Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2
CHAPTER XXVII.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICIAL LIFE. Fifty Congressional Drag-nets at Work--Female Jealousy--A Nantucket Story--Impeachment of General Belknap, After his Resignation-- Beautiful Mrs. Belknap--The Whisky Ring--Revenge of Senator Henderson, of Missouri--Trial of General Babcock, and his Acquittal.