.) “Why,’? the Keokuker was accustomed to say, “this community is the very ‘nursery and training school of Judicial, political. and social greatness.” “Keokuk,” they would exptain, ‘‘has given to the Supreme Court & judge, to politics many aiscerning statesmen, to the Cabinet two ministers.and to society its most brilliant | ornaments in that centre of social brilliancy, the na- tional capital.’ Moreover, there was a time when some of “the best people in Keokuk.” perhaps atllicted by a touch of Vanity, with no little display of pomp and. exhibition of anatural pride, would confidently, and. boasting!y assure the unsuspecting stranger that Keokuk could also claim, by right of consanguineous relationship, to be at least the mother-in-law'10 the most remarkable man of his age, the great financier of Wall street, the frend of the President, the chum of Boss’ Shep- herd, the ally of Rufus B. Bullock (Georgia’s abscond- ing Governor)—in short, that. wonderful youth of des- tiny ‘who looked “sharp enough to cut Wall strect in In | two " and was sharp as he looked—Henry Clews, him Keokuk onee took delight. But Keokuk people are not now proud of their “children of destiny,” who | went forth frem the Gate of the Missixsippi te dazzle the eyes, contound the reasou and astonish. the world by their brillant achievements | No, they aro not proud of their great ones now. HOW DELKNAP. CAME, in 1849-50, during the existence of the Thirty-frst Congress, when Hon. Daniel Miller, at present. an emi->| nent barrister at Keokuk, was a representative in Con- gress, ono morning a messenger came to him in the House and told him that a gentleman waited ta speak to him in one of the committee or reception rooms. | Mr. Miller went to meet him, He saw a young man, @ stranger whom he had never met before, waiting to re- ceive him The young man introduced himself as Will iam W. Belknap, and said he had lately completed his, legal studies at ton and had some idea of going West. He then’ proceeded to make very careful in- quiries conéernitig Keokuk, the prospects before it, the development of the country about i, and con cluded by telling Mr, Miller that an all probability pe would shortly proceed to that city to make it his future home, Young Belknap then took his leave. The next lime the Congressman and the young map mek was in Keokuk, Belknap entered upon the practice of the law in that towu. His siecess was in ho way remarka- bie, He was regarded as a young man without brilliant gifts in anything, had no ability ag an orator, was plain and plodding and socially a “good fellow.” He was always regarded ty Keokuk as & man: of strong com- mon sense, anu as possessed of remarkable ability ag a Vigorous, terse writer, MIS ONCE LAW PARTNER'S EXPERIENCE, In Keokuk resides a geutieman well known and highly esteemed by alarge circle of friends and ac- quaintances. He is a lawyer by profession, and once | had the misfortune to be in partoership with Wilham W. Belknap. This gentleman is Mr. P. J, Lomax, the son of a distinguishea professor at 0 time in the University’ot Virgina, Belknap, during his connec- tion with the firm of Lomax & Belknap, revealed to a considerable extent the character which has so lately disgraced the American nation, Belknap at that time was poor, the income from his practice sinal', his de- | sire lor money great, Being intrusted by Mr. Lomax with the collection of the claims of clients as a part of his duties in pursuance of the partnership agreement, Belknap used to collect these accounts, give the firm's receipt for the amount and then use it. The clients of course would naturally inquire about their business. | Tre debtors would produce receipts of the firm, and then Mr. Lomax, the member of the firm who could be made pecuniarily responsible, would pay the bills, Belknap acknowledging that he bad used’ the money. So it went on for somo years, and Mr. Lomax had paid toclients a largo amount of money which Belknap had collected and spent, Years passed away and Lomax had not got his money. After Belknap became collector of revenue, since the war, he “settied’’ with his partner—that is to say, he paid'a percentage of the indebtedness—just how much no one knows, Mr. Lomax himseit keoping every- thing quiet and has not informed auy one of the nature ol the setuiement, When asked about it he simply re- plies, ‘Well, we sottied 11.” MB RAISES A QUESTION OF MAKING A LIVING, Belknap, as beore inumated, had Little or no prop- erty and but a small imcome—in fact, was a poor man, insomuch that, alter having collected a bill for a chent and spent the money, Mr. Lomax inade some inquiries about it and Belknap confessed the appropriation of the cash for bis own beneilt, rose up, paced the floor in eat trepidation and apparent agony, wrung bis ands, apd, in an agitated manner, said:—“It is no Jonger a question of waking money With me, but bow to obtain the means of support.”’ In his bu lations during bis long residence in Keokuk had the reputation among a great many tricky,’ by which may be understood trustworthiness. BECOMES AN OFFICK-HOLDER AND PROVITS THERRRY. Belknap Was & poor man in worldly goods until alter he became an office-holder. Then his affairs took a turn, From the time when he was appointed a col- lector of internal revenue, about 1866-7, he adyanced ple of being geveral un- | Fapidly in the acquisition of woelth. From a condi- tion of comparative poverty to a position of positive affluence was a work accomplished in a relatively short eriod of time. In five years tt 1s said he had aecumn- jated a fortune variously estimated at from $60,000 to $100,009. Of course these estimates and statements | are somewhat conjectural, actual facts not being ac- cessibie to the public. BELKNAL’S POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS, In politics ay Na not regarded as a very pro- nounced partisan, Previous to the war he affifiated with the democratic party. When the conflict of arms opened he took the position ot a pronounced war dem- oerat, raised a regiment and entered the service as colonel of an intaniry regiment, His record jn Wl army was very lair, though unmarked by any extraor- dinary or brilliant actions or deeds of daring. Return- affiiated with the re- collectorship. Daring Jo..nson’s administration ho was inclined to worship at the political shrine established by that President, When Grant became President Belknap was a Grant man. He trimmed his sails to catch all breezes. He ‘was rewarded for his adhesion to the new administra- tion, a8 all the country Knows to its sorrow and shame, A STANCH REPUBLICAN. That Belknap has been regarded a stanch repub- ty in Lowa is sulficiently proved by the t that it was by a leader of the party in the State that bis pame was first presented to the President and urged as one Ht to be sent to the Senate for confirma. tion as Secretary of War; that afterward other leaders of the party joined im the request; that last winter big name Was betore the Legislature of lowa as a candidaic tor the United States Seaate, and (hat neither fricud nor foe questioned his standing as a member of the party, In Keokuk he has not been regarded by any ono as other than a republican ju good standing in the party. MIS SOCIAL QUALITIES, Socially, Belknap was well liked in Keokuk. Men of all purtics speak well of bis social qualities, his geni- ality and ireedom trom that stiffness that does not bend with the popular impulses, from that hauteur which does not enter into sympathy with the masses. Belknap was au approachable man, aud all classes felt at perivet liberty to take him by the hand. He was not a man, however, to permit undue familiarity, He possessed, in an eminent degree, the happy faculty of Deing friendly without being familiar, of being genial without being unduly jovial; be could be reserved without being suf. @ irequently indulged in stories and jokes. But e always maintained a certain dignifled reserve that warned those who would become too lamiliar and rude to keep their distance. He was at home em- phatically a inan of the people—that is, he never passed down the street without a nod, smile or salutation to all whom he met, whatever might be their station. Nor has he the character among his old neighbors and parade tor effect, Quite the reverse ts the view taken of him in Keokak, An instance will show:—Whe' came on & visit to Keokuk for the first time after his appointment to the position of Secretary of War some of his triends, of whom he still has many im_ Keokuk, thought to celo- brate the event and houor their neighbor with an ova- | tion such as Keokuk bad seldom witnessed. Grand preparations were made. Bands of music, flags, ban- ners, &c., Were provided, An elegant carriage was secured. This stately coach, drawn by four splendid white proceeded across vey Belknap in pomp to his home. The Secretary laughed at their preparations and utterly ro- tused (o enter their state carriage, He called it a mere mummery, towbich he would not bea party, These are some Of the traits of character which have made Beiknap rather popular among bis neighvors, and even with persons who had no confidence in his integrity, | He was regarded as « clever man, in both the American and English sense of the term, by different people in Keokuk, Bis popular manners’ and affability won him friends among the masses, while his strong agmmon sense, as it was regarded, and his skill and tact in co ering’ up bis shortcomings, made careiul men | who bad weighed his true character avoid all business compheations with him, HIS NEIGHBORS REGRET is PALL. To all classes in Keokuk his fall is a gource of regret, | Perhaps it would be more proper to say the revelaticn of his charactor in sc public a manner is a melancholy There are those who do wot velie ce he never did possess any fixea pi feeling of shame that one of their fellow citizens sc disgrace the American name throughout the world, Others think, however, ‘tis well, since, in bis case, in his heart Nothing but wondering fralitie % Wild as the winds, and biind as death and ignorance, Inhabit there, Keokuk is the home of Indi ders, whose numbors it would not be ¢ tain. These have al! obtained positions ministration of Delano and Belknap, of the War . \erior departments of the genera: government, There are nota few people in Keokuk who do not seruple to charge the President with guilty knowledge of the pps which have rendered infamous the names of Belknap and others tn connection with them, They Not himsvif a great humorist, | he bridge to Hamilton | | Tenth Ward Hotel yesterday for