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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1868)
* iLi) SEMES, VOL. LXXVI. ChronicU' & Sentinel. II kn uy mooric, A. It. VVHIOIIT. PATRICK H '1 f*H, Associate Editor. TEH tw <»E St BSCRtmON. OAILT. 1 11.111.!..!!.”!.111!" »oo AE<»t STA. GA ! WfllMfiflAY BdtVIYl,. .IlVlTft. Af<'l RENT TO THE STEAMER KaTIE.— The s tea air r Katie, whi’e coming up the river on Sunday, about fifty miles be low the city, broke the shaft of her port wl.( I, and was, in consequence, detained some hours fc'yond her usual time of ar rival Imre, having to run with only one City Court.- The Ciiy Court, Judge Sneed prr iding, Diet on Monday morning. The following is the a tof grand juror* : E. W. Ifuiipl'.ty, l'oren ;\n : Beliißg A S'ovtill, Jorepli ' -lier, Fred, A. Whit lo k, Orl.omo M. Stone. Napoleon 15. Ro l < rts John liikey, Jar. M. Sibiibobb, Uriah I ,sr:|t, V : . y R. Griffin, Charier B. l>ay, Henry L. A. Italic, Charles Estes, Rob ri. A. Fkr . i.ir, George W. Bouehil inn, William J. parr, John Jenkins, CLu.s A. Rowland. J Turpin, BO:iff. A couple of naturali/.iil ion papers were issued. No other huaiae -id pukic importance was transacted. JjRKADFt —The Atl uia (Ga j South <nt Oj/inion gets oft the following awful “P no. ' Everyh idy should road it and tt mbit*, and “pay in advance:” Horrible. 1 dreamed a dream the oUior night When every thing was ..till. 1 ilii anted I saw old ISelz.-bub • 'em sliding down the hill, M Printer’s Hill was in Ids paw Ai.d blood tv as in IPs eye, Nays lie, “Young man ! your ‘vveußel’ ” draw, “< >t else prepare to die." I gamed old Sooty in the face, Ai.d reitd the only chance, lo avail mywell'id saving grace, ' 'I n us pay up in advance. County Coiaur.- Called Session— Before Judge McLaws.—la this court Monday the following defendants, having waived indictment by the grand jury and urn cent atiu trial by a petit jury, were sentenced as follows : 1. dlio Stator.?. Isaac Brown (colored), simple larceny. I’lea of guilty. Chain gang three months or fine of $45 and costs. 2. The Statens. Louis Griffin (colored), lar ueny iioiu the house, Plea of guilty. Chain gang three months or fine of $45 and costs. ft. The State ns. Lewis Low (colored), simple larceny. I’lea of guilty. Chain gang throe months or line of £45 and ousts. I. The State vs. Kelly Low (colored), larceny from the house i’lea of guilty. Chain gang one month or line of $45 and costs. ft. ihe (State vs. Wm. llight, simple larceny. Plea of guilty. Chain gang two months or line of S4O and costs. — The Carrier Dove, A Mecklenburg i Female College Magazine.—This is the titlo ol a neatly printed aud interesting j little Quarterly, published at Charlotte, N. j C., and edited by young ladies of that 1 Institute : Misses Sallio A. Bethunb, Fan- j nie Pearson, and Mary R Farrow, of North | Carolina—Themesian Society; Misses Lottie R. Biovro, of South Caroliua, Ida 1 J. Whitaker, of North Carolina, and ! Miss Emma Perkins, of Georgia—-Philo- J teenio Society. The matter is original and j selected. The motto “ Sans Dial, rial.” ] The price is $1 GO per annum in advance. Six copies to one address, sft 00. Special , Agents aro wanted for every town and village in the South, with good compen sation. It is also a good medium for ad vertising, having a largo and growing cir culation in all the Southern States. Address Rev. A. G. Stacey, Charlotte, N. C. The number before us has u handsomely i executed engraving ; and the work shows a great deal of commendable industry as j well as lulent on the part of the young j ladies who have charge of the editorial department. j Sunday School Resolui'ions. —The 1 following resolution of thanks was adopt ed by the Asbury Sabbath School: Whereas, Numerous favors were ex tended to the members of the Asbury Sabbatl School, on the occasion of their j lute l*ie Nie to Uerrelia. Be it therefore Resoldd, That the thanks of the School Ih>, and thov are hereby gratefully, tendered ! to the following parties for numerous favors received on that occasion : To Mr. If. (logins, Superintendent of the Augusta Factory; Col. tv W. (Vie, Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad ; S. K. Johnson, Master of Transportation Georgia Rail road; .Rif Woods, Esq., Conductor; and John U. Eastman, Engineer of special railroad train ; Mr. an l Mrs. Nobhut, of the deservedly popular Benelia Hotel; Messrs. Mosher, Thomas k Svhaub, June.-, Smythe A Cos., Jas. L. (low, John Stogner, and others oi’ this city. A Mistake.—The W. A. Ramsey who has been published as having gone iuto Bankruptcy, is not tho well Known iner- j chant of our city, as some may suppose, i but a W. A. Raiusay, of Amerieus, Ga. Board or Tradk —In pursuance of a previous notice, a number of merchants and others interested met at the Masonic Hall, Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Hr. W. U. Tutt in the Chair and W. J. lVhsrd as Secretary. Several new names were added to the roll- The Secretary, on motion, read the re port of the Committee on tho Constitution. Jno. lb Butt. Esq., read the Constitu tion and By-Laws of the Richmond (Va.) Chamber of Coni mere*;, which were, on motion, adopted, with such amendments and uk‘rations as were applicable to this locality. On motion the 21 Weduesdav in October next was fixed for the annual meeting, aud during the interval the Association to have power to alter or amend the Constitution, but iu that time it is to become the perma nent w. - 0.. nation the Chair appointed a Com mittee to nominate officers to report to this re ting, vix : Messrs. Jno. D. Butt, Jas. W. Bones, W. F. Herring, Mo- Core. . .. 1 G. R. Sibley. The Committee reported the following as tho officers: I' s- ; a (—Edward Thoms -Ist Vlv l*res!J, -if JosiahSthlcv. 3./ IVc IWsid,nt-\\m. E Jackson. Boiird of Diix'i-iri —E. P. Clayton, \\. Stevenson, A. Mullarky, /. McCord, J. W. Bonos, Henry Myers, I. i’ BraueU, J. X. Bath well, \\ . H. Tutt, LI. H. Hickman, \V. F. Herring. S. 1). Heard, John M. Clark. Lb K Wright, and J. W. Hester. Settitary —W. J. Pollard. 7/, usurer —W .C. Jones. The Report was received and adopted. The Secretary is to notify absent officers of their election, and call a meeting ot the Board of Directors as soon as possible. The Board is to fii! any v: eaneies, and transact any business, if ne'e"ary. for the interest of the Association. On motion, the meeting adjourned sub ject to the call of the President or B, ard ot Directors. The meeting* ofthe Board will he month ly-: of the Association quarterly, and will be held at the office of M -rs Braueh k Sen- until further notice. . j it,.]- Fessenden denies his identifica tion wUu the ‘’third” party, and says he will vote for Grant and Ctifax. Thc Chicago Platform. We present below the unique affair, called a pajty platform, framed and adopt ed by the Radical Jacobins assembled in Chicago la t week. It will be seen that this piece of party furniture is composed of twelve resolutions or planks. The first contains a stale aud fulsome compliment to themselves for what they have already done in the work of destroying Southern prosperity, and insulting Southern honor. I he second is an artful and cunning dodge fee,’ which they hope to make the canvass in surd) a way as to prevent the people from ascertaining their true sentiments in relation to what they have christened , “manhood suffrage.” They put their defetje- of negro suffrage iu tbe South upon the ground that it “was required by every consideration of public safety, of giatitude, and of justice,’ but they fail to tell as, either in their plat form or through the speeches of their leading conspirators, to whom their grati tude was due or for what; neither do they intimate upon what principle of justice a people who never struck a blow for their emancipation, are entitled to the exercise of the great privilege of casting their ballots in the government of the country. We fail to perceive any consideration of public safety which would seem to require that the ballot should be placed in the bands of the Southern ignorant and lately slave black, while ii i withheld from the more intelligent and virtuous of the race who l live in the North. If there is really any principle, any pledge of faith, which requires the en i franchisement of the Southern negro, the same principle and pledge should hold good in its apoliceti >n to the Northern ne . gro. I ( the gratitude of the Radicals is I due to the negroes for the part they bore j as soldiers in the late war, we fail to per ceive why the negro troops from Massa chusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Kentucky, are excluded from the benefits bestowed upon the Georgia Sambos. The negroes who entered the army from tho Northern States entered it, as volunteers— those who were mustered in in the South belonged, lor the most part, to the list of “captured’' and were forced to take the musket and fall into the Federal ranks. Justice would require tho enfranchisement first of those who went into the ranks con amo/e ; and then a m i rnauimous and liberal policy