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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1868)
(flu oniric & Sentinel. rt RDNK3DAI MUKM'iG. Democratic State Convention. Below will be found the action wf the Central Executive Committee, which met in Macon, on the 28th inst, sn d which we clip from the Journal <fc Messenger, of yesterday. It will be seen that the Con vention is not to be assembled until after the meeting of the New York Convention. We are not advised as to the reasons which induoed the Committee to put off the Convention until so late a day, and we confess that Wo are somewhat surprised at the delay. We suppose, however, that in due time the people of the State will be fully informed ir> relation to the reasons which prompted the Committee s action. We advise our friend of the .Journal & Messenger to withhold his taunts and jeers against a portion of the Democracy ot the State until he ascertains that the contest cau be successfully waged without their assistance. While it may be true that “bushwhacking and still-hunting won’t win,” it is equally true that a strict ad herence to the advice and counsels of cer tain old fossils of the party will be sure to bring disaster upon the Democracy. But we do not desire, neither do we intend, to be led into a fruitless discussion of the comparative merits of “still hunting and “ bushwhacking.” Ifsuch discussions are agreeable to the Journal & Messenger, we have no objections to us following the bent of itH inclinations and ventilating them freely and fully: M aoo.v. May, 28, 1808. The Central Executive Committee of tpc Democratic party of Georgia, met to day, pursuant to a call of the Chairman. The (Secretary being absent, A . W. lienee was appointed Secretary pro tern. The following resolution;* wore pro ■y ,*od and adopted: Hexotve.d, That a State Convention \x; called to tat held in the city of Atlanta on if.,, <J2 i day of next -Inly, to bo composed of deb gates to be appointed without re gard Hi iiu inU:r by the Democrats and Conservatives of the several counties of this State for the purpose of consulting mom!'l'.ivi*,H("> rate nr-ctit) -everrr ItiUt the State shall be admitted into the Union, and permitted to vote in the Presidential election, also to nominate an electoral ticket to l>« run by the Democrats ami Conservatives in li;e ensuing election for Preshlent and Vice President of the United State*. UrxoLved, That we recommend that each county shall be entitled to double the number of votes that it has Kopresontu tlves in the legislature under the new Constitution. E. G. Cahisks-i, Chairman. A. W. ItBJBSK, See'y pro tern. lie re’s four ku Kltix 1 The groat Held Cos litres ol the I'enian ' move Northward, while the middle centres i and tail centres, or, a Forney calls them, “Our Friends ou the Outer Line,” return from “singeing pigeon*” and matching portraits at Chicago, The Northern pa pers alhrm that preparations aro being made for another invasion of the now Dominion ot Cuuada during the coming summer. It is affirmed that there are to be no mure factions and Roberts factions, and O’Mahoney factions. The order has been issued to close up in front, fail in, dressing by the Head Centre in 'he rtar. Organization has been Strengthened and perfected. Moro than one thousand Fenian circles are to send thirty thousand well drilled Ku lvlux to the field. The new plan of invasion is complete. No more cavalry charges to bo made by a handful of iufautry jumping up and down, holding their caps on the bayonets of mus kets held erect. Fifteen thousand men arc to capture Montreal; a second force of \ live thousand men, and a third army of fifteen thousand men are to penetrate the Now Dominion at other points; tho threo columns to unite at a given point. A re served’an hundred thom md men from tho Brotherhood are to be held in readiness for support. Reinforcements from clubs of conquered French Canadians— Knights “ Ck.’en O' Or" —ire to welcome tho Fenian force, singing the Canadian Marsel laisc. "Hi il'Albion In main chi ne Cense nn Jour tie te proteger Soutioiis-toi sou le, (> mu putrie I Mepriso un secours etranger. Nos pores sortie do la I’Yaueo Ktuient 1’ elite ties guerrlors, Kt lours enfants, do lour vaiduinoe ,\e Uetlrironl pus les laurlors." Now the UUUaUuU i». Uut -iial. will ,1k agitator anu eulogist, of Dan, 1 O’Connell, do? lie has already comnioneod tho wind work of agitation. But he is late in the field. Tho progress of the age no longer demands vocal agitation in speeches and lectures—and printed agitation, iu books and pamphleta—but reuj, practical enforcement, “deeds! Noble, valorous deeds.” Shall ho go to the front ? No! Let him lead his Radical elan out of the “Grand Army.” Lot him nominate the good old man of the Roman Garden—Pio- Nino—for President, and Major General George G Meado as Vice-President, and run a ticket in the next, and the next, and tho next, aj injuniuin political campaign. And all the while lot him agitate ! agitate! agitato ! making the great Boston organ iniugle in a sweet concord ol powerful sounds, "Polly put the kettle ou,” with i>t-1 atrick s day in the morning.” Noth tug short ol such a policy will put a stop to these Fenian Ku Kiux, and save his vocation front being lost. Joe Brown Beset by Carpet-Baggers. Joe Rex gives notice that itis impossible lor him to reply jto the vast number of letters which are daily delivered to him from carpet-baggers, and kindly suggests that all applications for office be laid before the appointing power, with which he will be happy to act in concert “as far as pro priety will allow." The modesty of Joe Kex is proverbial. Having introduced Gov. llawley to loyal Republicans, and that, too, without beiug a delegate to the Republican Convention, his whole time from this time forth will be occupied in liiakiug speeehos in the \V ost, giving in that experience celled tor at Chicago, and elling the people how Grant did it, and how he didn't do it, but took issue with Jefferson Davis. How Grant fought it out on t hat line, and how he got off of that line, but how he ami Grant are now on the same line. In the meanwhile the Governor ad interim must attend to pesti lent i air pet-baggers. More Testimony for the Managers. Monday a request was received from Major Geuera! J. B. Steedman to be called before the House Committee of managers as a witness iu regard to propositions of bribery iu relation to the vote in the Senate ou the impeachment articles. Gen eral Steedmau proposes to testify that Senator Pomeroy’s vote for acquittal was offered to him for a valuable consideration specified. The witnesses accumulate. Will the eager managers call' for the testimony, pertinently asks the National Intelligencer. The Radicals seized upon confidential communications, expecting to involve the Republican Senators who voted for the acquittal of the President, but, to the aruaxcment of their virtuous souls, in try ing to rake up evidence against the enemy, they discover evidence of defection, cor ruption and treason to party in the im maculate ranks of Radical Senators. Pomeroy and Nye were open for a bid. and General Stecdman offers to prove Pomeroy guilty of the soft impeachment. But here the matter rests. The Radicals are always ready to bring charges against Conservative Republicans and Democrats but no matter how despicable and vile a creature is, so long as he is a Radical, he is ail right in the eyes of his party. The Radicals of Rochester, New York, on Saturday night attempted to get up a grand ratification meeting in that city in honor of the nominations at Chicago. Notwithstanding they had been for several days preparing for the evem, yet when Saturday night came their demonstration was very fochle, and was pronounced by Radicals and Democrats -alike a complete failure. There were very few persons present, and no enthusiasm. The Radi cals were very much chagrined that “Grant and victory" found so little favor in that section. This is an index of the feeling in regard to the Chicago nominees ail over the country. Tlic btizurc of Dispalcties. (Inc of the most outrageous acts of the; impeachment outrage was Butler’s seizure of the dispatches in the Washington Tele- j graph office, under the plea that certain messages had been sent from or received ; at that office to influence the acquittal of the President. In other words, Butler and his co-laborers in this dirty work, suspected and accused the President’s friends of using money to influence the votes of certain Senators. Bence the pretext For seizing the business of the Telegraph office. Even admitting that t there were just grounds for suspicion of corrupt influences being brought to bear, neither the Managers nor Congress, nor any other .power in the land, have a legal right to interrupt or seize the messages in a telegraph office. This .business, when intrusted into the hands of an operator or manager, becomes private, and cannot be used by any party except those for whom it is intended. There is no authority which justifies the interruption or seizure of letters committed to the mail nor should there bo any to tamper with and ruthlessly, under the cloak of a great public necessity, break into the privacy which surrounds the communications en trusted to the keeping ol the telegraph. Very properly this disgraceful proceeding is sharply condemned by the Democratic ! Press of the country. We find in the iNew York Express the following extracts from its cotemporaries : A “Baker’’writes to the “ Journal of Commerce” that a large part of his busi- j Ocas with the Washington branch of his house, has been conducted by telegrams through the Western Union Line,and that while the tranactions, as far as he knows, have no political connection whatever, he say the nature of the correspondence i-'-eel, that its disclosure to any third part v, outside of the operators, is calculat ed-ricusly to damage very important pri vate interests. Moreover— “He dislikes to forego the advantages of tek graphic communication, but asserts that he will limit its use to the smallest pos sible . rvice until there is some assurance ! j.ii»,t A'rtjkhv ttxhm “yirVC^uifMag^ae who under pretence of exposing political schemes, may be only allowing himself to be used as a tool of some cunning dealer , in search of trade secrets. The “ Journal' editorially adds : “ We have good reason to believe that 1 one object of the search after papers in j com < ion with the recent demonstration ; at Washington, was precisely this espion- ; age upon private business having no po litical character. We know that the inter- ! ferctice wth messages, letters, books and pap..i . &«., during the war ail under the j plea of military necessity, had much of it this base purpose. Indeed, if the acts of cruel injustice and wanton injury to per sonal rights, prompted by private hate and cupidity, were deducted from the mass of wrongs and outrages committed during that four years when the laws were sus pended or openly defied, there would be few left to show the “ military necessity” which was the pretence for the foul meas ure;. so totally indefensible. In the case before us no legal redress for the wrong of which our correspondent complains; but the lines which have thus betrayed their patrons and customers will find their fitti punishment in the withdrawal of public confidence, and the consequent los3 of I".