Inquirer, BKDFOBU, I'A.t FMJJAf, MARCH. #, 1868 THE MEANNESS OF SOME MEN. A number of persons who feel auxious to connect Bedford by railroad with the out er world, proposed to hold a meeting on Monday night, of this week, for the purpose of taking the sense of the people upon the projeot of building a railroad from Bedford to Bridgeport, fmd accordingly after exam ining the papers to ascertain whether such a meeting would conflict with any previous announeemcnt, and learning that it would not. a meeting was called and the announce ment made in both papers. This gave uni versal satisfaction. But later in the week the leaders of the Democratic party, who would sacrifice the best iutorests of the county, yea, of everything, if they thought they could make a vote for themselves when running for office, determined to over- ride the call for a railroad meeting, and to call a Democratic meeting for Monday night. This was no sooner determined upon than it was done. These men have no interest in developing Bedford county, out-side of keeping up the Democratic which they make a vehicle to elevate them to office, and the interests of the county, can, as far as they are concerned, deliber ately go to "Old Nick," to nsc an inelegant expression. The Democratic leaders in this county have long been proverbial for their meanness and selfishness. We have heard people say as mean as a "Bedford county Locofoco politician" so long ago that we cannot re member when it was not an adage. And no doubt, judging from our experience, the phrase was well earned and most judiciously applied. However, we had begun to be lieve that the men who had won this unen viable distinction for the leaders of the Dem ocratic party in this county, had given way to men of larger views and more unselfish motives. Men, who in the light of day, were not willing to be caught at that which would characterize the unscrupulous knaves who control the Five Points of New York, or which immortalized the Stringfellows of Border Ruffian fame. But we have been j lniataken. Such isour experience inßedfoxd and such must be the fame of those who desire to be esteemed as gentlemen and who ask good citizens to respect thetn as such, j To us it is altogether the strangest thing j iu the world that some men have no souls, j no body, no character, no identity but the identity of a Pecksniff, when they enter the ! arena of politics. Conway has done such | noble justice to a representative of this class, in his "Bribed Legislator,' that we j reproduce it so those noble leaders may see i their reflection, yea, themselves "as others j see them." Such a man, he says "Would strip the dead, Or rob the orphan of his crust of bread, So lost to justice —equity and right— This man would steal the aged 'widow's mite' i Is well prepared for every kind of fraud, Would sell his country, or betray his God. j Tillage the palace of the King of Kings, Or strip the gildiug from an augel's wings. - ' I Wc hate "meanness with the most unut- j terable hate, and yet we cannot turn to the right nor to the left but.we have the mean- I ness of somebody staring us in the face j with the brazen impudence which is said to I characterize those doomed spirits whose | abode is in realms of eternal misery. Men of principle and character, though ; they may deem the adoption of their princi- j pies essential to the welfare of their country, ! do not feel that it is incumbent upon them to resort to such means to bring about their adoption as characterizes the blackguard and which would expel any gentleman from de cent society or convict him in a Court of justice. Why cannot men act the part of gentlemen in politics as well as in the other relations of life? There is no reason why a man should make a blackguard of him self because he desires the success of his party. Yet in this com mi: *ity, time out of mind, this has been the level to which the leaders of the Democratic party have at tempted to scramble and they jostle each other for the position. The Democratic party of this county is run for the benefit of about twenty-five or thirty persons, no more, all waiting to get into office. The party has been without a principle for a dozen years and yet the poor dupes who have, in that number of years, spent money enough to build a railroad from Bedford to Mt. Dallas, have done it all for the benefit of less than twenty men, and to benefit these few men the Democratic party must resort to the most dastardly meanness. Democrats, your leaders stand in your light, they care no more about you and your interest than if you wore so many sheep. They thunder and bowl in regard to the ac tions of the Radicals as if those Radicals were about to take the lives of every one of you, and all this is because every one of these same frothy politicians wants into office. And after they arc in office what advantage are they to you ? What do they do for you ? Do they fill your pockets with golden guineas, greenbacks or even postal currency? Do they even lighten the burden of your taxation? Humph! when you have shouted yourselves hoarse, spent your money and your time, and they are elected, they leave you quietly to stand aside until the next heat, and you are fool enough to do it and not reap a single benefit. Yes, all the meanness and gas which your leaders are constantly dispensing comes from the all prevading desire to be elected to office. You have not an honest politician who is fighting for the cause of your party to-day for the sake of principles, not one; every mother's son of them is looking forward for the spoils, the time when he will bo prefer red for some petty offico and its emolu ments, while you are fools enough to sus tain this kind of thing even at the risk of your best interests. This must be as patent to you as it is to us. And yet since Mr. fSchell represented you in the Legislature you have never, with the exception of that