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Georgia Journal & Messenger.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1868.
NORTHERN lIETIIOUISII.
A Mr. Waldro of the Northern Metho
dist Church, a resident of Chicago, has
lately written a letter that the New York
7 hues very curiously calls “curious.”
Linleu, and judge for yourselves: He
takes the ground that all Government is
based on the religious ideas of those who
carry it on, and that the Northern Metho
dists have acquired by conquest the right
to control the religion of the Bouth. He
holds that it is just as wrong to allow the
Southern Methodists to meet and worship
at all, as it would be to allow Lee and
Johnson to call together and drill their
armies again. He thinks they will soon
be prohibited from doing so. The religion
of the North is bound to rule this conti
nent, and it proposes to “ make a proper
application of our Bible to all the Southern
States and people.” A subjugated people,
lie says, “have no more right to apply
their own peculiar moral iilww Hhs. w tn*v
their physical implements of war.”
The Official Organ— YViiolesalr
I’LUNDKKINO JUDGE EIt.SK INK. — The
enormous frauds sought to be practiced by
the mongrel crew of adventurers in Au
gusta, has at last been brought before the
court. We are Informed that, upon mo
tion yesterday, in the United States Cir
cuit Court, before his honor Judge Ers
kine, the matter was brought up for
investigation, when his honor appointed
it. K. Hines, Judge Nisbet, and Henry
Williams, Esq., a committee to investi
gate the subject, and report to the court
what can be done in the premises.
11 was stated to the court that the nui
sance could not be borne any longer. In
one case a bill of seven hundred and nine
ty dollars was rendered for advertising
ten lilies of one square each ; in another,
ninety dollars was demanded for one levy,
and others in proportion. —Savannah
AV wh «V Herald.
Our readers may form some idea from
this expose, how their pockets are picked
to keep the life in the tilings called Radi
cal papers in Georgia. If it were not for
such downright robbery, they would have
perished of inaction, and in their own
tilth and falsehood, lon}' ago. If Ruliook
and his gang get control of the oflices of
the State, the tix-payers of Georgia who
have any legal advertising to pay for, may
expect to enrich, by legal compulsion, just
such enemies of their race and country as
this Jacobin sheet at Augusta. Therefore,
if you wish to perpetuate this species of
robbery, vote for Rullock and his ban
ditti.
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i in; l o.vnicT of the inpEi u
ni:\T came.
From the Baltimore Sun, 15th.
UKN'KKAI. BUTI.KK’S JSXIIIUITIONS.
Tile accounts given by different Wash
ington correspondents of the episode in
the impeachment proceedings on Monday,
in which General Roller undertook to in
timate that Senator Johnson, in asking a
question of the witness (General Sher
man i was acting as counsel for the Pres
ident, dill'er somewhat in tone and color
ing, and i.i an excusatory vein in some of
them, hut they all bear out what every
one knows to be characteristic of Rutler,
and it is easy to recognize his peculiar
features in each and all. The native im
pudence of this Old Hailey practitioner
was too thinly disguised on this occasion
to admit of a doubt that Senator Johnson
1 nil 11 nftnl ilgntiy tut? intraiitng «»« me
words, "Os course he (the Senator) was
not acting as counsel for the President.
That cannot lie supposed.” What did lie
mean, if not au imputation upon the Sen
ator? Whut call was there upon Butler
to disclaim for Senator Johnson, what no
one hut Mr. Rutler was capable of suspect
ing him of? It is evident from the subse
quent remarks of Mr. Bingham that lie,
too, saw through the thin disguise the real
i Rent of his colleague, when lie recog
nized the perfect right and entire propri
ety of a Senator asking any question of a
witness lie saw fit. The indignant man
ner in which Senator Johnson repelled the
imputation was richly deserved, and Mr.
Butler’s apologetic tone afterwards showed
that he felt it. He saw by the evident
sympathy of the Senate, and what he
knew would be the feeling and judgment
of the outside world, that lie could not go
as far with Senator Johnson as with Gen
eral Thomas, whom lie had worried and
badgered without resistance, that old sol
dier knowing as little of the law as Butler
does of soldiership. In regard to the
cross-examination of General Thomas by
Butler, it may be doubted whether, ex
cept in the lowest criminal courts of the
onntry, such browbeating and abuse of a
witness was ever permitted as the Senate
-tillered to he indicted by Mr. Butler upon
i man whoso honor and truthfulness, as
reflected in the very manner of his testi
mony, will not lie questioned by anyone
who possesses those qualities himself.—
Nothing material, after ail, was brought
it by it, nothing certainly to the dam
age of the character of the witness, noth
11.u shown by it in anyway except the
unctuous self-sulliciency of llie inquisitor.
(>ii the subject of this cross-examination,
the New York Times says:
"If anybody thinks that Mr. Butler’s
altering of the old soldier, Gen. Thomas,
while giving his testimony before the
Senate on Saturday, was a line tiling, it
would be foolish for us to quarrel with his
taste, if the Senate considers it proper to
permit such vulgar, insulting proceedings
to be carried on in its presence, it would
lie of little avail for us to find fault with
it. If it be supposed that such a style of
management will forward tiie cause of
istice, will aid in eliciting the truth, will
enable the court or the public to form a
idgmeut on the merits of the ease, then
"e must revise our ideas of the human
reason. If it be supposed that it Will be
1 uiseof admiration to the world at large,
rof pride to the generations of Ameri
> ans who will read of this trial when the
actors in it have all passed away, we think
bis a dreadful error. And let us say, iu
p iS'ing, that it must not be forgotten by
the Senate or the country that the im
peachment trial will be teconsidered and
ami reviewed iu the court of historical ap
peal, and a judgment rendeted upon it
without passion or prejudice, or party
feeling or persoual hate.”
lint we proposed to give the different
exhibits of the scene between General
Butler and Senator Johnson, as made by
coriY-p. ndents looking at it from differ
etit party standpoints :
From the New York World.
Her, again a sharp debate between the
opposing counsel was inaugurated liy the
"t'jectio;i ot Butler, whose smartness was
only exceeded by the brazen insolence
wan which he seemed at one time to ac
cuse Reverdy Johnson of a motive un
''ol [. 1 ' “t fjeeofthe purest Senators on
?. ! lH y\r 1 , , smeer of the Massachusetts
. 1 141 • Ir - Johnson was iu substance as
follows:
the judges, he said, ‘‘desired
: a question to the witness to satisfy
(, wn mind. Os course he was not act
-1!lb' a ' counsel for the President. That
cannot l»e supposed.”
Instantly Senator Johnson arose, and a
P-tm: i! sensation disturbed the court and
uie au ‘lenee in the galleries. Rendered
• -nant that his whole frame shook,
t ,‘l I . llr '.\ olce trembled with emotion, the
1 ■ man repelled the imputation
‘ • i .ie suspected Butler meaut to east
u - “‘“V » ,th u few Brief and scathing
1.,. ,'. . ” bat, 1 he first asked, ‘‘does tlie
‘ * -übte manager mean?”
.‘V r ‘ quailing a little, responded:
fa . '“can precisely what 1 say, that it
-up; -ed that the Senator was
,7, u > ‘. r Hie President.”
