ganauta
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1868.
• FOR AITDITOR GENERAL:
CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette county.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL
Gen. WELLINGTON IL ENT, orGolnmbla co
Conservative Soldiers' and linnets . Na
tional Convention.
The Executive Committee appointed by the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, held at
Cleveland In 1800, have called a National Con.
( ventlon of the ConseryatiVe Soldiers and Bail
ors of the United States, to meet at the city of
New York, the 4th of July next, to take action
on the nomination of Conservative candidates
for President and Vice President. As it is de
sirable that Pennsylvania should be fully rep
resented in said Convention, we request our
late comrades in arms to take the necessary
action to have delf3gates elected or appointed
from every Congressional district In the State.
As the time Is rapidly approaching when the
Convention will meet, there ehouid bo no de
lay in the matter.
EDWARD L. DANA, Brigadier General
WELLINGTON H. ENT, Brevet Major Gen.
JACOB SWEITZER4Late Colonel and Brevet
Brigadier GeneraL
WILLIAM McCANDLESS, Late Colonel.
JOHN P. LINTON, Lute Colonel.
JOHN S. MoCALMONT, Late Colonel.
LEVI MASH, Late Colonel.
a- All Democratlo and Conservative editors
throughout the State are requested to publish
this notice and call attention to
The End of Impeachment
. .
The impeachment farce has finally
ended. After all the eflbrts of the Rad
ical majority they could accomplish
nothing, and after taking a vote on the
first three articles, on each of which the
President was rightfully acquitted, the
Court, on motion, adjourned sine die.
Ho, In the deserved and complete dis
comfiture of those who began it, ends
this most rascally piece of business.
WADE has reconsidered his intention
of "coming in with the apple blos
soms ;" and has concluded to go to seed
with the other beets in the fall.
WE hope the Radicals will patiently
await the appearance 'of Grant's letter
of ,acceptance. Washburn° was at
Chicago, and he will have to get back
to Washington before It can be written.
SENATOR FOWLER has filed a very
able argument against every article of
Impeachment. The only one of the
seven who voted for acquittal on the
eleventh article who Is uncommitted on
the remaining ones is Senator Ross.
RTIN, " the Soldier's friend," made
a very poor figure nt Chicago. lie re
ceived a few complimentary votes ou
the first ballot and wasquietly dropped.
Forney was put nt the head of the dele
gation from thin FRAM.). l'orhaps that
had something to do with the complete
fidlure of the Curtin men.
IT It maid that the ltadlealm i❑ Co
cress seriously contemplate n complete
reconstruction of tho Supromo Court,
and reportsayn that Chief J ustleo Chase
is to bo deposed,nmi Stanton put in his
place, Hoch an net would be of a piece
with other usurpations of the present
in ruinous Congress,
Nom , . of the dozen negro delegates in
the Chicago Convention were Invited
to make speeches. Why did not the
whites who sat cheek hot Jowl with the
colored brethren give them a chance to
be heard? Perhaps a speech from one
of them might have gone fin• towards
reconciling the faithful to negro equali
ty, which will Inevitably come If (Inuit
and Colfax should he elected.
ClitArcr and Colfax 111 . 0 from adjoining
Western States. The bondholders, the
extreme Radicals and bloated monopo.
lists of the,East framed the platform to
cult theniselves, and then gave both the
candidates to the West. The people of
each section were Ignored by the Con
vention, and their wishes disregarded.
They will have somethhig to say at the
election.
'l'iiiuu•7 were some lifteou or twenty
negro delegates to the Chtcago Conven
tion, and they were objects of note on
the floor. Of course they were all en
thusiastically for Want, as they had
been assured that he was In favor of es
tablishing and perpetuating their su
premacy in the South, and of giving
the right of suffrage and all other po.
Utica! and social privileges to their race
In the North. 'l'lle dark complexioned
delegates were a unit for Want and
Colfax.
TEE Radicals throughout the coun
try had prepared large quantities of
powder to fire salutes when the news
came of the removal of President John-
sou. Impeachment having failed, they
are now economically using up their
amunition in making a noise over the
nomination of Grant and Colfax, but
the people are not responding to the
voice of the guns. Tho populace are
not prepared to exhibit any signs of re
joicing over nominations made by so
corrupt a party.
The Itaffical papers are all parading
the announcement that Colfax Is an ul-
try temperance man. 'Phis Is done •to
°Met the accusations of habitual drunk
enness, which Wendell Philips, and
other Radical leaders have so repeated.
ly madti against Orilla. If the Radicals
themselves are to be believed, (Irma he
often staggering drunk, while Colfax is
a fanatical teetotaler. Rather a queer
pair of elendidutes to be hitched up to
gether. But, like everything radical,
the ticket/1s consistent ln its very in
consistency.
Mealier nighttlie Itatileals of Worth
ington city serenaded tiritnt nod Colfax.
Ilirtun lilyssett replied to o long speech
which was made to him, Icy informing
the crowd that he could not make a
speech. Colfax spoke for the great woo
icor, and, after praising hint In the
most extravagant terms, declared that
greater titan all ills \lobules was the
lleti1)11 of 'the ileptibilean party by
which the ballot was limit. Into till' hands
of the negro. 'Flu, next, thing In order
will be the letter of acceptance which
Waohloirne lo preparing for (Irani. II
will he published in a day or two,
No greater evil could befal this coun
try than the election of fieneral
on the platform on which he stands.—
Of very moderate abilities, wholly ig
norant of the political history of the
country, and utterly Incapable of com
prehending the great issues upon which
its ruin or welfare depend, his election
would he a national disaster. He has
been the mere tool of Washburn° and
a set of unprincipled political adventu
rers ever since he entered the political
arena, and he would be completely con.
trolled by them while in the Presiden
tial chair. If the people of this nation
. have any regard for Its best interests
they will see to it that no such disaster
befall It.
The Deserter Act
The case of Edward McCafferty against
George Gruger, J. C. Dickson and Alex.
Ale, election officers of Warriorsmark
township, Huntingdon county, who
had refused to receive the plaintiff's
vote, came before the Supreme Court
on appeal from the Common Pleas of
IT.untingdon county, and was argued on
Wednesday, at Harrisburg.
It was admitted that McCafferty had
been drafted and had failed to report,
and that a certificate to that effect had
been presented to the defendants, as
provided in the act of Julie 4, 1806,
which disfranchises those whose deser
tion is' so certified to; the question of
the constitutionality of this act of 1866
was therefore squarely presented. •
The Court reserved its decision, but
the.intimations thrown out by several
of thejudge,s clearly indicate that the
aetwill bepronounoed unconstitutional;
Justice' Atrong intimating that, when
the Constitution prescribes the qualifi
cations aan elector, fit Is equitrideat to
a direct prohibition upon the liefirisla.
tura to add any other , qualiflcatlints;;'
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY_ INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,868.
•-•^---
NO Enthusiasm.. The Negro Suffrage Plank in the Chicago .
The Radical Convention aeChicogo .. !, ~• PlatforM.
.. ,
alpijr, Theoeeond resolution of r the Chicago
was a tame and utterly" n spiritleis
The proceedings elicited no populimex. filatfOrm reads as follOWs:
of equal to o .'
Th at-theai South ails de-•
been received very coldly ;throughout mended by every consideration of-jot:bile'
the country. Nowhere has there' been" safety, of gratitude, and ofjustice, and must
any exhibition of enthusiasm. The If3reagmeaii=delowylifrtatgpq ro ultril°nbcefo W n
-
name of Grant fails to charm the popu- to the people of those States. P3' g 8
lar ear, and there is still less that is cap- We have already declared our con
tbinting about Colfax. The ticket was viction that the above resolution would
set up by the corrupt and scheming prove entirely satisfactory to the most
politicians of the Radical faction, who extreme advocates of negro equality,
are in mortal terror lest they may be and we had not to wait long for the
driven away from
. the public crib . clearest proof of our assertion. The
Grant is in the keeping of such men Philadelphia Post of yesterday has the
as Washburne and Forney, and Col- following commentary upon it:
fax is unknown to the country ex- There is nothing in the Republican plat
cept as a third-rate Radical politl- form, adopted at Chicago, which we cannot
clan, who happened to be elect ed whic h g ro the
onlyeovneenothp
t e ee e nTo ccl ogct rti on -
Speaker of the lower House of Rep- pledges the party o maintain Impartial
resentatives. He is part and parcel Suffrage in the I NEVITAB LE THAT MAIN
of the present infamous and unpopular NPAI P AIL 1 1.1F , L ' ill
Congress, and the people will not he at ESTABLISHED IN THE NORTH, for it
a loss to determine where he stands. is im ossible that the
i ßepublican party can
Never were the Presidential nomina- polic y . ditsgn=nVlosoeldthtoecoalOwroodfarvoeg
tions of any great political party in this co l the south, unless it gives the ballot to
country received so coldly by the masses red citizens in th e e North. And if it re
ns those of Grant and Colfax. The Rad- willf e u v s e e r s i„ to ne h re ecoTeth
champion esereet :f faeds i m e.
teals go into the present contest with graced and defeated. The riyht of the
the weight of popular judgment against
~,t oa r lt States
uea t i o on d d ec o t e le n for themselves
. the
them, and there is nothing in the names, gi ve T e .„? . power to prevent ot in cit7,.. " l, - ;:h
or the character of the men, they have United States from voting for officers of the
put forward, to rouse their party from
~UkoniilliSntat7e;.ea.ndv/grterneittitlkit.h
Nev Cc'n enew re fl s l
the apathy into which its masses have not forget his bill prohibiting States from
fallen. We predict that they will find disfranchising citizens of the whole conn
the campaign a dragging one from be- tai..ivetAdeeitalig
notto b m e e regr e elte p tl ie t i l t r y t t a h e e .
ginning to end. They carry too much dare that the people of the loyal States
weight.to win in the coming IPresiden- ought to grant the ballot to their fellow-citi
zens, without respect to color. BUT WE
sal race. REPEAT THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO CONFER FULL CITIZENSHIP ON
THE MILLIONS OF COLORED PEO
PLE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES,
AND TO CONTINUE TO WITHHOLD
IT FROM THE THOUSANDS IN THE
NORTH.
