Georgia Historic Newspapers

    (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