The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1876, Page 4

4 THE BLAINE SCANDAL Another Startling Sensation Before the Investigating Committee. °. STATEMENT OF THE WITNESS MULLIGAN. dow Important Letters Were Obtained from Him by the Ex-Speaker. ALLEGED ENTREATIES AND THREATS OF SUICIDE The Statement Declared a Fancy Sketch * by Mr. Blaine. WHAT THE LETTERS CONTAINED. — Wasuixcrtox, Jane 1, 1876. The Sub-—Judiciary Committee met again this morning, aud James Mulligan was recalled, ° The witneas—I wish to ask the indulgence of the comm:ttee for afew moments to make a personal, and to mea painful statemect, When I first arrived in this cliy, and within about fliteen minutes’ alter my arrival, there came @ communiestion from Mr. Blaine to Mir, Fisher—of course 1 wish it understood that J am plating this under oath. ‘Toe Chairman—We so understand it. ‘The witness—There caine a communication from Mr, Blaine inviting Mr. Fisher ama me up to bis residence, 1 declined to go, for the reasvo that | did not want it ‘sutd that 1 had gone to see Mr. Blaine. I wanted to come into this commitice room untrammelied by any influence, Mr, Fisher weut up to Mr. Blaine’s house, or at least he so reportea to me, and he told Mr, Bi bout certain tacte that 1 could prove and certain re that I bad got. Mr. Blaine said that ML should publish them, or that if this commits whould get hold of them, they would rain bim for life, and wasted to know if I would surrend them. I told bim no, and that I would not give them to the commitr unless it should turn out that it was necessary for me to produce them; after my examination hore yester- fay Mr. Blaine came to the Riggs House and there bad a conierence with Mr, Atkins, Mr, Fisher und myweil; @ wanted to see th letters 1 bad; I declined to let nim see them; he prayed, almost, f would say, wei ou his knees aud imp.ored me to think of his #1x cb: dren and bis wile, and that if the committee should get bold of this communication it would sink him imu diately und ruin him forever; I toid bim I sbould not give them to him; be asked me if I would let bim read them; 1 said 1 would, if he would promise me on the word of a gentieman that be Would return them to me; I did jet him read them over; he read them over vuce aud culled for them’ again, dnd read them over ugain; hbo still importuned me_ to give those papers up; | declined to do 11; I retited to ty Own room and Le followed me up, ana went over same history about bis tamily, a.d implored me to tive them up to them, and even contemplated suicide; ue asked me if | wanted to see uis coildren left in thi itate, aud he then asked ine agaju it I would not jet utus look over those papers consecUtively—I had them aumbered; 1 told him 1 would if he would return he took the papers, read them all er, and awoug them I had a memorandum that 1 had made by way of u syDopsis of the Letters und rei Ting to the vawubers of tae Jetters—a synopsis contar ing the points of the letters. [had mude that memo- Truudum so a6 to Le able to refer to it here when ques- Moned, He asked me to let him read the letters and I showed him tuis statement too. Afier be bad read ‘nem be asked me what I wanted to do with those papers, it 1 wanted to-use them. I told bun 1 never wanted to use the papers, nor would I sbow them so the commitiee unless when I was called upon to do so Then he asked me if 1 would not give them to him; there was one letter im particular that he wanted me to give bim; I told bun tuat I would not do 1, and the only reason I would not do it was because I saw it stated in one of the evening papers nere—tbe Star, 1 think—that the Biaine purty Were going 10 completely break down the testimony that 1 had given yesterday; that they were sutiwtied about that; 1 said PShouid net publish these letters un- Jess my testimony was impeached or impugned; that Was the only reason that 1 wanted to keep them; ttut 1 wanted to keep them Jor that purpose ; these are the facts, geptiemen, ana | ieave them to you; if I anuer> Stang the order unuer which this committee pe to send or persons and papers, I want this committee to get ior me those papers; Mr, Blaine bas them und would not give them up to me. 2 Biatue—I desire to be sworn immediately as to ¥ pornk ‘The Chairman (to Mr. Malligan)—Is this statement ‘hat you have made a statement voluntarily made by you without the suggestion of anybody’ Has any- douy outside the Biaine party requested you to make ibis Statement, or have any inemvers of the committes requested you todo so? A. No, sir; no living person; there were ouly those two gentlemen—Mr. Blaine and ‘ir. Fisher—preseut at the time, and they rather pre- vailed upon me to give up these letters. By Mr. Lawrence—Mr. Blaine has these letters? A. Yos; he took them from me /ast night. |. Who was present when you surrendered them to him? A. No person but he and!; be came into Mr. Atking’ room and Mr. Fisher's; Ihad the letters and said 1 would never give them up, but they prevailed upon me to give them up; | demanded of tim to give hie Up my own memorandum; he said they were bis ers ‘written to Mr. Fisher, and | said they e given wo me by Mr. Fisher; I did not them surreptitiousiy; they were given to ne by Mr. Fisher, fur any purpose that [ deemed >ro} Mr. Blaine furthermore suid to me, when ho ‘rst met me, that some person told nim 1 was coming on bere; I say mow, under oath, that I have no un- inendly feelings for Mr. Blaine, whatever. @ (By the Chairmun.) Has either member of the commitiee bad any conversation with you since your eXamina.ion yesterday? A. No, sir, Q How many letters did you surrender to Mr Blaine’ A. fhere were fourteen that | had numbered aud thers were about four more in another envevu naking eighteen or nineteen letters, and one statement avout tbe Northern Pacific Katirosd. Q, Whose statement was that; I mean who made it? A. it came from Mr, Blaine; they are all from Blaine aad Under bis own signature. Q. Who was preseat when you first delivered these letters to Mr. Blaine to read on the promise that he would return them’ A. Mr. Atkins, aud | think Mr. Fisher was in the room when | lrst gave them vo him ou the promise that he would return them to me; L then retired irom that room, and be cawe up to my room und asked if 1 would not let him see thein again, and I toid bim 1 had let bim see them once, and there was nothing in them he had not read; he said he Wauited to see them again; I asked him whether upon the word vt a gentleman be would give them back to @ and he suid he would; he admitied to Mr. Fisher Mr. Atkims that the only thing that made bim not give up Wwe papers ( me was my remark that i! any Feports were made where the veracity ol my testimony was impugned | should publish these letters ; 1 toid Mr. Fisber aod Mr. Atkins tbat I said that; I say so now, wo. By Mr. Ashe,—What became of the memoranda that ‘was with these letiers? A. He (Mr. Blaine) bas them. By the Chairman—Who was present when you gave up thevJetters to Mr. Bltine the last timet A. No per- eon but be and I; he tollowea me up to my own room. Q What time was that? A. I should say about fi ei the aiternoon. b ening did you come to town? A. lag Q@ When Mr. blaine wroteto youorto Mr. Fisher he come to his room, you did not Did you have any interview with Mr, Blame re you Were summoned yesterday? A. Yes: he to me when | was getting shaved in the barber shop. Q When? A. Alter the messenger went back to that I would not ¢ hotel proably mo: @ What occurred between you im that interview? A. He shook hands with me, and asked me if I was I wid bim yes and showed him my sum- mons, and he redd it; he told me that