putt4ota WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1888. TEIIiPOIRART 01.1711 BATEX.. Believing that in the pending all impor tant political contest no agency can equal the newspaper present efficiency, and be ing impressed With a conviction of the ne cessity of extending more iidely the circu lation of sound Democratic Journals, we have concluded to offer the WEEKLY' IN TELFGENCER, to new subscribers, for a limitedperiod, at' the following very low Single copies, 1 year 52.00 5 copies, 1 year 9.00 10 n 17.00 20 1, , 82.00 30 it II II 45 00 An extra copy will be cent with every club of 20 or 30. THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCES. IS THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN PENNSYLVANIA The rapid Increase in its circulation dur ing the pant year shows that it, is properly upprociatod by the people. We ask every ono of our readers to make an effort to add to our list, In no way can they do more to further the spread of political truth, or to combat error. Let there be an organlmd e f fort made to get up club& The terms which we oiler are so very low that wo do not propose to make them per manent, The arrangement will only be u temporary ono, and will not be extended beyond the first day of next April. Euch subscriber will find his name and the date at which his subscription expires printed on the paper. Our terms are CASH IN ADVANCE. Monoy can be sent by mall from any par of tho county at our risk. Parties at a.dis Lance should Fend checks or post Mike or dors, WO will HOUd the WEEKLY INTELLIUEN CEO for one month free of charge to any one likely to . become a permanent sub scriber. Any of our readers can have papers no sent, by writing to us. We will send en many as they see fit to order. Meeting of the TonimMee on News The action taken by the County Con vention to increase the circulation of Democratic newspapers In this county lo well calculated to effect that moot de- Hirable result. Lancaster County Is en tirely too large to be thoroughly can vassed by one or even a dozen men. Each election district must act In this Important matter for Itself. A meeting of the Committee consisting of one per son from each election district in the county, will he hold in the Young 1‘ I en's Democratic) Club Ninon in this city on Saturday, "%larch 701, at I I o'clock. The names of the nultn berm of the Com mittee will be found among the pro ceedlngs of the Convention, It Is highly Important every district should be rep resented at this meeting. If there Is any member who cannot 01000, he should, without fail, send as a substitute some active and intelligent Democrat. The work to be dune by this Commit tee Is most important, and it must, be done speedily and thoroughly. The 7th day of I\ larch will find us with our State Ticket in the field, and the work of the gloat Presidential campaign fairly before us. 'We must begin it with energy cod keep up the fight with un remitting vigor until victory crowns our efforts. The most potent agency In he coming battle will tie the newspaper press; and IL is of the highest hupor (wee that every member of the Com mittee appointed by the County Con vention should be present on the 7th (lay of i\ larch, either In person or by a proper constitute. Let every district he represented. lion. 11111. A. 11'allace We notice that a paragraph Is going the rounds of the Radical newspapers of this State to the effect that a move ment is on Mot to remove Senator Wal lace from the Chai rnmuship the Dem ocratic State Central Committee. We beg leave to assure these parties that they are entirely mistaken. After due deliberation the last. Democratic Con vention, with great unanimity, voted to conthme Mr. Wallace as Chairman un til .January lad, MM. This was done in accoroance with a resolution passed at a former Convention, fixing it as a rule of the party that a Chairman of the Stale Central Committee should be named ut each recurring State Con vention, who should enter upon the discharge of his duties on the first of January next succeed lug. Senator Wallace has proven to lie a most effici ent and successful party manager. Ile has efTheited an organization of the Democratic party of Pennsylvanta, which, if energetically carried out i %the different counties and election districts, cannot fail to give us a majority of many thousands at Ihe coming Presidenital election. The Democratic party of Peon sylvan is is perfectly satisfied to eon ti nue the conduct of the important campaign upon which it is now entering in the able hands to which it has been so ju diciously committed. We cannot grati fy our opponents by making It change. We will remember Old Abe's saying, that "it is a bad time to swop horses when crossing a stream." The Radical, all over the country are tiring saltites for the impeachment of the President. Is this matter for pub lic rejoicing: Either the Chief Execu tive of the Nation has disgraced his of fice and country before the 'world, or else the United States I louse of Repre sentatives has co'llinolleed it base and malicious prosecution, with a view to bring about, a sort of Mexican revolu tion, Over which aspect of the ease do the Radical., explode their gunpowder' Th ,, h , 1., rather cause for the American peo,iie to ".,egl Nov h eed s In ~iintni q uid narrow, If the pr,ldi , ot had commit, tech any (Aimee deserving impeachment, it would fornlsh abundant reason for national humiliation ; but as the pro• ceeding total mc }din is trausparently groundless, and prompted hy the lora- MOM 4 dettlglot of Congress, to seize thr reins of govffiThoeni and perpetuate the power of a faction, 15 allimls grave cause for national apprehension. It warns the people to girth up their loins for the approaching, and perhaps thud struggle In brhulfof constitutional fretabou. Tho Greenback Remolutloo or the Indiana Rodlealo. We have walled patiently to hear what Itatlival newspapers or the East would have to HUN' 10/1110. the greenback resolution of the 11111111.113 Republican -Itate Convention. That body put itself squarely on Pendleton's platform. Yet we have not heard a word or donuncla Lion from any one of those who so loud ly denounced the proposition lo pay the live-twenty bonds in legal tenders us repudiation. How is It gentlemen? If tills thing was repudiation In the hands of the Western Democracy, is it any less reptidlation in the hands of Western .Radicals? Let us hear from you on this important question. You cannot advo cate one doctrine in Indiana and a dif ferent one In Pennsylvania. We com mend this matter to the Radical state Convention which is soon to assemble In Philadelphia. The Suring Elections At the towneldp electlone In Warren county the Democracy have made large gains, In Northumberland they have done the same thing, carrying nearly every election dlettrlct In the county.— That is the proper way to begin the Presidential eawrolgn. Let It be fol• lowed up everywhere, and the result will be seen of the polls next fall. Two Patriot and ,Union says, the Radicals of the House have allowed . Geary „ $l,OO for. postage, stationery and telegrams. Hhe don't manage to dear one thousand. dollars out of thili sum for hla'Privat4' pocket It.**lll be a sub ' pot for wonder. The .Benate Cannot Convict. , A furiotuo partisan majoi:lty in the 4 4 House of rhipreliOitatiles aiilresEkted the President of. , ?the trpi ~' Stair. for, trial before a homely P .. an S~i4ate., The authors of the moved#nt Ali, Con fident of suCciiss, bees*" the*/ hire, staked upon. the issue the fate of the party to which four•Sfths of the un scrupulous Senate belong. Yet we hazard the prediction that the scheme will come to grief, and bring ruin upon its contrivers. , , , . There are somethings which even a Radical Senate DemE NOT no. It dare not convict coavict of an offence when the of." fence does not exist, It dare not con viot of violation of law when there Is no law. There is absolutely nothing in the Tenure of Office Aot which forbade the removal of Stanton. By the terms of that act itself his case is expressly excepted from its operation. This was purposely done by the very Senators before whom the President will come for trial. The latter's recent message to the Senate has annihilated every pre text for the prosecution. But this was superfluous, because all who under stand the language can read the plain words of the proviso. We doubt not that the Senate is pre. pared to disregard the clear intent of the Constitution, and its interpretation 'by those who framed it. We have no doubt that the Senate would disregard the usage of the government from its creation to the present day. We have also, no doubt that the Senate would In sist upon the power of Congress to thrust a War Secretary upon the con stitutionalComrhander-in-Chief,against his will. And we are persuaded that the Senate would spurn a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court against the:constitutionality of the act. But we shall see that even the Senate dare not eat its own words. There are acts so repugnant to coin• mon sense—so revolting to the natural instincts of human Justice—that even a debauched Senate dare not commit them. After Congress declared in equivalent terms that Andrew Johnson should have power to remove Stanton, notwl thstanding the tenure-of•ofiice act; for, excepting names, this was theyreelse and Intended effect of Its language ; even our degraded Senate dare not venture to condemn the President for doing what Congress expressly authorized him to do. And it mil/ sot. Army Appropriations. The Military Appropriation bill, which ' passed lhu Reuse 011 Thursday, is nearly ono hundred per cum lower than last year, and far below the actual requirements of the service. It Is done to oldie the popular effort at retrenchment and to bridge over the elections, with the full knowledge and tacit admis sion that from thirty-three is fifty per cent will be required 01 the next Congress for deficiencies. The above extract from tie Washing ton correspondence of the New York Herald confirms the view we some time since expressed of the hypocrisy of Radical professions of retrenchment But the party which has kept the na (tonal expenditures at six hundred mil lions per annum in time of peace can no longer deceive the country with pre• tences of honesty or economy. Nor can the (leneral of the Army, who admits that lie betrayed the President and one• half the people in his dealings with Stanton, claim much credit for the sin eerily of his military estimates. Thu truth Is, that the Radical system of negro government in the South will permit no reduction of the army. This army must be kept at present figures to secure the subjection of 'the white race lu the ten slave States. Eighty inil/foteper annum must be wrung from the groaning masses of the North to ex tinguish liberty and crush industry in the South. This is one of the useless and monstrous leaks in the treasury that are draining away the substance of the people. The Member from Alanhelm Our diminutive member of the Legis lature (diminutive in more senses of the word than ode) who hand from the rural district of Manheim, has, It seems, for gotten the good advice we gave him.