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shc (Ouitman iganitrr> f. rTfildej - - fejPITOR, jquitman, oca* FRIDAY, AiMilL 21,1508. - Owing to (he unavoidable absence of 'tin* editor and principal conjpoKitdrf, it will lx» impossible to issue till* regular, edition next week. Tin* following week' we wiH be* all »in Id. #*jgr Owing to tin* dn mage tin? A. ■ & G. Railroad, by the recent h4t»vy rain*, wo have been übtmst entirely* deprived of mail facilities dm ing tin* i)r|*w*nt »vp k, which will account hq* tin* imtigre a* mount of news in to day’s Bajhici. ftoiy-We arc under obiigations to Mrs MTarnxsk fa a moss of Irish Potato##, grown iu her garden in Quitiipm, the present season. They arc tlie* first we have need of the growing crop. Rev. Joseph B. Raker is dinirour of procuring the service# of several ac tive, intelligent and HuKlyvoithy agents, to «ngage in a lucrative and pleasant umpioynicnt See ndverttaeAtvnt. The I .lection Tfee four days’ election in this place j passed off quietly, and without the least 'disturbance, notwithstanding the contest «(ko far ns some of the county offices were concerned,) wan a very warm and excit i«»g one. The people generally, how ever, had made up their minds as to the ♦character of ballot the}' intended to east, ntnd it was "love’s Johor lost” to cmleuv ***r t > persuade them from their determin ed purpose. We ore also happy to an nounce that the election was conducted with tallness and impartiality and we do not believe a solitary man can be found who lias the least complaint to en 4cr against the managers. <U 'r I ave delayad tlm issue of our pa pcs beyond the usual hour, to enable us 1<» furnish the official report of the entire ballot, which will be found, in full, in an other column. We regret very much that the Stale 4ind District Demociotic s andard bom «er»- -Gordon and Fin n—did not receive x majority of the voles cast in tliis eouti iy ; but have strong Impes that theyhavo ( Carried the Stale hy n decisive* majority The County officer* elect, me gentle men fully competent to discharge the dn ties of their f. sp' vtive i Id vs, and lie* most of them are old and honored citi zoos of the county, fully identified in in* Iciest and feeling. We may, ut a future day, furnish a brief statement of'the past history and character of the successful candidates. Vox l*opnli Nnjrreiiiiis hvt. The agony is over—tin* verdict record ed ! The pimple have spoken and t*o .their judgment we how with becoming ,k.:cckueHß. The issue presented (al ♦though viewed hy many as a trivial mat 6<*r,) was the most important that ever U*K, or e ver will be, presented to Geor gittMK. It involved the future prosperi ty of the Commonwealth, and the weal or woe of every citizen Hereof. Rely ing upon tiio wise discretion and sound judgment of tin* masses, wfc hope, yea, indieve, they have spoken wisely In a low horns the telegraph will proclaim the tidings, whether the people tin re rat ified or rejected the proposed Constitu tion : whether they htvve selected use their Chief Magistrate, an honored son of tlio soil, or one who has saught our clinic for mercenary and political motives. We (trust the verdict has been in favor of the former : the pure, upright, ami consci eutoys gentleman, and dashing, brilliant *«ddler, Gen. .John 11 Gordon. If the tniMii-tlo of success, however, has fallen upon the latter, as we have already stat -4*l, M’tt yield to tin* republican maxim: Tor pcfpuli wprrmii.* Irr. The Quituinia Uninter. For tfte ha ideas and imnewt expression of opinion, in public and pi k ale, the ed It nr of the Banner Ims, during the jwes <ont week, been rt*q nested to discontinue the visits of his journal to a few suh seribrrs. On ti c* other hand, vve are hap py to announce, that for every one thus withdrawing their patoniay, two new subscribers have taken their place. Thus satisfactorily demonstrating that proscription for the independent express sion df opinion, don’t pay—it almost iu Variably results to the advantage of the ', proscribed. J’Vn the information of our furtinutar friends, and the public at large, we will .state : that the Qi itm.w Banner is the property of its editor, and he claims the right to conduct its editorial columns in such manner, and in the interest of such parties, as unto him appears expedient and jwojH*r. A long editorial career has satisfied us of this fact : that if an edh tor attempts to please om*#FW»/, la* will please nobody— and therefore* the only correct policy is, to /•'<<*><• himurtf. We yot the mcfiCenary of any man or par ' V ami although c*pou>ing and advo cating the principle? of Democracy* al ways reserve to otn-soif t he right t.» dis sent IV rm tuo paltry of its lenders, as well as to support or discard aspirants iu its ranks, who are always seeking otti dal position. Under no other circum stances will wo ever consent ta publish a public j urna! ; for we \vo«ld ration submit to the tyranny of a despotism than the fyatmij us j*trty 9 inaugurated by*those who have towering aspirations ft»i* official position. To those who have and will extend to u-f patronage, under these conditions, we arc grateful $ Imt to llmse who de sire a manacled juess—a subservient -editor—we must say, the B.w.vrit in n«»i c*b--d G* tVe** *: -! *- N editor is yet u , and will sou ver decline to be h * 4>‘ave nf pa !y oj* men, <b*to mbiedon rule or ruin. Brooks County—OHicial Eepoi t of th? Election. and in* fidluw ng is the official canvass of the election for Brooks county, held at Quitman, on tin* 20jJj, 2lat, 22t1, and 2»bi : the ca^rsTfTtH* ‘V; F«,r the Constitution,.... f»W Against, the f’onHlitution rot: <K»vv.iiNKjn Rufus B. Bullock fi<o lili»lm B. Cordon 4 -° Majority for liirllork 5!