he had been ad- 1 was coming on trum Bostou. estimony between you and M Mr. Fisher was situng in the barber's do Dot know whether bo rd i or pot as in Ove barber's chair aud Mr. Fisher was in ai other, and the barber was there; we tliree were as cvu- iiguots nearly as we are now. 5 @ You were not being shaved at that moment? A. No, sit; | was waiting tor Mr. Fisher to get throug! Mr. Bigive eatd he beurd that I was untrienaly to him, and [asked him if I had ever manifested any dispo: Wition of that kind, or what mage tim think so; I Ine bis irtormant, but be would not fo it; he iben asked me sume questions about what! would testily to, and 1 told nim | declined to have any sonversation with him, and wanted to come into this yotnmittee room without anything of that kind, aad 1 segged him not to ask me. @ Was wat your only interview with him previous lo your examination of yesterday! A. Yes. he Mr, Fisher have an interview? A. Mr, Fisher wer’ > his house and he sem: Mr. Fisher, least so Mr. Fisher revoried to me, wanting me up | were Mr, Fisher wanted me, coming back twic aoe Sr. Blaine wanted ine up there, aud to see if he sould hot get Fish the papers from me. Q wi repurted to you? A, Yer tame down amd reported to me saying that wanted me up there, %, He came down twice for you? A. Yes, ir. Fave—The witness said in ordes to get those voperee Wirxgss—That ie what Mr. Fisher reported to that he wanted to see me, not to get the papers, see him about those papers. h the contents of the lette you say you surrendered to ret Fe you familiar jasemeut used to surrender to yon? et which I wish to make my statemout the committee will hear me. = Cegpeme ena) age hen yen Age y Seen] ure Nears Spe eee 1m 07; ‘esterdad the Little Ro and Fort Death Railroad er i ] bonds which you understood went into the bands of the Union Pacitic Railroad through Thomas A. Scott. Mr. Frve—I will object to thas. Will you allow me to ask him one or two questions to lay the foundation of the objection which 4 make ‘“; The Cuainmax—State your objection to the question rst. Mg Frrs—l! desire to show by the witness that those letters were addressed by Mr. Blame to Mr, Fisher; that they were ip a safe occupied by Mr. Fwher; that thu whaeas, having no o— Shetever to them, they not being his property at all, took possession of them and brought hon here to Washington; that there i: nowhere in any of the letters any reference whatever to any bonds ti were sold to Caidweil, to Fisher, to ott or to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. ‘The Cuamuas is pot bo will so answer, have framed my question with that direct view. Mr. Buaine—I wish to ask the committee, before you go into the @atents of those letters, to let mo make my statement. The Cuaimuax—We will give you a hes ra Mr. Braimx—But I do not think you havea right to inject anything inte the beers 4 of the witness at this poiut, What I mean is that this question of the possession of the letters is one that stands alone; it is entirely independent of every other matter. After you go into it, and have disposed of it, the other matter can be quite as properly proceeded with; aud before the witness proceeds any further I should like to make astatement as to the personal matter which he bas teencnet in connection with the possession of these jetters, The Cuaimuax—We are examining him as to those letters now, 1 do not think it is best to inject anything into the testimony at this point. Mr. FRye—The witness made it a matter of privilege by asking permission to make a separate statement in reference to a matter which had nothing to do with the railroad company. dir, Buarye—He has injected his personal statement and 1 want to make o counter statement, ‘The CHarmuax—I do not want to do anything that would put you ut & disadvantage, Mr. Blaine; but I do not think it would te regular ut this time, ‘Mr, BLaixg—Are you going to proceed now with the examipation without allowing any explanation of this tement that bas been made t ‘rhe Coaimmas—That seems to mo to be the regular course of proceeding. Mr. BLatye—It does not strike me that it is quite fair pla: 1 do not want the impression to go forth to the world, in regard to these letters, as this man has stated it without my having an opportunity of making my own statement The Cuammax—There is no possiblo chance of its going forth to the world without your having such op- portunity. Your statement, so control it, will be before the committee in amp for publica: this wituess’ statement. Bess 18 now asked to testify relative to the contents of certain letters, not his letters at all. Ho staied in re- plv thas he thinks he can tell something that was in them. These letters, if bis statement is true, are all in existence and in the hands of Mr. Blaine. Mr, Blaine has not declined to furnish them, nor has he intimated that ne will decline, {submit that there is no rule of evidence by which you. can interrogate this witness relative to the contents of these lvtters until they are shown to be beyond the power of the commit- tee to have the letters themselves. { make that us a Jegal objection to asking this witness what is in the let- ters. The CuairMan—Your objection would, possibly, in a court of justice, be well taken, but 1t has been decidod by the jull committce that this commitice is not to be governed by the ordi rules of law. If the. statement of witness | be true and Mr. Blaine has the rs, then the question asked the witness is at once answered by the production of the letteis If Mr. Blaine contro- verts- the statement of the witness, and does not pro- duce the letters, we have a right to examine the wit- ness about them tu order to elicit the truth. Mr. Frre—It Mr. Blaine took the letters they are in existence, They have not been destroyed utall. If the witness gives a statement at ajl as to tne contents of these letters it can only bea garbied statement. You argsearching for facts. You do not want garbled facts provided you can bave the real facts. 1uo nut mean that this man would garble them any more than any other maa, but apy man stating the contents of letters under such circumstances would be unable to state exactly what they contained. It may be that Mr. Blaine wouid to you that there was not u single word in those letters, from beginning to end, to the effect that Mr. Caldwell or Mr. Scott or the Union Pa- cific Railroad Company ever had anything whatsoever toao with any bonds which Mr, Blaine had of -bis railroad in Arkansas, It may be that ho would say that there was not the slightest word in the letter ind! cating, directly or indirectly, that the bonds which you are inquiring about, and the transaction which you are seeking had avytning whatever todo with the bonds which Mr. Blaine bad of that road. The Cuainman—The witness bas stated that those | letters were given to Mr. Blaine, under a pledge trom | Mr. Blaine that they should be returned to bim, As- | suming that Mr. Blaine bas those letters, he has vio- lated u promise, and be has not offered 10 produce them to the committee. I nave asked tie witness a question as to the contents of those letters, so fur as they bear upon the subject matter of the resolution. That is per- fectly proper. If Mr. Blaine is apprehensive that the witness will give a garbled statement, inadvertantly or otherwise, the remedy is in his own hands to produce the letters. If he declines to produce the letters then thi dence is legitimate. Mr, Braixe—tI would prefer making & statement tn advance, but if the question is insisted upon 1 have no objection to It. Mr. Fxve—Mr. Blaine may desire time to consider whether he will pass the letters