Georgia Historic Newspapers

    * iLi) SEMES, VOL. LXXVI.
ChronicU' & Sentinel.
II kn uy mooric,
A. It. VVHIOIIT.
PATRICK H '1 f*H, Associate Editor.
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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,