-0 CONCKKSS. .frwq.li W. Clift 6-2 Iloiiry S. Fitcli 4 22 Majority fort.'lifl 200 .OK KfAIK AKXATOn. Milton C. Smitli 6tiS JallitfH Y. Jour s 805 Majority for Smith 248 rrm Itri'IrKsENTATIVK. VV. A. T.iUir- 648 Jairifß H. Hunter 4 00 Majority fir lame 218 Hl* OIUrINa.KY. Jaruirtr 1.. Beaty 6(ii John 0. McCall SCO Majority ft r Beaty 80) run t r.K-KK r.. BtTr.Kioa not kt. J. (I. M Waruock 680 W. <i. Bentley 410 Majority for Win nock 214 rcni snr.mrp. John McKinnon 088 Julius ('remora 807 UolHnjf IThII 28 Majority for McKinnon 271 roll TAX KECEIVKR. W. O. Bagwell 4i25 T N. Lewis 888 Jesse K i 28 Majority for Bagwell 287 roll OOU-KOTOB. A. Strickland «5f5 T. Aiilermuti 412 Majority for Strickland 228 COK HUUCRYOIt. Murdock McLond 044 V. Lucas 881 Majority for McLoud 208 rrm fcoUoNKtt. Itrilifflrt HuajjjlMicys 038 \V illi u n 1111 ack 3.S 3 Majority lor Humphreys 255 rot! COUNTY TIIEASUUKIt. I). J. McDonald 204 Scattering 17 Total vote cast 1,061) An Vufortuuntc DiltiriiWy. U'e regret vr ry nint h to record the oc currence of ait nnf .rtnnato difficulty iu onr town on Monday last. Some disa greement lutd cxistixl for serrerar! weeks j |iust rtiotwvien Ca)rt. J. it. Hoidneon .and Mr. Jinisoy Hunter ; and on meeting, at about one o'clock on Monday, a quar rel ensued, which resulted in Hunter drawing a bowie-knife, and inflicting several severe wounds on the person of Lapt. Robinson. The latter finally drew Ills pistol, and fired two shots at his ad versary, tail lie was so weak and uer- I vims, from the loss of blood, the shots fattest of their mark, and Hunter escaped unhurt. Robinson was carried into the dental office of Hr Battle, and his wounds promptly attended to by Dr. Jelks. They were quite severe, and at first deemed very critical ; but at this writing, we are happy to announce that tlm unfurtu ante gentleman is recovering. Mr. Hunter was promptly arrested by the civilauithoritien, and required to give bail, in the sum of five thousand dollars for bis appearance ul. Court. KtrawlurriCA We are again under obligations toour generous friend, Col. B. \V. Sinclair, lot a feast of delicious strawlie: l ies, from Ids extensive garden, a slmrt distance from town. The Colonel cun supply any order (large or small) for these berries, and we learn that he proposes shipping large quantities to onr Savannah friends during the present season. We hope be may reap a rich reward for his enter prise and industry. The Recent Rains. From every quarter we have the most distressing accounts of the damage done l>y the recent very heavy rains. They seem to have been general throughout the cNwnitrv, and dgubtiess many million dollans worth of property has l>e«’ii des troyed, to say nothing of the great dam age done to m ops. ( fta)— Ceiisov trays : “If the Devil ev r laughs, it niMst. Is. at hypocrites : they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him bet ter than any others, ami receive no wages ; nay, what is still more extra ordinary, they submit to greater mortifi cations to go to hell, than the since rest Christian to go to Heaven ” Us course this is not applicable to any | one in tliis section. Who is at V'ait.t? Tim telegraph nnnnnn era the appiehe: s -ai of a general Indian 1 war in tli • plains daring tlm summer. Who is at the bottom of this tiling? The i Washington eorrospondeiit of the Boston ; I'u.-I , a reliable antlsnity, says tlm torri- Iblo massacres of our troops which bare oorlin'd within tlm past few years, have \ n united from a failure on the part of the ; Uoreciuncut to pay promptly an amount ' of uuKcev tx. Stsottoii Tail according to a g r eetainit. Tliis same clpef is now at fort Laramie awadiug tlai arrival ol : the Coi-.mtiasion to again enter into trea tv stipulations, lathe nieantime, the! various tiibes with wliieh treaties have been made by the Comtatsaion may re new hostilities, if tlio tJovcrttmen* fails ti> make good its promises. ►3“ H is stated tb it President John- > son onteitains little hopes of acquittal, it is now apparent that the Semite is dr fertuined to remove him at ~!! barzards 11,.. of Ale. Dai is. Tl»<* flecond <biy of May in appoint' 1 j for tin,* trhU of Mr. V -ivia und 1 tin* bill «>f indictment. It will take f’accj at Richmond. Tlio Xcw YoiU V/dtt 'l thuH rt frrn to it ; r J’li* new indictinp/it him with : it* imtuoroiiH *fM.4:iliodtionH of tin- overt act of loyvimr war tlto United Stair*; look# lik<* biiainrlf i« ini iu-~ finrm and to eonv ct and not rc»— U*aae the |>ri*om*r The rnmovnl of John i»on ♦oo'"w«ii fifvtVo aiming the Rudicaln a tlrirrft for blood aa the exocofiori of Charlt'H the F rat .of bdlaßiod Roundhnnds ttVldoo'fy HOtUnmetitK wit other partiea and the beheading of poor j faOUiH the Sixteenth gave anew juu>uUe j to the Jacobin of and j in France.