over to the committee or not. The Ciainmaxn—When Mr. Blaine makes that requost from the committee it will be time enough to consider it. Mr, Buaixk—That would have formed part of the statement which | asked permission to make. Mr. Asux—i would suggest this:—Toe witness has sworn that Mr. Blaine bas a memorandum which the witness made of the contents of each of those letters, and he swears that Mr. Blaine promised to return it to him, but has not done so. If Mr. Blaine will proauce hat memorsndum to the committee the committee will only examine the witness as to such letters as the memorandum indicates to bear upon the point under inquiry. Mr. Blaine can thea meet witness’ answers by showing the letter itself to the cominittee, which ‘will not go on the record it it 1s fownd that the memo- randam does not correctly state the cont of the letter, and the matter will not go any turth: Mr. Buainx—I think | could simplily this matter very much it 1 could be allowed to make a statement at this point. I thiuk 1 could aid the committee, The Cuairmax—Mr. Blaine has bad those letters since last night, and tf U itness has spoken truth he has got them under circumstances which do not Ho him to retain. them. If t ters do bear upgn this question we are entitied to tl |, ahd if we cannot get them we bavo a right to prove their contents, But alt this can be obviated by Mr. Blaine producing the letters, rn. Lawrexce—Mr. Riaine’ tatement might fur- ® reason which would show the letters were y incompetent. The Cyaimmas—i do not desire to do anything that wo have not a clear mght todo, Nor do I desire to omit anything that we ought todo. But for my part I do not think we should change the current of the ex- amination at this point, Mr. Lawrescx—I think that any examination as to the conteuts of the letters should be post- poned until after Mr. Blaine ,, shall have bad opportunity to reply, so that the committee may have an opportunity to determine whether there is anything in them that is competent baad the resolution which authorizes us to investigate. ters is, as it were, an interlocutory matter, and Mr, Biaine’s statement’ as to it can, with entire propriety, ou'd be, xamination should now bo ‘oceed upon the question last as follows :— interrapted, but should pat, which was now reed @ I want you to state anytbing in those letters | which bears upon your testimony ot yesterday con- corning Little Rock aud Fort Smith Rallroad bonds which you understand went into the hands of the Union Pacific Raiiroad through Thomas A. Scott. A, In my _ testimony poe 1 was if I had any otber testimony than what Mr, Atkins bad said about these bonds and | said yes; that Mr. Blaine had acknowledged it himself in a letter; | Me. Fisber had been writing to Mr. Blaine for some Ume about a settiement, and Mr. Blaine always urged about some back bonds due him as com- missions on the sale of bonds, and saying that he was very short of money and had lust considerable by this transaction, and that he would have to take up these bonds from parties who had | them, or that be had taxen them up, Mr. Fisher wrote him back that be (Mr. Blaine) had not lost avy money, because he (Mr, Fisher) knew whero he bad soid the bonds and got this large amount of money for them. @ What large amount? A. These $64,000; Mr. Blaine wrote to Mr. Fisher (I may not give his exact words, but this 13 the purport of them) that that ey that he bad obtained be did not have in his possession forty-eight hours; that he had not le tor himee.f, but that he had’ turned it over to ocent parties (alluding to Maime parties) ; I ‘e the dato of tho letter. @ You have made a memorandum of the contents of those letters? A. Yes, of tourtee: them. Q@ And that memorandum Mr. Blaine obtained from you lastevening’ A. Yes. ti Q And refused to return it? A. You Q. State how you got possession of these letters? A. | lwas Mr. Fisher's confidential clerk; I was with the | Adams Sugar Refinery, but was doimg some private writing for Me, Fisher; the Adams Sugar Refuery dis: | solved im 1871. and all those papers were tu Mr, Fish- er’s vrivate desk; some of them, however, wore got Mr. Fisher and lwere together in Doane | street after we leit the retiuery; there was nothing | secret im those papers as between Mr, Fisher and me he tit me that those papers were miu | he knew about my bringmg them bere; he went with me last Sunday to the sate and got the papers out, and | wid me L could do whet 1 pleased with them; le saw | them with me in the hotel bere, and read them when he was there; I have not taken them surreptitiously or | asked | | 1080 cannot iL them of you at any timo? No, sit; iways told ine that were at my disposal at any time, @ Upon what ground did Mr. Blaine refuse to re- turn those letters or a memorandum of them? A. He asked m what purpose | wapted the waid he di them to gd betore the committee or the world; I told him that uf it was vot absolutely wecessary under my testimony to produce those letters ‘0 the committee | should not do #o and T should not wse them for apy purpose, excepting that if my honor were at stake I should the presence of Mr. Hiaine ight, and | cay so now; if 4 have those letters, y testimony is impugned to any y, 1 shall, to vindication of myself, mage them puv- 1 covsider I have pertect ht to do so; the: iy; Me. Fisher 18 nerd prec: NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, to suppress those letters? A, That they would ruin bim forever; bocontemplated suicide und to me ip every way he could, and he began then to talk Iitics and asked me about his pom: is triends; 1 talked freely to him ave opinion; be asked me if! liked my preset and [ told bim no, I did not care about it political oftice and 1 Fare—Q. Was any one present at that time? A. No, sir; I state that apon my own veracity; Mr. Blaine is here aud is listening to what 1 say; I consider my Word as good as that of any man that ever lived; 1 tola him there was no political ottice that I wanted. By the Cuammax—Q You have come before the committee and related these facts a tiowonly? A. Upon my own motion on: Q Without consultation? A. Without consultation or admoottion from avy one, and rather, against the yom own mo- ly. other iemen, who advised me not to do it, Q. What Gah ge rere He A. Mr. Atkins and Mr. Fisher. They said they thougnt I ought not to do it, and advised me not to do it, Q. Is there anything else in those fourteen letters of Mr. Blaine to Mr, Fisher which bears upon the subject matter of this inquiry, to wit: the Little Rock and Fort Smith bonds, which went afterward tuto the hands of tne Union Pacific Rallroad Company? A. Mind you, gir, I do not know about what | sadly! bonds went into the Union Pacific jlroad Company; there are bonds that Mr. Blaive got from Mr. Fisher; whether thoue were these particu- bonds or not I don’t kuow; Mr. Blaine himself said, orl understood from his letters that these bonds that went in there were bonds that came {rom these parties nanfed; whether they were bis own bonds that he got this commission on I do not know; there was one letter in the package where he told Mr. Fisher how much was duo on these bonds; he wid him he had received $55,000 of bonds irom him and $20,000 from Caldwell on an outside matter, that is $55,000 of bonds on Mr, Fisher’s account (as per cent. age that he was to get upon those sales of bonds to which I testified yesterday), and the $20,000 of bonds which he got from Mr. Caldwell, Q Two sums, making in the aggregate $75,000 of bonds? A. Yes. Q@ Did he say in that letter that those bonds went into the hands of the Union Pacific Railroad Company through Thomas