Mantuan lintelligenctr.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1871
Forney Accepts the Bribe.
When Senator Sumner was deposed
at the dictation of President Grant, on
account of his manly opposition to the
San Domingo job, John W. Forney cried
"Halt." In an able editorial under that
startling caption he spoke out boldly
and fearlessly, while in another column
of the same issue he republished the
letter whichappeared in the Press the
day after Stephen A. Douglas was re
moved from his place upon the Territo
rial Committee. Grant trembled when
he heard Forney growl, and hastened to
offer him the first lucrative office which
became vacant. The telegram which
announced that the Philadelphia Collec
torship had been tendered to the editor
of the Frees, also informed us that his
friends were earnestly urging him to
ddcline. It was believed that he would
positively do so, and there is no doubt
that he had made up his mind to pur
sue that course. He even went so fur as
to prepare a letter in which he thank
ed the President for the proffered of
fice, but respectfully refused to accept
it. A prominent Republican from
this county called on Forney, and
ho then not only announced his
resolve to refuse the Collectorship,
but he read to hia visitor the letter which
was ready to be forwarded to (Irant.
The announcement of Forney's deter
mination was received with great favor
by his old friends in Lancaster. Those
who had been his associates in early
days, and who had a lingering faith in
the man, spoke proudly of his action in
this matter. When day after day pass
ed without bringing to light the letter
of declination, when it was publicly an
nounced that Forney haul permitted the
Henate to (201111f111 his appointment, and
when all reports were to the effect that
he haul accepteul what he had sworn to
refuse, his friends in his uld home hung
their heads in shams•. They had been
deceived in the man, and those who
have been in the habit of putting the
worst constructions upon his actions
seemeul to be fully justified.
Never did any public man commit a
wore egregious blunder than has For
ney. in accepting the comparatively in
significant bribe thrown to hint by
President f ;rant. lle occupied a posi
tion which would have enabled him to
do away with the calumnies of the past,
iii I' , 1113kC himself and his newspaper
.1 mighty power in the Republican party.
c,tild either have led (lie best meu
: I , :trly active opposition to
r,-nowitmlioo, or h e c o o l,' have
‘.:l perfect iiiilepen
deuce of which any' high-tninileil jour
nalist might lie justly proud, Those
ri ail the s, hereafter will al \N.:Lys
:eel that its utterances are those of a
hired scrilibler. It will Fink ill
01 the level of a pensioned
journal, and all the in Iluenee which its
proprietor iniolit have exerted will be
Forney ean not hold the Collecturshii
criticise his patron freely. Ile will
become the salaried defender of the
President's_acts. Ile u n it sink at:once
Into the p os ition of an Mil to Simon
Cameron, who is the recognized leader
of the Grant party in Pennsylvania.
1 f the delegation from this State votes
Mr ; rant's renomination, l';tmeron and
not. Forney, will receive the credit fur
it. TM.. m a y not be as galling to For
ney as it would once have been. Ile
has buried the hatchet with the Winne
hap, Chief, and has learned to breathe
words of fulsome flattery in praise of the
man, who defeated him by the limiest
MINIUM when a seat in the Cnited States
Senate NV:LS fairly within his reach.
s l'ollector of the l'ort o
Philadelphia, will li nil himself shorn of
influence. Ile was never fully
trusted by the Republican party of
Pennsylvania, and his readiness to ac
cept the first sop thrown to him by a
failing administration, will cause the
purer and more honorable men of that
organization to had: upon hint as a
greedy cant:-follower, ready to fatten
on whatever spoils nay come within his
reach. Ile could hilve made his mark
by leading the opposition to tl rant.—
Ile struck the key-note of popular
sympathy when he cried " that l"
In the servile Senators who struck
down Charles Sunnier at the dictation
a mercenary President. Forney may
betray his best friends, but he will strive
in vain to stem the tide of popular feel
ing. Other and better men will till the
place which lie was bribed to abandon.
Ile cannot hush the outburst of indig
nant comment, which his conduct has
excited among the more honorable men
of his party, by any such stullas he dic
tates for the St/tub(/' Citron,' cb. and copies
into The Perss. irant has bought For
ney for what seems to be a small price,
but he will lied in the end that he has
paid more for him than he is worth.
The Conviction of Holden
We publish elsewhere a full account
of the conviction of w imam Iv. Hol
den, Ilovernur of the State of North
Carolina. Alter a patient and thorough
examination, in which the accused was
given every opportunity to refute the
grave charges brought against him, he
was solemnly adjudged to be guilty in
manner and form as he stood indicted
for high crimes and misdemeanors. Be
ing entrusted with the protection of the
lives and property of the citizens of the
Slate, and commissioned to guard the
Constitution of the Commonwealth and
to execute the laws thereof, he imported
of sanguinary ruffians and turn
ed theirarms against a peaceableand un
offending people. Coder authority giv
‘.ll by hint some were seized without any
warrant of law, thrown into loathsome
dungeons and tortured in the most
cruel manner to make them confess to
deeds they had never committed. Men
who nod committed no offence were
hung up by the neck, and other gross
indignities, such as only savages are ac
customed to employ, were practiced
upon them. When an appeal was made
to the courts by his victims they were
denied the sacred privilege of the writ
of habeas corpus, and civil law was laid
prostrate before the feet of aimed vio
lence. The Treasury of the Common
wealth was plundered to pay the bar.
harious, whom he employed, to wreak
vengeance upon those whose only of
fense was the exercise of that freedom in
political action which is the inalienable
right ofevery A tuerican citizen. Having
been solemnly arraigned for (Times of
such magnitude, lie was ably defended,
and allowed the advantage of every an
cient judicial right during the trial. The
evideuceagainst lilmwasoverwhehning,
and he has been formally adjudged to be
guilty, and sentenced to be deposed from
office, and forever deprived of the rights
of citizenship in the State or North
Carolina. That the verdict of the High
Court of Impeachment was eminently
just and proper, no man who read the
evidence can doubt. The whole coun
try is interested in seeing the majesty
of the law preserved inviolate, and
their cherished institutions defended
from such assaults as were made upon
them by this man Holden. ,
GENERAL GRANT appears to be the
prime mover and the chief instigator of
another raid upon the Southern States.