* There in a powerful fnetion at W:\nh- 1 ing ton and throughout the count ry which i will not be Katifd'md with anything lens | tlian the hangman's rope for Jefi. DnVis. ! It will be beW n<M*ess.liy as a wurniiig j to traitors t<»l inng Davis, Mil ti.e e is one man at \\ uHliingtoii who will remem her that fiiocbitnatioti of Davis of out la wry on lint head of Gen. R. F. Butler, j *and thus man is Butler himsell, the a< - trng head of impoai’h j inent. We do not place nnirh cnufidencc in the llbr/f/Q’iisiially RCnsattOual ;;i tides, j but wo have no doubt that ‘’there iu a powerful faction at Washington and throughout ilk; count I*3' wliicli wdl not bo aatislled with anything loss than the hangman’s rope for .1 off. Davis.” l’ower fill, however, As this “faction” may be, there is too much of public virtue extant in the Masses and too mncli for the gov ernment to risk in the gratification of th# malignant wishes of the "faction, ’ for ns to have any fear for the life of Mr.. Davis, or of his conviction of treason, indeed, we remain still impressed with the conviction that Mr. Davis will never, be brought to trial lor the offi-nse with which he stands diarged though it may be years before a nolle pro&'qui will be entered upon the indictment pred'eued, against him. TDK SU( ( i;SSI()A. IS A PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF TJJIC SENATE EUGIULK TO RE ACTING PRESIDENT OF Tllj* UNITED STATES ? The following is the summary of the argument against the eligibility of an officer of Congress to the position of Ac— tipg President of the United States. The authorship has been attributed to Chief Justice Chase, but denied .through t.be newspapers. Whether written by him : or not, it is positively st ated that these arohivS views ; and whether the*}' be iiis or not, they are doubtless correct and as here put forth being the conclusion of a profound and exhaustive article on the subject they are evidently the produc tion of a skilled and aide investigator on Rueh questions ; The Constitute u has it«elf drawn a clear distinction between the President pro’tempore of the Senate and all other oflicei*s ev en of "Congress. The second section of the flfst Article Treats of the composition of the House of Ropicsenta tives oft! c quallicalioj s"f members, etc. The fifth clause provith b thatJ‘Thc House : of Represeimtives shall chose their own Speaker and other < fliceiß,”JUu; phrase ology « f the third section is cjuite and fler ent ; the fourth paragraph reads : ‘The Vice Rreskhmt of 11k* United States shall he Rresident of tlio Senate,” etc. The filth paragraph rumftlms [ fhe.S’ n t shall choose then* other office);*# and also a President pro tempore in the absence of the N ice President, etc. The .Speaker of the House was intended to be a pel mu ! licitt ..Hirer ; not so the President pro- j tempore of tlio Senate as, indeed, the I very title implies, 'flic early pract c»* j was tw elect on every occasion if ah- j Bence of the Vico President ; the same j Senator has been twice dec tod in the same session as have two in , the same session. The election of a se cond President pro tempore necessarily ousts the first. It was not until ISkS, after this practice was changed, that an additional salary was provided for the office. The office of Vice* President Is anoma lous, as also ia that of Urea Mont pro tern •poivjof the Somite. The former is both ! greater and less than the latter. The 1 former is elected by the people and 1 holds his office ind< pondcntly of the Sen ate ; tlve latter inflected by the Senate, and under Um*. curly practice held upon 1 the volition vrf' two superiors the Senate and the Vice President except when the latter exercised tlm office of the -’dent. The President pro tempore doc# not be came Vice-President of ilm United States not even 1 cling Vice President. This office once vacant remain# vacant to the end of the term. The J Vice j President is Loth a civil officer of the United States amt presiding officer of the Senate ; but has no vote as the lat ter except in case of a tio. BuUtho Pk si i dent pro tempore is not a civil officer never loses his vote nor* doc*# 1m cvas<* to he a The Vice President i may lie im|H*ach( and ; a Senator cannot ! he. Under no circumstances, in sum, can the President, pin tempore be di*iu;i ved ot his Senatorial character pvhich is somewhat analogous to that of ambassa dors of foreign countri *s in certain im munities is essentially different from tliaf of an otliix*r of the United States. What his precise character, is not entirely* ea sy to determine : though of coarse tliere is uodiiiici Ity iu this that he is the rep j resentatives <>t a State and .a legislator of the United States. A liiiiil and decisive t<*st of an -fficei of the United States,” is a (lorded bv the Oonstitution itself. It is this, that "the Prvsi Uni shall c mmiss on all thoi)ffitx>r.s of thp United Slates ” But the President never drriimisiinns u Senator oor Repre sentative, nor the President pro tempore of the Senate. An officer ot one of the State govern incuts could not have been meant for the j conclusive reason that the Federal Gov ernment has no ah-quxte jurisdiction : ! ova r any of them. But even if it had. what would be tiie rule of procedure among ilkiii ? ami In w could it he ex , ercised ? A citizen it is self evident e« uld not . be designated t * become acting* Presi dent : the Uenstitution requires the des ignatiijoof an officer; a*. 