ganatottr guidligator. . WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1868 FOR AUDITOR GENERAL CHARLES E. BOYLE, of FoYetto county. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: Gen. WELLINGTON 11. ENT, 01'0111E01a co To Editors We have been requested to state that a competent and properly qualified party de- Biros to • purchase a country Democratic newspaper in this State. One not requiring a large outlay of capital desired. Address, Editor Of iNTELLIGENCER, stating price, &c. The Presidential Campaign Opens Moll The Presidential campaign opens glo riously for the Democracy. The spring brings with it a renewal of last fall's vic tories, and there is no doubt that we can triumph at the Presidential election. All that is necessary to insure our success is thorough organization and vigorous and untiring effort. Every means to spread political truth must be employed. The best and surest is the wide circula tion of able Democratic newspapers. Let every Democrat make this part of his daily duty. See to it that every voter who will read a Democratic paper is speedily furnished with one, and the result will be witnessed in largely in creased majorities at the coming State and Presidential elections. Work in this important matter us it becomes free men to do when the liberties of the people and the life of the nation are at stake ! The Voice of the People Let the faint-hearted, who doubt whether the American people can be trusted, take courage: The masses are not sleeping, neither are they deaf to the calls of their country. The results of the elections just hell in Connecti cut, Michigan, Ohio, lowa and _Kansas show that the people fully appreciate the present terrible crisis in our coun try'shistory. It is seldom, indeed, that so many elections, occurring on the same day, in different States and wide ly separated cities and towns, all show victories and gains for one party. The causes which produce such a'result must not only be extraordinary ; they must also be of universal application. Never did any party put forth greater exertions to carry an election than did the Radicals to redeem Connecticut. Congress abolished the tax 011 man ufac• tures as a bribe to New England ; the little Nutmeg State was overrun by Radical orators; a Radical General dis played his epaulettes on every stomp, and Radical Congressmen bawled them selves hoarse in every school house ; Radical office-hohlers were bled most freely, all over the country, and green backs were scattered like leaves in autumn ; every fair :Ltd unfair device that could lie devised was resorted to in order that the little State of Connecticut 'tight he returned to the Radical fold --but it was nit in rain. General Grant was put forward as the rallying figure, and it v,ias formally an nounced that this election was to lie taken us a test of his popularity. A 9 such we, therefore, accepi, it. In Con necticut Grant, as the Radical candidate for President, has been overwhelmingly defeated. The Democratic majority of last year has been largely inerea,ed, and it is now sure that against limit the Democratic candidate for Pi esidont Will sweep a large majority of the Northern states. The gains in New Hatup.thire, the large majority In Connectieut, the unbroken tide of Democratic victories at nearly every municipal election which has been held this sprirg, all tell the same story. Hadn't the Radicals better take some other candidate, sjnee it is sure that Grant will be defeated': Butler and Grant Reconciled Grant and Butler have become recon ciled to each other. They have had an interview and all the differences be tween them have been amicably ad justed. There was no special reporter present at the meeting of these two great men, but it is easy to imagine what transpired. The bottle question was brought up, but, we are happy to say, in a shape not in the least often- sive. Ulysses asked Ben. to imbibe, and the bottle being uncorked the re leased hero of Fort Fisher proceeded to tip glasses with the Radical candidate for the Presidency. Grant felt that he could not afford to let the pamphlet which Butler had prep:u - e•d be given to the eyes of a curious world. The cock eyed warrior must, be silenced. Ile was Invited to name his price. Afterseratell ing several bald place,. on his head, Btitler named the position or Minister to England. With a cordial embrace, a hearty slinking of hands and more drinks, the bargain was consmn mated. The Radicals are jubilant over the an nouncement that Butler's threatened exposure of (lrant will never be forth- coming. The multituthnous affidavits which Butler had secured to prove Grant a habitual drunkard will be eon- ! signed to the flames, or locked up in one of the strong boxes where the Beast keeps his stolen spoons. We do not wonder there is rejoicing in the Radical camp at this reconciliation. IL was needed. Let them Impeach lit m If Ih ey Aare. New Ilampshire shows :1 I),mocrat lc ' gain of nearly a thousand; Connecti cut doubles last year's majority ; Michi- i gan repudiates n and NugrO Sufrrage by more than ten tlintisand ; and the municipal and town elections in every Northern State chow tide of political feelim.:. let the Radical usurpers of Comrr,- , -1 impeach Andrew Johnson, and 1 1011awncd. For, as the old hit at Porihnilif,do, , ,y : They'l N.(11011111,1 If .10. I,ell,lkneil it tlio. Senator Fisher's Opnlloll,ol' Forel:0 'torn During the discussion in the Senate on the new registration low, by which working men, and especially natural ized citizens are to he impeded in the exercise of the election franchise Gen. J. W. Fisher said in the i4etiate: "The Democratic ports iv eiittmii , iid bog trotting igntm,,,t trishuipn awl ~“f_r, bellied lager twerll." Now, considering the vory limited literary attainments of t 4 ,:iator Fisher it ill becomes him to talk of ignorance; and any one who knows bow he ,an swill both lager beer and something stronger will be surprised to hear hint make an accusation against any mail or any class of men for drinking. It would perhaps be charitable for us to suppose the Senator was drunk when he got oft' that speech. For both the 1 rishinan's potheeu and the German's lager this senator has a decided liking. The Impeachment Trial The managers of the impeachment trialclosed their testimony on Saturday, and the case on the part of the prosecu tion is now before the country. We do not think any fair-minded Republican can conscientiously say that,..a case has been made out against the President. The Court adjourned until Thursday next, when the defense will begin. That the Money structure of the prosecutiofi will be completely demolished there is no doubt. The Valley Democrat A new Democratic paper called The Valley Democrat has just been started at Mechanicsburg, CUrn berland county. •It is a good sized sheet, and is owned and edited by Capt. T. F. Singiser, who was a gallant soldier during the war. We, wish him abundant prosperity. The,NeW Registry Law. The working men ofPennszlyanhotre not willing to support the MAW pal* any longer. That was proven by the: State election of last fall, and 1:44 beeri abundantly demonstrated at Jilf,the' . municipal and township , ::efeetione which have since taken place. The nominees of the Republican party haVe been beaten by: the votes of the laboring class s. This,is a well recognized fact whl cannot! be denied. The radical maj ity of the .Legislature are well c i awa e of it. \ SOIL being the case, the leaden of the Radical party in Pennsylvania see very plainly that they are doomed to continued defeat in this State, unless some method can be devised whereby such obstacles can be thrown in the way of the laboring classes as will pre vent a full poll of their votes. To lay burthens upon this class of the people, and to make the exercise of the right of suffrage costly and difficult, is the means deliberately adopted by the Radical leaders to enable them to carry this State at the coming important elec tions. Efer since. the present Legisla ture has been In session a committee, composed largely of leading Radicals, has been busy preparing and pushing through a registry law. In due time their work was done. We publish else- i where the bill, which has been passed by a strict party vote through both 1 houses. It has been signed by Clover- 1 I nor Cleary and is now a law. i No man who reads this registry act can fail to see that it has been framed with the express design of placing im- I , 1 pediments in the way of the laboring 1 1 classes, and especially of naturalized , citizens. It makes voting a costly priv ilege. Every man who desires to exer cise the right of an American citizen, 1 i heretofore free and untrammeled by 1 oppressive laws, must be willing to lose ' 1 at least two days' work if he would make 1 1 sure of his right. That to a poor man is, in these days of Radical misrule and oppressive taxation, no small matter. There is to be at least one day spent in r attending to the registfation ; and, by the closing of the polls at Ii o'clock, the working man is prevented from voting when his day's work is done, as ' thousands of them have been in the I L habit of doing heretofore. Any man who has stood at the polls cannot have failed to notice what a crowd of honest, 1 sober and industrious citizens have here tofore come forward in their working apparel between the hours of (3 and 7 o'clock in the evening, after a day of arduous toil, to deposit their votes in the spirit and with the manly bearing of independent freemen. It is because this class, the stay and prop of society, the strength, the power and tile glory of our free republic have turned away from the radical party with loathing and contempt, that the radical Legislature of Pennsylvania has enact ed a registry law, framed for the express purpose of making the elective franchise costly to white working men, while Congress throws