the purpose of effect- | | are now hunting up the records of the Black riday transaction, and desire to kuow why the President fled frouk the'ttouble ca’ that ocussion A pitiful Fm be | vania village; why the $25,000 traced from Corbin to | Mrs. Grant was never refunded or accounted for by the President; why it is that Orville Grant should be per- | mitted 10 go*out West to the military posts in the | Stoux couptry and dispossess moro honest men. of their positions by bullying and dictating terms | to them; . why the President . should surround | himself ‘with men lke Delano, Williams — and | | Belknap, whose capacity, expericnce and repu- tation for honesty were not Such as to commend them to the confidence of she pecpe! It ts claimed at Keo- kuk that the President could casily Baye ascertained facts relative to the soctal relations of Williams and the somewhat equivocal character of other perso: hear the seat of power which would have saved the country from the shame of their advancement, much Juss the Mneflaceable disgrace of their conduct ‘ THR PRIESDY Ae MAS OBLIGHD, Belknap at once placed his.owg tools and confeder- ates in all profitable positions, as traders at posts ip e Indian country and as contractors and purchasing | ents, Keokuk has furnished a.goodly number of these. And the beneficiaries of the peculating Secre- | tary, i face-of all the evidence of his guilt, bis own a miasions and the efforts of his wile-to save hin om ac- count of herself having done the wrong, are loud in proclaiming him innocent. Two" of these gentlemen, Standing on a street corner the oper day, were beard to denounce the whole committee of Congresé as “a | pack of accursed rebels, who bad trumped up the | charges in order to get an honest map out of the War Offide, that'the retiels might be furnished with supplies | torenew the war,” The presence of so, many beneji-, | ctaries in Kéokuk gives something of a cast to public opinion here. But ew, howe’ question his guilt outside of the Indian post traders’ circles. “HIS DOMBATIC AND SOCIAL RELATIONS, | the, statements and opinions of witnesses before the Ri ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE RIO GRANDE: General Gideon J, Pillow on the Texas Border Raids. THE DEVASTATION OF THE FRONTIER, A th gt’ in the Boundary Line the Only Effective Remedy. THE OPERATIONS OF CORTINA AND HIS BAND liters Mewmruts, Te! To Tus Eviton or TRE HeRaLp:— I have read the editorial article in the Haraup of the 2¢ inst., the suggestions of Genezal Sheridan and: | » March 9, 1876, Congressioual committee with Interest, and in view of the importance of the subject ‘under’ consideration I trust I will be pardoned for offering whatI regard the only solution of those Texas border troubles, Perhaps some facts in relation to the domestic and | social history of the Belknaps would be appropriate at | this Gime, A¢ stated betore, William W. Beiknap came to | Keokuk in 1850-61 He was tirst married, some twenty ;| yearsor more ago, to 4 Miss Leroy, ‘This ladys rep- | resented as having bad a lovely character. Though | beautiful andaccomplished, she Was quiet, unassuming, | | eminently domestic and charitable aad kind in disposi- | tion, Her memory is still cherished by magy friends | who mourhed her fogs. A son, now about seventer yeurs‘of age, is the fruit of this union. ‘The two siste! | Of selknap reside in Keokuk now, One of these was married mony year: to aman natned Walcott, | Miss Annie Belknap, tlie other sister, 18 held tn the | very ighest esteem. | She is represented as being ae! very paragon of charity and Her time is largely | occupied in the pertorinance of her duty to her church | | (the Presbyterian), aud im seeking out and affording | relief w the poor, By many she ts regardedas @ min- | isteripg angel, Miss Anni¢ i8, no longer young, vod | having no responsibility of family resting on her sho | appears to bave made up lier mind to devote her’ life’ to the service of otuers, and in waiting on the churea | | and ute demands in the interest ef religion, | | HELKNAP’S LATER Wi | It fs a‘deheate subject, we kbow, to drag the names of lathes before the public. But when'by their «conduct || they invite such treatment the occasion should not be left unimproved, Of Mrs, Carrie and Amanda Belknap, , | second and third wives of General ‘BelKuap, we have || | some intormation, ‘These ladies were daughters of Dr. | Tomlinson; their native .place Harrodsburg, Ky. It has been given out through the press that the family | | of Dr. Tomlinson was one of very high social position. “| In fact that they were of the “biue blood” of the blue- or even the society of Harrodsburg tn particular, wou admit the claim, They ‘would scarcely assume to chullenge an investigation of their claim to a former high sociai rank. That they might ciaim that they sas good as anybody else” is quite possible, since this issupposell to bo a free-country, So a draymau Tight claim to be as good as the Lawrences, Wiuthrops and Adamses of Massachusetts, or the Lees, Taylors, | Beverleys and Marshalis of Virginia. But who would’ admit the claim? Dr. Tomlinson was a respectable and successful physican, He had two sons and five daughters, if Our information 18 correct, Mrs. R. F. | Bower, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Belknap