1 one who >1; >uM . v st himself of his oliice wo.;ld and sqnali ; fy liiuiSt.'! upon the fu* an office, is required to act. Ji iv.-sistibly, there fore, the acting Pres-dent in >t Hot owl\ be mi officiT ot The United States on as* sniniiig that )*i:i «*, l*«Utn:ist remain o ie ' Fiit-ully, the Acting PlNfiifhTe.it is an ; officer under the Unit* and But the | sixth « ction of the first ar»j#ve of tin* j (‘ohrtiitntmu is explicit : "N r » oerwon j Imld.ijg any ( under the United Siao n ittiaii b : aim inber of either House du ring hia continn.iuce - in office.” It is impossihluTtir this reason tli«*refore if for no other, t|at ;i Senator, IJresident1 J resident pro t<■iiipon* of the Senate, can lawfully be Acting President of the United States. Thvre M a fourth and most important considei at ion which l«-s not yet been ! ad vi rted to. Tfie sole function iff The Vice Pr<*si- j dent, except wJiqn he ciuea the office m ’ riV^mSui^¥ the United States, is to preside in the Senate and perform the diitii-H —cl 1 igfly or perhaps cutirely, min- j ;kl< riiil-»-iHM*p:i,rible from the phsition. ; 'Jlic function of the President pro teinjjo ; reof the Senate is to preside and per-! Jorfn the same duties m the ol | the VioifiPumideTit that he woifld 'pJr- . form were hi* personally in attendance. , This expresses nil his power# ; and this j is plainly and specifically the whole pur-j pose of the Constitution, To take him] away from the jmHbi mancC of that ftiuc- I lion to assign hjm -to other and canon-| i tially different duties—admittedly for 1 I uigu in their nature and scorn.* to those ( for which lie Was elected would be to | I defeat the tniiiiifoSt intent of the Conisti ] mtiou. To defeat the Constitution is to j j violate it. ’ The Senate must have a .presiding officer in the absence <»J the Vice Pres;* ] rji n or when the Vice President excreta- 1 es the office of Pi eside nt of tie* United; States ; the presiding officer must be President, pro tempore i»l the Senate and there can he but one prolempore at any one time. To elect a second vac it's the office of the first. Tliis lias more than once happened in the history of the Sen ate. The congluHiun of this examination is too obvious ar.d deceive to need further ■statement, thr/ugh other consiilcratioms : j might be ottered. Kvery avenue to tie* Presidency through cither House of Con gress Ims been effectually closed by the Constitution ; for the main objections to .the President pro tempore of the Senate ate equally potent against the 6'pcaker of the iioiuse of Representatives. The Fathers, indeed "builded wiser than they Knew,” and if living their unanimous res ponse to the caption of tliis paper would l»e—NO ! linjx*; Wasipngfon, April 15 The most dramatic episode of the impeachment tri al was that upon which the curtain fell to-day. After some discussion upon a motion to modify tlio rides so as to allow the Managers and the PresidenCs coun sel more latitude to speak at the close di the trial tlio motion and amendments thereto were laid on the table. Lienton ’ utit-Generr.l Slrsirriaii theu) re called to the stand by the President's counsel, and Mr. Staiibury at once proceeded on. the same course of inquiry that had been ( hocked by' the decisions of tiro Court on Saturday afternoon. The first question adted Gen. Sherman was whether it was his opinion after the restoration of Mr. Stanton to office, that the service re quired that Stanton should not lie at the head of the War Department ? Butler objected of bourse to this question. A debate sprang up upon it, which was participated in 4>y Bingham and Butler oil behalf of the Managers and Messrs. Staubuiy and Kvarts on the part of tin defence. Mr. Stanburv explained that the counsel wished to offer in evidence I that not only General A’hennan, but«th or general officers of tlio army* thought what the question suggested they pro posed to show that the motives up >n which the Prosuleiit acted was to the a<l vantage of the service and was based' on the opinions of competent and intelflgeet men ■ but tlie somite decided not to 'al low' Gen. Sherman to reply by' a vote ol thirty five to fifteen. Senator llcverdy Johnson then propounded the question j to the witness : “Did yon at any time, | aud when, talon: the President gave the j j order for the removal of Mr. Stanton as J Secretary of War, advise the President | to appoint another person ?” which was also voted down by thirty two to eigh teen Senators. These adverse decisions j j did nut seem to affect the spirits of the ] lawyers having in ,charge the President's Cause. Tiny kept coot bidisl tlieiriimc and called another witness, Mr. Meigs, Ulerk of the United States ifidtrict Court who produc#d the warrant issued for the ! arrest of General Thomas, and Stanbm’s allidavit upon which the warrant was j made out. At {lie close iff the examina ! ! tion of-tlds witness, Mr, Ueverdy John ! son sent the foll 'wing question in wri 1 j ting u» the Clerks desk, which was read !to Gen. Sherman a.s that officer again ! look the stand : Whi n the President tendered you the] I appointment of Secretary of War ad in- i j terim on the Ist ot January* ISC>B, and on ] the 31st of the same month did he at the | very time of making such tender, state J to you what his purpose iu so doing was? j After more opp -sßion, thin question was allowed; but as Gen. Sherman