Inquirer. BEDFORD, PA., FBIDAF, MAY 1, 1868. STATE TICKET. AUDITOR GENERAL: GEN. JOHN F HARTRANFT, OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. SURVEYOR GENERAL: CCL. JACOB M. CAMPBELL, OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECT IVE. Three years have elapsed since wc took charge of the INQUIRER and entered upon its editorial duties and cares. These years have been pleasant though busy ones. Our one hundred and fifty visits to six thousand readers in this county, we 'Utter ourselves havo neither been unpleasant nor unprofit able ones to them nor to ourselves. Wo have endeavored to lay before them as much of the most important current news as could well be got into a weekly newspaper: and iu our selections we have labored to make them both pleasant and profitable reading, our columns have been carefully kept free from anything that could sully the purity of ehllJUuoU ui u Hen a mc taste ot tbe most fastidious. Our advertising has been cur tailed so as to afford a larger amount of space for general reading and news matter than any other county paper in this section of the State. From time to time we have received words of encouragement and ap proval from onr many patrons which have cheered us on in our efforts to publish such a paper as may be both a benefit and a redit to tbe community and ourselves. As we now enter upon the fourth year oT our editorial duties we feel it incumbent upon us to tender our thanks to the kind patrons who have sustained us in the past' and pledge our earnest efforts to deserve a continuance of their support and approval in the future. At the same time we feel called upon to say that, while we have no cause of complaint in the past, we desire to call the attention of our readers -to the fact that the more liberally tbey support us, the more money and time will we be enabled to expend upon our paper, and thereby contin ue to improve it and keep pace with the inarch of progress. Our next issue will be enlarged to eight columns. This enlarge ment entails upon us very considerable ex pense. Our list of subscribers, though the largest of any paper ever published in tbe county, is still not large enough to justify this increased expenditure, but judging from our past experience, wc make the en largement relying upon the interest felt by our people in their county papers and their willingness to come to our support. We should have at least five hundred new sub scribers, and if our friends will make but a little exertion they can easily increase our circulation to that extent. Eschewing the malignity often marring tho usefulness of political papers, we shall, to the be6t of our ability, endeavor to uphold the principles of the Republican party in such manner as, i while vigorously advocating what wc believe to be tho true principles of our Free insti tutions, not to offend our readers with gross personalities or low, vulgar slang. While thus defending the course of our party, we shall not be deterred from calling attention to local or general abuses, without regard to persons or parties. In so doing we know that we shall frequently l>e compelled to pass strictures upon parties and persons, for the public good. In so doing we hope to merit and receive the approval of all who feel an interest, in the abatement of nui sances. in tbe exposure of abuses, and the calling of public attention to such reforms as may be promotive of the common good. Our agricultural columns will, in the future as in the past, give seasonable-hints on all agricultural and horticultural subjects either, as original matter or selections, carefully culled from the bea% live journals of the country. In general, attention will be giv en to tbe discussion and advocacy of local improvements of every kind calculated to benefit the community. Such is a brief view of our past experience and future aims. If it is thought that wc promise too much or aim too high, we have only to say that whether we succeed in making good our promises or reaching our aim, we intend to labor faithfully and assiduously Ho do moro than wc promise. For our ability to do so wc depend upon the generous sup port of our patrons. We arc determined to spare no effort to do our part if they will do theirs, and in their willingness and abili ty we have the utmost confidence. IMPEACHMENT is steadily progressing. Since the c-rideneein the case has closed, speeches have been made or published, on the part of the managers by, Boutwell, Lo gan, Stevens and Williams, on the part of tho counsel for the President,and by Nelson, Groesbeok, Evarts and Staubery to-day; Mr. Bingham will close the case. The President's friends confidently assert that two Republican Senators will vote for his acquittal. They express great confidence; and do not disguise the fact that money will be freely used, if it can be made available in convincing weak or needy Senators of the President's innocence. It is reported that parties in New York are busily engaged in raising funds for this purpose. No fears however are entertained that they will be able to win over the seven Republican Senators necessary to acquit. There scarcely seems to be a possibility of the President's acquittal. SOME people resent an allusion to them in a political speech by calling the political speaker hard names and "easting up" old stories. The