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THE FEDERAL UNION,
( CnrtteioJ Haneoekand lVilkinroi streets.)
Tuesday Morning. March 24, I8G8.
FOR GOVERNOR.
HON. AUGUSTUS REESE,
Of Morgan County.
Gen. Meade’s
will be found on our first page. The
election commences on the 20th of
April and continues through four days.
Civil officers and others made respon
sible for the enforcement of this Or
der will do well to preserve a copy.
WHO NHOl’I.l) VOTE AGAINST THE
ATLANTA NRGRO CONNTITITION.
Every white man should vote against
it because it attempts to establish the
social as well as the political equality
of the negroes. Every honest man,
white or black, should vote against it,
because it gives the Rogues and Radi
cals the preference to honest men, and
tries to make dishonesty the fashion
in Georgia. Every poor man should
vote against it, because by the Home-
Jl'DGG REESE DECLINES.
AYe have information from Judge
Reese, says the Macon Telegraph, of
the 22d inst., that,-after mature delib
eration, he lias felt it to be his duty to
decline the nomination for Governor
of Georgia, so cheerfully tendered to
him by the Democratic Central Execu
tive Committee. It is hardly neces
sary for us to say to our readers that
we regret this result. \Ve regard
Judge Reese as the best man for the
contest and for Governor of Georgia
that the people could agree upon. His
motives, however, for declining we
know to be patriotic and highly hon
orable to himself, and we accept his
decision, with the firm resolve to ban
ish every personal predilection and do
the best we can under the change of
circumstances to protect our State
against threatened calamity.
Election Order
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NOTICE.
Rooms Central Executive Com
Natonai. Dem Party of Ga
March 21st, 1868
The Central Executive Committee of the Nation
al Democratic. Party of Georgia are requested to
meet at the Lanier House, in the City ot Macon,
at 8 o’clock p. m , on Thursday the 26th instant.
By authority of the Chairman.
J. R. Sneed, Sec’y.
r^Democratic papers of the State will please
copy.
WHAT M'E MI ST LABOR FOB-FIBKT
LAST A> 1) AIjWj THE TIME.
In the first place we must labor to
defeat the Constitution. That is, by
far, the most important point. But
as it is best to take all of the chances,
it is best to vote for a good man for
Governor, in case the Constitution
should be adopted ; and we should, by
all means, have strong tickets for the
Legislature, in each county, and be
stead bill it destroys all the credit of sure to elect them, if possible. But
the poor man. Every tax-payer should ; our great object should be to defeat
that compound of all villainies and all
swindles—the mongrel Constitution.
By the side of that all other questions
sink into insignificance. Let every
decent man in the State array himself
against that.
ADMISSION OF ALABAMA.
On Thursday last, Mr. Beck, one
of the two Democratic members of
the House Reconstruction Committee,
got the floor on the admission of A1
abama, and poured hot shot into the
Committee and their infamous bant
ling. We extract from his speech :
“Even admitting, for the purpose of
mulatto society, which le destructive j argument, that all the Reconstruction
to all civilization. Every Christian j laws were constitutional, he claimed
should vote against it, because it is that under those laws even the Con-
intended to overthrow the laws 0 f | stitution ol Alabama had been reject-
God ami put negroes and whites upon ' , Dis S uisl r U as might, the
, .' , ,, , . , ■ , | simple question was, whether Con
an equality, which God never intended. 1 , , , r , c
_ M J ; : gress should force upon the people of
E\er\ man v\ho legards the credit or j Alabama a Constitution which every
honor ol the State should vote aginst white man in the State loathed and
vote against it, because by removing
the Capitol it will add millions to our
taxes, for the benefit of Atlanta only.
Every creditor should vote against it,
because it encourages those who owe
him to cheat and defraud him out of
his honest rights. Ever)* debtor should
vote against it. because the so-called re
lief measure is a cheat and a humbug,
and will afford him no relief, but only
getup strife and ill-will between debtor
and creditor. Every decent and hon
orable man should vote against it, be
cause it is intended to create a bastard
TO THE VOTERS OF GEORGIA.