The Negro in the Chicago Convention.
The platform adopted by the Radicals
at Chicago, though full of glittering
generalities, and, like India rubber,
capable of being stretched in almost any
conceivabledirection,will not commend
itself to the people of the United States.
Regarding it as of prime importance the
Convention announced its position ou
the negro question in the first two reso
lutions. The party, and Its nominees,
Grant and Colfax, are pledged to the
maintenance of negro supremacy in the
Southern States. This is followed by
a declaration in favor of leaving the
question of suffrage to be decided by the
people of the loyal States for themselves.
In few words, the position of the Repub
lican party in the coming Presidential
contest Is, that Congress shall enforce
negro supremacy In the South, while
we of the North are not to be thus forci
bly dealt with Just at present. That
the leaders of the Republican party ex
pect very soon to make Voters of the
negroes in every Northern State, If they
succeed in electing Grant, no sensible
man can doubt. The truth is that with
one-half the Union under negro doull
nation the right to vote and hold °Mc
cannot be long denied to that race
any State. The blacks will hold the
balance of power, and will dictate their
own terms. This the Radical lenders
know, and they are perfectly satisfied
with the position taken nt Chicago.
They see that with negro supremacy In
the South thus squarely made part of
(limit's platform, negro equality In the
North must Inevitably follow his oleo•
Lion. So we hear no grumbling from
the extreme men of the party. They
are all dellghted, and In the confident
amsurnnce that the election of (leneral
(Irani will enable them to break down
every barrier between the two races,
they go to work with all their energlea
to secure that result.
That the 'IMMIX of the North are pre
pared to support General Want on such
a platform, we do not believe, They
cannot fall to understand the true posi
tion of the two great political parties n
the combo contest; and the white men
of our section will not vote to subject
their own race in the South to the dond-
nation of barbarian negroes, with the
assurance that the negro equality in the
North must speedily follow.
A Democratic Ilollday.
The coming Fourth of July' will see
the grandest assemblage of Democrats
over convened on this continent. It
will be a gathering of the true and pa-
otle moo of the nation In the emu
merclal metropolis of the country to
take counsel together for the good of the
people. And, while our wisest men are
thus spending the national holiday in
patriotic deliberations, the Cincinnati
Enquirer suggests that the masses of
the Democratic party who remain at
home, hold meetingstall over the coun
try in their respective neighborhoods
on Independence (lay. We deem
that suggestion eminently timely and
proper. Let there be a gathering
together of the Democratic masses all
over the country, on the coming 4th of
July. It will be an admirable method
of inaugurating the most important
Presidential campaign in which the
American people ever engaged. Let
' arrangements be made for carrying out
the suggestion all over the country.—
Every election district should have an
assemblage of the Democratic voters,
with their wives and children, on the
corning Fourth of July. It Is a Demo
cratic holiday, and should be celebrated
as such.
Colfax a Know•Notlling
Colfax, the Radical candidate for
Vice President, is a politician by trade,
and has always been notorious In In
diana as a chronic office beggar. He
was all original KNOW•NOTII !NU, and
as such was elected to Congress,
being one of the most hitter and
laud•mouthed defamers of Catholics
and of our foreign•born follow•cili
/1311)4, Like others of his clams, he
naturally allied hluntelf with the Re
publican party, When the fusion be•
tween the Know-Nothingm and the
A bolitloillmtm Wok place: 'rho reaolu•
Lion In reference to naturalized ellizenm
adopted by the Chicago Convention
WUK merely tt tub thrown to the whale ;
and when that Is quoted every natural
ized citizen will recall the antecedents
or the party and Of Its nominee, Schtt3. ,
ler ( ' ol fax , the A'now.Nothing,
No Tariff Plank
The Radical Convention at Chlellgo
ilad not a word to say aboti a tariff•
Not only was Pennsylvania's autlltinte
for the Vice Presidency coin' letely
nored, but the peculiar polttical hobby
of Pennsylvania Republicans was not
even mentioned. What are we to un-
derstaud by th ominous silence ? Has
the party been converted to the doctrine
of free trade? Was this thing done at
the demand of the West?, Was the in
fluence of that section so great in the
Convention as to secure both candidates
and the platform? We desire to see
what explanation will be given for this
0/11i1381011 of a tariff plank in the plat
form. Heretofore it hue been a dis
tinctive feature in the creed of the Re
publican party. Is it to be abandoned,
and if so, why?
No Word of Cheer tor the Laboring
Classes.
There is not a single resolution in the
Radical Chicago platform which will
strike a responsive chord In the breasts
of the millions of honest working men
in the North. The industrial' classes
are passed by- with silent contempt.
The Convention was a gathering of
selfish and corrupt politicians, whose
only object in life is to scheme far office
and to devise means whereby they may
be enabled to filch from the National
Treasury the money which is wrung
from the sweat and toll of the laboring
white men of , the nation. There are
praises of the negro and promises to
him, but not a word from which the
overburthened white toiler can derive
any comfort.
TICE Harrisburg Patriot and Union
says:
The Radical nominations fell 'Tat". upon
this community: Nohody was surprised
and nobody cared: Geary orflereda
(at the expense of the State, itts said,) which
was fired by a couple of gunners before an
appreciative assemblage of nine little white
boys and fifteen little black ones, and that
wan'all. •
Now we ask every Northern man
who is opposed to negro suffrage and
consequent negro equality to look this
proposition squarely in the face. Here
we have It asserted by one of the ablest
Republican papers in the country that
the platform on which General Grant
has voluntarily taken his stand, if car
ried out by his election, renders negro
suffrage and negro equality an inevita
ble necessity in every State in the
Union. The Pout very truthfully de
clares that " it is impossible to confer
Pit citizenship on the, millions of colored
people in the Southern States, and to
withhold it from the thousands in the
.IVorth.',
Let no one make a mistake about this
matter. The election of Gen. Grant
will certainly fasten negro suffrage upon
Pennsylvania. There can be no escape
from it except by his defeat. The Post
phi le out the precise method by which
the result will be acehloved, when It
says that, "the right of the loyal States
to deckle for themselves the sofTrage
guestion flues 710 e give them power to
VrCVCII eiti:coß of the ('oiled Sluice (no
grace as well as white men) from voting
fur (dhoti% o f the United Stoics. And
though Congress may not adopt Thad.
Stevens' bill for granting such prlvi
eges to the negroes before the next
'residential election, (lenoral Want
, 11l not have got warm In his seat until
, will be pushed through.
Let every reader of this article re•
'ember that wo put no construction of
own upon the second plank of the
iago platform, but that we take that
Ile or the ablest Radical. newspapers
he country. We agree with it en..
rely In 104 expreHmed conviction, t
nutiniunitnce of negro oultrugu
the ten Stales lately In rebellion renders
the speedy adoption thereof, In all the
resit an absolute and imperative necessi
ty. So surely as (lon. Grant is elected, a
law will be at once passed declaring that
nil eltizens of the United States (and
negroes are declared by the Radicals to
ho such) shall have n right to, vote for
United States otticers in every State of
the Union. That once accomplished,
all the rost will speedily follow. The
only way to defeat negro suffrage hi
Pennsylvania Is to defeat Grant and
Colfax.
Who Is Responsible for Extravagant Ex•
pendltures
In the string of glittering and Incon
sistent generalities, which was adopted
by the Radicals as a platform at Chi
cago, n deliberate attempt is made to
shoulder upon Andrew Johnson the
extravagance which has prevailed In the
general government during the past
coven years. Does any one suppose the
people of the United States are such
fools us to believe an assertion of that
kind. Surely there can be no man in
the country who does not know that
ever since isir. Johnson became Presi•
dent Congress has been entirely re
sponsible for every dollar which has
been expended, and that the President
and his Cabinet have been utterly pow
erless to restrain the reckless extrava
gance which has prevailed.