night induce the yielding of a like privilege to the reluctant South ern black. The truth is, this negro suffrage question was one of the troublesome issues upon which it was impossible to harmonize the Republican party ; and, feeling that the next best thing to bo dune was to adopt a cunning generality which might be con strued to mean anything or nothing, as the of the party might demand. To tell the people of the North that negroes there should not be entitled to vote, while those at the South were clothed with this privilege, would have been too direct and palpable an insult to their intelligence. They manage it more artfully by saying that, while it is true the ignorant and semi-barbarous Southern blaoks have been fully elolbcd with this highest privilege of an American citizen, it was done not because it was right or proper, or due to tho poor creatures, but because tho public safety required that a cheek should be placed upon Southern rebels. The enfranchisement of the South ern negro, say they, was demanded by the highest consideration of public safety, while at the North, or in the loyal States, j the question of suffrage is one which, Ull(l*‘ r - ’ »*. (11;i rPrMI- J lotion and decision id the several Slates, i Here wo have another confession almost j as strong and startling as that made ; months before by the great leader oi Radicalism, Thad. Stevens, that the Re- construction measures of Congress are outside of, and contrary to, the Constitu tion ol the United States. Can any party long survive which goes before the people having inscribed upon its banner the astounding confessi n that the funda mental principles upon which is reared their party organization is above and in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States? Will the people of the North accept tho plea which is attempted to he *t up in this second section for the violation of the fundamental law of tho land? The 3d, 4th, sth and Gilt resolutions are nothing more than glittering generalities, which are meant only to please the eyes aud tickle the ears of the masses. So the Bth is lugged in for the purpose of exciting sympathy for the unfortunate and, as we think, untimely eud of Mr. Lincoln, and to arouse public indignation against the President. The 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th resolutions are of no importance whatever. The question of naturalization and citizen ship has long since been settled by the people of this country, and we have heard of no party at the North which does not believe that many soldiers entered the Federal army actuated by pure and just motives. But wo have neither time or space to j make anything like a full review of this j “queer platform.” We present it to our | readers iu full, as we find it in the New j York Tribune: Tlu National Republican Party of the j 1 nittil States, assembled in National : Convention in the City of Chicago, on the 20th day of May, 1808, make the fob loving declaration of' principles: ]. vVe congratulate the country on the assured success of the Reconstruction policy of Congress, as evinced by the adop tion iu the majority of the States lately in rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal civil and political rights to all, and it is the duty of tho Government to sustain those institutions and to prevent the peo ple of such States from being remitted to a state of anarchy. [Cheers.] 2 The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and must.be maintained ; while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those State.-. [ Cheers. 1 . 3. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime [prolonged cheersi; and the national honor requires the pay ment of the public indebtedness in the uttermost good faith to ail creditors at home and abroad, not only according to the letter but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. [Applause.] . 4. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation >bould be equalized, and re duced as rapidly as the national faith will permit 5. Ttie National debt contracted, as it has been, for the preservation of the Union tor all time to come, should be ex tended over a fair period tor redemption, aud it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate ot interest therein, whenever it can b hon -tly done. 6. That the best policy to diminish oar burdeu of debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will -eek to loan us money at lower ratc-s of interest than we now pay, and mu- 1 continue to pay, so long as repu diate it, p urial or total, open or covert, is threatened or suspected. 7. 1: Go .-eminent of the United States shoul K-e administered with the strictest economy, and the corruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and fostersd by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical : reform. 8. We professedly deplore the untimely and tragic death .of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted treach erously to the people who elected him, aud the cause ho was pledged to support; who has warped high legislative aud judi cial functions ; who has relusod to exe cute the laws; who used his high office to induce other officers to ignore and violate the laws , who lias employed his executive powers to render insecare the property, the peace, liberty aud fife of the citizen ; who has abu-ed the pardoning power; who has denounced the National Legis lature as unconstitutional; who has per sistently and corrupt y resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper at tempt at the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion ; who has perverted the public patronage into an engine of wholesale corruption, and who has been justly impeached for high crimes aud mis demeanors, and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote .of thirty-five Senators. 0. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers, that because a man is once a subject he is always so, must he reflated at every hazard by the United States,, as a relic of the feudal times, Dot authorized by the law of nations, and at war with our national honor and independ ence. Naturalized citizens are entitled to be protected in all their rights of citizen- i ship as though they were native horn, and : no citizen of the United (States, native or j naturalized, must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any foreign power for : aets done or words spoken in this country : and if so ai rested and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to interfere in his behalf. 10. Or all who were faithful in the trials of' the late war, there were none entitled to mure especial honor than the brave sol diers and seamen who endured the hard ships of campaign and cruise, and imper i!ed their lives in the service of the country; the bounties and pensions provided by the laws for these brave defenders of the na tion are obligations never to be forgotten; the widows and orphans of the gallant dead are t he wards of the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s protecting care. 11. Foreign emigration—which iu the pu-,t ha - added so much to the wealth, de velopment and resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations— should V«> fhsrer— . od and ...owva. aaod Ly a liberal and just policy. 12. This Convention declares itself in symmithy with all the oppressed people whiS are struggling for their rights. Mr. Pendleton’s Strength. The selection, by the Chicago Jacobins, of both their candidates from the West is a virtual concession of the great strength | of Pendleton throughout that section. F. r ! the first time in the history of parties in this country has the candidates, both for President and Vice President, been taken i from adjoining States or even from the same section. Before the war and even during that struggle both the contending parties acted upon the idea that the suc cess of their party was greatly promoted by having their candidates so selected as to bring to the support of the party the lull local strength and popularity of the individual who was run. Wo fail to per ceive any reason why Fenton, or Hamlin, or Wilson, or Curtis, should not have been placed on the Chicago ticket except the j concioueuess that with Grant alone they could not carry the West, and that as suc cess was of the first importance inplanuirig a canvass, some man must be put on the tieket who was supposed to be popular ; where the danger was most apparent. This tacit admission of Pendleton’s ‘ strength carries with it something more. The selection of Colfax, with the view to his popularity in the West, is tantamount to a declaration that with Grant alone, or with Grant and a Vice Presidential candidate from the North or East, they dared not hope to carry the Western States. .The assumed and bloated p ipularity of thegreat Butcher has been effectually pricked by these astute leaders of the Radical party. Henceforth we shall expect to hear no more of the overshadowing popularity of Grant- Ho has been weighed by his own friends and found wanting. The star of Pendleton