Marrieta, Ga., March , ,1S0S. ,
I have now before me various com
munications from differenLparts of the
State, signed by citizens irrespective
of political or party differences, urging
me to become a candidate for the ollice
of Governor at the approaching elec
tion, and the subject involved lias been
carefully considered.
Preferring quietude, and beingeatis-
fied with the position I now' occupy#
my own personal feelings and inclina
tions would prompt me to decline the
proposed candidacy; but if it is thought
that I cau be of auy service to - the
people of my native State in this time
of trial, I am willing to forego all per
sonal considerations, and am ready to
make any reasonable sacrifice for their
relief. I therefore yield to the urgent
requests made, and consent to become
a candidate for the office of Governor.
I have only to say, that should I be
elevated to that high and responsible
office, I will to the utmost of my abil
ity, administer the government ac
cording to the Constitution and laws,
and for the best interest and welfare of
the whole people of the State,
The time between this and the elec
tion is so short, that it will be impos
sible for me to canvass the State—I
must therefore leave that matter to
my frieuds.
Sincerely grateful for the confidence
and partiality expressed in the various
communications before alluded to, I
am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant and fellow-citizen,
David Irwin.
THE SIXTH
CONGRUSAIONAL
TRICT.
it, because it degrades the State, will
drive off and keep men of capital
from coming among us. Every Geor
gian should vole against it because it
was concocted and got up by Yankees
and foreigners against the wishes and
the advice of the people of Georgia,
and is intended only to benefit the I
abhorred. Out of 75,000 registered
white votes, many of which had been
given for the Convention, notone had
been cast for the Constitution. As to
the ‘declaration in the preamble that
the Constitution is republican in form,
he said that it is so in the sense that a
gorilla is human in form.
If Congress is determined to make a
Yankees. In conclusion, every white Constitution for Alabama, let a good
man, every honest man, every decent 1 0Iie nia( ^ e ’ aI 3^ ll0 *- 011e "Idch the
, i ' * i people of no Northern State would
man, every tax-payer, and every Tnan } r n
* ,i . J have. Because the peop e ot Alaba-
who wishes well to the -State should
vote against it. People of Georgia
rally as one man and labor from now
until election day to defeat this mu
latto monstrosity, which was conceiv
ed in sin and brought forth in inequity,
and if established among us will per
petuate dishonor, dishonesty, and dis
grace to you, and to your children.
Avoid it as you would a pestilence. It
is your duty to yourselves, your child
ren, your country, and your God, to
vote down this abominable Mongrel
Mulatto Constitution.
the candidaieb s ore GOVERNOR.
The nomination of Judge Reese
having given such universal satisfac
tion to every conservative man in the
State, we were sorry to see Judge
Irwin’s card declaring himself a candi
date. We have, for many years been
a warm, personal friend of Judire
. O
Irwin and would willingly support
him if Judge Reese bad not been
nominated, and we hope sincerely that
some arrangement will be made so that
but one of these gentlemen shall run,
for if both run we fear it will insure
the election of Mr. Bullock. Whilst
upon this subject we would remark
that personally we know nothing
against Mr. Bullock save and except
his connection with the party that has
been trying to force the abominable
negro Constitution upon the people of
Georgia. Before his connection with
that party we believe lie had the
reputation of being an urbane gentle
man and ol possessing a large amount
of business talent. But the best way
of settling the question about who
shall be Governor, is to vote down the
Constitution. If this is done we shall
have no use for either of the candi
dates for the present. The Constitu
tion, if set up among us will prove to
he the abomination of desolation. Let
os reject the Constitution, and by do
ing this we cut up the evil by the roots.
This can easily be done if all the men
in Georgia will do their duty. Will
you do it ‘l
John R. Hudson, Esq., of Put
nam county, is an independent candi
date for Congress from the 4th Dis
trict.
ma would not have it, why should
they be denounced and punished as
contumacious? Why this bill be
passed now, when if the assertions
were true that a majority of yoters
of Alabama are iu favor of the Con
stitution it would be sent back aud be
voted on again? Was it because it was
necessary to have two Alabama Sen
ators to vote for the impeachment of
the President? Surely that would not
lie avowed. He warned Congress of
the danger of intrusting too much
power to Gen. Grant—a man who
had not shrunk from sacrificing 10,000,
20,000 or 30,000 men in the various
battles of the Wilderness—lest he
might turn out to be to Congress what
i Cromwell was to the Long Parliament.