open the ballot box to ' every barbarian negro in the South. The provisions of this law are well calculated to serve thepurpose for which it was framed. It gives the Radical political tricksters of Philadelphia com plete control of all the boards of regis tration in that city. This is accom plished by the insertion or a special provision different from the general act, as applied to the rest of the State. Such a law is absolutely infamous. But while it remains upon the statute books of the Stale it will lie rigidly enforced wherever the Radicals have the power to do so. Such being Llnr case, the duly of labor ing men is plain. They must make the sacrifices demanded by them, and see to it that they are not deprived of their votes by the rascality of the men who are their natural and confessed enemies. Naturalized citizens must, for the time being, submit to insults for the sake of securing their rights and the rights of their tel a law cannot long pollute the statute books of Pennsylvania. It will lie speedily wiped out, because a vast majority of our citizens will scorn to be ministers of injustice and oppression. Let every Democratic journal in Pennsylvania see to it that this rascally piece of legislation is fully understood by the people, and it will utterly fail to accomplish its intended purpose. What Conyertcd Logan Into a Radical The secret of John A. Logan's great animosity toward President Johnson is easily accounted for. This blatant, ilem agogue is perfectly corrupt. lie was a Conservative while he held a commis- , sion in the army, and about the time of , our Peace Establishment Gen. Joe. Johnson's surrender he took The expenditures of the War Depart occasion to:denounce in the presence of a ! meet for the mouth of March were about crowd of rebel °Rivers at Raleigh, N. C., .-14.000.000 , a greater sum than the the whole gang of rod iiqtle led by Thad, whole2,•early expen RC'S of the Govern- Stevens. When he first made his ap ment under John QuineyiAdatus. And pearance at 'Washington, after the war was over, he professed to be in decideall this money is expended, for what? d Po put the white men of the South sy i tnipathy with President Johnson. cp -ro l Having a lot of cotton claims on hand om etely under the domination of the to manipulate through the departments negrq,When no Northern State will he pestered the President daily, until give hint a vole! Is it not high time Mr. Johnson told him, in reference to a this vast stamilug army was dismissed, particular job, that he could not order and peace and Union restored? Are we ou its payment on the insufficient grounds to continue to pay tidy million dollars a year to roue hun keep men and presented. Logan failing to secure an it . f our own rare in subjection to barba extravagan t fee out of the money to be rum negroes? What say the Conserya• thus dishonestly abstracted from the five Republicans of Lancaster county? national treasury,turned upon the Presi dent, and from that time to the present Newspaper Improvements. has been a bitter radical. Logan is 001 v Phe Fulton Democrat is about to ion a sample of a large class of men, in and Having made our en out of Congress, who are daily belching tranc, upon editorial life through its out abuse of Andrew Johnson. columns we feel a decided interest in its The lleArdle Case. prosperity. Its present proprietor, Mr. The attempts of an usurping Congress Donehoo, finding that his law practice to curtail the powers of the Supreme demands much of his time, has sold au Court seem likely to lie attended with iuteres! in the paper to Mr. S. M. Rob suceess. The McArdle ease has been iuson, a practical printer who will be postponed until some time in Decem- a valuable acquisition. Success to the ber. The party now in power dare not new firm. permit their acts to be subjected to the The Scranton Dail)/ Rcyistcr has been test of a legal examination. Congress enlarged and otherwis,:i improved. It is is well aware that its reconstruction au excellent paper, and gives every in scheme, and a great proportion of its dication of being in a prosperous con other legislation would be at once pro. di Lion. We congratulate our friend, flounced unconstitutional and-void, even Mayor hill on his success by Judges a majority of whom were never connected with the Democratic party. The Supreme Court yields so far to the despotic will of Congress :Is to delay giving au opinion in an impel , tout case involving theconstitutionality of the reconstruction acts. The an nouncement will be regarded by the people as another evidence of the rapid growth of the despotism which now rules this nation. If we would preserve a vestige of the free institutions be queathed to us by our fathers we must unite, 'Without respect to former party ties, is one grand effort, to overthrow the tyranny of the radical leaders at the coming Presidential and Congressional elections. The postponement of the McArdle case is a solemn warning which th e people would uo well to heed. When the Supreme Court bows to the dictation of Congress our liberties are in the most imminent danger A Prophecy When the impeachment clause was under discussion in the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, M. Governeur Morris expressed himself as follows: "Much has been said of the intrigues that will be formed by the Executive to get into office. Nothing has been said on the other side of the intrigues to get him out." Charles Colesworth Pinckney said : " If he opposes a favorite law the two houses will combine against him, and under the influence of heat and faction will throw him out of office." Those two great men foresaw the dan gers which beset the republic to-day. ANDREW JACESON JAMISON, is the name of an interesting scoundrel and negro thief, lately nominated by the negroes and white jail-birds intonven tion at Jackson, as their candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Mississippi. "Equality Before the Law." TheOrofessed•object of the Radicals_ is toittin , fer the negro what Thaddeus' Stevens k4les "equality before the' That is one •of the , pet:phrases 'which wehar conattuatlyzepeated. ft . is advanced' as a great moral idea. Not unfrequently it is falsely putforward as the leading idea of the Declaration of Independence. Let us see what is meant by this favorite Radical maxim? In every State of the Union, except Kentucky, the negro has the same pro tection under the law and the same equality before the law that is enjoyed by any white citizen, so far as life and property is concerned. That is not, therefore, what the Radicals mean.— They are not satisfied with the complete abolition of slavery and the placing of the negro and the white man on sub stantially the Same platform of equality before and under the law. The design of Radical legislation, as seen in what is termed the reconstruc. tion of the South, is to place the balance of power in the hands of negroes; with the expectation that they will be able to control their votes through their pre judices and the active interference of Northe - in adventurers. If this scheme is carried out it will enable the three millions of Southern negroes to elect twenty Senators and fifty Representa tives to Congress. That would notonly give to the extreme Radicals complete control of the South, but would give them a balance of power whereby the North would be easily controlled. Such an arrangement, if consummated, would enable the Sumners and Stev enses to rule this nation as they saw fit for years to come. The President would be a mere dumb figure, the Supreme Court would not dare to exercise its Constitutional powers, and State Gov ernments would be completely subjected to the will of an usurping Congress,large , ly re•en forced by negro membersor the venal white representatives of a negro constituency. Hon. S. L. Tilden, in a speech made before the New York Dem ocratic State Can vention, shows clearly the political power which Radical re construction will give to the enfran chised negroes of the South. He said : " If those:3,000,000 of negroes • elect twenty Senators and fifty Represeritatives, they will have ten times as touch power in the Senate of the United States as the 4,000,000 of whites in the State of New York. On every question which concerns the coin. martial metropolis ; every question of trade, of finance, of currency, of revenue, and of taxation, those 3,000,000 of liberated Afri can slaves will count ten times no much in the Senate as 4,000,000 of• Sew Yorkers.