gentleman's effort to be re-elected last fall, pledged and asked any of your candidates for Representatives or Senator to pledge themselves in favor of doing anything to wards developing Bedford county. Out-side of the efforts of Mr. Schell what has your party ever done for yoa in this respect? Not any thing. If you had made one-half the effort to build a railroad from Holli- daysburg to Cumberland, or from Mt. Dal las to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as you have made to elect a few selfish politi cians to office, who after the election is over care no more about you than they care for the mendicant who one day asks their alms and the next passes to realms unknown, the railroad would be built, your county would to-day have forty or fifty thousand inhabi tants, the price of every acre of land in the county wouid bo enhanced, your taxes pro partima'ely rednced and yourselves propor tionately enriched. Democrats, honest Democrats, if you de sire to make Bedford county what energy and enterprise can make her, you must re pudiate the leeches who are sucking your life's blood under the cover of party and sup port no man for office who knows nobody but himself. In a brief space of time the country will settle down and their will be but few, if any, great national issues and in that event, look after your own interests. Don t scud your charity to Dahomy when you have so many objects to apply it to at home. Charity should always begin at home, and unless both parties turn their attention to the interest of Bedford county, and ignore the party hacks who want office for the sake of it, fifty years hence we will be in the same place. Bk.oroa, Pa., Feb. 25.— There is a great cx citeuieiit at this place about the impeachment, and several companies are being rapidly organized to support the President. Captain T. 11. Lyons has already 50 men on his list and at least three companies ean be ready in IS hours. flow easy it is for some people to make asses of themselves. They hav'nt far to go. Who the authors of the above despatch are we do not know, nor is it likely that we ever will, nor do we want to know. We have good reason to suppose that they belong to the pusillanimous reptiles who when drafted fled broad cast over the country, built forti fications in the Allegheny mountains and fled at the first approach of the officers of the law, slunk away in caves, burned the Darns of enrolling officers and intimidated provost marshals, verily anything but travel forty miles South to join their rebel friends. Bab I such fellows talk about raising three companies to sustain the President! IS e have negroes enough in Bedford couuty who have seen service and been honorably discharged who can whip a division of such fellows. We cannot see the object of this dispatch. It was an infamous lie, dragging in the name of a gentleman who has won honor in bis country's service, for what purpose, we can- Dot say. Bedford was made famous on as small amount of capital during the war as anv section of the country, and these miser able contemptible cowards, Boeing they can do it cheaply are determined to keep up the notoriety. The course of this paper for two years has been to allay political feeling and prejudice, but these cowardly tricksters, who know that the President openly and flagrant ly violated the Constitution and the laws, and readily admits that he did, are deter mined to keep up the political dissensions of the country. Gold is the political barometer of the coun try, showing with nicest accuracy the gener al sense of security or the slightest feeling of alarm, falling with the one or rising with the other. On the removal, or attempted removal of Stanton the price of gold rose several per cent, but as soon as it appeared certain that Congress would go ahead with impeachment it at once fell to its old figures and the tendency has ever since been down ward. This is probably one of the best in dications of the belief, of those who have greatest interest in the continued peace of the country and the speedy restoration of the lately rebellious states, that the safest and surest, if not the only, way, to security and restoration is through the impeachment and removal of the President. The foolish clamor of a few skedaddlers about fighting for the President has had no effect but to i excite the contempt and derision of all sensi j ble men. The work of impeachment goes j quietly but surely forward gathering force ' with time. The President's fair weather | friends are rapidly deserting him and be J bids fair, very soon, to find himself utterly I alone, deprived of office and sent in disgrace to deserved obscurity. AT the Copper-Johnson meeting on Mon day night one of the speakers became quite eloquent over imaginary assassinations, barn burnings, &c., that he pretended to think would be brought about by this terri ble impeachment business. He seemed to have quite forgotten that this business of barn-burning and assassinating is entirely a copperhead institution, that they have mo nopolized it heretofore and that nobody in this community has either talked or dream ed of fighting but themselves. He seemed to be utterly .oblivious of that notorious telegram about Capt. Lyons and the three companies of soldiers volunteering their services to assist Andy Johnson in resisting the laws and overturning our government. If there is a drop of bldod spilled in this impeachment business it will be begun as before by rebels resisting the laws. But wc counsel the gentleman to keep cool. The genuine rebels who dared to fight have been so thoroughly whipped that they don't want to try it again and the miserable cowards who fled to the mountains when they had a chance to fight are not likely to risk their worthless hides in any enterprise that smells of gunpowder. POOR ANDV JOHNSON'S condition is a pitable one indeed. After all his efforts to serve the Copperhead