The taxpayers of the nation, the toil-
ing masses, from the sweat of whose
honest brows the many millions which
have been uselessly squandered were
wrung, are Justly Indignant at the ex
travagance which has prevailed. The
tax gatherer in this country has more
Lands than the fabled monster, whom
men called iEgeon and the gods Brla
reus, The masses see what a heavy
ereentage le added to the wet of every
thing which they buy by taxation. As
they find themselves cramped In the
necessaries of life, and ace luxuries
which they once enjoyed put out of
their reach by taxation, they begin to
inquire sharply Into the causes which
have produced such a result. They
have looked at the reckless and eum•-
mous expenditures of the general gov
ernment, and have investigated the
matter for themselves until they are
satisfied that their burthens have been
greatly increased by Congress, without
io nation's receiving troy compenm
ng
The Itimilenis who !orthland (le
Grant nt Chicago 3c !tow how general Is
tho spirit or inquiry, and this dissatis
faction wit melt exists among the !misses.
They have heard the mutterhigg or the
coining storm of popular indignation
against Cungretp3, and they attoinpted
to shield themselves by the passage of
a resolution In which they undertake
to throw the responsibility for the
prevalent extravagance and corruption
upon President Johnson.
The people cannot be blinded by any
such transparent veil of falsehood.
hood. They know full well thab Mr.
Johnson has been utterly powerless
ever eine° he came into office as Presi
dent. They know how completely HU.
preme has been the rule of Congress.
They know that not a dollar hits been
expended during all that time, except
under the direct appropriation and ap
proval of the Radical majority in Con
gress. Nor will the people forget the
purposes for which those gigantic ap
propriations have been made. They
will remember, when they come to
vote, that they are called upon to en
dorse or to condemn the expenditure of
one hundred and fifty millions a year
to keep up a large standing army in the
South, whose only business is to prop
up the negro governments which have
been set up on the ruins of ten States of
the Union ; they will remember that
they are to vote for or against the con
tinued expenditure of many millions
more to maintain that refuge for idle
and vicious negroes, the Freedmen's
Bureau; they will not forget that
while the masses were groaning under
the most grinding taxation, and when
the laboring man found it difficultAo
provide food and clothing for himself
and family, that the members of Con
gress deliberately voted to double their
salaries which were already more than
sufficient to pay for their service.
These, andamtiltnudeof other meth*
by which the Radicals in Congress have
been. eating .up the substance of the
people, will ,be.,;embered ;by th e
-masses when they. m come to , voie.—
And they will not forget come;
against
;these; 11113 gs Andret, Johnson and tht
:Democratic par4Ataii j'iptef4te4;-but
protcatedirradn.. TOpeopii walla* to'
:it that the Radicals axe not encaaraged:
to continue t4eir career recklaas ex
trav4ance and oorkiiption by the.elec
tion' of Grant, the tool of Washburne,
Forney & Co., and Colfax, the:leader of
the Congress which is responsible for
the wrongs under which the masses are
suffering so grievously.
Wade:
Our evening cotemporary endeavors
to excuse Ben. Wade's infamous vote
for conviction, by alleging that he had
determined to resign his position as
President of the Senate, in case of con.
viction, and allow Colfax to become
acting President of the United States.
If the facts warranted this statement, it
'would afford some palliation for Wade's
conduct, but unfortunately they do not:
Wade himself has never offered the es•
cuss stated, but has said that Colfax and
Wilson wanted him to resign his posi
tion, offering in that case to withdraw
in his favor at the Chicago Convention,
and allow him to receive the nomina-
tion for the, Vice Presidency. Wade re
fused their offer, declaring that he had
made up his mind for conviction, and
that he would likewise retain his place
as next in succession to the Presidency.
"Do you think," said he, "that any one
who knows me would believe that I
would vote for acquittal if I was not
President of the Senate ?" and that was
all he had to offer in defence of his ac
tion. His conduct has been so bitterly
denounced by the journals of hie own
party, that it is natural that the few
friends he has should attempt to pal
liate it; but the less they say about it
the better, for the facts will not war
rant any defence.
At Chicago even, in the house of hie
friends, where the disposition is to give
him the nomination to mark disappro
bation of the votes of the seven "recre-
ants" on impeachment, the correspond
ents report that the attempts to "swal
low" him are attended by so Brea
marks of loathing and disgust, that it
Is very doubtful whether the feat can
be accomplished. "All the gentlemen'
In the Convention, a despatch says, are
opposed to him ; and the Ohio delega
tion Itself would be secretly glad to see
him defeated. Poor Wade rinds that
the way of the transgressor's hard, and
that men fu high station upon whom
are fixed the eyes of the people, cannot
with Impunity violate the ideas of pro
priety which prevail in the community.
A Ho•rolled SoldloreConventlon.
One of the methods adopted by the
Radicals for creating capital for the
candidates they have put forward, was
the calling of a convention of soldiers to
meet at Chicago the day before the
politicians assembled. It was supposed
that such a gathering would impress the
public with the idea that the soldiers are
ready to vote for Gen. Want without
taking Into consideration the character
of the party by whom ho Is nominated,
and the platform on which he is placed.
The programme was rried out accord
ing to arrangetnet : but, there was a
marked absence f al soldiers. Of
seedy politicians, who had served in the
Quartermaster's department and occu
pied other positions where there
• was little fighting and much chance
to gather up plunder, there were
many. To the tune of " Old Grimes is
dead," a motley crowd marched through
the streets of Chicago to ft building pre
pared for the meeting of this auxiliary
convention. The delegates being seated,
the song of " Old Grimes Is dead" was
'sung, and groans given for the Senators
who hall voted for the acquittal of the
President. The Convention seemed to
have very little work before It, and its
time was principally occupied in listen
ing to speeches. General Hawley, of
Connecticut, who was so badly beaten
in the gubernatorial contest of last year
by Governor English, and who was
made permanent president of the Con
vention of office-seekers and political
hacks, which met the following day,
made n speech which concluded as fol
lows :
It made no difference whether the citizen
was white or black, he was a citizen still. •
110 believed, If necessary, two million boys
in blue would come again and protect hint
in his rights. [lmmense applause.]
General Stokes, of Tennessee, follow
ed, saying he was there to defend the
black man. He declared that the ne
groes had preserved his State to the
Radical party by voting their ticket.
The concluding sentence of his speech
was as follows :
Tho negroes had proven themselves ca
pable of using the ballot, for they had cast
it always for the Republican party.
Such was the tone of this so•called
'Soldiers' Convention. That it repre
sented the rank and file of the Union
armies we do not believe. The soldiers
who bore the brunt of battle aro not pre
pared to subject the white neon of the
South to the domination of degraded
and barbarian negroes. They do not
desire to see one-half the Stttes of this
Union ruled by the inferior race. They
see and know that such a policy must
greatly impair the character of our gov
ernment, and they are not ready to give
the balance of power In the nation into
the hands of the African. When the
soldiers are asked to follow the lead of
Gen. Grant, they 'will remember that
lie is the representative of negro su
premacy In the South, and the candi
date of the party which is pledged to
enforce the odious doctrine of negro
equality In the North.
That Attack on Logan a Myth.
An absurd report was telegraphed to
us on Tuesday, from 1'1111mb:31011a, that
(loners.' John Logan had been attacked
while passing through the borough of
York on his way to Chicago, a volley of
stones having been thrown at the cars.
The report, came from Chlettgo to the
Now York 7ribunc, anti was thence tel.
°graphed to us. Although we of course
would have heard of this terrible out
rage, If It hod really occurred, long be
fore the valiant Logan could have car
ried It to Chicago and confided it to the
Tribune correspondent, yet the Express,
ever ready from its own Inherent vile
ness, to believe in the truth of any ac
cusation which reflects upon its political
opponents, gleefully credited the story
and Inflicted upon its readers a long ac
count of the sins and shortcomings of
Little York. If the people of York wore
alarmed at the advance of Lee's army
into their town, we will venture to say
they were not half as badly scared and
did not act half as pusillanimously as
did several distinguished and " truly
loll" citizens of this town whom we
could name, although the broad Susque•
hanna separated them from the enemy.
The following despatch from York
puts a quietus on Logau , s story, and
shows that an unquiet conscience must
have been disturbing the sleep of the
braggart General of the G. A. R. 118 he
passed through our neighboring bor
ough, and led him to mistake the bark
of a dog or the screech of the engine for
the sound of a volley of bricks aimed at
his own lovely head :
YORK, May 2(—There is not a word of
truth in the statement published editorially
in the New York Tribune of the 10th, and
its Chicago letter of the 18th inst., of an at
tempti to assassinate E/eneial Logan on his
passage through this place on Saturday
night last, nor was any assault made. upon
the train in which he.wask a passenger. The
railroad officers on duty at the station here
publish the following article on the subject :
Ypag, Pennsylvania, May 20.
We hereby'certify that we were on duty
at the York Station when the Buffalo ex
press train tibevareferred to passed through
soon after midnight. There was no rioting,
nor any attempt made to create a riot, nor
was any one on ,the platform except the
passengers and the officers of the road.
W. F. BIISSER,
' • Ticket Agent, N. C. R. W. Co.
• • . GEORGE W. OGDEN,
Baggage Master, N. C. R. W. Co.
. The Lycomingahilly Gazette comes
o us, enlarged to seven columns and
giving evidence of prosperity.
itOW•the New Hampshire Election was
.T... 7.; 1. • Carried. ••:,
44 Radicals have beeriincsi'dtkfor
C"... n
tonatein their attempts a prove;lat
money was used to influence those able
and conscientious Repubilian Senators
whoioted to acquit President Johnson.