— One freedman will counterbalance thirteen white citizens of the Empire State. These 3,001,000 of blacks will count ten times as much as .1.0110,000 of white people in Penn sylvania; ton times 110 much as 2,500,000 in Obio ; tell times as inuch as 2,225,000 or 2,500,000 in ; ten times as much as 1,5e0,0e0 ill Indiana, These 3,000,000 of bhu•ks will have twice the representation in the Senate, which will be possessed by live great Commonwealths—New - York, Pennsylvania, (thin, Indiana, and Illinois —embracing, 13,500,000 of our people." Should the Radical scheme of recon structing the Southern Slates, on the basis of universal negro suffrage and the disfranchisement of the bulk of the whites, be consummated, the small Yankee States of New England and the negroes of the South would control Congress. And how such a Congress would control the nation we can see from what is now transpiring at Wash ington. Are the freemen of Pennsyl vania and the other great Middle and Western States ready to subject them selves for years to come to such a domi• nation as that would be Do they wish to commit the destinies of this nation to the absolute control of New England Yankees and barbarian negroes? If they do, let them support the Radical candidate for President and Radical Congressmen, and they will speedily find themselves bound hand and foot. Their power and population will not avail to protect them. They will then learn by a sad experience what is meant by this cry of "Equality be fore the law." Too Drunk to Vote •\ Radical exchange says Senator Yates, of Illinois, has been so drunk that he has not voted since the im peachment trial commenced. Prominent Republicans have WI men Min letters, but the prospect of his either resigning or con ducting; himself decently is very poor. If, as the Radicals announce, Yates has been too drunk to vote ever since the impeachment trial began, how would it be possible for him to vote In telligently at its conclusion ? Is he to be allowed to do so? lie could not have heard understandingly a word of evi dence. Yet it is possible President Johnson may be condemned by the vote of this drunken brute, Such is Radi cal justice. Judge Crier Judge Grier, of the Suprewe Court, has a proper appreciation of the con duct of the Court i u declining to decide the McArdle cure. Ile submitted a pro test which was read in open court, in which he says : This case was fully :vaned in the n ingot' this month. • It is a case which in v.ti v., not tally the liberty and rightsof the appellant in this rase, butof milhous °four Fellow citizens. The roan tt y had a right to I expect it would receive the immediate and solemn attention of the court. By the post : p.metnent of this case this court has sub jected them-elves, whether justly or un justly, to the imputation that we had eva ded the performance of a ditty imposed upon us by the Constitution, and awaited for legislative interposition to supersede our ; action and relieve us front our responsibili ty. I have only to soy: '• Pude hoc oppro brio tarsi 7102 t paluisse repelli," or, literally transiated, '1 ion ashamed such au oppro brium should be east upon the court and that it cannot be refuted.'" Abuse of Catholics and Foreigners While making a speech in favor of the new registration law, now before the State Legislature, John Hickman made a most bitter assault upon Catho— lics and Foreigners. He declared that a negra.was better than a Catholic Irish num. On being interrupted by a Dem ocrat, he beciune still more violent in his language, lauding the negro and denouncing Ivishrhen and Germans.— This is an exhibition of the spirit which animates the leaders of the Radical party. Some of them try to conceal it, but the old virus of Know-Nothingism rankles in their veins and will slioNvH itself. I JOHN T. JOHNSON, the colored barber of the House of Representatives, has been elected one of the delegates to;the Chicago Convention by the Radicals of Washington City. What say oar Re-; publican friends to thatr.! Gential Giant Issues Illsitorders to the' • , - .- fienateMn • The Ne* York•bibunestakekOreso display the folloiiiing paragraph moat con4deuottely at the head of ifif:editici. ritdeoluceaa: • We have assurances from Wanifingtini that Gen. Grantfinds it not inconsistent with his duty as a solder to announce it as his opinion that the only hope for the peace of the country is the success of the pending Impeachment trial. He feels that national security demands the removal of the Presi dent. If the trial should fail, ,the people can only expect more assumptions a power, and a more determined resistance to law. When the General of our Armies entertains this conviction there is no room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate. The loyal nation demands the President's removal. That is unquestionably the most start ling paragraph we ever saw in a news paper. It sounds like an authoritative announcement that the great American republic has ceased to exist. Is such in truth the case? We look to Washing ton and we sec Andrew Johnson still occupying the White House; but he seems to be their only by suffrance.— We enter the Capitol, and there we find the Senate engaged in going through the forms of a trial, and the culprit be fore that body is the lawfully chosen President of the United States. The country has been shocked by the man ner in which a majority of those who are sworn to act as judges in this most important trial have disregarded the most sacred provisions of law and the plainest rules for the regulation of tes timony. It was sufficiently humiliat ing for us to belielie that a majority, and perhaps two-thirds of those who constitute the Senate of the United States, were willing to violate their solemn oaths, to violate the law of the land and to commit a bold outrage by voting to remove the legally constituted President of the United States, in order that they might give his place to some creature of their own chosing. That seemed to be sufficiently alarming. It showed that the leaders of the party now in power were ready to resort to the most desperate expedients, for the purpose of maintaining their hold upon office. But startling as such au exhibition was, it lost some of its repulsiveness because the forms of law seemed to be regarded even while its spirit was be ing so ruthlessly violated. But now the people are coolly told by the leading Republican newspaper in the country, that because General Grant approves of the removal of the President, " there is no room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate." In other words, Senators are to obey, not their oaths, not the law of the laud, but the dictate of General U. S. Grant. Andrew Johnson is to be removed, not because he has committed any crime, not because there is proof of any guilty act, but because Gen. Grant so orders. What remains of the form of free government bequeathed to us by our fathers when such things are possible? The Republic has ceased to exist. We are even now living under a military despotism. The word of General Grant is to be regarded as supreme, not in the South alone, but in the Senate Chamber at Washington and throughout the nation. The wan who is in reality but a subordinate officer under the. President, and who is a recognized candidate for his place, issues Lis or der for the removal of his superior, and the leading Republican journal in the country calls upon the Senate of the United Sates to obey this decree of an insolent dictator. Rev. John Crotnllsh It will be remembered that this trou blesome, vain and self-sufficient nui sance drove off some of the best mem bers of his congregation in Columbia by preaching political sermons to his own congregation, and abuse, by name, of the venerable Bishop Hopkins before a secular meeting in another church, be cause he had dared to write a book ou the scripture doctrine of slavery; and that he formed one of the speakers of a temperance meeting here in Lancaster, in which the virtuous country popula tion of this county was treated with ob loquy and contempt. Having run him• self through his course of "usefulness," this firebrand found it expedient to leave, and we now find him at his old tricks in New York, not on a political, but on un " evangelical " platform, in connection with the notorious Doctor Tyn g It appears that a sou of Doctor Tyng broke a rule of his church, for which his Bishop reprimanded hiin, and this act brought out much Tyng.Cronalish rancor, backed by such pious journals as the Harper's publish, who turn an honest penny by piety and indecent ad vertisements in their Family Weckly ! See Harper's Alayazine for April, ISIS, p, hit 4 5, where we have a bit of Har perian morals: But they would probably remind the Easy Chair that Sir. Tyng had chosen to make sundry promises, and that he had not kept them. Would th ay also think the Easy Chair jesuistical [they certainly would I] ii he suggested that it is very I easy to imagine Sir. Tyng as choosing to I regard thc intent rather than the literal form of his promise? These Tyng-Cromlish Radicals, in stead of letting the question at issue take its course quietly, as worldly sin ners would have done in a parallel case, became violent, and instead of admit ting that they had appartnlly broken a rule, they denied the facts and forced the other side to prove them. And their violence continues. Not being versed in ecclesiastical matters, we do not k'new the merits of this question, but we .ad , vise the dissentients to be careful lbw. they let a flippant Radical like Mr. , Cromlish betray their cause when they have inen like the judicious Leacock at hand. Mr. Cromlish said: If I stole a penny on Broadway [why on Broadway ?j I ant liable to arrest, hilt list for any theories I might hald. [Mr. Tyng was therefore reprimanded. not for an act, but hat a theory I If a policeman attempt rid to arrest me S r such a cause [ail art as sumed to bo a tittil.r . iLl I should have a right to Shoo! hill' This is (he point to which we were coming—a clergyman, a public teacher of the gospel of peace telling us that if we are not conscious of having done anything wrung we may shoot a police man who thinks he has reason to arrest us! And yet, this same Cromlish be longed to the Lincoln party, under the dominion of which arbitrary arrests were too common; and he probably agrees with Thaddeus Stevens that it is proper to act "outside of the Consti tution!" and to embarrass the Supreme Court of tini - United States. Not to do so might obstruct his " righteousness," for he says : I do not see how we can accept the con st of the law as settled by this sen tence, and go ahead and feel our rightful ness and righteousness ! Mr. Cromlish was known amongst us as a violent political Abolitionist, and the intelligence of this meeting is shown by the fact that they received, without comment or inquiry, the classical wis dom of a speaker, named Worrall, who edified them by sending his thoughts wool gathering, and mixing the white "Scythians" uud their arrows with the black Australians and their boomerangs, which, when thrown, return again. He says; Like the arrow of the ancient Scythian; this sentence will rebound from the shield to harm hint who shot it! Thereseems not to have been asingle scholar present, oran explanation would have been demanded of this perversion of the fact that the Partitions had " the peculiar custom . of discharging their ar rows while they were retiring full speed" according to Lempriere, who states far ther that " this manner of fighting, and the wonderful address and dexterity with, which it was performed, gained them many victories." Another speaker said: "Let us ap iieal to the press." We consequently present a reminiscence of our old friend of Columbia, whilst Frank Leslie car ricatures Dr. Tyng presenting his pro. test—a police officer on each side to keeporder, undismayed by the proba ble presence of clerical pocket pistols and scathing Scythian arrows. • I -- - Butler's Speech. ' .Tyomaitting and proper that. the 1 in the managemtttit of ti* ime to ant of President - -Johnson should be entrusted to the moat despir callaiintiscrupulous trickster and pettifogger iiitbe country.' 