*.in ess. (World.) TIIT HRITISH MINISTER AND THE TELE GRAPH. it is reported, aud we have little doubt with truth, that Mr. Thornton, the British Mob ter at Washington, has taken decided step;, in the way of protest in regard to the lav, violation by a Congressional Com mittee of his rights, both as a man and as a diplomat, in the matter of the recent seiz ure of telegrams at the Washington office. It is certain that a person like Mr. Butler, who openly deblared on the floor of Con gress i hat he would not hesitate to arrest any citizen without a warrant, would pay no more respect to the privileges of a for eign envoy than American citizens seem disposed to exact of him for their own rights. But any representative of a for | eign State would be unworthy of his post ; who should permit such an act as it is itlleg" ! has been done in the case of Mr. j Thornton, to pass without the most ener getic k monstrance, and tho British envoy will do a service to America, as well as to Em bind, if he makes his position the op p a. :nity for emphasizing upon the atten iii.u of Americans an outrage which prac ti .by implies the abolition in this country if ihc most sacred guarantees of Liberty anil ol’ Law. - —USES >ir. Lincoln on Carpet Bags. from the Jndianaj>oUs Sentinel. offices of that State and its representation in Congress with foreign adventurers, “Old Abe” wrote the following letter, which is applicable to these times. Under date of November 21, 1863, Mr. Lincoln wrote as follows : “Dear Sir : Dr. Kennedy, bearer of this, has some apprehension that F’ederal officers, not citizens of Louisiana, may be set up as candidates for Congress in that State. In my view, there could be no pos sible object in such an election. We do not particularly need members of Congress from ihese Slates to enable us to get along with legislation here. What we do want is conclusive evidence that, respectable citi zens of Louisiana are willing to be mem bers of Congress, and to swear support to the Constitution, and that other respect able citizens there were willing to vote for them and send them. To send a parcel of Northern men here as representatives, elected, as would be understood (and per haps really so), at the point of the bayo net, would be disgraceful and outrageous ; and were Ia member of the Congress ! here, I would vote against admitting any ! such a man to a seat ” Mr. Lincoln took a correct view of this matter. These carpet-baggers are not the representatives of the Southern people and Southern sentiment. They are not them selves “respectable citizens," and were not elected by “respectablecitizens,” but have been elected at the point of the bayonet, which Mr. Lincoln very truly characterized as “disgraceful and outrageous.” It is so iu every meaning of the word. Ot course these oarpot-baggers, the as sociates of negroes, are, as a class, the very lowestof God's creation—“very mean whites, indeed. One of them, just elect ed United States Senator from Arkansas, thus daguerreotypes himself; “ Irvine, December 23, 1859. '.DearSir; —I received your letter in quiring if 1 was dead or run away. I am neither. 1 settled all your business in lenncsseeaud got the money, and intended (o bo at your court and pay it, but before the time arrived I got on a spree and gambled offer over $5,000; and, hence, cannot send you the money at this time,' i but will make every effort to raise it as soon as possible. Yours, &o , M hat adds to the heinousness of the offence is the fact that the money that was gambled away and said to be not yet paid, was the estate of a widow. What an exalted body the Senate of the United States will be when such men occu -1 y seats in it! Think of the places once occupied by Clay, Webster, Wright, Cal houn. Benton, , filled by such chaps as Ben. F. Rice! Alas! how are the mighty fallen 1 How Radicalism has debauched the public feeling and disgraced the country in the eyes of the civilized world, by its exaltation of ignorance, vice and corruption to the high places of the Re public, Confiscated Property. —The Presi dent transmitted to the Senate on Thurs day, in conformity with a resolution passed lVeember 17, 1867, a “statement of all moneys received into the Treasury on ae count of property seized, condemned and confiscated under the act of July 17. 1562, for the suppression of the Confederacy, including the title of each case, the name of the original owner, of the purchaser under decree of sale, and of the marshal, clerk, or other by whom respectively the proceeds of the saie iu each ease mav have been paid into the Treasury, and the amount of money actually paid in each and every ease into the Treasury of the United i States, ' ' so far as shown by the records of the Solicitor's office. Total amount paid into the United States Treasury, $129,- 6Si) 67: amount paid to the Assistant United States Treasurer, subject to the order of court, for property seized and con fiscated in the District of Columbia, $33,265 4S. City Corar. — During the May Term of the City Court, for JS6B, which was in -ess ion for four days, the following num ber of civil cases were disposed of by the Court, there being no criminal business before it : Common Law Docket.— Verdicts by Jury, 19 ; Awards of Judgment, 29; Con fessions of Judgment, 4; Settled and dis missed, 17 ; suspended, 1. Appeal Docket. — Verdicts by Jury, 6; Dismi.-vsei, 1; Suspended, J. Illegality and Claim Docket.— Di*. missed, 2; Suspended, 1. Total number of cases disposed of, 8j i Mr. Pendleton’s Views on the Currency and Finance Questions. As the tune for the assembling of the New York Convention approaches, the name of Mr Pendleton is being brought wore prominently before the public as the probable nominee of that body. In view of the fact that he is considered one of the leading if not the strongest men in the Democratic party, his opinions upon the questions of finance aud currency are of great interest to ail classes at this juncture. Mr. Pendleton's views have been gross lv miirepresented. He has been flippant ly charged with being in favor of repudia tion. His speeches made last fall through out the West give the lie to this Radical canard. Mr. Pendleton’s policy may be summed up in a very few words. It is ‘ ‘the same currency for bondholders and the laboring man,” or “greenbacks for bond holders when the people are required to accept greenbacks. 4 ’ We print below extracts from his great speech at Lima, in which his theory is fully explained . FEDERAL FINANCES. Two years have elapsed since the war ceased. Two regular sessions—two extra sessions of Congress —have been held. Ha- auy scheme of economy, has any re duction of taxes been proposed ? On the contrare, ha-; not tbs only scheme of finanoelooked to the increase of the inter est-bearing debt, and to the increase of expenditure by the increase of interest. | The public debt bearing interestamouiita to twenty-two hundred millions; the in terest reaches 148 millions. When the Republican party came into power the debt was only eighty millions. In five years it has grown so much, and this not withstanding the vast annual revenues. Though the principal is considerably less, the annual interest is considerably more than that ..f Great Britain, and the highest reach of Republican statesmanship has been to nropose tho conversion of green barks, which pay no interest, into bonds which pay interest iu gold, and thus to increase the number of those who do not pay taxes, and to increase the burdens ol those who do. The amount of unfunded debt has been estimated at $800,000,000. If it shall bo converted into bonds the interest will amount to forty-eight millions in gold, and this sum will be added to the expend itures. In the uiuau time NuliC hf ’the greenbacks supplied by bank currency. Our Govern merit pays a higher rate of interest than any in Europe. Every dol lar of its indebtedness is io be made to pay that rate, aud no provision whatever is made for its redemption. This process should cease instantly. These forty-eight millions annually should be saved. The five-twenties should bo paid in greenbacks as they mature, or as fast as can be done without too great de rangement of tho currency. More than three hundred millions of them aro de posited by tho banks as security for their circulation. These can be redeemed with out adding one dollar to the currency. The interest on theso bonds amounts to eighteen millions of dollars annually. Add this sum to tho forty-eight millions anove spoken of, and we have sixty-six millions in gold. Create this into a sink ing fund, and you can pay the whole debt in iess than fifteen years, without adding a dollar to your taxes or increasing your circulating" medium. But tho condition of the country could bear an increase in tho currency. The ravages ofwar at the South- the destruc tion of capital there ; the loss of houses, horses, cattle, agricultural implements ; the scarcity of provisions ; the enfran chisement of the negro; the importance of setting the whole population to labor at once—create a demand for uiorocurreney. Every interest there would be advanced by tho stimulating effect of an enlarged currency. As fast as this increase could be wisely made, the bonds should be re deemed—tho interest should be reduced, and tho amount thus saved be added to the sinking fund. This is repudiation, I hear somebody say. Not at ail ! The live-twenty bonds are payable at tho option of the Govern ment after five years. Their very name show's it. They ere payable by the law under which they were issued, aud ac cording to t,heir face, in greenbacks. They are not payable in gold. The interest is, according to the provision of law, and the language of the coupon, to be paid in Gold. Not so with the principal The ten-forty bonds authorized by the Act of March 3, 1863, are, by the terms of the law, made payable in gold. This is the only class ot bonds of that character. The Government may then, according to the terms of the law, and of its contracts, pay the five-twenties in greenbacks at any time alter five years from their issue, and there is no repudiation in doing so. This will not supersede the necessity for high taxes, close economy, for continuous in dustry. They are inevitable. With them, and whatever other plans wisdom may suggest, the burden will press heavily on you and your children. I have shown that tho redemption of the bonds will be so gradual, the increase of the currency so slow, that values will adjust themselves, aud business interest become regulated without that shock which usually attends great changes of financial polii y. | But ifit were notso, still the bonds should | be converted into greenbacks. They were I sold for greenbacks; it is fitting they should j be redeemed in the same currency, This tVfitfTi is’nbvv exempt.’ And these advan tages would amply compensate for tho evils which aie predicted. The debt amounts to > ne-tifth of the property, real and personal, of the whole country. One fiflh of all the capital of the country is ex empt from taxation. Interest eats np the substance of tho people. from taxation aggravates the evil. This state of things cannot last. It oppresses labor—it excites deep discontent. It ‘ ought to be relieved bv a fair and volun tary adjustment. It will be relieved at all events. The bondholder should be prompt and wise. Tho people already be lieve this curse is the blight of death ; and we know by experience what they will do to “save the life of the nation.” Our eye has just fallen upon the follow ing letter written by Senator Sherman as late as the 20th of March last. Mr. Sbermau agrees fully with Mr. Pendleton, as is shown by the bold and unmistakeable declaration that “the bondholder violates his promise when he refuses to take the same kind of money he paid for the bond.” Mr. Pendleton says “pay the bondholders iD the same currency that he paid for the bond." This is not repudiation. It is full and exact justice. This breaks no faith. It keeps good the promise of the Govern ment to the very letter. Mr. Sherman says that there is no violation of the “Government’s promise’’ “when we offer to redeem the principal in legal-tenders.” Mr. Sherman is a leading and influential member of the Republican party and a supporter of Grant. Ihe silly charge which has been set up against Mr. Pendleton of repudiation is answered fully by Mr. Sherman, who says that the bondholder is the repudiator and an extortioner when he demands money more valuable than he gave.” The Radicals will find a very difficult matter to make headway against Mr. Pendleton on this question, while he is so thoroughly and strongly backed by Butler, Stevens and Sherman, the leading lights of Radicalism : l nixed States Senate Chamber, ) ! Washington, March 20, lSt>B. j Dear Sir I was pleased to receive your letter. My personal interests are the same as yours, but, like you, I do not in tend to be influenced by'them. My con- I struction of the law- is the result of care jol examination, and I feel quite sure an impartial court would eonlirm it if the case would be tried before a court. I send you my views as fully stated in a speech. , lour idea is, tlial we propose to repudi ate or violate a promise when we offer to redeem the “principal'’ in legal-tenders. ! I think the bondholder violates his promise w hen he refuses to take the same kiud ot money he paid for the bond. If the ease is to be tested by the law I am right ; il it is to be tested by Jay Cooke’s advertisement, I am wrong. I hate re pudiation or anything like it, but we ougnt not to be deterred from doing what is right by tear of undeserved epithets. If, under the law as it stands, the holder ! ofuve-tvventies can only be paid in gold then we are repudiators" if we propose to j pay otherwise. If, on the other hand, the i bondholder can legally demand onlv the kind ot money he paid, then he is 'a re- ‘ pudiator and an extortioner to demand money more ’valuable than he gave. Truly yours, „ , ~ John Sherman, j Hon. A. Mann, Jr., Brooklyn Heights. 1 0 ! Lord, How Long 1 It is asserted that General Canby, who I is the Dictator on the other side of the river, is running*the nigger and scalawag schedule so excruciatingly heavy, simply because he has been tabooed by the re spectable people of Charleston for his negro-Radiea! proclivities. Policy advo cates no doubt think these gailant, high toned people wrong in ignoring and de spising this man for his mean, petty acts, but all honest people who believe in never compromising principle for the sake of place, will glory in the pluck and honor of a people who have never yet bowed the knee to Baal. General Canby may abuse and trample upon the rights of the people of South Carolina for a time, but the day of reckoning is not far off. If the signs in the political heavens are interpreted rightly, and we think they are, the Ides of November will not pass before the yoke of the tyrant is removed from the necks of an outraged and chivalrous people, who, in the hoar of victory, knew how to treat a fallen foe, and demean themselves like the brave and heroic people that they are. In the hour of defeat they preserve their honor, and bear up under their adverse? with dignity and fortitude. This Tyrant—this modern Gesler—has deposed from the City Council of Charleston men of intelligence,property, and respectability, who were elected by the people to administer the affairs of the city, for no alleged cause, and.has appoint ed in their place ofhers who have nothing to recommend them. Some of the new Board are strangers to the people—squatters or carpet-baggers-and others are from theciaas known during the war as “contrabands,” butnowas “the newly enfranchised.” This is contemptible, and is of itself sufficient to consign its author to no every enviable notoriety, either in the immediate pres ent or distant future. Not content with one heinous outrage ! on the rights berries of the Carolina 1 people in one week, bo (Genera! Can by) j arrests six respectable citizens of Ham- | burg for not giving the use of a Church I in that town to negroes for the purpose of j holding a Radical meeting. These men he orders hurried on to Aiken, there to be i tried before a military commission, to be j sent, perhaps, to the Dry Tortugas, if he j so wills it. This is liberty ia this glorious j land ! This is tho protection meted out to ; the people of the South ! Out upon this i damnable tyranuv. Let the Press do its duty, and proclaim to the people of the North that these outrages are being suffered by our people at the bands of the very men who were sent here as conservators of the peace, and for the pur pose of affording protection and giving equal justice to all. If onr people have to endure it longer, let the Press not [ cease to protest against it, and let it be ; proclaimed to the world that we of the ! South are suffering under an infamous des i potiem ia the Republic of the United States, and under the folds of the Ameri can flag ! ! The HeraSt! for Chase. The New York {J'xnhlaj < t■■ * >7tV > m a oner article headed, Ihe Democratic Party,” reviews the probable chances of the different prominent Democrat- whose names have been mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for the Presidency at the approaching New York Convention. Bennett says that Pendleton will be strongest .on the first ballot, but that his strength will fall off rapidly after the first vote. Seymour, he says, will not be acceptable to the war Democrats of the North and hence it would be folly to nomi nate him. McClelland’s chances are very slim, and if nominated could not make even a ghost of a race. Hancock s only popularity would be found in his war record, whieh, besides being distasteful to the Copperheads, is greatly overshadowed by the splendid achievement of Grant, tho smoker. Upon a careful survey of the whole field the Herald fails to perceive but a single indi vidual who could enter the race with the slightest prospect of success and that one is Judge Chase. In introducing Chase as the Herald's Democratic candidate, Ben nett says: For an acceptable candidate, then, in op position to Grant, we must turn to the out side Conservative Union elements; and here, looming up in bold relief, like a lighthouse between us and the setting sun, stands Chief Justice Chase. His war record, as tho financial chief of the Gov ernment who furnished tho sinews of the war—the greenbacks—will enable him to hold his own even against Grant ou the war question; while on tho impeachment question his casting vote has laid out the Stevens-Butler faction of Radicals flat and cold. The Eastern Democrats, we dare say, will not require much special pleading to bring them over to Chase; but the West ern Democrats have not exactly Ihe notions of Mr. Chase in regard tothe national debt; and there this Pendleton shoe pinches. If the Democracy, however,wish to wirqthey mnst be prepared to throw a good lot of their old party rubbish overboard and qualify themselves for the nomination, on a broad and liberal platform, of some such capable and popular Conservative man as Chief Justice Chase, whose war record places himin the front rank of Union men, and whoso peace record is perfectly satis factory' to the honest masses of all parties. Filletl their Htoinacas. The lean and hungry crew of “ loil” Scalawags, carpet-baggers and negroes who pretended to represent the South in the Chicago Radical Convention, seem to have played a very nimble game of “ knife-and fork” while atiendiug upon the delibera . --'■'-j- fv the following condensed account of their operations at one of the leading Hotels For two days. We agree with that paper that “the consumption was immense,” but then the Journal ought to remember that