persons who do this are not children nor do thoy desire to bo considered as children. CHICAGO has not yet determined on the place for holding the Republican National Convention. Tbe Tribune ot Tuesday says: "We understand that tbe committee having this matter in charge are taking steps to provide a more commodious place ot meeting, either by securing and fitting up one of the large skating rinks, or by erecting a temporary structure on the lake shote. We have entire confidence that the arrangements made for the accommodation of the convention will be satisfactory to both delegates and spectators, and worthy of the city and the occasion.'' THE PRESIDENT AND THE LAW. The counsel for the President occupied two weeks in offering testimony. But the moral evidence was already in. For three years the country has bad the Executive in full view, and we presume no one who seri ously wishes that the legitimate results of the war shall be secured, lias supposed that such a result would be possible while a man who is doggedly l>ont upon committing tbe political power io tbe late rebel States ex clusively to the rebels is in the Executive chair. Yet he ingeniously avoided commit ting the technical overt act which would bring him by tho letter as well as by the spirit wholly within the constitutional con ditions of impeachment. Consequently the oountry, willing to impeach, did not demand impeachment. It was felt to be better to endure to the end of his term, and then re place him by a loyal, intelligent Magistrate, who would co-operate with tbe representa tives of the people, instead ot thwarting them upon every opportunity. But, as often happens to men in his position, the President's eunning sophisticated and be trayed him Ho deliberately violated the law lustaiitly public opinion assented to the constitutional remedy. The dominant party in Congress, which in December had omt'L-tLmUy roG,ea<t o 5m I'pncVi. In Febru ary promptly and unanimously presented articles of impeachment. The public interest in the trial has been unflagging. Its daily progress has been most carefully studied, and its significance can not be overestimated. That amidst the profound agitations, acrimonies, and party heats that necessarily follow a civil war, the Chief Magistrate of the nation can be tran quilly tried with perfect assent upon his part, and with entire conformity to the fun damental law, is the most signal illustration of the advance of civilization. There is nothing that would so mark the actual gain of political society in the perfect supremacy of law, and nothing, consequently, that would so essentially weaken every govern ment resting upon privilege and force as, after trial and conviction, the peaceable deposition of the President and the quiet progress of the Government. It would then appear that whether tbe head of the Government be assassinated or lagally re moved, the political structure does not rest upon a person, but upon all tbe people, and that the system is not even jarred by any personal fortune. The President's defence has been wholly conducted by Mr. Stanbery, Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Evarts, and with a decorum and dig nity equal to their ability and befitting the gravity of the cause. The case for the Managers has been mainly intrusted to Gen. Butler. His skill, coolness, promptitude, and knowledge have been conspicuous, but, unhappily, his want of tact and courtesy and bis peculiar training in the courts have been not less so. Inevitable as we believo the result of the trial to be, we cannot but think it has been often harmed both by tho manner of Gen. Butler and by the method of conducting their case adopted by the Managers. It was desirable, within proper limits, to allow testimony, in so exceptional a case and before so exceptional a tribunal' to take a wide range, and it was therefore a mistake to contest every point with the per tinacity of a criminal lawyer in a doubtful trial. The Senate, however, wisely resolved not to make any stringent rule upon the subject, deciding that it was better to settle each question of admissibility as it arose. Tbe effort of the defense was to prove that the President acted under competent advice, and that his design was simply to test the constitutionality of the law. This was the substance ot the contest upon the admission of the testimony ofGeneral Sher man and of the Cabinet. The President's counsel evidently hoped to show that the chief officers of the army were of opinion that Mr. Stanton should be removed for the good of the service, and that the President acted only after consultation with the Cabi net and for the highest public welfare. Gen. Sherman's evidence was at last admitted. But, of course, whatever tbe General might have testified that the President declared, the declaration itself conld not be of the least importance. On the 22d of February the President removed the Secretary of War. On the Ist and tho Jlst of January he told Gen. Sherman that he wanted to remove the Secretary merely to bring tho matter into the courts. Very well; we are then obliged by the {'resident's antecedents and character to ask whether his word upon such a point must necessarily be trusted; whether we believe his sole object was what he declared it to be; whether his dispatch to Governor Parsons, for instance, or, in