— With the rashness of youthful inex• perience, being prompted thereto by the same inordinate vanity which lends him to deck his tiny person in all kinds of college badges and other tinseled trappings, he has on several occasions attempted to interrupt the proceedings of the House by spouting a sophomoric harangue. The other night one of his flights woke up a gentleman on the Democratic side. When our lillipution orator hart concluded, Mr. Beaus, of Bucks, rose and said: Mr. Beans. Mr. Speaker, I arise for a personal explanation. 1 arise, Mr. Speaker, to admit that I am completely annihilated by the gentleman upon the opposite side— pardon, Mr. Speaker, but I (=not recollect who he is or where he is from. Neverthe less, his "original ideas," so terribly en. forced, upon a soporific audience, are more than I cqu stand. There was great laughter on both sides of the House, and since that ti roe the member front Manheim has not been heard from. Think of it! At this period of the session there are members of the House who do not know who the member from Matihelm is. Such Is fame! The Irrepressible Negro 'rho conindttee of two colored tit:leg:del returned front Wadlingtott with Informa tion lila tho lieptildleatts did not desire the election of eoL n rd Congresminen, and that the Suite be redivided Into Congremslonal dititrutts, with mix reprementativesinmtetul of four. 'Phu following notnitintlonm tutulohy tlit; tllutriet itivutinus hold 1;;;;;;;; Flrst Con. I.tl'umNlcnint dlNlilrt, ,John It. From:li, of NVitmliington ully (It Is wtirl thnt In; Is not ultlzl•tt thlm ; S,;votul diNtplet, Coln twl hnvld !lotion, of 01110; Pourth diNtrlet, Colonel .1, 'l'. Itowcusp, of lIIIIIOIN, It ipt said that J. I. nogro, NVIIS tlyst noinl tuttucl, but ,IPollnecl, tglying 114 n I'oll4oll that in 0/11g1T/04 did not II) blk Idrrlotl t , , (hull 'Pitt! above extraclt? . from Somilein telegraphic despatches show lhat Sam bo is getting ambitious, and although MR aspirations are now repressed by prudential motives, they will break out afresh and will' more success rifler the Presidential election. With negroes in the majority and negroes anxious to get Into Congress, nothing can keep them out except n triumph of the Northern Democracy. Radical success would bring a deluge of negroes into both branches of Congress, :Old their votes would lie used to give the ballot to their colored brethren of the North. "Has not a negro eyes and ears," and cannot a negro appreclale KOMI a year? And when his color comes to comprise a Ma jority of the independent voters of a sovereign State, will he not take the $l,OOO a year? Delightful prospect for Northern freemen I 'Po hire plantation negroes at $l,OOO a year to do up the legislation of this blessed country. Polkgamy In Liberia A returned Liberian recently deliv ered a lecture in Now York city on the condition and habits of the people of that model African Republic. Accord ing to his authority the sable aristocra cy of that country have improved In at least one respect. Before their removal from the United States, the black emi grants were mostly content with one wife, but EIOWSOMO of them have twenty, others fifty, and the still more fortunate and wealthy as many us, hundred. The aristocracy of Old Africa, in the days of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, boasted of the number of their wives and concubines, and young Africa, transplanted with its vigorous shoots from the luxurient soil of Southern 'America, adopts at once the customs of its Illustrious predecessors. This Is practical .negro reconstruction in Li beria. Why may we riot expect a sim ilar result in the States now being placed under negro control in this country ? We know nothing to preventlt except the defeat of the whole Radicalpolloy. _ CI MO. IMMEISM • v 9 BA', v 111 " "4, 1868. The Need or Haste In Impeaehiant. AThe„Radlcals feel th*tthey have beefi. • Olto poisliten Which aiieatj one e comp l ete dlbtrugtion o ,4helr. 4artr hasy, un der the influence of passion, theyliave• forced , the lmpesohtrient resolotion through the lower 'Houy of Congress. Justice, common decency and a proper respect for the opinion of the world re quires that the Senate should proceed calmly to the trial of Mr. Johnson.— While the people of this country are looking on with eager interest, the eye s of every.intelligent man in ,the world Will - e,losely. scrutinize' the conduct "of this'great 'trial. By it thiS nation will be judged. Should the Senate of the United States, the members of which are each Severally sworn" to do impel . - tial justice," violate the rules which govern In suqh trials, President John son will pass into history as one of the victimanf despotic tyranny. The fact that such a deed could be committed at this period of the world's history, in what wo boastingly style "themodeire• public," would bethe strongest argument which could be furnished against such a form of GovernYent. Every thing demands that the trial should be con ducted in the moat dispassionate man ner, and with the strictest regard to all the forms of law. Will that bo done? Not if the. ex treme Radicals can help it. They feel that precipitancy is a necessity. The journals which led in the cry for im peachment are now loudly demanding immediate action and denouncing every day of delay as criminal indulgence. Not a few of them openly confess that the very existence of the Republican party depends upon the speedy convic tion and removal of President Johnson. They admit that oven the law's ordi nary delay will destroy their party. They are willing to risk the doing of a great wrong suddenly and boldly, rather than stand the test of a careful exami nation into the causes which have led to the action they have already taken. What they fear more than anything else is the sober second thought of the people. Their only hope is in keeping the masses too much excited to allow them to reflect calmly. Every step token shows that the Radi cals dread an examination of their con duct. They have already taken stops to prevent a fair discussion of the articles of impeachment In the House of Repro- Suutall %Tu. Thu Democratic members aro to be gagged, lest the people should hear both sides of the question. By the direction of the Radicals Gen. Thomas has been discharged without trial or any attempt at trial, The long affidavit of Stanton goes for nothing. They refuse to permit the case to heexamlued by the courts. Why? Simply because they fear that to allow the case to be speedily brought before the Supreme Court of the United States would result in a de cision completely overturning the whole superstructure on which they base the impeachment of the President. In spite of all the efforts made to pre- vent It, a reaction has already set in. Everywhere moderate and thoughtful Republicans are calmly examining the situation. They see and feel that the party with which they have heretofore acted recommitted to the keeping of aset of desperate political desperadoes. Cap ital Is alarmed, tradesmen are very prop erly apprehensive, and all the managers oflndustrlal pursuits are beginning to be ax Mils about the future. Working tnen see that their interests are being Im perilled, and feel that they have a stake In the result of impeachment. Several of the ablest and most widely circula ted Republican journals In the country denounce the conduct of Congress as an outrage that cannot be defended. Will the Senate rush the Impeach ment through under such circum stances? We cannot, and do not be lieve It will. If the extreme men of that body should attempt such an out rage, we believe enough will be found with a due regard to their oaths to defeat the whole scheme in the end. The Discharge of General Thomas No doubt many gullible Radicals Im agined that Gencrid Thomas would be severely punished for attempting to re move Stanton from the War Depart ment. He was arrested and gave bail to answer. At the time appointed for the preliminary hearing the General appeared, and was surrendered by his bail. Thereupon the Court, undoubted. ly in pursuance of an arrangement pre viously made with the Radical mana gem of the impeachment project, dis missed him, without requiring any re newal of ball or even the giving of his own recognizance. This was unques• tionably done to prevent the question of the constitutionality of the Tenure ! of Office Bill from being brought before ' the Supreme Court. It is a clear eon fession by the Radicals that their acts will not bear the light of a judicial in vestigation. They know that the act upon which their impeachment of Mr. Johnson is founded is unconstitutional. What more is needed to convict them of being engaged in an attempt to de -1 pose the lawfully chosen President of the Republic without any warrant of law? Let the people remember and ponder upon this single fact. It fur -1 niches the most convincing proof of the , infamous rascality of the Rump Con gress. Negro Suffrage In New York The. New Yor•k Constitutional Con vention have finally , concluded to sub mit the negro suffrage amendment sep arately at the election on the new Constitution. This is another evidence of the decaying power of radicalism. The negro suffrage clause was adopted Last summer h and at that time Horace (Ireeley and the radical majority spurn• ed the proposition to submit it separ ately. They have been taught modera tion since, and la view of the decaying fortunes or their party are growing modest and humble. I t issafe to say that the 'fie:4r° suffrage amendment and the negro equality party are Inn per manent minority