A, Scott? A. Not in that letter. He did not mention Mr, Scutt’s name in anything, but Mr. Fisher wrote to bim, telling bim that ho (Mr. Fisher) knew where bonds went, und that he much for them; if Mr, Fish thought he (Mr. Blaine) benefited by the transaction he was mistaken, and that be had not had the money torty- eight hours when he passed it over to these parties. Mr. Buatsz—What were the bonds that went to the Maine parties, what denomination of bonds, where they land grant or first mortgage bonds? A. (Refer- ring to memorandum). I can tell you, sir, aud 1 pre- sume you won't dispute 16 because it is in your own handeriting (producing memorandum book labelled Warren Fisher, J. private, which he hands to the all the parties’ names; it you want them you can the whole history now. Q (By the Chairman)—In whose handwriting is this bookY A. James G, Biaine’s. ‘The Cuammax—Now proceed to answer the question. Witxxss—ihe $130,000 of bonds that wero sold to these different partios here were first mortgage bonds. Mr. Buaivg—lbey were first mortgage and not land grant bonds? A. Yes; the next sale was on a different day trom the other. Cuainmax—Was that to the Maine partics? A. Yes, and sold on a different basis; onc man had $8,000 of land grant bonds and $10,000 of first mortgage bonds; that was $18,000 for one man, another man had $6,000 of land grant bonds and $7,500 of first mortgage bonds; another had $5,000 of land graut bonds and $6,250 of first mortgage bonds; another had $0,000 of land grant and $11,250 of first mortgage bonas. Q Wore al! sales that you bave referred to mado by or through Mr. Binine? A. You. Q And In addition to the bonds you have just spoken of as coming to these purchusers, what sort of bonds did Mr, Blaine get? A. He was to get $13,000 ot land grant bonds and $32,500 of first mortgage nds, By Mr. Buame—You do not testify that I actually gotthesef A. No, sir; I say there aro about $36,000 that are due you yet. By the Cuarmman—That is, that he got all except thirty-six bonds? By Mr. Fryx—Do you know whether they were sent tohim or to the Maine men? A. I know that the Maine men paid their own subscriptions to me, aud I gave receipts tor them. Q But you ao not know that Mr, Blaine got bis? A. 1 sent the other parties’ bonds to them by express, and Mr. Blaine got his. By the Cuatrmax—You sent by express the bonds to the Maine parties and delivered to Mr. Blaine his in persout A. No; I did not deliver them to him in per- ton, bat Mr. Fisher dia Mr, Blaine has acknowl- edged that ho got ull those; I gave him myself one lot of forty. Q He got all those $130,000 land bonds and $32,500 of first mortgage bonas, except $36,000—that is to suy, thirty-six bonds? A. Yes. * SUBSCRIBERS TO LITTLE HOCK BONDS. The following shows the subscribers to the Fort Sm nd Little Rock Railroad Company, of Arkansas, as shown by the witness Mulligan. in each instance the subscribers.to bonds received an equa! amount in bonds of their cash subscription and of land grant and first mortgage bona: t A. and P. Coburn, of Skowhegan, Me., to pay $50,000 and recel 150,000, Peter F. Sanborn, of Augusta, Me., to pay $10,000 and receive 000. Anson P. Morrill, to pay $10,000 and receive $30,000. Ruph ©. Jobuston, 8, R. Haseltine, C, B, Hasoltine, N. P, Monroe, A. W. Johnson, H. H. Johnson, Philo Hersey, all of Belfast, Me., paid $5,000 and reccived $15,000, with the exception of Jobuston, who paid $10,000’ and received $30,000; ‘ot M. Morrill, of Au- gusta, paid $5,000 and received $15,000; A. B. Far- well, ot Augusta, and C. M. Batley, of Winthrop, paid $5,000 and received $15,000 each. ‘MR, BLAINE’S STATEMENT, At tho conclusion of Mulligan’s examination Mr, Biawe made the following statement under cath :— Mr, Bluine—This witness opened his statement this morning by detaiing some facts in regurd to the pos- session by him of certain letters which came into my possession. To begin-where he did, I received through a third party a telegram on Monday, stating that Mr. Fisher and Mr. Muihgan were on ‘their way as wit- nesses, the latter uniriendly. Just at that time my mund was consideravly fileé with the story about the Northern Pacific matter, which bad come out throu the letter of Mr, Aquilla Adams, who was lormer!y cu! nected with Mr. Fisher in business, and when | asce: tained on what tran Mr. Fisher was coming I sent a servant with a note to his hotel, saying | would like to have him and Mulligan call at my house at tueir leisure in relution to the Northern Pacific matter and Mr. Adams’ letter. Mr. Fisber catied, but Mr, Mulligan was not willing to call. tf called at the House, and 1 found Mulligan ayting in a barber’schair. 1 shook hands with him. ‘We are not new acquaintances, I have years, and I ‘James, they report that you are here an enemy of mine?” He made some jocular or rathor evasive answer, and then suid that be didn’t want to come to my house, because be didn’t wish to converse with me here in any way about the matter beiore he testitied. 1 hada littic conversation directly afterward with Mr. Fishe in which Mr, Fisher said to me that Mr, Mulligan had good many of my private letters; that he did not kaow or did not think that they bore upon the subject of in- vestigation, but that they embraced a large portion the busioess which, fora number of yeurs, ‘ina been going on between Mr. Fisher and myself, Mr. Fisher has veen an intimate ucquaintance of mine for more than twenty years. He was tora consideratde period associated with my wife’s brother iu business’ in Boston, and Mr. Mulligan was the confidential clerk for many years of another brother of my wife in busi ness, so that I know the parties intimately. Mr. Fisher intimated that Mulligan had these ietters, am without distinctly saying so, he gave me to unders that he was not the leust reluctant to get them all out whether they bore upon the matter under investigation or not. I did not converse with Mulligan at ail until yesterday, when I discovered, | thought, a very great Teadiness vp his part to travel out of the record and tella great many things relating to my pri ness which did not belong at all to the subject of 11 vestigation, and eing that 1 did not want to go into those matters uatil I could have a little con Versation with him on the subject. I thought it was- bigbly improper and unjust that be should do so, be- causy it broadened the field of examination and pre- Yented my having a report or verdict upon the case particularly on hand. So the committee was adjourned Judge Lawrence’s request aiter 1 had spoken with After the adjournment I called on the three gentlemen—Mr. Atkins, Mr. Fisher and Mr, Sulligan— ‘at the Riggs House, and im the parlor of Mr. Atkins I had some conversation with Mulligan about these let- ters, and asked him to show them to me. He did show them, with some reluctance, I said to him:—~Why you aro not afraid of my keeping them, are you Y” and he said, “No,” and handed them tw me | looked them ail over, and he discovered there was only one letter in tho list that at all bore upon the question before the committee, and even that only by a forced construction, and not in reality, i banded them back to hiw. ‘The conversation then became somewhat general before the tour gentlemen, juctuding myseif, in the room, After a iitvle while Mr. Malligan went upstairs’to Mr. Fisher's room, right overtead. I was talking with Mr. Atkins and Mr, Fisher for a few minutes and then | started up to Mr, Fisher’s room and Knocked at the door, und wus ad- mitted, and thero I tatked with Mr. Mulligan tor seme time. 1 may have beep there, I think, the better of an hour, but the form that he gives the interview about iny offeriog him « consulship and about my being rained aod ail that sort of thing was mere fancy. Notuing of the kind occurred, I talked as caimly as 1 am talking this morning. Very soon | said to him:— “1 woulu ike to see one letter among those.’’ I wanted to see the Jetier on which he based his tes- all pres. id Atkins, “Now you keep that k bears on this maser.” (That at Te yate correspondence, covering mal ing Matters that have nothing to do of the investigation, which it would e rrassing to me to have published—as any m0: ivate correspondence would be—and I don't want letters published. You ought to give me these levers. You bave no right to thei ‘nero only two persons in world who havea right to ‘One is the writer and the other the person to bey were written. Now, it you will give these ir, Fisher I will be abundantly satisfied, They wil be in rightiul ownership. They will be in sate hands," Mr. Fisher had before, bimeelf, in quosied itat “they should be in Ue, my presence, re- given to him room, yan ‘wher mieht transvire ip his evaminatian ‘top and about’ he said with a good many “by Gods" that be was going be ag those letters for his protection aud his-vindica- tion. s I said:—“When you get through with the examina- tion, will you give them to me then said:—‘No; if anybody ‘impuns’ my motives, (be -pronounced it in that way), or in any way questions my veracity in tho papers, I shall pu2lish these let- ters, I sard:—‘You do not think J would attack you in the papers? There is nothing to make mo attack you in the papers.” He said:—“Well, if anybody did, he shouid publish them. I bad been running over the lett for some time. The Orst time when be handed them to me, he had shown reluctance. und, as I bave stated, I rei: “You ure not afrait of my keeping thom?’ and he nswered, ‘Ob, no,”’ and banded them to me without y assurance at all, or without anything being said about it, and I had no idea of doing anything else but handing them back, until he announced his purpose and determination taat, no matter who should question his testimony, or impeach or ‘mpun’? his veracity, he would publish the letters,” 1 eaid:—“These are priv letters; these are letters that relate to matters that have no more couuection or relutiouship with the examination now gaing on be'ore tho Judiciary Commitiee the man in the moon, und it wouid be grossly unfair that you should treat pry esac correspondence in that way.” I then said to him:— “Will you ring the bell for a servant and tell him to send Mr. Fisber up trom the lower room?” Ho did 90, and very soon Mr. Fisher came up, and we had a little conversation, in which I repeated be- fore Mr, Fisher what Mulligan had said—bic declara- Uon, or rather his menace. 1 said:— ‘Thus is very grossly unfair, Mr. Fisher. 1 then said that I would be giad if Mr. Fisher would take charge of the letters; that they were rightfully in bis possession. or righttully in wine, bat not ju any third perkon’s, Mulligan repeated again in Mr. Fisher’s presence tis declaration that he would ieel himselt At liberty to publish these letters at any time he saw fit it anyboay should provoke lum unto wrath by any comment on bis textimony, and owing to the somewhat enlarged facilities of the American press for making criticisms upon everybody | ‘ound that my private mdence hung by the thread of bis taking offence at uny of the thousand ayd une paragraphs that might be sect utloat m the papers, and [ said te bim:— “Under these circumstances I will not give these letters up,’ and in order that he might not be mistaken as to the ground of my action, I called Mr. Atkins {rom the lower room, for wanted to tell him the ground on which I stood. I suid:—I will not return these letters because you threaten to mako a use of tnem which is ille- gitimate, which is unfair, which 13 entirely un- Just, and I have no idea that any man shall take my private correspondence and hold it as a menace over my head, to be used ut his beck or option for his ow! Purposes or under samevady's directivn.”” We went down stairs and he repeat: 4 reaffirmed bi: e- ment with very great emp! 3 and I said:. good; I will retain the letters,” When I went home sent for two triends, one a member of the House of Representatives and tho other a lawyer in this city, and J laidevery ono of these letters vetore them— these letters which ‘“‘would disgrace mo for life” and “send my children sorrowing to the grave’? ? prive me of political honors” and all that. and read every one of them, just in the order in which they were pad oae SoM numbered by Mulligan himself. T thon said to these gentleraen alter consultation :— “Lam going to submit these letters to two of the wisest and best counsel that 1 can find in the city of Washington, to-morrow (that is to-day) and I will be guided entirely by them in the action I shall take before the Judiciary Committee. It they say of those letters I should be in duty bound to deliver; if they Intimate to me that there is anything in the letters which bears even remotely or otherwise upon the subject of those interviews, those letters shall be delivered, but I shall wait and be guided by their opinion as to what | ought to do in the premises. ‘As to the bulk of those letters you miyht just as well package from my files send to my bouse and ta’ of correspondence ior 1 jast five years and put it here as eviden ip this investiga- on, Many of them relate to business traus- actions §=which are and = nettied §=up and which Ido not want revived, not that there is Fria iy them which is in any degree embarrass- ing I have them over irecly to those two friends, and, as 1 say, I will read them over treely to those two counsel, There is nothing in these letters which I shall have occasion to blush over. The result 1s that | postponed my action until I could have this conference in regard to ft. There was another reason which made it peculiarly exasperating to me; that is that in the montn of Sep- tember, 1872, Mr. Fisher and 1, alter very long and in the main very pleasant business relations, extending back to a period when 1 was a very young man, had a final setulement, in which we exchanged receipts in full. 1 think the on date was September 21, 1872, It was then said tl all letters on either side and all papers and scraps of papers shoufd be given up, and [ supposed they were given up, These letters had been written carelessly, as business letters olten are. I got a great many letters {rom him, and I gave up all that 1 bad, Mr, Mulligan claims that Mr. Fisher gave these letters to him, that he has aright to them and that he has the right to 82 of that correspondence, which ts, of it, private. When I said to bim that it was all a private correspondence he said:— “The letter of a public man is public.” That was tho ground he took in conversation, and especially it a letter was not marked private Some of these letters, however, are marked “Private,” e are marked ‘‘Personal” and some are marked mfidential.”’ I insisted that it was the grossest ble outrage I sai ‘You take these let before the committee with- out the committee Sie jag meany wrong. They go out to the world, and then when it is seen they hare wo possible relevancy all that there 1s objectionable in the publication has been achieved and accomplished, and it will be too late for me to interpose any tion then.” In other words, the very test of their admissibility involves what | myself protest against, which is the use of jirely private letters which have no relevancy whatever to th in hand. took that ground and on that ground I ee myself for not retarning it was he that wus in unlawiul ssion of those letters. He bad no right to those ictters. I take that ground most distinctly that there are but two men Uhat can possess a rightful interest in a private cor- respondence—the writer and the person written to— andon that right [ stand. Now, I shall produce the letter with great freedom on which Mr. Mulligan has based his testimony that I acknowledged having re- ceived the $64,000, and I shall show you it hus no re- lation to that subject, ‘THE CROSS-RXAMINATION, By Mr. Frre—Q —Dv not some of those letters re. late to matters transpiring long betore you became a member of Cougre:s? A.