party, it ungratefully abandons him in the hour of his need. We don't, as a matter of course, mean the small try found in such places as Bedford. The World the leading organ of the party has formally notified him that he need expect no aid from the party, that though they ac cept the offices and eat his bread and butter, they will not engage to fight his battles for him. Robt. J. Walker tells Andy's friends, who go to him for advice, that the country needs peace and the man who obstructs the execution of the laws should be hung upon the nearest tree. Even Jerry Black who, it was supposed would stoop to almost any thing, is too cunning to acknowledge any re sponsibility, but asserts that Andy won't fo.low his advice and declares that if he did ho would not make a fool of himself as of ten be does. A FEW EXCITED COPS here and there (ii Bedford for instance) have been holding meetings, Constitutional meetings, to sus tain Andy Johnson. It has been pertinently euggested tlyit Andy has got hold of a copy of the Confederate Constitution and is try ing to carry out its provisions; this seems the more probable from the fact that no warrant whatever can be found in our Con stitution for Andy's pranks but on the con trary they are definitely and dearly forbid den by the plain letter of tin (.'institution of 1780; besides the (.'ops profess to be well acquainted with the Constitution under which Andy takes shelter and everybody knows that they are most familiar with the late Confederate Constitution. We are in clined to think that this is the true solution of the great constitutional controversy, the Cops and Andy have meant the rebel Con stitution, while wc meant ours. No wonder we couldn't agree. "I counsel no violeuce, but I do counsel firmness. I for one feel read// to shoulder a musket in protection of the Constitution, ayk, TO DIE for the upholding of the Constitu tion." The above is an extract from the speech of Lance-Corporal Meyers of the 3d Battal lion, Constitutional Guards, commanded by Captain Kerr, late of the Allegheny Moun tain Hangers, at the meeting on Monday night. It does seem strange that after hav iug four year's splendid opportunity where in to display his fighting proclivities and lot ting all go by without oticc risking his pre cious neck on either aide, the Corporal should, now, at this late day, become so val iant. "To DIE for the upholding of the Con stitution." Bosh! Go tell that story to the Marines, Corporal,—the "Regulars" "can't seo it," and we are of the opinion that your audience on Monday night could not exactly see it cither, judging from the manner in which they took it. The Gazette is subject to fits, first class spasms, and when it has one of these ter rible "spells" it is truly agonizing to behold it. It lias only had half a dozen violent at tacks within our recollection, but when they have occurred they have been awful to con template; they have wrenched the very bowels out of the concern. They are awful! Who does not remember the horrible con tortions of the coneern when it was danger ous to openly advocate the course of rebel lion, when the writ of Habeas Corpus was suspended, when the Conscription Act was passed, when slavery was abolished iu the District of Columbia? and now when the President is to be impeached it has a worse attack than ever. When the frog attempt ed to swell itself to the size of an ox and bursted, the consequences were nothing, we are confident, in comparison with thi. Oh! it was awful! awfcl! It is better since the meeting on Monday night! In another column of this paper will be found a telegram sent from this place on the 2oth ult, stating that Capt. Lyons was raising a Company of men to support or defend the President. To the credit of Capt. Lyons we are credibly informed that he never dreamed of any such foolish enter prise nor did he know anything of the tele gram until it appeared in the Philadelphia papers. It is an infamous falsehood and is supposed to have been manufactured from the whole cloth by a couple of fellows who never had patriotism enough to fight for their country oor courage enough to fight against it. They have had fool hardiness enough, though, to stamp themselves by this act as devoid not only of patriotism but also of truthfulness. WERE'NT DRILLED.— The following i< a scene in last Monday night's farce of ''Anti-Impeachment," as performed by Corporal Meyers A Company: SCENE— The Corporal in the foreground. Unterrified in the distance. —Will you, my fellow citizens, sustain the Rump Con gress in their insane idea of Impeachment, or will you stand by a patriotic and just President in the execution of the laws, —who stands by the Constitution and defends the right against the wrong ? I await an an swer—l Pause.) 1 repeat, and ask an imme diate answer. (A pin might have been heard to drop, and the unterrified answered —NOTHlNG! ) OUR copperhead friends have certainly got a little mixed. They hold meetings to sustain the President in our place while in another they are petitioning him to resign. Our cops here in Bedford held a meeting on Monday night, at which they even talked of shouldering their muskets, (that is the furthest their courage will carry them in this region) in defence of the President. On Tuesday the mails brought the news that the cops in Washington wero begging him to resign. We don't know where our cops get their cue, but it is evident some body blundered. "BRICK POMEROY" ON A SHALL SCALE. —The last Gazette, in an article headed "Impeachment," indulged ina borrowed ex tract from the classical collections of that servile mocker of high heaven, Brick Pome roy, to the effect that Congress had impeach ed the President ! Ilow such vile and im pious stuff sounds, coming from the pen of a "peculiarly pious" individual like the editor of that sheet. Shame! shame!! es, the Radical Rebels have resolved to remove the President. WHY Y"— Gazette. Why? Because