in New York of from seventy-five to a hundred thousand. That State will enter a most vigorous protect against the policy of permitting neg rote to vote anywhere In this coun try, and it will not be long until the sound Democratic doctrine of allowing the white mon of every State to say who Milli I vote, will be again recognized as the fundamental law of theJitud from one end of it to the other. Speaker Colfax laid before the House yesterday, a communication from A. C• Mackey, president of the South Caro lina Convention, accompanied by reso lutions passed by that convention rola tire to the condition of the freedmen of that State, recommending an appro priation by Congress of ono. million dollars, to enable freedmen to purchase homesteads, to he secured by mortgage on the lands so purchased, and to be re paid at the expiration of five years. Why Lot grant it? It would be no more unconstitutional, no more un wise, uo more wastefully extravagant than many of the acts of Congress. More than a hundred millions have been spent upon the negroes during the past year, without eyon the promise to pay a dollar of it. Wily not appropri ate a hundred millions more—or Live, or ten hundred millions, if need be? Don't the people of the North pay the taxes? Haveint they paid hundreds of millions already to enable a set of "carpet-bag adventurers" to be elected to office by negro votes? Why should'nt they be taxed kill more heavily for a similar purpose? By all means let the Radi4 eals carry out their policy to its fullest extent. Why should'nt they? Tan Radical County Treasurer of Lebanon county is a defaulter to the tune of 517,000. Another specimen of the honesty of the "God and morality. party." ' 4, e Row In th ' cal Camp. ~.1 1r i 1 T Teals o ~ ,o01114111139),!14 l 'ani 't ein g 'IOW astarr4ll , 1 over e ee l -,' on A dele Otes . Ifito thi StateilindN onal ClijnvpOonsoA :4! due Cid'ellbe n tmspity , ',,* thin, Ceiiiinitt4aonchiteed to4ban-' don the position they took, and Mr, Fry, the Chairman, Issued an address 1 showing that the action of the Com ' mittee had been taken in accordance with the usages which prevall,wherever what is known no the Crawford:Coutity; System has been adopted. The gen tlemen who were named as delegates to Philadelphia and Chicmo agreed to sub mit their claims to the decision of the people, but they are not to have the field left clear ter them. The opposing ele ments are just as eager to seize upon the honors,and to put themselves In the way of gathering • the prospective spoils.— Other candidates are set up. A small body styling themselves the Soldiers and Sailors of Lancaster county held a meeting, and passed some word-valiant resolutions. Among them were some men who had seen real service, but the majority had done little campaigning outside of politics. They not only set up a can Ildate of their own, but under took to indicate who should be chosen from the civilians of the county. The election comes off next Saturday, and we suppose there will be quite a lively fight between the contending factions. Radical Endorsement of the Dred Scott The Radicals have been compelled to fall back upon the Dred Scott decision, which they so bitterly denounced, to prevent the halls of Congress from be ing filled with negro members from the South. A leading Republican journal takes the ground that none of the eman cipated slaves are citizens of the United States, in any such sense of the word as would entitle them to seats in Con gress under the Constitution, which provides that no person can be a Sena tor,who has not been nine years a citi zen, and no one a member of the House who has not been a citizen for seven years. It professes to believe the negro slaves were made citizens by emancipa tion, but that seven years from the date of that event must elapse before they can be eligible to the lower House, and nine years before they can take seats In the United States Senate. Here is a confession from Radical authority of the correctness of a deelsion which they have been In the habit of denouncing as the most Infamous ever rendered. After sueli a display of consistency, what may not be expected from them. This was the last thing we should have ex pouted from them. The Tenure of 011ie() BM declares that Cabinet officers are to hold their offices " for add during the term of the Presi dent by whom they have been appoint- ! ed, and for one month thereafter." The 1 construction which the Radicals have put upon the act is, that it means that', they are to hold until the end of the four years for which Ilto President by whom they are appointed was elected. They declare that Mr. Johnson has no power to remove Stanton, who was appointed by Mr. Lincoln, How would this.work If Mr. Johnson were removed and Ben. Wade installed in the Execu tive mansion. Unless the Tenure of Office bill should be repealed, Seward and the rest, who are In full accord with Johnson, could hold on In spite of Wade and the whole Radical party. As the Cincinnati Commercial, a Jeading Re publican paper, suggests, they could not repeal the law without showing to the ! world that It was only enacted to sub serve partisan purposes. If the Senate should allow Wade to remove the Cab ; lnet because they are not in harmony with him, they would Justify the course of Johnson, in the very act for which ,they propose. to depose him. If they were not removed Old Ben. would be ' in more serious trouble than Andy John son ever was. Which horn of the di• lemma will the Radicals take? The impoverishment of the South by the infamous policy of the Radicals is so great and so general that It is telling with disastrous effect upon the clergy, many of whom have been forced to abandon their churches and the care of their flocks, to earn a support at some other business. The people are tillable to maintain those to whom they look for rellgiousinstrucllon. While theohurch es of the whites are bein • closed, the negroes are returning to the " Obi" worship of their forefathers, and feticism is taking the place of chrtstlatitty. Whether looked at in a political, social, business or moral point of view, the policy of the Radicals is alike destruc• tive and disastrous. Stanton, who has all along refused even to be kicked out of the President's Cabinet., it is now almost authoritative• ly announced, intends to resign. It Is said he will do so after legal proceed• logs have been instituted against him, so as to prevent an opportunity being given to test the constitutionality of the Tenure.of•Otilce Bill before the Su preme Court. The people are looking on at the drama which Is now being enacted. They see very clearly that the Radicals dare not abide the legal test, that they shrink from a fair examina tion by the Courts. The masses are not so dull as to be unable to comprehend the situation, and there is a love of Jus tice in their hearts which must revolt attic exhibition which is being made by a set of reckless political desperadoes. There were prophets In olden times, and there have been prophets In these latter degenerate days. Thad. Stevens prophesied that the Democrats would curry Pennsylvania last full, and this prophecy was fulfilled. He prophesied a few days since that they Would again curry it next fall, and with it the State of New York, together with several other Northern States. This will be verified also. But neither the prophets of old, nor those of modern times, ever uttered a prediction of which there was a more liberal fulfilment than did Dan. Webster, the great expounder of the Constitution, In a speech delivered at Washington on March 7th, 1850, Here It is: if the Infernal Mingles and abolition ists ever get power in their hands they will override the Constitution, sot the Supreme Court at definite% change and makelaws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ with them In their opinions or dare question their infallibility, and finally bankrupt the country and deluge it with blood." Wl* Not? The Democratic National Convention. In accordance with the decision reached by the National Democratic Committee, which assembled at Wash ington on the 22d inst., a call has been Issued inviting the delegates appointed from all the States of the Union to meet in the city of New York on the' 4th of July next, for the purposeof nominating candidates for President and Vice Presi dent of the United States. The basis of representation, as fixed by the last,.Na— tional Democratic ConVention, isdouble the number of Senators and Represen tatives In Congress of each State under the last apportionment. Each Slate is invited to send delegates. THE Radical press are glorifying over the fact that Grant has premptorily ordered General Hancock to restore the ignorant, aisd corrupt negro members of the New Orleans CV Councils to the position from which he removed them. When a competent white officer is re• inovidlo make room for a negro, or a Northern "carpet bag adventurer" there is :a. shout of exultation from Radio:ma' throate. When an Ignorant negro is de. posed from a position he is unfit to till there is a howl of Indigation. That is the way works, and General Grant seems perfectly ready to make himself Its willing tool. Decision. I Dilemma. Destitution of Southern Clergymen Stanton to Resign. Daniel Webster% Prophecy. t 'ith . • net WOrklngiiiii Think. i s p,safe to say SulM ikser v tijork, , 0 . workingmen ° States opposed to the wild revkilion atchemes of the Rad! a. Garai 7 4 ,-, Who was elected b ;he wo 67, 'nigh i' . : ft \ Cincinnati, wled- squarelr I against impeaching the President, and Made an able speech in opposition to the resolution. His course is fully sus tained by the journals which are recog nized ,as th e organs of the. labptipg, 01asse$4 Ohio Pitfabilrig Evening cafe, a paper which led the movement that resulted in the defeat of the' Radi cal candidate for Mayor in that Radichl stronghold, says : . The wild excitement at Washington, and all over the Union,growing out of the im peachmeut of the,Preeident of the United States, will fearfully imperil the business interests of the country. It may enrich the brokers, but it will he ruinous to honest labor, trade and commerce) The whole ef. 1 fair is lamentable in the extreme, and il lustrates what reckless party passion can do, The workingmen of the North are getting4heir eyes fully opened. They see very clearly that all their intermits