be i gan to reply to it in a way* Hot according ! with Gen. Butler’s notions he was inter rupted and at last answered briefly that the President did state his purpose. - ] Senator Johnson now added to his ques- j lion the wore# : | “II In* did, what did he state hi* purpose i WHS?” ! Here again a sharp debate between tin* ] opposing counsel was inaugurated by objection of Butler, whose smartness was ! only exceeded by the brazen insolence with which he seemed at one time to ac cuse Reverdy Johnson of a motive un worthy of one of the purest Senators on the floor. The sneer of the Massachusetts satyr at Mr. Johnson was in substance jjs follows : One of the judges, he saiJ, "desired to put a question to like witness to satis fy his own mind. Os course he was not acting as counsel for the President. That cannot he supposed ” Instantly senator Johnson arose, and a pain fill scitßatjpu disturbed the Court and the audience in the galleries. Ren dered so iodignatit that his whole frame shook and his voice trembled with eiiio* I tion, the nobie old man repelled the im putation which he suspected Butler ! meant to cast upon him with a few In* vi j ami scathing words. “What,” lie first asked, "does the Honorable Manager j ! mean ?” Haller, quailing a little.--responded : * ] mean precisely wijat I say, that it cannot be supposed that the Senator was acting for the President.” "if the bo*<Hable Manager, n proceeded Mr. Jtdmson, "mesNs to impute ili.it in 1 anythfug I have done in mis trial 1 have been acting as counsel or ill the spirit ol 1 counsel he docs not know the man of] wlmm he speaks. I am hereto discharge ( a duty and that doty l propose to and s ehaige. 1 know the law as well as hv ! Butler set himself to work iu good earliest to make an explana tion n4|Jie words that had offend- and the Senator, until Mr. Johnson nnnmineed t' at he was satisfied hut it was on - the p iw-r of hotii Cutler and Bingham, which last-named jteutlemutr eecond. and his colleague, to cutiiuly obliterate the impression pteduoesl tlpoli tie* rnin-lsand, synipatliies of tins Court hv thd .reflect ion winch had slipped from Butler’s lips. General Sherman’s testimony was at length received arid he was permitted not however without further opposition | by the managers to state in his own way ! what the President had said to him in 1 the conversations of the Ist and 30th of January last. It appears is this tvsti-i runny, that the President stateJ to Gen or Sherman, First, That hr intended to get secretary Stanton out of office ; .Sec olid. That his parp-me in ro doing teas To see that the \Vnr D<-|mi tiiM-nt was ad ministered for the good of the service and the country ; and Third, that he had ! a right to eject iS'timtoii under the law, i and that il the case could he got before j the. iSapreme (,'ourt, it could not stand !in ,Stanton’s favor an hour. The l’resi I dent asked General Sherman if lie would ! necefit the position of Sec re t,,i ry of War :nl ititeritu ttp oi these grounds and when ; the latte! im|uired what means (he I’rt-- Ident might See fit to employ if Stanton ! refused to vacate the cilice, Mr. Johnson | replied that there was nO need of consul eritig that qtiOßtioti then as In* had no doubt that Stanton whom he believed to , I lie a "cowardly” person would retire, i .Such strong and straightforward evi dence dal not fail to 'Huvi* its weight with every reasonable person in tin chamber. It helped to upset tint malt ! cions fallacy of an intent by tint Presi : dent to accomplish by Stanton's removal any worse ends than the proper idminis I ! nation of the Government, atel it show ed com lusively how opposite the Presi i dent’s design was from a proposed viola lion of the statutes. The .Managers do i dined to .cross erratuine fiel.ei ul Slier* j ! man until after a private ejauiiuutioii to ; - vliiuh he will (at snhjeeteS before them j *. tomorrow. -The rest oi the testimony | i taken this afternoon was of comparative i ly slight importance. KeadctU of the Worlj, wl o have exam | ini'd the extended reports of litis trial' 1 with care have been puzzled by some of ! the votes upon questions submitted to j ' the Senate during the last few days j Most of the votes have been very e*l<*se, j i and several extreme Radicals have join* j «t with the minority in dcsiding to ad mit evidence iu the President’s behalf] ? which was earnestly objected to by the j ] .Managers- When metillilte Sumner <’onk * ling ami Cameron play such fantastic j ! tricks the purpose is t ransparent. Sumner < in guise of a judge, is ahoi t as much < tit of character as Yates would be in an as ceilsion lobe and it need not.bo expected that he will vote differently upotiihe is l-sse of the trial because lie and others ] like him seek to hoodwink the country j now with a show of fairness. The eonsis j tent.course of other Republican Scnaluix has a better look although 1 refrain from compromising the President's cause by mentioning the names of these Menetors thereby drawing upon them the apatite irias and threats of conßtrt pen's whe badger them enough already. 