he the "drunken maud lin of Feb. 22d, 1866, the "boorish tailor of Tennessee," the "lecherous manikin who sits in the Presidential chair"—has seen fit to openly and flagrantly violate the Constitution, —to attempt to force out one •and force in another cabinet officer WITHOUT "THE ADVICE AND CONSENT or THE SEN ATE," when that sacred instrument ex pressly provides that this shall be done on ly WITH the "advice and consent" of that body. Now, what w Constitutional? Bah! THE Sceintific American is in recipt of letters from correspondents, in various parts of the country, stating that persons travel ing in the guise of agents are demanding, of farmers and others, having ice- houses, pay ments for a pretended infringement of a pa tent. The alleged infringement consists in having a hole, or any other sort of ventila tion made in the ice-house. It is informed that thousands of dollars have been collected by this impudeat system of swindling. No valid patent can now exist upon the idea of ventilating ice houses. It was in common use before our patent laws were created. THE CRISIS AT WASHINGTON. Hie all-absorbing Mibiect of interest and speculation at the present timo is the im peachment question. All interest centers in Washington, and each day'a news is eagerly waited for by thousands. In the meantime the newspapers are filled with long editori als advocating one side or the other. The Nation , one of the ablest independent pa pers discusses the subject so coolly, fairly and impartially, that though somewhat lengthy we lay its entire article before our readers, that they may see how the subject of impeachment is viewed by able minds that stand entirely iloof from the party pol itics of the country. It discusses the intrin sic merits of the question as follows: MR. JOHNSON, after a series of blunders, to use a very mild word, such a? few it any statcMuen have had to show, has at last com mitted the crowning one. After having promised and failed to play the part of Moses for the colored people, he has played it for the impeaebers. They have been' trying for more than a year to get up a case against him, and, partly through their own natural deficiencies, partly through the oddity of his conduct, which made it almost impossible trr patch up his follies into a decent resemblance to a ''high crime ortuis demeanor," but most of all owing ,to the popular unwillingness to have the country disturbed and the public attention diverted from reconstruction and the finances, they were never able to accomplish anything. Mr. Johnson, however, seems to have de termined that they should not be foiled, and has at last, with truly wonderful fatuity, furnished them with a good case against him, and a case which can probably be tried in a few days. He has the satisfaction of knowing that he has now nobody to say a word for him, and that there is not a man left in the country who docs not think him cither a fool or a knave. Those who have never admitted his wickedness are at present willing to have him impeached and deposed as au incorrigible dunce. The scene that one witnesses at Washington would be wholly tragic if it were not for his appear ance in it, but the satisfaction with which he looks on his work takes a great deal of the seriousness out of it. So, also, does the exceeding solemnity of the language in which some of the more uproarious of his enemies are denouncing him. When one sees "'the usurper in the White House" revealing his mighty plana and expectations, his Jeep laid schemes and hellish plots, to the cor respondent of the New York Herald with all the artless candor of a Kentucky belle, one cannot help feeling that the task of "hulling him from the chair he has dis graced" is not such awful work after all. The precise reasons for now bringing the "tyrant" to justice is, that he has for the first time committed a distinct and palpable breach'of the law, though we confess wc do not think his last offence by any means the worst in a moral point of view. It has. however, the great legal beauty of being capable of proof in five minutes, and of needing no "construction" or piecework. It is full and complete and simple. The question of the constitutionality or ex pediency of the Tenure-of-office Act need not come up in the trial of it at ail. Many good Republicans deny both one and the other; but Mr. Johnson has so managed matters that no differences of opinion on these points in the ranks of the party will be of any use to him. Whether the law be constitutional or not, or wise or not, there is a legal presumption of which every man is bound to take notice, that it is consti tutional till the courts have decided other wise. The necessity and value of this presumption were fully discussed and affirm ed by the Court of Appeals in this State in the police cases in 1857. Without it a written constitution would breed anarchy, because if everybody—and, above all, every officer of the Government—could take upon himself to decide, as soon as a la w was passed, whether it accorded with the Constitution or not, no law would ever be executed for months or years after its passage. If he resists it, he must do so at his peril; and the doctrine which the New York Times seems to hold, that its being afterwards declared unconstitutional may .have the effect of retroactive justification, has no foundation either in precedent or reason. If every court in the country next month pronounced the Tenure-of-office Act unconstitutional, it would not in the least improve Mr. John son's position. What he is about to be tried for is not only his disobedience to the law, for of this a decision that the law was un. constitutional—that is, null and void— miyht absolve him, but his taking upon himself the functions of the judiciary, and deciding for himself that it was unconstitutional, and acting in his official capacity under his own ruling. If ho may do this, all the