demand the annihilation of the Radical party, the speedy restoration of the Southern States to the Union, the de• feat of the attempt to set up a negro empire over one.half of the country, and the election of a President and a Con gress pledged to restore peace and pros perity. From the workshops of the country comes up the cry for a change, which will grow and swell until it cul minates in a grand shout of victory In November. Great Democratic Meeting at Philadel phis. On Saturday night an immense meeting of the Democracy of Philadelphia was held in Horticultural Hall, to give expression to their sentiments in reference to the im peachment of President Johnson, and national affairs in general• The hall was profusely decorated with flags. General Isaac J. Wister was chosen President, and a large number of prominent and influen tial citizens were selected to net as Vice Presidents. speeches were made by Gen oral Whiter, Ex-Governor Bigler, Hon . Richard Vaux, Cal. McDowell, of Harris burg, and others. The speeches wore re peatedly interrupted by outbursts of ap plause, and the immense audience showed a full appreciation of the great lmportauce of the grave issues now before the people. Tho following resolutions were rend by Robert J. Hetnphill, Secretary of the Dem mono State Central Committee, and were adopted with unanimous shouts of ap proval: The Dumont tie and Conservative citizens of Philadelphia whoregard the government of the II n 1 tod States as n constitutional system, founded by the patriot fathers nod sages and statesmen, and who are deter mined, Coil helping them, to maintain the Union and the Constitution against all enemies - - - Do Resolve, That reprosontlng tho mu. lority of the people of Philadelphia and 'Pennsylvania, that the usurpation and revolutionary action of the Reprosontatives of a portion of the States of the Union, In so-called Congress now assembled, is a REBELLION AOAINHT CIOVERNMENT. Resolved, That Congress is a Constitu tional Department of Gm Government, and all its powers are granted by tho Constltu• tion, and without this authority, all Its acts °outside of the Constitution " are REBEL LIOUS EFFORTS TO SUBVERT TUE GOVERN MENT Resolved, That wo protest against the usurpations of Congress, In attempting to destroy the constitutional powers ot the Executive Department and the Judicial Department ot the Federal government, they being co-ordinate and co-equal with the Legislative, and alike beyond its con trol. Resolved, That the people have subdued ono rebellion against ;the Union and the Constitution, waged by war, thus declaring by the decision of arms that tho Union is, and the Constitution shall be paramount and beyond all efforts to destroy thorn, end that the action of the smcallod Congress is peaceful rebellion to prevent the union of the Statue and destroy the supremacy of the Constitution. Resolved, That we will sigtaiii and sup• port tin. Executive and Judicial depart ments against the usurpations of Congress, and give all our " aid and comffirt" to the President of the United States in his acts which are for the defense of the Union and the Constitution against legislative treason. Resolved, That all persons who seek to prevent this may be Justly regarded as enemies to the peace and welfare of the community, and all who stimulate to vio lence, whether they be Governors of States or members of Legislatures, should be de• flounced as traitors to the Constitution and lawslhey have been sworn to support. Re.9(dred, That the white race is the gov erning, the source of all political power on. der the Constitution as "the people" of the United States, and we will never submit, never, to any "policy" of Congress which proposes to give the negro race either po litical power or social equality. • Resolved, That copies of this preamble and resolutions be signed by the officers of this meeting, and sent to the presiding offi cer of the Senate, and the presiding officer of the members called the House of Repre sentatives, now assembled In Washington, District of Columbia, and to the President of the United States. The Impeachment Trial Inasmuch as the President has been for mally impeached, and soon will be tried before the Senate, it becomes a matter of interest to know who compose this body. The Senate now consists of tiny-three mem bers, none of the Southern States (Tonnes • see excepted) being represented in It, and Maryland having but one representative therein, owing to the recent rejection of Mr. Thomas by that body. The names of these members are: Anthony, Rad R. I. Bayard, Union Del. Buckalew, Unlon....Pa. Cameron, Rad Pa. Cattell, Rad N. J. Chandler, Rad.....M10h. Conkling, Rad N. Y. Coziness, Rad Cal. Cole, Rad Corbett, Rad..... Oregon. Cragin, Rad N. H. Davis, ..... Ky. Dixon, Union..... Coon. Doolittle, Union... Wis. Drake, Rad Mo. Edmunds, Rad Vt. Ferry, Rad Conn. F'essenden, Rad Me. Fowler, Rad........ Tenn. Frelingbuyeen, Rat—. N, J. Grimes, Rad lowa. Harlan, Rad ...... „lowa. Hendrloks,Union..lnd. Henderson, 8ad.....M0, Howard, Rad Mich. Howe, Rod Wis. Johnson, IT n i0n.....M.d. ilfoCreery, Un 10n...Ky.. RECAPITULATION, _ Morgan, Rad...—N. Y. Morrill, J. 8., Rad... Vt. Morrill, L. M., Had..ille. Morton, Rad lad. Norton, Had Minn. Nye, Rad Nev. Patterson, J. W., Rad., N. H. Patterson,ll. T., Union, Pomeroy, Rad Kee. Rams, y, iiad Minn. Ross, Rad Kas. Saulsbury, Uulon..Del. Sherman, to. Sprague, Had ...... —Et. I. Stewart, Rad Nev, Sumner, Rad Moss, Thayer, Had Neb. Tipton, Rad Neb. Trumbull, Rad Van Winkle, Rad Wade, R0d........ ... Willey, Rad W. V. Williams Rad..Uregou Wilson Rad Muse, Yates, Rod I It. Radical Majority By a provision or the Constitution no person shall ho convicted without tho con• curreneo of two-thirds of the rum hers pre sent," which In tile present case would ho :el, so that to Radicals have enough votes to Insure the conviction of the President end seven Votes 10 klparo ir ovary Senator who was elected He 11 Rndh ul Shen allow hie political hostility to President Johnson to overcome his SWUM of duty; or this charges are trash, Hon ovary lawyer in the Senate knows they are trash. The Democratic Notional Convention. In view of the fact that the National Do mocrutio Convention will hold its mission in the new Tammany Hall now in process of construction, in Now York, on the 4th of July, for the purpose of nominating can didates for President and Vice-President of the United States, u considerable amount of interest is attached to the progress of the building. The Now York World says: The front is up and the roof nearly Iln• fished. The building presents an imposing appearance on Fourteenth street, and fills the unsightly gap made by the de.truation of the Medical College, with its elegant and lofty brick front, handsomely trimmed with marble. The location is an excellent one, the beet that could have boon selected in the city, In the vicinity of the Academy of Music, Steinway Hall, the Circus, Irving Hall, Wallack's Theatre, and other places of amusement. The neighborhood is aria tout:tie ; the street a very wide and navigable one. Bryant's lilinstreis will be In full blast underneath , " on the Bret floor, during the convention, so that the delegates will not have to walk far when the labors of the day are done, to amuse thelrnminds. The convention will com mence . its session on the 4th of July, 1868, at twelve o'clock precisely, and it is expee• -ted that about five hundred delegates will bo present in the convention, besides the delegations of outside organizations, and clubs which will be represented from each State in the Union. The ball to bo devoted to the .purposes of the convention will 'be unsurpassed for ruom and dlicommodation by any similar one in the country. From the first story to `the roof, in height some fifty feet, ono hun dred and fourteen feet lu width by ono hundred feet in length, the most powerfully voiced democratic tribune will have room to swell his tulip and speak to the dele gates in convention assembled. The hall will be constructed on the most approved principles of acoustics, and the rostrum, chairs, desks and furniture of the hall will be of the newest and most comfortable pat terns. IT is said that Ben. Wade has already selected the men who are to compose his. Cabinet, in case he should succeed in securing the conviction of President Johnson and his expulsion from office. Stanton is to be continued as Secretary of War, and the negro, Fred. Douglas, is to be made Secretary of the Interior. That is the programme now. The Alabama Conservative Committee has decided to call a State Convention in June, or earlier, and has appointed a corn mittee of five to represent the political in terests of the State at Washington. ' hat Produced the Trouble at Washing. 1 - ~ tod—The s s:lllkMeci law. ~, , i' - 'SA . Ev r i the tenure er a al l 1 tenure '!' . 1.1-Personeltollor. e apiol" n uoti tea t d o ~ i vll °Moe blicsmd M , yioe , 'ralett a ftbew. fe, gli . be , elibi , to I bold s oftbsiantil ' Doses* shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified. The Secretaries of State. of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-general and the Attomey.treneral, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the aresident brwhom they may have been ppointed and ffok 'one month' thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and coruleut.uf the Senate. ~ , , . - ir, • 'Sim. 2. 'When civil officers, excepting judges of the United States courts, shall, during a recess of the Senate, be shown, by videnoe satisfactory to the President, Vibe guilty or misconduct In office, or crime, or for any reason shall become incapable or legally dinqualifled to perform its duties, in Such case, the President may suspend such bffider and designate some suitable person to, perform temporarily tbo duties of such office until the next meeting of the Senate, and until the case shall be acted upon by the, Senate. Stich persons shall take the oaths and give the bonds required by law. I In such case it shall ba the duty of the Pres ident, within twenty days after the meet ing, of the Senate, to report to the Senate such suspension, with the ev idence and reasons for his action 'in the case, and the name of the person so desig nated to perform the duties of such office. If the Senate concurs, the ' President may remove the officer and appoint a successor; If the Senate does not concur, the suspend. ed officer resumes his office, and receives again the official salary and emoluments, The President, in case he shall become sat isfied that the suspension by him of a civil officer was made on sufficient grounds, shall be authorized, at any time before reporting the suspension to the Senate, to revoke the suspension and reinstate the officer In the performance of the duties of his office. SEC. S. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies which may happen dur ing the recess of the Senate, by reason of death or resignation, by granting commis sions which shall expire at the end of their next session. And if no appointment, by 1 and with the advice and consent of the Se nate, shall be made to such office so vacant or temporarily filled during the next ces sion of the Senate, theoilice shell remain in abeyance, without any salary, fees, or emoluments attached thereto, until it shall be filled by appointment thereto, by and with the ad vice and consent of the Senate; and during such time all the powers and duties belonging to the office shall be exer cised by such other officer as may by law exercise such powers and duties in case of a vacancy in such office. SEC. 4. No term of office, the duration of which is limited by law, shall be extended by this act Sea. 5. Persons accepting or exercising office contrary to this out aro declared to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon trial and conviction Swon"; shell bu pun ished by a flue not exceeding 1310,000 or by Imprisonment, not exceeding live years, or both. Sm. 0. Every removal, appointment, or employment, made, Led, or exercised, con trary to the provisions of this act, and the inching, signing, sealing, countersigning, or issuing of any commission or letter of authority fur or In respect to any such ap pointment:or employment, are declared to be high misdemeanors, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, persons guilty thereof shall bo punished by a flue not exceeding $lO,OOO, or by imprisonment, not exceeding live years, or both ; provided, that the Pres-. dent shall have power to make out and do liver, after the adjournment of the Senate, commissions for all officers whose appoint. mon t shall have boon advised and consented to by the Senate. Site. 7. It shall be the duty of the Secre tary of the Senate, aft the close of each 1408- "n, to deliver to the Secretary of the Trea sury, and to each of his assistants, and to each of the auditors, and to each of the con trollers In the Treasury, and to the Trea surer, and to the register of the Treasury, a full and complete list, duly certified, of fill the persons who shall have been nomi nated to and rejected by the Senate during such session, and a like list of all the offices to which nominations shall have been made end I tot confirmed and filed atsuch session. SEc. s. The President shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury when ho has made uu appointment to office without the consent of the Senate; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury there upon to communicate such notice to all the proper accounting and disbursing officers of his department. Sm. U. No money shall be paid or re ceived from the Treasury, or paid or re ceived from or retained out of any public moneys or funds of the United States, to or by or for the benefit of any person appointed to or authorized to act in or bolding or ex (noising the duties or functions of any office contrary to the provisions of this eat; nor shall any claim, account, or other instru ment providing fur or relating to such pay ment, receipt, or retention, be present ed, passed, allowed, approved, certified, or paid by any officer of the United States, or by any person exercising the functions or performing the duties of any office or place of trust under the United States, for or in respect to such office, or the exercising or performing the functions or duties thereof; and persons who shall vio late any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of high misde meanor, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, s hall be punished therefor by a fine not exceeding $lO,OOO, or by imprisonment, not exceeding ten years, or both. [The bill was passed over the President'eyeto, March 2, 1867.] The Ten Artieleg of Impeachment WASHINGTON, Fob. 29.—At 2.15 P. M., to-day, Mr. Boutwell, chairman of the select committee on the subject, presented the articles of impeachment against the Presi dent oflthe United Slates, which were there• upon read by the Clerk, as follows: Articles exhibited by the House of Rep resentatives of the United States, in the name of themselves and all the people of the United States against Andrew Johnson, President of the United Slates , as mainten ance and support of their impeachment against him for high crimes and misde meanor of office. Article 1. That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the 21st day of February. in the year of our Lord 1868, at Washington, in the District of Col umbia, unmindful of the high duties of his oath of office and of the requirements of the Constitution that he should take care tent the laws be faithfully executed, did unlaw fully, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, issue an order in writing for the removal of Edwin M. Stanton from the office of Sec retary for the Department of War, said Edwin M. Stanton having been therefor duly appointed and commissioned by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States as such Secre tary, and said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1867, and during the recess of said Senate having sus pended by his order Edwin M. Stanton from said office, and within twenty days after the first ay of the next mooting of said Senate, on the 12th day of December, in the year last aforesaid, having reported to said Senate such suspension, with the evidence and reasons for his notion in the case, and the name of the person designated to perform the duties of such office tempo rarily until the next meeting of the Senate, and said Senate thereafterwards, on the 13th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1868, having duly considered the evi dence and reasons reported by said Andrew Jokumonforsaidsusponsion where by and by force of the provisions den act entitled by net regulating the tenure of civil offices passed March 2, 1807, said Ed win M. Stanton dld forthwith resume the functions of his office whereof the said An drew Johnson had then and there duo notice, and the said Edwin M. Stanton, by reason of the premises, on said list day of Febru ary, was lawfully entitled to hold said office of Secretary for the Department of War, which said order for the removal of said E. M. Stanton is in substance as follows, that is to say: INEoUTIVE MANSION, WASIIINOTON, D. 0,, Feb. 91, 18U8—Sir: By virtue of the power and authority vested In me as Presi dent by the Constitution and laws or the United States, you are hereby removed from the office as !Secretary for the Department of War, and your functions as such will terminate upon receipt of this communica tion. You will transfer to Brevet Major General L. Thomas, Adjutant General of the Army, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, all books, papers, and other public. properly now in your custody and charge. Respectfully R J yours, AND EW OIINSON, To the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Which order was unlawfully issued, and with Intent then and there to violate the act entitled An Act Regulating the Tenni() of certain Civil Offices, passed March 2d, 1867, and contrary to the provisions of said act, and in violation thereof, and contrary to the provisions of the 'United States, and without the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, the said Senate then and there being In session, to remove said E. M. Staten from the aloe of Secretary for the Deyartmeni. of War, whereby said Andrew Johnson President of the United States, did thenand there commit, and was guilty of a high misdemeanor In office. The second article charges the President with being guilty of a high crime and mis demeanor in authorizing General Lorenzo Thomas to act as Secretary of War ad in terim, in violation of the Tenure of Ofllce bill. The third article charges him with being guilty of high crimes, Soo., in having ap pointed General Thomas Secretary of War ad interim, in violation of the Tenure of Office bill. The fourth article charges Lim with being guilty of high crimes, &c., in that ho con spired with General Thames to prevent Stanton from exercising the duties of Sec retary of War in violation of " an act to define and punish certain conspiracies," ap proved July 81,1801. The fifth article charges him with being ice., in that ho conspired with General Thomas and certain other persons to de feat the operation of the Tenure of Office bit I. The sixth charges him with being guilty In that he conspired with General Thomas by force to seize and possess the property or the United States at the War Depart ment, contrary to the Conspiracy Act. The seventh article charges him with being guilty in that be conspired with General Thomas to prevent and hinder the execution of the Tenure of Office Bill, tuid prevent Stanton fromr 6 ,• ' • nlng to exer cise the alike of =• *.. • War article • • with being r g r ' Thomas e party I • .I:hilted States 1u the War Uri_ ent, The faith ale charges . mm with being gitlltref attatispbingth?.eintrfu Stanton for the purpose of see ing control of the dis bursement of money appropriated for the military service. Article tenth charges him with being guilty of a high crime and misdemeanor, in attempting to induce General Emory to act upon orders not Issued through General Grant. This series of articles concludes as fol lows : ..And the House. of . Representatives by protestation, reserving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time jtereafter any further articles or their accusation or impeachment against the said Andrew Johnson, President of the United states, and also of replying to the answers which he will make unto the articles herein pro. (erred against him, and of offering proof to the same and every part thereof, and to amend every other article or accusation of impeachment which shall be established by them as the case shall require, do demand that the said Andrew Johnson may be put o answer the high crimes and misdemeanors in office heroin charged against him, and that such proceedings, examinations, trials and judgments may bo thereupon halland given as may be agreeable to law and justice. Impeachment We give the vote on Impeachment and the congluding proceedings in tho House of Repreogntativos on Monday: The Brat article was adopted—yeas 120, nays 41 ; the second—yeas 122, nays 41; the third—yeas 121, nays 42; the fourth—yeas 114, nays 30; the fifth sixth, seventh and eighth, same as the first; and the ninth, changed from No. 10—yeas 108, nays 40.. Messrs. Cary and Stewart voted no. They were the only Republicans who did so. No Democrat voted aye. Mr. Fox, of New York, stated that his colleague (Mr. Morrissey), was absent on account of Illness, but that ho would, if present, have voted against each article. Mr. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, stated that his colleague (Mr. Moorhead) was ne cessarily absent ; if present ho would have voted for all the artielen Mr. Eckley, of Ohio, announced that he was paired MI with Mr. McCullough. The following Is the vote in detail on the first article, the other votes showing no party changes. YEAS.—Messrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnell, Ashley, of Nevada, Ashley, of Ohio, Bailey, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Beatty, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell, Brnmwoll, Broomall, Buckland, utler Cake, Churchill, Clarke- r ef Ohio, Clarke, ofKansan, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cornell, Covode, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Donnelly, Briggs, Kg g Eliot, Farnsworth, Ferris, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Gravely, Or'mold, Halsey, Harding, High Hill, Hooper, Hopkins. Hub bard, of West Virginia Hulburd, Hunter, In german, Jencks, Judd, Julian, Kelsey, ICetchum, Kitchen, Loftin, Lawrence, of P.„ Lawrence, of Ohio Lincoln, Loan, Logan, Loughrldgo, Lynch, ' Mallory, Marvin, McCar thy, bl °Murk, Meraur, Miller, Moore, Morrell, Mullins, Myers, NeWomnb, N u nn, O'Neil I, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters, Piko, Plants, Po land, Polmluy, Pomona) Baum, Bohan son, Sawyer, Schanck, bootle id,Shunits, Smith, Spalding, titarkwoothar, Mavens, of Penna., Bioko, Tains], Taylor, ThoMfui, Trimble, of Tennessee, Trowbridgo bul I, Boson, Vau Aormun, Van Hor_ . ,” of ' Now York_ . , Van Harm of Missouri, Van Wyatt, Ward, womhburn, or Wisconsin, Wasliburne, of Illinois, Washburn, of Massaolitisotts, Walker, Williams, of Penn. i)f li gn s n o s n il o v r aiiin w Akri ' aura n iinn 9 o h o i g: bridge—ill, NAYS—Moors, Adonis, Archer, Ax Barnum, Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Cary, °hauler, Eldridge, Fox, Gots, illowsbrouner, Uolladay, Drover, Haight, Holman, Hutch: kiss, Humphrey, Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, McCormick, Morgan, Mungun, Nlb lack, Nicholson, Pruyn, Randall, Koss, Sit greaves, Stewart, Stone, Taber, Trimble, of Ky., Van Auken, Van Trump, and Woodward — IL 'The vote on the articles iming completed, the Homo proceeded to vote for managers to conduct the Impeachment before the Senate. Mr. Poland ,nominated the following members : Messrs. Stevens of Pennsylva nia, Butler of Massachusetts, Bingham of Ohio; Boutwell of Massachusetts, Wilson of lowa, Williams of Pennsylvania, and Lo gan of Illinois. In reply to it question by Mr. Peters, as to who was to he chairman of the managers, The Speaker said that the managers would decide the question of priority among thern• solves. The Speaker appointed an tailors, to count the ballots, M WON. Poland, Jeucken, Spald• lug and Marshall. Mr. Marshall asked to ho excused, and the Speaker nominated In his place Mr. Randall. Mr. Randall also declined, stating that ho did not wish to participate in the proceed ins. The Speaker, remarking that It appeared that the minority desired not to be repre sented among the tellers, appointed Mr. Blair, of Michigan, us the fourth teller. The members were then called alphabeti cally, and each member as called stopped up to the area in front of the Speaker's chair and deposited his ballot in a box kept by the tellers. No Democrats voted. On the ballots being counted, the result was an nounced, as, follows: Whole number of votes cast, 118. Necessary to a choice, 60. For Stevens of Pennsylvania, 105; Butler of Massachusetts, 108; Bingham of Ohio, 114, Boutwell of Massachusetss, 113; Wll - lowa, 112 ; Williams of Pennsylvania, 107; Logan: of Illinois, 106 ; Jenckes of Rhode Island, 22; Schofield of Pennsylva nia, 3; Poland of Vermont, 2 ; Orth of Indiana, 2; Peters, Blair, Churchill, Benja min and Upson, one each. The speaker announced that Messrs. Ste vens Butler, Bingham, Boutwell, Wilson, Williams and Logan having received a ma jority of the votes cast, he declared them duly elected as such managers. I nipenehment--The Congressional Charges Against the President. Is Congress abusing this power? Is It bringing a great constitutional process into contempt by appealing to it where there is no case? Is it unnecessarily disturbing the public peace ? Is it striking at the President for doing things for which the law gives him full power? Congress admits and publishes to the world that it is doing all this. It re iterates in every form of phrase and with all particulars the declaration of its own offence. Every line of its ten articles makes a boast of its guilt before the nation. Its ten artic les of impeachment make nothing so clear as that impeachment has not a sound foot to stand upon—that it is only the insane dream of men who, in indulging an intense party passion, have driven away from them the guides of reason and judgment; of men who, having acquired the arrogant habit in Congress of forcing their will on a feeble majority, have for gotten that there is no previous ques• Son to cut off debate before the people, and who therefore aro now in a fair way to find out that there is after all a difference between an extravagantly one-sided view of the law and the law itself. It matters not what happens in the Senate, for the case is before the people, and they will judge it on the disproportion between the offences charged and the remedy sought--on the ut ter want of wisdom, moderate counsel and patriotic purpose of the Republican party. If impeachment go through the Senate it will destroy the Republican party before the country; for the American people will not be dragged at the heels of an organiza tion governed by the falling intellect and vindictive spirit of Old Thad. Stevens. If impeachment full In the Senate, it will only add to the decision of the people against the representatives the weight of the sena torial judgment to the same effect. Through the whole bill of impeachment run two points—ono the removal of Stan ton, the other the charge or a. conspiracy to obstruct the operation of the law by menus of troops. Stanton's case and the supposed offence of the President in it is disposed of by the Impeachers themselves. They im peach Mr. Johnson us "President of the United States." Mr. Boutwoll explained that this was thought necessary in order to meet n certain diffieuity in the formation of the court—the Constitution requiring that the Chief Justice should preside on the trial of the President, not on that of Vice President; consequently there would be " inconveniences" to the impeachers if they regarded Mr. Johnson as Vice President discharging the duties of the Presidential office during the remainder of Mr. Lin• coin's term. It may be said, more over, that the redleats aro under a deeper necessity than this to regard Mr. Johlison as President and not its the Vico President acting as President. This necessity is the succession of Mr. Wade. Radicalism, therefore, la unchangeably committed and bound to the point that Mr. Lincoln's Presidential term ended with his life, and that Mr. Johnson holds absolutely as President In his own right. This being so, what becomes of Mr. Stanton's claim to the War Office, oven under the Tentre of Office law ? This laws limits the holding of the Secretary of War. It specifies the dura tion of his term. He shall hold office " for and during the term of the President by whom he may leiVe been appointed." As Mr. Stanton has no authority but that given by Mr. Lincoln, and as it is the ad mission of his friends that this is VI new term, he holds without power or rig . l?t. I Moreover, it is not believed that Mr, Stanton holds any other warrant than` that received in the first term of Mr. Lincoln, which expired at the com mencement of the present term. Ile was never appointed even by Mr. Lincoln for the four years now running. As if this were not sufficient to destroy Mr.Stanton'm case . In the law on which he statuls, it pro vides another point against him. It fixes the date to which he may hold at ono month niter the expiration of the term of the Presi• dent who appointed him ; and for all time beyond that one month it withdraws its protection. Thus the Wilmot the Secretary of War is, under this Tenure of Office act, and for the first time In the history of our government, one whose duration is limited by law; and the fourth section declares that "nothing in this act contained shall be construed to extend the term of any office the duration of which is limited by law." Mr. Johnson's offence, then, is an attempt to enforce this very law of all others. As to the Congressional charge of a con spiracy, based on the testimony of General Emory, it is impossible that any man hav ing read the testimony can read the charge with a straight face. It gives a lively idea of the position of the committee, compelled to hash up some rigmarole to carry before the Senate, that it was reduced to the ex tremity of using such paltry material. Really this simple conversation between the President and a general, distorted into a conspiracy by heated imaginations, has not the dignity of thegreat conspiracy of Bouml Puck Paul against the peace of poor Fritz; and it would be infinitely more laughable than that famous affair it' ono did not feel 'in the midst of ids mirth that the fair fame of the countryjnts In a.deigoo involved. It 'malt surely in the fah:mho the moat satin+ factory deolaratkm is Mr. Johnson's history that bitterly hostile partisans, using all in genuity to frame charges, could allege against his honor, good oondinnitnd probity in office nothing more serious than this " conspiracy with Genoral Emory."