He evidently desires authority to post
troops all over the States which have
repudiated the Republican part, for the
purpose of awing the whites into subjec
tion to the negroes, the carpet-baggers
and the few natives who are willing to
act the part of scalawags. The message
which he sent to Congress shows his ani
mus, but it will not suffice to produce
the desired result. No such law as he
wishes can he put through the Lower
House at the present session. The peo
ple of the North do not believe that
there is any necessity for extending the
military power of such a President as
C4rant.
THE LAN - CASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1871.
The Effect of SUMnerlb Removal on the
Youth of the Country.
One of the saddest reflections for the
thinking American is the fact, that the
prevalent demoralltation of our politics
is calculated to poison the minds of the
youth of the country. Let any one im
agine the effect which the elevation of
Simon Cameron over the head of Charles
Sumner must have upon that large class
of ingenuous young men, who are just
now standing upon the verge of man
hood and looking forward with ambition
to a career In public life. The news
papers have made them familiar with
the lives of the two men. They see the
one devoted to what he conceived to be
great and vital principles, struggling
and suffering in his advocacy of them,
living a life of more than ordinary pur
ity, a studious man bringing his best
powers to bear upon the questions he
handled, a scholar of more than usual
culture, conscientious in his convic
tions, never using office as a means for
enriching himself, fanatical In his opin
ions, but with an air of nobility in Ills
actions and a professed devotion to hu
manity which was never belied by any
thing be did. They see him rising to a
place in the United States Senate and
holding it until he outranked in contin
uous service any one In that body. When
he spoke his word was taken as the law
of his party. He seemed to hold his
place securely as the representative
man of a great political organization. A
year ago no one would have dreamed of
his downfall—and yet another has been
elevated over his head by a servile Sen
ate at the dictation of a mercenary
President.
And what a one is he, who has been
put forward as the representative man
of the Republican party ? Entering pub
lic life as an Indian agent, Simon Cam
eron won the opprobrious epithet of the
Winnebago Chief by palming off paper
money upon the poor and ignorant say
ages, and buying it back at an enormous
discount. He was a Democrat while
that party had office to bestow, but was
always ready to change his politics
whenever he found it profitable to do so:
Twice he purchased a seat in the United
States Senate after he had joined the Re
publican party. Made a cabinet officer
by President Lincoln against the protest
of such Republicans as Thaddeus Stev
ens, he won the execration of the coun
try by his corrupt conduct, and drew
down upon himself a scathing rebuke
front a Radical Copgress. The follow
ing resolution, which was passed by a
Republican House of Representatives Is
part of recorded history:
That Simon Cameron, late
Secretary of War, by investing Alexander
Cummings with the control of large sums
of the public money and authority to pur
chase military supplies without restriction,
without requiring from him any guarantee
for the faithful performance of his duties,
when the services of competent public offi
cers were available, and by involving the
government in a vast number of contracts
with persons not legitimately engaged in
the business pertaining to the subject mat
ter of such contracts, especially in the pur
chase of arms fur future delivery, has
adopted a policy highly injurious to the
public service and deserves the censure of
this Utilise.
That was the mildest form of censure
his political associates could frame In
view of the facts set forth by a commit.
tee mainly made up of Republican par
them s. A true account of the public
life of Simon Cameron would be a re
cord of infamous transaction almost
without a parallel in political history.—
His elevation to greater power at the
present time over the head of Charles
Sumner is a national calamity. It is
calculated to lead the young men of the
country to adopt the vile practices by
which he won public position, and man
aged to accumulate a fortune which is
reputed to be immense. As Chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
he will have further opportunities for
exercising his peculiar talents, and no
one doubts that he will use them.
When the youth of this country, who
are looking forward to a career in public
life,'see the office of President filled by a
man who eagerly accepts presents and
rewards the givers w ith offices of honor
and of profit, they might be expected to
turn away front this sad picture of na
tional degradation in disgust; but when
they behold the Senate of the United
States elevating Simon Cameron over
the head of Charles Sumner at the dic
tation of such a President, many of
them will be tempted to conclude
that the way to public preferment is
not the high and honorable course
which would befit a statesman, but the
lower and viler path by which the mer
cenary demagogue creeps into power.—
The nobler few may find their resolve
to lead an honorable life strengthened
• by the almost unanimous opinion of
the newspaper press of the country,
but it is to be feared that many will
• see in the succ?as of Simon Cameron au
almost irresistible temptation to pursue
the dark and tortuous road which he
' has always trodden. The inducements
to depart from the path of rectitude are
very strong in this country, and they will
continue to be so until a more healthy
public sentiment prevails among the
masses of our people. When the voters
of the United. States refuse to support
any corrupt man for office our polities
will be purified, and the many disrepu
table men who hold public positions
will be banished to that obscurity from
which they should never have been per
mitted to emerge. The spectacle pre
sented by the deposition of Sumner
and the elevation of Cameron is the
worst lesson ever given to the youth
of the nation, and the President is re
sponsible for the demoralization which
must. be produced by it.
Arbitrate the Coal Question
The Senate Committee, which has
been engaged in a protracted examina
tion of the troubles existing in the an
thracite coal regions,has come to the con
clusion that little or nothing can be done
by legislation. As we said before the
railroads have been granted almost un
limited powers, and they have only been
acting within the limits of their exten
sive charters when they formed the
combination which exists among them,
and advanced the freight on coal to a
figure which rendered its shipment a
losing operation to the small operators,
who were willing to acceed to the terms
demanded by the miners. Finding the
power of the Legislature to control the
railroads clean gone, the Senate Com
mitteecontent thentselves with the pub
lication of a report, which is principally
made up of extracts from persons who
have been engaged in compromising
strikes between operators and work
men in England. All hands interested
in the production and carrying of an
thracite are advised to get together and
settle their quarrel through the help of
some arbitrator. That is no doubt ex
cellent advice, but we do not know that
it is made any more valuable by having
the endorsement of a Senatorial Com
mittee. It is to be hoped, however, that
something of the kind may be done;
and so done as to effect a permanent
agreement on a fair basis between all
the parties interested. If proper re
strietions had been put upon corpora
tions and railroad companies when their
charters were granted, the Legislature
would not have found itself powerless,
as it is to-day.