fact, bis whole career, does not reveal an animus which forbids the theory that he was merely an honest magistrate troubled about the validity of a law. Or, again, sup posing that he wished to thrust Secretary Stanton out and an agent of his own in, for the purpose of organizing opposition to the laws, would ho be likely to announce it to tbe Lieutenant-General? Would he not, of course, declare that his purpose was as pure as purity? During the discussion upon admitting evidence Mr. Evarts made a very remarka able observation. He said that he hoped the case was not to turn upon "the mere formal technical infraction of the Tenurc-of- Office Act. In other words, he hoped that the President was not impeached for viola ting a law, and he went on to say that the defense hoped to prove that the President had done nothing against the public welfare with bad motives and improper purposes. This is a very remarkable observation, be cause it assumes that it would not be im peachable for tbe President formally and technically to violate a law unless his mo tives could be proved to be bad. From such an opinion wo wholly dissent. Indeed the essential point of the trial is jnst here. We have often stated it, and it should bo con stantly borne in mind. If the President, after having constitutionally objected to a law which has been constitutionally passed over his veto, still continues to urge that veto and makes it operative by fornfally and technically violating the law, udder whatever plea and for whatever purpose, ho usurps a function which the Constitution I does not sssign to him, and which wholly j .-ujicrßcdes the express Constitutional au- I tbpritv of Congress to nullify bis veto, and i he consequently changes the form of the government. That is the very head and front of this case. For if the violation of one law may be justified, if "tho mere formal, technical infraction of the Tenare-of Office Act'' is of no consequence, provided the Executive pleads a Constitutional doubt, then his plea of a Constitutional doubt must equally jus tify him in a formal and technical infraction of every other act and of every law upon the Statute Hook. Such an argument ex cuses him from obeying any law until he has chosen to bring the question of its va lidity before the Supreme Court, and until the Supreme Court has chosen to decide. It is no answer to say that there are some laws that can be tested in no other way. For it is better that some laws should not be tested than that, the President should be permitted to decide what laws be may vio late under pica of testing them. Nor is it sufficient to offer to show that there was no bad motive. A Dictator may have no bad motive: but the President, even with the best intentions, can not be suffered to be come Dictator. If the Tenure-of Office Act was a law, it was binding upon the President with all other laws. If Mr. Stan ton stood within the terms of the law and the President removed him without con sulting the Senate, the President is guilty of deliberately violating the law. If this shall be established by the Managers—and it seems to us as plnin as any proposition can be—and the President be acquitted by the Senate, its decision will confirm him as Dictator. The elaborate effort of the defense to show purity of motive seems to us useless. The Senate did wisely in admitting a rea sonable number of declarations of the Presi dent that ho had nothing but the noblest purposes in view, for really there is noth ing else for him to rav, except that Mr. Stanton is not within the law. We are glad to know all that we can of the Presi dent's communications to men like General Sherman, and as little as possible of his or ations to correspondents with note-book iu hand. We know that the Cabinet thought the law unconstitutional. His counsel with the utmost ability will present his case. It is clear that the Seuate is as candid and up tight a tribunal as any impeached officer could desire. Its conduct from the begin ning shows that it means to do justice. But we shall await with curious interest the argument that shall attempt to prove to the Senate of the I'nitcd States that President Andrew Johnson, in the present condition of the country and with his notorious sym pathies, associations, and hopes, may at his pleasure formally and technically violate the laws.— Harper' Weekly. IMPEACHMENT. Suppose we undertake, before its decision —even yet uncertain —to get a clear view of what the present impeacbinenttrial distinctly means. It is not a judicial trial. Neither is it what it is sometimes termed a "legisla tive trial." It is something more than either It is a political trial. It is a trial in behalf of the country aeainst an executive officer on high public grounds. To be just, to reach a proper decision, the question must be viewed lrom a lofty and comprehensive standpoint. The country, represented by the Repub lican party—but nevertheless the country carried on a successful war to put down a great rebellion. While the contest was yet waged, the same party was, by the popular vote, renewedly intrusted with the manage ment of affairs for a new term of four years. It supplemented that decision by a subse quent vote not yet two years old, which re turned the existing Congress. On this basis we claim that the administration of the Government, on every American