Mr r t le Memorable manager,” proceeded
vivii.'!.^’ ‘‘ meaU9 t 0 impute that in
i* n . I have done in this trial I have
i acting as counsel, or in the spirit of
ÜBel > Be does not know the man of
‘‘"u lie speaks. lam here to discharge
• Jl y aud that duty I propose to dis
tfieofgti Httwcttal & §ttfss»t»§et.
charge. I know the law as well as he
does.”
Butler set himself to work iu good ear
nest to make an apologetic explanation of
the words that had offended tlie Senator,
until Mr. Johnson announced lie was sat
islied, but it was out of the power of loth
Butler and Bingham, which last-named
gentleman seconded his colleague, to en
tirely obliterate the impression produced
upon the minds and sympathies of tiie
court by the reflection which had slipped
from Butler’s vulgar lips.
From the New York Herald.
Branching off to his favorite and char
acteristic style of argument, Butler, cov
ertly addressing himself to Iteverdy John
son, accused that Senator of coming down
from his position as a judge and acting as
counsel for the President—of, in fact, pros
tituting iiis character as a man and a Sen
ator. This was too much for human na
ture to stand, but especially unbearable
when coming from one of Butler’s antece
dents. The Senator from Maryland rose
promptly to his feet, his face more than
usually Hushed, and his very hair bristling
on his head. “If the honorable manager
meant to impute to me that I have been
acting as counsel for the President, lie
does not know the man of whom lie
speaks.”
These words were uttered with a deptli
of earnestness and a peculiar and unusual
emotion of voice that touched the feelings
of the entire uuditory. He proceeded to
say ho was just as well acquainted with
law as the manager himself, and after ad
ministering .i wetl-d<sey - 1 - 1 u •-*. *—~
assailant sat i'-"' 1 au ll ' l the sympathy of
i,iw n—.c'rs. It is provoking, indeed, fora
learned, venerable and high-toned gentle
man like Iteverdy Johnson, of Maryland,
to whom his very opponents accord admi
ration and respect, to be dragged forward
by Butler, and accused before the Senate
aiid the world of compromising his honor
and dignity, and tampering with the case
he lias been sworn to try.
From the New York Tribune.
Gen. Butler rose and denied the right of
the counsel to examine a witness recalled
by a judge of the Court. In the course of
his remarks lie said something which
Iteverdy Johnson construed into an inti
mation that he (Johnson) was acting as
counsel for the President. Mr. Johnson
fired up and took the floor iu an impas
sioned and tearful disclaimer. He spoke
as though boiling over with rage, and
hurled forth his denunciations at General
Butler for several minutes. The scene
was full ofsolemn excitement, and from
(Senator Johnson’s manner, one who did
not hear General Butler’s remarks would
have supposed that lie had grossly insulted
the court. When Senator Johnson had
finished, Gen. Butler quietly reiterated iris
remark, with all the emphasis that lie
could place on it. Every one saw iu an
instant that Senator Johnson had misun
derstood Gen. Butler’s words, and, when
the latter bad finished, Mr. Johnson lose
and promptly apologized for his miscon
ception and hasty speech.
This last remark of the Tribune corres
pondent is rather strong, considering that,
after Mr. Butler closed iris cork-screw ex
planation, the only response Mr. Johnson
made was, “I am satisfied.”
I ,Tt PEACH ill ENT.
THE FEELING IN WASHINGTON UPON THE
SUBJECT.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald writes as follows in his
last letter, conceriug a subject which is
now uppermost in the public mind :
Reviewing the popular sentiment, in
view of its fluctuations from tlie com
mencement of tlie impeachment trial to
the present time, it is astonishing to what
an extent the opinion has become preva
lent that the President will be acquitted.
This idea is not based upon any new reve
lations, nor upon any declarations of those
wiio have exclusive control of the final
issue. It is solely attributable to the fact
that the managers have utterly failed to
produce a case that carries conviction to
the minds of any, save such as are com
mitted from motives of interest, or are
matter upon which so much interest cen
tres, it is natural that the intelligent spec
tators, who have watched the progress of
the triid, should express themselves freely
as to tiie merits of the case and the weight
and value of the testimony and arguments.
These expressions are tempered somewhat,
of course, by the political prejudices of
those who utter them; nevertheless they
are entitled to some weight, and will com
mand more or less attention. To say,
then, that no candid man, of whatever
political party, lias tiie courage to affirm
that the impeachers have shown that the
President, by a single act, has done any
thing worthy of impeachment, is not ex
aggerating or giving undue piominence to
the predominating feeling.
In demand.ng a verdict of guilty the
Radicals are recklessly consistent. While
strangers here, who come from a distance
to witness the trial, admit the insufficiency
of the cl.dm for conviction, they readily
adopt the popular argument that the arbi
trary law of necessity must and shall pre
vail*. The Radical members of the House
openly proclaim this, the fanatical portion
of the “High Court” reiterate it, and every
night it is sent over the wires, and occa
sionally under the "by authority” stamp
of the General of the armies. The strait
to which Hip party is reduced is readily
admitted. There is no attempt to conceal
the terrible extremity to which it is re
duced. To acquit the President is to de
eliue to rule, to accept the ruin and to
convict Grant. To avert these is the daily
and nightly office of those who sit at the
feet of ancient Thaddeus and gather that
peculiar quality of wisdom which lias late
ly distinguished his utterances. It is true
conceal it as they may, they labor with
that fear and trembling which doubt im
poses. They sutler the torture of suspense
and insecurity because, with all their as
surance and bravado, they cannot assume
with perfect confidence that impeachment
is un fait accompli, as we shall presently
show.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary ef
forts that have been used to discover the
status of the Senate upon the momentous
question now under investigation, there
have not thus far been any results that are
iu the least satisfactory or conclusive.—
The reticent members remain persistently
dumb. Opinions are prevalent as to how
they will record their votes in deciding
the verdict, and if tiie popular bias favors
the idea that they will be for acquittal, it
is only because they have judiciously re
frained from any utterances that would give
a clue to their privatescutimeuts ; or rather
because they have resisted the importuni
ties of those who have already decided the
contest in favor of Mr. Wade, it is natur
ally inferred that they have strength and
integrity to judge the case upon its merits,
‘‘fairly and impartially,” in accordance
with their oath-bound pledge. Itiscertain,
at all events, that these men are bullet
proof against the efforts of partisan jurors,
who do not restrain their zeal for convic
tion as a party necessity. If resistance lias
anv significance, it favors tiie President
only in this—that his acts may, to some
extent, bejudged by the law and the evi
dence.
The anxiety of the leading Radicals of
the Senate and the House to induce a com
mittal on the part of a sufficient number
to insure a verdict of guilty, has latterly
been so apparent as not only to provoke
comment and ceusue, but it has also ex
posed the most glaring acts of indiscretion.
It lias exhibited the weakness of the pros
ecution, the failure of the Managers to
present a strong case, and the necessity for
demanding conviction to save the party
from the odium of acquittal. It is impos
sible to eouceal these effects or to avoid
tiie fatal consequences they entail.
t -*•
Strange Case with a Fatal Ending.