WE publish elsewhere a letter from
the Washington correspondent of the
.Ncuy York Tr ibunc, in which the proba
bility of Grant's re-nomination is freely
discussed. It is evident from the tone
of the communication that a very strong
combination against him exists within
the Republican party. That it will
grow more formidable as time advances
is evident.
GRANT has issued a proclamation de
claring the existence of an insurrection:
ary movement in South Carolina, and
warning the members thereof to retire
peaceably to their homes within twenty
days. The only people we have heard
of as being far from home in that State
are the carpet-baggers who have been
afflicting its people.
Liquor Laws
The License laws of Pennsylvania are
very strict in their provisions. The
tavern keeper who sells liquor to a man
of known Intemperate habits, or to a
minor, or on Sunday, Is liable to severe
penalties. These laws can be enforced
as easily as any which may be enacted.
Why have they been allowed to become
a dead letter upon the statute ibook ?
Why is it that In every ward of every
city, and at many places in the rural
districts, men are permitted to sell
liquor without license? These are
questions which those who aredemand
ing the passage of other and still more
stringent liquor laws, are called upon to
answer. If the laws now in existence
are not enforced, will others be more
perfectly executed? At every session
of a court of quarter sessions all the con
stables of the county appear and declare
upon oath that they know of no viola
tion of the license laws within their
bailiwicks ; and that too when it is cer
tain that not one tavern keeper in ten
fails to break the law in some particular
every day. Here, in Lancaster county,
it has been found impossible to secure a
true bill against a tavern keeper for
years. Grand Juries ignore them con
stantly. Why is this? The only an
swer we can discover is contained in
the fact that in nearly every instance
such prosecutions are brought through
spite. Almost invariably it is some dis
-1 reputable character, actuated by person
al hatred of the landlord, who brings a
prosecution for violation of the license
law. The men who are loudest in their
denunciations of the runiseller do
not attempt to enforce the law
against him. Grand juries would not
dare to ignore indictments backed
up by the influence of sober and
substantial citizens, and petty juries
would not hesitate to convict in
such cases. The truth is that there is so
strong :an under-current of feeling in !
most communities of this State against
what seems to be officious Intermedling,
that men shrink from appearing as pros
ecutors. The consequence Is that all
laws against the improper sale of intox
icating liquors have ceased to be opera
tive. By common consent tavern
keepers are allowed to violate them at
will and with complete impunity. Un
til there is a radical change in public
sentiment, and until the friends of tem
perance make up their minds to prose
cute every man who violates the liquor
laws, legislation upon the subject will
be useless. It is folly to enact new laws
when men refuse to enforce those now
upon the statute books.
The Local Option Bill, for which
nearly every Republican in the lower
Hous - e of our State Legislature voted, is
radically defective. If passed into a law
Its only effect would be to shut un the
respectable taverns in which liquors of
the least injurious character arc sold,
and to leave open those in which the
most poisonous beverages are vended.
There is nut a city or a county in the
Commonwealth in which some wards
and some townships would not vote for
license. The traffic would be shifted
from certain districts and concentrated
in others, and the Option Law would be
found to be in its etffict nothing more
than a renewal of the odious
jug law which had a brief exist
ence in this State. If the amendment
offered by the Democrats in the House,
providing that the vote shall be taken
by cities and counties had been adopted,
one of the most objectionable features
of the proposed law would have been
removed. If no licenses are granted in
a city or a county a fair trial of the Local
Option plan will be had, and its merits
or demerits tested. Should the bill be
brought to a vote in tile Senate we hope
to see the amendment offered by the
Democrats of the house inserted before
it is allowed to pass. It would also be
well to provide that a vote shall be
taken at each annual election instead of
every three years. The chances are
that the Supreme Court would declare
any such law unconstitutional, but that
is no reason why the bill now before the
Legislature should not be made as near
perfect as possible, if it Is to become a
law.
Grant Aiming at Imperial Power
One of the witnesses before Senator
Scott's Ku-Klux Commit tee i te , li tied as
follows :
" Well, then, he (Governor llolden, of
North Carolina,) went on to say that for
his own part, in his opinion, General Grant
would hold the Government of the United
States, no matter what the election was in
1872; that he desired to be Emperor, and
his son to succeed him as Emperor."
Re it remembered that the witness is
no member of the Ku-Klux-Klan, but
a northern man—a minister of the Gos
pel of more than twenty-five years
standing, and for many years Secretary
of the Board of Missions of the Protes
tant Episcopal church. He was sent to
North Carolina, in 15,137, by G e neral
Howard, to take charge of the Normal
School for the education of colored
teachers, and he still resides in the Stale
pursuing the same employment. Ile
must be believed. Holden has been in
close contact with Grant, and no doubt
knows his views and wishes. Ile has
been impeached and deposed from the
Governorship of North Carolina, but
he could no doubt rally an army of fifty
thousand negroes to aid the man who
aspires to imperial power.
Above Par In Congress
By the acquisition of Hon. Jacob P.
Blair, of Missouri, who publicly left the
Radicals and united himself with the
Constitutional party, the Democratic
representation in the lower House of
Congress was increased to 97. The
swearing in of Mr. Edwards, of Arkan
sas, and the three Democrats front New
Hampshire gave the Democracy 101
members. To that we expect to add,
three front Connecticut, two from
California, and two from Texas.
The Democratic representation will
then be 108. As I•_'_ makes a ma
jority the Democrats will only lack 14
votes to enable them to control the
House. What a change that is from the
last and several preceding Congresses, in
which the Radicals have had more than
two-thirds majority' The small Rad
ical majority will be completely wiped
out as soon as the people of the South
are freed from the thraldom of bayonets
and other tyrannous devices. As it is
the Democracy are away above par in the
present Congress, and the unwise and
unconstitutional legislation which has
made the past hideous, will soon come
Man end. The whole country has good
reason to rejoice at the change.
Grant and Baez
There is one strong point of resem
blance between the President of the
United States and the mulatto ruler of
the negro Republic of Santo Domingo.