The evidence that Pomeroy, of Kansas,
offered to sell himself and four of his
Radical companions was a hard lick.
And now Thurlow Weed, the great
Radical political manager of New. York,
in 'answer to the question, whether he
had not received some thirty thousand
dollars, testifies that he •hrid, but not
with reference to impeachment "but,
to be used, and tt was used to carry the
New Hampshire election for the Repub.
Here is a revelation under the oath of
one of the most prominent Radicals in
the country, of the means which were
used to carry the State of New Hamp
shire at the Spring election. We call
the attention of the people to it, and we
would ask those Radicals who imagine
that Grant's election is sure, to remem
ber that the election in New Hampshire
was regarded as a test of his popularity
and that in spite of the use of his name
in the canvass, and of all the money
raised by Weed and others, the result
showed a Democratic gain of nearly a
thousand votes since last year. The re
sult in that State, when we remember
how lavish the expenditure of money
must have been, leads us to believe that
the Democracy can carry it at the corn
ing Presidential election. It will take
more money to prevent than it did to
purchase the reduced Radical majority
at the Spring election.
Forney In Trouble
Dead Duck Forney, who is a delegate
to the Chicago Convention from this
State, started for that city early last
week, hired a suite of rooms opposite
the Opera House, flung out a large flag
from the window inscribed with the
names of his two papers, both daily, laid
In a stock of liquors, and manifestly ex
pected to make his rooms the head
quarters of the delegates, and himself
the leader of the Convention. But, un
fortunately for his hopes, Cameron was
after him, and Don was in the field as
early as he was ; so that, although the
chevalier was the most prominent dale
gate at large from Pennsylvania, it was
with great difficulty that he finally suc
ceeded in getting himself elected chair
man of his delegation, that honor being
temporarily given to Cialusint Grow,
who was not a delegate; nor can he get
the Pennsylvania delegation to adhere
to Curtin, notwithstanding they have
been Instructed for him.
A rumor reaches us from Washing
ton, also, that financial reasons require
Forney's Immediate return thither.—
Now, although It will be very disagree•
able to us to interfere In the private fi
nancial affairs of any one, yet, if the
Congressional Smelling Committee,
through Beast Butler, will insist upon
examining the bank account of Senator
Rose, we shall consider ourselves ex
cused in inquiring why the necessity at
this time upon Mr. Forney to 'raise
$35,000 Is so pressing, that he requires
the control of his wife's Washington
property to be surrendered to him, by
her trustee in order that he may be
enabled to raise that sum.
Grant Heßlgn
ho quootlon now moon+, slue° (ion
Grant's nomination for the Presidency,
will he resign his position as General of
the Army? If he does not liu will af
ford the least evidence that he has no
hope of being eluded by a fair vote.
The great impropriety of his holding
the position of the Regular Army, at
the same time that he is running for
President will strike every one at a
glance. The military despotism bill
places the control of the political affairs
of the Southern States, to a greatextent
in the hands of the General of the
Army. If Grant should have the ef
frontery to use the dictatorial power
which a revolutionary Congress has
put In his hands, for the purpose of se
curing his own election, the people may
well conclude that ho would not scru
ple to continue his rule by military
force. The man who would be capable
of attempting to secure the Presidency
'by such means would be ready to dis
pense with elections for all future time.
Let Grant either resign the General
ship or decline the nomination.
Ron. Wm. W. O'Brien, of Illinois.
The Democracy of Illinois have nom
inated for Congressman at large the
Hon. William W. O'Brien, of Peoria,
Illinois. His opponent is John Logan,
whose record for some years past has
been of such a character, as to have
earned for him the soubriquet of Dirty-
Work Logan. Originally an advocate
and adviser of secession, lie became one
of the vilest Radicals in the land, and
'has crowned his infamy as one of the
Managers of the Impeachment of An
drew Johnson.
William W. O'Brien is ono of the
ablest men in the State of Illinois, both
as a lawyer and as au orator. Au hon
orable, honest and fearless politician, he
has on every occasion advocated the true
interests of the country, and has ever
maintained the honest doctrine of ad
hesion to principle without regard to
temporary expediency. At no time has
a more able, conscientious and fearless
champion of the time-honored eausemf
true Democracy, been brought before
the people of Illinois for their suffrages.
His personal feelings and his largo
practice would lend him, no doubt, to
prefer the quiet of civil life ; but at the
call of the Democracy of his state he
has yielded to their wishes, and we may
expect a canvass of rare activity. Dirty-
Work Logan will find that he hue met
his superior, and will emerge from the
contest a used-up man.
We congratulate the sterling Demo
cracy of Illinois on the choice of their
candidate, and trust that we may have
the satisfaction of recording hie elec
tion.
The Smelling Committee.
Senator Henderson 'has been sum
moned by Ben. Butler & Co., to appear
before them and testify as to whether
any corrupt or 'undue influences were
used to induce him to vote for ttio ac
quittal of the President. He of course,
refused to comply with so impertinent
and Improper a request, and refers the
matter to the Senate. What business
has the House of Representatives, the
prosecutor in the case against the Presi
dent, to summon the Judges to answer
before it, for their votes and their actions
during the trial?
The "Smelling Committee" has been
organized on the most approved plans,
copied in a gAat measure from the
methods of procedure of. its ancient
prototype, the Spanish Inquisition.—
The Committee has secured the valuable
assistance of John Covode, who hes been
appointed Smeller-in-Chief, and special
aid to the Beast. Great results are ex
pected from the labors of these two
worthies;
the mountain labors, but we
fear that we will have to look very
sharp to see the product which it brings
forth.
Conservative Aldiees National Cowen-
We publish elsewhere the call for a
Soldiers and Sailors Convention, to be
held in New York on the 4th of July.
The conservative soldiers of Lancaster
county will no doubt take immediate
steps to appoint delegates. They are
not few, and will no doubt respond
promptly to this call.
THADDEUS STEVENS still persists in
holding, as he &blared years ago, that
men should " throw conscience to the
devil" when their party required it. He
said on Monday in the House, in reply
to a question from Mr. Ross, that "he
did not think a would have hurt anators
if they had perjured themselves for the
purpose of procuring the conviction of
the President." In his political course
he has always acted in consistency with
this sentiment; yet it Shocks one to
hear him still boldly proclaiming it,
now that he is on the verge of life, and
eternity is opening before him.
The Radical Platform.
:41 4 w following !Mies of kotplatioas wan ,
taloptea by3he Rai:tads at Chimp,
li 4 latform enual
osin ot pu th' e ig par r - I . ty 0:117111 . g
fl The - National t - lieputdican party ,Of the
United State's, ainiembiled in NationalDin
vention'in the city of Chicago on the 20th
day of May, 1888, make the following dec
laration. of principles:
First. We congratulate the country on
the assured success of the reconstruction
projects of Congress, as evinced by the
adoption in a majority of the States lately
in rebellion of constitutions securing equal
civil and
duty
to all, and regard
it as the duty of the Government to sustain
these institutions and to prevent the people
of such States from being remitted to a
state of anarchy.
Second. The guarantee of Congress of
equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South
was demanded by every consideration of
public safety, of gratitude, and of justice,
and mnstbe maintained, while the question
of suffrage in all the loyal States properly
belongs to the people of those States.
Third. We denounce all forms of repudi
ation as a national crime, and national
honor reqnires the payment of the public
indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all
creditors, at home and abroad, not only ao•
cording to the letter but the spirit of the
laws under which it was contracted.
Fourth. It is due to the labor of the na
tion that taxation should be equalized, and
reduced as rapidly as thenational faith will
permit.
Fifth. The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, should be extended
over a fair period for redemption, and it is
the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of
interest thereon whenever it can possibly
Sixth. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to so improve our
credit that capitalists will seek to loan us
money at lower rates of interest than we
now pay, and must continue to pay so long
as repudiation, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or suspected.
Seventh. The Government of the United
States should bo administered with the
strictest economy, and the corruptions
which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson cull loudly for
radical reform.
Eighth. We profoundly deplore the un
timely and tragic death of Abraham Lin
coln, and rearet the accession of Andrew
Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him,
end the cause he was pledged to supilbrt ;
has usurped legislative and judicial func
tions; has refused to execute the laws; has
used his high office to induce other officers
to ignore and violate the laws ; has employed
his executive power to render insecure the
prosperity, peace, liberty, and life of the
citizens; has abused the pardoning power;
has denounced the National Legislature as
unconstitutional; has persistently and cor
ruptly resisted, by every measure in his
power, every proper attempt at the recon
struction of the States lately in rebellion;
has perverted the public patronage into an
engine of wholesale corruption, and has
been Justly impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty by the votes of thirty-five Senators.
Ninth. The doctrine of Great Britain and
other European powers, that because a'man
is once a subject he is always so, must be
resisted at ovary hazard by the U. States as
a relic of the Federal times, not authorized
by the law of nations and at war with our
materna honor and independence. Natur
alized citizens aro entitled to be protected
In all their rights of citizenship as though
they were native born, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized, must
be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any
foreign power for nets done or words spoken
in this country. And if so arrested and
Imprisoned, It is the duty of the Govern
ment to Interfere In his behalf.