—The Jackson, Michigan, correspondent
of the Detroit Tribune relates the follow
ing;
A most remarkable case of insanity, fol
lowed by death, came to our knowledge
Saturday. Mi. Elbert Wilbur, a well-to
do farmer, residing for many years in Les
lie Township, I ngliam county, aboutthir
ty five years of age, in full health, was in
company with his wife at a prayer meet
ing on Saturday, March 28. He was on
his knees, when suddenly he spraug to his
feet exclaiming, ‘‘l’ve lied, I’ve lied!” and
endeavored to climb up the side of the
room. He soou, however, seemed himself
again, and went home. On Sunday, the
29th, he became a raving maniac, leaped
out ttirough the window, aud was with
difficulty retaken. From that time it re
quired five strong men to manage him.
On the Ist of April he was taken to the
asylum at Kalamazoo, and became calm on
arriving there, saying it was Bay City,
where his sister lives. On Friday, the oil,
he died, and was brought back to his home
and buried.
AN INCIDENT OF NORTHERN CIV
-11.17. ATION.|
We are very proud to know that no such
occurrences as are hereinafter related, and
which we copy from the Part Jervis (X.
Y.) correspondence of the New York
Times, have ever stained the annals of
similar accidents at tiie Bouth. “ Rebel
barbarity” hath never gone thus far. The
writer is referring to scenes witnessed af
ter the appalling railroad disaster at that
place:
It would be about as harrowing as to tell
the story of this ma-sacre over again, to
narrate the stories current of the robberies
done by sacriligious iiands upon tiie bodies
of tiie dead and helpless wounded during
tiie dark hours of that fearful night.—
Money iu large sums lias been taken, and
gold watches from the pockets of tiie dead,
and rings torn from the fingers of women.
In one instance a file was used to release a
diamond ring from the finger of a lady,
who was at the time conscious enough only
to be able afterward to (ell the story. The
people about here who were at the scene
say they could not protect tiie sufferers
ejL Tir-fi. I,m rant tTiey know
the rot. Lories were committed by the pas
sengers who were saved by being in the
forward cars. By whomsoever tiie outra
ges were committed, they are sufficiently
numerous to ask for more space than you
can spare me at tins time to relate them.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
A naughty correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial is responsible for tiie
following items:
IS STANTON A COWARD.
General Bherman testified that Mr
Johnson premised to him that Btanton
was cowardly.
Mr. Stanton’s cowardice lias been tested
here very often. One of his reasons for
keeping “General” Detective Baker in
his employment was to watch it is house
and keep assassins, imagined or supposed,
away. During much of tlte war lie lived
a haunted existence, relieved by spas
modic blustering. Indeed, the “advance”
characters in the impeachment trial are a
good deal like Falstaff’s hand. Btanton
is Nyui, Wade is Pistol, Howard, with
his red nose, is Bardolph, Butler is Fal
stafl’, with his eye in mourning, Bingham
is old Mistress Quickly, and Forney is the
convenient young woman of tHe play, a
camp-follower, who will sleep anywhere.
.TERRY BLACK
If Andrew Johnson is convicted, it will
lie chiefly because lie lost tiie aid of Jerry
Black, who would have met Butler point
by point in the cross-examination, and
laid him out early in tiie stage of iris au
dacity. Black is a very curious character,
full of idiosyucracies. He prepares most
of his arguments at home, walking up
and down the floor at night, where he
would walk the whole night long if his
wife did not appear along toward one
o’clock and lead trim to bed.
THE CROTCHETS OF STANBEItY.
It is reluctantly admitted that Mr. Btan
bery, conductor of Mr. Johnson's case, is
a failure, lie has been too much of a stu
dent, and his experience too contracted in
ready debate. His temper is irritable and
liis face almost transparent; so that all
Butler has to do is to watch Btaubery’s
countenance to know where to hit next.
This the “gluttonous old libber,” as the
prize fighters say, does with a kind of a
Marat grin, which poist ns while he
wounds. Beyond this, Stanbery’s judg
ment is bad. Fvarts and Curtis do all they
can to keep him in his seat, but Butler, by
a demoniacal grin and pricking can get
him up at any time, so hot and out of pa
tience that his words fail Him ; lie floun
ders about ami finally effects nothing. One
day he compelled Fvarts to sit down while
he, himself, replied to Rutler. which lie
cal talker—his voice is musical, but Iris el
ocution is not thorough, and the latter part
of every sentence is drowned. He is evi
dently a thorn and an embarrassment to
Iris two colleagues; for the other two,
Groesbeck and Nelson, are lay figures
merely. Btanbery is too much of a gen
tleman to cope with Butler. In a cursing
match your gentleman does not shine.
Yourgravhound in a dog-pit shows his line
blood only to shed it. Fine, delicate,
straight, high principled Btanbery is in
Butler’s hands like a white captive at a
Bioux roasting.
INTIMIDATIONS TO SENATORS.
You have very little idea at your dis
tance from tiie capital of the pressure
brought to bear upon the Senate to make
them convict Mr. Johnson. Not only arc
the mails full of admonitory letters, en
treaties, appeals to ambition and fear, and
laments for the party if Johnson be not
convicted, but the Republican newspapers,
in the majority of cases, flourish the whip
and imprecate upon the personal heads of
their Senators. Northern men, who live
in the South, have been imported here to
add their beseechings. It is almost need
less to say that till those present tire aspi
rants for office ill the Southern States. At
the head of the whippers-in are such men
as Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who receives
most of these refugees and consigns them
to Forney, who, in turn, blows upon his
Chronicle nose, and asks Heaven to inter
fere. Heaven and the opposite place left
Forney alone, as unworthy the virtues of
either.
A Panther Hunt In thr Heart of the < ilj
of Tin bile.;
From the Mobile Register, 17th.
Great excitement was created in the up
per part of the city ti.is morning, caused
by the appearance of a wild and ferocious
panther in the streets. Itseems that early
in the morning a negro employed at the
house of Mr. C. Bright, on Conti street
above Broad, discovered a panther coming
from under the house. Mr Bright was
immediately called, and coming out with
1 1 is gun discharged a load of buckshot into
the animal’s head, inflicting only a few
trilling wounds.
Upon being shot the panther gave a ter
rible roar, and springing over a fence at
least fifteen feet high, rushed into Mrs.
Roberts’ yard, on Government street. He
was here tired upon several times. After
clearing about half a dozen fences, the en
laced beast next turned up in Major l’hil-
Jan’s yard, trom which lie soon emerged.
By this time a large number of men and
boys, together with several dogs, had joined
in the pursuit After leaving Major Phil
lan’s yard, the panther crossed hack to
Conti, and entered a lot about a hundred
and fifty yards from the place where lie
was first discovered.
As he sprang over the fence, several la
dies who liappened to be in the yard
screamed lustily, and fled for the house
and barricaded the doors. Two pistol
shots were fired at him, but without etleet.
Passing through the yard, he entered the
premises of Mr. Shepherd. The panther
here turned at bay and showed signs of
fight, giving time for the large and ex
cited crowd in pursuit to come up, who,
upon getting within range, saluted him
with n rattling volley, only eight shots,
however, taking effect.
He immediately lied from the yard to
Dauplnn street, aud thence to Leßaron’s
lane, where he was brought down by two
pistol shots discharged by Mr. J. \V.
Bright. Two negroes, armed with axes,
then rushed up, and, by several well di
rected blows, dispatched the terrible mon-
panther was measured, and found
to be six feet ten inches long.