—Ncw York .73foread, Bun Against Stanton—General Thomas's Declaration Riled. Yesterday, in Washington, a lengthy declaration was filed by counsel on behalf of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, claiming $1150,000 damages. A. summons will be served on Mr. Stanton, and the case will come up for triad' the ensuing' term of the Circuit Court. In the Supreme (burl of the District of Columbia: Lorenzo Thomas vs. Edwin M. Stanton. The plaintiff sues the defendant in a plea of trespass in the case, for that . whereas the said defendant Edwin M. Stanton, contriving and wickedly, and falsely and maliciously, intending to hurt, injure and aggrieve the said plaintiff, and .without any reasonable or probable cause, or just pretence, to arrest and imprison, andcauele and • procure to bo arrested and imprisoned, the said plaintiff, and him to detain and cause to be detained and im prisoned for a long time, heretofore, to wit I on the ',TM February, 1868, obtained from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court o the District of Columbia a certain warrant against the said plaintiff, directed to the marshal of the said District, whereby the said marshal was commanded to take and arrest the said plaintiff. And the said Edwin M. Stanton thenand there falsely and mallolously, and without any reasonable or probable cause whatever, caused and procured the said plaintiff to be arrested and taken by the said marshal, and to bo kept and continued in custody for a long time, to wit, for the space of five days the next following; and the Bald says that such proceedings were therefore had In his said case; that after wards, to wit, on the 20th February, 1868, it was considered and ordered by the said D. K. Carttor, Chief Juitlce of the Supreme Court of said District, in chambers, that the said plainti ff should bo discharged from said criminal accusation, by means of which said promises he, the said plaintiff; was not only imprisoned in the manner and for the time afore said, during all which time he suffered and underwent great anxiety of mind, and was hindered and prevented from following and transacting his necessary and lawful affairs and business, but he was also forced and obliged to lay out and expend divers sums of money, to wit, the sum of $lO,OOO in and about obtaining his release and dis charge from said arrest and imprisonment ; and the said plaintiff also was, bath been, and is, an account of said arrest and im prisonment, otherwise greatly injured and damaged ; whereby the BIN plaintiff saitb that ho bath damage, and is in the worse to the value of $llO,OOO, and thereupon lie brings suit, etc. The plaintiff sues the defendant in a plea of trespass on the case for that whereas lie, the said plaintiff, now and always bath been a good, true, faithful and honest (Minn of the Culled States, and always esteemed and accepted us such until the time of the com mitting of the grievances hereinafter men tioned, nor over Lath boon guilty of any crime or misdemeanor, nor over Huspeuted to have been so guilty until the committing of the grievances hereinafter mentioned. The declaration goes on at further length us regards trespass, charging Stanton as knowing that plaintiff had been guilty of 110 offense, and as contriving and intending to hurt, Injure and prejudice the said plain tiff in Lis good name, fume, credit and re putation, and to cause him to be believed guilty of ft misdemeanor, and to undergo pains and penalties, etc. Itepudlutlon the Nuro Revolt Repudiation looms In the future as the Inevitable Consequence of the now turmoils into which the politicians of both sides are plunging the country. Mad with party hates, the radicals on one side, and the Pre sitient and his advisers on the other, take no cure for the necessities of the nation, heed not the fact that the people are de pressed with the weight of taxes—that the country is staggering under the evils inci dent to the actual destruction of its finan cial equilibrium. Indifferent to the obvious facts of tho nation's condition—that it needs to bo set on its feet, and needs Ills assistance of wise laws and moderate administration to enable it to recover from the tremendous drain made on its vitality by the wur ; in different or blind to all that they should see, the non In high places push the des tructive purposes of party with such fury that the financial honor of the government must surely go down in the struggle, H ucl dimly, as the linmeclinto result of the strug gle for party power, the great doubt of the war, the deep problem that was supposed to be determined and closed forever, is opened again. That great doubt wits, would the United States go through so fearful a struggle and come out safely—come out soon also—a vital, efficient power, possessed of a dominant legitimate government, act ing under the law? Upon that point rested our credit, and as the result seemed doubt ful for us our bonds went down ; as the prospect brightened they went up. But the war was brought to a close. The legitimate government had triumphantly asserted its power, and was respected and supreme in the exercise of all its functions. We had falsified all the examples of history and all the illnatured prophecies by going through the great struggle without political convul- I Edon, and the vast debt we had incurred to I rescue the nation seemed safe—the pledge of our honor sure to be redeemed. But all at once there is an entire change. We aro thrown back from the fixed point we had reached and float In the uncertain sea of revolutionary troubles, so tossed hither and thither that none can say where'we may be beached. We aro again in the category of I nations whose great wars ended in great I Internecine contests for political power; and people must reason to our future from such examples as that of France, In which the series of changes ran through a score of years and upset all law and order. Who shall say now that the nation's bonds will ultimately be of more value than wore those of Franco? or that the United States greenback will not figure in the samechap ter of monetary history that recites the story of the French aesignats? Our ten dency is downward In the same direction. And thus it Is that impeachment, and the disturbance it involves, means in the result neither more nor less than national bank ruptcy.—N. Y. Herald. A Speech from President Johnson A committee appointed by a large moot ing recently held in Baltimore, in reference to the rights of American citizens abroad, to present the resolutions adopted to the Presi dent, did so on lest Tuesday. In reply, the President promised that no effort of his should be spared to accomplish the desired purpose. In conclusion, he said: I shall not attempt in sot terms and mea sured phrase to respond to the remurks you have made in reference to the condition of affairs at present agitating the public mind. The presentation of such kind sentiments, and the encouragement which they give, constrain me, however, to say that they afford mo a gratification which words are inadequate to express. Such assurances at this time give strength and courage in tile tierce conflict which now pro• volts around us. Pointing you to the past as en index to what my future conduct will be, I beg you to believe that in an honest effort faithfully to discharge the high and responsible duties Imposed upon Die by the Constitution and the Laws, I will consider no personal sacrilice too great for mu to boar. Such a sacrifice can not be compared with the groat object to be attained, of preserving the principles of our Republic by a strict adherence to the Constitution and tho Lows made in put, /4111111C0 of its provisions. God being will ing, I will perform my duty, let the con- Kuquenees be what they may. From my iolvent into public life, now some years ego, until the present time, I have passed through many ordeals lu my strug gle for the interest of the people. Never, however, have I, for a moment, swerved from the straight line of duty; ana, stand. Ing in this presence, I can sincerely lecture that us yet there hits been no occasion when, having been assigned to the duty, I have abandoned my Post. I rely now, as in the past, upon the intelligence, the patriotism, and the virtue of the American people, who I believe will come lu all their might and strength to the renctio of their country, and save it from the destruction which now BOOM to threaten its ruin. My faith in the American people is strong rind abiding. I have never betrayed them, nor do I believe that now, when the waves of passion threut• en to engulf the land, they will desert or abandon one who in their cause is engaged in an earnest struggle for the preservation of constitutional liberty and the auprotnaey of civil authority. I again thank you, gentlemen, for this encouragement, end assure you that so long as the vital current continues to warm and animate my existence, and memory holds its piece, this occasion will be remembered and cherished. The Amendatory Reconstruction Bill The following is a full copy of the amen datory reconstruction bill last passed by both houses of Congress : *SEcnorr 1. That hereafter any election authorized by the act passed March 23, 1807, entitled "An act supplementary to an act to provide for the more efficient, govern ment Of the rebel States," passed March 2, 1847, and to facilltato theirrestoration, shall be decided by a majority of the votes actu ally cast; and at the election In which tbo question of the adoption or rejection of any constitution is submitted any person duly registered la the State may vote in the elec tion district where be offers to vote, when ho has resided therein for the ten days next preceding such election, upon presentation of his certificate of registration, his affidavit, or Other satisfactory evidence, under ' such regulations as the district commanders may prescribe. Elso. 2. And be it further enacted. That the constitutional convention of any of the Metes mentioned in the acts to which this is amendatory may provide that at the time of voting upon the ratification of the con stitution the registered voters may vote also for members of the House Of Represen tatives of theUnitedStates, and for all elec tive officers provided 'for by the said con stitution, and at the same election the can cers who shall make the'return of the votes cast on the ratification or rejection of the constitution shall enumerate and certify the votes cast for members of Congress. The Demooratio State Convention of Cali fornia for the election of delegates to the National Convention have called a meeting In San Francisco for the 29th of March. Newsillems Minnesota sends rat skins ta"Europo. London Is to have street railways. Indiana punishes miscegenation with $5,000 line and imprisonment.. Stock cattle brought 25 cents a head at a recent 811061:resale In Texas. "(Maolona" is the mune tboy give skating ponds in Montreal. The citizens of St. Louis are getting ex alted over the question of free markets. Tho main building of the pearl starch manufactory at Madison, Ind., has been burned. Loss $40,000. United Sates Assessor Kettles, of Water loo, 111., was garroted and robbed of $3,000 ha Bt. Louis last Thursday night, There aro 123 persons in Cincinnati who mako their living by telling fortunes, 102. of whom aro Germans. General Sheridan left Eit. Louis on mutat.