Nu. 2 Mra Bel. | | kuap No. 8, and one other. Some who have long | known the family do not accord to them the possession | of all the remaining moral qualities left in | the world. Of one of the sisters no word | of reproach can be spoken. This lady is Mrs. RF. | | Bowers, wile of a leading merchant in Keokuk, and brother of John Bowers, who was husband to the pres- | ent Mrs, Belknap. This lady 18 at the head of society | in Keokuk. Her husband {8 a public-sprited citizen | and held in bigh esteem. Mrs. K. F. Bowers was first | married to Colonel Worthington, who was killed in | vattle auring the war, By him she had a daughter, who is now married with Heury Clews, the unfortu- the President, “Boss” Shepperd and Rufus B. Bullock, erst of Georgia. Of Mrs. Carrio or Qurita Belknap, who died some Years ago, there is little to be said. So far as is knowa she sustained an unblemished reputation, THE MOLITICO-SOCIAL TRAGEDY. The people of Keokuk have had moro than a nit | days’ wonder. To tnem the revelation of the Secre! afairs has been a tragedy. Tho play is going on stil, corners and talk the matter over, dies, in the stores, in private houses, and eupectally among the ladies, tsa theme which, it appears, will forever possess fresh interest. They talk of it as they: casually meet on the street; perhaps they dream about the great social sensation, ‘To no people in the world did the news of the Secre-’ tary’s downfall come with more signiticance and force Yban to the people of Keokuk. His relations to the people, his family connections, the position which some of bis nearest of kin oecupy in Keokak wrens all con- spired to make this tertiblo revelation a social drama, ‘the like of which was never before played in the ‘Gate, City.” People have nov yet. reached the requisite calmness for discussion or history or reflection, They ejaculate their surprise, At first it was discredited; then some refused to believe, even it proved. To such the story was a vile conspiracy, a ‘‘plot of the rebels” — 80 said the béncficiaires of the criminal man and the more criminal woman, and so they still say. But proof came, and now Keokuk knows that the play must go ‘on, even at the expense of hurling down its idols, even if shadows creep athwart the threshold of the most pre- tentious of its citizens, and Keokuk has not yet recov- ered from the full effects of the disastrous blow, Still there is time for them to realize that It is the age of bubbles, everywhere One hears the gusty nothings of pretence, And the bubbies at. Jast will burst; that made them will disappear and the surface of so- tenders—the forced mushrooms of a hothouse condi- tion—have all gone. Keokuk knows but too well ene woman who had nearly become the first Jady of tae land jn social rank and is dumb. “THE PRINTERS. Our reporter called yesterday at the rooms of the Typograpical Union and found groups of the members of the craft busily engaged discussing the situation, In convérsation with several of tho craft there was but one opinion exprossed in reference to the action taken by the employing printers, and this was that the workmen would not permit themselves to be dictated to, while they were not unwilling to submit the mat. ter in dispute to arbitration. They say that although a strike may cause some embarrassment to some of their members the society cannot yield the grouud they have taken. In some quarters bitter complaints were heard against the printing houses who, as a! broke through the rms of the compromise made at the end of the long rike in 1989, by employing “rats’’ without notice to the Union men. work. One group of ten men Were unanimous in the sentiment that they would even submit to a reduction to $16 « week if the prices on piece work remained un- changed. THE TAILORS STRIK The journeymen tailors are jubilant over tho victory | gained by the discharge of the men arrested at the in- | Stance of Brooks Brothers, and meetings were held erday in different places io give expression to this | feeling, It was determined not to relax the ‘watch’? at Brooks’ store to hinder the firm from obtaining men to fill the places of the men on strike, The two men | held to serve for a test case, to determine whether the men had the right to parade the sidowalk in fropt of the store, wero discharged, after being brought before the Supreme Court, Chambers, ona writ of laboas corpus, Which was procured to obtaim an immediate hearing, in place of the writ of certiorari which was first applied for. THE CLOTHING CUTTERS, meeting at the | The clothing catters hela a ma: | | ing a reorganization of the trade and discussing tho | prospects of business during the approaching season. The meeting was composed exclusively of Germans, who number about one-half of the 2,000 men engaged brauch of the trade. The new organiza- intended to be for protective purposes; | but i is not their intention to resort to strikes im the future to settle differences, The names of those present not enrolled were added to tue new list | of membership, and a plau of permanent organization | 18 to be submitted at the next meeting by a committe | appointed for that purpose, Action open in three different localities exchanges, where manufacturers may be supplied with workinen, one t ‘be Jocated in