This is the first time within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant that a wild pan
ther has been seen iu the streets, and
many supposed that he had escaped from
some menagerie. The geueral belief, how
ever, is that he was driven from the
swamps by the heavy storm.
A few days before the lamented pa
triot, Colonel A9hburn, was assassinated,
he received the usual anonymous commu
nication from the K. K. K.'s.—Montgome
ry Sentinel.
We have no doubt of the fact that Ash
burn received warning of the fate in store
for him. We have positive information
to the effect that the day before his death,
one of his colleagues in the Convention, in
a political speech in Cherokee Georgia,
predicted that he would be killed by his
political friends, and for party purposes.
[Columbus Sun, 18 lb.
>1 aeon, Gra., Tuesday, April 28, 1868.
BI'KIAI. OF GEN. TIOItGAN.
Large Crowd in Attendance—lmposing
Ceremonies.
The mortal remains of Gen. John H.
Morgan were interred iu their final resting
place at Lexington, Ky., on the 17th iust.
Large numbers of citizens, among whom
were many of the General’s old comrade*
in arms, joined the train from Louisville
bearing his remains at the various sft- j
tions, and they evinced their regard for j
the memory of their old commander ina
very striking manner. Bays the Louii- j
ville Courier : j
At an early hour in the day eager aid
enthusiastic crowds of old and tried vet»-
raus collected around the Phoenix anl
Southern Hotels, anxiously awaiting tie
arrival of tiie train tiiat was to bring tit
body of their departed chief. At last tin
train arrived, hearing all that was left o j
the dashing cavalier. A general rush war j
then made by the gathering hundreds tc I
testify, by their presence, tiie respect duel
to a gallant commander. Immediately or
the arrival of the train at tiie station, tli<
necessary steps were taken, and the body
removed to Christ Church, where the Rev.
Mr. Bhippman officiated, going through
the usual burial service of the Episcopal |
Church.
When the body was brought into the I
church, the minister reading the solemn
chant,
wiu m nrc iviruw riiTnc end.
and the choir responding, a number of!
young ladies advanced to the place where |
the remains were lying, and deposited!
their offerings, consisting of crosses and
wreaths. It was one of the most sublime
sights we ever witnessed.
After singing the 177th hymn,
‘iGuide me, oh thou great Jehovah,”
and closing prayers, the remains were
taken up, aud while the funeral cortege
was leaving tlie church, the ehoir chanted
the beautiful hymn—-
“Peace, troubled soul.”
The procession, after forming at Christ
Church, proceeded to the cemetery. Every
window and doorstep on the route had
been occupied at an early hour by myriads'
of ladies and others, eager to catch a
glimpse of the boys iu gray, who had fol
lowed a leader that had carved a name
high up in the annals of fame.
About two weeks ago the remains of Lt.
Thomas Morgan were brought from Lehr
anon to Lexington, and placed in the
vault at the cemetery, and to-day were re
moved to their final resting place, by the
side of his brother. After the .Masonic
ritual was over, and the brothers resting
side by side, the ladies decked tlie graves
with wreaths, bouquets and flowers, and
the crowd gradually dispersed from tHo
burial ground, with a solemn benediction
from each heart that had loved them.
From the Eufaula News, lsth.
GREAT HURRICANE.
Loss of Life —Cattle Killed—Houses and
Bams Blown Down, <tc.
Never before, perhaps, has Southeastern
Alabama been visited by such a iiurrieaue
and storm as swept over it on Wednesday
night last. YY’e have not heard of its
length or breadth, and only from one sec
tion of our county, near Fort Browder,
have we received any definite informa
tion. This account is rather meagre, too,
owing to the impossibility of getting full
details in tiie present general wreck. If it
extended any considerable distance, tiie
damage done will no doubt lie extremely
great, involving not only the loss of prop
erty, but the loss of life.*
We give below a list of the sufferers, as
far as we have heard:
Mrs. Mary A. Russell had her negro
cabins and barns blown down, killing one
negro who was in a cabin, and seven head
of cattle tiiat were in the barns.
On Mr. John McNab's plantation all his
outhouses were blown down, and only the
dwelling saved.
Mr. Hilliard Glover lost all his houses
and part of his dwelling. He had a horse
killed, and his carriage, carriage-house,
smokehouse, meat , corn and fodder were
Mr. O. Dale lost the top of Iris house and
all his outbuildings.
Short and indefinite as the account is,
it is full of distress. There are few who
have either the time or the money te re
build this spring, aud hands cannot well
lie spared from tiie crop in its present con
dition.
If, when we hear from other portions of
the county, any assistance is requisite, we
trust that our citizens will come forward
promptly and aid in relieving (lie want
and distress of the sufferers.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868.
A GLORIOUS SIGHT.
YY’e are prouder than ever of our coun
trymen. YY’e glory more and more in the
name of Georgian. YY’e have witnessed
many scenes that made our heart thrill
with pride, but never one grander and
more inspiring than this election has pre
sented. Such unanimity, such harmony,
such enthusiasm for the Right, was never
before seen. Not a white man has gone
back on his race and color. Not a true
son of Georgia lias wallowed in the mire
of Radicalism. Not a white man has fal
tered, or turned aside from the straight
path of duty. Bullock and his infamous
gang of plunderers have beeu unanimous
ly repudiated by tiie sons of tiie soil, the
owners of Georgia, tiie legal corporators of
all that is wise, and brave, aud true among
our people. Y\ hat a glorious record! It
would take the sting from defeat, and will
gild victory with a still brighter radiance.
The few miserable creatures with white
skins that have dared to degrade them
selves, are known, and will be looked
after.
From the Chat field (Minn.) Democrat.
Tiie Presidential Cai»i)algu—A Letter
from Aiigritht Kclmonl to tlx- Democ
racy of Minnesota.
The following is a copy of a letter ad- i
dressed to J. H. McKeiinev, Esq., a mem
ber of the National Democratic Executive
Committee, from August Belmont, its
Chairman:
New York, March 2, IS6S.
J. H. McKenney, Esq.— Dear Sir: I
have forwarded to you the call ot the Dem
ocratic National Committee for the bold
ing of the next National Convention ill
the city of New York, on tiie 4th ot July
next. You will please confer with tiie
Htate Central Committee of your State, to
the end that she be fully represented in
the Convention by the number of delegates
to which she is entitled. The National
Committee is very desirous that an earnest
appeal should he made to the Conservative
element throughout the Union which has
not heretofore acted with the Democratic
party. We call upon every Democratic
voter to unite with us in our efforts to save
our free institutions from the lawless des
potism which now threatens the very
foundation of our government.
It is only by the united action of all who
love the Union and the Constitution that
we can hope to drive from power, in the
next Presidential election, the Radical
party, which, by its representatives in
Congress, lias attempted to usurp the
| functions of the judicial and executive
branches of the Government, and which,
I by profligacy and corruption in the man
agement of our national finances, con
thiues to burden our people with a system
of taxation which must end in public and
private disaster, unless arrests and by a wise,
sound, aud economical policy, such as a
Democratic administration is sure to give
us. I hope you will lose no time in order
to cause such measures to betaken in your
State as will bring to our aid in the con
test before us the combined strength of all
those who are opposed to Congressional
usurpation anti negro supremacy, and who
wish the restoration of peace and unity
between all the sections of our common
country, under the blessings of the laws
am: the Constitution, for which our brave
soldiers and sailors shed their blood, aud
the nation poured out its treasure.