is still in the as cendant. If his own party is so dull of vision as not to perceive his great strength and immense popularity, the common enemy have not failed to make the dis covery. If the Democratic party act upon the hint thus strongly thrown out by the Chicago Radicals there will be no division in their councils at New York. Hulbert at Work. following epistles bP" tffe lt jslciß.J''“ht the who runs the Radical election machine iu this State under the auspices of the correct and fair Major Gen. Meade. The Sun says: It will bo remembered that vigorous efforts were made here to induce Genera! Meade to investigate the frauds practiced upon our people before, during aud since the election. It appears that the appeals and proofs from here struck terror into the guilty soul of ilulbert, and he immediately set about, like a wary old rat as he is, to prepare a defence for his hole. It is known to our readers that we have been running about the country some little of late. Well, wc heard many curious things about va lious people. We oven picked up a secret or two that Gen. George Gordon Meade fondly imagines has never travelled beyond his own cars and those of his lacqueys. Some of these will be ventilated at the proper season. In tho meantime, and for present need, we will only give to our readers the sub joined letters from Express Ilulbert- It will be acknowledged that they are provo cative of sharp and extended comment. We have neither space, time nor inclina tion to say more than that Ilulbert and Duer will not deny the authenticity of the fallowing document: * Headq’rs Sub Dictrict of Georgia, ] Office, Sup’t Registration, > Atlanta, Ga., May 8, IS6B. J John M. liner, Esq., of Columbus: Dear Sir—Hid Hinton, the Senator elect from your District, hold office before the war ? Can’t you get up affidavits from the counties of Marion and Chattahoochee ? Try. Get Dr. Gilbert aud other friends at work at once and send me their affida vits. Can’t you send me the affidavits of yourself and Chapman, of frauds commit ted in Columbus, or at least that force and intimidation were used by the rebels, against the freedmen ? Let me hear from them. Yours, E. Hulbert. Headq’rs Sub-District of Ga.,] Office Sup’t. Registration r Atlanta, Ga. May 8, 1868, J John M Duer , Esq., Columbia: Dear Sir :—Yours of the 6th at hand. We want affidavits proving force, fraud, intimidation in violation of General Orders. We must have them, and pieuty of them. Go to work and get them up at once. The names of the parties making the affidavits will not be known to any per son except yourself and the Board. They need have no fears on that score. You can swear them before Capt. Hill. Please go to work “sharp and quick.'' Get Chapman and other friends to assist you. The election in your county will be con tested. Defend yourself by attacking the enemy. Respectfully, Ac., E. Hulbert. fieorgia Delegates to the Chicago Con vention. We give below a list of the Georgia delegates to the Chicago Convention, which we find in the Missouri Democrat (Radi. It will be ssen that the delegation was not full, and that the list contains names of persons who have not heretofore been sus pected of Radicalism : gEorgla. At large—Foster Blodgett, J. N. Par rott, K. Hulbert, C. H. Hopkins. First Distiiet —Isaac Seeley, J P. Robb ; 3d, J. G. Maul, W. C. Smith ; 4th, G. G. Wilbur, - Etz ; loth. D. G. Cutting, Wni. Gibson : 6th. Madison Beil : 7th, L. P. Gudger, W. H Watson. A Northern Female School to he F.s taoitsfied at Atken, bo. la., by Sirs. Beecher Stowe. Our neighbors, the pleasant people o? the pretty village of Aiken, arc to receive aid iu reconstruction aDd progress under the auspices of Mrs. Beecher Stowe, as will appear from the following extract from a late number of the New York Tribune. We shall take considerable interest in this institution. We do not understand wheth er the pupils are to be derived from "the Thousands of overworked and undressed sewing gills, shop girls, and others of the weaker sex who are forced to labor in larger cities”—or "from districts the greatest sufferers by the war.” Whether the in stitution is to be a benevolent institution, free to all comers, or a pay school, does not appear. This, doubtless, will be made known in due time. The general scheme which while affording an opportunity for a liberal education, “gives, also, a suitable 1 training for the business of life,” which enables females at all times to secure remu nerative employment,'’ is well worthy the attention cf the fair sex, and deserves the consideration of those who preside over the excellent “Female Colleges" of our State. Tbe movement, doubtless, has its origin in the necessities of Northern dense population—but the lesson is none the less valuable to us: AN IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT. , Among the many social wants of the day none is more pressing than that of an institution in which women may receive a liberal education, one which shall give them suitable training for the business of life, aud shall secure for them remunerative employment. An attempt has recently been made to supply this want by the for mation of the ‘"American Woman’s Edu cational Association,” of which Harriet Beecher Stowe is President and Catherine E. Beecher Agent or Secretary. The As sociation ia already incorporated and ha» been liberally endowed. Its officers pro pose to establish literary institutions, like j our colleges, with which shall be connected i professional schools to train women for tbe j practical duties ot life, just as men arc framed as engineers, chemists, physicians, ! ■awyers and book-keeper?. It is intended that each of these institutions shall em brace a preparatory, a collegiate, and a professional department. In the last the student will receive instruction in the art ot teaching, in nursing infants and invalids aud in ah the other duties of a thoroughly competenr’housewife. The object of this Aeionafton is one which appeals stronrK io uje sympaibies of all wno are interested in the advancement of American women toward a position of usefulness and honor able independence. The pitiable condition of the thousands of overworked and under paid sewing girls, shop girls, and others of the weaker sex who are forced to labor in the large cities has long called for measures of reform, but aii that lias thus far been i done in their behalf does not seem to have effected many hundreds, who, aided by such an institution as that proposed by the I Association, would in a short dine be en abled to secure and to fill creditably com fortable positions in which the horrors of want would never be felt and in which their natures would not suffer by contact with those influences which so often drag the working-woman down to ruin. Benevolent and philanthropic men could do much toward xurihering the objects of this Association by advancing it money to be invested in land, on which flowers and fruit could be cultivated. These products do not necessarily require the care of strong men, but as has often been proved, can be as successfully rais dby women. This out-door labor will be peculiarly fa vorable to the health of the women em ployed, and will always be remunerative. Women of superior education will be em ployed as agents, and as lecturers, and teachers in the institution. Several years ago a school of this character was establish ed in the West. It has proved a complete success. The Association now proposes to establish another in the South. Miss Beecher and tho Executive Committee, after having visited seven of the seaboard Southern States, have fixed upon Aiken, South Carolina, as the best location for I the school, and, if favorable terras are of ; sered _by the citizens, it will there be | established. The district in which Aikcu | lies was one of tho greatest sufferers by the | w »r, notwithstanding which fact her citizens have extended an earnest invitation to Northern people to come and settle among them. The war closed ail their schools’, and diminished their population nearly one-half, leaving many fine houses vacant, and many dairy farms, orchards and vine | yards uncared for, while real estate has greatly fallen in value. Here, then, is ; offered an excellent opportunity for prop ! erty owners to enhance the value of their [ land by encouraging the establishment of the proposed institution ; and the same reasons render the founding of the insti tution at Aiken remarkably advantageous. Another reason for the selection of this location is its many local advantages. It ! is situated on a plateau, bounded by sev eral rivers, _ is 600 feet above the sea, and I in a fine pine district, favorable to lung j aud throat complaints. Its climate is the j same as that of 2? ice and Pau, so much ' frequented by invalids. The Winter is \ short and mild, ice rarely forming more ! than twelve times during the season.. The ; hummer heat is never extreme, the water country is Deautuui. mi vumm sects, abounding in hot climates, are com mon in this region, and no malarious dis eases exist. In