1 adhere to the belief expressed to you more than a week ago that the doubtful members of the Court are numerous enough to |>re verst, convict ion. J. 8, fc>. j THK ERIE RAILROAD ACCIDKN'T i TERRIBLE ACelllKST —EOl'R CARS THttnWX* j liinv.v XV KUBAXKMKNT—SI.KI.I’INIi CAB | | nt'KVRD —TWENTY I'CRSOXS KILL! II AMU I Kim - Wot'XDED. ' The following particulars of the acci i dent ou the Elio Railroad have been re ! cciv.d : ] The train to which the accident occur* | red left Buffalo Tuesday afternoon. The train consisted of the engine lend *r, three sleeping ears, two first class and one ; second class, two baggage and one pus , tal oar. About three o'clock yesterday ! morning, Ainas and Horton of the Genci ■ 1 al i’uetolfioe in New Y*• k city who were | in charge of the postal ear, saw the bell j ' rope straighten <*#t and break in two, I j when Mr. Judd remarked to one of tin.- ] officers that be had lost his rear cars. They ran to the rear platform sf the car when four cats were seen rolling down a 1 precipice from seveutyfive to one hundred j j feet high. The scene of the accident is' i thirteen miles beyond Port Jervis, on the ; Delaware division of list road. The! ; disaster was caused by a broken rail 1 * which threw Iho rear ear immediately ] in front, and the whole were precipitated ‘down the embankment. The ears in going over the embank : meiit turned several limes before teach, i iag the bottom and were nearly dcniol ‘i i-Uicd. A sleeping car was entirely des troved by lire. The passengers immedi ately began to rescue the wounded and , remove the bodies of the killed. Many ' of the latter could not be recognized. Seven persons were burned to death and six others were killed by coming in eon j tact with the jagged rocks, Ac. The wounded persons were placed in a train and brought to Port Jervis. Several sur geons were immediately summoned, ami everything was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. The bodies ol the killed were left on 'lie ground. By the latest dispatches i ■ cermed at the Eric* ' railway office, it appears that twenty persons are dead and fifty wounded. Os the latter tea are seriously if not fatally injured Nnv A'-rr.K, April Ilf—Mr. Blakeby, a passenger on the Erie railroad, ami who was injured by tbc accident yesterday says: "1 was told by Mr Porter who was : traveling with me and who was awake at the time the train left the track that i tlto train wa.s fanning at the rate cf fit - ly miles an hour. They were running : to make up time as 1 was told at Sake matico wltcn f embarked that the train was thirty miles behind time in conse quence of having been backed and delay ed some time at Cony, Pennsylvania, in picking up the body of a man who bad . been killed by the train passing over | him. Tax as Frontier 1 .iff. —Bishop Mc ] TANARUS, eric, of the Southern Methodist Church writes from Texas, eighty miles west l! i San Antonio, that one ntati followed the Presiding. Elder an mud for eleven : j days, improving the privilege; of hcar i ing the gospel, and not iu vain, for in that time tie had heard seveni.** it set , icons. Two unprotected women travel ed seventy miles ou horseback to attend ; a quarterly meeting- The pionder pteacli ! ers arc well received in those distant frontier regions. One man, a professed 1 i freethinker swpre* that he would not hear the "circuit-rider, without paying him j $2, and he did pay it. Another Raid ! 1 "come and get a cow." Beyond ttie ' (roiitfer, in the Mcsilla A'aliey, the good Bishop found himself "pumped” in the trite Yankee style as to where he • was ; from,”, and Jjwboic going.* bald one, ‘What did y*u sa£ y* u. name was?' "I didn’tsay uuyilinlg on thfal subject." “Well but you ain't got nqlobjeetioii, 1 ! reckon, to telling yt ur iiahji ? I ain’t a j-shatned to tell mint- anywhere.” The Bishop, uncovering the trank, where il I wan printed in | UijjtleUers $» and: There's I tny ton ik*; you CM a read, osin’t ymi?"— j Ni ffriitg duliurtlened, and jti good hp ; mar, he said he could, and ft'-gan thus: M little c higT-y-e-i-r-e, and then tried it over, retaining to the big TANARUS, pud taking -a running sf art jto c.ijyii tlu* t-romiiicia ! tinti, in the iiiciiotiiiic iscttiifertho letters tangled. "Well, stranger, Ijgive it up jit you ain’t got tbc beatinest name of any country 1 vrasjevir in." Tiie Bishop i worked (line uu 1: av.fi spelllngj hut tc tl e ] lasj JKpcu ffi«;n>lw..nUu»nffi> ignorant of ! each other’s name. I Preaching one night, a young man j ami his sistn* Item tho country were ! present, and word came that his horses had been stolen, ’faking a companion, * he quietly left tin; Chnrcii, pnrsftcd the I thief, shot him recovered his horses, quietly returned to tmeting ustfnoth ti.a had happened, and tile Bishop adds, with less disturbance than lie had wit nessed elftwlft# over a ring-light,* The Indian Mat in Florida. A dispatch is published extensively in the Northern papers to tho effect that at; Indian war trad broken out in Florida. The Florida Union] says (he report is: without theslightest f itindalioti, and so far as we can Ascertain, nr nii from, the i fact that Tiger Tail, the chief of thu* Sent- j iuoies, having carried some slaves to j New Smyrna to sell the pep pfe refused to fay them telling the Chief that slave ry was abolished. Tiger Vail denied the right of Uncle Abe, or a ip; other man to set his slaves free and carried them back to the Everglades in high dudgeon. Owjug to this and sotne ulleged outra ges on the patt of white trailers and cat ( tie dealers the Indians have been of late gotifewhat dissatisfied. Weave inform ed ou tbe authority of Col. 