August Belmont, Chairman.
The Rev. W. T. Brantley, of Atlanta,
a distinguished Baptist clergyman, has
been called to one of the Baptist churches
| of Louisville, Ky.
STRAWS.
Will ihe President be Fouvicted »
!■ Everybody is inquiring as to the proba
i hie upshot of the impeachment trial. YY’e
i append a few extracts from recent letters
and dispatches to prominent journals,
which may help the reader to arrive at
aome conclusion iu the premises. A YY’ash
-1 ington dispatch of the 17th iust., to the
| Cincinnati Qmett <■, says :
Unless all the usual signs fail, parties in
the interest of the President are here, with
large sums of money, to be used iu the
most lavish maimer in any way promising
to help Mr. Johnson. Gamblers around
the city are offering to bet large sums on
the acquital, and are using the names of
several Republican senators freely as sure
to vote for clearing the President. In the
same circle there is the grea’.est possible
exultation, either pretended or real, over
the votes of Sumuer, Morton, Davis, Fes
senden and Trumbull; not because, as is
a.-sert.ed, their course affords effectual cov
er for some whom they claim as doing
everything they dare to do to demoralize
the Senate in all preliminary votes,
The following is an extract from a YVash
ington letter published in the Cincinnati
Commercial of the 19th instant:
After talking with a considerable num
ber of persons, well informed from the
llilg best sources of intelligence, and look
ing upon one day’s proceedings of the
Court of Impeachment, I am not quite
ore tiiat tiie President win ■— -
.(nisi a jttesiionabiy
l>e convicted. All violent partisans assert
it without qualification. Toe Copperheads
desire tiiat we should understand that tiie
Radicals will commit any outrage, and
that all Republicans are Radicals. The
Radicals themselves assume that the Presi
dent’s guilt has been proven absolutely,
and that the Senate would be sultified if it
did not convict him, remove him from of- |
Ice and disqualify him from holding office, j
There are moderate men, however, who
m> not Hold tiiat the conviction of the
President is demanded by an imperious i
public necessity, or that. Iris conviction j
would be an unpardonable public outrage, ;
and who do dot think that his conviction
is a predetermined fact.
Not more than one third of the Senators
are thorough thick and thin Radicals. A
larger number than I had supposed of the
Republicans have declined to class them
selves by all their votes as implacable ini
peacbers And I believe the President
would be acquitted if it were not for the:
Fear that if turned loose he would U> guilty !
of soup: dangerous freak. He is supposed
to be capable of anything but a timely act j
of discretion, and if lie is turned out of of
fice lie will owe it to Iris reputation as an
mcertuin quantity and a quarelsome per- 1
ion. If it were believed that tlie President
vould quit iris foolery with Lorenzo
Thomas, and withdraw* his appointment
if Thomas Ewing, Br., as Secretary of j
War, and appoint General Banks or Gov- |
fcrnor Uox, or some other competent and
•eliable man to that position, I am as sure
is one can be without the proof, tiiat lie ;
,vould be ucquitted.
As the case stands lie lias a chance of tic- j
juital. 'i hat the impeachment business
las been overdone here is the opinion of
he judicious. 'Tiiat the evidence present
ed by the Managers was the reverse of
strong and conclusive, ail beside tiie im
oeaehore themselves admit. That tiie
country is not enamored of tiie impeach
ment business, aud not excited about it,
s not only known here but felt. That the
mpeachment of Johnson will prove a
winning card for the Republinans, in tiie
approaching Presidential campaign, is not
believed by those best able to calculate
the influences and the chances.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 17th iust.,
to the Cincinnati Times, says:
People here are getting out of all pa
tience v ith tHe impeachment trial, and
the general impression seems to lie that it
will end in a failure to convict Johnson.
A Washington dispatch of the 19th
inst., to the Louisville Courier, takes a
more gloomy view of the President’s pro
spects than is indicated by the extracts
given above. It says:
The vote mi YY’elles’ testimony is thought
by some to he a test, hove an
Johnson can not receive over five Radical
votes.
House Radicals, who have been work
ing assiduously, say the House of Repre
sentatives and the Radical party are on
trial, and the question is whether the
Senate will convict them or Andrew
Johnson. These men insist he will l>e
convicted, hut the verdict will not extend
to disqualification, and, in fact, a question
was propounded to-day by a senator,
which seems to anticipate that view.
A prominent Radical said to-night, no
greater outrage had ever been perpetrated
in a court than the exclusion of tiie testi
mony regarding what occurred in the
Cabinet meeting, and this, lie said, every
respectable lawyer in the land would in
dorse. Nevertheless, lie added, Mr. John
son has but ten days to remain in the
YY'lrite House.
Impeachment—Wiiat the “Sun”
Thinks.—The Baltimore Sun of Monday
says:
In view not only of the utter failure of j
all proof to sustain the prosecution but < f
the defence having gone beyond vvhat the
safety of their case and the maxims of the
law required ami actually proved the in
nocence of the President, we find it diffi
cult to believe that two-thirds of the Sen
ate can so ignore reason and justice as to
declare for a verdict of guilty. We say
this, notwithstanding the votes of the
Senate on Saturday overruling decisions
of Chief Justice Chase in regard to the ad
mission of testimony showing that the
President had acted on the judgment of
his Cabinet in connection with the tenure
of office bill. It is noticeable that these
overrulings of the Chief Justh e were by a
majority only, and not by two-thirds.
At the recent Erie disaster the
body of one of the victims has been recog
nized by tiie following singular circum
stance: The body, all charred anti black
ened. was discovered among tiie other un
known persons burned to death, with the
face downward. Every vestigeof clothing
had been burned off, with the exception
of a circular portion covering the loins,
where tiie pantaloons pocket was situated,
and in this was found a life insurance pol
icy for $5,000, in tiie name of M. Nelvin,
Buffalo, New York. This fragment was
enough to prove his identity. Two of the
bodies which had been so fearfully burned
were known as those of women only from
the fact that the steel bands of the hoops
worn diiring life were found encircling tiie
remains, every particle of clothing having
been burned off.
Jail Burned. —Tiie Jail litre was
burned down last Saturday night. There
were two persons confined in it, it white
inun and a negro, botli for horse-stealing.
They cut a bole near one of the windows,
large enough and fastened their blankcs
together by which they reached the ground
unhurt. They set the room they occupied
on fire, which soon spread over the entire
roof and rendered it impossible to save the
bouse from burning. From the signs on
the wall of the jail, the prisoners were
furnished the means of escape—a hatchet
and hand saw.
Since writing the above we learn that
Mr. P. Ward shot oneof the jail-birds (the
negro) while attempting to break open his
smoke house. The negro was shot in the
thigh and slightly wounded. —Monroe Ad
vertiser, 22nd.
—♦ ♦ ♦
A spectator iu tiie Senate gallery thus
sketches Butler during one of his har
angues: ‘‘Ho execrable a shape during this
delivery surely never contorted itself be
fore a respectable assemblage. Cushioned
in the dreadful hollow of his bald head,
and making a foot-stool of his protruding
eve-ball, the imp of insolence could fairly
be seen to sit. Ugly elves appeared to
perch ar-tiide his nose and dangle from his
flabby ears. His hair was populous with
phantoms of hideous creeping things. A
bad odor must have exhaled from him
the odor of loathsome hate3, meannesses,
and spites.”