- day night for Fort Leavenworth, to 11.99U1110 command of his department. Tho Louisiana Convontlon has adopted 112 articles of Its new Constitution, as cor rected by Its Committee on Style. Tho California Senate has adopted reso lutions approving impeachment. The House had previously adopted anti-Im peachment resolutions. Several negrods wero wounded hi a tight at a Radical meeting in Murfreesboro', on Saturday. It to asserted that the light was caused by Inflammatory speeches. At a negro ball, in lieu of " Not trans ferable" on tho tickets, a notice wus posted over tho door. "No gontloman admitted unless ho comes himsolf." NON Young, a colored woman, died a row days ego, on n farm on thoSovein river, Anne Arundel county, Md., aged ono him • drod andt ou yoars. The Hebrew Nioasongor states that there aro in Now York city 10,000 Hobrowa, or more than one-ilistoonth of the ontlro popu lation. There are 20,228 buildings, valued M830,- 701,1148, in St. Louis. Ot these, 10,700 are brick dwellings. There are 343 mills rind factories, 301 school and church editices. The gross receipts of six theatres In Now Orleans for the year 1807, as reported to the Internal Revenue Department, amounted to $1.22,304, estimated in greenbacks. During the recent cold weather a man and his horse,traveling In Southern Louisiana, were frozon.to death, an uncommon occur rence so far South. A process has been Invented by which scrape of leathor aro worked over Into largo shoots, co that the now article is as good as the piece from which tho scraps came, Thu Republican Representatives held a caucus on Saturday night, and ',elected seven Representatives, headed by Messrs. Stevens and Butler, to conduct the impeach ment before the Senate, England will have to pay over a million and a half pun& storllng a year Min ply fur the water need by Ile Abyeminlan army, It - ham Lu be distilled at a cue! of two shillings a A tiro In Fairburg, Livingston comity. Illinois on Saturday night, destroyed nine wen buildings In the buninuss portion or tho town. Loss estimated at 850,000, on w Welt thorn le au illillllllllCo of BltyooO. Cilreg Molodeon building, In Buffalo, N. Y., woo set on tiro on Wodnosday morning by ineend turbos, and dostrovecl. Autumns wont rondo to destroy tho Womtorti Trans• portal lon Frolght Immo and an uluvalor, A Russian nowspapor Is to bo startud in Calilornia for tin , bonefitof tho six thousand Russians In that Ntato, and thofuturo wul ram of Ritmo who inny Ito dimeovored In Alaska, Thu California Lugisloture has adopted memorial to congress asking the same aid for the Nouthorn Pool do Railroad no granted to the Control and Union :Pacific, Railroad Companios. 'l'ho action upon the appropriation bill In thu Pennsylvania Bousu indicates pretty clearly that the Radicals constituting the present hatch, are)vioing with the last cor• rupt Legislaturo in extravaganco and cu pidity. The Springfield Republic a n milieu a com parison of tho conduct ot the people of twit well known tuitions under dillicultien, A Japaneso will commit hurl-lcarl as soon tis ho goes into bankruptcy; an American pays ten coots on Mu dollar and laughs at 111. creditors. It ix understood that neither the (lover • nor of Kentucky nor John Young Brown consider the hittor'n moat in Congress vu cant, and, therefore, no writs or oivotion will be issued, and Mr. lirown's district will remain unrepresented until the next election. A dotorininud effort in being made to have tho net puma a tow yearn av, authorizing tho laying out of it titan) !Wad trout the Trappe, Moutgrunory county, to Pluenix villa, Cheater county, repealod at thin nun• nion or the Logialature. %%to people on the Cheater county tide are oppontal to the re pool. The Georgia Convention, on Saturday, unanimously adopted a rusolution asking Congress to make a liberal appropriation for a railroad from Atlanta to Charlotte, N. C. The Convention, by a vote of 02 against 00, refused to take from the table a resolution favoring impeachment. Attorney General Slanbery, Charles O'Connor, Esq., and llon. Jeremiah S. Black, it is said, are to defend the President before the Senate In case the House presents articles of impeachment. They are per hops, the three ablest lawyersin the United States at the present time. Under Democratic administrations only $3OO wore allowed to the Adjutant (Mimi of the Commonwealth. The present Radical House allows s3,ooo—just ten times lei mueli. This Is downright robbery. Tho duties of the office aro moiety nominal, and there Is no propriety or honesty In a higher salary than $1,500. A scandalous pamphlet has been pub lished in Paris, asserting that the Empress Eugenie had an Illegitimate child before marrying the Emperor; that this child is hi England, in the hands of persona who nrr constantly levying black-mail an her Mn jesty, and that her famous trip to England was solely caused by her desire to hush up the clamor of the above-mentioned persons. Thomas Conner, living about three Mlles from Nashville, narrowly escaped being murdered on Saturday. linlost:several cows lately, and while in search of one, that morning, he came up with a negro who was skinning an animal in a canebrake. Tho darkey at once seized a gun and fired at Conner—two buckshot taking effect. The rascal then fled. Some workmen on the Pennsylvania rail road on Wednesday found, on the south track of that road, about five miles from Altoona, the dead body of a nuked, now born Infant. It had apparently lain there but a short time, and had, in all probability, been tbrown from a saloon on the fast line east. The criminal is unknown, and pro bably always will be. Mrs. Phobo A. Ilimarord was ordained to the work or the Gospel ministry, and In stalled as pastor or the Universalist church and society at Bingham, Mass., on the HMI Inst. Thin is the liret instance or thu or dination or a woman, in the religious de nominations or Massachusetts, tho Rev. Olympia Brown having been ordained in another State. The people of the State of Ohio have Im peached Senator Benjamin P. Wade. They have notified him olticially that hisservices as Senator will not be required alter thelii, of March, 1869. It is this man, thus dis carded by the people—this great popular Impeached—whom the 'Radicals propose to make President of the United Slides. Re jected even by Ills own Stan, he Is to lay crowded by violence into the position of chief ruler of ell the States. Thu commissioner of !Memel revenue has received a Kilogram from Collector Abornuthuy, of the Knoxville (Tennessee) district, in which he Informs the depart ment that very recently his deputies and a deputy marshal at that place, while engag ed In seizing Illicit distilleries which were In operation in the mountains of Tennes see, worn attacked by an armed force, who captured the government °Math., took from them the property In their pomses,loo and held them as prisoners until they ran somed themselves in Mu payment of Shat apiece in return (or the property they had seized. The collector has asked that a com pany of cavalry be sent to aid in the prop er enforcement of the revenue lows In that section. Major H. G. ‘VlUlmer of North Coventry, Chester county, has resigned his position in the U. N. Army, and returned home. A small boy, about twelve years of age, residing Willi John White, in Kennett township, committed Suicide, by hanging himself, on Thursday last. Frederick's Block, in Lockhaven, Pa., was partially destroyed by Ilre on Saturday night. Tho Episcopal Clllll.Ol was dam aged. Loss $12,000. Tho deaths In Philadelphia last week numbered 210, a decrease of 48 as compared with the previous week, and of 55 compared with the corresponding week of last year. A man named John Gill who was employ ed in tho coal mill of E. I. Dupont & co., on the Brandywine, was caught in the ma chinery ow Tuesday last, and literally ground to pieces. The village on the mountain, known on the mup as Altoona, last week voted itself a city, and is now a rival of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Tho majority for a ally charter was 188, out of a vote of 1,110. Mr, David Powell, a farmer residing' in Cambria township, a few oiled from town, accidentally shot himself through the thigh, on Friday evening last, and his wound Is said to be of a very serious Knot dangerous character. A. now spring House belonging to John Mercer. of Willistown Chester County, was tired or, the night of the 10th inst., by a col• orod man named John Wilson, between whom and the tenant, Joseph Quimby, there had provlously been some difiloultles: The woolen mill of Joseph IL Beatohard, at Germantown, was destroyed by fire, about one o'clook on Friday morning last, Thetbullding, Which was formerly known lug Kelley's Mill, was a three and a half story stone structure, and was used as a manufaetalg of woolen goods. Four disguised men entered Jlorsenger's mill, near Reading; Pa l - 'Saturdaz o morning at 2 o'clock, and after tylna the, miller, Charles Long, robbedhim of $1,1100,. On the same morning Long's holm° Wile" robbed of ;9,000 in U. Di. bonds and it Is supposed, by the same party. , !thin , Long's family, nor three men who sIDA the mill were disturbed by the robber..
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