'lt is well . known thatAen.Butlerharbors a bitter I grudge against the President, because he refused to remove Stanton and ap point him (Butler) Secretary of War. It was in keeping, therefore, with the •whale of this 'impeachment movement, to put Butler forward as the leader in a prosecution against-the President for undertaking to do, for the good of the country, what he had refused to do to gratify the inordinate ambition of the hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher. Knowing how low he stands even in the estimation of all honest Republi cans, and how heartily he is despised by a vast majority of the American peo ple, Butler eagerly seized upon this op portunity to bring himselfprominently before the country. One would have supposed that not even Ban. Butler could entirely forget the dignity and the importance of the occasion. The a, the character of the trial, the exalted position of tlAac cused, the eager expectation of the world which was looking on, all the surround. ing circumstances, in short, were calcu lated to raise the expectation that the opening speech on the part of the Man agers of the Impeachment would, to some extent at least, be worthy of the solemn occasion. But, we venture to say, never II was any audience so entirely disappointed as was that which attempted to listen to Butler as he read from manuscript for more than three hours. The crowd on the floor and in the galleries of the Senate chamber listened in vain for anything which made a case against President Johnson. If all that Butler charged in his low and scurrilous way should be admitted by the defence, there would not be the slightest danger of a conviction before any honestly con stituted Court. Even with all the lati tude in which Butler indulged in making his charges, not all his accusa tions combined can be magnified into any offense, such as the framers of the Constitution contemplated when they provided that the President might be impeached for "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors." The comments even of Republican papers, show how weak the case of im peachment really is, and how utterly the speech of Butler failed to bolster up the cause. The New York Times says of it: Ile frequently weakens the force of his statement by unnecessary violence of lan guage; he occasionally descends to sophis tries that are disgraceful to his reason ; he attempts to bolster up slim points that had better have been passed over; he is guilty of perversions that are more ingenious than honorable; he makes appeals that might be very effective in a stump speech, but are grossly offensive in a legal argument ad dressed to such a body as the Senate; and he indulges in vituperation that is entirely misplaced at the opening of such a trial. The New York 11c:raid, after a thorough review of the speech, con cludes as follows : We M.ve thus hastily reviewed the open ing speech of Mr. Johnson's prosecutors. It they have proved anything like "high crimes and itnisdemcanors, we have failed to discover the proof. The speech has not oven the advantage of sophistry. Its argu ments are lame and beggarly; its quota tions are worthless and can aid the defence only; its charges fall to the ground from their own weakness: Throughout the long pages we have perused we find everything of the partisan and stump orator and nothing of the statesman performing a grave duty. Asa legal argument it scarce ly rises above the level of the pettifogger's balderdash. There is but one truth to be found in it, and that says that "the future political welfare and liberties of all men— in this country we suppose—hang trem bling on the decision of the hour." All true, very true, but not in the sense that Mr. Butler means it; for whatever be the end of this trial, it will be the deathblow of the Radicals as a political entity, and thus will be assured the future liberties of the people of this republic. A Sample of Negro Rule The N. Y. Times, a well-known Re publican paper, says editorially : The latest news from San Domingo is that the country is in anarchy, and the prisons are full. Of course there must be some sort of governing force in existence to keep the prisons full ; but this is proba bly about ihe full extent of its power. It is painful to see such it. rich timid charming part of the world given up to ruin and sav agery. It is grievous to see the control of such a country in the hands of such a peo ple. But we see no help for it. And we may rest satisfied that if there be any lower depths of human degradation than that winch they have reached, it will not require them Many years to sink to it. II the pop ulation would resort to cannibalism, and devour each other out of existence, it would probably be the best thing that could hap pen. San Domingo is one of the most fer— tile islands in the world, and before it was given up to the rule of the negro race was one of the most productive and prosperous. The sad condition of things existing there to-day is the le gitimate result of negro rule; precisely what may be expected wherever he has control. Yet with all the examples of the past and the present before them, the Radical leaders insist upon giving up teu States of this Union to African domination; and multitudes of people in Pennsylvania are ready to support them in their mad design. Never in the history of the world was there such an exhibition of folly. A RAnteAL exchange says: General Grant was greatly mortified at. the publication of his early history by his father. A correspondent stales that justice to the General requires the statement that he made every proper elTurt to prevent their publication. It is now understood that he has quite recently made such peremptory representations as will be apt to stop their appearance. Grant's life must have been very faulty, indeed, when lie fears to let the public read so partial au account of it ! as his own father would have given. Yank - vs. Negro There has been a vigorous fight fur the Congressional nomination in one of the North Carolina districts between a white carpet-bag adventurer named Dewees and a negro named Harris.— The darkey insisted upon his rights.— The white adventurer got letters from Washington urging Sambo to decline for the good of the party. Mr. Nig could Lot see it in that light. Fi nally the negro agreed to take so much money down for his chances, and a thousand dollar greenback cleared the way fur the imported Yankee. Scabs on Society A Radical journal in Ohio has taken to expressing the real sentiments of the bloated bond-holding leaders of that party. It speaks out plainly. In a re cent issue after declaring that working men owned no property and paid no taxes it addressed them as follows: "You unfortunates, have nothing to do with taxes but to rail at them—you natural born Democratic aristocrats, pay no taxes, own no property, and have nothing to sell but your votes; you mysterious scabs upon so ciety, itc." That is plain talk. The masses can understand that. The working men who paya heavy taxon eveiytlingthey buy, and get but little more than lialf dollar's worth out of every dollar by toil can see in that paragraph how they stand in Radical estimation. THE March statement of the Publk Debt shows au increase. So it will continue to be while Congressional ex travagance prevails and the Union is kept divided. The policy of the Radi cals tends directly to repudiation, and nothing but a complete change can pre vent that disgraceful calamity from'be falling us. Let the bondholders take warning. The Gettysburg Lottery Swindle Seven postponements of the drawing of the Gettysburg lottery swindle have been made. The last was to the first of April. Now it is announced that it will be postponed yet a little longer. We denounced this swindle when it first made an appeal to the public. If any of our readers have invested in it they have done so contrary to our advice. The Progress orDespotism. r The Harrisburg Stine . Guard says : It is dutyuf Centro:itCa to see that every State has a Republican form of gcwern ment, and int Maryland has not got such a form, she ahotild not be allowed represen tation until she adopts it. That is the very sublime or impu ' dence. The people of Maryland have precisely the same right to order and control their State Government that is possessed by the people of Pennsylva nbi. There the majority are fairly rep resented in :the State Legislature, while in this State the Radicals have so ger rymandered the districts that even when the Republican party is in a mi nority they still elect a majority of the members of both branches. Thus we see that the Government of Maryland is in truth more repUblican than that of our own State. The demand of the State Guard is one which has been fre— quently made by the Radical leaders. It shows a manifest design to extend their usurpations beyond the boundaries of the States which participated in the re bellion. Congress would havens much right