TiteOther Hide. —The Atlanta Opinion
understands that some of Mr. Asliburn’s
family are under the impression that his
assassins were in the interest of a well
known Radical in Columbus, whowauted
the nomination to the Legislature, but
whom Mr. Ashburn defeated, giving as a
reason therefor that the aspirant “had
not brains enough to fill the position he
sought.”
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, IS6S.
A GOOD FIGHT.
Tbe last gun has beeu fired and the last
charge made. YY’e must now wait for the
smoke to roll away to see exactly the posi
tion of the eonteding forces. YY’e are con
fident that tHe Rullock banditti have been
thrashed most gloriously. If the official
count shall decide otherwise, we know
whom to charge with snatching the fruits
of victory from us, and the brand of infamy
shall he burned deep and black ujion those
who have used their positions to defeat
the wishes of ttie people. Tiie people of
Georgia are watching Hulbert and his
tools. They know Iris record aud his ani
mus-how he hates the honest men of the
State he lias done so much to degrade and
ruin, and how he will stickle at nothiug
to complete the work and earn Iris reward.
\Y’e are content to turn Him over to Gen.
Meade, however, for the present. That
distinguished soldier has promised that
justice shall be done, and the wishes of
tiie people be respected. YY’e wait Iris de
cision.
No matter, though, how lie decides, we
have tiie grand consciousness of having
a splendid fight. YY'e have struck one
honest blow for Georgia, and have won
imperishable laurels. That fact cannot he
denied, nor those laurels withered. YY’e
have taught the plunderers what men will
do, and what they can do in defence of
their rights, and the honor and salvation
of theircountry. If they shall be adjudged
tiie victory, it will be the last one they
will ever win. It will he the costliest one,
too. If they 9hall occupy the field, we
know it is strewed with the dead and
wounded, and that with Phyrnis they
must exclaim, “Another such and we are
ruined.” They have been taught caution
if not submission. YV’e have struck them
a mortal blow. YY’e have “illustrated
Georgia” once more, and most nobly too.
YY’e have proven ourselves worthy of free
dom-worthy the loins from which we
sprung—worthy the traditions ami teach
ings of our race—worthy the applause of
good men everywhere, and worthy the
execrations of the wicked and base, wher
ever found. For this much, let us be
thankful.
KCn lIEIIED t
YY’e see no reason to doubt the verdict
tiiat will soon be rendered by the Senato
rial jury at YVasliington. It is, in our
opinion, already made up. To record it
will be a mere matter of form. The ne
cessities of tiie Radical party are too great
to allow the President to escape. He must
be deposed, or that party dies. His days
are numbered. A party that disgraces
itself and shames the country by putting
forward as its representative, in a such a
grave and momentous proceeding, Butler
tiie Beast, will have no hesitancy in fin
ishing the work of outraging the Consti
tution and trampling down tiie law. It
will pass into History as part of tlie story
of this Republic that one of its Presidents
was expelled from office simply for en
deavoring to test, in the courts of his
country, the constitutionality of an act of
Congress! This is all. His offence hath
this extent —no more. YVe sigh and
mourn that such tilings should be, but our
faith in the final triumph of Right must
not be shaken. The Grand Assize of No
vember is not far oil". YY’c watch and wait
ii» Imsp frt tP D 1 w'i* r (-■ Will speak t' ll,n
and we would almost doubt Doffs promises
and the declarations of His Holy YY’ord,
did not their verdict set all things even.
Let patriots take heart of grace! 'lhe
whirligig of Time shall bring not only
justice for the oppressed, hut retribution
upon tiie oppressor.
KAUICALISn UIKANS WAK.
Mr. Forsyth, in a Jute letter to the Re
gister, speaks very confidently of the cer
tainty of a war at the North should Radi
calism persist in its wicked crusade upon
popular rights and the Constitution of the
country. In the light of a prophecy, we
put his views on record:
I hold nothing to he more certain than
this—that if Radicalism persists in its mad
designs to the end, there will he civil war
in the North, sooner or later. Some man,
or some unforeseen spark, will be develop
ed, to “tire the Northern lu-art and precip
itate a revolution.” Somewhere or some
how the coal of lire will Ire found to scorch
to the quick through the popular turtle’s
hack And when I think of the race and
traditions of the people upon whom this
Radical Congress is trying its experiments
of despotism, l wonder at the hardihood,
and daring of the experimenters. Flood
will tell, and he sure that, sooner or later,
the commingling streams of the lighting
races of the earth which meet in American
veins, will assert themselves and the right
of i-ueh men to be free.
Deeper and Deeper. — Radical Michi
gan with her 30,000 majority when it
comes to putting white Radicals in ollice,
sees that and goes 10,000 better when the
question is whether the black man there
shall or shall not vole. Forty thousand
majority against negro suffrage iti Mielii
! gau ! Why that is the most enthusiastic
protest against it, we have had yet. And
yet these people proclaim that they are
the special friends of the colored man —his
meat and drink, his hoard and lodging, his
whiskey and tobacco! It may suit that
race, such friendship, but white people
would certainly be stupid enough not to
I “see it,” if shown towards them.
Another RicsuattKCTio-v. —The “dead
Democracy” have come to life in another
place. Chicago is chosen for this resurrec
tion. With a majority of 3000 weighing
down tiieir coffin one year ago, they rise
up now burstingofrtlie lid, and throwing
off their graveclothes, walk out into up
per air with nearly’ 1000 majority in their
favor. Verily these spirits are “hard to
keep.” At this rate they will he live
enough when November comes to take
possession of the government. Whatshall
he done with such “demuition” lively
corpses ? We suggest impeachment.
Negro Outrages.—lt turns out that
the persons firing into the stage between
this city and Selina were two negroes. A
negro robbed tlie mail a few days ago be
tween Tuskegee and Chehaw. A negro
killed a stoie-keeper at Jones’ Bluff, in
West Alabama, last week.
These paragraphs are published simply
to show that all the crimes committed in
the South cannot be laid at the door of
“disloyal” whites, but that memliers of
the “Union League” occasionally do some
thing wrong. Will Northern exchanges
that abuse the white people of the South
make a note of this fact'?—Montgomery
Advertiser , 19 th.
A Precious Pair. —Bryan and Brown
are on the slate for the United States
•Senate. No wonder the heavens weep.—
A combination of Skowhegan skunk and
Southern renegade is enough to hang the
heavens it black.— CotuU ilulionalisl, \9th.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecti
cut, at the anniversary dinner of the New
York Statcs-Rights party on Monday, in
alluding to “the powers of the General
Government,” archly added: “ Not tlie
Brigadier General Government!”
Arkansas U. S. Senators.—The Leg
islature of Arkansas has elected Hon. B.
F Rice and A. McDonald, both Republi
cans, to represent that State in the United
; States Senate.
WHY I.R TUG KANTS DO NOT COME
SOUTH.