the poor creatures had been liviog on “short commons” at home for the last two years. No doubt the hungry pack smacked their lips witli undisguised glee at the Dountiful board produced by “mine host’ of the Tremont, and that the secretions of their salivary glands were agreeably “ titi vated”, aud stimulated by the unctuous odors emitted by the steaming dishes of beef, mutton, veal and lamb. The Journal says; “Our mam moth hotels quietly swal lowed twenty thousand guests, and eared for them in a manner that awakened the liveliest gratitude. At the Tremont House alone, from fifteen to eighteen hundred were fed daily. The consumption of food at that House during the two working days of the Convention was immense. It embraced 8,930 !bs. of beef, 2.000 lbs of mutton, 1,500 pounds of veal, 89 lambs, 490 chickens, 150 bushels potatoes, 1,800 dozen eggs, and so oil, in due proportion, through the entire range of edibles.” If the Journal’s figures are correct each Delegate must have eaten in the two days—beef 6 lbs; mutton If lbs; veal lib; lamb 1 lb; chicken 1} lbs; potatoes 3} quarts, and eggs 1 j dozeD. A day’s work was—meat lbs; chicken f of a lb; If quarts of potatoes and eight eggs—besides bread, and all the other “ fixins” in due proportion. These scalawags didn’t make a “ bad thing" out of the Convention after ail. Chinese Visitors, The journals continue to meditate upon the possible results of the mission of the Mongolians to Washington. Their sayings and dnmgs in New York meanwhile are carefully noted by the reporters. The Embassy, on Saturday evening, went to see the “White Fawn," at Niblo’s. Says the Tribune scribe: “The party occupied front seats in the parquette circle, which had been decorated for the occasion—the American and Chi nese ensigns twining amicably in broad fes toons overhead, and the same colors being also displayed on the outside of the lower railing. Os course, the Orientals, with their loose, embroidered garments, their in verted pork-pie hats, gathered at the sum mit with an exaggerated glass bead, their j flowing pigtails, and their placid counte nances, were the observed of all observers in the intervals between acts, and it was both curious and interesting to watch the effect produced upon them by the enter- I tainment so novel to them. Minister Burlingame quitted the theatre at the j close of the second act, in order to meet an i engagement at the Century Club; but the absorbed, delighted, and bewildered anti podeans retained their seats, as if spell bound, until the last twinkle of the dance and the last clash of the music had died away. The effect of the ballet upon these children of the Mud was not the same. While Messrs. Tung, Kwei, ami Zoa preserved the true Mandarin dignity throughout, with only 3n occasional smile of approval illuminating their celestial stolidity, little Mr- Tug signified his admi ration by such exuberant ar,d incessant applause with his hands and feet as to elicit an occasional word of caution from Meesrs. Tuh and Lian, who sat on either side of him. As for Messrs. Ccong and Hang, they sat for the entire evening, each with a pair ol opera glasses levelled at the i sta ge, which they hardly removed from their eyes once during the performance, while their mouths indicated a chronic j state of gaping wonder. Many of the i spectacular features must have recalled forcibly to their minds the drama in their own flowery kingdom, where the explosion of fire crackers and sky rockets form so large a portion ol the entertainment; but the dancing wa3 to them the absorbing attraction. As, one after another, the sensuous beauties of the ballet were unfolded before their intoxicated gaze, they became more and more expressive of their varied emotions. At the conclusion of the performance the mandarins, in talking together, expressed themselves highly pleased with this phase of barbarian en tertainments, and the subsequent dreams of all were doubtless peopled with visions of a decidedly luxurious character. Wool Carding and Exchanging— Attention is directed to the advertisement of the Athens Manufacturing Company, which will be found in another column. All kinds of jeans will be exchanged for wool. Mr. R. L. Bloomfield, the efficient agent, will attend promptly to all business A Few Facts and Figures ABOUT The Manufacture and Practical Use of Steam Plowing Machines. From time immemorial the principal agency by which the earth has been culti vated has been by horses and oxen. Until within the past few years no practical efforts had been made to perform the work by steam power. There are in England three great manufacturing con cerns, who produce nearly all the agricul tural imp.emeots used in their country, who have spent vast sums of money to inventors and others in the construction i and manufacture of steam plowing ma | ehinery that could be used practically and ‘ cheaply in breaking up and plowing the ground, in place of the old horse and ox system. The result is that, at this day, there are nearly or quite one thousand steam plows at work in England of many and various patterns, some with stationary engines, some fraction engines, working from three to six plows to each set of ma chinery. In regard to the very many advantages steam plowing possesses over the old sys tem, one most important item presents itself for our consideration, which is, that the number of horses and oxen required to do the same farm work is reduced fuby one-third, aud the Lumber of laborers one- half. , P Flowed in this light, the subject of breaking up and plowing the ground t>y steam power, especially in a country like the United States, where the demands ot the rapidly increasing population tread so close upon the heels of improvements, makes it assume a form and dimensions of paramount national importance. In discussing the subject of steam plow ing the first and most important considera tions which suggest themselves are the standard of perfect cultivation ; so that the soil shall be in the best possible. condi tion to exert its greatest power in the economical growth, development anti per feet maturity of the variou crops it is ex pected the land to produce, _ and the best and cheapest means of attaining that most desired end. . „ ~ , There can be no doubt that ii all tue ways and means heretofore known or re sorted to for the purpose of producing tne greatest possible yield of crops, the deep spade husbandry, pursued by gardeners, wasjtbe very best, "spade culture is and was the thorough, loosening and perfect admixture of the soil, and this most desired and important object can now be much better and more cheaply accom plished by the deep steam plow system than by any other known process. The success of all crops depend entirely upon the number of cubic feet of earth that the roots are able to penetrate ; the smallest portions of plant food cannot of themselves leave the spot in which they are firmly held and fixed by the soil ; and we can easily understand what immense influence must be exerted on the fertility of the land by a careful mechanical ad mixture and thorough subdivision. The common plan breaks and turns up the soil without mixing it, and only dis plaees the spots on which plants have al | ready grown. The spade and the steam | plow breaks, turns, mixes, and pulverises the soil thoroughly. A team of four hours plowing a furrow ten inches wide, will leave over three hundred thousand foot prints on each acre planted—almost covering every inch of tile ground, and firmly packing the subsoil beneath the plowed ground, neutralizing to a great extent the growth of the crops and the advantages of the good plowing. The improved cultivation of farm lands, and tho greatly increased yield of all kinds of crops, planted and raised under the steam plow system, when it is taken into consideration, that you dispense with one-third of the horses and one half of the farm laborers, over the old system, will necessarily show in a very short period enormously increased productions of all kinds of human food and subsistence. There are at this time, only two com plete sets of steam plowing machinery suc cessfully working in tho United States— one in Illinois and one in Louisiana—both are working daily and have proved a perfect success. The Viceroy of Egypt (a Bodouiu Arab) has over two hundred sets of steam plowing machinery, most of them from the machinery of Messrs. Fowler & Cos., of Leeds, in England, and ail of the largest size, with which he plows more than two hundred thousand acres of land on the Lower Nile, and plants it in rice, sugar and cotton, the cottons raised by him on the steam plowed lands have com manded from two to four cents per pound shave tho highest prices of Mobile and Louisiana cottons in the Liverpool market. L is said that the most approved steam plowing machine, manufactured in Eng land, are those made at the machine shops of the great Quaker House of John Fowler & Cos., of Leeds, who are the inventors of tho balance plow, of the clipp drum tackle, and many other inventions and useful im provements only found upon the tnachines manufactured by their house. The steam plow in Illinois, and the one at work on the Magnolia plantation are both manufactured 3rcii showing nearly one il. nisi* steaui plow machinery made No. 918 con- sists of two fourteen horse power double cylinder fraction engines, each having self moving and reversing gear, water tank, steerage, with road wheels twenty-two inches wide, winding drum with patent self acting, coiling gear ; -spuds, tools, tool boxes, complete for steam cultivation, aLo eight hundred yards steel wire rope ; one six furrow, balance plain ; one seven tyre, balance cultivator; costing about fifteen hundred pounds sterling, the entire ma chinery. Rat'toon plows for cultivating and bearing off the staple cane, can readily bo attached to the machinery, at a small additional expense. The large sugar plantations in Louisiana are laid off in lots of from three to four acres long, with a road at each end, upon which the locomotives «tand, and they haul the balance plows back and forth with a speed faster than a man can walk. Two negro men ride on the plow, one to steer, one to aid in case of stumps or obstruc tions. One negro man on each engine runs the machine, keeps it in order, and does Ilia own firing. A man with a team of three mules and cart haul the water and coals, making a force of five men at one dollar per day $5 00 Cart and three mules, worth per day 2 50 Enck engine burns seven bbls. of coal Fourteen bbls. coal at 65 cts per bbl. 9 10 Makes the total expense, with oil, per hour ] 40 T0ta1.... $lB 00 j At seven in the morning the steam whis- I tie blows, and when eight acres of ground ; is broken up and .plowed fourteen inches ; deep, the toughest soil ever seen by mor j tal man, the day’s task is done. When the | engines are working with the seven tyre cultivator, that run3 in the ground at a depth of from sixteen to eighteen inches, they work even from ten to twelve acres per day. The cultivator is a cross between a large barrow and a subsoiler, and is, in reality, the great pulverizing machine. The cost per each acre for breaking up and plowing the ground fourteen inches deep with the steam plow machinery is $2 25. The cost of running the cultivator or great earth pulverizer, which will work twelve acres per day, will only cost about SI 50 per acre. Ye men with worn out lands and farms, what say ye! The steam plow, at a cost of hardly as much as it takes to harrow your land, will make a new farm for you. with a fresh virgin soil, in the same field your worn out one was. But the cost of the steam plowing machinery is so very heavy, the people so poor, only two have been introduced under the bill permitting them to be imported for one year, endit g Ist July, 1868, duty free. We learn that a petition i3 now before Congress to extend the period for a further term of three years.