They have both filled the offices with
their relations. A correspondent of the
New York Tribune, says:
"If we vote $1,500,000 for the purchase of
Santo Domingo, and let Baez disburse it,
the first debts to be paid will be the accu
mulated salaries of the office-holders.—
That will be a fine thing for the President's
_family, for they are all in office. The Pep
utyoo llector and one other officer at the Cap
ital are the President's sons. The Governor
of the city is his brother. A second brother
is a General. A half-brother is Governor
of Amos. A brother-in-law is Secretary of
State. So you see it is perfectly natural
that President Baez should want to have
the handling of the money in order to
defeat fraudulent claims."
A MEMORIAL has been forwarded
to some of the 'Western Congressmen
setting forth "that drunkenness is a
great evil, and the parent of most of the
vices that are obstructions to our free
institutions, and that the time has come
when the nation would be pleased with
a pronounced and decided position in
favor of sobriety," They, therefore,
ask " the passage of a lam by Congress
which will subject to impeachment and
removal any United States official who
may voluntarily get drunk." That must
be meant as a direct blow at President
Grant.
Senator Sumner on San Domingo
On Monday Senator Sumner delivered
his promised speech on the San Do—
mingo qflestion. •The greatest anxiety
had been manifested to hear him, and
the Senate Chamber was crowded as it:
has rarely been. Recent eventsied tOa
general expectation that the Senator
would take occasion to strike back at
those who have done him wrong, and it
was deemed probable that invective, of
which he Is a master, would be leveled
against President Grant. Those who
went to the Capitol with the hope of
witnessing an exhibition of temper were
disappointed. The speech is calm and
moderate from beginning to end. Mr.
Sumner has heretofore been apt to look
less to the means than to the end to be
obtained by legislation, but in this San
Domingo affair he has taken occasion to
review very carefully the conduct of
those engaged In it, and to scrutinize the
means employed to carry out their de
signs. For the time being he passed by
the question as to whether annexation
is desirable or not, and confined him
self to a review of what had been already
done for the accomplishment of that
ob
ject.
' Starting out with the bold assertion
that the Navy of the United States, act
ing under orders from Washington, has
been engaged in making war without
authority of Congress, he proceeds to
produce and array before the country a
record of all that has been done. He
shows that the military forces of the
United States have been employed to
prop up the usurper Baez, who is en
gaged in an attempt to sell his country,
and at the same time to intimidate the
Republic of Hayti. When the ques
tion of annexation was first broached,
Mr. Sumner had no idea that any such
means were being employed to accom
plish the purpose, but his first interview
with the Assistant-Seeretary of State
showed him how matters stood, and
from that hour he was hostile to the un
warranted and unconstitutional conduct
of the administration.
In support of the established principle
that a contract for the cession of terri
tory must be fair and without the sus-
picion of force, Mr. Stunner refers to the
open and distinct recognition thereof
by Spain when an attempt was made
by that government to annex this is
land which has excited the cupidity of
President Grant. Then Spain publish
ed to the world the solemn avowal that
not an armed vessel belonging to her
had been allowed to approach the coast
of Santo Domingo while the negotia
tions were pending, and not a Spanish
soldier permitted to set foot upon the
soil. Mr. Sumner shows how different
ly this government has acted by quoting
from the orders given to the dozen men
of war which have not only been kept
constantly hovering about the island
but ordered by the authorities at Wash
ington to interfere directly and effect
ively both for the support of Baez and
to overawe the Government of Hayti.
Mr. Sunnier very properly denounced
such conduct as a violation of the Con
stitution of the United States, which
wisely gives the power to make treaties
or declare war to Congress, thus limit
ing the authority of which Kings have
so often made the worst possible use.
Mr. Sumner quotes largely front the
best authorities to prove the perfect
equality of rights which is possessed by
every nation, and he shows how com
pletely inconsistent with the creed of
the Republican party is the assault
which has been made upon tile weak
government of Hayti, tile only existing ,
organization by which the African race
are endeavoring to prove to the world
their capacity for self-government. He
proves conclusively that the administra
tion has recklessly violated both inter
national law and the Constitution of the
United States. He holds that() ran t might
do what he has done, if lie were king but
that it is uiterly beyond the province of
his powers as President. Once he al
lowed himself to be drawn beyond the
wording of his written man useript and
he then said, with more than usual force
and energy: "had the President been so
inspired as to bestow on the Southern
Unionists, white and black, one-half of
the time in zeal, with personal atten
tion, personal effort, and personal inter
cession which he has bestowed upon his
attempt to obtain half an island in the
Caribbean Sea, our Southern Ku-Klux
would have existed in name only, while
tranquility would have reigned every
where within our borders." That called
forth a round of applause which could
not be suppressed for some moments.
We will publish a full report of Mr.
Sumner's speech, which is generally es
teemed to be one of the greatest efl'orts
of his life.
A Sensible Radical Governor
Mississippi is one of the States in
which Butler and the rest of that pesti
lent gang would have us believe the
Ku-Klux-Klan rule supreme; but,
unfortunately for the agitators who are
just now holding up a bloody shirt, the
Radical Governor of Mississippi has
telegraphed to Washington, announc
ing that there is not the slightest neces
sity for a Congressional interference
with the affairs of his State. He declares
that no obstruction exists to prevent the
laws from being enforced against all
evil-doers,and that United States troops
are not wanted there. Governor Alcorn
telegraphs thus to the members of Con
gress from Mississippi, all of whom are
Radicals of the most approved pattern.
He says there is no disturbance in the
State which the civil authorities can not
easily suppress, and that no disorder
exists, except at one or two points along
the border. Radical as Alcorn is, he is
evidently a man of sound judgment.
He knows very well that the presence
of an armed military force in the State
would only have the effect of engender
ing hitter feelings which would beget
outbreaks. No doubt Butler knows
that as well as Alcorn, and there is rea
son to believe that one object of the bill
proposed by him, is to exasperate the
people of the South to such a degree,
that they may forget the,,teachings of
prudence, and thus create capital for
the Republican party, which is fall
ing to pieces. Senator Ames, the
son-in•law of Ben. Butler, had a copy
of Governor Alcorn's despatch in his
pocket, when Senator Sherman was
hurling anathemas against the whole
South, but he did not produce it. Ile
has no right to the seat he occupies, and
misrepresents the people of the State
from which he professes to come. Is it
any wonder the people of the South are
indignant at a system which has en
abled a general of the army to make
himself a Senator from. Mississippi by
force of his bayonets ? Is it strange that
they should feel outraged when the son
in-law of Ben. Butler sits in his seat and
hears those whom he represents reviled,
while he holds in his hand a telegram
which would give the lie to all these
calumnies ?