to reconstruct Pennsylvania as it has to interfere with the government of Maryland; and if the power of the Radicals is not speedily overthrown we may expect the attempt to be made. We havenot theslightestdoubt that the election of Grant by the Radical party would be a signal for the establishment of negro suffrage and negro equality in every Northern and Border State. One half of this country cannot be subjected to despotic rule and the other half con tinue free. There always has been "an irrepressible conflict" between the two systems of government, and it is now going ou in our midst. Evidencelntredneed Ojetteeening the President's Swirliest WAsicritelTOrtApril 3. The - . "High Court of ,:^lMpeachment" opened promptly at nook today. The usual number orepechitoproweapied,the galleries, and 'the "Managers'? came over shortly after the Court was called to order. The attendance of members of the Mouse was decidedly slim. Only the Speaker, Clerk, and Mr. Washburne, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, with a dozen or two of their Radical associates, were present to repre.ent "all the people of the United States." The proceedings commenced by the adoption of an unimportant amendment to the seventh role, after which Mr. Tinke (telegraph operator) was recalled with reference to the copy of the President's 18th of August speech. Before examining him, however, Butler offered in evidence the Presidet's message to Congresson the 27th of June, 1866, relative to the proposed con stitutional amendment, known as the four teenth article, and other documentary mat ter in connection therewith. The examination then commenced in re gard to the speech above referred to and, Messrs. Sheridan, Clephane, and Smith, short band reporters and Colonel Wm. G. Moore, the President's Private Secretary, were severally and successively called and examined with reference to the correctness of the report of said speech, which, it will be remembered, was delivered by Mr. John son at the Executive Mansion, on the 18th of August, 1866, upon the reception of a copy of the proceedings of the Conservative Con vention, held at Philadelphia, a few days prior to that date. If seems ult Mr. Cle phone, ono of the witnesses, was em ployed to make a report of the Presi dent's . remarks, for publication in the Chronicle of this city, and it came out in the testimony of that gentleman that he, then managing editor of the aforesaid jour nal, requested - him to furnish a report of the speech precisely as deliverd, without allow ing any revision, whatever. After all, the witness was unable to swear today, that the report as published In that paper was strictly verbatim, so it was not admitted in evidence, Butler, however, offered the ropy used by the agent of the Associated Press, which had been slightly revised by Colonel Moore. the Private Secretary of the President. When Colonel Moore was sworn Butler thought be hada fine opportunity to make a point against the President by showing that the witness was an officer of the army, but bad never discharged any of the duties of his position, but had been kept at the White 'House by order of the Executive to act as his Private Secretary. Accordingly, he interrogated Colonel M. as to his rank, Ac., in the army. The witness replied that he was a pay master in the regular army, with the rank of Major, "Did you ever pay out any money," inquired huller, with a sneer. Col. Moore promptly replied, "No! Not oat of government funds." A general out burst of laughter followed this happy re tort, and the Massachusetts pettifogger hail no more to say on the subject. After some few questions concerning the correc tions made in the President's 18th of August speech, Cul. Moore was permitted to retire, and soon after the Court took a recess for ton minutes. Upon reassembling, Mr. Grimes, of lowa, moved that when the Court adjourn to-day, it be to meet on Mon day next. The yeas and nays being order ed on the motion, resulted, yeas 19, nays 23. So it was not agreed to. Butler then re newed the offer to give in evidence the manuscript copy of the 13th of Au gust speech, which had been par tially proven by the reporters. The President's counsel lord no objection to it, beyond the exception taken in the answer to that class of evidence. Butler then read the speech in extenso. Very few Senators listened to the reading, and the impression on the minds of all was that it was of no. ort of conseriuenceas testiumnyon the pending trial. The 18th of August speech having been disposed of, the next step was to prove the Cleveland speech,of the 3d of September, 1866. Accordingly, Mr. Win. M. Hudson, of the Cleveland Leader (a Radical sheet), was put on the stand, and under Butlef's manipulation, proceeded to speak of the re port of said speech he made for the afore said paper. Ho had no doubt of the cor rectness of the report. He took notes of all that was said, Ac., Ac. Butler was satisfied that he made out his case and turned the witness over to the President's coun sel fur cross-examination. Mr. Everts was selected for the work. Ile soon extracted from the lips of the wit ness the very impottant fact that his notes were in long hand, and not of a phono graphic character. As the MOSS-examina tion proceeded the evidence given by the witness under Butler's examination, iu chief, was completely annihilated, nothing whatever being left of all he had stated. Senators looked at each other and smiled. The managers (.vith the exception of But ler) hung their heads. The Massachusetts pettifogger turned about in his sent, and seemed exceedingly impatient to repair the shattered testimony which he had just got in concerning the important (7) matter of what the President said in his extempo raneous remarks at Cleveland. After Mr. Everts had concluded the cross-examination, Butler re-examined the witness, and by prompting hint with a , copy of the paper containing a report, or whet purported to be a report, of the speech in question, got him to reiterate something that he had said before, but this was unfor , tunate, for Mr. Everts "came back at him." and knocked it all over the second time.— The weakness of the ease presented• by the "managers - was fairly illustrated by the testimony introduced to-day, With a Sen ate or court divested even partially of pc, lineal prejudice, such accusations (support ; ed by such evidence) as are made ag ainst the President, would not be listened to a moment. They ate based on nothing, abso- Itmely nothing, and as contemptible us they :ire, they are not even sustained by such avid, nee as would he admitted in any jus tice's court in the United States. WASHINGTON April 4. In flue Impeachment Court, to-day L. L. Walbridge and J. A. Dean, phonographic reporters, were examined as to the Presi dent's speeches in St. Louis, and testified to the corroctness of their reports. R. S. Chew, Chief Clerk of the State Department, testi fied to the change in the form of commis sions since the passage of the Tenure of Office act. Iu order to anticipate a point which the counsel of the President will doubtless make, the managers offered in evidence n long list of appointments of heads of de partments as appear on record at the State Department, and only one instance of the removal of such an officer during the ses sion ot the Senate. That officer was Timothy Pickering, who was removed from the of fice of Secretary of State by President Adams, on the 12th of May, 1800. The list was furnished by Secretary Seward, on the application of "the managers," and was ad mitted in evidence without objection by the counsel for the defense. After getting it in, however, Butler discovered that it tend ed to strengthen the position of the Presi dent by furnishing a precedent for the removal of Mr. Stanton. Ac cording be (Butler) sent for a copy of the journal of the 12th of May, 1800, to show at what hoar that body assembled at that time, the object being to create an impres sion that the removal of Mr. Pickering might have been madean hour or two before the Senate met, thus taking the case outside of the category in which it is placed by his tory, as well us by the records of the State Department as copied, and previously given in evidence by the managers. This con temptible specimen of Massachusetts petti fogging was soon detected by Mr. Stan bery, who called upon Butler to show by the jour nal at what hour the Senate assembled on the 12th of May, 1800. Butler hesita ted a few moments, and, after glancing v Africa for the Africans. rapidly over the pages of the book, was compelled to acknowledge that t lie A _Radical exchange says: precise law did not Ile A freedman who lett Charleston2fiouffx presumed, however, that Mapper. ar. Adams Carolina, for Liberia a few months ago.