— N. O. Picayune. Wild Rumors— A New Mayor—A Bran New American Chief of the Fip*e : Department—The Late Chief Sells i out to Him at Half Pp.ice—The Ham Bag Coat Gone up the Spout.—As a natural consequence of the sudden and ex traordinary events of the past few days, the city yesterday was full of the wildest rumors. Among these the most circum stautia! was a report that Mayor Cogswell had been removed, and Wm. Gurney, late General in the U. S. volunteers, had been appointed in his place. Thi3 was varipd in some instances by the substitution of the name of rillsbury for that of Gurney, and still again by some who contend that General Canby wishes to compromise be- tween Conservatives and negroes, by the substitution of the name of that well known and learned member of the Broad street clique, Ephraim Blake, coloied, ; Esq. Again it was stated that our esteem ed salamander friend Teddy had been re moved from the position of Chief of the Fire Department, and in his place bad been appointed that blackest of ail Afri cans, Sam Dickerson, the distinguished doorkeeper ol the late assembly of howlmg dervishes. It was further stated in con firmation of this astounding report, that Teddy had disposed of his entire uniform, including the ever renowned and never to-be-forgotten Ham Bag Coat, and brass trumpet tor the reasonable compensation of $25 in State bills, the last remnant of Sam's per diem. —Charleston Mercury. Philology.—The Sacramento Record says; “The Democracy of the present time derive their name from the Latin word Demon and the English word crazy, tbus literally signifying ‘crazy devil-.’ Well, by the same rule, says the Grass Valley National , the Radicals of the pres ent time derive their name from the Malay, Rad signifying rats, and the Chinese word ecol, rotten —thus literally signifying ‘rotten rats.' ” POETIC jrSTICE. A Reconstructed Georgia Secessionist In Distress. A Delegate to the Radical Convention Charged with Slabbing an Abo litionist Eight Years Ago. THE ACCUSED RECOGNIZED IN THE CONVENTION. lIIS ARREST ON A C ATLAS —DAMAGES LAID AT *IOO,OOO. Particulars of the Alleged Outrage. From the Chicago Tribune (Bad.) May 23d. Upon the heels of the session of the ! National Convention of the Republican party, Foster Blodgett, Esq., a delegate to the Convention from the Mate of Georgia, was arrested. The arrest was made in a civil proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of this county, by one James Cran gle, who has within a few months been ad mitted to practice at the bar of the State of Illinois. The bail was fixed in the case at five thousand dollars, which amount of real estate security .Mr. Blodgett, being a stranger in the city, was uuabte to furnish, and he therefore was compelled to remain in the custody of the Sheriff. Mr. Crangle sues Mr. Blodgett in an action on the case for damages, assessed by him, at the modest sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The affidavit on which the capias issued, j stripped of all its technicalities, says that during the month of February, 1860, the plaintiff, Crangle, beluga resident of Sa vannah, Ga., went to the city ot Augusta, in the same State, for the purpose of col lecting some debts against a firm by the name of Turley, Gray & Turley, and that the defendant iucited a mob to offer violence to him. __ It is alleged that about the 6th day of February, the plaintiff ar rived at Augusta and stopped at the United States Hotel, and that the- de fendant maliciously contriving to ruin him and to bring him into public seandal, to prevent the collection of the debt and put his life in jeopardy, represented him to be an Abolitionist, who had come to Augusta to stir up the negroes to a servile war. The result, it is charged, was that a large number of persons called upon him ! nf his room, and ordered him to leave tho City. 11 seccniu viaic, uuuui Luo like uir ! cuinstances, is charged to have been by 1 like means incited, and it is charged that, at this time the order was accompanied by a threat that his presence there on the next day would be rewarded by hanging. A third notification of the same nature, it is sworn, was given, and it is charged that, at least, at one of these visits the defendant was present. On the following morning, it is averred, at about two o’clock, the plaintiff wa3 visited by a crowd of people, who broke in the door of the chamber, being incited by tho samo means, took him from his bed and led him down stairs to a gallows which had been erected for him from the balcony of the hotel. Prior to the act of leading him down stairs, the affiant states that a rope was placed around the nock of Mr. Crangle, as though there was not only the means but the intent to hang him. From this difficult position he was rescued by the police of tho city, who conducted him to jail, tho mob in the meanwhile making way with his valise and its valuable contents. It is further alleged that on the 10th day of the same month, Mr. Blodgett con triving to injure, &c., the plaintiff,appear ed before a J ustice of the Peace, and there accused him of being an inciter of servile war, an Abolitionist, and an Abolition lec turer. Some time after that there was an examination, followed by an acquittal, which was not, however, followed by re lease, but by plaintiff’s being taken to the office of Mr. Blodgett, as Mayor of Au gusta, when he, Blodgett, spat in his lace, kicked him and beat him, and incit ed the bystanders to like acts of indignity. In consequence of all this, Crangle charges that he was compelled to leave his home, at Savannah, to his great loss. The case came up in the Circuit Court, yesterday, upon a motion to quash the capias writ. The motion was based upon its general want of sufficiency. * * * J udge Pollard, of Georgia, stated that probabiy it would make but little difference what the bail was fixed at, inasmuch as his associate upon the delegation was a stranger here. He desired to know if the court could, under the statute of Illinois, receive and consider counter-affidavits. He stood ready to prove that the whole statement was false, in so far as it referred to the defendant, and that., on the contrary, Mr. Blodgett,being an. original Union man, rescued the plaintiff from violence offered him by a mob at Augusta, as well as that the defendant came into disrepute by reason of this and similar acts, in violation of the then public sentiment of his section of country. The court suggested that such an inquiry was more proper upon an application to discharge under a writ of habeas corpus. Further proceedings will, in all proba bility, be taken this day, if the records of the courts have not been closed until Tho Tn.limp <■>£ %ivp“trrru Judge W Ilhams has left the city. Washington, May 25, 1868.—This has been a day of unusual interest in the House of Representatives, and Butler has been in his glory. In reporting a resolu tion for the arrest of Colonel C. W. Woolley, of Cincinnati, he took occasion to report the testimony taken by the man agers during their star chamber procecd ings, and which teuded to prove bribery and corruption. Butler threw his head back, with nostrils distended, as if he loved to snuff corruption in the very air. What the smell of fresh blood is to the hungry tiger, moral putrifaction is to the olfactories of this “Beast.” He reported the testimony of Thurlow Weed, which your correspondent was unable to draw out, and which Mr. Weed exhibited so much determination in keeping secret pledged as he was to General Butler. The testimony itself shows that there was a double purpose in withholding it, for he had clearly convicted himself of being more or less engaged in Senatorial bribery.' Im maculate Thurlow ! It was neither But ler nor your promise to him which sealed your lips. It was because the great apostle of the Grant and Colfax party has unclean skirts. He had discussed and i canvassed the chances of buying up Radi-! cal Senators, but, not seeing a prospect of success, he declined to engage actively in ! the business. The names Mr. Weed gave j as the parties who could be purchased did j not vote lor the acquittal. Mr. Brooks, of ' JNew York, suggested that the blanksleftin i the report as the Senators named by Weed ! should be filed with the names of Pome roy and Nye, both of whom voted for con viction. Ihe report led to an interesting discussion, during which Mr. Brooks, of Newlork, entered an eloquent protest against the outrages perpetrated by the managers upon the telegraph offiqps, and declared the companies which had yielded their dispatches to be examined by Butler unworthy of public confidence, and should bo d—d in public esteem. He also pro tested, as a public against invading the confidential relations existing between newspaper men arid those men from they may obtain items of important