He appealed to Congress to profit by
the example of the Amphyctrionic
Council, which, when it was propos
ed after the war between Thrace and
Lacedemonia to erect a monument in
honor of a victory, said: “No; let
nothing be done to perpetuate the
fact that there ever was a strife between
Grace and Thrace.”
Woke lt the Wrong Passenger.
—Mr. F. Y,\ Adorns, of Clarke county,
who was appointed a delegate to the
Chicago Convention by the Radicals
and negroes at Ailanta, is out iu a card
in which he declares: “I aui not, nor
can I ever be a member of the Repub
lican or Radical party. I shall vote
against the ratification of the Atlanta
Constitution. The card concludes
with the following emphatic repudia
tion:
I can have nothing in common with
a political body composed of such ma
terial, in the main, as the Atlauta Con
vention. I object to almost all of its
acts, and my disgust of many is almost
inexpressible. I can have no fellow
ship with the repudiator of an honest
debt. I have infinitely more respect
for the highwayman who incurs, at
least, personal danger, than for the del
egates in that convention who voted
fur repudiation, or for the (supposed)
large body of white peopleTn the State
who sustain them in their action.
Sheriff’s Sales.—The Macon Tel-
egraph says: “It may be worthy of
note that Gen. Meade having, in his
order carrying into effect the Relief
article of the proposed Constitution,
revoked his former order suspending
all sales under execution, levies and
sales on all debts created subsequent
to June, 1865, can now progress with
out molestation.
We notice iu the Athens Watchman
of the 18th instant, the following an
nouncement addressed to the voters of
the Sixth Congressional District:
Fellow-Citizens: In obedience to
the solicitations of numerous friends,
whose wishes I feel bound to respect,
I announce myself a candidate for re-
election as your Representative in
the Congress of the Unite I States.
Profoundly thankful for the honor I
you conferred upon me, by electing !
me by so large a majority in 1*6-5, I J
now pledge myself, if re-elected, to!
serve the people of the district to the
best of my ability—not merely a clique !
or party, but the whole people.
Very respectfully yourob’t serv’t,
John A. Christy. |
NO BEMOVAL.
A correspondent of the Federal j
Union, who believes that there is aj
majority ot the people of Georgia op-!
ptsed to the removal of the capital ;
from Milledgeville, for the reason, i
amongst many others, that the State is j
sufficiently burdened with debt, and j
that our present capitol building has j
just been thoroughly repaired, suggests ;
that it would be well tor those papers |
throughout the State that are opposed |
to removal, to have printed on the |
Gubernatorial and Congressional tick
ets, “No Removal.” In case this is
done, and there is a majority opposed
to “removal,” the writer has no doubt
Congress would respect the wishes of
the people of the State, and do with
that question as is proposed to do with
the one of relief—expunge it from the
Constitution.
The suggestion is, we think, a good
one, as there are probably some who
even favor tHte adoption of the Cunsti-
tution, who would be unwilling to
further involve the already impover
ished finances of the State for so un
necessary a change. Those who vain
ly look for relief under the unconstitu
tional clause of the new Constitution,
will not be very apt to favor a meas
ure of unnecessary extravagance, which
would necessarily increase the burden
of taxation already unbearable.
Savannah News if Herald.
THE stats: iioi me tax.
The Relief Convention, up to this
time, has cost the State about two
hundred thousand dollars. To raise
that amount they ordered a tax of one-
tenth of one per cent, to be collected.
According to that calculation, it will
take one-half of one per cent, to raise
a million dollars—the probable,cost of
moving the Capitol to Atlanta. Count
it up, ye tax payers of Georgia. Your
State House tax will be just five times
as much as the Relief Convention tax.
You that pay the nigger Convention
five dollars will have to pay $25 for
moving the Capitol and others in the
(same proportion. And all this is jest
| to form a corruption fund for the scal-
I awags. The State will be indiscriba-
J bly better off with the Capitol where
| it is, than if moved to a place of sucli
I notorious corruption *as Atlanta. If
! yon want, to have corrupt Legislatures,
let them meet in large cities, where
immense money power can bo wield
ed.