connection with the professional de partment of the school, it is proposed to have a have a health department, under the care of a celebrated physician, who will pay special attention to lung diseases and complaints of the throat and chest. Dio Lewis’ system of gymnastics, and the Swedish movement cure will be the prin cipal remedial agents employed, especially iu the case of young girls of feeble consti tutions. There will be no large boarding establishment attached-to the institution. Instead of this there will be numerous pleasant homes provided for the students, in each of which there will seldom be more than 10 or 12 inmates. These establishments, we are informed, will open early in the Fall. Applications for places in the schools or health estab lishments may be addressed to the Secre tary, at Aiken, S. (J., or at No. 69 AVest Thirty-eigbth-st., New York City. The Chicago Convention—lts Bush Its The Republican Convention assembled at Chicago on the 20th, was permanently or ganized on the 21st and adjourned on the 22d. A scant three days’ session has suf ficed to dispose of all the important issues before the country. The prominent feature in the platform is that universal suffrage is intended only for the Southern States not in the Union. Negro suffrage will not be permitted at the North, nor Chinese suffrage in the Pacific States. This is drawing universal suffrage “mild” as na tional policy. It is decreed, as a very good thing for the American provinces, but dis carded as a national policy. The next re markable feature appearing in the hot haste with which the eut-and-dry pro ; gramme was rushed through, is the I confession and sublime impudence of I ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown—the ardent j secessionist—the captor of Pulaski and | the Augusta Arsenal—for whom the Con federate Presidential chair was claimed— subsequently the great antagonist of Jeff. Davis, in stickling for State rights in day3 of death and danger, and spoliation and desolation—who took “ issue with him,” ; but in what form it is not confessed —the ardent disciple, brought up “re ligiously” in the Calhoun school of poli ties —the able advocate and stickler for the Constitution before the District Court of the United States when the test oath was about being applied to lawyers, and a neophyte Republican of scarce nine moons —introduced, with set speech, to the great loyal heart of the nation, through the great loyal convention of loyal Republi cans, their permanent President, ex-Gov. Hawley, of Connecticut. Let us never hear more in this latitude of Yankee impudence and Y ankee cunning. Here is a feat which transeends anything ever achieved by the most expert Jonathan under the inspiration of the Mays lower and Plymouth Rock, and the Cradle of Liberty and Boston tea. Such sublimity ; of impudence is beyond admeasurement by words. Truly we progress, and we venture the prophecy that, under such tuition, | with an apprenticeship of less than five years, the stigma of sentiment and ! chivalry will only be looked for east of the Hudson. A remarkable characteristic which does not appear in terms, but which, no doubt, has caused sorrow and anguish to Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Wade und all the Ben. Yf aders, is the absolute and compJete repudiation of that old veteran loyalist and his polity. But this theme is too affecting. M e can not obtrude criticism upon the fifiiiett 1, still suffering the aDguish of irreparable loss. Lastly, and of all most wonderful, not a single gun lias announced the enthu siasm for the great military hero who is to work out sa.vatiOD for the country. Not a single merry peal—full of joy and glad ness—disturbs the ear. No re-echoing acclaims proclaim the glad tidings from great cities and towns and villages and hamlets. But all appears as dull and as cold and as heartless as the labors oi a weary burial battle. Impeachment has gone up. So have 1 .S. bonds. AVGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 18G8 Impeachment Is Dead. ? ®Y reference to our fourth page to-day U will be seen that, after taking a vote on tne 2d and 3d articles with a similar result to that which occurred on the 11th, the Senate, 'sitting as a high Court of Im peachment, adjourned sine die. This is a final ending of the impeachment fiasco. It is a virtual admission on the part of the Radical majority that, if the Presi dent was not guilty of the charges upon wbieh the votes had been taken, it was useless to press a decision upon the | remaining. But it is by no means certain that, because the Boutwell ! peacbment project has failed, thcre | fore there will be no further attempts made by the Jacobins to remove the President. The New Yoik Tribune and other leading Radical journals have already indicated the future action of their party on this question. It is contended that the President should be removed for his violation of the Constitution aud laws of the land in re moving the acting Governors and existing State governments in the Southern States at the time of the surrender of the Con- j federate cause, and setting up govern ments by his individual appointment in all of the excluded States. ‘• sla T ee also wl& a violation of the laws m drawing rroui vw. Pi , United States large sums of money which he applied, without warrant or authority of law, to the payment of the expenees of his so-called provisional governments. There have been repeated and prolonged conferences between the leading Jacobins, and it is stated that Thad. Stevens has al ready drawn up three articles of impeach ment for crimes and misdemeanors com mitted in the attempt made by the Presi dent to take the whole matter of recon struction into his own hands. Stevens de clares his ability to convict the President upon these articles, and the more violent and bitter of his party friends are anxious that ho should make the effort. It remains to be seen if Congress, having already de voted three mouths to this impeachment business, to the manifest injury of the great industrial, mechanical and commercial interests of the country, will further con tinue to neglect the important legislation which is awaiting action at their hands for the paltry inducements of gratifying their personal spleen and spite against (Mr. Johnson. We are very well assured that if a renewal of the impeachment business can be made to subserve and promote the interests of the Radical party it will he again resorted to without hesitation. The revolutionary Jacobins who are now in the majority at W ashington are capable of committing any act of desperation or illegality which may he made to strengthen their hold upon tbe reins of Government. We are not certain, however, that the success of their party will he promoted by any other violent or revolutionary legisla tion, and hence it is we indulge tbe hope that the disgraceful impeachment business is concluded forever. Chicago Platform Supplementary PlanK. Like the action of their party in Con gress since the close of the war on the subject of Reconstruction, the Chicago Jacobins were not able, in their first effort to make a platform acceptable to their party, and lienee, following the illustrious example ot the Cdbgroosional Jacobins, they have been compelled to add two ad ditional or -supplementary planks to the rickety affair reported by the Committee on Platform, and wliiVt the Radical press pa-.ijr " ■ . Ji. ed by a political Conv^HßK»w«-.. As the Reconstructioa measures of Con gress required the addition of two amenda tory or supplementary bills” before the concern could be made to work well for Radicalism, even so has it proven that the Chicago platform could not be safely trusted without the addition of two sup plementary articles to give the crude job something like vigor and consistency. These two supplementary planks, we are told, were unanimously added upon motion of General Schurz. This fellow Schurz is the individual sent out by Mr. Johnson in the summer and fall of 18G5 to make a tour of observation and inspection in the Southern State* in relation to the prevailing tone, feelings, and sentiment of the South ern people toward the Federal Govern ment, aud who wasteoeived and welcomed among us by our intelligent and respectable citizens as a gentleman, upon the pre sumption that none other than a gontlman would have been intrusted with such a delicate and important duty. It is known that, after going through the entire South, visiting all the leading cities and towns, and being received in the mansions of our people, and welcomed to their boards and hearthstones with all the warmth and hospitality for which they j have beeu so long famous, he returned to i Washington about the time the struggle between Congress and the Radicals began to break out in open hostilities, thoroughly impressed with the peaceable and orderly character of our people, and, convinced of their good faith in unreservedly accepting the “situation” as a result of the failure on their part to set up a separate inde- I pendent Government. It has been fre ! quently