nows. Eidridge threw some provokingly hot shots at Butler, while a Radical mem ber from Illinois, Mr. Baker, exploded a bomb in his rear by protesting in the name of American justice against an ex parte proceeding in a matter of such national importance. Mr. Brooks assured Butler that there would be no difficulties thrown in the way of full investigation, i nor was there any reason why the Demo cratic side of the Hall shouid object, as all the parties concerned were Butler’s ! political allies. There seems to be no doubt that several Radical Senators were thrown upon the market, either by them selves or their friends, and that the same parties who approached Colonel Cooper were the parties who tried the New York market through Thurlow Weed—now one of the pillars of the Grant platform. No one, however, suspects that either of the Senators who did vote for acquittal did so under any improper influence. The pur chasable material seems to be still in j' u )l fellowship with the impeachment ! ! ! Butler nevertheless declared in a soeech ' to day that his failure to take Forst Fisher ! was attributable to fraud and corruption and the same was the case in his failure to ! | convict and remove Andrew Johnson. ! It was understood about the Capitol to- I day that Grant had requested his friends | to close up impeachment as soon as pos ! “^ le > as it; was doing the party serious i damage every day it was allowed to run. The impression, therefore, is that the voting will be resumed to-morrow, and the rest of the articles be disposed of, with a view to the resumption of legislative busi i ness. It became evident to-day that the 1 new Tax bill, with its 350 pages, would not become a law this session, a-: members ex hibited a determination to leave the Capi tal by the first of July. The impeaching Senators held a caucus j this morning with a view to determine ; whether they would go on with the voting , to-morrow. The general feeling was for : a postponement, bat several of the leading men, including Chandler, Conkling and : Sherman, opposed postponement, saying the country bad settled down to the con elusion that Johnson had been acquitted and it would never do to re-open the case without some very good reason. Senator Howard was sent for, and his exhaustiou in the caucus prevented his being abl i to attend the session of the Senate to day. The caucus adjourned without reaching a conclusion and will hold another meeting at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning to de termine the qnestion of voting. _ It is pos- , sible that in view of Butler's disclosures to- . day impeachment may be postponed, bat such is not the opinion of leading Radicals to-night, who say they will adjourn by the ast of June. The President continues to be the centre I of a large circle of visiting gentlemen, who throng the Executive Mansion late and early. E. Special Correspondence of the Maltimore Gazette. Washington, May 25, 1868—A scene unequalled in nsuseousness was en acted in the House of Representatives to day. Butler submitted his promised “par tiaj” report, asForney called it- Bingham, Wilson, Boutwell and Williams, who were present, said not a word, but hung their heads in very shame. Stevens and Logan were absent. The report is extremely | long, and gives the evidence in substance 1 of a dozen witnessess, and that of Woolley Sand Weed in extenso. The marrow of the j testimony is to the effect that a certain “General Adams, 1 ' of Onondaga, New York (who it is lyingly attempted to be shown is a Southern man, but who was never south of Washington), and Woolley, of Cincinnati,for some unexplained reason took it into their head? in order to secure their bets probably, that a certain number of immaculate Senators were purchasable with money —gold—that they opened nego tiations by telegraph with Weed and others of New York (all Radicals), and named four upright judges on tho impeachment trial supposed to be in the market. Weed,in the searching cross-examination to which he was subjected, gave the names of two of them, but the wilt/ Butler suppressed them I in kis report. Mr. Brooks, in the short j speech he was permitted to make, did not fail to demand a disclosure of their names, which was refused. He, however, in con nection with other testimony which had leaked out somehow, mentioned those of Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Nye in this con nection. Upon which Butler distinctly admitted that the Senators named by Weed fatally voted for conviction ! This announcement created the _ profoundest sensation throughout the Hall, and when it was further alleged ou the Democratic side that every man implicated in anywise in the disgraceful transactions referred to by the managers were Republicans, tho wonder arose what could have induced the managers to intrude the disgusting par ticulars upon the country. Not a scintilla of evidence was shown connecting the Presi dent or any of the “recusants,” Democrats or Conservatives, with them. Ou the contrary, it was admitted in the report itself that Mr. Johnson proposed another aud very different mode of cheeking the progress of impeachment—thatof forming, in connection with Judge Chase and the “recusant” Senators, anew political party ! The managers, it will be obmrved, protend to have evidence of a formaimeet iog of those parties for such purpose prior to taking the vote upon the eleventh article. The spectators were astonished at these disclosurers. It was expected by the ; Radicals (outside of the committee) that some sort of evidence would bo procured, implicating, in some round-about-way, Fowler, Ross or others of the anti-im peachers. When all was told, your read ers may judge of the length of their faces 1 It was very late when the House ad journed, and, a3 1 have said, the report is very lengthy. You will probably, never theless, receive it over the wires—at least a synopsis from the reporters. Appended to the report, the managers submitted a resolution that Woolley be brought before the House and made to testily further or be imprisoned. The resolution was adopted with unusual unanimity. To-morrow will be a busy day in both Houses. The better opinion this morning is that the vote upon the remaining articles of impeachment will, after a sharp discus sion, be further postponed. Many Sen ators were on the floor of the House during the reading of the report, the Senate having adjourned at an early hour. During tho morning hour in the House, upon Senenck desiring to appoint a day for the consideration of the genera! Tax bill, it became evident that no business promotive of the public interest will be at tended to the present session. Washburne predicted an adjournment on the Ist of July. It seems that some modification of the whiskey and tobacco tax will be at tempted in that time. I hear strange reports respecting the prospective purposes of Vice President Wade. He is, I well know, in very bad humor, aud nothing he may do need sur prise friend or foe. * I learu this evening that Stanton will certainly resign upon the final disposition of impeachment upon the present articles. I mentioned some days ago that Mr. Groes beek would probably take the place of Mr. McCulloch. I now learn that a very general change in the Cabinet may be ex pected upon the final settlement of the vexed question. To-day s exposition was a heavy blow against proceedings upon new articles. The whole thing, it is now thought, wilt be suffered to die off-per haps lingeringly. THE AVAR DEPARTMENT. Secretary Bt.anton Vacates Id fiissust. War Department, ) Washington Cit,v.-,Mi\le?ibuW§ 7 oifine united States of the 21 st of February last, declaring that the President “has no pow er to remove the Secretary of War and designate any other officer to perform the duties of that office ad interim," having this day failed to be supported by two thirds of the Senate present and voting on the articles of impeachment preferred against you by the House of Representa tives, I have relinquished charge of the War Department, and havo left the same and the books, archives, papers and prop erty in my custody as Secretary of War in the care of Brevet Major Gen. Townsend, the senior Assistant Adjutant General, subject to vour direction. [Signed] Edavin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. To the President. j Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. i Impeachment Defunct Scenes in the Senate—The Impeachcrs ’ Caucus—Pro posed Postponement of the Vote —How the Vote Came to be Taken —A Curious Comedy of Cross Purposes—A Tran set to Catch lioss—The Impeachers Radi ant—The Resolution to Postpone Voted Down—The Vote on the Second Article —Ross Springs his Trap in turn — The. Impeachers Caught— The Vote on the Third Article— Impeachment Quashed —Disreputable Scenes in the House of Representatives. Washington, May 26, 1868.