Church street, one in Canal street and one in Filth street. THE TRADE UNION CONVENTION. Delegates from the various trade unions in this city met in convention at No. 10 Stanton street yesterday afternoon, Hugh Dalton in the chair, It was decided to call & mass meeting of workingmen for the 20th of March, at Cooper Institute, tc protest against what ts claimed the illegal arrests of the tailors and Crisping ow on strike and to more thoroughly organize the workingmen in this city and State, A CASE OF ABANDONMENT. On last Friday Annio Reynolds, aged nineteen, hay- ing no home, called on Mrs. Carrie Hofman, of No. 415 East Fifteenth street, and asked her to mind her voy baby, three weeks old, for a fow minutes, The tady consented and Annie, after leaving the child, went out and did not return. The baby was sent to the Contra Viice yosierday morning | tn this | ton ts grass region, itis not treaung them harshly to say | that no one familiar with Kentucky society generally, | | nate Wall streot_ operator, and former dear friend of | fae cobremal phi ed ifs lore eked | great activity and endurance. They are thoraughly. since the gteat disgrace, would soon be made aware ot | the fact that the people were intensely interested in | him and his belongings Groups of men gather on the | In the hotel lob- | the airy nothings | ciety will regain its placidity when parvenues and pre- | ‘The principal difficulty is about piece | also taken to | Pirst—We have the most indisputable proofs that these robber raids'have laid waste and depopulated a° belt of about sixty miles’on the Texas bide of the Rio Granite, and that this wasted region extemds nearly 600 miles up and down that river. ‘ avon em Second—That these robber raids have vontinued now for over ‘ten years; that they’ have imcreased in the strength of tho robber force aud in the frequency of the raids, and are penetrating deeper and deeper into | Texas as the supply of cattle is éxhausted and as the population have been murdered of have been driven from their bomes‘in poverty and destitution. © Third—That this system of brigandage and of robber war lins been going on and is kept up, notwithstanding theloud complaints of the people of Texas'and the ro- monstrances of our government with that of Mexico, The only known excuse or explanation given by the Mexiean government is that it cannot control its popu+ sation, Now can sucha state of things be allowed to con- tmue? No duty can be clearer than that our govern- ment must protect its territory aud people from this’ predatory Mexican army, It bas already shown great forbearanco to the weakness of the Mexican govern- ment. Can St tolerate longer these outrages on its peo- ple? Can it longer accept the excuse that the Mexican government cannot control its own -people? ‘These predatory invasions of our territofy and the | murder-and robbery of our people are. now and have been for the past ten years good causes for war, and would have been treated as such by any other gov- ernment. ‘ It would require a mounted force of 10,000 men on that frontier to guard it from these robber raids, The expense to this government of such a force, constantly held on that line, would be an intolerable burden, To place a force equal to the duty of following these or- ganized bands of robbers into Mexican territory and there chastise them, and thus put an end to these in- yasions, would not accomplish the desired results, for the reasons: First—lf our cavalry cannot overtake and cut up these bands of robbers on our side of the river (which. is ap adinitted fact), how could they do so on the Mex- jean side? Those bands of robbers are familiar .with the interior of their own country, When hard pushed they would disbund and scatter through the chaparral mountains of the interior, where pursuit by a pody « Our troups would become impossible. If our force: were to scatter (and weaken the bodyy they would be iable, upon aconcentravion of the enemy in their front, 1 | to surprise and to be cut up. Besides, the pursuit of these vands into Mexican territory would rouse up the | whole population of these border States, and would surely bring on awar. No government in Mexico could stand before the people which would consent to these invasions oLits territory. There are not less than 80,000 to 40,000 of these Mexican robbers in tho two States of Tamaulipas and New Leon. They are all expert horse- men, Their horses are us fleet as the deer, and possess trained to the dash of the robbers and will penetrate a chaparral from which the American horse and hi rider would recoil. ~The Mexican peons are all clot! im dressed leather, and could unbarmed through a Cbapparai thicket which would strip bare and tear the flesu of the Amer ican soldier. My conviction is that all such expedients are but temporary. paihatives. They will not put an end to these troubles. They will but satisiy these organized bands of robbers ot the immunity with which they can pursue their. robber lite. The Mexican peons, who com- | this army ol robbers, constitute pine-tenths of fis population of these border States, They cultivate smail crops of corn, barley and wheat, and they have three-fourths of the year which they can devote to American territory and supplying h beef. The Kio Grande River is nearly