asserted and never, so far a3 we ! have observed, denied that he had \ actually written out to he submitted to the President a lengthy and detailed report of what he had seen and heard in the “rebel country,” in which he stated, in the most positive and unmistakable manner, that j the people of the South, and particularly those who had beeu in the Confederate j army, were entirely and thoroughly loyal to the Federal Government, and quiet and law-abiding in their conduct, to an extent unknown in the other sections of the United States, These views ofthe General CarlSchurz being made very generally known in the gossipping world at Washington, steps were immediately taken by leading Radi | cals to buy up the “Dutch adventurer” and ; procure from him a report setting forth unparalleled atroeitiescommittedby “white rebels” upon “colored people” and the ; “truly loil whites” —the persecutions oi the “Uniou element” —the open defiance of law and the authority of the courts, in terspersed with pretended rehearsals of j “traitorous talk,” indulged in by the ; "slave lords,” and which the gentle Carl was permitted to overhear on steamboats and railway carriages while making his tour of inspection incog throughout the “States lately m rebellion.” The whole country was startled by this shr. useful and barefaced truculence of Schurz to the Radical majority, and hence no man of intelligence in the whole coun- | try gave credence to a wordeontainediuhis false and slanderous report. But the ignorant dupes of the Radical party were enoouraged to continue their support of the Jacobins through the influence brought to bear upon them by the statements con tained iu Sehurzs report. It is this man Schurz who steps forward at the eleventh hour in the Chicago Con vention and presents two resolutions ad ditional to the platform presented and adopted by the Convention, and which Greeley says, in the Tribune of the ” 23d mst., are “the very best planks in the platform.” vVhat these planks are and to what extent they deserve the unstinted praise ofthe Tribune is best shown by a reference to the resolutions themselves. Thev are as follows : __ Unanimously added , on motion of Gen, Ciiurz : RtsoiceJ, That we highly commend the ' spirit of magnanimity and forbearance with which men who have served in the rebellion, but who now frankly aud honestly co-operate with us in restoring the peace ol the country and reconstruct ing the Southern Stati' government upon the basis of Impartial Justice and Equal Rights, are received back into the com munion of the loyal people ; and we favor the removal of the disqualifications and restrictions imposed upon the late rebels in the same measure as their spirit of loyalty will direct, and as may be con sisteut with the safety of the loyal people. JtesOivea, That we recognize the great principles laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independence, as the true foundation of democratic government; and we hail with gladness every effort toward making these principles a living i reality cn every inch of American soil. Here we have offered to the South as a bribe to purchase their support of the Radical party “ the removal of the dis qualifications and restrictions imposed” upon us by the Reconstruction acts, iu the same measure and to the same extent that our people will give in their adhesion and realty to the Jacobin party. Doubt less this gilded bait may catch a few gudgeons of tho Joe Brown order of con sistency aud honesty, but we doubt if it brings as rich results to their party as its experienced author perhaps very justly anticipated, considering the very easy manner in which he was himself bribed and bought. The second of the Supplementary hie and eloquent commentations upon the immortal! Declaration of Independence which we remember io have seen since the era of “ Fourth of July orations” by pre cocious American youth, was lost sight of in the sternly real “blood and thunder” of the late war. Good Advice from Cliasc. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press (Forney’s) says that Judge Chase has had frequent consulta tions recently, in Washington, with the members ol the Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which body has been in session there, and that he has stated to a number of leading colored men, and among others Rev.’s 11. M. Turner and Simms of Georgia, and Givens of North Carolina, that the Re publican party had betrayed the Northern colored men, that the Democracy was wil ling to adopt a platform of “ universal suffrage and universal amnesty,” aud that such a platform had bis approbation. “He advised his colored friends to leave the Republican organization" and cast their fortunes with the Democratic party. The colored people have been long since advised, through the coiumnsof the Chron icle & Sentinel, that the Radicals were only using them for their own selfish pur poses and that their pretended friendship for their race in' the South was predicated alone on the strength which the colored men here could add to their party. They hate the negro—they have always hated him. Their ancestors captured and en slaved the ancestors of the Southern negro. They have denied him all social and polit ical recognition at the North, where their numbers are few, and where they are generally educated, virtuous and intelli gent. Mr. Chase but reiterates what we have so often repeated and which is cer tainly true, that the Radicals have betrayed the negroes in the Northern States and they will eventually destroy the race at the South unless tho negroes cut loose from them and align themselves where their interests require they should be—with the Democratic party of the South. The Southern black men ought to know that Judge Chase has been a life long and consistent friend of the race, His is no j new-born zeal to ride into power on their give Tieed io’ this T x jflli TW r ii (jSrib'fecSt member of the Methodist Church and would not deceive them. A New Manufacturing Company iu Macon. A Stock Company has been formed in Macon called the "Findley Manufacturing Company.” They have secured a lease of the very extensive buildings formerly known as "Findley’s Foundry.’ and pro pose to go extensively into the milling and woollen and cotton manufacturing business. Among the original stockholders and corporators appears the name of Ned Woodruff. , a well known and very respect able negro of that city. "This,” says the Macon Idegraphfl is the first colored man in Georgia to own stock as an original subscriber in a Georgia Manufacturing Company.” It affords us real pleasure to chronicle this evidence of improvement and success in business of an honest, upright colored man, and commend his example to the thousands of his race who are relying upon Freedmeu’s Bureaus for support, rather than their own exertions. The Blazonry of Shame.—The fol lowing is a special despatch from Chicago to the Commercial Advertiser : “Chicago, May 20.—The knowledge that Senator Wade’s nomination as Vice t'resident will prevent the success of a pending negotiation for the votes of two Republican Senators for conviction, who voted against the eleventh article, has virtually withdrawn him from the contest. ” ■ Negotiations for votes on the. impeach ment are proclaimed as unbluskingly as if they were negotiations for corn or cattle. Between whom was this alleged negotiation “pending ?” Who undertakes to buy votes for~impeachment oragain.st impeach ment? And who offers such votes for sale ? If any such negotiations are in reality going on, the country has a right to Snow the names of the parties to them. The attention of the Impeachment Man agers at Washington,who are trying tosnuff Out the secrets of acquittal, is invited to this telegram.— N. Y. Sun. The Double Dealing Chicago Plat- j form.—ln certain other respects the ! platform sounds ironically. Declarations in favor of a rapid reduction of taxation and the strictest economy in the adminis tration of the Government are unassaila ble as abstract propositions. Every man not fed at the public expense will hold up both hands for them. But a Republican Convention in 1868 otfght to have been able to present something more effective than promises. The party has been in power long enough to have gathered a rich store of performances. It should have been able to go before the country with a record of service rendered in regard both to retrenchment and taxation. The public parse has been for years altogether in its hands. It has had exclusive management of the appropriations and exclusive power over the forms and amount of taxation. How happens it, theny-that in a platform intended to set forth its claims to continued confidence it has nothing better to offer than resolve in favor of reforms which it has obstinately and culpably neglected? Why is it that no serious attempt has been made to enforce even moderate economy, and that, in consequence, the abolition of taxes , must be followed by their reimposition, or by a large addition to the debt? These are weak spots in the party’s record. They are a condemnation of its recent Congressional career, and a sorry ex emplification of its fidelity and capacity in fiscal and financial affairs.