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Show A THRILLING SCENE. "The wretched Mrs. Belknap, clinging to tbo hope of girlish -friend-Bbip for Mrs. Blackburn, wife of a member of the congressional committee, commit-tee, visited her, and, throwing her Belf upon her knees, refused to mow until security for her husband was promised. She is a woman of fine presence. She dressed in something like grandeur. Her costumes were noted for extreme decollelle. Tlie staid element of Washington society held her a little in reproof for thb foreign tnste, when they remarked ol her that they preferred to have other men's wives display their charms so liberally rather than their own. Mrs. Belknap, Q3 Miss Tomlinson, was a bosom friend of Congressman Blackburn's Black-burn's wife. To her she betook herself, her-self, when her husband, coming home from the committee, declared that all was lost. To work more cllectively upon Mrs. Blackburn, THE WRETCHED WIFE brought her baby to plead for her. It was one of the few cold, stormy nights experienced in WaMhingtoii. Tlie ground wan covered witli an inch of slush, the enow mrhing as it tell. As she appeared at Mrs. Blackburn's it was almost impossible to recognize her, A plain cloak wai thrown over her, and her babe was nursed in her arms. She had barely reached the inside door when she fell in a fi.int. Recovering she tell upon Mrs. Black-burn'a Black-burn'a neck. She raved piteously to savo iier husband and child. She would bear all the blame. She alone wua guilty. They might hang or imprison im-prison h'-r, but spare her babe and her husband. During the Hccne Mr. Blackburn came in, and the two women clung to him, his wife almost as much moved :is tho wretched wife and mother. Blaiikburn says he was NEVElt BO iMOVFD IS II IS LIFE by any appeal, but ho was pnwciloss, if he had been willing, to shield Belknap. Bel-knap. He told tho unfortunate woman, wo-man, that justice must be done, and that ho was powerless. This was not the first time .Mrs. Belknap bad ahked Blackburn's good olliecs. She told him some points of tho stury a few weeks "go, but did not eay how her husband was implicated. Bewilderment Bewilder-ment sil3 heavy upon the republicans. republi-cans. They make no defence. They simply exclaim "dreadful!'' Blaine refuses abruptly to vouchsafe a word. Garfield deeUred that it was not altogether wonderful. If Gen. Grant will persist in appointing irresponsible men for high places, ho unlet be pro-pured pro-pured to have Ida confidence betrayed. When Senator Cameron heard tho newe, ho repeated the words, "Terrible, "Ter-rible, terrible I" "This comes," said he, "from Grant's system of appointments." appoint-ments." He hail frequently L-ld him that ho ought not to put obscure men in high positions. Ho always had a lot of theso unknown characters around him. "The only way for people to hvo," said he, ' ia within their means. Mr. Buchanan and my! If used to pay from s8 to 10 per week lor hoard and two rooms, and wo lived well. The scripluro is right 'Lead us not into temptation.' ' I |