'rpragne that these Indians cannot tint-it.*r over one lnmdr/.d warriors, am! the idea of snob a i handful of savages making wsf nputi Ibe j | whites is simply absurd ] StiMIF.UE CoPRT To UK lIK-oIMAJ&ZBn. Al I Washington letter of the 7th, t"the (Jin j cinnafi Commercial, says : j It is the intentuui of tit - Radical,--] should tho i:. peueluweiit scheme succeed to rekorganizo tin- Sapirerpe Court ehaitg*- ! the districts legislate some of the pres i ent members ottt of office and new mem hers in and lucrt.-ase.flie ituml'cr ol Jndg j ' es by new appointments. In "flier words to "ha k” the court with men who are i j eonrfpn.itted to the reconstruction hills el :.Coi gi*iss and phidgcd to a Ixdk-f in theft cmiotitnl onabty. 1 iee iM ; l>e one ol the fir t things Under the new tegim*; , Judge Carl'.-r who is uow Ohief .Tostice] ! of the Snpremp Cmirt of tl.« District will] j t>e tvan feried to tin- Supi'cnu; j’onrt til the f*n ted .States, and ot wr griitleuicn ; like hftp wi l Ebo . appointsgl. jrt’here are j those whosaytlint in tin- change of ands i tricts or Gifcnits, Chase will ho legisla-] : ted off tbc bench- Certain it is, that j : most of the Radicals would like to legis : ; late him out of office. Tin y denounce : idm every hour of the day though for tio .t# reason tiian because ho has pros! | dial over the impctiChruettt with that jnd. I eial dignity and impartiality which alone i hue saved the trial from being a Coin plefe btitlesqiie. It may be wartli while to retuipil thu Radicals tout they Cannot i legislate Mr. Chase "not us nlfice’’ !o:- any ] conaiderablo time in thisconntry. 'They \ ' may legislate liim out of Ike Supreme Court” Put 'if Sh the people will legislate] him into the \A hitc llntt.se. JA Sll AMKI.ESS A(JT OF TYRA VNY. The tfoeo.tnt of the iTtiprisoiithent if] .Judge lVpc, at Jacksonville by a I.icu ; tenant if the army , will he read this > mpruing with an universal thrill of in- ; dignatiot). A feeble >ld utan is imprison , ed by a suit-officer fur refusing to dis I criminate in favor es negroes. The "fii J cef enters the Oohrt of Justice,'presrded : over by a Judge whose loyalty has nev er been questioned, dissolve* llwi t purl i and s* nds the Judge and his civil office:* to jail, with tlit’ cool cruel remark—C ir ■ ppra.l, oofiduct the Judge lo jail; lake hia: ate tdily for he is wery feeble." Yes, very feeble, but stronger to day than a ! liou in the nfleefhm ands Ippni tof the people of Alabama! Sot only s*ibtit when u crippled, gray lorded, old man ex i presses his indignapoa at tho outrage upon the Jt dye, his err.« -els snat died Iron) him hy a number oi initial soldo is is broken over his head and the ofrl man is himself hurried * IT to jail. Wo forbear eommint, for General Meade has threatened to imprison us if we dare to piiblish words which arouse the prejudices and passions of nnr pbor down-troddeu people. Tlie-tale is told; ! let the people orisidcr the moral! And j let General .Shepherd diligently investi gate whether tho men in blue uniform who beat the crippled old man over tbe : head* with hia own crutch were not dis guised members of the Ku-KJnx K lan! . [M'litl'jumcry Adixrtiaer. Th* Fats of Colossi. St. Eekvr flitfivrli It appears that the escape of this gallant soldier and gentleman from Thy Tortugas, took place on the night be tween bill and 7lh of March last. TB* Colonel managed to take along whlt Tiffii tlnee other prisoners and one of the sol diers who wcrcou guard at the titne,: be ing the one who w s thfc sentinel in eha**geof(Uc boat c-tui -etrd wit hr he post, whilst he was on guard. It is supposed that the Golonel itfsome at at managed, to bribe the gourd totlcsei t. and tiUanl him arid the other .three pris "ner* to escape. Afi so< nas the esenne was iliscovered, the United States s'ea mer Bibb was sebt out iu search of the tugrlives, but site failed to find any trace ■f tlwm. Ou the night of the cueape it was Mowing a gale, and as the boat which t ok them was small and in bad ! Condition, it is probable that they all' j perished. The Methodist District meeting at Thom" asviiie, agreed to transfer the Cambridge! Female t’ollege building, which, though, in an ucfinislie state cost tbir.v tlKiU sand dollars, to the Trustees of the l’ol i ytechnic College, reserving line privilege . f two perpetual scholarships for the j benefit of tise Methodist Church. The growth of the Astar estate in New York is saitr 1*) he shown by the j increase r-f Mr William B Aster's taxes. A few years ago he paid sio,Ot)o a year: now Ire pay, $219,000, or nearly S7OO a day. Commodore A aodcrbilt pays *40,- 1 000 a year at present, ever ?100 a day. N.iurs tv Tfias. —A Sbrrespomlent-bf the Cincinnati Ountne/'ctof Concludes t» .letter from Marshall, TtXofi, with the fdl tow'ng: ‘*7*oll arriving in this irlßte 1 wasim. pressed Witt the fertility of imiginatinß displayed by the innahitunts, as set forth in th - nit tiles bestowed by them on I heir village anti towns, 1 immediately cm. l mete id miking a list of.the most pec a liar, and 1 si'nd.jnu all that 1 have col lected. with the aSrotrapcc Unit lam in debted for none fit them to my own im agination, Here is (he list: Lick Skillrt, Buck Snort, Nip Irtd Tuck, J mtown, Rake Rocket, llog Eye,‘f-air Flay, Horn Hill, Seven Eeague, SleixleEasy, Rossuni Tiot, Flat Heel, Frog lx**Ve), Short-Pone, Gourd Neck, Shake Kag, lib erty Slante, Black Ankle. “in the village of Henderson I A.tft in troduced to a buxom school girl of fonr teen years who possessed tic foilowrug name: Dyonisia Boaddicea Jetfalimla Ja cobiua Cln isliani Buckiana Caledonia Susannah Emily Wyatt Wilkeraon Moore Wynne. ‘0 Sophonisba, Syphonisba'^.’ "This young lady is a con. in iff a 1 voting man of that village who, in tlffe ; slißit spall of his life of twenty-t woyeark ; lias done and suffered tlte billowing , tliings: He has had over at hundred per .<• nil encu inter; his sot mortal rth ee men; not mortally eight; is in \v resting i * nfer seven bail U)nds(ffrins !*et*u tnrongb i the war from tin- beginning: married, uic 1 ari iJa it daughter, and si a cl j liolil the wife who is now going to school; and is now living on bis father's i substance, ill pi ssession ot a pair of line ! boots, a spat ined horse, a M. xican sasl die, a silver watch, Uireßa-t-voiVers aud a Derringer, audom* dottar in sfs-cie. All this he told m - hisuse'f, with much ap parent satisfaction. He expects to at tend the Wueo races, Ikj t does nut ex pect to lay h avy wagers.” | A KjiF.EmiA n's liii'REßlirntvd of Liberia.— A treedman who left Charleston, !Snuth Carolina, for Liberia a few imsilhs ago, l writes back the most glowing account jof matters and things th re. After sta ting that he never felt free ontil.hc rcs.-h --ed that Republic, ami that ho had select 'd Ids land for cultivation, he adds: “Os : all the Ini t 1 found on the land nr tongue is unable to explain, lull 1 will give yeti tie* name of sotne. First, a ] field of thirty acres ofc *ff e, second, co j ' wi lint tree* in any qti mtfty; third, lent j ms by lli" bushel; fourth the gif at palm ] tree toe most important and precious j ttvu in the country, from which we get j nice nil, cabbage, but er; then the kernel t shlngitl*, then unrd and thread, and then, 1 best of all, we mu get \v im* of it to j t!i ink. All of these we Inive on the farm. Tell my brother Washington this in the countiy t « e.Mnc t<».” 'ln Xkw Orleane J^ca.yune* \ays that | ft.iin;e fibio 's begining to become an »r --ttctl of t al? at chat port, ami thone 1 merchant there, whose name it gives, Iras r c v Ic and r for it f.o i >*ew York md ofieiH <j (fl»le the market rate of cut* • ton for aM he cjwi <4>tain. ft adds that a ) demand for the frbro is also Rpringi i^ ! up in the West, l«it that no definite or* det s for it from that *e 'tipu have yet : been recieved at New Orleans. Asa ■‘generous mention" of tbe merits of Ha ritic’ the J’i nynne says it i** as g»*od as j linen cambric or silk, and when it to no* j into use the wearer will line? that ‘tin* ; chief and fii td v 'will bo that it will not w**ar out when the la»bion am! he* w ill bate to throw it aw 13, when af* era c nip e of years wear it is Mill as good as new. Testimony which Accord* with Heaton. The Mongomery (Alabama) Mail in pub- Imbing the order of UeiieraJ O. L. Sliep- Hieru against lire so called Ku Klux j Kl in, »jiy<: ,4 0eti issues the ; order against a society in whose exist ; » nee no sane man in the State believes. We defy him to specify'a single outrage , : tt •, which is traceable to any such amo |ei ition. Every puldication, fdacard, Ac. [ which has appeared about tbe mystical ivlan is web known to have originated with some half grown youths, who are ;ilwavs ready for sport#* The Mail is about correct in this matter. Every day seems to confirm more and more th* idea that the nonsense of youth* and boys i*» Ihe sum total of this whole Ku Klux business. Tho steam man that Itau made *• much talk is now de. ounced by a New ark man, who seems lo understand the : case, as an unmitigated humbug. It never has walked a step since it w« made. It was carried from the shop where it was made to an ice-cream gar den; then it was propped tip, so that its fait did not touch the ground, agoing; its legs swung back and forth in the ; empty air but that was all. Kv l ist accounts of the State Inebriate \syiiim at Jlingharuptoii, Xew York, there had been applications for a<tmis *ion front S3O clergymen, 80 judges, 340 merchants 1 240 gentlemen ■ and 1,300 rich men’s daughters. A Nashville paper publishes quite * a long list 0! colored men in that city, who have accumulated property ranging in the several cases from $2,000 *0 $50,- 000. Many of them bought their free dam and that of their wives and children before tbc war. \ Ilayes City, Kansas may be thus sum inarized : Four hundred whiskey dealers sell drinks to the four hundred inhabit ants. Services on Sunday consist of draw poker, monte arid faro. Amuse ments consisting of burglaries and cold blooded murders on the streets. Courts are not yet organized but hangings aro frequent. At a County eleoiion held a short time ago in New Jersey a woman offered her ballot, but was not allowed to vote be cause she had not registered. While repairing an old building in Brooklyn, last week, a rat’6 nest, lined with $2,500 in bills of tbe Mechanics’ Bank of Williamsburg, was under thdflj door. The money had been lost in - aud thus came strangely to light. r-Ti. (V. J "hi, I‘T’rsyth, cdfagyyifl '•I : :*• i: u:-.-: . 111 fr. hii uiilbei^H • H.u.cuck. ! 1 '• %,r ' *' • WB y Hiring ' V x .:' ??.