The Unfortunate "seward House."

lt woulu seem sa 11 gome terrible misfortune ia sura to fo'low all in official life who pass auy time in a oertain mansión wfaich sbouldbe hnunt1, if gloomy associations could invite the presents of ghosts. When General ielknap first came to Washington he ook apartments for himielf and wife n what is, and possibly will always be, cnown as the " Seward House, " or " Club louse," these titles connecting it with ;wo of the tragedies ainong the maiiy arrowful incidents with which it is associated. And the record of the soourn in Washington of ex-8eoretary ielknap adds other associations ,of a ragic character' to its gloomy history hough bis' seoond wife did not die here, nor did the present Mrs. Belknap ass more than two uionths there. John J. Spencer, whe.n Secretary of war, reided there, and bis son was hung for mutiny to the yard-arm of the vossel on which ho was cruising. A meinber of be Cabiuet who perished in the fatal xplosiou wbich, duriug Tjrler'a Btration. con verted a pleasure party on the Potoiuac iuto a funeral of statesoien, also liad lived in tbat house, though I believe he was residing elsewhere at the time of his tragic death. The attempted assassination in that house of Secretary Seward, tlie death tberein of his lovcly daughter, and killing of Barton Koy iinmediately after ho left its theieshold, are tome ot th other melancholy aesooiations of the old house, built with prize inoney by Commodore Hogers, the father of the wife of General Meigs. A singular and very sad concidonce oonnected with the death of Mrs. Carrie Bclknap it will be as well to recall now. Mrs Grant continued her receptions through the spring of 1870, and always inviled a nuruber of labies, both matrons and maiduns, to receive with her. At her last reception that year Mrs. Carrie Belknap and Miss. Maggie Bock, both handsonie and popuiar Kentucklans (the latter lady the daughter of James Buck, thon Rppresentative in Congiess from his Htate, and now Senator elect), were the receiv ing party. Beforo anotber public reception was held at tho "White Honse, the flower-oovered coffins containing the remains of both Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Cnrcorun, nee Beek, the latter a bride of a few weeks wearing hero wk1ding robos as a shroud, rested side by sido in the chapol at Onk Hill. The two died wittim a few duvs of each