—New York Times, Hep. m m "President” Wade’s cabinet: Secretary of State, i Secretary of the Treasury, 1 Secretary of yp ar ; Secretary or toe T aV y - : : Secretary of the Interior, 1 Attorney Gener al ; Postmaster (ieneral, Esquires. Attest: B. F. Butler, Thai). Stevens, J. A. Bingham, And seventy-five others, guano inhabitants of the Alta Vela island. -Colonel Hazard leaves an estate of 1 2,000,000. FROM WASHINGTON j Uprcijl Cjrrcspo hilchcc of the Baltimore Gueetic. j Su H er '» Smdling Committee—Senator lomeroy s Offer to Sell Radical Votes— ! -Vi Explanatory Card Promised— The (riant-(dif fax Nomination Carttsi's May Jfixtioal. I Washington, May 22, 1868.-The . I hicago Convention having done its work I in the nomination of Grant and Colfax it is now probable that Butler will suspend his operations in bullying and blackguard ing witnesses. The developments already brought out are anythiug but compli mentary to those who are crying “dowu with him,” and the rumor this evening is that additional proof will show the offer of Senator Ponforoy to sell four Radical votes for forty thousand dollars was not designed as a trap to catch CoL Cooper, but was a bona fide offer, and that the fact will be shown. Pomeroy has promised a card in explanation, and it will be anx- iously looked for, as it is not perceived how he can relieve himself from guilt, although lie may show that his guilt has been of the lesser magnitude, and that he was not authorized to sell Radical votes bv the wholesale. The disclosures made by the “guano_inanagers” thus far have caused Radicalism as well as impeachment to stink in the nostrils of decency. Such is the verdict pronounced by at least three ot the “recreant Senators,” who declare that they are almost ready to believe the whole party a mass ot corruption. The nom'iiation ol Grant and Colfax has 1 alien still-born upon the country. A few gentlemen called upon the nominees last evening, and offered their congratulations , e < ESHS.P**!. oth « effort will be made considerable curiosity is man!f’osteaWL T certain if Grant, will attempt a speech, or content himself wkli a fresh segar. The elegant May festival levee, given by the venerable Louis Carusi yesterday, at his old saloon, in compliment to “his former pupils, their children and grand , enii Jren, ’ was an occasion of peculiar in terest to many of our citizens. Mr. C. established his dancing school in this city iu 13J8, and for half a century has num bered among his scholars the first families ot the District, During the administra tions of Monroe, Adams, Jackson and Van Buren, Mr. Carusi mingled freely with public men, attracted to the capital of the nation b\ business or pleasure, and his saloon became, celebrated as the resort of fashionable society. His assemblies had the constant patronage of Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Benton and that class of states men, and for many years his saloon was selected for tho inauguration balls. Now, at a ripe old age, and when no longer able to participate actively in amusements of the kind, it was with no ordinary pleasure that the old families of Washington, with “their children and their grand children,” again thronged the old saloon in honor of Auld Lang Sync. The music was de lightful—the guests, old and young, were charmed—Carusi himself happy in the present, thrice happy in the memories of the past. It now seems to be the settled purpose of the citizens of Washington to vindicate their manhood and rescue the city govern ment from the hands of the negro equality party, even at the risk of giving serious offence to Congress, our national gugi dians. The vfhit.es in registration out number the negroes 2,500, and if the negro candidate for Mayor is elected it will be without excuse on the part of the citi zens. E. Special Correspondence, of the Baltimore Gazelle. The Situation Critical—The Radicals De moralized— 'The Duty of the Conserva tives—Removal of the President still Possible — The. Radicals Desponding and Desperate—The next Presidency—But ler's Smelling Committee—Stirring 1 imes Ahead. u Washington, May 23, 1868 —The “situation” at this point is exceedingly confused and critical. The demoralization of a powers ul 'party must needs affect, to some extent, the status of its great an tagonist. Public opinion here, however, is very decided that ail Conservatives and Democrats have to do is to remain firm, and by no means hunt after the strange gods, Should they have sense enough to do this, all will come right. Whittled down to the small end of a Yankee whittling stick, the sum of the whole thing is just this: If the Radicals succeed in getting possession, even for a rwrurTr, v.-rfi „—■' - ■,, ,p i j bloodshed —the very forms preseribedby tho Constitution will be ignored, and aristocracy founded, and confiscation of the property of political opponents made the basis of establishing a moneyed and miiffary despotism. In this view l firmly believe that the eventual dismissal of Mr. Johnson will be effected. It is an absolute party necessity. No sensible man in the Radical ranks entertains the notion that their electoral ticket can command a constitutional majority. The present House is relied upon to proelaiu Grant President without regard to the popular vote. With Wade in the Executive chair, the plan would be feasible, and the Government easily sub verted, unless resort should be had to the ultimate physical power of an outraged populace. To prevent this mischief, therefore, the anti-Radicals must select for their standard-bearer someone whose principles are not subject to cavil—whoso prudence as a statesman is known and undoubted, and whose courage would be equal to any emergency. With such a man fairly elected, if is thought by every one here who are opposed to the overthrow of the Government that the threatened civil war might bo entirely prevented, or at least checked, before the country shall be utterly devastated. Among the different means employed by the Radical faction to obtain possession of Executive power is the institution of investigation committees, with the ulterior purpose of expelling a sufficient number of Senators to effect Johnson’s dismissal. I must be excused (notwithstanding the tremendous stretch of power involved in this proceeding), if I am unable to treat this matter with becoming gravity. It must strike any one that the means al leged to have been essayed to acquit the President are altogetherdisproportioned to the great end sought to be accomplished. A gentleman named Woolley, it is found out by hook or by crook, had acquired a credit for $26,000 at Jay Cooke’s bank. He is summoned, and in his testimony, distinctly swears that none of this vast amount was expended in buying up Sen ators. lie, besides, very fairly accounts for the legitimate expenditure of $16,000 of it, leaving only $9,000, which the "man - are delving to show was amply suf ficient to purchase seven Senators of their own party! It is further alleged that a certain gentleman, residing in Cincinnati, was offered $2,500 of this residuum for“the use* of his influence.’’ I don’t know whether this individual be a black man or a white one, but I am quite certain that he showed a very proper self-respect by ut terly refusing any such contemptible sum for his "influence,” whether it was real or merely imaginary. The maddest man L ever saw was an old darkey, who (in the division of the personal property of an estate) was bid for by a Yankee negro trader at $75, a price far below Sambo’s estimate of his value. To suppose that Senators., could be bought up at about SI,OOO a head is preposterous enough ' But I should like to know what the De mocracy have to do with this thing ? li is a family quarrel—hands off! It is con sidered to-day that the dismissal of the President by the expulsion of Senators is not among the possibilities. A far surer i eard, and one, 1 am inclined to think, win ; be successful, is the admission of the bogus ! Southern Senators, and the institution of i entirely new proceedings. This is now the : only feasible plan, and I learn it will he at : tempted, with what success in the Seriate, ! or subsequently at the White House, re i mains to ha seen. Stirring times ahead. X Notes at the topitol. The Senate met yesterday, with a sort of listless look that seemed to say that there was to be no serious work to be done that day. The galleries were quite thin, and ail the good people who have been dying to get in so as to see the impeachment trial held aloof yesterday, although it has always been an even chance that the topic would be, brought up any day tLat either Senate or House was in open session.