principle, belongs to the Republican party until the expiration of the term for which it was in trusted with power, to wit: four years from the last Presidential election, and two years from the last Congressional election, and until the country shall change its decision by reversing its vote. During this term, the Government, and by the Government we mean two-thirds of Congress, which is, and long has been, the only Government in operation, and which is made omnipotent by the Constitution; tho Government, we say, has been these three past years endeavoring to restore the re lationships between the States that were ruptured by the war. It has been thwarted in this high purpose. It tried first to get the Rebel States back on a most moderate and reasonable proposition, offered with special regard to their peculiar eircum stances, and with a desire to allay hostility, and conciliate prejudice among them. This was to remit those States to the control of the very men who made the Rebellion, with comparatively few exceptions, allowing them to adjust their political relationships with the now freed colored race to suit themselves, on the basis of the single restriction of tho representation to such of the population as composed the political body. A fairer and more liberal proposition was never offered to political offenders stained with such crimes as theirs. This, too, was a proposition offered by a Government flushed with triumphant success at all points. If it had been accepted, the Union would have been restored, and the Government again fully unified in all its parts and relationships to day. The war would have been over, and restoration and reconstruction would be now complete, Who prevented this most reasonable and most desirable consummation? An acci dental President. A man borne into a subordinate place by the sympathies of a nation for his apparent great loyalty under trying circumstances; and thence elevated by the foul instrumentality of an assassin into the Executive chair. This man, thus elevated, turned against the party which chose him; which party is and has been for the time the nation's voice, the nation itself. At a critical period, on a vital issue, Vice- President Johnson, made President, planted himself substantially on the side of the rebellious States, and deliberately aimed to arrest and prevent, and, by his personal and official influence, did actually arrest and prevent the restoration of the Union, and the harmonious reconstruction of the States on the original plan offered by Congress. Look ing at the flagrant character of this in terference, and the disastrous consequences resulting therefrom, we claim that this act alone was and is ample to justify his im peachment and conviction before the world and before posterity. That retribution has not sooner threatened the President is to be set down to the forbearance of the country, and to the long indulged, but to the last disappointed hope that he would not always prove an obstruction to the restoration of the Union and the peace of the country. As President Johnson took sides with tho Rebels in roeistiog and the first and more moderate scheme of reconstruction I proposed, so has ho, if that were possible, more strongly opposed the second plan of reconstruotion, now in process of execution, in defiance of his personal and official hos tility! This general aspect of bis course, in setting himself up against the will of the nation—for we say there is no other political nation than Congress, where two-thirds of that body are in unison—projecting bis personality, his willfulness, his perverseness, his defiant oDstiqae.v, in resistance to the public weal, and in behalf of acontjucrd but still hostile and rebellious population —this general political aspect of his conduct, we say, lifts the question ol impeachment far above the fogs which rurround the technical treatment of its details—details confusing to the judgment of many minds, and which, however important in their place, arc really wholly subordinate to the main issue in the case. Thi great leading fuot which history will regard aud posterity interpret as the true and.iust cause of President Johnson's removal if he be removed, the justification for his emdemnation, if he be condemned, is the fact that he went over to the side of the liebols hi the final contest as to the terms on whirl their hostility should cease and they themselves retake their place in the Government of the country. On this vital question the voice oftbe nation wasoric way, and tie voice of Andrew Johnson of Tenu esse? was against that way. And because that opposition took the form of active hostility aud obstruction, preventing tbe first and imperiling the second act of restora tion and needlessly and dangerously pro longing our civil disorders, he was re moved. As to whether Mr. Stanton falls within •ho scope of the Civil Tenure act; as to Mr. Johnson's pleadings that he and his Cabinet held that act to be unconstitutional; as to whether Mr. Vaifc will make a perfect President, or will appoint u good Cabinet; as to whether an impeachable offense must bo a penal offense; as to whether Mr. John son cannot, Dy aiy ingenious possibility, be supposed to have lad no bad intent in what he lias done; ano whether a variety of other minor considerations cannot be raised to pester