other officials, civil and military, may do it, and the legislature might as well be dissolved, for its acts would bo all nullities. Nobody would ever obey one which he had the least motive for disobeying; in other words, all that portion of the community which an act of Congress was intended todirect or restrain would be exempted from its operation for an indefinite period after its passage. If this were the effect of a written constitution, no nation would live under one for six months; and, to provide against this, the presumption has been firmly established as binding on everybody, that all acts are constitutional till a court of competent jurisdiction has, in a bona fide case, pro nounced them otherwise. It may be said that this presumption bears hard on officers, because the Constitution furnishes them with no protection against the legal con sequences of the execution of an uncon stitutional act. This is nodonbt true. The Constitution onght to provide that those who act on the presumption shall bo held harmless. But officers, even as matters stand, have their remedy. The risk they run is a well known risk of their position ; if they do not like it, they can resign. It would have been a stupid thing for Mr. Johnson to have disobeyed the law when he suspended Mr. Stanton. But to have done so then would not, it seems, have been stupid enough for his taste, for he obeyed i by suspending him and giving his reason for suspending him to the Senate —thus logically, though perhaps not legally, estop ping himself from afterwards denying its constitutionality. This performance seems only to have been tbo ground-work of absur-, dity, which he lays broad and deep, for so many of his official acts. Finding that his acknowledgment of the validity of the law does not help him, ho acts about having it tested by the courts, and does this by flatly disobeying it—by doing the very thing which the act forbade him to do, under heavy penalties. We hear in various quarters the question asked, In what other way could he bring it before tbe courts? He himself evidently looks on the despatch of General Thomas to the War Office and that discreet officer's arrest as a most ingenious device, which nobody who had not "filled every office in the gift of the people" would have thought of, for bringing the dispute between him and Congress to the test of a legal decision. There is, and has been time out of memory, a very simplo procesu for trying titles to offices. It has been a process of the common law from the earliest ages; it is in use every year in every State in the Union, and is as familiar to all lawyers as thftir alphabet; and , js, in fact, the only direct mode of testing the validity of any official's claim to his place. We mean, of course, the writ of quo wan-auto. The proper person to sue it out is the Attorney-General; and had Mr. Stanbery obtained it from a United States court under Mr. Johnson's direction it would have brought Mr. Stanton into court to show by what authority he held his place, and this would, of course, have at once raised the question of the constitutionality of the Tennre-of-office Act, and have secured a judicial decision upon it. It could not have been pleaded that this was a political question, on which the courts were not competent to pass, or, at all events, could not have been pleaded without an absur dity which neither Mr. Stanton nor the majority in Congress would have ventured, to face. Had the court decided against him, he would have gained rather than lost in public estimation by his appeal to them. Had they decided in his favor, he would have had some solid support in his subse quent resistance to Congress, if he de termined to resist. It must be admitted, however, that the terms of the law are such that the unfor tunate man was unable to test its constitu tionality before the courts without exposing himself to impeachment. He could not get a quo warranto without removing Mr. Stanton, and he could not remove Mr. Stanton even formally without being im peached, so that, practically, he was de prived of the power of testing its constitu tionality at all except before the very body which passed it, and with the penalty of political i uin hanging over him in case of ■ failure. This would certainly be a very em barrassing position for a moderate and conscientious man. Bui then, if Mr. John son Wad been moderate, and there was any general belief that he was honest, he would not be in this position. If he were anybody else, we have very littie doubt he might have removed Stanton, and then, on the Senate's restoring him, have tried the title to the office on a quo warranto , without exposing himself to impeachment. The consequence and it seems to us the just consequence — of the bad reputation he has acquired for himsrdf is that he will not l>e allowed to test the validity of any law which imposes a duty on him. He has by his course forfeited al! claim to Congressional indulgence, and he has no popular support to take its place. W hat Congress says to him is, iu effect, that his character is so bad that they will not allow him to question their acts even by legal process, and if his case he a hard ooc, we do not see that he has anybody but himself to blame. His disappearance from the scene now will be a heartfelt relief to nearly everybody. He has been a sore trial to the nation for the last three years, and in nothing more than in creating a constant danger that the wilder members of the House would be tempted into creatiug a most dangerous pre cedent by prosecuting him for being foolish and foul-mouthed Had he been impeached on the strength of the testimony collected by the committee lastsumuier, it would have proved a most perilous precedent; his im peachment for flat disobedience to an act of Congress cannot but prove a useful one. It will delight the "sons of thunder" who for so long have been clamoring for his