Vote down the Constitution, and
stop all such non-sense.—Rome Courier.
THE MrARDLE CAME.
Our Washington dispatches this
morning state that it is believed the
Supreme Court, in the McArdle case,
has decided adversely to the constitu
tionality of the Reconstruction Acts,
but that the decision will not be ren
dered until Coegress has time to pass
the Bill, now before it, taking juris
diction in these matters out of the
hands of the Court. Should this in
formation prove to be correct, it places
the highest tribunal in the land entire
ly at the mercy of this Radical Con
gress, and effectually wipes out, for all
practical purposes, the Executive and
Judicial departments of the Govern
ment.— Chronicle if Sentinel.
GENERAL MEADE OX THE BEEF DI-
ATI OX SWINDLE:;
Our people will soon learn the les
sons taught by all history, sacred and
profame, that he who undertakes con
tracts, and agrees upon a valuable con
sideration received, either of money or
property, to pay for or make restitu
tion of the same, will be compelled to
perform the stipulations of his contract
or surrender a sufficient amount of his
property to satisfy ajl damage which
may^nave resulted from his breach of
faith. The laws of no civilized coun
try, or as to that, heathen or barba
rian, so far as we know, will permit
their people to break plighted faith
without making proper restitution by
way of damages. The Georgia Radi
cals aud carpet-bag etnniissaries kuow
full well that their relief ordinance is
a delusion and a snare. They are even
now chuckling over their contemplat
ed overthrow of the integrity and hon
esty of our people. For years past
the allies of this miserable faction at
the North have taunted the South
with the charge of repudiation grow
ing out of the action, many years ago,
of the State of Mississippi in relation
to some classes of her bonds. Now,
they have fixed the infamous brand of
repudiation upon our good old State,
and ask her people to burn it into
their foreheads by voting their en
dorsement of its infamy iu order that
they be pointed at with the fingers of
scorn and disgrace in all time to come.
This is a great truth, and Georgians,
of all classes, should ponder it well—
that the strict aud rigid enforcement of
all legal contracts is absolutely neces
sary for the safety of society.
We knew that many persons are
laboring under the delusiou that, as a
large portion of the indebtedness of
the country has been put into the
shape of judgments, and that such
judgments being issued out of State
courts, cannot be enforced except
through the agency and instrumental
ities of the State tribunals, and that
consequently no transfer of such judg
ments to non-residents would give to
the holder thereof any greater rights
than those previously held by the
original holder or plaintiff. Here,
again, is a fatal mistake. These judg
ments and the laws under which they
are secured to the owners thereof, can
and will be enforced in the Federal
Courts.
By reference to the 35th section of
the Bankrupt Law, it will be seen
that any transfer, assignment or con
veyance of any part of a debtor’s prop
erty to defeat any or either of. his cred
itors, constitutes an act of Banaruptcy,
and subjects the debtor to the provi
sions of the bill which are applicable
to involuntary Bankrupts. Under this
section the attempted enforcement of
a junior judgment—one, for instance,
founded upon a contract made prior to
the lstof Juue, 1865, or a payment or
settlement of such judgment by the
debtor—the confession of a judgment
on a contract made since June, 1S65,
and the Courts have even gone so far
as to hold that a payment in cash, or
in a bill of exchange or draft to a junior
creditor by one iu insolvent circum
stances, would create a condition of
Bankruptcy.
How, then, can any debtor in Geor
gia hope to save his property or pre
vent its legal appropriation for the pay
ment of his debts ? As soon as he at
tempts to make a purchase or sale of
property, or to pay a debt created
since June, 1865, his creditors, who,
under the provisions of the repudiation
humbug, are debarred from pursuing
him in the State Courts, will force him
into Bankruptcy, and .take immediate
ly from his possession and control all
of his property, both real and personal,
and have it placed in the hands of an
assignee to be sold for the benefit of
all his creditors without regard to the
provisions of the repudiation swindle.