Tenth. On all who were faithful In the
trials of the late war, there were none out!
tied to more especial honor than the bravo
soldiers and seamen who endured the hard
ships of campaign and cruise, and impor•
Bled their lives In the service of the coun
try. The bounties and pensions provided
by law for these bravo defenders of the na
tion are obligations never to be forgotten.
The widows and orphans of the gallant dead
are the wards of the people, a sacred legacy
bequeathed to the nation's protecting care.
Eleventh. Foreign emigration, which in
tile past has added No inuch to the wealth
and development of the resources and the
increase of power to this nation, "the say
him of the oppressed of all nations," should
be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and
Just policy.
Tw el fth. This con veil lion declares Its
sympathy with all oppressed people who
Ire struggling for their rights.
A Itnalent Nouutor Worm to Nell ll*nowt(
owl Four of him Contradow.
Butler's renowned itnpeachniont investi
gallon has developed some facts which we
imagine the wily manager had not calcu
lated upon. Hare is ono of them. The sad
dle is being put on the back of the right horse
at last, and the investigation, so far from
proving that improper Influences had been
brought to bear upon Senators by the Pres
ident's particular friends, now shows that
ono of the most prominent Radical impeach
ers was ready to sell out for a price. While
not a tittle of evidence has been produced to
show that Senator Ross acted in any other
thad an honorable and conscientious man
ner, the testimony of Col. Cooper conclu
sively proves that Ross' colleague, Senator
Pomeroy, from Kansas, was wilting to trade
off himself and four other Radical Senators
for the trifling sum of forty thousand dollars
and the control of the .Administration pat
ronage for the State of Kansas. It further
appears that Senator Morton, of Indiana
was one of the four whom Pomoroy expect,
od to control. It is to be hoped that the
managers will proceed with their investi
gation. Road Col. Cooper's statement as it
appears In the Ledger :
Col. Edmund Cooper, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, was examined to-day by
the House managers. Col. Cooper was
asked whether ho had been approached on
the subject of using money for the acquittal
of the President. He answered, no had;
that a person profossing to act on the au
thority of Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, Senator
from Kansas, proposed that for forty thous
and dollars cash in hand, he (Pomeroy)
would control four Radical voters in .the
Senate and his own, so as to insure the ac
quittal of the President. Witness professed
to doubt his authority, and then the person
brought a letter, purporting to be from Sen
ator Pomeroy, dated Senate Chamber, day
blank, substantially SS follows:
Sir—i will, in good faith, carry out any
arrangement made with my brother-in-law
Willis Gaylord, to which 1. am a party.
At this juncture in the examination But
ler objected to witness's testifying to the
substance of the letter, saying that he (But
ler) would produce it. Then as Colonel
Cooper went on to testify, Willis Gaylord
was introduced by the parson who pro
duced this letter, who road It to the witness
and Gaylord, the person who first called
then retired, leaving Col. Cooper anti Gay
lord together, thereupon Gaylord renewed
the proposition, namely, to secure five votes
for the President, for $lO,OOO. The patron
age of the Administration to be thrown In
for Pomeroy in the State of Kansas. Col.
Cooper, having testified so far, said that he
luulifel loved that this proposition from Sena
, tor Pomeroy was intended to entrap him and,
' acting under that belle, ho had detortnlnod
to lead the parties on to an exposure, Ile
assigned a reason for that holier. First,
that Senator Pommoy was a strong pant-
Mall, that ho felt bitterly towards the Pros-
Wont, and that if money wits his object,tho
party to which he belonged was much bet
tor able to pay than the aulininlittratlonwas
Second, the person who approached him,
Colonel Cooper, with the proposition, enu
merated, among the names of Senators
whom Pomeroy proposed to control, those
of Morton of Indiana,
and Nye ofNeyucla.
Col. Cooper did not believe it possible that
Senator Morton could be bought. Colonel
Cooper resumed, by stating that the inter
views wore sought by the persons profess
ing to act for Senator Pomeroy. The let
ters were brought showing their authority,
that the Terms wore not accepted, and that
ho, the witness, had never intended to ac
cept them. The additional testimony of
Colonel Cooper was to the effect that he was
not advised of any money having boon
used to influence Senator's votes.
Advertisomento
Our advortlslng columns, says . the Now
York Sun, aro so crowded that wo aro
obliged to find room for a few special no
tices among the editorials:
DDISSOLUTION OF 00-PARTNERSIIIR
The firm of Chase di Greeley le dissolved,
on account of the disgust of the Junior part.
ner, and because the members of the firm are
about to travel In opposite directions, The
business of the arm will be continued by Gree
ley &Grant; while tl. P. Chase will hereafter be
associated with William H. Seward, formerly
the head of the house of Seward, Weed &
Greeley.
T 0 LET CHEAP.—A HOLE IN THE HEAV
ens, bounded as follows: Beginning at
int No Point and ending on the opposite
side; described. in the impaoliment speech of
the Hon. George B. /3outwell, but more partic
ularly set forth and shown up in the reply of
William H. Everts, Esq. It is an elevated and
airy situation, and was designed as a summer
residence for Andrew Johnson, who has con
cluded to remain in the White House. There
are no near neighbors.
TnfEATRIOAL.—NOTICE TO MANAGERS—
Managers of impeachment will find the
best Article—the only one Which will hold
water—that furnished by
THADDEUS STEVENS.
WILL NOT MOVE IN MAY.—THE HON.
Vy Ben Wade has concluded not to move
Into the White House during the present
month of May. He will not take the oath of
office, but that will not prevent his taking
several other oaths.
Counties without Debt.
The Harrisburg State Guard enume
rates sixteen counties of this State which
have no debt. Of these ten are Demo
cratic. That is a significant fact to
which we would call the attention of
the people. Wherever the Democratic
party has control, economy in public
expenditure is the rule. The lucky
counties are the following, those in ital
ics being 'Republican, the others Demo
cratic. Bedford, B/air,Bradford, Cam
bria, Clinton, Elk, Fulton, Juniita, In
diana, Luzerne, Montour, Pike, Sonter-
Bet, Union, Venango, and Westtnore
land.
Letter from EN•PMeliNiiit Pleree—L
Comldleoent to Genets' Vilfseriek — The
411117,0phe DemomeMlN.XlMonal Con.
vetiMM—Pereonal Preflerettees Not to
!.;Inflfterzee a iettoletN,
WasErrarioiri;;May 17, 186 S.
The lettei'm ex-President
FrantclAil Pieree to qtaiaia, J„ D. Hoover, of
this city, will be foniid !Mending at this
time
CONCORD, N. H., April H,1868.
M Y DEAR SIR: I have just returned from
Boston to find your letter of the 16th inst.
The language attributed to me in the article
to which you call my attention expresses
substantially what I have thought, and
doubtless what I have often said. You
know how highly I estimate the culture,
powers and elevated characteristics of Mr.
Pendleton. and Governor Seymour, Mr.
Hendricks and Mr. Doolittle, and how
grateftilly I recognize the services rendered
by them respectively in defence of the Con
stitution. I think I must alao have spoken
to you during the late civil war of General
Hancock. Inew him well twenty years
ago, and had the pleasure of meeting him,
with the late gallant General Reno, on one
occasion since the Mexican campaigns of
1817 and 1848. The death of the lat
ter affected me deeply, .and the two
havld been frequently associated in my
memory. By their dashing intrepidity,
knowledge and large manhood, they
attracted universal confidence, and; in an
unusual degree, the warm regard of officers
and men. They had then the bound and
elasticity peculiar to youth; but they had
besides the prompt and prudent judgment
'of riper age. No thoughtful man can help
being impressed by the fact that such
weighty duties and responsibility as will
rest upon the coming Convention have
rarely been cast upon any body of men. It
will not be an occasion where onemay well
decide for himself in accordance with his
personal wishes, friendships or interests;
and hence it is the suggestion of ordinary
forecast that judgment be suspended for a
careful comparison of conclusions with del
gates from all parts of the Union, and for a
more full development of the dangerous
rush and whirl of events in a period when
the constitution, instead of receiving hom•
age and respect, encounters mooning and
defiance on the part of those who are too
evidently determined to command the ship
or destroy it. This, however; is an alterna
tive only in words, for their continued com
mand must end in wreck.
Before the close of the present Congress
and within about three years past they will
have placed three different persons at the
helm, not that the incumbent might hold
the ship of State steadily and safely on her
course,
but with design to lash his arms or
throw him overboard if he even attempt to
do so In precise accordance with his chart.
Happily my anticipations may not be borne
out by the finding of the Senate; but It
would seem from all we hear and read that
the question of President Johnson's guilt
or Innocence is not the matter to be passed
upon. Ile is merger less In the way and
consequently is to be displaced. Not be
cause such displacement will be warranted
by law or fact, justice or reason, but upon
the pleaof "State necessity," upon which
the hand of the tyrant upon the boll rope
has so often, in other lands and in these
later years (shame to say) In ours struck
down the shield of freemen by ringing the
knell of the "great writ of liberty." If it
be not singular it is at least -very tbrtunnte
that such gentlemen as you name should be
tie five citizens towards whom the calm
mind of the country is now turned and ap
parently concentrated. It is an honor to
the representative names faithfully earned,
and not less nut honor to the intelligence
and patriotism of the people.