over throw ; but, as we have never taken any pleasure in those gentlemen's misery, and have all along, in opposing them, desired simply that they should have good and not bad reasons for being happy, this will not, as far as we aro concerned, in any way mar the occasion. One thing, however, we cannot help say ing before we close. It is a delicate thing to say, but, if said at all, it must be said now. Mr. Johnson's troubles to himself and the nation have resulted mainly from the fact that he has owed all his political successes to his zeal and courage. In every thing else he has been wanting. He is ig norant, hot-headed, impetuous, indiscreet loose-tongucd. He has no tact, no percep tion, is no judge of character. Had he been the reverse of all this, his differences with Congress on the matter of reconstruction would not have brought him to his present position. He might have sccnred a large amount of popular support, and certainly would have retained the popular respect, and would have quitted the office at the end of his term without the reputation of having degraded it. If the Senate now gives judg ment against him, and deposes him, he will be succeeded by a gentleman who is, we ad mit, a better man in all sorts of ways, but whose mental constitution and political and social training are very like Mr. John son's and who has been selected for the office mainly because he is plucky and im petuous. We confess the prospect does not fill us with enthusiasm. When we consid er the delicacv of the duties wtieh will de volveon tbe President during the coming year, how much there is before us for a rough and untaught hand to mar, and re member the enthusiasm with which four years ago the very men who arc now look ing forward with most delight to "glorious Ben Wade's" accession to the Presidency talked and wrote of "Andy Johnson, of Tennessee"—then, also, the man of the people, the foe of the slaveholding aristo crats, the friend of the Union —it is impos sible to avoid expressing the hope that Mr. Wade will exhibit in his new office other qualities than those which, valuable though they may be, have thus far made his repu tation. IMPEACHMENT. Tlic following articles on the impeachment of the President are compiled from various sources. Wc last week brought the matter down to the adoption of the House impeach ment resolution. The following description of the announcement of the action of the House to the Senate is taken from the New York World of the 22nd ult: Another sccoe in the drama of impeach nicnt was enacted to-day in the Senate. The excitement arou--*.-d in Washington by the inauguration of this latest scheme lor deposing the President had reached its cli max ou yesterday, when impeachment by the House became an actual fact, so that, this morning a comparatively scanty audi ence assembled in the galleries of the Senate Chamber. This audience included a suffi cient number of ladies to give a certain warmth and brilliancy to the upper interior. No ladies were admitted to the floor below. At 12:.50 o'clock the Clerk of the House (Mr. McPherson) appeared and informed the Senate of the action of the House, im peaching the President, the previous day. fho regular business in the Senate then went on, Mr. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky succeeding in due course to the floor. About ten minutes past 1 o'clock, while that gentleman was speaking, several Sena tors ami a number of members of tiic House entered in swift procession through the main door opposite the Vice President's chair. All the Senators assumed their ap pointed seats. The visitors from the other branch of Congress ranged themselves in a black mass beyond the bar of the Senate. The small army of correspondents who usually congregated at the House swarmed into the reporters' gallery and tilled it. The whisper went about that the Committee ap pointed yesterday by the House were ap proaching thruugh the central way of the Capitol to deliver their official tidings. Within a few moments, while Mr. Davis was yet sDeaking, the main portals of the Senate were again thrown open and two familiar figures darkened the entrance. Tbad Stevens, palid, ghastly, and infirm of gait, as one just risen from the grave, step ped slowly forward, leaning upon Mr. Bing ham's arm. The Doorkeeper announced "a message from the House of Representa tives." Instantly every Senator whirled his chair about so as to coniront the niesscn gers. Half the occupants ot the galleries arose and bent iurward. An interesting flutter and flurry continued for nearly a minute's space. Mr. Stevens, relinquish ing the arm of his associate, cast his hat melo-dramaiically upon the floor behind him; then he handed his cane to the doorkeeper with an air, and then, as silence returned to the Chamber, he drew a folded piece of manuscript from his side-pocket and slowly opened it. It is impossible to conceive of tones more like warning ones from a sepul chre than those in which he proceeded to declaim the following announcement: MR. PRESIDENT; In obedience to the or der of the House of Representatives, we j have appeared before you. In the name of the House of Representatives and of all the people of the United States, we do impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors in office; and we further informed the Senate that the House of Representatives will in due time exhibit particular articles of im peachment against hiui, to make good the same; and in their name we demand that the Senate take due order for the appear ance of the said Andrew Johnson to answer to the said impeachment. The Senate and spectators drew a long breath at the conclusion of words so momen tous, and Vice-President Wade responded; "The Senate will take order in the prem ises. As Mr. Stevens stood next to Senator Dooiittle a .