The Blodgett-IIomestead Bill will
not afford the deceived and injured
debtor the least relief. The bankrupt
law secures 5nd sets apart, by its 14th
section, for the use of’debtor’s family,
all the property which by the laws of
the States are exempt from levy and
sale, and in addition thereto, at the
option of the assignee, five hundred
dollars worth of other property. The
provisions of the Convention Home
stead Bill can only apply to and afford
relief from the lien of such debts as
have been contracted since the passage
of that ordinance or after the ratifica
tion of the Constitution. That Home
stead Bill cannot defeat the lien of old
debts created before June, 1SG5, upon
all the property of the debtor, except
such as was exempted from levy and
sale by the State law as it has existed
for the last ten or fifteen years.
Thus we find that in any and every
legal view that can be taken of the so-
called relief ordinance, the conclusion
forces itself upon us that it can afford
no relief to our people. More than this
vve have shown that it is a cunningly
devised snare set to entrap our people
and rob them of their honor and integ
rity. We warn our people now, and
THE “ME1.IRF'.’ CONVENTION.
The contemplation of a few acts of
the Black aud Tan” Menagerie is
quite interesting to tax payers. Re
member that this meeting secured its
own existence by pretending they
were goin<j to provide a way in which
to relieve the impoverished citizens of
Georgia from their pecuniary embar
rassments.—Well, how have they done
it? Firstly, they voted themselves nine
dollars a "day and twenty-five cents per
mile mileage. Their per diem pay
amounted torSO days, to $720 a piece,
their mileage amounted to nearly
$S0;so their full pay might be set
down as SS00 each—$135,200 for all
the members.
After dealing thus liberally with
themselves, they then acted in their
other expenses, more like a band of
thieves than like honest men, who
have any regard for economy.
Secondly. They sent to New York
for two “loyal” reporters to report the
speeches of the ignorant negroes and
conceited demagogues that composed
their disgustiug crowd. As good for
tune would have it, but one came, but
him, we are creditably informed, they
paid thirty dollurs a day. They really
had no more use for him than a cat
has f <r two tails, but being pledged to
go for “relief,” they must do some
thing with the people’s money, and so
that is the way they did it.
Thirdly. They hired a “trooly loil”
man'to pray for them. This so-called
Chaplain, we are told, is a regular
Down-East Yankee, and belongs to
that denomination that is trying to
steal the entire property of tho South
ern Methodist Church. They paid
him five dollars a prayer—$400 for
the session—praying for “relief,” you
kuow. Well, if ever a body of men
Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
mONI WASHINGTON.
The Spy System Again in Operation—
'Espionage on General Lorenzo Thomas
—His Language Reported to the Com
mittee on impeachment—A New Sum
mons— The Spy Present—Gin. Thom
as Erplhins—The Impeachment Pro
gramme— The McArdle Case—The
Chief Justice.
Washington, March 15.—In spite
of the boasted Christianity of the nine
teenth century, it has been, and is
still being demonstrated that mankind
is now precisely what mankind has al
ways been, it oniy requiring an occasion
to bring out and develop the worst fea
tures of human nature. These devel
opments were wide spread during the
late civil war, and they are again man
ifesting themselves during the im
peachment of President Johnson. The
infamous and disgraceful “spy” system
has been again inaugurated, and the
tracks of high Government officials
are being constantly dogged by crea
tures in the employment of the “dis
tinguished” impeachers. No place is
safe against their intrusion—no official
too high to be watched. One case in
point will suffice for an illustration.
During the last levee of the President
an individual approached General Lo
renzo Thomas and introducing himself
as a resident of New Castle, Delaware,
the native town of General Thomas, ex
tended his hand in salution, which the
General politely accepted. Holding
the General tightly in his grip, he told
him the eyes of Delaware were upon
him, and that they expected him to
stand firm. General Thomas laughing
ly replied, “I believe I am standing
firm,” at the same time raising him
self on his toes, as much as to say,
Physically, at least,” “But, General,
needed praying for we reckon they did, what are you going to do with Stan-
aud these hypocrites always have ud ton? 1 * continued his newly-found
hypocrites always
eye to appearances.
Fourthly. They engage two Radi-,
cal papers to publish their proceedings
—we do not know the amount allow
ed them. But at regular rates—and
as they are both ardent “relief” con
cerns, they could not be expected to
take less—it would be something over
$5000 each.