Off with Their Heads
Grant has set the guilotine to work,
and is very busy just now in the pleas
ant employment of cuttingoff the heads
of his opponents, and of their friends.—
Immediately after Senator Schurz made
his speech in opposition to the degrada
tion of Sumner an order was sent to
Chicago removing Collector Jussen from
office. Jussen is a relative of Schurz,
and that is supposed to be the only rea
son for his removal, as he was an excel
lent officer. Grant may find the gratifi
cation of his spite very costly in the end.
It will cost him either his nomination
or his election. If Schurz and other Re
publicans who despise him, cannot pre
vent his renomination, they can very
easily draw off enough votes to insure
his defeat at the polls. Spite-work is
generally poor work.
At Rockland, Me., on Thursday, a
man and two boys were injured by the
premature explosion of a blast, and will
probably lose their eyesight.
Begging County Property.
Our learned and highly polished Dis--
trict-Attorney is just now engaged In
playing one of those - little -grab games
at which he could beat -the heathen
Chinee all hollow. Having acquired a
farnily interest In the property back of
the Court-House, It Is intended to erect
thereon - a fine building, with a restau
rant beneath, and a printing establish
ment and law-offices above. The alley
which divides It from the Court-House
yard being rather narrow, the District-
Attorney is engaged in the circulation
of a petition asking the County Commis
sioners to destroy a certain easement
and to give to him and to his a liberal
slice of the ground belonging to the
county. We do not know precisely how
many feet he desires to have appropria
ted, but we understand he wants a lib
eral grant. It is safe to predict that he
will not be overmuch . modest In his de
mands. There wag a time when this
political Ali Sin could play with the
County Commissioners as he pleased,
and rumor sayeth that he still owns the
gentleman with the auburn hair, who
is President of the Board—also that he
holds a fee simple title to the brother of
the President, the legal luminary who
was elected County Solicitor last Fall.
We do not believe that he owns Com
missioners Armstrong and Reed.
Our District-Attorney has a peculiar
knack of securing signatures . to a peti
tion. When the law directing a revision
of the civil code of the State was passed,
he managed to get nearly every Repub
lican member of the Lan . caster Bar to
sign a paper, recommending him to
Governor Geary as a proper person to be
appointed one of the three Commission
ers of revision. That was done, though
every lawyer who signed the paper knew
the applicant to be utterly unfit for any
such duty. Some of them excused them
selves by stating that Geary knew the
applicant too well even to think of ap
pointing him, and that they only signed
In order to get rid of the fellow's impor
tunities. By similar means he will no
doubt get numerous signatures to his
petition for a slice off the Court-House
yard. We hope the Commissioners will
have as much good sense as the lawyers
attributed to Governor Geary. The
proposition is one of the most impudent
things we have ever heard of, and the
Commissioners would be grossly derelict
in duty if they should give away any
part of the property which belongs to
the people of the county. If they can
giveaway an inch they can donate the
whole lot, Court-House and all. Let the
District-Attorney be quickly shown the
door when he offers his impudent peti
tion, and that , without ceremony.
Interference with Malls and Revenue
In his Ku-Klux message to Congress
President Grant says "The carrying of
the mails and the collection of the reve
nue have been rendered dangerous." So
far as mail-Carrying is concerned the
only speck of trouble has been caused
by the introduction of a negro as route
agent between Louisville and Frank
furt, Kentucky. Some drunken white
man had a scuffle with the sable official,
and Postmaster-General Cresswell stop
ped the mails, thus punishing thousands
of innocent people for the indignity put
upon the negro official. Grant has sent
a cavalry regiment to Kentucky to pro
tect the darkey, who was given the place
In preference to a maimed, white Union
soldier.
There have been some instances of
conflicts between revenue officers and
illicit distillers, but most of these have
been in East Tennessee, where the pop
ulation was until lately almost exclu
sively composed of Radicals, and where
the disgraced Butler has just been re
elected to Congress. There have been
similar troubles in some parts of the
North and West, but no special legisla
tion WR9 deemed necessary in those
Forney's Appointment
We presume no one was surprised to
hear that John W. Forney, had been
tendered the position of Coll ctor of the
Port of Philadelphia. He showed his
teeth when Sumner was removed and
growled at Grant's San Domingo job.—
The tone of the Philadelphia Press was
beginning to be hostile to the adminis
tration, and the President hastene I to
appease its owner. It was reported that
Forney would decline, and he even went
so far as to prepare a letter giving his
reason for declining the office. One of
his friends in this county, who happen
ed to be in Philadelphia, had tile letter
read to hint by its author. It is said to
have been respectful but firm. When
the announcement came that Forney
had been con firmed,his friends here be
lieved that he allowed that to be done,
to show that no obstacle existed to his
obtaining the position. They still ex
pected to see him refuse to accept it. If
he goes into the Custom House he will
sink what little political influence he
has left, and his newspaper will be look
ed upon as a mere hired organ. It is a
little singular that the Press has been
completely silent in regard to the mat
ter. Has that letter of declination been
forwarded to the President ?
Trouble Among Cincinnati Republicans
There is serious trouble among the
Republicans of Cincinnati. • Over one
hundred prominent members of the
party met and signed a declaration to
the following effect:
We believe the further continuance of
the policy of disfranchisement to be incom
patible with a proper respect for the funda
mental principles of a Republican Govern
ment and sound statesmenship, and while
unalterably determined to maintain the
great results of the war, we insist that its
enmities and resentments be buried ; that
all the remaining causes of irritation shall
be removed, and that all the political disa
bilities imposed for participation in the re
bellion be abolished.