„ sent in the nomination of John Marshall writes back the most glowing accounts of to be Secretary of State, before he notified matters and things there. Alter statimt Mr, Pickering of his removal. This did not that he never felt free until he reached that mend the matter, because Mr. Marshall's Republic, and that he harl'selected his land nomination was not confirmed by the Mr cultivation, he adds : "Of all the fruits 1 Senate until the 18th of May, 1800, while found on the land my tongue is unable to Mr. Pickering's dismissal from the office explain, but I will give you the names of 'occurred cn the day previous. This trans smue. First, a field or thirty acres of coffee. action, with its cotemporaneous history Second, cocoanut trees iu any quanty. will probably be offered in evidence by the Third, lemons by the bushel. Fourth, the counsel Mr the defense, and is sufficient of great palm tree, the most important and itself to show what the framers of the Con precious tree in the country, from which we stitution thought of the President's power get nice oil, cabbage, butter, then the ker- to remove officers of the government. net, shingles, then cord and thread, and Mn. Creecy, Appointment Clerk of the then, best o f all, we can get wino of it to 'Treasury Department, was examined and drink. All of these we have on the farm. testified to the authenticity of a letter from Tell my brother Washington that this is the tbe President to the Secretary of the Senate, country to come to." notifying him of the suspension of Mr. Yet the negro has lived in that noun- Stanton, and the appointment of General (.3-rant as Secretary of War ad interim ' on try for thousands of years, and he is still August l'l.ll, 1867', under the Tenure of a barbarian and often a cannibal. What Offieb act. Out the receiptof this commons i on t was transmitted by copies to tire better answer could be given to those . cation controllers and auditors of the Department. who advocate putting him on an equali- At this point a recess of fifteen minutes ty with the white race in this country. , was taken. On reassembling Mr. Boutwell called the The Florida quarrel. „ uttention Of C011usel:t0 the various statutes 'explaining the appointment to the office of The New York Times says: ! ' General , is According to the Washington despatches flePostmasterd dn. the schedule in as 179 made which whenpeci- the i❑ the Boston papers the quarrel in the • :Senate was in session. -auks of the Republican party in Florida is Mr. Wilson called attention to theseveral u sectional controversy between Wisconsin ' entries in the Journal -of- 1800, showing that laid Massachusetts. The Massachusetts the Senate met before noon. men assert that the Wisconsin party has Mr. Bingham offered,iu evidence, the ex nold out to the rebels, and the Wisconsin (ecutive -messages to the Senate of December men, in turn, say the Massachusetts men 16th and December 10th. 1867, and January are afterspoils. The Floridians apparently I 18th, 1868, in which the President givee his either care nothing about it, or are not al- reason jar the suspension from office - of lowed to have any voice in the matter. We several officers, also a communication from suspect the case is very nearly the same in , the Secretary of State accompanying one of a good many of the Southern States. The I the messages, in which he reported the ac natives are compelled to stand back, while It lion under the Tenure of Office laws. the "aliens" from the North fight it out Mr. Butler then informed the Senate that among themselves. the case on the part of the House of Repre- What a commentary that is on the ! sentatives was substantially closed, al- Radical plan of reconstruction ! And it though they might calla few more wit nesses whose testimony wou ld be only comes from a leading Radical journal, siumulative, be it remembered. Mr. Curtis, on behalf of' the President's The people have one chance left. They can rescue our republican institu tions from the hands of the spoiler by defeating the Radical candidate for President, and sending Conservative men to Congress. The fate of free government depends upon the issue of the coming election. A Radical tri umph will invite and ensure the exten sion to the North of the despotism which has been set up over the South. Every man who does not desire that will refuse to support a Radical cE.ndi date for any office. The Campaign in North Carolina. The white men of North Carolina are laboring earnestly to defeat the new Constitution which the Radicals are trying to foist upon them. Itis no wonder the white. population I.s prac tically a unit against this alio! [Linable concern. By this new Constitul don not only is all distinction of cold r in the schools prohibited, but all the o Mces of the State, civil and judicial, are thrown open to the negroes ; provision i a made for a mixed militia, and white m m may be put into the ranks as privates under negro officers; the validity of ma triages between whitesand blacks is reco; tuized, and thus amalgamation is encou raged ; and, to fetter the hands of the wl iites as completely as possible, this Co ustitu tion declares that ally person wh > shall threaten to discharge a negro L :lector from his service" shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon cone iction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars foreach offence, one halfof thich is to go to the informer." This pu is the whites at the mercy of the negroe.s. If a white man dare to rebuke one of his field hands, all the negro would have to do would be to go before a Court " or- ganized to correct" and make oath that ! his employer threatened to discharge him, and the conviction of the white men would inevitably follow, the ; negro pocketing more money by this little operation than he could make by a year of hard work. Is it any wonder the White people of North Carolina and of the other Southern States are exceedingly anxious to prevent the adoption of State Consti tutions which contain such provisions? We venture to say there is not a decent. Republican in Lancaster county who would not vote with the men of his own race against such a Constitution if lie were in any Southern State. He would forget that the whites had been rebels, and would remember that blood is thicker than water. Why then should ; any man vote to sustain the Radical leaders of Congress, wha are the real authors of this outrageous system ? Let the people remember that every vote cast for Radical candidates in Pennsyl vania is a direct, vote to sustain negro supremacy with all its hideous features / in ten States of the Union, and that it I is also au indirect vote teestablish per feet equality between the two races in every other State, Pennsylvania not ! being excepted. Grant as a Church Goer The Radical papers announce with a flourish of trumpets that Grant has taken a pew in Dr. Sunderland's church . In so doing he has shown his complete subserviency to the party which prom - ises to nominate him for the Presidency . This Dr. Sunderland is the same indi vidual who, when Chaplain of the Sen ate, was rebuked by a Conservative Senator in the following resolution: liesciZsed, That the Chaplain of the Sen ate be respectfully requested hereafter to pray to Almighty God in our behalf, and not to lecture Him, inform Hint what to do, or state to Him under pretence of prayer, his, the said Chaplain's opinion in refer eat's. to His duty as the Almighty. and that the said Chaplain be further requested aforesaid not vender the form of prayer to lecture the Senate in reference to questions before that body. After endorsing negro suffrage and eating any amount of dirt to secure the radical nomination, Cien. Grant could not more fitly finish up his record of shameless subserviency than by making a pretense of piety and joining Dr. Sun derland's I church. - " - counsel, then made a motion that, when —......... THE Democracy of Georgia are ra• V: . rsc coT a r y t n a e d i l t ot i i n rn ord i l o or - d t a o y atr i o t r r ti a l l e l lit i to Tidly perfecting their organization, and working days in which to prepar m e their el will give a good account of themselves testimony. av e uci oralße stated tosti that they would not motnhyelitodooffeuermbounttarrye at the coming election. They do not ..quirertime to arrange intend to surrender the Empire State I evidence. of the South to negro domination with- Mr. Conness moved that the court ad /Thum tuitai Wednesday. out a struggle. , Mr. Johnson offered an amendmentmak .......... Tills is what the Connecticut Irish- 1 Messrs. Sumner and Cameron interposed men think : One McCloud, "Bead Oen- , trgemarel,ciss, andbuty ere ruled b ruled out of order, and e t i t t i T e ta cni k r e t n d r jo es u u rn ite e l tre" pf the State, chose to sell himself \ yetn4 e y 37, nays lO so until nut sciay next, and the Senate at 3.30 to the Radical Committee, whereupon his "circle" at once expelled him. Rad- ; P. M. adjourned —.. . ....... icalism must find a new " lay." After ! Two anxious parents paid 3150 for a spa. this their motto will be, " No Irish need Fall train from Portland to Boston recently, in order to visit a daughter who was den• apply." gerously ill. IMPE.tCIIII3T.., You will see from these facts that the is land in question was not " within the law ful jurisdiction of any other government." nor was it "occupied by the citizens of any other government" previous to the Ameri can possession of it. An earlier occupancy by any other nation or individual is not asserted even at the State Dopartment. The pretence that its situation subjects it by mere construction of law to the juris diction of St. Domingo will not be set up by any intelligent person who has a decent respect for truth, Of all nations on the earth St. Domingo has the least show of claim to it; for it not only Iles outside of her terri torial waters and is wholly unconnected with any part of her dominion, but the ter ritory of another nation (the Hayuen island of Beata) is between it and her. On this desolate, unoccupied and appar ently useless key Captain Kimball, then engaged in the service of Messrs. Patter son & Murgnioudo, of Baltiraoreffiiscovered a deposit of guano. By the law of nature and of nations, as well as by the act of Con gress, they had a right to appropriate it. They did so. They took open possession in the name or the United Stales, hoisted the American flag, sent down a large form of men and ships and invested their whele capital in the business of working it. They had been seven months on the island when the Dominicans came upon them, " pre , sumptuously with guile," captured their workmen, whom they kept for a month m cruel captivity, destroyed the property and I broke tip the business of the American owners. Messrs. Patterson tt: Murgniondo and the persons associated with them are entirely ruined. They are all now ban g.