— W fiat we can easily obtain we do not care for ; or is scandal only attractive when it applies to a President ? Mr. Norton held the floor for some time, earcsostly protesting against the impeding by bridges of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. There was much eagerness meantime to hear a forthcoming personal explanation from Senator Hen derson, which promised to be very piquant. When, after various ineffectual. efforts, Mr. Henderson at last succeeded in secur ing Lis hearing, he proceeded to recite the resolution adopted by the House of Repre sentatives immediately after the impeach ment vote; the remarks of the mover as signing base and corrupt motives to the Senate ; and the remark of Mr. Stevens, that perjury "would not hurt the Senators mock.” On Tuesday Mr. Henderson re- I cewed a note from the clerk of the mana- NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 22. ' ger s committee, desiring his attendance, which he read to the Senate ; and also his reply, giving his reasons for declining to attend, the ground being that it was an insult to the Senate, and of dangerous ten dency. Inasmuch as an unconditional re fusal would draw down on him anew shower of calumny, Mr. Henderson would I submit the matter to the Senate for its determination. Mr. Henderson then pro ceeded to characterize the proceeding and the ciaim of the managers in very severe aud caustic terms. In conclusion, be ; caused to be read a letter from them in which they state that the note of their clerk was only a courteous invitation (to be cross-examined by Butler, we suppose); and after some argument to show why Mr llendersou should testify, evading any position ou the question whether they have tne right to coerce his attendance or not. Jn this head Mr. Henderson well obsuved that the power to subpoena a senator involved also the power to im prison him for contempt. The history of his case shows that it is easy for any firm and spirited gentleman to put down’there comhiDanons of Paul Pry, police, detective anti ruffian, and we commend the example to every citizen who may be annoyed by their impertinence and insult. i. ’'fr'- Touiery had received the same kind of invitation as Mr. Henderson, and not having any sensibility, d(d not see win others should have any. He was not aware that he had been insulted. Mr. bumner likewise expected to be called, and was .L?,?^ T t 0 testify, not having any sensibility on the subject. He suggested that another article was in process of incubation, and said solemnly, as if about to find relief in tears, that “the way of justice could not be stopped.’’ Mr. Howe excused the managers, but'suggested the question might l>e solved by calling up the resolution ot Mr. Davis, of Kentucky. 1 ius resolution was, therefore, taken up and read. It provides for a committee to investigate the allegation of threats, in timidation, and other un!av< ful means to influence the vote of the Senate. Mr. was quite ready for this, and ; wanted * three Senators on the committee ! who had voted not guilty,” which Mr. ressenden, who every now and r lien gives this pompous individual a sharp cut, re buked by observing that ‘ the Chair now had received his instructions, and would, doubtless, obey them.” And now we have a long debate, one or two brief wdrds, from Mr. tlarlan and from Mr. Garrett Davis. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, condemned the House reso lution, and declared that had he been sum moned he would have felt it his duty to disobey. He remarked that all of them expected and hoped that on Tuesday the final determination of the impeachment would be reached. Mr. Edmunds ingeni ously defended the House, and so did Mr Morrill, of Maine, in louder and less -kili ful tones. Mr. Buckalew, of Pennsylva nia, denied the power of the House to summon Senators to testify in regard to tho case before them, and wanted a reso lution to that effect. Referring to the ex amination of Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Hen derson, a question was raised in respect, to the latter, who declared that “he had been examined upon everything which he could imagine.” It has already appeared that by one of these Paul Pry committees of the House Mr. Henderson had been called to testify as to his conversation with other Senators, with the Chief Justice, the formation of a third party, and, we believe, his own secret, thoughts and determinations. “Sir,” r ‘ Ifrj’> *1 hope I don’t in trude.” Butler makes no such apology, nor do the party associates, who by a natural impulse have caught up his pecu liar style of morality and decency. A vigorous and able expose from Mr. Reverdy Johnson served, along with tho speeches of Mr. Buckalew and Mr. Hen derson, ' to place the matter in its true light. The two Senators at whom this malignity is especially directed had bn rely a word to say: but it is evident that the iuipeachers, with two or three such excep tions as Messrs. Ferry and Conkiing, are quite ready to put the Senate in the felon’s dock, and to descend from their proud effice of trying a President to the poor estate of themselves pleading before a body whore standard of virtue is found in a Butko painted imperfectly by Mr. Bingham, a Bingham better described by Butler, ’an Ashley, a Donnelly and others, whom not even a Washburnc could describe. supVfrotfrjj -is'either formally blotted out, or becomes tho servile register of the decrees of the larger and more passionate body. For this fate to the Senate, Messrs. Sumner, Edmunds, and Morrill, blinded by party hate, seem to be quite ready. Men false to their country are not always true to themselves. —National Intelligencer, May 22, Testluiony of Colonel Cooper Before ihe Impeachment Managers Yesterday. The testimony of Colonel Cooper be fore the impeachment managers was sub stantially as follows : Butler, as usual, conducted the examination. Colonel Cooper was asked if he was approached by any person to use money for the acquittal of the President He answer- and: "les ; a person sought an interview with him, acting in the name and by the authority of S. C. Pomeroy, Senator from Kansas, and pro posed for forty thousand dollars, cash in hand, that he [ Pomeroy] wouid control four Republican votes, and his own, so as to insure the acquittal of ihe President.” Witness professed to doubt his authority, and ihe person then brought a letter from Senator Pomeroy, dated "Senate Cham ber, day - —,” as follows : Sir : 1 will in good faith, carry out any arrangement made with my brother in law, Willis Gaylord, to which I am a party. (Signed.) S. C. Pomeroy, U. ts Senator. General Butler objected to witness prov ing contents of letter, as he l Butler j could produce the letter. Willis Gaylord was introduced by the person first calling. The letter was read to witness and Gaylord by the person, who then retired, when Gaylord renewed the proposition that for $40,000, and the dis tribution of patronage, the five Republican votes, including Senator Pomeroy’s own, would be so cast as to insure the acquittal of the President. The witness believed, at the time, the proposition was intended ito entrap him. Witnessed assigned as a reason for this belief that Senator Pomeroy was a strong partisan ; that he felt bitter- j ly toward the President, and that if money was his object, the party to which he be longed was better able to pay than the friends of the President. In addition to which, in the list of names Senator Pome roy proposed to control, appeared the name of Senator Morton, of Indiana ; and witness did not believe it possible that Senator Morton’s vote could be so obtained. The name of Senator Nye was also on the list. — ln telligencer , 22 d. A Successor to Mr. Johnson How the Thing Is to be hone. (Jqrrstpondcncc oj the PhUadclphia*lnquirer. Washington, May 21, 1868.—The reception of the news of the nomination of the Hon. Schuyler Col fax as Vice Presi dent at Chicago has already revived the interest in the impeachment, the vote on the second article of which some parties here undertake to say will be against Mr. Johnson by the necessary two-thirds. It is supposed that in that case the difficulty which has arisen in consequence of the antipathy to Air. Wade in the minds of certain Senators might be got over by i making Mr. Colfax Acting President, for j the remainder' of the term of Mr. John son. And how is this to be done ? In this wise: Tie Constitution of the United States, article eleven, section six, says: "In case of the removal of a President from office, or of his death, or resignation, 1 or inability to discharge the duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal of both the President and Vice President, declar ing what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall thus act accordingly until the disability be removed or the Pres ident shall be elected. ' 1 By act of Congress it is declared that in case of the disability of the President and Vice President, the President of the Senate shall act as President, and that if there be no President of the .Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall then aot. This is a statute which can be repealed. As the Constitution gives in precisely such a case as would ari.