It is not likely that Grant and the
hide-bound Radicals of Congress will
heed the admonition of these Ohio Re
publicans. While they were resolving
Brant was sending troops into South
Carolina to sustain the odious despotism
which has been created by negroes,
scalawags and carpet-baggers; and the
IT. S. Senate was busy trying to force
the House to agree to the passage of
another Ku Klux bill. A few more
moral earthquakes, like that of New
Hampshire, are needed to teach Grant
and the Senate political wisdom.
Tut: amount due to the government,
on the 30th day of last June, from C. S.
Collectors not then Mortice was $21,351,-
457.R3, while there was due to the Col
lectors $458,170.40, leaving a balance of
$20,023,317.04. Since that time a vigor
ous effort has been made to 'adjust the
outstanding accounts, and by allow
ances for erroneous assessments, &c.,
the amount due has been reduced to $15,-
005,498.41. Defaulting Collectors have
been very leniently dealt with, and
rogues have found the lines falling to
them in pleasant places.
Contribution to history
We have received from Messrs. Cole,
Morwitz, & Co., of the Easton Argue, a
copy of a pamphlet containing the series
of papers on Edwin M. Stanton, by
Judge Black and Senator Wilson. It
is neatly printed, and only costs :15
cents retail, with a liberal discount to
the trade. Address Messrs. Cole, Mor
witz & Co., Easton, Pa.
Tin.: Radicals can not plead that it
was " general apathy" which lost them
the State of New Hampshire. The vote
was the largest cast at any State elec
tion since 1800, with a single exception.
If there had been no change in senti
ment there would have been no Demo
cratic victory. The trouble was not
apathy but disgust at the management
of the Republican party.
THE Philadelphia members of the
Legislature, Democrats and Repub
licans, met together and concluded to
agree upon a registry bill which would
be fair to both parties. One of the causes
which threaten to produce a dead-lock
in legislation will be removed when that
Is done. The present law is outrageous
n some of its provisions.
Views of a South Carolina . Senator
One Sawyer, a carpet-bagger, now
holds the seat in the United States Senate
once occupied by..Johri C.-Calhoun. He
was chosen by a negro legislature and is
radicalenough in all conscience, but he
can not agree With the majority of his
party, In a debate on the proposed Ku-
Klux bill he took occasion to denounce
the course which the Republican ma
jority are bent upon pursuing at the
dictation of Grant, who desires an op
portunity to employ the military to
re-elect himself. Mr. Sawyer said :
"I hold that the Southern people had been
indoctrinated with the brilliant sophistries
of the Southern statesmen for generations,
and that they went into the war for secession
on principle. I abhorred secession as much
.a any one, but knowing that these people
thought they were right, now that they are
conquered and their political heresies utter.
ly obliterated, I could not follow the example
of others and flippantly hurt at them the
epithets of rebel and traitor. I could not
denounce them because they will not re
pent, because, as they believed they there
rght, they have nothing to repent of. They
fought for the principles which they had been
educated from infancy to implicitly accept,
and there was as brave and honorable men
in the Confederate army as ever drew a
sword or lifted a musket."
Further on in his speech Mr. Sawyer
sets at rest a "brilliant" lie of the Rad
ical faction, invented to frighten their
white-livered constituents:
"Much has been said, here and elsewhere,
as to the inclination of the Southern people
to enter into another 'rebellion.' But I
will tell Senators there is not one word of
truth in it. In the face of their maimed
sons, their desolated hearthstones, their
ruined homes, their devastated fields, no
such foolish idea could be entertained by
them for a moment. I do not think that
any of the disturbances in the South has oriyi
noted from hostility to the General 001'4011-
771 , 11.4 but that they were inspired by distiller.-
lien to the local governments, A nd why'
Because the men who are most fined by ed.
ueation and position to take part in the af
fairs of the State hare been excluded from
all participation. Through this cause it
can not be denied that men of an inferior
moral and Intellectual stamp have been
elected into public positions."
When a carpet-bagger who way made
a United States Senator by negro votes
talks in this manlier, the most bigoted
and stupid Radical In the North can
scarcely fail to believe hint, and the lies
which are so continually repeated by
the New York Tribunt• and other Re
publican journals must soon fail to pro
duce any impression. The time is draw
ing nigh in which the white men of
the two sections of our common coun
try will cease to regard themselves
as enemies. All that is needed to ce
ment the bonds of fellowship is a com
plete overthrow of the Republican
party.
Ex-Govinisiin HARRIMAN, tite Rad
ical Demosthenes of New Hampshire,
writes to 0. P. Morton that " the Santo
Domingo question did us little harm in
the late election." If Governor Harri
man. tel the truth, the causes of the
Republican defeat in New Hampshire
must be sought for in other mis
deeds of the party. It has given the
country abundant reason for repudia
ting the administration apart from the
San Domingo Job.
THE negroes at St. Catharines, in
Canada, are attempting to force their
children into the schools with those of
white parents. There is considerable
excitement upon the subject, and the
St. Catharines Tiincs says that if the
negro children are admitted, all the
white pupils Neill instantly leave. The
two races cannot be educated under the
same roof. This is the operation of
public sentiment in Canada, that Eden
of runaway slaves. It does not appear
that free negroes have much of a hold
upon the affection of white people in
that portion of Her Majesty's dominion.
IT seems that the Radical Chief Jus
tice of the State of Nebraska has decided
that negroes have no right to sit on
juries. The ground taken is that ser
vice on juries Is a burthen and not a
privilege. The Radical State of Ne
braska will have to be included in the
Ku-Klux bill which the Senate is now
preparing. The Radical Jury Commis
sioner of Lancaster county has not
placed the name of a single negro in the
jury -box. Why is that? Are they not
men and brethren?
lurk at the NVltite Sulphur
We are glad to notice by the Richmond
Whig that Mr. C. It. Luck, who was lately
burned out of the Spotswood Hotel, has
become one 01 the lessees of the Greenbriar
White Sulphur Springs, having purchased
the third interest of Mr. W. 11. Peyton.