- rupt, solely in consequence of this outrage upon their rights. Too parties were entitled to the amplest , protection of Otis government without ref erence to the act of Congress on the subject. ; 1 Their business was lawful and they were prosecuting it without injury to the rights of any human being. Iran American (Mi zell establishes and pursues any useful branch of trade on a naked, uninhabited island of the ocean he cannot be disturbed there. A violent aggression upon him on an island so situated is an injury to him and an insult to the United States as gross as it would be if committed on board an I American vessel navigating the high seas. IThe nation that submits to such a wrong I without seeking redress must become utter ly contemptible at home and abroad. But the guanto trade was so important to the agricultural as well as commereial in terests of the country that it was thought worthy of special encouragement. There fore the act of August 15, ISDI, was passed, which secures to discoverers an exclusive right in the guano they may find, provides a mode of making their acts matter of pub- I lie record, and expressly reaffirms and pledges over again the faith of the govern- I inent to prevent crimes and protect the owners against foreign aggression. Marry guano deposits were held and worked by Aniericrans under the principles of public law berme ISrai, and many more have since been taken. We have now fifty-eight in all. In no case, except this one, has any department of the government shown the feast hesitation about enforcing the rights of Um owners. Now let us assume for one moment that St. Domingo had a title. Did she not lose all right to assert it by encouraging the oc cupants to spend their money, time and labor on the island in the belief that the title wits their own ? Could she stand si lently by until we were so tar embarked in the business that to stop it was ruin, and then spring upon us a claim which she had dishonestly concealed? Every one who has the ordinary instincts of a just man will answer " No." In all the codes of every civilized country and in the pub lic law of the world it is an inflexible rule that he who violates good faith by not speaking out when he ought, shall not be permitted to speak when he would. If yon look on while expenditures are made on Your land by a person who does not know that it is yours you cannot afterwards take it from him; his title is as good in equity as it you had given him a solemn convey- I once. You cannot mislead a man by your I deceitful silence and then ruin him by tak ing advantage of the ignorance which your own frauds has produced. This rule being • founded in principles of natural justice, ap• plies as strongly to nations as to private parties. But Mr. Seward asserts that the sufferers in this case are not entitled either to restitution of the property or to damages Mr the losses inflicted upon them. Heins ' titles the Dominicans in all things. He is either ignorant that law and common hon esty required the Dominicans to give warn ing of their title or else he acts in total dis regard of that obvious principle. On the nue supposition he is mentally, and on the other he is morally unfit for his place. But the Dominicans had no title or color of title. They never exhibited any specific claim either before the expulsion of the owners or afterwards. When formally called on to show their right they were able to gave no definite answer. The pretended title now sot up for them, clumsy and false as it is, was all manufactured in our own State Department. It is very natural to inquire here why the Dominicans, if they had no right, should commit an inexcusable outrage like this, since they could scarcely hope to do it with impunity or keep the fruits of it. A single fact will pluck the heart out of that mys tery. Santanna, President of St. Doiningo, had stipulated to sell his country to the Spaniards for a stun of money, mid it was demanded of him, as a condition precedent that his should drive the Amerman flag from Alta Vela, its proximity being con sidered incompatible with the purposes they had in view. Santannn performed his contract, got his money and has never been seen in St. Domingo since. It is also true that certain Spaniards east a covetous eye on the treasures of Alta Vela, and look ed about them for some mode of. plunder ing its lawful proprietors. They could not assert a claim of their own, and Hayti, the nearest neighbor of Alta Vela, would not lend herself to the fraud. St. Domingo was the only catspaw that could be used, and she was brought to it only in conse quence of the corrupt ascendancy of the Spanish influence for the time being. So the owners were expelled, und then the American Secretary of State consented, for some unknown reason, not only to aban don the duty be owed his own country, but to become the instrument of the. wrong doers in getting up excuses which they had not the hardihood to offer for themselves. I The Government of Spain never assumed any responsibility in this business, but a letter from Mr. L. B. Clark (p. 591 asserts I that the island is now claimed by a emu- I pony of New York speculators under a , Spanish lease confirmed by St. Domingo. Nothing can be clearer than teas the duty of this Government when It became known that American citizens had been thus rob- The first thing to be done was resti alder). To that end Mr. Seward should have made to the President as simple and , ' truthful report of the facts. Ilutil the par ties were placed in soya. quo all negotiation was out of place. It the Secretary thought lit to diplounllize with them heshould have permitted them to make out theirown case. At the least and the lowest, ir be would en list against his country and his fellow citi zens, he should have opposed them fairly. One or two occurrences will show you how he conducted the defence of the plunderers. While he amused the ownersof the island with promises to report and with apologies fur the delay, he was in correspondence with certain , :ew York gentlemen, who frankly told him that they wanted the guano on Alta - Vela if they could be assured of their right and of government protection in taking it away. Mr. Seward, by his assistant, re plied that he could not encourage them in resorting to the island for that purpose um I I less they could get the consent of St. Do mingo, and advised them to get that of Hayti also. Thereupon they got the consent of St. Domingo and informed Mr Seward of It in a communication which he has sup pressed. Afterwards, becoming alarmed at a newspaper paragraph, they wrote Mr. Seward to remind him of hisimplied promise to them and to tell him how much they had expended on the faith of it. "We have done so," said they, "feeling satisfied that our government would acknowledge our right, particularly after informing us how to ob tain it." To this Mr. Seward unblushing ly replied, in the very teeth of his first let ter, that it (the first) was "a warning to all persons that they would deal with Liao sub ject at their peril." You will find this cor • respondence on pages 57-8-9 of the Senate document. It shows.that he encouraged add impliedly promised his approbation to a purchase from St. Domingo which he must have knoWn could never be carried into effect withbut depriving Patterson & Murgniondd of rights which his obvious duty required him to vindicate and pro tect. While be was pretending to consider how the owners Might be restored to pos session he had already taken the other side, and the false side, In his correspondence with outsiders, who acted upon suggestions .YOlunteered by him,. • Why the Secretary changed his attitude • and denied that he meant what was plainly imported by his letter to Mr. Root is ex plained in the letter addressed by me to the President on the 7th of August last (p. 54.) Mr. Seward sent me a " memorandum " that the President had " accepted the con-, elusions " of a report - said to have been made by somebody in , the department.-:- Although this was senseless on its face, was easy to see that . it would - bo,uses44 some future 'time to prove adjudication by the President against us; for the "memor and= " could bo applied to any report which might afterwards be got.up. But I happened, by mere accident, to know that in point of fact the caseneiver had been sub mitted to the President-In any shape; and that he knew nothing of It. The President, when interrogated on the subject, averred that the "memorandum" was wholly un. The Alta Vela case—A Scathing Letter From Judge Black—Seward Shown Vp. The following letter of Judge Black to General Garfield, of the House of Represen tatives, gives his side of the story relative to the Alta Vela (guano island) squabble, which has caused the ex-Attorney General to withdraw from the list of colansel for the President in the impeachment trial. It Is particularly severe on Seward, and is well worth perusal MY DEAR Sin: I owe von an explanation of the Alta Vela case, arid I will give it to you in as few words as I can. Alta Vela is a small island or key, half a mite wide and three-quarters of a mile long. It lies about sixteen miles south of the southernmost cape of St. Domingo. Di rectly between it and St. Domingo is the larger island of Beata, which belongs to and is occupied by Hayti. Alta Vela is destitute of water or vegetation, and was never inhabited or used by any nation or people for any purpose betorethediscovery of guano upon ;it by Captain Kimball, ns hereafter mentioned. It was regarded as useless, and it is useless except for the gu ano. true. Mr. Seward having been detected in:' that trick, and landing himself unable to impose upon us a fabricated decision, it be came necessary that he should give a new face to his correspondence with the trusting Mr. Root, and this Id only be done by a bold assertion th t t letter which com mitted him bi l the inter sof the Domini can lessees d not menu what it said. I will give on only a specimen or two of the points which Mr. Seward bad made: 1. He asserts at one time that we did not ask for restitution and at another that wo made no claims for damages. In fact and in truth, we demand both in the beginning, and never withdrew either. The record shows this. 2. In one place ho tries to make out a little for St. Domingo on the ground of mil itary necessity. If citizens of this country were permitted to occupy Alta Vela It might be fortified, and the occupation of it In that way by a hostile Power would ho dangerous to St. Domingo. That the United States would need an intormediato point of approach to attack a nation which is not half as strong as any ono ward of Washing ton city is absurd enough. It is still more so to suppose that Alta Vein would servo such a purpose when you reflect that it lies on the opposite side of Beata, which is al ready in the hands of a foreign Power. Mr. Seward's effort to dignify the vulgar and commonplace thieving of his proteges by putting a military gloss on it Is a com plete failure. 