dried up for nine months in the year, and is wholly unsuited for a na- tional boundary hoe, ‘There is but one remedy for these troubles that will give permanent peace to the border. That remedy is for our government to take possession of the States of Tamaulipas and New Leon, making the Panuco River | and the Sierra Madre Mountains the boundary between | the two governments, This being done it should organ- | ize these States into territori.l governments, arrest | and try all the robbers they can catch by a military commussion, for murder, robbery, &c. That will give | peace to the country, and will add to ita territory equal in its ability of productiveness and its climate to the Island of Cuba. ‘The State of Tamaulipas is a Gulf State, with about | 500: miles of coxst front, extending from the Rio Grande to Tampico on the south apd to the Sierra | Madre Mountians on the west, and is equal to any por- tion of the earth for the production of sugar and the tropical fraits. New Leon is an intcrior State, consist- ing of mountains and valleys, resembling much West Virginia or Eastern Ohio, The Panuco Kiver is broad and deep, and lor sixty miles trom its inouth it would float a man-ol-war, The water over the bar at its mouth is from cieven to thirteen feet deep, This river cuts through the mountain—the ono branch being the Montezuma and coming out of the valley of Mexico, and the otheris the Sun Louis de Potosi, and comes out of the State of that name, From the mouth of this river to the cut through the mountain it would constitute a fine national boundary, | From the point of intersection of the river and moun | tain the boundary should be the great ch of the mountain and northwardly. Itis on its eastern face agreat chain of brown basaltic rock, from 6,000 to 10,000 feet high, with a perpendicular eastern face, and utterly bare of Vegetation of any sort on the summit and side, From the Panuco River to Saltillo, a distance of about 600 miles, there are but two small and narrow passes, | ouly capable of allowing a single male to pass, aud | these passes are high up on the mountain. The first of ith passes, going north, is known as the Santa Ba: bara pass; the second is at Victoria Fortify these i and a single company of artiliery could protect them “against any force which could come against thei. At Saltillo, in front of which is the battle field of Buena Vista, the great road from the capital of Mexico passes to the north. i This pass fortified aregiment could hold it against any ordinary force. Victoria, situatod the base of the mountain and nearly equally distant from Tampico and Monterey, he capital of Tamaulipas, or was in 1847, Monterey | is the capital of New Loon, | From Sattillo the live should form the main chain of mountain worthwest until it Intersects our present | Voundary line, It would cut the States of Cohahutla and Chihuahva ‘This was the boundary that President Polk was most anxious to have estabitshed when we had conquered Mexiov, and which hq would have established byt for embarrassments | need not here advert to. | To establish this great natural boundary as our n tional one is the only permanent settiement of the Texas border troubles which is possible, The writer marched over this country during the Mexican war and has a personal Knowledge of what he has written, | Mexico has given us constant cause ot war for the | pest ten years. I do now favor declaring war against er. But it she is sincere im saying she cannot control the popalation of her two northern border States it becomes a necessity for our government to take pos- fession of the territory to this great natural boundary, | and ourselves govern and control this turbulent ele | ment which she cannot control. |. This would be Veranity for U for the favure,”’ If Mexico chose to consiter this act of ours a cause | of war (as it would be), let her accept it and bave it | to herheart’s content. If she wanted a few millon of | dollars to reconcile her to the loss of territory, give her $5,000,000 or even $10,000,000. This done we should have ne more border troubles, | The Panuco River is impassable at all times except in | ferryboats, and for 600 miles no living animal could pass over the mountains except a. the two narrow passes already indicated above, Yours, respecttully, GIDEON J. PILLOW, | i past and security A SKETCH OF THE OPERATIONS ON THR BORDER SINCE THE WAR—HOW A FRONTIER WAS LEFT DEFENCELESS—CORTINA AND HIS BAND OF ROBBERS, Wasuixctox, March 10, 1976. To rne Epttor or tik Herat: Ae article in the Heraio of March 2 may have pro- duced a wrong impression on the minds of some of its readers with reference to our border troubles with Mexico, Asthe attorney of 1,354 persons, who claim to have lost property at the ae of Mexican ma- | lation to the action | tonging to him, Mr. White left the jewel on the cour randers, 1 am willing to say, with the Henao, that such of my clients as yet remain upon the border bave 6 greater anziety for tm- modiate protection against present and future dangers than for roclamation for damages already suffered. The father who has lost two chik dren and 1,000cattle is more anxious to save his wife and his one remaining child and his 500 re maining cattle than for payment of the damages justly due him. Ofa matter that