If every consideration likely to influence
the momentous result be not dispassionate
ly and thoughtfully weighed It will be a
blunder and a crime. With either of film
wise and patriotic citizens at the head of
national affairs, I fool perfect assurance that
every thing would be done that can bo by
man to arrest the surge of constitution de
fying radicalism and to restore fraternity
and peace, unity end prosperity, to the re
public. If, through Divine Providence,
such an event be in reserve for us, how joy
ously and hopefully one's heart would beat,
and hands go at work to heal and restore,
to meet every liability, however heavy, that
touches the honor and integrity of the na
tion, through the old system and habit of
rigid economy and stern fidelity in judg
ment of every public trust and obligation.
Even if I were certain what my judgment
will be when the Fourth of July shell
arrive you are not, I hope, mistaken
In believing that I would readily
yield any personal preference to In
sure the overthrow of the more than in
cipient "reign of terror," now hurrying all
that is valuable to swift destruction. There
can be, in the Convention, no possible oc•
cesion'for the sacrifice either of prinelple or
of Just pride, and hence, while there may
bo—nay, In the nature of things ' must be—
differences of opinion In regard teethe plat
form, and decided individual preferences
in relation to the person, around whom the
people are to rally for ''our country, our
whole:country and notlfingibut our coun
try," yet I anticipate cheerful harmony
when the work is done, and with it and be
yond It complete success. Wo can wisely
postpone minor matters or issues that may
hereafter involve earnest discussion. The
primary and overshadowing object of all
conservative men Is now and will continuo
to be to rescue the work of the fathers from
destroying hands, and to save the founda
tions as they aro by an honest constitution
al victory at the ballot-box too overwhelm
ing to be questioned. * • 5 *
Your friend,
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Col, J. D. HOOVER.
Radical Misrerresentatives
By a smaller majority In the Legislature
than wee expected, William A. Bucking
ham has been chosen from the State of Con
necticut to the United States Senate for six
years from March 4, 1809. Immediately
after the late election in that State, when
the Democrats more than doubled their
majority of the peeceding year and elected
their entire ticket, we showed how by out
rageous gerrymandering the minority
would secure a Senator to misrepresent the
sentiment of the State. How outrageous
this gerrymnndering is in Connecticut is
exhibited in the following table, which
shows the votes and number of representa
tives in different towns
3 towns gave 18.8,91 votes, have 6 representatives
3 towns gave 363 votes, have 6 representatives
1 towns gave 30 509 votes, have 20 representative.
1 towns gave 1,424 votes, have 20 representatives
town gave 0.301 votes, has 2 representatives
town gave 172 votes, has 2 representative..
town gave 3,001 votes, has I representative.
town gave 100 votes, has 1 representative.
2 tons save ;41,787 votes, have 30 repreiernaldives
2e towns gave 4,012 votes, have 30 representatives
The majority of the small towns which
have equal representation with larger towns
and cities send Radical representatives who
voted for Mr. Buckingham. That the Sen
ator-elect by no means represents the views
of the majority of his constituents, is shown
In the annexed admirable letter of Senator
- .
Dixon, who has faithfully represented his
State in the-United States Senate:
SENATE CHAMBER,
Washington, May 16.
Gitsmantnx:—l have the honor to ac
knoVfledge the receipt of your letter of the
14th inst., informing me of my nomination,
by the Democratic and Conservative mem
bers of the Connecticut Legislature, as their
candidate for the office of Senator of the
United States, for the term of six years,
from the 4th of March next.
Repromenting, as these members do, a
majority of the people of the' State their
nomination furnishes conclusive evidence
that my course in the Senate hen the sanc
tion of the popular will. This is to me a
source of groat satisfaction—although my
duty would have been the same, midi trust
would have boon ns faithfully and conselen•
tteusly performed UT had been certain that
I should be condemned for doing right, In
stead of being rewarded and sustained as I
now am, by the approbation of the people.
Regarding a notnination by the represen
tatives of a majority of the people of Con
necticut as a higher honor than an election
by the representatives of n minority, I ac•
cept it with gratitude, and remain with
high respect,
Your friend and obedient servant,
JAMES DIXON.
To the lion l Wm. L. Bonnet, Chuirman,
and the Hon. John Kendrick, Secretary.
Nor is it likely that this is the last honor
the State of Connecticut will confer upon
Mr.:Dixon. Still in the prime of his years
and his powers, Ills few remaining months
of service in the Senate ought not to close a
long and honorable political career which is
without a single stain. Concerning the son
. timents of ills Congressional district in which
Mr. Dixon resides there is not a question,
and in the next Congress, as now, no doubt
that district will be faithfullyi represented.
Wo have the precedent of John Quincy
Adams's and Thomas H. Benton's return
to the House of Representatives after a lof
tier seatin the service of the countryand
the consent of Mr. Dixon to descend 'from
the Senate to the House, even snub a House,
might tend in a degree to elevate a body
now mainly distinguished by "debates body
now
those between Donnelly and Wash
burne.—New York World.
First in the Field
The N. Y. Tribune Rays : We give place,
by request, to the following, which we be
lieve is the first regular nomination of a
ticket for the ensuing Presidential canvass.
Geo. Francis Train, Daniel Pratt, and sev
eral more such, have each nominated him
self for President. But the following Is a
complete ticket, and looks business-like,
viz :
At a convention of Laborers, Farmers,
Mechanics, and ex-Soldiers, held in Pfouts'
Valley, Perry county, Pa., on the 22nd of
April, 1868, Henry Braddon, pretdding,
Benjamin Long and others delivered able
addresses on-Christian statesmanship: Mr.
Long said in his closing remarks, "Our
cause is the Lord Jesus Christ's, and, if wo
cleave to Him, wickedness will fall like the
walls of Jericho, when theyblew thoseveh
trumpets of ram's borne." Joe. 8,
On motion, Dr. R. A. Simpson of Liver
pool, Penn., .was nominated with intense
enthusiasm for President of the U. S., on
the Higher Law Platform (for we trust:in
the Living God), and RI D. Eldridge, eaq.,
of Baltimore, Md., for Vice-President. A
copy of the proceedings were ordered to be
sent to The TindkatOr, Great Republic, and
Associate Presbyterian for publication. 'All
papers favorable to a righteous administra
tion are requested to publish the same.-
- H. J. Hacockun, Secretary.'
Prince Alfred Recovered—Execntion of
the Attempted Amman
LONDON, May 23—Evening.—Telegrams
from Sydney received this evening, in an
ticipation of the overland mail, say that
Prince Alfred had loft for England, iti com
mand of his ship, the steam frigate Galatea.
He was quite well. Farrell, the attempted
assassin of tho Prince, was executed on the
22d of April:
Crop Prospects In the United States:
Wastrmorox, !gay 21.—The following ie
basedon inforMOlion fundishod by, the Sta
tistical Division of. the Departmentof Agri
culture: "Rarely are our Winters so favor
able to fill' sown wheat as that of 1867-8.
The New England States are encouraged to
attempt wheat culture more largely by the
line condition of that now in the ground.
The season was equally favorable In the
Middle States, which report discouraging
facts affecting the Winter crops. In Liv
ingston County, New York, the sowing was
I later than usual on account of the drouth
causing a comparatively puny appearance
at the opening of Spring. In'Erie the fields
had a yellow and unpromising look with
out material loss from Winter killing, and
in Chautauqua there is some complaint
of freezing out and sickly appearance.
Throughout Now Jersey, . -Pennsyl
vania and Delaware, there Is a general
expression of satisfaction with the oondl
tion of wheat, and a confident expectation
of a fraftil harvest If no crtsuldtrinter
yenta. In the Ohio Valley and in the
North-West the wheat generally looks
well. A few exceptions are noted,. as In
Miami, Ohio, it is not looking well. In
Hardin it was somewhat frozen, while
the reports from most Ohio counties aro
quite favorable, as in Ottawa there 'never
was ao favorable a Winter.' In Erie It was
'small but premising,' and in Van Wert
'March passed without a day detrimental
to the growing crop.' In West Virginia,
Putnam and Wood counties report inferior
condition from winter killing. Other coun
ties claim a better stand than for many
years. From Indiana the accounts of, the
crop are uniformity favorable,'far bettor
than usual ,' than ast year,'
In some cases better than for many
yams. While in Miami late sown
wheat is thin, the early sown looks well.
In Kentucky there is much diversity in the
appearance, and not a little complaint of
winter killing, ns In Anderson, Butler,
Henry, Laurel, Scott, and other counties.