Under the control of Mr. Luck the present
wide popularity of the White Sulphur can
not fail to be greatly increased, for he is a
born Iteniface, and is plentifully possessed
of the energy and exceeding affability
which are such essential elements in the
composition of that very rare article, a good
landlord. Said ex-Senator John IS. Weller,
of California, to us one day at the Springs:
"I have been here now forever a week and
have not yet seen one of the proprietors to
know him. They seem to be above their
business. The landlord of a place like this
should meet and introduce himself to his
guests, as they get down at his door,and bid
them welcome to his house. He should
wait upon them after they have been With
hint a day, and inquire how their accommo
dations suit them ; and if they are objected
to. he should show himself eager to remove
all causes of complaint at the earliest pos
sible moment. The guests of a landlord,
who moves about among them, recognizes
them, listens patiently to their complaints,
and strives to remove their cause, will stay
with him long, come back to hint regular
ly and sing his praises while they are
away." That is what they will do to C. 13.
Luck, after he has made one campaign
amongst them at the White Sulphur.
EMT =ME
The First'National Gold Bank of San
Francisco is issuing notes, which are
current the same as gold coin.
They have an imported Percheron
horse near Allentown, Pa., that weighs
1700 pounds.
The trial of Mrs. Laura Fair, for the
murder of A. I'. Crittenden, last year,
began yesterday at San Francisco.
Ex-Goxernor Big.ler's friends in Cali
fornia have given him 010,0(H); he has
put 013,20) of i into a residence in Sac
ramento.
as. G. Blaine and (tea. \V. Morgan,
ho were rival candidates for Speaker
the present llouse, are both natives
( f the town of 'Washington, Pa.
• roes Grady was hanged at Wash
ington, yesterday, fig. On outrageous as
sault upon an old lady, which caused
her death.
A German Lutheran minister, named
J. G. Van Doren died in the lock-up
in Pottsville last week, having commit
ted suicide by swallowing laudanum.
He has been a South American inision
ary.
The Boston Post tells of a man in
Troy " who left a boarding-house just
because a rat hit off his ear. When
people get to be that particular about
trifles, they ought to quit boarding and
go to keeping house."
At San Francisco, yesterday, the trial
of Dennis (tuna for the murder of
Edward J. Murphy resulted in a ver
dict of "not guilty." Gunn shot Mur
phy on the :list of December last for be
trayal of his sister, a girl aged fifteen.
Forrester, the supposed Nathan Mur
derer, is now believed to be in Memphis.
It is reported that he was seen there
three weeks ago, but it was not then
known that he "was the man wanted."
A St. Louis detective is hunting him
up.
There is a negro man living In Glas
cock county, Ga., whose skin is gradu
ally turning white, His parents were
jet black negroes, and thisson resembled
them in complexion 'till " freedom
come," since which time he has com
menced turning white, and now his
hands, portions of his arms, face, body
and legs are as fair as an Anglo Saxon's.
St. Jerome mentions a widow who
married her twenty-third husband, who,
in his turn, had been married to twenty
wives. A woman named Elizabeth
Masi, who died at Florence in 1786, had
been marred to seven husbands, all of
whom she had out-lived. She espoused
the last at the mature age of 60.
When on her death-bed she re-called
the good and bad points in each of
her husbands, and, having impartially
weighed them in the balance, she singled
out her fifth espouse as her favorite, and
desired that her remains might be in
terred near his. The death of a soldier
is recorded In 1794, who had five wives,
and his widow, aged 90, wept over the
grave of her fourth husband. The writer
who mentioned these facts naively add
ed, "The said soldier was much attached
to the marriage state."
For the Intelhgencer.
Atroluiln Schuylkill County
NEW CASTLE, Mar. 24, 1871
Messrs. Editors : The difficulties between
the miners and operators have not, so far,
been adjusted. The employed expect that
some good will result from the meeting at
Harrisburg. We hope their expectations
may be realized, though we think differ
ently. These differences should be settled
at home. At the same time Schuylkill
county is losing about half a million of dol
lars every month—that amount would be
paid monthly to the miners and laborers.
A compromise should be made between
employer and employed. We think that
if the W. B. A. would not interfere with
the operator's right to hire or discharge
men the trouble would cease. That right
the operators do not wish to relinquish—
that is the principal difference. The wages
demanded by the men would be paid, we
think. If the W. B. A. intends to go to
law with the Reading Road—if a redress of
grievances is to come through that source—
there will not be much coal cut in this re
gion for some time to come. It is folly to
spend money in a law-suit with a rich cor
poration like the Reading Road; no matter
how much iu the wrong the Company is,it
will win. The capitalists of this county
have it in their power to make Schuylkill
county one of the first in wealth and popu
lation In the State; but in order to do that
another railroad must be constructed, that
will connect the great coal-fields of this re
gion with the more southern counties. It
would be to the interest of the capitalists of
the non-producing coal-fields to build a
road to the anthracite regions. It would be
a saving to the consumers of coal of about
one dollar per ton. When coal is selling at
two dollars and fifty cents at Pert Carbon,
ready for market, it costs two dollars and
eighteen cents per ton, tn,carry it to Phila
delphia. This is one dollar too ninth, and
the consumer has to pay it. A railroad
could be built in a few years out of the
money which is extorted from the con
sumers of coal by these exorbitant tolls.—
Every tax-payer in the county of Lancaster
should take, at least, one share of stock in
a road that would make the anthracite
fields tributary to his wants. There is no
doubt but a road of the kind would pay a
large percentage on the original stock.
Prospects of Gen. Grant's Renomina
tion—Opinions /11111 Specnlol s of
Politicians in Washington.
Wasntsuros, March 22.—A great deal of
quiet discussion is going on among promi
nent Republican politicians here upon the
question of who is to be the nominee of the
party next year for the Presidency. Last
December, when Congress met, there was
but one opinion upon the subjeet, and that
was that lien. Grant was sure of re•nowi
nation, and more sure of election than any
other man who could be named. Since
then, and especially within the last few
weeks, a marked change has taken place,
and it is now apparent that a strong oppo
sition to Gen. Grant exists, which includes
a number of Senators and Representatives
of large influence and national reputation.
This opposition is no doubt caused in sonic
part by recent political events, but it re
sults, also, to a large extent, from the Man
ifestation of the latent hostility that has
been accumulating during the two years
of the present Administration, and which
naturally shows itself ab o ut a year before
the time for holding the nominating cow
vention.