has occupied my time for nearly four years, and. in the inveshgation of whicl two Congressional commissions have expended $50,000 in gesting testimony, to which great atten tion.bas been devoted by the State and War Depart ments and by Congressional committees, to say nothing of the many investigations by- United States grand. Juries, it will be'impossible 16 give ‘you more thas ® faint outline im a short statement. AT THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION the United States ired the State troops of Texas stationed along the Mexican border to be disarmed, and no adequate protection wag fur: the United States, thus leaving exposed the most y stocked art of the State. The cattle of that had been increasing rapidily during the War,for there was-no market, the revel army urawing their trot further east and the outlet for thezerpiee being cnt off by the Northern armtes in‘Colorad - JUAN COTTINA, the head ofa band of-robbers ‘and- cutth; had thrown himself into the Maximilian war, received recoghition by the Mexican government und an kppoiht.° ment of General in the Mexican army and Governor ot Tomaulipas. Thus vosted with the almost supreme control of Bastern Mexico, along the Rio Grande, no sooner were the Texas troops disarmed than Cor- tina found ita good- field to ply his natural vocation, He established seven ranches along the border; sent his fotlowers, often commanded. isd well known uflicera- of Ins army, to take thé cattle and horses of the Texas- people and bring them to these ranches, where they were rebranded and sold in the Mexican mar. kets, Cortina poring his army with the ty, and re- taining the balance, by far the greater portton, himself nding the markets of Mexico too limited for the vast hase of catile he could thus obtain from Texas. ha - made ; . CONTRACT WITH CUBA + ts furnish beet, which contract he illed by fitst takitg @ cattle across the line--ihe crossings were mouth of the Rio Granta to about 100 mile: al athe mouth of the Pecos—and then driving them tothe coast. By 1st our western boraer had becn pushed back over 100 miles, aud a belt of ceunsry of, that width by over) 400 miles long bad been completely depopulated, the’ raids meafiwntle extending still farther beyond. The peuple having made many complaints a, “CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION was twice sent to Texas to gain, information in the; matter of “Depredations on the frontiers of Texas,” And iy two feports:that commission submitted an tm- mense mass of testimony embodying the aforeme: tioned fadts, and much mofe. The Siate and War de- partments have also supplied much testumony showing the ‘samé ‘condition of affairs. Aselect ‘committee of the House of tatives, appointed to investigate the matter and to determine What legislation 1s needed to protect the border hat recently concluded its jabors, Cee taking much testi mong, and’ Tovasures «re now being perfected to give ' protection for the future ‘and indemnity for the past ; he claimants do not ask the- United States to pay thr money, but they do ask that the United States Toran from Mexico fill restitution for all claims they cas prove before a joint commission of the two gover! ments. sf THY REMEDY SOUGHT FOR, i by my clients is through the treaty-making power, although a declaration by the legislative branch of ‘the! government ‘that when the general of a toreign army and the governor of a foreign State se an army of robbers -within the domain of the United 8! ja time of profound peace, and takes the onene tour people and murders our citizens, it is tho duty, government to demand prompt accounting pay: ment,”’ might cause the Executive to make immodidu. peremptory demand, ‘ ‘The State Department is Rogotiating in the premises and I have no oveasion to be impatient with it, ¢ JASPER W, JOHNSON, © AN ALLEGED FEMALE SWINDLER? Mrs, Henrietta A. Geyer, proprietress of the Maisox Richelieu, corner of Thirtieth street and Lexington avenue, appeared before Justice Duffy afew days age and asked for a warrant for the arrest af Annie ©, Kley, who refused to pay her board bill. The specific gharge preferred was false pretences, she having, as alleged, induced Mrs. Geyer to take her in asa boarder op the Teprosentation that sho had a judgment of some thou sands of dollars coming to her ,in a short time, which would enable ber to meet all her expenses, A warrant, as already stated in the Herat, was refused, the Court being in doubt as to eepoeet, to grant one, and a sum- mons was issued instead, Mrs. Kiey, being an old hand in the law business, refused to appear on th im mons, and Mrs. Geyer again appeared in court yesterday, ac- companied by Colonel Spencer as her counsel, Mr. Spon. cer called the attention of the court to the fact that irs, Kley was a contidence woman, the equal of whom was not probably to be found in the country, and that she had swindled sume of the most wide-awake busi- ness men in the community. Tne following list of the victims’ names andthe sums lost by them was” ced fi G, 8 Jackson & Co., grocers, Sixth avenue and Forty. eighth strect, $69; Houston & Stanley, Sixth ayenue and Forty-tourth street, $130; Mr. amg Sixth ave nue and hn McDonald, No, ‘orty-secoud street, $29; John 28 Third street; Keller Koutz, No. 1 Maiden lane,’ $82; Andrew Simpson, baker, Fourth avenue and Bowery, $46; H. G. Peters, grocer, No. 1,429 Broadway, $61; Philip Reed, coaches, $650; Kelly & Co., upholsterers, White street, $701; H. B. Claflin & Co., $730; Miss Morates, hairdresser, No. 14 Clinton place, '$585; J. J. Morrissey, upholsterer, $91; Robert Ss. Munson, judgment debt, W. ©. McGibbon, Fifth avenue ‘and Twenty-(irst street, $406; Dr, Hall, Journal a Health, house rent, &c., $5,000; Warren Ward, furni- ture, Spring street, $: Mellvain, No, Thirty-eighth street, $300; H. Ruehl, No, 646 Sixth avenue, $88; E. M. Stratton, coal, $52; Macy & Co., Sixth avenue and Forty-third stroet, $220; William Dremen, Sixth avenue and Thirty-soventh street West Mrs. Lyman, boarding house, No. 34 Varick street, $230; Mr. Eihot, butcher, Sixth avenue and ‘Forty-thind street,’ $250; Kkagene Wester- velt, hardware, Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth street, $70; John Townshend, lawyer, $250; Mr. Spencer stated further that none of these persora were in court, but he had reason to believe that. they would appear if this woman were arrested. The war- rant was Snally granted on the charge of talse pretences made by Mes. Geyer, and was given to Oficer O'Connell, of the Court squad, for execution. Mrs, Kley (whose alias is said to be Bogart) was found at No, 133 East Eighth street, and locked up in the Nineteenth precinct station house. She was arrested once before, September 25, 1868, on charge of swin- dling several persons, and was arraigned 5 before Judge Manstield at the Essex Market Police Court; but she was subsequently discharged. lt is stated further that she is the wife of a German who has held a position of good salary in Washington for many years and who sends ser $100 a month, But this does not prevent her from claiming a certain gen- tleman of this city as the father of her four or five children. The gentieman alluded to was but recently married to the daughier of a prominent citizen of the Twenty-sevond ward, im whoso house the weddin| ception was held, Inthe midst of the testivities Mrs, Kley appeared on the scene and conducted herself ir such a manner that the scandal caused thereby has n¢ yet passed away, ‘ The prisoner will be arraigned at the Tombs. th' morning, MASKED BURGLARS. Yesterday morning, a little after one o'clock, five masked burglars broke into the house of Mr. Crossley, on the Dallytown road, in English Neighborhood, Berges county, N.J. The burglars proceeded up into his bed room and presenting a pistol at his head threatened blow his orains out if he made the slightest resistance, Mr. Crossley being awakened froma sound slamber took the position in at a glanec and allowed bis unwel- come visitors to proceed as they thought best in ransacking his property. The booty captured by them consisted of about $300 in money and a considerable quantity of valuable jewelry and clothing. Articles in the drawers were pitehed about on the th ind near Mr. Crossley’s head a revolver was occasionally displayed whon he became restless, At last, having secured all the booty they could, and cautioning Mr. Crossley oy giving the alarm toe soon, they went away, r. Crosstey recognized none of the burglars, On leaving the house thoy placed their spoils in Mr, Crossley’s business wagon, to which they had attached an excellont sorrel horse, and drove away. Mr. Crossley saw them drive off, but was unable to pursue them. No arrests have been made, THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The Cond: Release Committee held an adjourned meeting at O'Donovan Rossa’s Hotel, No. 182 Chatham square, yesterday aftcrnoon. The committee appointed Ata previous meeting to secure competent speakers for the meeting in the Cooper Institute on the night of the 17th inst, reported progress, and were instructed «4 ‘Wail personally upon some prominent citizens with » view to securing their attendance. A committee wat appointed to wait upon Mayor Wickham to ask him t¢ preside at the meeting. as the mayors of Cincinnati Chicago and other cities have done at meetings hi i recently for the same purpose. A letter from Congress. man 8, 8. Cox to the Secretary of the committee, in re bout to be taken in Congress with regard to Captain Conaon’s case, was then read, after which @ committee to draw up resolutions to be subs mitted to the Cooper Institute meeting was appointed, lov ons were sent to the Sixty-ninth regiment, N.G.3.N. Y., the Irish Volunteers and other Irish military organizations to attend the meeting ina body, and 's Day 10,000 handbills for distribution on St. Patri were ordered tc he printed. After some tertuee busi. ness the committer adjourned to Thursda: evening 16th inst., when the final arrangements will be made pocionnatineriiatoanaasosnisntid MR, WHITE'S MISTAKK. Mr. Michae) Nowman, of No, 8 Tiffany place, wae arrested on complaint of John Waite, of No, 6 Monroe street, New York. The complainant alleged that the accused had pocketed a diamond pin worth $1,600 be Yer of @ liquor saioon on Fulton street, the a. cused was in the place at the time he mi toed tt While {n the stativn louse, where the sergeant.was maki an entry of the charge, White found that he bad been robbed, as the pin was in his own pocket, Nowe ‘Man Was thereupon discharged, a y 4 | | ;