YY’e find in the Memphis Avalanche of a
recent date, the following card :
Editors Avalanche.: For some mouths
past 1 have been engaged getting up au
arrangement to open an office in Cincin
nati for the saleof Southern farming lands,
and have on hand a large quantity of the
finest lands in 'Tennessee, Arkansas and
Mississippi, for sale, at low rates. I have,
however, in the meantime, after diligent
inquiry, satisfied myself that it is useless
to offer these lands for sale. The invari
able answer to my invitation is, "I can’t
live under a negro government.” I am
assured of thousands of good and worthy
meu who would be glad to come among us
and share our fate as a people, and would
do so but for the difficulty above stated.—
My inquiries have satisfied me that in
stead of capital and labor being brought
into the country, they are leaving it by
thousands. Many of the letters from citi
zens offering me their lands for sale say,
“I want to sell and leave tiie State.” I am
satisfied that no sales eau be made, aud
must therefore ask you to discontinue my
card. Respectfully,
P. T. Scruggs.
Commenting upon this letter, the Nash
ville Union and Dispatch says:
Mr. Scruggs is a gentleman of high
standing i _n Meny K ,“' iT.iiVKV’X
great weight. The Northern people of
every shade or arc very much
averse to negro rule, aud claim that this
is a white man’s government. This is
borne out by the fact that in every Slate
in which llie question of negro suffrage
has been submitted to tiie people, it lias
been defeated. Only the other day it was
defeated iu Michigan by nearly forty
thousand majority, and yet the Republi
cans carried tiiat State. In Ohio the
majority against negro suffrage was about
fifty thousand, notwithstanding the Rad
icals elected their Governor by nearly
three thousand. In lowa IHo majority
against negro suffrage was hut about
twelve hundred, hut tlie Radicals carried
tHe State by a very largo majority. Is
it a matter to excite wonder that a peo
ple whose prejudices against negro suf
frage are thus strong, should refuse to
invest their means in a State where
not only the right of suffrage is conferred
upon negroes, hut where they are made
office-holders and jurors and where they
hold tHe balance of power in important
elections? The crafty men who sought
in the enfranchisement of the negro the
advancement of their own political aims,
never thought—perhaps if they thought,
did not care—how cruelly they were
stabbing the material interests of ttieir
State. Here we have tiie testimony of a
gentleman of acknowledged standing and
probity, who sought to sell lands in 'Ten
nessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi to
formers in the Northwest, tiiat lie was
almost invariably met witli a refusal to
purchase on the ground that tiie parties
would “ not live under a negro govern
ment.”
I ROD WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatch tithe New York IteralJ.
Development* »i£ llt c llttdical
Conspiracy to Itcniove ilic l*re*id« ni.
Butler's Schemes for Securing a Place in
the Cabinet —General Grant and the Mili
tary Dictatorship.
YY’asjii ngton, April 19, 18GS.
TIIE CONSPIRACY OF THE RADICAL LEAD
ERS AND THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
'That the present impeachment trial is
but the i suit or ix cmipuuacv formed fully
in ret!years ago i>y certain ivimnrui o-auors,
headed tiv the illustrious Ben. Butler him
self. has for a long time been the opinion
of President Johnson and many conserva
tive Republicans, as well as Democrats.
Immediately after tho removal of Presi
dent Lincoln by the assassin’s bullet tiie
conspiracy commenced, the object being
either to control Mr. Johnson by inducing
trim to reorganize Iris Cabinet on a more
Radical basis, or, failing in that, to often a
regular war of tHe fiercest character upon
the unyielding President. Ben. Butler at
that time was a power in himself. He had
a strong party at iris buck, and bo and Iris
party desired not only to shape the policy
of Hie government, but likwise to enjoy
the spoils of office. Butler especially
yearned to administer tin* YVar Office or
the Btale Department, and accordingly
laid plains to accomplish Iris purpose.
His friends hacked him up with all their
influence, and Mr. Johnson was pestered
with entreaties to remove either Mr. Btau
lon or Mr. Seward for Benjamin's especial
hem-fit. Seward, be it known, at this
tirin' was stretched on iris tied from the
terrible wounds inflicted by I lie assassin,
and Lincoln was yet unbiiried. The ex
tent of the patriotism of Butler and Iris
friends will, therefore, tie comprehended.
While Seward was every hour expected to
expire, Butler was busily at work seeking
to have the prostrate Secretary of State
turned out of office in order that he (But
ler) might promote Iris indecent and un
eontrolahle ambition. 'That I am not
merely fabricating a sensational story will
be evidenced ' y the following letter, writ
ten to Hon. Lewis I). Campbell, our late
Minister to Mexico, by General J. K. Her
bert, of Major-General Butler’s staff':
Washington, April 19, 1805.
My Dear Sir— The greatest crime of
centuries has thrown the robes of Mr.
Lincoln upon your good friend, Mr. John
son, about whom we slightly differed
when f was at your house. You will agree
with me, I think, that some change iu the
('abinet ought to he made, and probably
will he. You also agree, I suspect, that
Butler for any place, especially War or
.state, is about the best man in the coun
try. Presuming these things, J write to
ask tiiat you make the best demonstration
you can to that effect. You can write Mr.
Johnson a letter that would lie of great
weight witti him. You can induce other
good men to do the same; and, perhaps,
after setting the hall in motion at home,
you could come here iu person. I wish
you would. lam certain you would do a
public service, and greatly oblige Ihitler
and Ids friends. I am confident I shall
hear from you in a substantial effort. Be
kind enough to present my kind regards
to Mrs. (J. and her daughter. Let me hear
from you, and believe me, faithfully yours,
J. K. Herbert.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, <fcc., &e.
P. S. — Why not see Taft, Hoad ley, and
the friends we met last year in Cincin
nati? Wade, (.'handler, Carter, Julian,
and such as they, are doing ali they can
for Gen. B.
Mr. Campbell lias been for twenty years
the intimate social and fiolitical friend of
Andrew Johnson, and was supposed to
have powerful influence over the newly
elevated President. Hence the favor of
Campbell was solicited. It so happened
that while Herbert was writing his letter
Campbell was on his way to thiscity from
Cincinnati, in compliance witli a request
from Mr. Johnson. Campbell arrived
hereon the day Lincoln's remains were
being removed from the White House to
the < apitol. On the same evening, or the
next, Campbell met Herbert in the street,
who informed him that he (Herbert; had
just mailed an important letter to him
(Campbell) directed to his residence in
Ohio. On inquiring as to its purport,
Campbell was informed by Herbert that
i Butler and several prominent radicals had
several consultations for the purpose of
taking steps to urge President Johnson to
make an immediate change in ids whole
Cabinet, and particularly to have Secreta
ries Stanton and Seward removed, and to
have General Butler placed either in the
Department of rotate or of War; that lie
had written to Mr. Campbell for the pur
pose of inducing him to use ids Influence,
and obtain the influence of oilier promi
nent men in Ohio, to accomplish the same
end. Mr. Campbell said in reply, (hat as
Mr. Seward was lying at the point of
death, with Ids throat cut by an asaa.-i.-iu,
and ids son, Frederick .Seward, Assistant
Hecretary of.“ Rate, was supposed to he in
a dying condition, tie thought probably
j t,y a little delay Providence Himself would
o l« ls\., I\o. H.
remove Mr. Seward and
on that score. Brides
unqualified opinion .hnUt woX rmln 1
ous to the reputation of President ii
son, and perhaps disastrous to the co Ul ?tn *
were lie to make any removals at that ,«r’
ticular time iu his Cabinet.
conversation on the subject ensued a
General Herbert urged Mr. Campbell to
Hotel* 11 * <,elu ' ral at Willard’s
Mr. Campbell remained in Washington
having very frequent personal communi
cat ions '' I tli the President in reference to
public alliurs, the condition of thecoun
trv, etc., and from day to day receiving
additional information in reference to the
combinations which had been formed to
prevail upon the President to make a
change in his Cabinet. On mature delib
eration Mr. Campbell determined it was
due from him to the President, who had
been his personal and political friend for
many years, and whom he bad been in
strumental in bringing prominently before
the public after the breaking out of the
war, to warn him that these plans were on
foot to have Uen. Butler in the State or
War Department. He accordingly fur
nished Mr. Johnson with the information
relative to these combinations, and urged
him to make no change whatever of Mr.