-e if the Vice President of the United States acting as President were removed, the right in Congress to designate what officer shall then serve, the act declaring the order of succession might be repealed, and by direct law Mr. Colfax be declared to he competent to act as - This would depend on three things: First, the passage of an act re pealing the act which at present puts Mr Wade in the line of succession, and as it would probably be vetoed, power to pass ! it by two-thirds over the President’s veto; and second, the removal of Andrew John son by impeachment; andihird, agreement ; j that Mr. Colfax shall he the man to sue- i I ceed as President in such case. State News. Mr. James Taylor, of Water Valley, desires information of James Dudley, wife and two daughters, who resided’near Marietta in 1863, but were sent North by Gen. Sherman. Atlanta is rapidly making preparations for the reception of the State government; an addition of fifty feet is to be made to the City Ilall for the accommodation of the new Legislature. Hon. John Harris, white negro Senator 1 rom Newton county, and R. L. McWhor ter, ex-Confederate Quartermaster and Representative from Greeue, are on the Radical Slate for the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. On Friday last a destructive fire broke out at Savaunah, in the store occupied by J. H. McDonald, grocer, and E. J. Puree, printer, resulting iu the entire loss of the buiiding and contents, among which were the original records of the Episcopal church sent there to be printed. 'file Bainbridge Georgian reports that the recent heavy rains in that section have caused great injury to the liuit crop, lhe young peaches have fallen in large quantities, aud the worms are making sad havoc with what remains on the trees. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has writ ten a letter to a young man in Savannah, who thought of leaviug the State, in which he says : “Bad as are things now, and bad as the prospect is ahead, yet I see or know ot no country where the future pros pi cts of a young man are any better than here. ’ ’ Col. George A. Gordon, formerly a resi d.ntol this State, is lecturing for chari table purposes in Alabama, on the “Waters ol Lethe. ’ The Mobile paper* speak of livered in'that city, ft 19 roftorilu tttttAw is going to live again in Savannah. Mr- J. K. Sneed, at one time editor ol’ the Republican, and lately ol' the Tele graph, is in Savannah, with a view, it is said, of purchasing and establishing a daily paper there. The Republican ha*, serious doubts of the feasibility of such a plan iu these uewspaper-Starvation times. lion. Henry S. Fitch will deliver the next regular lecture in the course which is to he given under the auspices of the Savannah Hebrew Collegiate Institute. The subject is to be the ‘ Fourth Estate,” and we doubt not will be done ample justice. The Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad, so long agitated, and which when completed promises the most benefi cial results to Savannah, is now in a fair way to be completed. Enough stock has been taken to authorize the adyertisal of tho contracts far its construction. It is reported that Captain S. Yates Levy, who, a short time since resigned the editorial chair of the Savaunah Ad vertiser on account of the personal per secution of the little tyrant, Meade, will resume his labors ou that sterling sheet. Mrs- Esther Rhodes, an estimable lady, widow of Samuel Rhodes, Esq., of Wilkes county, died suddenly on Wednesday even inglast, of heart disease, while sitting at the tea table. The deceased was over seventy years ol age, and a consistent member of the church for a long number of years. Expresstnau Hulbert writes to one of his tools in Columbus “to get up affidavits proving the ineligibility'’ of the Demo cratic Senator elect (Hinton) from that district. Before the election, when it was thought certain that Hinton would he defeated, Hulbert pronounced him per fectly eligible. Lieut. Clias. E. Moore, of Savannah, who was shot by his tnother-iu-law last week, is considerably better, and it is believed that ho will recover. The ball has been probed for and found lodged in the roof of his mouth. The wounded man is only able to swallow thin liquids. The military authorities have been making more arrests in Columbus. On Thursday morning Mr. Geo. Betz and Mr. Robt. Daniel were arrested and confined in prison, till later in the day, wheu they were taken off to Fort Pulaski. Two women, who were in Ashburn’s house at the time of his death, were carried with them, probably as witnesses. In reference to the report that the renegade Georgian, Kent McCay, is to be giveu a supreme judgeship for his services to the negro party, the Sumpter Republi can thinks that “il the valiant warrior cannot do better on the bench than in the p.r Tcig.,'- -.nH more General News. Mrs. John Lowery, of Wiuamac, Ind., wove five hundred yards of carpet last year. The Executive Committee of the West ern Telegraph Company have issued or ders to their agents not to give private telegrams to the impeachment managers. A baud of robbers seized an -engine and train between Louisville and Cincinnati, and detaching the express car slcamed off with it. They then threw the messenger out and robbed the safes of $40,Q00. Gen. Canby, military commander of North and South Carolina, has issued or- ders postponing the municipal elections throughout the State of South Carolina. Mr. Seward is credited with the author ship of the report telegraphed from Wash ington a few days ago, about Mr. John son’s intention to recon'ruet his Cabinet. Abusive letters received by Mr. Ross, from people in Kansas, it is said, have acidulated that gentleman’s temper, and strengthened his resolution to oppose all the impeachment articles. The body of an unknown man was found floating in the Ohio river, opposite Aurora, Indiana, on the 18th. It was supposed to be that of Captain Prather, oftiie ill iated Magnolia. Rev. V. Lucas, pastor of the First Methodist Church, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, died suddenly cf apoplexy, at 3 o’clock on Tuesday morning. He re tired to bed at 12 o’clock' the previous night in apparent health. Shortly after 8 o’clock his wife was awakened by a heavy groan, and, upon looking to ascertain the cause, she found her husband lying on tho floor beside the bed. A young man named Luther, a brake man on the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell from the top of a train and was run over and killed at New Florence, on Friday. A miserly maiden lady in Springfield, Massachusetts, who is worth several thou sands, keeps a watering-pot constantly by her fireside to check the consumption of her coal. A sailing ship, the Mercury , which left New York on April 9th, arrived at Havre on the 22d, making the voyage in a little over twelve days—almost the average speed of the steamers. This is said to be one of the shortest trans-Atlantic passages of a sailing packet onrecord. It is said that only one hundred persons in Alaska have declared their intention of becoming citizens of the Uuited States, but this is not very remarkable, as the treaty made ail the inhabitants American citizens without going through the form of naturalization. Paris has anew lady violinist—M’me Norman Neruda, who is. said to be equal to Paganini. She was born in Prague, educated in Vienna, and married in Swede. She is twenty-eight years of age, and appeared in a concert when only seven years old. Two little children in Kent, England, aged respectively seven and nine years, being found in ihe unlawful possession or four hedge stakes, were duly arrested, placed on trial, and sentenced to imprison ment. The little ones were greatly be wildered by the trial, and the kissing and crying of their " mammy over them was a perfect wonder to them. When they came to bo placed in separate cell& they set up a wail of terror which was heard in the court room. The Coroner’s inquest, in the case of Henrietta Lane, who died suddenly in Pittsburg, last week, has resulted in a ver dict that deceased was poisoned Mth arsenic by her husband, Louis Lane. He is in jail, waiting trial for murder. John Duckwall, firing near Batavia. Clcrmontecounty, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, on Friday morning last. Mr. Duckwall was one of the wealthiest farmers in the bounty. No cause is assigned for the act. One Sunday evening a young girl napied Margaret McGinnis, while walking on a high bluff above Everson & I rescott s rolling mill, in Pittsburg, was with an epileptic fit, fell over a bank -OH feet, and was horribly mangled, and died re about an hour. •’ Airs. McKnight, wifeof DavidMeKnight, noliceman, was horribly burned on Monday evening, at her residence, in Alleghany City. Pennsylvania, by her clsfbes taking fire from a grate. Her injuries, it is thought, will be fatal. The Dayton Journal has discovered that the three English shillings coined in honor of Queen Anne, in the year 1711, were sixpences; and claims that the third of the series is in the hands of Prof. of that city, the other two being in the musty col lection of the English Antiquarian Society,