—Yes, long beforo 1 became a membor of Congress for the first time. ‘Tho Cuainuax—As | understand you, and as I espe- cially understand from Mr. Mulligan, you had pos- session of those letters on two occasions? Mr. Braine—Yes. The Cuaimmax—Un the first oceasion you promised to return them? Mr, Buainz—It did not assume so formal a sl as a promise, I thought Le exhibited a little hesitancy in handing them w me, Lead to him, “You don’t do you?” 1t was rather an TL do not know whether Mr. was in the room when I first got them, but both of them came in while | was reacing and looking over the letters, 1 banded them back to Mr, Mulligan. The Cuainmas—Why view in Mr. Mulligan's two gentlemen? Mr. Buaiye+It was Mr. Malhgan who had left the room, not 1; I wanted to satisfy myselt with respect to a specific let filteen letters make ra! a voumin- ous correspondence to remember all about; 1 went and told him I eg to see a specitic letter and he ackage. The Cuarmmax—When you cot the letters the second time it was your intentiva to return them to Mr. Mul- ligan? Mr. Biarxe—Yes, The Cuainaax—You changed your intention upon his declaration that If his veracity were assailed he would publish the letters? Mr. Buaixk—Yes; that he should attack me if any- body else attacked him. ‘The Cuainuax—lI ask at your hands the production of those letters for the perusal of the committee, not for publication, that the committee may see for them- selves whether they bear upon the question? Mr. Bustxe—Io private? The Cuarrmax—No, sir, with no privacy; but I cer- tainiy will not make them putlic unless they bear on the question, Mr, BLainz—I will take occasion to consult my coun- sol im regard to it, Tho Ctainuax—You decline, then, to produce them? Mr. Buaixr—For the present I decline. qT did you have the second inter- room inthe absence of these ers, Mr, Buaiwe replied that if Mulligan had nO right to the letters he had no right to the memorua iT ms. he bad no right to a private letter he bad wo right toa copy of It ir. Lawrexce—You have said that certain stato- ments of Mr. Mulligun’s were ‘iancy.”” Mr. Bisaixe—Yes; I will explain that, The conver- sation was jong one, | have known Mr. Mulligana Jong (ime, and we have bad a good deal of conversation at various times. On this occasion we got to talking about public matters, aud he spoke of the miseries of og ite and said aid not see how anybody could induced to enter it. Ho spoke at the same time oad to visit his iriends I said, | woo- tired of the humdrum of the ad I jokingly remarked whether he would not sy an to G4 abroad wll ra hee na pacity. As Mr. Mulligan has presented it here it wou See thas 3 bad asked him to accept a Consulship. There was nothing of Mr. Lawresxcr—W. Mr. Mctuicay asked Mr. Blaine whether, on bis oat! he would say that he had not used the word “suicide,” and Mr, Blaine replied, ‘I do, most decidedly.” THE CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE. Hanrrorp, June 1, 1876, In the House of Represontatives today the proposed constitutional amendinent organizing the Senatorial districts was defeated—105 yeas to 120 nays Tho amendment proposed to equalize the population of dis- tricts as nearly as i TAMMANY AND THE POLICE BOARD. ‘The Tammany General Committee last night, at the conclusion of the speeches of several ef the more prom. Sse cee Rs Sacer as Shes 4 ” JUNE 4%, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. GREENBACK CONVENTION. MR, T. E. TOMLINGON’S VIEWS ON INFLATION AND, CONTRACTION—APPOINTMENT OF COM- MITTERS 4ND DELEGATES, A Democratic State Convention, callea by the green- back agitators, assembled yesterday in Germania Hall to select delegates for St. Louis, There were present about 200 persons, The meeting was called to order by Mr, Gideon J, Tucker, who nominated Mr. T. E. Tomfinson for chairman, the followimg named gentlemen being chosen as vice presidents:—Messrs. W. Lalor, Theodore N. Meivin, J, D. Sullivan, Thomas Flood, James Roach, Samuet R. Follett, John Smyles, George Sprague, and secretaries, Paul Tucker and Louis Arnheim. Mr. Tomiinson then rose aud addressed the Conven™ tion. He inveighed against present legislation as ruin- ous, Currency, the circulation of the body politie, be said, was paralyzed, Gold was given a rough mora! handing. Congress bas to determine what shall bo money. Reference was made to the atility of green- backs during the wi If inflation lessened obligations contraction ruined the debton They wanted to be let alune. The latter statement very well summarizes the rest of the speech. The following committees were then appointed :— COMMITTRE TO REPORT THR NAMES OF ST. LOUIS ORLE- GaTKS. 1. Gideon J. Tucker, New York; George Washington Mejlon, New York. 2 Edward A. Moore, Richmond; George W. Lioyd, Westchester. 3 Jacob P. Miller, Columbia; James Merion, Renssclacr, 4, Wiliam v, King, St Lawrence; D. F. Kecie, Warren. 5, Clinton Beckwith, Herkimer; Rutger B. Miller, Oneida. 6. Harvey Hunt, Otsego; Ira H. Smith, Delaware. 7. Christopher Kane,.Monroe; T. B. Proctor, Livingston, & M.N. Cook, Genesee; Eli Atwell, Orleans, COMMITTER OX ‘CREDENTIALS. 1, Johu W. Crump and Thomas F. Tully, New York, 2, Jacob P. Carll, Queens; Abranam J. Cudde, Orange, 3. James G, Grace, Rensselaer; H. G Champlin, Schoharie. 4, Eugene Dilleubeck, Mont- gomery; 'B. F. Bissell, Saratoga. 5. Charles E. Van Eaten, Onondaga; Timutby Conklin, Herkimer. 6 William 8, Dederer, Tompkins; Frederic Scudder, Cortland. 7. William Melntyre, Ontario; Daniel A. Robinson, Cayuga. 8 John B, Adams, ‘Erie; & F. Nixon, Chautauqua, COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 1. Marcus Hanlon, New York, 2 Marcena M. Dickinson, Rockland.’ 8 George 3, Crawford, Albany. 4 J. P. Ferguson, Montgomery. 5. 3, D. Keller, Ouondaga. 6 Charles W, Cooke. Otsego. Winhai E. Buell Monroe, 8. x Ingstrum, Cattaraugus. The Convention t! ook a recess. EVENING SESSION. The Convention re-assembled at eight o'clock. The Hon. Antbony E. Cuddebach, as Chairmun of the Com- mittee on Credentials, presented his report and mad briet adidreas, in the course of which he said tha bad been born and bred a democrat but should not vt ‘y “Where was he 1851 and 1852?” asked the speaker, ‘I capnot answor that, but {can tell you where be was not. He was missing from the side of such men as Levi 8. Chatdeld and Lieutenant Governor Church, who were fighting the Canal Ring before the Legislature, I am tor tho same principles that General Jackson enunciated. ‘3 long as we stand still and see the money power rule the government we ehall be tittle better than slaves.” ‘The Secretary here announced that fiity out of sixty- two counties in the State were represented, ana 120 out of 162 Assembly districts. Mr. Marcus Hanlon, of New York, Chairman of the Committée on Resolutions, read the following resolu- tious, which were anantmously adopted :— ‘THR RESOLUTIONS. Whereas the organization heretofore known as the demo- cratic pai ml shes State of in it nt rat—Becuuse such resovutions are in conflict with the rincloles laid down iu the platform