and befog over careful and dainty minds —we must boll them tube things soon to be consigned ti the liniboof forget fulness. They will bebenpiter overlooked by the eye of history and itatcsmansbip under tne illumination of bt{ one great historic fact that Andrew Jomson substantially joined the Rebels at a uitieal period; that he resist ed the will of thefcountry, and opposed all its various terms god proposition of the re construction of tty rebellious States. This constituted hisgifut aud moral offense. To be sure, he personally disgraced his high office by shamefulharaagues, and he claimed the right to defy ihe laws when it suited his pleasure, and did sustain his defiance by force, and did vio,ate them in a conspicuous instance, so declared with great unanimity by the Senate; but njs greater offense was that he undertook trimakc himself an ob struction, and did oljstruct in a most in jurious manner th| pacification of tbe country after a blooiy and desolating war, during a long perioi of time, when the urgent interests of place, and justice, and national prosperity dimanded the pacifiea tion. These are the solid iroundsund foundat ion for im[>eachment now.and for its justification hereafter. Ifoonviclon fail-, as we believe it should not, and wi| not fail, it must be because a few minds will have conceived their conclusions from eeftain legal, technical, perhaps prejudiced, ispects of tbe case, un known it even may >e to themselves: and that thus its failure till have to be imputed, not to tbe motives off considerate statesman ship, but to those more contracted views from which every lonsideration of public utility, and every high reason ol -late, imperatively deniani the subject should be freed. — N. Y. Tribune. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. SOI TF CAROLINA. (Jenar.il Canty on the 27th alt., tele graphed General Srant. that "reports have been received fro| all but four lemoto pre cincts of South (Wolina, and the majority for the Constitute is 43,608. In the pre cincts yet to be hitrd from the vote will be nearly equally divded. Hon. A. G. Ifackey, I'resident of the Constitutional of South Caro lina, is expcctedlo arrive at Washington this week, for theiurpose of presenting to the President an (facial copy of the Consti tution ratified by lie people of that State. AACANSAS. The Senators from Arkansas. Messrs. Rice and McDngau, have arrived in Wash ington. The npresentatives from that State will all be there this week, and Ar kansas will reoeiviat.tcntion as soon is im peachment is conended. The President has r,ot yet received the certified copy of the ratified Constitutioß, and it cannot be sent to Congress, under the law, except through him. GEORGIA. General Grant has received information from Gentral Meade to the effect that the election it Georgia has probably resulted in the ratification of the Constitution by a do ' cisive majority. Thi State ticket is in doubt, with tie chances ,n favor of the Republi cans. The liberal provisions oftbe Georgia Constitution on franchise and financial re lief seeured for it thousands of votes from the opponents of tkose who framed it. Tbe following is the latest news. Bibb county,official, Halfek, 2,192; Gordon 1,911; for the constitutioi 315 majority. Fifteen additional south wjstem counties received to-day give Gordoi over 1,100 majority. Houston county, villi oyer 2,000 negro majority on the registry, gives Gordon 334 majority, and clods the full Democratic ticket. Tift. Demcrat, is elected to Con gress in the Second District by 300 majority, (love, Radical, is jleeted in the Fourth District by upward.-of, 1,500 majority. It is very close between Alexander and Ed wards in the Tbiid District. NORTH CAROLINA. From North Carolina the returns come in slowly. So fat as heard from the major ity for the Constitution is 7,340. In ten eouaties complete there is a slight jncrease over the vote cast for the Constitution last fall. It has been confidently claimed for several days as "Conservative," on the streigth of reported majorities for several j counties which prove utterly erroneous. In thi* State, also, the Republicans were distracted—a full ticket having been placed in the ield by those who were implacably hostile to IJolden, the regular nominee for Governtf. The registered voters (official) are 105,,'4'.f white to 73,310 colored —more than thirty thousand white majority. So that, if tip contest had been between whites and blacks, as the Copperheads pretend, the RepuUicans must have bceu badly beaten. Fur days our adversaries enjoyed their fools' paradise; and when at length the returns looked more dubious they confi dently asserted that the western counties — being almost exclusively white—would bring them ahead. Bat the west, though white is largely anti-rebel, so the cry ol white against black has not sufficed to carry her against herself. The outcry against mixed common schools, negro jurors, Ac., has doubtless carried off aiany good Unionists, but not enough to insure a rebel or Con servative triumph. North Carolina is Union and Republican by a handsome majority, and has not only chosen the Re publican State ticket, but (as reported) a Republican Representative in Congress from every district but one, which returns the Hon. Nathaniel Hoyden, an old-time Whig. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. ANTHONY TROLLOPS ia in New York. GEN, Lor ELL A. ROUSSEAU is in Wash ington. QUEEN VICTORIA is now the grandmother of six Prussian scions of royalty. A RUMOR is prevalent which hints at the possibility of the resignation of Gen. Sickles. GOVERNOR ENGLISH, of Connecticut, is spoken of for Vice President by Pccdle tonians. PUBLIC executions have been abolished in England. Like all other reforms, a stormy and long protracted war preceded iu adoption- HON. WM. C. RIVKS died at his residence at Castle Hill, near Charlottesville, Va., in his seventy fifth year. GOVERNOR GEARY has signed the bill compel ling all ruilroad companies to fence in their tracks. THE House of Commons of Cauuda, on Friday night, passed a bill providing tor the support of the widow and family of McGee. Gov. FLETCHER, of Missouri, says that the delegation from his State will vote solid for Senator Wade for Vice-President at the Chicago Convention. TUB Legislature to be elected this year in Pennsylvania will elect a United States Senator for six years after the llh of March, 18G9, when Buckalew goes out. Or the seceeding States Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Georgia, huve all held their elections and adopted constitutions returning them to the Union on an equality with other States. TUB Assassination of D'Arcy McGee, at Ottawa, is followed by the report of an attempt, fortunately not fatal, upon the life of tbe English Prince Alfred, who has been shot and dangerously wounded in Australia. THE returns from North Carolina come in slowly. S ) far as heard from, the majority for the Constitution is seven thousand three hundred aud forty! in ten counties complete. There is aslight increase over the vote of last fall. JOHN GREV a resident of Noble county, Ohio, said to be the last revolutionary sol dier, died ou the 20th of last month. lie was born at Fairfax Court House, Va. tith of January, 1702, and was in his one hun dred and sixth year when he died. JACOB M. CAMI-BKLL, present Surveyor General of the State, and Republican candi date for re-election, was brevetted a Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, for long and gallant service. He had the command of a Brigade during the war. which he lead into many a hard fight. SENATOR YATES, of lllinoi", under date of the 21st, addresses to the people of that State an extended reply to recent criticisms upon his unfortunate habit of iutemperauce. Acknowledging the justice of these strictures, he declares that the future shall prove the completeness of has reform, aud that he will yet deserve the good opinion and justify the confidence of his fellow-citizens. THE plot to assassinate President Juarez, of Mexico, it is reported, was arranged in the same way as Booth's attempt upon the life of President Lincoln. Col. Adalid, the assas sin, was to enter Juarez's box, at the Itur bide Theatre, shout and stab him. and then flee under tbe pretec-tion of a guard of twelve ex-Imperial officers, dressed-as citizens and mounted on fleet horses. The plot was dis covered through the misdelivery of a letter from one of the couo^.ralors. IN conueetion with the nomination of General Scholield, it has cu uc to light that the President offered the place to General Scbofield a number of months since, and that the offer was promptly declined. He was in fact one of the first Generals the President attempted to draw into the political contest against Congress. His late visit to Washing ton had nothing whatever to do with the President's la'e act, and in fact General Scbo field did not see Mr. Johnson while in that city. Nothing has been done with the nomi nation in tbe Senate. THE NOMINATION OF GENERAL SI HO* FIELD. —The Washington papers of Satur day morning are singularly quiet in reference to the President's new demonstration on the War Department. The Jnlr/egeneers'iux ply announces the nomination as made "in place of Ed win M. Stanton — la be, removed." The Republican says: "The nomination of General Scholield for Secretary of M ar has taken men of aD parties here about slightly aback. The question was freely asked last evening, what does it mean? That the President has seen fit to withdraw the name of Hon. Thomas Ew ing and send in the name of Major General John M. Schofield for the Department of War, has astonished manyotMr. Johnson's friends and all of his enemies. "Even General Thomas, who was at the Cabinet meeting yesterday, knew nothing of this purpose and action of tiie President. Wheu told of it he exprssed strong doubts of its truth, but contented himself when the fact was made apparent to his comprehen sion with saying that he was still Secretary ofWarrirf interim. "The nomination is regarded as a good one, but it may be doubted if the Senate will act upon it till aftr the impeachment trial is closed." The nomination of General Scbofield places the affair in a singular position, which only the blundering inconsistencies of Mr. Johnson could have effected. The nomination of General Scbofield completely overslaughs and ignores the ad interim ap pointment of General Thomas, and is an admission by the President that all his pre vious action in regard to the Department has gone for naught. LOUISIANA, of whom we never doubted, it is now concluded by her own Conservative organs lias declared for reconstruction by the pronounced majority ot at least ten thousand. We claim more, but this is enough. The consequences are two more Senators and a full and final ratification of the costitutioiial amendment, from which the Democracy ot Ohio and New Jersey are vainly endeavoring to withdraw the pledge assent of their States. This, with North and South Carolina already assured, is glorious work for one month; but when we consider that Georgia aud Florida are hardly doubtful, and that the closing days of April tnav be made illustrious by the exit from Washington and history of An drew Johnson, surely we may be allowed to cry, "lo triuuipho!"