Fifthly. They voted to move the
Capitol to Atlanta, and this will “re
lieve” the State of at least a million of
dollars. The State House at Milledge-
ville has recently been thoroughly re
paired—is convenient and comfortable
—is within thirty miles of the centre
of the State, and will be good enough
for lionest white men for the next fifty
years, and it is to be hoped that the State
will not be cursed with any more “re
lief’* conventions, or assemblies ol
that sort. Suiely none but “relief”
men would have thought of removing
the State Capital, particularly at this
time. Less than twelve months since,
nearly a hundred authorized beggars
from Georgia were soliciting alms
throughout the Northern States to sat
isfy the starving people with bread,
and their appeals were generously res
ponded to; and now this “relief” Con
vention proposes actually to squander
a million of dollars of the money of
these same poor people.
We might enumerate other speci
mens of the kind of relief the “so-call
ed” offers, but these are sufficient. The
menagerie asks the people of Georgia
to beiieve them, trust them, elect them
and their sort to all the offices, and)
then be taxed to death, and all of this
merely for the sake of giving negroes
the privilege to vote. What say you,
Georgians, will you do it? Our own
opinion is that “Convention and Re
lief’ are played out, and that every
decent, .honest white man in the State
becomes disgusted at the mere mention
of the thing.—Rome Courier.
" BELIEF” MODIFIED.
On the 16th of January, by “Gener
al Orders No. 11,” General Meade gave
force and effect to an ordinance passed
by the Atlanta Convention, which
suspended the execution of “all levies
which have been or may be made un
der execution issued from any court of
this State.” This was prior to the
adoption by the Convention of the
“Judiciary” article of the Constitution.
By that article, it is provided that “no
court in this State shall have jurisdic
tion to try or determine any suit
against any resident of this State upon
any contract or agreement made or
implied, or upon any contract made in
renewal of any debt existing prior to
the first day of June, 1SG5 ; nor shall
any court or ministerial officer of this
State have authority to enforce any
judgment, execution or decree render
ed or issued upon any contract or
agreement made or implied, or upon
any contract in lenewal of a debt ex
isting prior to the first day of June,
1865, (except in a few cases mention
ed ) This article does not bar either
judgment or execution upon debts con
tracted since the first day of June,
1865. Gen. Meade, by an ord t issued
on the 12th inst., rescinds Orders No.
11, (above referred to,) and gives force
and effect to the provision of the Cou-
shall continue to warn them, against I stitutiou above quoted. So thatjudg-
Chicago is going to have the lar
gest and most elegant railway depot
in the world. It is to be bailt entire
ly of stone, by the three leading rail
way companies centering in that city,
will be over one thousand three hun
dred feet long, and will cost, when
completed, nearly $2,000,000.
this treacherous devise of their malig
uaDt enemies—the Radical ring—
Bullock, Beard, Bradley, Blodgett,
Bryant and Brown.—Chron. 4 Sen.
The latest British dispatches re
ceived from Abyssinnia state that
Gen. Napier was about to send out a
a reconnoitering party to take Ashan-
go, in the Tiger District. The Pasha
of Egypt, showed no disposition to
withdraw his forces from Abyssinia, as
requested by the British Government;
but, on the contrary, the Egyptians in
camp at Massawah had received con
siderable reinforcements from the
north.
—A young lady from the country
now visiting in the city, writes home
thus: “Nobody isn’t nothin’ now which
doesn’t hole up her cloz, and the
hier you holes ’em the more you are
noticed.”
inent or execution is now oniv forbid-
en as to tiebts contracted prior to
June, 1865.—Columbus Enquirer.