-eat, and was considerably ex hausted by liis effort, that gentieman arose and proffered his chair. llow are you, Dooiittle?" a-ked the "great commoner, suddenly altering his wrought-up manner as he availed himself of the Senators courtesy, .Mr. Davis then resumed the floor, and a lively episodical discussion arose. Mr. Howard offered a resolution, and contested Mr. Davis's right to continue. Mr. Davis declined to yield his right. A point of or der arose. Mr. Edmunds vouchsafed his opinion that Mr. Davis was entittled to the floor, while he declined to commit himself as to propriety and deliacy of the Senators continuing to occupy it under the circum stances. Thereupon Mr. Davis sharply responded that he required no such instruc tion. Thoroughly aroused, Mr. Davis also answered Mr. Conness's deprecating re luest that he should give way bv saying that, until the Senate had decided his right,he should decline. The Senate having, by an overwhelming vote, decided his right, be gracefully yielded to Mr. Howard, of Michigan, whose resolution (that the mes sage of the House be referred to a select committee of seven ;was then read. Some debate as to the propriety of the Senate adopting the resolution was had be ween Senators Bayard, Howard, Pomeroy, Johnson, and Conkiing. and it was then pas sed with a simple modification providing for the appointment of the Committee by the Chair. At this juncture the House Committee of two rose from their scats. Mr. Stevens re ceived his hat and cane, took Mr. Bingham's arm, and retired from the Senate, followed almost immediately by the spectators from the House and a dozen or more Senators. Tbo sensation of the day was taken up. Messrs. Stevens and Bingham returned to the House and repotted that they had discharged their tru.-t. The following is a careful list of the Judg es who are try Andrew Johnson upon the articles of impeachment presented by the House of Representatives. The politics of each Senator, and the State from which he is sent, are given. It will be seen that the Senate consists of fifty-three members. "Two-thirds of the members present," in the language of the Constitution, are neces sary to conviction, and should all the Sena tors sit during the trial, thirty-six will be the number required to convict. Anthony, H. B. Rep. R.I. Morrill, J. S. Ren, Vt. Bayard, J. A. o|>p, Del. Morrill, L. M. Rep, Me. Buchalew, C. R. Opp, P. Morton, 0. P. Rep, Ind. Cameron, S. Rep. Pa. Norton. D.S. Opp, Min. Cattail, A.G. Rep, N. J. Nye, J. W. Rep. Nevada. Chandler, Z. Rep, Mieh. Patterson, J. W. R, N.II. Conk ling, R. Rep, N. Y. Patterson, D.T. 0, Tcnn. (,'onness. J. Ilep, Cal. Poineroy, S.C. R. Kansas Cole, C. Hep. Cal. Ramsey, A. Rep, Min. Corbett, 11. IV. It, Oregon Ross, E. (i. Rep, Kansas. Cragin. A. H. Rep, N. If. saulsbnry, W. Oyp, Del. Davis, Q. Opp, Ky. Sherman, J. Rep, Ohio. Dixon, J. Opp, Conn, epragne. W.Rep, R.I. Dooiittle,J.R.Opp, Wis. Stewart,W. M. R.Neva. Drake, C. D. ltep. Mo. Sumner, C. Rep, Mass. Edmunds, G. F. Rep, Vt. Thayer, J. M. Rep, Neb. Ferry, 0. 8. Rep, Conn. Tipton, T. IV. Rep, Neb. Fcsteudcn, W. P. Rep,Me Trumbull, L. Rep, 111. Fowler, J.S. Rep. Tcnn. Van Vinkle, P. G. Rep, Freelinghuysen, F. T. R. IV. V. N. J. Wade, B. F. Rep, Ohio. Grimes, J. IV. Rep, lowa. Willey, W.T. Rep, IV.Va. Harlan, J. Rep, lowa. Williams,G.H.R,Oregon Henderson, J. B. R, Mo. Wilson, H. Kep, Mass. Hendricks, T. A. 0, Ind. Yates, R. Rep, 111. Howard, J.M. Rep,Mich. Republicans, 41! Howe, T. 0. Rep, IVis. Opposition, 11 Johnson, R. Opp, Md. McCreery, T. C.Opp,Ky. Total, 53 Morgan, E. D. Rep,N. Y. : Mr. Washburne of Illinois offered the following rule in the House to regulate the conduct of that body on the discussion of articles of impeachment: llrsolvrd, That the rules be suspended, and that it is hereby ordered as follows: When the L-omitteeto prepare the articles of impeach ment of the President of the Uuited States port the said articles, the House shall im mediately resolve itself into a Committee of the whole thereon; that speeches in committee shall be limited to fifteen minutes each; which lebate shall continue till next legislative day kfter the report, to the exclusion of all other Wines* except the reading of the .10- Jr , . that at three o clock iu the afi'.rno< m ' tutid second day tho fifteen rnhu.ts del 1 shall cease, and the committee ' proceed to consider and vote u;,<„i '*? meets that may he oflbred tinder I minute rule of debate, but no rnev.-h --forma amendment shall he entertained J tl ■ at four o'clock in the afternoon of day the committee shall rise an i repor i' action to the House, which shall immeduVv and wit hoot dilatory motion vote there if that if the articles of impeachment are agoVrf on, the House sbatl immediately and wit', • dilatory motion <Ject by ballot seven manaeers to conduct such impeachment on the part of tue House; and that during the pead;', ? „V resolutions in the House relative to said in peachment, thereafter no dilator; invlT shall be rtcieved exceptouc motion each V*'.'' The B"Uimore American of the Il'Jtb u > has the following summary up to that date Senator Howard, yesterday, in the ted States Senate reported to the Set ate "llules of procedure and practice in the Senate Wlieu sitting as a high Court of I !r peachment." The rules are tared u ,, ou the usual rules adopted in impeachment trials, but with tome important amenim* nt and alterations. It is provided that up, articles being presented to the Senate, the Senate shall, at J o'clock I'. M. of thed., following such pre mtation. resolve itviV into a high Court of Impeachment A quo rum of the Senate shall constitute a quorum of the Court, and it shall continue in ses-lon (Sundays excepted), after the triai shall commence, unions otherwise ordered by the Court, until final judgment be rendered The Chief Justice of the United States si,ml preside; notice shall be given hint by the presiding officer of the Senate of the time and place fixed for the organization of the high Court of Impeachment, and