— Press. POLITICS in the South have been quite as excited as they ever were in tbe North. A letter written froui the northern part of Al abama says neither side will give quarter, and Ku-Klux-Klans are everywhere creat ing terror by the atrocity of their acts. We do not believe that tbis dark cloud will long rest over the South. It appeared from the returns, particularly from Georgia, that the division has not been of race or color, for many blacks have voted with the Conser vatives; and it is not improbable that if the State has been carried by the Conservatives, they have been materially assisted by the colored voters THE ABYSSINIAN WAR.— Later advices from Abyssinia, dated Louta, April 14, have been received. The very latest reports from Magdala represent that four thousand native troops had laid down their arms to Napier. Theodoras had one hundred soldiers killed and fifteen hundred Wounded. The Europe ans lately held captive, numbering sixty souls, were already on their way to Louta eti route for homo. The entire force of Theodorus army bad been either killed, wounded or captured. Theodorus, two sous were taken prisoners. The interior of the fortress of Magdala presented an extraor dinary and splendid sight, the place glowing almost with barbaric splendor. The British troops plundered it atonce. The men found lour royal crowns made of solid gold, twenty thousand dollars in silver plates, several lots of very rich jewels, and other articles of great value. After the works were completely taken King Theodorus was found dead by the En glish soldiers on entering the centre of his stronghold. He was shot through the head Some persons say he was killed during one of the battles; others incline to the opinion that he committed suicide when he found the fortunes of the day against him. A female correspondent of the Phila delphia I'rejs.i says of Senator Wade: "Sit ting in his presence the other day, we ven tured to remark, 'How did it happen, Mr. Wade, that you signed the petition of Mrs. Frances Lord Bond, recomendiDg her for a consulate? Would you really advise the country to give a woman such a position? The spirit of mirth danced over his face as he replied: 'I would sign any petition that reads as that did. It said, 'if she could perform the services better than any one else?' I bad a doubt in my mind about that; but if she could do the work better than any one I would not prevent her because she is a ' woman." CHICAGO claims to be the third city in I the 1 nitedTStates, judged by the number j of letters delivered Hays the Timet: New ork and Philadelphia are a little ahead, ! but not much, nor will they be long. One by one, Chicago is leaving behind its rival cities, until there now remains only two for it to pass. Give us ten years more, and Chicago will be neck-and-neek in the race of* other cities on the western continent. The vote of Chicago last week, which was unusually large, indicitcd a population of about 200,000. 'I HE Central Christian Advocate, the organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mis souri, -tatcs that while in ISG2 there were but thirty-two ministers and 2,141 members of that church in Missouri, there are now about 200 niini-ters and 26,000 members, an increase of about 4,000 a year. It advo catcs the division of the .State into two con ferences, and predicts that four years hence I they will each embrace 150 ministers and 20,000 members. DISPATCHES from the Indian country in dicate the early breaking out of another j Indian war. Considerable amounts of stock have been stolen, and many murders have been committed. These facts, we are well known to Gen. Sherman, and we un derstand that they hastened his departure ! from Washington. —— IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI- I TED STATES, For the Western District ok Penßsixvari i, IN BANKRUPTCY, AT BEDFORD APRIL. 13, IS6B. Tho undersigned hereby gives notice of bis ap pointment a- Assignee of DANIEL METZGER, of Harrison Township, in the County of Bedford, and State of Pennsylvania, within said District, who has been adjudged a bankrupt, upon his own petition, by the said Dlitriat Court. M. A POINTS, Assignee. To the creditors of said Bankrupt. apr:l7 3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI- I TED STATES, Foe the Western Disjrict ok Pejixstlvakia, IN BANKRUPTCY. AT BEDFORD, APRIL 13, 1868. The undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap pointment a-- Assignee or ISAAC F. GROVE, or Bedford, in the county of Bedford, and the State of Pennsylvania, within said District, who has been adjudged a bankrupt, upon his own petition, be the said District Court. J. K. BOWLES, Assignee. 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