adopted by the last on, lisid in the elty of the nominal in Cincinnati in weeut 1@ adopt who contributed by voice, money and mocratic party in the > tates that bell ferson, “That the National Bunk notes suppressed and the circulation restored to the nation, to whom it Leen ot Third—Because the men who now as- sume to lead the democratic party in this State are asso- ciated with and controlled by its great moneyed aud corpo- rate interests, and having no xympathy in common with ude corrupt combinations with the affected to oppose, are unfitted for bet ap aeesees ie organl refure, we being the o mocratic organizatio: harmony with the degires ofthe people, throughout State and with the organisations of the democratic part; the Southern snl Western States which 1» controlled by money as they have heretofore been in New York, claim admission for our ites tothe National ention to be held in St, Louis on the inst., as the only duly ntatives of the denocrary of this State, 7 oe fo beh democratic party as the champion ofthe rights of the many against the } Of the few. to express its purposes in the ponding: currency contlict wit it reserve or equivecstion, dhe reco that pL urge acainst all tga thee t quarter it may, $0 of wing objects and adopt them as OUR PLATFORM. Fira Unconditional repent of the republican forced He- ‘aption ae ‘““Sctond—The substitution of legal tenders for national bank Third—Logal vendors to be receivable for ail debts public ‘and private and all taxes aud customs. Fourth—No torced {ntlation, nv forced contraction, but circulation equal to the wants of trade and industry, to be Fegulated a volume and gradually equalized ‘with gold by ‘appro n, Legislation for the development of the resources and wenith of the country by te people to. the exclusion ot nopolies. ASErh—A faithful compliance with the nation’s jast obliga- sions, ‘Sreenth—No centralization, Local selt governm ‘We denounce the present corruption In rsonal influence te wit to ith it. he affairs of the federal goverument, and demand searching investiga- tion ani myt punishment of the guilty, independent ut party and irrespective of persons. Ninh—-We oppose the Benator or Assemblym: rectly. the repeal of the iniqi Tenth—Uur delegates to the Si Louls Convention are in- jn secordance with these onorable means to oBtain the nomination of « candidate whose acts huve already pledged structed ‘to su ‘8 platiorm principles. and te oe, all by him t port the policy herein dex Western man aad s democratic platform, with the watchword ‘money and labor. Resolyed, That the delegation just ated by this C " seratie Convention (reside id the Democratic structed to vote there as a unit, in accordance with the sentime: esol Th ul Presidential delegate here appointed, of in the eve inavility of any to attend the St. Louis Conven: State Committee be empowered to fill the vacancy jomination of the ‘tes representing his distri Biate Convention. The following delegates were then appointed to at- tend the St. Louis Convention and claim adiniesion on a greenback platiorm :— At Large—Gideon J. Tucker, Richard Schell and Theo. E. Tomlinson, of New York; Rutger & Miller, of Oneida, and Jeremwh McGuire, of Chemung. From the Congressional districta.—First district— Daniel C. Birdsall, Jacob P. Caril; Second—Theo. N. Meiviu, John P. Cowles; Third—Richard B. Leceh, Charles L, Finney; Fourth—John P, Ruuncie, Patri Ford; Fitth—Gideon J. Tucker, Charles Corn. wall; Sixth—Benjamin M. Medina, Frank Waters; Seventh—J. W. Crump, Joseph J. Finnerty; Eighth— Joho 8. Berry, George W. Deas Ninth—Jerome Buck, ‘enth—John McCool, Thomas F. Tully; ‘cus Hanlon, Thomas B, McKellar; Twelfth—William T, Brown, George W. Lioyd; Thi teenth, Jack Miller, J. V. W. Doty; Fourteenth—-Wil- liam Voorhees, Anthony J. Caddebuch; Fifteenth, Ed. O’Retly, Willard P. Hasbrouek; Sixteenth—John Evers, William Brown; Seventeenth—Thomas Fiood, Thomas J. Strong; Kighteenth—D. F. Keefer, Danie! Ferguson; Ninoteenth, J. 8 Tupper, N. ber; Twentieth—J. P, Ferguson, Luke Dodge; Twenty- firsi—Lewis Carmicnael, A. J. Dil 3 Twen second—T, B. Saundei Geo B. rs, Twenty-third—Will:am 8. Abet, eighth—W. H. Bristol, Jonn J, Van Allen; ninth—F, C. Divinney, James E. Jones; Thirtieth— MacNaughton, W. Embree; Thirty-first—Alexander Campbell, an Benedict; Thirty-second—John B, Avauns, 4. 8, Buell; Thirty-third—John B. Smith, & F. Nixon. After the election of delegates, Mr, Muller, editor of a nowspaper devoted to the interests of the greenback party, made a speech in which he ropeated the argu- ments so olten enunciated by those in sympathy with him. He was Beige by various other speakers who seemed io afford the Convention more amusement than information. MANTON MARBLE'’S SUCCESSOR. York (Pa.) Dispatch:—“Mr, Manton Marble has sold out bis interest in the Now York World to W. 4. Hurl- bert, who will assame the editorsbip. Mr, Hurlbert is ‘a brilliant editorial writer.” Louisville (Ky.) Sunday Argus:—“Mr. Marble’s career upon the World has been a very brilliant one He brought tohis work scholarship, penetration, inde. pendence and an ardent love for bis profession; and for years ho bas been in the very front rank of American ot His retirement will be universally regretted. ir. Huribert, his +uccessor, has been tor fourteen years connected with the World, and is thoroughly acquainted with the duties of the position which he has assumed, The paper will not suffer in his hands," Cincinnati Bnquirer:—“'lt is duc to the ‘New York World to say that its conduct under the new régime, whosoover that may be, 16 decent and dignified. Mr. William Henry Horlvert is a gentieman of cultare, and it #8 quite apparcnt that be believes in deceucy in journalism. A marked change bas come over the spirit of the World since he assamed control of its columns, ‘fhe World seems capabie of fairness and of discussing public questions on their merits, 1t hasn't called she Obie mocrats ‘lunatics,’ ‘madmen,’ ets,’ ‘fools,’ ‘loud-inouthed hers oe several days, nor bas it apptied any similar en ‘ing epithets to the Ubto brethren. This is gratifyiug, it is sometbing Mew — Lg or bib bao game ure i cheertully acknowledging this eymptom me ‘We ‘have tal occasion urine journalism in the Worl ee “ete ad religion is t ile we do im the to some rather of ihe "World, Yor one part our peater as man; as ‘not recollect ‘haves 't i ;_ but if there are le that think otherwise [reg va anon Lo ar the new manage- ment the World bas not ouly omitted personal — from its arguments, but has actually manifested a de- sire to promote harmony in the d2mocratic party te out absolutely dictating all the terms of that meny.’ It apnounces that it will make ‘no wer upon candidates,’ and it creditably Giles this notice. POLITICAL NOTES. The Galveston News says if Blaine ts not nominated on the first ballot- it will be because sympathy is not potent enough to make a nomineo. The Commonwealth and the Constitutionalist, Bourbon- democratic papers, of Georgia, pronounce in favor of General A. H. Colquitt, ‘a second Calhoun,” for Gov- ernor of that State. General Dick Taylor believes the Southern delega- tion to St. Louis should support Tilden, and for saying this General Dick is being snarled at and hooted at, South and North. zi The Chicago Tribune expresses ite dislike for Conk- Jing by calling him an exclasive, selish New Yorker, who nas becn a persistent opponeat in the Senate of Jegisiation in the interest of the Weat ‘The Hon. Newton Bateman and the Hon. Jobo F. Farnsworth are suggested as democratic candidates jos Governor. The Hon. Sidney Breese is suggested as a democratic candidate for United States Senator, Milwaukce Commercial Times:—‘Thousands of hard money democrats would vote a republican ticket that upheld the filmancial principles they havo been taught to worship. At the same time hardly a handful of re- publicans would vote a soft money democratic ticket? In discussing the democratic situation the Lockport (N. ¥.) Union says:—“Take all the candidates whose names may be submitted to the Convention, weigh them, and nominate the one more nearly balancing the general interest. We believe this is just what the Com vention will do.” Richmond (Va.) Whig:—‘Many papers that arenow making sach fierce war upon Governor Tilden, @a- pecially Virginia papers, if we are not greatly mistaken in what the times foreshadow, will be repenting their course in sackcloth and ashes before they area month older,’? Scranton (Pa,) Republican:—“Each day but adds te tho impression that the inflation pill so unceremont- ously rolled up at Cincinoat! wil! bo swallowed at St. Louls without @ grimace, One by one the democratic heroes of the metallic currency are letting themselves down as confidently as though a greenback cushion bad been one of their life-time luxuries,”” Montgomery (Ala) Hornet :—‘With regard to the delegates to the National Democratic Convention at St, Louis we hepe and trast they will go uninstracted and unpledged, determined to select the most available man for the Presidential chair, provided he be a frm, unwavering democrat of untarnished record and sound upon the money question.’” Albany (N. Y.) Argus:—“Governor Tilden is as strong to-day in New York as the democratic party 18 strong. Ahealthy organization exists throughout the entire State, There is no opposition to him among the demo- cratic masses, His party knows him to be faithful to ita principles and its purposes, glories in his achieve- ments and calls them its own.” * Shelby M. Cullom, the republican nominee for Gov. ernor of Illinois, was born in Woyne county, Kentucky, November 22, 1849. At the age of nineteen he entered Mount Morris University. In “1856 he was a Presiden tial elector upon the Fillmore ticket. During the samt campaign be was olected to the State Legislature. Is 1864 ho was electod to Congress from the Eighth illi- nois district, and re-elected 1n 1868. Richmond (Va.) Despatch:—‘'There can be no com promise at St, Louis, There can be nothing but afight, and either a victory or a defeat for the democratic party. Of course, it were the very madness of the moon to nominate a Southern man for Prosident, He would be inevitably duomed to defeat, To nominate one would be to betray the democratic party into the hands of the republicans.” ‘The New Orleans Times, speaking of Tilden’s chances, says if he,wants to retain any very great influence in national politics his wisest pian would be to accept the New Yorx Heratp’s suggestion, made several weeks ago, about a‘triamvirate,”” turn over his influence te ‘some one more acceptable and come in asa graceful second, or with the promise, or even prospect, of the firat Cabinet position. Buffalo Commercial:— “With every desire to be satis. fled with the nomination of Mr, Bristow, and to give him a hearty support In case he should be chosen a the republican standard bearer in this campaign, we must say that his friends are pushing his candidacy in @ way that is both injudicious snd unfair, The Na tional Convention ig not to be frightened or even in Huenced by ‘third party’ or any other sort of threats. Mobile (Ala.) Register:—‘‘We are not prophesying; we recognize all the against it; but we alse realize the ravenous greed which controls the radical party, What, then, if—amid the distractions and Jeulousies that threaten to split the Convention—some man rises and cries, ‘I save the republican party and nominate U. 8, Grant!’ Stranger things have happened than that a unanimous vote would record the triumph St. Louis Globe:—‘'The delegates chosen thus far fairly represent the best strength of the republicas party, and there is every reason to believe that th Cincinnati Convention will be in every way worthy of the high interests confided to it, Bat it is impossible not to admit that temptation besets the members w every step, and that they need every encouragemen to strengthen them in their resistance to the insidiow snares set beiore them.” Charleston (8. C.) Journal of Commerce:—‘‘Now, it it not imperative that all troo friends of reform should unite under the democratic banuer in puttin; stop to such monstrous misgovernment as we have suffered under? Al) honest men snould unite in one effort ta gain this end. The democratic party desires the ad hesion of every man who wishes to aid in the good work of saving the State trom tho inevitable rain that awaits ber if the rule of the last eleven years is con tinued under republican auspices,” Albany Argus:—‘'Blaine must look out for the treachérous undertow! The first test vote in the Con- vention will come up on the question ef admitting the Alabama delegation. Twenty votes are involved ia this issue. If the delegation should be divided the re | sult would be ultimately to give Conkling ten votes and Blaine ten, Deducting from Biaine and Bristow the ‘twenty-five machine delegates’ from Illinois, with the twonty-four machino delegates from Kentucky and ten of the Massachusetts delegation who cannot be tran® ferred to Blaine, and the final ballot would stand as fob lows:— Conkling, 895; Blaine, 361,”” Springficld (Mass.) Republican:—“And yet Mr, Conk. ling has a chance at Cincinnati; a real chance, a great chanoe, such a chance as déesn’t come to a public man moro than once in his lifetime. If be cannot captare the Convention’ he can lead and control it, Ifhe can not secure the nomination for himself he can say where it shall go, It he cannot be the Premdent he can name the President, Baiked of his ambition, he can turn the tables on his rivals with a swiftness and completeness that will freeze the sneers on their li; and that will give him a new lease of political power He has only io lead off at the eritical moment for Ms Adams, of Massachusetts, "’ A DYNAMITE HOAX. [From the Washington (D. C.) Star.] Last Sunday « young man from South whe had recently been travelling mn Earope with his tutor, was at Willard’s Hotel, Having on their arrival New York. lett im the Custom House there a box com taining a number of articles, they concluded on Sun. day to draw up an aMfidavit to meet the requirements of the jaw in withdrawing the box. In this they had proceeded so far as to write:—‘‘Washington, May 23, 1876 I (name of affiant) hereby swear that the box containing—" Then, being unable to remember ' articles, they concluded to postpone making it, the paper was leit carelessly at the hotel, and they proseeded to Baltimore on Mon- day to seongptl ecm itl pictgs A pee man jorwal w Peptiaued the writing, age | ‘abe aynante Sutures for the purposo of blowing up the present administration was careially d hed, under the White House on Sunday night, the 28th, It w so ar- ranged that it will explode on the night of the 30th of May be roel b Kote od Hoping bgt will Lae hd ite work successtully, | am yours,” paper toa friend who sent it tothe resident's bow whore an incflectual search for tho box was made, ot Smith and West's detectives then took the matter in hand and yesterday traced the South Carolinians to Barnum’s Hotel, Itimore, Explanations followed, of the tuted ent, cad the discrepancy betweon the hand’ and the subsequent addition to it was the detectives leit, ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT. a ‘The annual commencement exercises at St John's su daira pon ban o-iba ta tas aeras! e