It is noticed in Livingston county that fields
with a northern and eastern aspect look
better than those lying to the south and
west. Many tlelds in Henry county have
been ploughed and sown In oats. In Illi
nois, and especially In the northwest, the
crop Is mainly Spring wheat, but the Pall
sown generally looks well in all that re
gion. Very little loss from freezing is re
ported from Missouri. It shared with other
States In that latitude the drawback of
drouth In preventing early sowing, yet in
many counties the returns are never
better—very promising, or equivalent
terms. From Virginia, North Carolina and
Tennessee the condition reported is more
variable—more or les Winter kII ling'result
ed In the belt between the nttth and :10th
degrees of latitude, from alternate freezing
amfiliawing, the covering of snow being
more general than usual, but not of sum
dent depth for protection. A few counties
only make the loss severe, and many rep
resent the prospect, fur harvest unusually
good.: With every day of line weather the
frozen fields improve in aupearithee l mate
rially [Meeting, the expectations of these
owners. Further South accounts favor an
abundant harvest, in proportion to average
sown.
Lynch Law—An Alleged Horse Thief
Totten from the Monty sheriff and
Hung Near Waverly.
itrrom the llubuquo (Iowa) Herald, May lid
On Saturday night, n horse of a Mr. Dry
nnt was stolen, near danomvillo, in Bromor
county. On Sunday, Mcßoberts was ar
rested (whether with or without a warrant
we have not learned,) and brought to .1 ULM
villa, whore he was dotnlnod until evening,
wnen Deputy Shurlff Miles mado a formal
arrest, ns Ito says, about dusk In tho ovo
ning.
About eleven o'clock ho arrived at Wav
erly, and roportod to thojustico that the
prisoner Mut boon rescued from him, but
Ito "did not know whether they woro friends
of tho prisoner or not ;" and no stops were
then taken, or at the (line of tho reported
rescue, to ascertain whether the "friends"
of the prisoner, Mcßoberts, woro disposed
to deal fairly with him or not, until a boy
from tho country discovered the body of
Mcßoberts hanging to n Rini) of n treo about
n mile south of Waverly, Tuesday morn-
rig.
Milan says that he loft Janesville, which
is six ml Ins south of Waverly, at about
cloak Monday evening; and that about Milo
o'clock ho was stopped about two miles
from town by twenty or thirty men in dim
gals°, who proceeded to take Mcßoberts
away from him and leave hint to come on
to the city at his "leisure," whom he ar
rived nt sloven o'clock, mud° his return to
the Justico of his warrants, anti went homo.
Miles also stab's that when Mcßoberts was
taken out of his wngon, his "assistant,"
Nick k urn, who had accompaniod him
from Janesville math) his appearanco, and
whothor he was mobbed with Maltoborts,
or whether Ito wont voluntarily with the
mob, lie does not know:
The news reached Waverly about eight
o'clock Tuostlay morning, that the body of
a man was hanging to a trop, about a mile
mouth of the town, causing an intense ex
citement, and during the forenoon huu
drodm, wo might saltily say thousands, of
the ourlonm and exulted populace visited
the scene of the tragedy, anxious to behold
the sickening sight.
Thom Mcßoberts was suspended by the
neck with a strong, now rope to a limb of
a burr-oak tree, swinging to and fro
In the wind, bin feet being be
tween throe and four foot from the
ground. Him face was but slightly discol•
°red, his mouth partly open and showing
some stains of blood ou his lips and chin
that had been emitted from his mouth.—
His arms woro hanging straight by his side,
and the body altogether showed no signs of
struggling or death by strangulation, but
led all to believe that lie was dead before ho
was suspended.
It is the general opinion, however, that
the crime lies at the hands of tho Homo
Reliance Committee of Bremer County, of
which Doputy Sheriff Miles Is Captain.
Moßoborts served in the army us an lowa
volunteer during the lute war, but bore n
bad character there, as at home. He was
about twenty-five years of ago.
(From the Antl-Slavery Standard
The Dreadful Wrath of Wendell Ph
llpm on impeachment.
When we think of the unsheltered heads
of Southern loyalists, white and black ;
when we think of this Paella of Assassins
again let loose; of Andersonville again re
opened; then, putting Fessenden and Trum
bull's name side by side with the infamous
ones of Lee and Davis, and handing them
down, blood-stained, to the loathing of histo
ry, we cannot but remember that those
arch non& of Mississippi and Virginia
were angered to that horrible revenge by
the defeat of a great revolution which they
had nursed fur years. But these, their
mean allies front Maine and Illinois, steep
the South in murder, from motives which
make even treason additionally contempti
ble. We beg pardon even of Lee and Davis
for associating such despicable crime with
theirs. Our work is plain enough ; the old
duty of showing the masses how little their
leaders are to be trusted. Tnis lamentable
proof how weak and corruptible politicians
are, how accessible to tho lowest motives,
must convince the most incredulous, that it
is unsafe to trust men, and that it is indis
pensably necessary to grout, and cement into
the Constitution itself the citizenship of the
negro, his right to the ballot, to education, to
land, to the most exact equality with the white
race. Johnson convicted might have made
us too trustful. It might have lulled us to
the belief even that Trumbull was wise,
Fessanden honest and Senators proof
against bribes. Instead of this, ono im
peachment lute succeeded, oven if that
against Johnson should fall. Jude.c dant
natur cum norms abseivitur. The criminal
unpunished condemns the Judge. It re
mains to ho seen whether the Republi
can party will prove Its utter Incompe
tency by falling to understand the hour.
We wait to NM whether Chicago compre
hends that safety lies In going forward.
Warned by this most conclusive proof of
party weakness, let (hat Cbnvention give um
a platform pledging to the negro, throughout
the Mates, ballot, education and land—guar
antoeing to the Southern white loyalist ade
quate protection against the assassins of the
White House and of the Senate Chamber,
Lot it place upon that platform met whose
past lives are the pledge that they will fulfil
its prom lam
The Senate has 'dill moans of defending
Has it the courage to use them?
Meanwhile from a Chief Justice, debauched
by ambition, whom, once before, the hero
ism of Margaret Garner could not rouse to
duty, and whose ago answering to his youth
neither the woo of the North, or the blood of
the South can lift out of coltish, vulgar am
bition—from Senators, tools of feminine spite
and brokers in patronage, the people appeal
—trusting henceforth In themselves, able to
executej notice, to mecum liberty and sure to
stamp with lasting infamy the mon who be
tray them. WEND) LL PHILLI PH.
The New Menator from Connecticut.
William A. 13ackingtham (Republican)
was on Tuesday elected by the Legislature
of Connecticut United States Senator from
that State to fill the place to bo vacated by
the Hon. James Dixon, (Democrat) whose
term expires on the 4th of March,lhoo. Tho
vote of the Senate stood as follows :
William A. Buckingham
James Dixon
Whole number of votes .21
In tho House the vote stood as follows
Buckingham
Dixon
Whole number of votes ..... ..„
Necessary to a choice
Negro Lawlessness In Vlrginin- , --d. Plot
Prevented by Gen. Lee.
On Friday night last, Mr. Francis Henry
Brockenbrough, son of the Hon. John W.
Brockenbrough, and brother of our highly
esteemed townsman, Maj. J. B. Brocken
brough, was walking home in Lexington,
with his mother and another lady, when
they were met by a negro man and some
negro women, who] refused to give them
any way on the pavement.
Young Brockenbritugh, on account of the
ladies under his charge did not call the ne
va to account at the - time; but, after he
had escorted his companions home, he re
turned, and called on the negro, more to
demand why the insult had been offered
him and the ladles, than with any definite
gr tasicle w o e f i r e M .
amwenat. blstol eak wound
and shot Mr. 13rockenblOugh the breast,
inflicting a dangerous if not mortal wound.
Tile negro was arrested at two o'clock next
morning andplaced in Jail. When the cir
cumstances of the outrage became generally
known there was an intense excitement In
the community, in which young Bracken.:
brough is much behaved, and a crowd start
ed f the jail with the purpose of lyttebing,
the ft. To. Gen. Lee, however, very.prep-,
erly interposed , and prevented the ;execu
tion of this purpose. The exciteCorowd,
dispersed, and the law will liOsalrered
take ita cousse.—Lynchburg Republican.
Singular Circumstantial Evidence.
The murder Of a man naMed Blum* and
the arrest of ono Harrington as his assassin, A
at Toledo. have already been mentioned.
The Toledo Blade gives the following par.
Haden of the nature of the evidence against
Harrington
Last evening detective Hanks and Mr.
John Becker, who have been using a Most
commendable diligence In:making a thor
ough investigation of the matter, returned
from n trip acmes the river, in which they
had made discoveries of a moat Important
nature. Searching the house of Mr. Kenn
ry, thoy had found in Harringto sn' satchel
a quantity of shot, a dirk, and a " billy."
They picked up a vest belonging to Har
rington, and in its pockets found - a piece of
newspaper. Also in the house, a 'Toledo
Commercial of April 15, was found, and a
part of it was torn Lott A search,. made
around the spot where the ;murdered man
was discovered, resulted in finding several
pieces of paper scorched and blackened as
if they bad been fired from a gun.
These were carefully picked up and
brought to the station house, where a care
ful comparison was mulct of the paper
found in the house with that found in liar
rington's vest, and that picked up near the
scene of the murder. This comperleon, be
ing most carefully made by fitting piece
after piece together according to the reafling
matter, resulted in the conclusion that
the paper In Harrington's vest and
the wadding picked up near whore
the body was found both came from
the newspaper found in the house of K en my.
