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Lincoln's "white House." The New York Times has the following piece of information as to how business is done at the "White House," in Washington: Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, publishes a card in a Washington paper, stating that a person came from Tennessee to secure the release of five rebel prisoners; that he paid s for securing the President's attention to the subject, and that he saw several other persons bribe the same doorkeeper in the same way for similar services. Mr. Etheridge states that he himself went through the same performance for the purpose of testing the matter, and he closes his card thus: "I make this matter public from mars inclosed to 'C. O'Leary, Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,' will restore any repentant rebel to the blessings of freedom and the society of friends. Em. Etheridge." The Chronicle gives the sequel. It states that when this statement was shown to Mr. Nicolay, the President's private secretary, the servant, O'Leary, wa