3. Ile introduces a letter from mo as At torney General in which I said that a claim of jurisdiction over Cayo Verde, made by Lord Lyons in the name of his govern ment, should be settled before an American was put in possession under the Guano act; and be gravely uses this as authority for saying that St. Domingo without any such claim might expel an American after hn was in possession with her acquiescence for seven months. -I. Ile produces legislative acts of St. Do• mingo in which Alta Vela is named as an adjacent island to one of her provinces. Was it ever heard of before that a nation acquired Territory by merely mentioning it as a part of her dependencies? Beata Is mentioned In the same laws as Alta Vela Is, yet Beata is beyond all doubt n Ifartien island. The Parliament -of England for three centuries habitually called Prance a part of their King's dominion; but I think nobody would say that it was thereby ninthe an appendage of the British Crown. - - , A large part of Mr. Seward's paper consists ut nn effort to show (hot Columbus discovered the West India lAlands, includ ing Alta Vela, whereby Spain became the sovereign of it, and St. Domingo SIICeeNIOII to the rights of Spain. To a man of com mon understanding it is not necessary that a fallacy like this should be exposed. Pre cisely; the same proposition was asserted by Venezuela in the case of the Aces Islan); and thin tlevernment then treated it with contempt. Mr. Marcy and General Cass net only did not make such an argument ag:ai not the rights of their country, but they repelled it with indignation and put it down as on insult which could not be borne. .. • I have selected his strongest points and stated Mein us Mirlv us I could in a space so brief. Perhaps diplomacy is in which a man is not required to be per fectly honest. It may be that some allow ance ought to be made for the tricks of the trade. But surely it is discreditable to the United States that they should bayou Secre tary whose principles are so loose that he volunteers the influence of his °Mee to do feat justice and employs his time in making false defences for foreigners who have wronged and dishonored the nation. Most respectfully, yours, ,V.c. J. S. Ilmtek. lloh. .T.;‘, GARFIELD, House of ltepre SClltatives. CO II g-resedonal ^ WAsIIINCITON April I. The V. S. Senate yesterday, Was occupied with the impeachment, a report of which will be found elsewhere, in the House, on motion of Mr. Kerr, the Ways and Means Committee were instruct ed to inquire into the expediency of preven ting the transfer of special licenses, tin motion of the same lug . Committee were instructed relative to a reduction of the tax on private banks. fli t motion of Mr. Bailey, of N. Y., the Ways and Means Committee were instructed to consider the expediency of a reduction in the force of the Internal Revenue Depart ment. The Conference report ou the Tax Repeal, as adopted by the Senate, was con curred in, and the bill goes to the-President. M r. Paine, of W is., from the Reconstruction Committee, presented the Constitution adopted by the Florida Convention, and it was ordered to ho printed. Adjourned. \Vasil INUTON April 2. No business was transacted by the House yesterday, and a report of the proceedings In the impeachment trial will be found elsewhere. WASHINGTON, April 7. In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, Mr. Wil son introduced a - bill relieving the political disabilities of certain citizens of Georgia, which was referred. Mr. Trumbull, of Illi nois, introduced a bill extending the provi sions of the act of February 21,1663, relating to appeals in the U. S. Circuit Courts. lin motion of Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, the Secretary of War was requested to com municate information in regard to the prac tice of settling public accounts by requisi tions on the Treasury. The Naval Appro. pristine bill was considered until adjourn. meet. The House was not i❑ session. Proceedings of the Legislature IlAnninunito, April 4, Dins; 'rho Senate was not in session In the House Mr. Winger of Franklin, moved to consider the vote agreeing to the motion to prospone the question or a Ilnal adjournment until after the report of the committee of conference on the general ap propriation bill. Agreed to. Mr. Josephs made an amendment to adjourn on the loth inst., which was agreed tn. Mr. Adaire moved a reconsideration of the vote just taken. Not agreed to. The Senate amend ment Liking on the 14th inst., for final ad journment was then concurred in. Ita umenu tut, April 6. SENATE.—A bill incorporating the Penn sylVania Express Company was passed to a third reading,. Also, ono authorizing the printing of 10,000 copies of the election laws. A motion to print the inejority and minority reports in the contested election case was agreed to. llousE.—The general poor law was finally passed also u bill allowing stockholders mcorporattd companies to define the num ber of directors, also the new general Militia bill, also the Senate joint resolution relative to the impeachment of Johnson. The Stale Lunatic Asylum bill was made the special order for this evening. Adjourned. =ZEMI!! II Tram Powers is coining to America The Captain General of Cuba aliiresse. Mayor Hoffman as Governor. A Swiss died in a hospital in Cleveland last week of homesickness. The M iAslssippi is now open to nnvigatitm throughout it. 4 length. Governor Fenton, of New York, refuses to pardon Ketchum, the young forger. Dr. Cheover in the claque for Impeach meet in the Mdepende.ra. There are thirty-nine sovereign prince' in the civilized world, of whom the Pope LI Rome is the oldest. Mr. Thomas Hartzell, has been appointed Poiarnaster at Nazareth, in place of John U. Leibfried, resigned. The Robert E. Leo Ineurance Company haq just been started at Richmond. It is a Life Insurance Company. The steatner Magnolia, which recently exploded on the Ohlo, was General Grant's headquarters before Vicksburg in 1863. • Temple Bar, ono of the most ancient land marks of London, is to he abolished to make room for a modern improvement. the French novelist, thinks the Wections or women of forty-live are often deeper and more disinterested thu•t those of younger woolen. A correspondent of the Springfield, Mass:, Republican gives a had nevount of the mor al and physical condition of Albany, where the New York Legislature dOth assemble. An American was twice klabbed by a 'sulit in the city of Mexico recently. A thick pocket-book saved him, and he re taliated by killing his assailant. The New Hampshire Republican State Convention for the choice of delegates to the National Convention, is culled at Concord, on the sth day of May. The death of Lord Byron is announced. He was horn in 1789, and was the eon of Captain 1 1eorge Anson Byron, Royal Navy, and was a cousin of the great poet, Lord Byron. Mrs. Coleman, daughter of the lute John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, is about to write a biograghy of her father, and requests all persons having any information about him likely to be of public interest to address it to her at Baltimore. In the darkest days of the Atlantic tele graph enterprise, a friend of Cyrus Field's bought ten thousand dollars or stock for a ten dollar. bill. Mr. Field offered to take the stock at a considerable advance. "Well, but what do you advise me to do, Mr. Field? " " Take your stock home," was the reply; "lock it up in your safe, and never look at it, or think of it till you come to me for your dividends on it•" And that man is now receiving on his investment of ten dollars, eight hundred dollars per an num in gold. State Item.. The capital stack of a German theater company in Philadelphia Is tixed at $200,- 000, the greater part of which has been sub scribed. An emigration party Is organizing at Pithole for building a "branch city" in Colorado. Mr. J. W. Bonta is President, and will ‘: keep the hotel. The party start on the Ist of-April. The heirs of Mr. Yingst, of Dauphin co., who was killed by the Lebanon Valley railroad last fall, have recently recovered from the company $4,500 damages. Mr. John Snavely, an old and respected citizen of Cornwall township, half a mile from Independence, Lebanon county, com mitted suicide recently near his residence. A temporary bridge near Johnstown gave way recently, on account of too many per eons being on it; several individuals were < erely injured, but fortunately none were . :d. Jidoes Black, Esq., President of the "Pethisylvania State Temperance Union," has ap`pOinted Rev. Pennell Coombe to , preach arablectxtreprt-temperance in what .. .OP. is known nibs Eaditern District of Penn sylvania, being the counties lying east of Susquehanna river.. It will be a part oft& mission to form county- Unions and, local societies auxiliary to the State
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