This evidence, circumstantial though It be,
scorns to point beyond a peradventure to
Michael Harrington as tho murderer of
Michael Sharpe; and this conclusion is
strengthened by the comparison of the shot
found in Ilarrington'a satchel with that
taken from the brain of the deceased. These
shot were partly flattened, but are believed
to be of the same size as those In Harring
ton's pifseesslon.
00.1 Flghtin Parts—Blind Ben as 1.001
ills.
A strange fight recently took place in
Paris. Everybody who has boon in the
French capital knows that around the old
barriers.of that city wore clustered numer
ous groups of various kinds of eating and
drinking houses. At the old Derriere Fon
tainebteau, so-called because it was the
Emu] by which the traveller for Fontaine
lean quitted the capital, three blind men
entered a low drinking shop and ordered
wino. They wore merry when they entered
it. 'rho wine raised their spirits to a still
higher pitch, and by the limo each ono of
them had two bottles under his waistcoat,
they begun to sing at the top of their vices.
Their worriment was at Its height, when
three roughs entered the room in which
hitherto they had been alone, and Ina hoarse,
broken, leering voice of the lower classes tit
Purls, ono of the roughs said to the blind :
"I say, old gluts eves, aro you going soon
to (-ease squoulimei'" The bilmi men stop
pod singing, and ono of them said: "who is
the blackguard whowonld make us silent 7"
Tho rough answered: " Put on your opts'
welt+, old horse, and you will see," Ills
comrades, delighted with the reply, laugh
ed timothy, anti continued to ridicule the
poor blind . men, each hit being greeted with
hoarse laughs. Tho blind men's anger be
came great. They rose. One of them groped
until his hand was on the lamp oil the wall
which lighted the room. Ito extinguished
It, anti than exclaimed, "Now we are equal.
Joseph, tylo this door No that no ono goes
out." Joseph placed his stalwart buck
against the door, anti his two companions
seized the roughs and bent and knocked
their heads against walls, tables, and ow
door, kicked them until tho terrible uproar
brought the mutterer the shop; be, finding
himself unable to push Joseph front the
door, wont for neighbors, and at last when
entrance was effected, the room was found
In a state of grout confusion. Tables anti
chairs wore turned over one another, bottles
broken In a hundred fragments were scat
tered everywhere ; the roughs, completely
cowed and dreadfully beaten, were crowd'.
log in corners. Tito shopkeeper putt the
blind mon in 1111 omnibus running towards
f their homes, mud put the roughs tint of the
house. 'rho blind men wore greatly elated
with their victory.
Death (anti Etlirlhola Diver
For Homo dnyn pant liorhy und,tho neigh
borhood' hum been plocurtiod with nturtling
nonouncoinontm that Mr. NVorthington, the
"Slur Divot' of thin world," would oxidilli
on tho rlvor I)orwont, nt yontorliny
ulternoon,lond two following dityx. Among
other fentm, ho Wllll 1111110111tood to Jump (ruin
a hoight of lOU foot Into tho river. Tint on
tortnitunont wutu I{IIIIOLIIICIUd to voinnumeo
at 2.20 111 n fluid on the I/111114M of lito Der
wont, between Dorbey and intrloy grove.
'fits portlatnor, it young man of 2" or 21
yours of ago, appoared on the g round at tire
appointed thno, dressed In a Walling eal4-
IMMO, and commonood performing a neriem
of feats under the water, Inaltullini drink
ing milk from a bottle, pooling ant inning
an orange, blowing trumpet, (to. Ile al
so throw a lad into the water and raccoon
him. After romalnlng coma minutes In
making thu necessary preparations, ho put
lama( in position for diving, and Jumped
into the river. In him progress downwind. •
Ice muds three ovolutlolll4 of Ills body, and
a medical man on the bank remarked to
some of the bystanders that he was a (loud
man. Worthington foil heavily on the top
of the water on his side, and at once sank
to the bottom of the riyor. Tiro pooplu
seemed to oxpoct that ho would rise to the
surface an was his custom, and Home 111111.
k.
Uta elapsed before any utfortm wore mad°
to recover the body. At lust Mr. Smith or
Little Eaton, dived into the water, and af
ter sovoral unnucconmful (Alban min:cooled in
bringing the lifeless body of Worthington
to the nurfaco. Four Medical men, l)nt.
To hem, Jamieson, Font and nitre, who
had boon witnessing his porformunees,
promptly altendod to him on his being
brought to the bank sir a bout, and every
moans wore used to renusaltato hint, but
without aIIeCOHS, as life was uxtinrct,
opinion being that he died from concum-
Rion while dtving. There was it large lit
tenclanco, both of ladles and gontlunton,
and the excituniont was of the most in
tense description, Indeed, caused quite a
gloom in the town. The body was taken
into the tent used by the doemumod for the
purpose of dressing, and watt shortly af
terwards romoved to his lodgings. ills
mother and two brothers wore present, mid
wore the painful spectatorn:of his minim
ly donth. Great praise Is dtie to Mr. Smith
for his exertions to find the body. Thu
hoight of the Jump was about ninety feet.
—Monday Daily Netvs, May 01k.
The speetroecope.
Ono of the most notable things about tho
development of modern science is the outli
ner in which discoveries or - inventionm to
ono branch of inquiry are or ininiedlitio
and signal service in elucidating other end
apparently unconnected mattore. Of such
inventions tho spectroscope is ono Bluely to
he of inealculablo advantage, as by means
of its refracting prisms it im audited to Reim •
rate and exhibit the spectra or ruys of light
which different substances reflect, each in its
own characterietio symteru of bands and lines
of color. By this means amoral now metals
have boon discovered, the atmospheres of
the inn and other heavenly hotline snit
lyzed, and discoveries are opening up to Its
powers on every hand. It has been put to
practical 'use in analyzing the flame of
a furnace during the process of making
Bossemer steel, so that the exact moment
when the process is complete Is Instantly
shown by the change in the spectrum—a
most delicate point of metallurgy not other
wise determinable. The finest use to which
it fills boon put will give it fame in the sti
tielsof modioino and of law, as It furnimlies
means of analyzing and recognizing human
blood, whether in abnormal' mooretions of
disease or In dried stains upon other lila
forint, The itionnutino, or oolurnig mutter
of tho blood, shows a spectrum entirely
tilMtront front other muintunces with till its
general 'ippon= co and color; no that where
oven the microscope little, Gin spectroscope
will' instantly dotoot so strait n annular en
the one.thousandth of a grain of dried
human blood. Thus all melanoma gain from
coach one's progress.
4111 M,
Michigan
state Child Murd L
fo erer Nenteureli lo
Pelson r ife.
wattmeter Car. Chicago l'ost.l
'rho man George Dixon, some mamma of
whose cruelties to his little son was given
last winter, has bean tried and convicted of
an assault with intent to murder thin Hume
boy, and Judge Bacon has steno:iced him
to the Htatc Penal' for life. The testimony
on the trial showed about the following
facts: Homo time in January last, about
'lino o'clock in the evening, lho boy, who
was thirtoen year,' old, sat on estop leading
from the kitchen to the sitting room and
was crying from the pain occasioned by
frozen feet. 'rho fathor took him by
Oho throat, thrust hint backwards down
across the steps, and then, while In
that position sprang on him with his
knees with such force as to break his
breast bond and produce other injuries,
from which he diod in about it week. Dixon
was a former, living in Algal:moo, in this
county. He Is about forly-flve years old,
and course and brutish looking. Dr. Beach
end Dr. Cutter, the phyaiclatis who ex
amined the body, both, testified that the feet
looked as though they had boon frozen It
long timo before death; that both lest were
evidently mortified before the boy died,
and the decayed flesh had commenced
sloughing off; that there wore marks about
the limbs and on the head, resulting from
injuries which must have been inflicted but,
a short time previous to death; that MI.
whole body was terribly emaciated, as if
the poor little fellow had had starvation ad
ded to his other sufferings. Dixon's wife
was the only witness who saw tho assault.
It was shown that she had a husband living
when she married Dixon and was therefore
allowed to testify. This boy was the child
of a former wife.
Nnarp Practice. Iggig
Henry De Haven and Henry Longwood
were arrested in New York, on Monday
for swindling of a novel character. They
had called oh several parties, offering to sell
alcohol by samhie, at about half the market
price. Bargainswere wedeln two or three in
stances, tho liquid delivered in bsrrels,and
the money paid—the purchasers first tasting
samples, drawnfrom the bung in the usual
way. When occasion required that the
barrels should be emptied of their contents
it was found that only five quarts of alco
hol could be obtained from the bung. The
heads were then tapped, and a very liberal
flow obtained ; but it was, a rather frith
rior article of water, The mysterious bar
rels being investigated; it was found that
under the bung hole was fitted a tin tube,
',Which being quite wide in diameter' at the
top,, rapidly dwindled to a sharp pointi_
whichwinh fixed in the.opposite stave fn3fl4.
the btunllude, and at artperpendian
from, it. . Ay this hip unarfa not' ' •
detected ixultrivanoei. a '.l:ifitrid bi d:
fitted, with two distinct interkni, - Oho :of
which oontained Ilve'quarts lacohAind
the others forty gat= of Water. '