Democratic Gains in Maine.—A
correspondent of tfie Boston Post,
writing from Portland, Maine, says
that, besides the tremendous Demo
cratic gain of over one thousand at the
recent election in that city, in Lewiston
we have gained from fall election 450;
in Gorham we have gained 86, reduc
ing the majority from 120 to 35; in
Falmouth we cleaned the Republican
officers all out; in Windham we re
duced the majority of 113 last fall to
30; in Cape Elizabeth we elected a
Democratic Moderator by 75, Repub
lican last year; in Bath we gained
from last tall 104; in Saco we gained
from last spring 113. Thus, in eight
towns, the Democratic gains haye been
2,115.
friend, who still held fast to the Gen
eral’s hand. “We shall kick him out
after a while,” laughingly responded
Thomas. This seemed to satisfy the
stranger, who now tffimed and uncere
tnoniously disappeared. The inter
view passed from the General’s mind,
and perhaps would never have been
thought of again, had it not been for
the after-clap which followed, and
which not only exposes an infamy
scarcely to be credited, but also ex
poses the weakness of this shameful
proceeding against the Executive Head
of the nation. On Friday morning 1 st
General Thomas was again summoned
before the impeachment managers,
and to his utter amazement the first
man he beheld in their room was his
New Castle friend. He had already
detailed to the committee the treasona
ble language of the Secretary of War
ad interim, and the General hal been
summoned to confront the spy. The
testimony against him was read in his
hearing, when the General remarked,
“that is all correct except the manner.
The witness has totally perverted my
manner during the interview;* what I
said I said jocularly.” The witness
here interposed and contended that the
General’s manner was particularly
grave and serious. General Butler in
quired who General Thomas meant
when he said “we?” The General res
ponded “I meant myself, sir.” Butler
—“What did you mean by saying Jack
him out?” Answer—“I meant only
a figure of speech.” After considerable
questioning by Butler and others, Gen
eral Thomas said: “I will again state,
gentlemen, that I have never received
any instructions from the President
how I was to obtain possession of the
War < Jffiee, and he has never intimated
to me, directly or indirectly, the use
of any force. I may also arid that I
oniy consider Mr. Stanton as a private
citizen, and shall not obey any order be
may make. This is my position, and
it is at your service.” Gen. Thomas
was then permitted to withdraw, as
preparations had to be made by the
“managers” for the scene which was
soon to take place in the Senate. Such
are the means being adopted to secure
the conviction of Andrew Johnson,
and seize upon the Executive power of
the Government. Will the American
people ratify such proceedings?
There seems to be a strange ignor
ance prevailing in Congress touching
the true nature of the prosecution in
the case of an impeachment. In the
official report of the Senate it is
stated “the members of the House of
Representatives came in to witness
the proceedings.” The House of Repre
sentatives is the grand inquest, and
must be present, or the prosecution
cannot proceed. The managers are
but its mouth-piece, but before enter
ing, the House must go into the Com
mittee of the Whole, and should enter
the Senate Chamber with the Chair
man ,not the Speaker at its head. Each
day the committee must return to its
hall, and there, through its chairman,
report progress; hence, on Friday last,
the Hon. E. B. Washburne, the chair
man of the committee was assigned the
most prominent seat—the one imme
diately in front of the presiding officer.
It is rumored that the decision of
the Supreme Court in the McArdle case
will be delivered to-morrow. There is
good reason for saying, that when de
livered, Chief Justice Chase will be
found, in this, as in all other cases, on
the side of the Constitution, regardless
of consequences.
The Savannah Republican, noticing
the readiness with which the black
and white Radicals accept Bullock as
their candidate for Governor, says that
it makes no difference with such a
party “ whether a bullock, an ox, or
an ass is nominated."
There is a curious rumor in Wash-
ton that Mrs. Senator Sprague, who
is quite a politician sympathizes strong
ly with the President, represents to
her husband and her father, Chief Jus
tice Chase, that it is^n act of tyranny
and that Mr. Johnson hi* only stood
up for his rights.
STANTON S FEARS.
Although the greatest care has been
taken to smother the matter, the real
cause lor locking the back door at the
War Department lias leaked out most
probably through a discontented sold
ier. Put into the mildest form possi
ble, it cannot be concealed that the
high-minded occupant of the War De
partment was overtaken last week
with so great a panic that it almost
resulted in stampeding him. \yf, e
the terrors of the Bitro-glyceriue con
spiracy burst upon him he resorted to
the military for protection, and while
even the most nei vous people regard
ed the story as a very weak hoax, Jlr
Stanton saw danger enough in it to
surround the Department with a strong
skirmish line, having a heavy reserve
for support located within the building
and camping out on the hard brick
floor. A more absurd story never
emanated from the intelligent contra
band of the rebellion than the report
which caused such consternation in
the War Department on Friday last.