—“ Last though not least.” This has been the last day of impeachment, though by no means the least interesting. In many re spects it has exceeded in profound interest any which have preceded. The impres sion had become general that no vote would be taken, and hence there was noth ing like the rush upon the Capitol which has heretofore characterized the impeach ment proceedings. Nevertheless, the ini meuse galleries were packed with a brilliant assemblage, while the Diplomatic section contained the representatives of twenty aght foreign countries, all manifesting the most intense interest in the proceedings of the Senate, as each held in his hand a list of the Senators’ names. The arrange ments for preserving perfect order were complete, as shown by the files of police men which decorated the aisles and cor ridors. The floor of the Chamber apppeared al most deserted, no impeachment Senator being seen. There sat the Conservatives, and there were the seven recreants, but I where were the thirty five impeachers? It i was a mystery to the galleries, but others : knew that a caucus was being held in President Wade's room to determine whether they would or would not pro ceed with the vote. Just before the hour of 12 o’clock Senator Edmunds came in and announced confidentially to a few friends around him that the voting would be postponed, such being the determination of the caucus. A few moments later the other Senators entered the Chamber with an air of indifference, and were soon on- \ gaged in conversation, groups being formed —during which the action of the caucus j was discussed and speculations freely offered | as to the probable effect of the contem plated postponement on party interest. \ At this time no Senator doubted for a j moment that the vote would be postponed I —the managers had requested it and the ; caucus had voted to grant it—yet the vote was taken and the President acquitted. How was it done ? The details wi!i furnish an interesting page for the future historian. Soou after the Court had organized for business and all the dramatis personce were in position, Senator Edmunds rose slowly from his seat and drawing from his pocket, offered a resolution rescinding ail previous rules on the subject of voting. The Chief Justice thought the resolution was not in order, the Radical majority of the Court thought otherwise, and the rules were rescinded. Next came a reso lution postponing the vote on impeach ment until the 23rd of June. The Chief Justice considered this out of order, but was again overruled by the caucussing Senators. Oh each of these propositions Senator Ross, of Kansas, voted with the impeachers, and a decided sensation among them was perceptible. Radical Senators were bobbing their heads at each other, and a great effort made to communicate and conier ODe with another. Ross had defeated them on the eleventh article, and vituperative abuse had been heaped upon him. Was it possible he had repented at the eleventh hour, it not on :he eleventh article ? Conkling offered a substitute for the motion to adjourn, which provided that the Senate sitting as a Court of Im- peachment should proceed at once to vote on the remaining articles of impeachment. This was supposed by many to be a motion offered in good faith by the Senator from New York, and when it was rejected by an overwhelming vote, many of the spec tators left the galleries, supposing the day’s performances at an end. The news papers, in their anxiety to outstrip ail com petition. flashed the news over the wires “impeachment postponed until the 23rd of Juno. No one doubted the fact except the parties engaged in the desperate game. Conkling’s purpose proved to be to draw out an expression from Ross, who, understanding the game, in turn set a trap for the intpeachers. Ross voted squarely against Conkling’s substitute; another buzz was heard on the Radical side of the Chamber. Sumner left his seat and hur riedly passed on to the seats of Senators Edmunds, Williams and others, holding brief conferences with each. Other Sena tors leaned toward each other and passed hurried words. Spectators continued leaving, and the telegraph had already spread the news in every direction that the Senate had voted to postpone, which was virtually the case when the vote was ; taken refusing to proceed. But now an undercurrent was seen and felt, though its exact character was still unknown. Some j new development was about being made. The countenances of the iuipeaehers seem- ed to brighten up, and some unexpected ' turn in events was evidently anticipated. Ross had been drawn out, he was upon the record with the impeaehers on every pre liminary question, he, too, seemed to be acting in the best faith— presto, “We wont postpone,” said the impeaehers, 'but while Ross is voting right we will give him a chance on the second article ” They voted down their own caucus resolution to postpone un’il the 23d of June, and moved to go into a vote on the second article of impeachment. The impeaehers were now all smiles. They had, by adroitness, as certained exactly how Ross would vote, as they supposed, and now they would con vict Johnson certain. They little suspect ed that there wer two parties to their game, and quite as little suspected the modest, unsophisticated Senator from Kansas of intending to entrap thirty five impeaehers at a single haul. The roll was called amid breathless silence, and the in terest heightened as the votes of the doubtful Senators were reached—culmina ting when the name of Senator Ross was called. Now came the tug of war. The impeaehers bad hazarded everything upon this vote —could it be possible that thirty five politicians had been overreached by one roan ? It was true !! ! Ross had set his trap, and caught the whole party, and when he answered in a clear,ringing voice, “not guilty,” there were countenances on the Radical side of the Chamber which would have furnished subjects worthy of Hogarth. Impeachment had been long dead, and now it was buried. Bingham and Boutwell hurried from the Chamber. Butler retained his seat until the third article was voted down and the others abandoned. On the opposite side of the Chamber sat Evarts, Stanburyand Nelson, of the President’s counsel, apparently un moved by the great events transpiring around them. The Court of Impeachment, for the trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, having adjourned sine die, the crowd made a rush for the House to see the chagrined aud disappointed mana gers wreak their vengeance upon Colonel C. W. Woolley, who was there under ar rest, charged with contempt in refusing to answer the impertinent and illegal ques tions of Manager Butien Never have the proceedings of the American Congress been more humiliating. The Bear Garden scenes have been disgraceful, but the in justice and oppression of the House to-day should cause every freeman to rise in his might. The proceedings should be read by every citizen, and the eloquent protest of Judge Marshall, of Illinois, should bo pondered. Just think of ex-Manager Boutwell offering a resolution to convert the Capitol of the nation into a prison—a resolution which was sustained by every Radical Congressman ! As Chief Justice Chase said, “The time has come for all who love their country to baud together against the Jacobins.” E. The Scenes in Congress—Acquittal of the. President —Lawless Proceedings in the House— The Infamous Conduct af Butler The Arrest of Mr. Woolley—A i\ew Smelling Committee Authorized — H vol ley to be Imprisoned in the Capitol, Ac. , &e. Washington, May 26, 1868.—The extraordinary occurrences in both Houses of Congress to-day are not only a wonder ment, but are calculated to create alarm in the public mind! Wonderment that the infernal machinations of such a vast conspiracy as now stands in bold relief be fore the public have been frustrated in the honorable acquittal of the President, and tearful apprehensions that the further villainies of the revolutionists may yet plunge the country into civil strife. The action of the Senate to day is abundant procf that the Radical faction is with “rail road speed” tumbling into dust as a politi cal party, while that of the House unmis takably indicates a settled purpose to over throw even the forms of the Government, seize upon all Governmental functions and found upon the ruins of our Republic a military despotism. The Court of Impeachment has virtually acquitted the President! By a vote of 27 to 27 the Senate refused to postpone a vote upon the ten remaining articles. Votes were then .taken nnon the second «n,l third similar resuiYs to that upon the eleventh, when a motion indefinitely to postpone the remnant of the batch was tri umphantly carried by a majority of 34 to 16. Thusendeth the first lesson. But in the face of this decisive result, the House at the command of Butler and Boutwell, to whom the rest of the “managers” seem at last to have bowed in humiliating subser viency, immediately threw off ail reserve, in effect, and announced their purpose of forcing civil collision by the assumption of prerogatives unheard of before in any civilized country. The House assembled at 11 o’clock, and it was known tho purpose \Aas to forestall the action of the Senate by immediately disposing of the attachment case of Mr. Woolley. He was accordingly dragged to the bar, and bungling proceedings at once instituted to compel him to obey, without deiay, the capricious commands of the managers. Butler impudently declared, in discussion, tbat authority such as had been conferred upon the “managers” fully empowered them to enforce by penalties answers to all conceivable questions upon all conceivable matters, and tbat the wit ness had no right to demur, even so far as to appeal to the House itself! At this point a motion was interposed to allow “the prisoner the privilege of twenty-four hours to reply to the voluminous allega tions contained in Butler’s report,” which was unceremoniously tabled by a party vote, upon a call of the yeas and nays. But these proceedings consumed time, which finally reached the hour of twelve! The House, under the dernier necessity of attending tho impeachment trial, was forced to adjourn, and to the verdiot ren- dered in the Senate, worked the premature death of the Board of “Managers!” It was supposed, under such circumstances, that Woolley, upon the return of the members to the House, would be released, and if sinning at all, turned over to the civil Courts, which had full cognizance of the crimes which Butler pretends he is guilty of; but mark the denouement! A resolution was improvised to revive, resuscitate, and bring into new vitality the defunct inquisitorial conclave, and straight way adopted. Boutwell had the immortal impudence to argue that the contempt charged upon the prisoner, although having relation only to a body which was confessed by him to be now dead and buried, reflected upon the august House itself, and from thence upon the resurrect ed carrion, of which he assumed the chairmanship, Bingham, it is understood, declining further intimate relations with it! And this enormity was adopted by an obsequious House, which subsequently ordered the prisoner to be incarcerated in the Capitol until the Dictators of the llou-:e, Butler and Boulwoll, were fully ; satisfied with his answer, and expressed j their willingness that he might be released ; through a formal order of the subservient ! constituents of these miscreants. With the particular affair with which I Woolley is connected no Democrat chat I | know of feels the least concern. But the | enormous assumption of power arrogated ! by tho committee in his case are truly alarming in view of the circumstances under which they are asserted. They clearly point to new troubles and new revolutionary aggressions. What the next movement may be must be left to time and its developments. I feel bound