he shall preside over said Court until its final ad journment. The presiding officer of the Court may rule all questions of evidence and incidental questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Court, unit-, some member oi the Court shall ask that a lortual vote be taken thereon, in which ea-e it shall be submitted to the Court lor dew ion, or he may, at his option in the fir-t in stance, submit any such question to a vote of the members of the Court. Witne*.... shall be examined by one person on the other side. At all times while the Senatt sitting upon the trial tie doors of the Senate shall be kept open, unless the Court shall 1 direct the doors to be closed when delibera ting upon its decisions. All preliminary r . interlocutory questions, end all motions shall be argued by one person only on each side, and for not exceeding one hour on each side, unless the Court shall by an order ex • tend the time. The final argument 01; the , merits may be made by two persons on JC! side. The argument shall fee opened ami closed on the part of the House of Kepr ' sentatires. All the orders and decisi-.e" shall be made and had by yeas and tiay:-. a:, J without debate, except when the doors shall be dosed for deliberation, and in that <O.-0 no member shall speak more than once <u one question, and for not more than tcu minutes on interlocutory questions, and fif teen minutes on the final question, un! by unanimous consent. The adoption f these rules will guard against any unnrc sary delay in the trial. The House of He; reseutatives' committee is expected to 1,- port the charges and specifications of tie articles of impeachment to that body to d The articles are nearly completed to nigi.\ and are substantially about as follow-: Two violations of the Constitution : c charged. The first consists in remc i Secretary Stanton from office while t, - Senate was in session without its advice. The second consists in appointing Gen ral Thomas under the same circumstance-. Two violations of the Tenure-of-Officc law are to be charged: First, the reuiova: ol secretary Sanlon, second, the a-signing f General Thomas to the posittion. r JV> violations of the Conspiracy act of July 1861. njaiely: First, a conspiracy with Gen eral Thouias to deprive Secretay Stanton of the office, second, a conspiracy with Gen eral Thomas and others unknown to thn House of .Representatives to ootain pos->.-- sion of Governuient property, the book?, mails, and records of the War Department, etc. It is also undei consideration to in troduce an article accusing the acting Prest dent of attempting to induce the army officers to disobey the law. Secretary Stanton still continues at hi? post of duty at the War Department. Yes terday Marshal Gooding, of the District ol Columbia, appeared at the War Office -nd delivered to Mr. Stanton a notification 1; 111 the Circuit Court of the District of Colum bia that Lorenzo Thomas had entered suit for $150,00U damages against him for false arrest. Mr. Stanton received the notifica tion, quietly placed it in his desk, and in formed the Marshal that his attorney would attend to the matter. BERLIN, Feb. 25 —Evening.—The N-w treaty concluded between the I uited States andthe North German Confederation pro vides that natives of Germauy must obtain a license to emigrate, which shall be register ed, and that those who, after taking cut their naturalization papers, have resided five years in a foreign country -hall be released from the obligation to perform military ser vice in Germany. BERLIN, Feb. 25. —George Bancroft has been duly received as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the United States to the North German Confederation. The details of the treaty between North Germany and the United States, relative ta the rights aud privileges of naturaliz, d American citizens of German birth, of whom military services have heretofore been claimed, have at last been fully agreed 011 by the representatives of the two nation-. LONDON, Feb. 26— 1 IP. M.—A great meet ing of the friends of the United State? was held to night at St. James liall. John Bright acted as president. A number of prominout Liberals were present on the plat form. Mr. Bright made a powerful speech, arousing the sympathy of the audience for the Americau side of the Alabama con troversy and presented his views with au earnestness and eloquence which carried the vast assemblage entirely with him. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and broke up with repeated cheers for America. TRF.NTON, Feb. 25. —Governor Ward to day sent to the Senate the joint resolution with drawing the consent of New Jersey to the proposed constitutional amendment, article 14, with his objections. lie argues the'matter at length, aud says the resolution has no validity, and, the ratification having already been made, no further action can be taken by the State unless the matter be again submitted by Congress. No time was set by Congress for the ratification by a sufficient number of States, and, thefiire. New Jersey cannot avail herself of any n Ju to withdraw because of delay by oilier States. The veto was read, aud by the constitution lays over. THE Rev. STEPHEN 11. TVNG, JR., W' trial by a Board of Flpiseopal Presbyters has excited so much comment in the country, has been found guilty of violating a canon of the Episcopal Church in preaching to a denomination outside of the church. He is sentenced to receive a "public admonition from the Bishop as provided by the Dioces an Canon. REV. W. C. HOTT, Secretary of the Cen tenary Committee, has published a sum niarv of the centenary contribution ol the M. ft. Church. Tho totals for connections! and local objects are embraced in the return-. Four of the conferences have not yet report ed, and two reports are iucomplcto. Iho grand total is over eight millions—s3,2-11 1 - 435.
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