Lincoln's fricuds until the shock occa
sioned by the assassination would have
subsided, and then, if lie found it neessarv
to make a change, to do so, but not before
he i,is informant that
pectaiiy would not for a moment entertain
the idea of removing a man who had suf
fered as much as Mr. Howard had, and
was then in a critical condition, lieu.
Rut lei's stall' ollieer (Herbert) told Mr.
Campbell several tiiuesduriug the sojourn
of the latter in Washington, that Uen.
Hutler was very desirous of seeing him,
but no interview took place between tliom’
except for a few moments w ith Uen. Rose
crans, who called upon matters relating to
the military. Mr. Campbell’s aversion to
holding any communication with Uen.
Butler arose from the belief that the whole
programme which the latter bad marked
out would prove disastrous to the Presi
dent and to the country.
About the Ist of May, lsir>, Mr. Camp
bell returned to his home in Ohio, and
among the letters which had accumulated
in his absence he found the one which
Butler’s stall'oflieer hail mailed him.
It was this failure of Hutler and his
cliipie to accomplish their ambitious ends
Unit caused the subsequent line and cry
against Andrew Johnson and the bitterest
anti-administration war since tlit* time of
W ashington. Never before was a Presi
dent so outrageously assailed, and by men
who, it appears, were utterly destitute of
decency and patriotic feeling. Part of
their programme was to force negro suf
frage upon the Mouth, willingor unwilling,
which they hoped to accomplish through
Butler as Secretary of War. Mr. Johnson
not only declined the honor of Cutler's
society in his Cabinet, but declined also
to adopt tbe negro sull'rage policy, which
was shown in liis North Carolina procla
mation.
Senator Sstnner also seems to have been
in the plot, for some time after he had a
protracted Interview with tbe President,
during wliicn ho urged the President to
adopt the negro sull'rage policy, and on
being met with stubborn determination
on tlie part of the Executive lie became
somewhat insolent and threatening, con
eluding with a solemn warning that lie
and his friends intended to carrry out
their plan and to light the Administration
to tlie hitter end on that line, should it
ruin the country. This interview of
Humner and tlie President lasted for three
hours, and resulted in leaving each in
exactly the same position as when they
started. From that time forward the
conspiracy lias gradually developed
itself, until now, when it seems the pur
pose of the Itadicals to remove tlie Presi
dent if they can, and, succeeding in that,
then t<> establish a nominal military dicta
torship witli the great power centred in a
Senatorial oligarchy. The late acts of
Congress, in tlie opinion of able men,
point lo this end unmistakably. There
V4>rv littlf* ijieuet ..-,'1.1 I.iit Ibe
whole course ol ( ongress lias that ten
deucy. Those who ridicule (he idea of a
dictatorship do not know that some of
General (/rant’s stall' have said lately
that a condition of things might occur
which he would feel to justify him in
assuming the responsibility of a dictator.
They forget that lie has not disclaimed
the announcement in a leading Radical
journal that lu; favored the removal of
President Johnson ; nay, that In* has re
fused to deny it when asked for an expla
nation. They lose siglii of the fact that
Congress has already made him dictator
overall the unreconstructed South; that
it has passed a law preventing his removal
from otlice or from Washington by the
constitutional < 'oiinnander-in-t ,’hief, and
passed still another law declaring that ail
orders to the army must be issued through
him, so that a regiment, under existing
circumstances, is not at the command of
the President unless the (Seneral-in-Chicf
consents.
[.Special I>isp;iU:li to the Haiti more Hun. 1
Car] tel Hug I’oliticianx for fmpeachrne nt
JiUven Doubtful Snmtorx—J’lir/y /nfln
t m-e to Sustain ht'i" ac.hna 111 - 'lit' IV/•
dii‘t (Uni. Sherman and Hancock—Ar
rival of (U // . Schofield.
Washington, April go. -Gen. Grant
returned from New York this morning.
A large mini tier of carpet baggers ar
rived this morning, most of them from the
North, for the purpose of lobbying the
impeaohmet through the .Senate to a con
viction and removal of the President.
They propose to regularly heseige the
Senators who are doubted, or, iu other
words, who have very properly refused to
commit themselves to the removal of Mr.
Johnson whether lie he legally proved
guilty or not.
The carpetbag-lobbyists, amongst whom
are two New York journalists, claim to
have accomplished much to-day and tin
evening in the matter of bringing over the
doubtful Senators, and they assert that ol
the eleven whom they feared were shaky,
three have given satisfactory assurances
that they will lie all right; which means
that these Senators have to-day agreed to
vote for the conviction of the President.
Such are the givings out of these carpet
baggers,and such the character of slander,
for slander, no doubt it is, that is pro
mulgated against some of the members of
the august Senate of tin- ( nited States.
Your correspondent does not deem it
proper to mention the names of the eleven
Republican Senators whom the Radicals
doubt; sutlice for the present that they are
of the most judicious anil able statesmen
in the Senate, of whom to suspect corrup
tion would he an outrage; hut the carpet
baggers freely bandy these names about
the steeets and in the hotel saloons, and
unhesitatingly claim that they will get
the entire eleven yet, whether by persua
sion or threats ol political ostracism.
A noticeable feature in this matter is,
that the advocates of the removal of Mr.
Johnson do not hesitate to admit that
there is neither law nor fact proven upon
the trial to make a case for impeaching
the President upon strict legal proceedings,
but they claim that their party will be
ruined if the .senate shall fail to sustain
the House in its impeachmei t.
Thin party policy proposition is contro
verted, however t>y a very considerable
number of Republicans, who see defeat <>i
their party as the results of a removal of
the President without a warrant of law <»;
fact, and they earnestly deprecate the de
position or the Executive as a party mea
sure, because of the precedent it established
and its destruction of the stability of our
government.
.Such are the arguments advanced pro
and eon by the Republican- themselves
I to-night. The Democrats are mere iooKer
i on having no influence to exert m *j
j manner for the accomplishment of g™ •
I The general calculation is that .tiLi.ii
peachment trial will wmjaded *nd »
verdict rendered on Tue-day - f next
Mr. Btanbery had improved in health
considerably t -day- close of
As soon as convenient after
‘f^lUrudfIUrudfl 6 Droc>o»es * to' lidroiluce his hill
? f Jh.'/’Hou-e to establish the telegraphic
,‘osml system heretofore referred to in this
Sherman and Hancock dined
witli the President en/amilie this evening-
General -Sherman will probably leave for
! hofleuf arrived here to-day. The
purjs>se of his visit is not made kjmwn.