to say, however, that from information re ceived from sources I have hitherto found ! reliable, I am inclined to think that the i Radical majority in the House will venture , on another trial upon frivolous charges, t > j convict the President through the potent i help of the bogus representatives of the | Southern negroes. As this would be to I every one’s mind a glaring subversion of j the Government, and an unmistakable j and impudent declaration of open defiance | of the popular will at the North (a dis regard of the behests of the Constitution in other sections having been long since manifest), it would remain to be seen whether it will be submitted to. The whole business, as it now stands, is in the hands of the Northern people. If they suffer the miserable faction which now domineers over every part and parcel of the country to take another step in the career of usurpation, it will be too late to preserve even the remnant of personal liberty left by tho seven years’ despotism under which the country has already groaned. X. A clergyman who went down to the sea in a Pacific mail steamer, thus narrates his experience in the New York lndej>endenP “l lie first hour I felt as if I wanted to go ashore ; the second I felt as if I should die ; the third hour I didn’t care whether I died or pot; the ionrth hour I wasafraid I shouldn’t die.” A party ofScotch immigrants have ar rived at Columbus, Mississippi, and re ceived a hearty welcome. Brigham Young is having seven state carnages made tor him in New York. Canada is troubled with acres of blue pigeon*. State Items. Last Sunday afternoon a negro woman • .; ra ff character, who resided in abrothrl in Heed s Row, bavannah, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol. _ The negro Prince Johnson, who, some rime since shot and killed a comrade in Savannah while playing marbles with him, has been tried and convicted. Two boys, whose ages ranged between t< n and twelve years, ran away from Calhoun recently and started to Texas. They were pursued, captured, brought home and thrashed. The Savannah Republican calls upon aii honest and patriotic men of the North, who have settled in that city, to refute the lies that are daily sent North to keep up hatred between the two section-. The_ Newnau Herald announces a do structivc fire in that place iaSt week which originated in what is known as the Long House on Bay street and destroyed a num ber of the adjacem buildings. Mr. John Forsyth, of the firm of Forsyth & Carmichael, of Montezuma, was drown ed in a mill pond near that place on Satur day. He went in bathing and it is sup posed was attacked by the cramp. The Military Commission, detailed by Gen. Meade for the purpose of trying K. V. Cody, ofWarrenton, charged with kill ing a soldier there during the election, con vened in Atlanta on Thursday. Mayor Wilkins, of Columbus, and all the Aldermen and city officers have been re moved by the little General in Atlanta, and their places filled by United States soldiers, carpet- baggers and renegades, j The Savannah papers chronicle the ar i rival in that eity of a large body ot iuuni | grants from Germany, and the departure I of a large party of negroes for Liberia. I Which is the best news ? Anew machine—through which Blod gett, Tweedy & Cc. must have passed— has been put in operation by means of which a mean dog thrown into a hopper, after passing through sundry manipula tions, comes out a first-class scalawag, ready to a cow, steal a beef, or vote for a constitution —the latter being by far the meanest of the three operations. The Monroe Advertiser learns that an extensive fire occurred in Tbomaston last week, which destroyed a large portion of the town. The fire occurred precisely the same day of the month as the one there last year. This is the third fire, we be lieve, that has occurred in that unfor tunate town since the war, and from the great extent of them, there can be but little of it left. The soldier shot, a short time since in Warrenton has been exhumed and the body placed in a barrel of lime in order to discover the ball. The Catholics in Macon have had a large pic-nie on the Macon & Brunswick Rail road. Colonel John B. Weems, Hon. Thomas Hardeman and Rev. A. J. Ryan delivered addresses, The Atlanta Intelligencer contains a let ter from Colonel V. A. Gaskil! to E. Ilui bert, President of the Central Grant Club, giving reasons for severing his connection with the Radical party. The Milledgeville Recorder suggests that all the counties of the State hold public meetings and instruct the legislators elect to amend the tenth article of the Constitu tion by retaining the Capitol at Milledge ville. The Macon Journal states that on Tues; day of last week a merchant of that city telegraphed to Cincinnati for twelve hogs heads of bacon. It was shipped that day via the “Green Line” and he had it in store and for sale on Saturday—just four days from the time it was oidered. The Republican newspaper office, several of the fire company’s halls and a great many private residences were brilliantly illuminated in Savannah on Wednesday night last in honor of President Johnson’s acquittal. We are pained to announce that General John W. Gordon, one of the most respect ed and oldest inhabitants of Macon, died on the evening of the 25th after a protract ed and painful illness, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Loveli, in Vincville. The Columbus papers ascribe the re moval of tho Mayor, City Council and city officers of that place to the Ashburne assassination, as a tremendous pressure had been for somo time brought to bear against Meade for this purpose. General Summary. A full bister to Dexter has been recently born. The original All Right is performing in London. Tho potato bug is doing great damage in Illinois. A match game—matrimony.— [ Lowell Courier. Laura Keene, the actress, has come back to America. T. aaot OaMuda *36,629 to try the Fe nian prisoners. Toombs has sold his plantation and is practicing law. Chicago expects to pay SBOO,OOO for public schools this year. The workingmen of San Francisco have $8,000,000 in the savings banks. Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger , has SIOO,OOO invested in horses. A London publisher is issuing Cooper's novels at twelve cents a volume. The bones of King Alfred have been discovered by an English antiquary. Some of the foreign journals report that when Marshal Narvaez, in his last mo ments, was urged by the priest to forgive his enemies, he replied : “I’ve none left ; I ordered the last to bo shot long ago.” More than half the people of New York live in tenement houses, and more than half the tenement houses are not fit to live in. A Scotch statistician is frightening tho people of Glasgow by demonstrating that they drink 1,000 tons of dirt every year with their water. A gander at Fort Wayne, Ind., charged upon two timid young ladies and frighten ed one of them into convulsions a few days ago. A couple of persons in Scott county, lowa, have been divorced twiee and re married twice, and are now D.an and wile. . Last week a flock of wild pigeons, cover ing a space of twelve and a half miles in length, and fifty feet in breadth, passed over Wellsville, Tioga county. A. recent toi'etto of Mrs. Rornlds, in Paris, was a maize tulle bouillonne , and a tunic of the same looped up fioui paniers, and fastened by bouquets of Parma violets and white narcissi. A bouquet at the sideof the bodice wa3 composed of similar flowers. One ofThad. Stevens’ admirers writes that the impcacher plays faro an hour every evening for “mental recreation,” and not fora love of gambling, as he seldoms bets* more than SSO at a time. The New Haven Register thinks this simplicity is about on a par with that of a returned Gentile from Utah, who, desiring to pal liate to family friends, that a recreant son had abandoned the religious faith of his fathers, remarked, ‘Well, he isn’t what you may call a regular Mormon—he has only three wives.” When a certain New York banker drives from the boat at .'lti'n I,land to his handsome CTio'ry seat, and arrives at the porter’s lodge, out jumps a little “tiger”—as the juvenile gr ium is called— like a cuckoo, opens the gate and stands like an automaton figure with one finger at the rim of his hat, until the carriage has driven through. Outside of the gate stands a crowd of ragged children, who daily stand with open eyes and mouth ad miring this edifying performance. This is called living in “style.”— N. Y. Mail | The Chicago Republican gives male | fashion reports. Among them we find a “very pretty morning suit“ Hat ala Pompadour, of tan colored silk ; a loose frock coat, fastened below a low collar with a button solitaire ; waist slightly ad justed ; a moderately tight sleeve’ with a cuff; single breasted vest, buttoned high, wjth small standing coiiar, both bound with galloon ; very light pants, with wide stripe down the side. This suit is of laven der gray cheviette, percale collars, safety guard necktie, with quizzing glass at tached, which is quite a novelty—Laporte gloves, hawthorn cane and meoaliion handkerchief. This is an exceedingly stylish suit for travelling or morning prom enade, and suitable for either an active or listless style oi Loamy.’* Dr. Sweet, a pedesti ian of Raniucfcet, It 1., has undertaken to walk 1,800 miles id thirty 7 day 7.-;. More than one hundred ships are in the port of Buenos Ayres, unable to obtain cargoes. Dickens’ first work, ‘ The Life of the Grimaldi,” is‘annout ccd for re publica tion in Philadelphia. The Governor of Canada, Lord Monck, receives twelve times as much sale./ as the Governor of New York Competition has reduced the fare from New York to Boston to three dollars by one of the steamers. Tho President of the Fruit Growers’ As sociation estimates the value of the fruit in Ohio valley at $5,001,00(1 a year. Oue million five hundred and sixty thousand pair3 of shoes alone were shipped from Lynn during April. Among the betters on the impeachment trial, George Wilkes, William Swiritou, and E. P. Spofford, of Newburyport, were most conspicuous. A reporter for the Tribune bet SSOO that Johnson would be convicted without Senator Wade’s vote, and lost it. A writer, dwelling upon tee importance of small things, says that “he always takes note even of a straw, especially if there happens to boa sherry cobbler at one end of