This it was: A detective employed
by Mr, Stanton to bring him early’in-
telligence of any danger that might
threateu the safety of his official sanc
tuary appeared before him on that day
and imparted the startling intelligence
that Mosby had organized a force in
the country adjacent to the Potomac
river, and was prepared to enter Wash
ington, surround the War Department
and seize the refractory Secretary of
War, so-called. What disposition was
Jhen to have been made of the illustri
ous prisoner was not clearly known,
but. uncomfortable visions of a mid
night ride on a Virginia fence rail, ex
posed to the biting blasts of wintry
air, with no other covering then a lib
eral coat of tar aud feathers, or per
haps, a sudden dissolution of all that is
mortal of the great War Secretary,
and his remains thrust into some one
of the half filled holes that cover the
Bull Run battlefield, filled the mind of
the nervous Stanton, and he at once or
dered out a lorce of seventy-five men.
This force was held under marching
orders to move to the scene of action
at a moment’s notice. At night,
while the weather was quite cold, a
strong guard was sent to the Long
Bridge across the Potomac to look out
for the approach of the enemy and
contest the passage of the river. The
guard, much to their disgust, bivou
acked in the cold night air on the
Long Bridge for two nights, but were
doomed to disappointment, for no Mos
by made his appearance. Then it was
resolved to lock the rear of the War
Department in order that there should
be but one entrance, which it was
thought the forty-fourth regiment, as
sisted by the twelfth regiment of in
fantry and the Fifth cavalry, would
be able to hold against any force that
could be brought upon it.— Washing
ton Cor. N. Y. Herald, March 12.
From North East Georgia.—A
friend at Dahlonega, Ga., writing to
the Lagrange Reporter, says:
The almost universal feeling with
the people of Northeast Georgia is op
posed to negro political and social
equality. A few persons—principally
the league men—are willing to adopt
“manhood suffrage” because Congress
said so. Much has been said about
Cherokee Georgia carrying the consti
tution of the negro convention through.
I will venture the assertion that fewer
white men vote for the constitution in
Cherokee Georgia than in middle or
lower Georgia. We want no relief
here—such as this convention gives.
There are no such homesteads here as
the constitution allows. If let aloue
our people could get along and pay
all their debts, or be willing to show
their hands.”
One of our cotemporaires, says
the Philadelphia Ledger, thinks there
is no necessity of any one buying
umbrellas, and gives its readers the
following questionable advice on the
subject:
Take your stand in a doorway on a
rainy day. As soon as you see a man
with a nice umbrella, step out and
say to him, “Sir, I beg your pardon,
but you have my umbrella.” Nine
times in ten he will surrender it, for
how does he know it was not you he
took it from.
The Famine in Sweden.—The news
of the famine in Sweden is appalling.
In a letter addressed to Mr. Seward by
Mr. Thomas, counsel at one of the
Swedish porta, we find the following
in regard to the sufferers:
Three hundred thousand hard-work-
ed, patieut Swedes are starving in
Norrland. Their crops for three years
have been bad; last year they were an
utter failure; and now even their mis
erable bread, made of straw and the
bark of trees, has given out-. They
sit in their cheerless huts and die. Mv
private advices from Scandinavia re
present this calamity as worse even
than the published accounts.
No Capital.—Two gentlemen were
recently standing on the deck of a
steamer, engaged in earnest conversa
tion, when the wind suddenly lifted
the cap from the head of one of them
and send it riding on the crest of a
wild wave. “There!” exclaimed the
other, as the owner made a futile grab
at his property; “you can’t go into
business now.” “Why so?” inquired
the gentleman. “Because you have no
cap at all,” replied the other.
“I hope, my little daughter,” I said
one morning, “that you will be able
So control your little temper to-day.”
—“Yes, mama; and I hope you will be
able to control your big temper.”
Hon. Richard H. Bayard, formerly
United States Senator from Delaware,
and Minister to Belgium, died in Uhil-
adelphia on Tuesday, agedjseventy-fi*’®
years.