Tho chief argument of those who oppose
the renomination of (len. G rant is that defeat
would be certain if he should be the nomi
nee. They maintain that the dissensions
that exist in the Republican party ran on I y
he healed by the nomination of a new man,
against whom no portion of the party•en
tertain feelings of coldness or animosity,
and that, in view of the increased strength,
vigor, and confidence of the Democrats,
any other course would be suicidal.
To this the friends of Gen. Grant reply
that a President al gays becomes niusl un
popular about the beginffing of the third
year of his term, owing to tho disappoint
merits of office-seekers and the quarrels of
politicians who strive to control the distri
bution of patronage; that this unpopula
rity is chiefly manifested in Washington,
and is no true index of the sentiment
of the people ; and that front now on,
General Grant's popularity Will steadi
ly increase, so that he will be re
nominated next year without serious op
position, as unquestionably the strongest
candidate that could be selected. They re
fer to Mr. Lincoln's experience as a proof
of their position. In 1813.1 there were scarce
ly a dozen Republicans in Congress who
favored Lincoln's ro nomination, and yet,
in 1661 the tido had so turned in his favor
that there was no question of city other
candidate.
The anti-Grant men reply that Lincoln's
case was the exception to the rule in poli
tics, caused by the fact that the people were
averse to making a change in the midst of
war. Every other President, they argue,
since the time of Jackson, steadily lost his
popularity from the beginning to the enfl
of his Administration, and alter there nom
ination and terrible defeat of Van Buren,
neither party ever ventured to attempt to
re-elect a President until 1564, when the
war set aside for the time all established
political axioms. They insist that when
parties are nearly evenly balanced, as at
present, it would be impossible to re elect
any President in face of the jealousies, dis
appointments, and animosities he necessar
ily causes in the course of his Administra
tion, be he ever so wise, even if he has been
so successful as to get through his tern]
without creating any divisions in his party
upon questions of public policy.
The opposition of Gen. Grant is not uni
ted upon any candidate, and no names are
mentioned except in a suggestive way.
Some think it would Ins Well to take it
public man of undoubted strength and
three of character like Blaine. Schenck,
Colfax, Boutwell, Morton, Wilson, or a
dozen others who might lie mentioned ;
others, that success would be more certain
with a military candidate of great popular
ity like Gen. Sherman ; others, that a
splendid war record, followed by a success
ful career in politics, would make such a
man as Gen. Logan the strongest possible
candidate • and stilt others, that a candi
date who has kept out of the recent broils
of politics, but has marked talents and high
reputation, would best insure success.
These are, in brief. the opininns ex pressed
in political circles in Washington. '1 lie
opposition to the re-nomination has, as yet,
little force or direction, and none of the
strength of combination; but there is
enough in it to insure an active canvass of
the question among the people during the
coming Summer and Fall, and when Con
gressmen return next December, fresh
from their constituents, the active work
of organizing and manouvering to control
the Nominating Convention ninny be expect
ed to begin in earnest.—rm - r.opoadole , •
N. F. Tribune.
Social Equality at the Mato Capital
The Harrisburg correspondent of the
Sunday -11rcury gives the following ac
count of a scene at a negro ball in one of
the hotels of that city:
"On Wednesday bight the dusky beau
ties and sable braves of our city and neigh
' boring towns assembled in the spacious
l dining-room of the State Capital lintel to
"trip the light fantastic." Delicious to usio,
lovely ladies and gallant men made the
dancing a sight to look upon and enjoy.—
' Our times are strange, told thereUire the
galaxy of inky nymphs attracted others
besides the beaus of their own color. Like
silver stars peeping through black clouds
l the beaming faces of our radical politicians
shone among the moving masses of ebony.
Along the wall sat the herd of Republican
legislators, while on the flaor in promi-
I mince stood Senator Billingfelt and Rep
resentative lteiva•hl, Ole first it usting to
Ethioplai support in the rave for Auditor
General by declaring that if ever he
danced, here would he seek for gunge
' Middy, and the other whispering in dales
and amatory tones. Stupendous Fatty
Smith, his whole countenance glistening
with delight anti his huge sides shaking
with merriment, emir, oil about like a fairy,
showing his list of engagements to evince
how successful he was in em - pito-Mg the
hearts Msooty damsels. Every w here stood
groups of Rids and colored ladies m utual ly
charmed. And in tire dance the colors
mingled—no oil and water elements In
these pure spirits. Here stood lion. Win.
J. Ovens, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House,
with an ace-of-spades partner ; next was Mr
Gillespie, of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
with a cream-and-coffee hued virgin, and
opposite a grave legislator held a genuine
Dinah in loving embrace. Here Thump•
son, of Philadelphia, his face Wreathed with
smiles, was seen dancing attendance to the
lemon-colored lasses. lie declined an in
troduction to any of the darkey beauties.
[We believe he is a reverent convert to
Radiedismd Tittermary, of Philadelphia
notoriety, with a dark •skinned beauty
leaning lovingly on his arm, and the gal
lant Ovens breathing tales of love into the
ears of one of Africa's fairest daughters,
led the quadrille to the soul-inspiring notes
of "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning."
The pat-of honor was given to the Phila
delphia delegation, who were seated in easy
chairs and were furnished ice-cream and
cakes at the expense of the conunittee.—
With arms encircling the waists of their
jetty partners, while un their manly:, bosoms
reposed the crisp, velvety curls of the
yielding beauties, gracefully did they thread
the mazes of the dance. After the dance,
arm-in-arm with their "Amindivi, these eon
sistent Radicals promenaded the room ,
soliciting introductions to the many ladies.
All indulged in refreshments, over which
faces black, white and taffy-colored beet
together, and tongues cooed sweetly the
accents of admiration. We do not know
how the Ron. Wm. J. Ovens and friends
managed in escorting the African maidens
home. Is this the dawn of sbcial equality
and a fraternity of all colors ?
Dumbell, Cloud, Lamon, Johnson, Al
bright and Griffiths also joined in the fes
tive gathering. The aspiring Johnson was
exceedingly anxious to display his social
feeling for his brother Africans by prome
nading the room arm-in arm with the
master of ceremonies.
Nearly 400 property-owners of New
Orleans, including many prominent
business-firms, have published a card
declaring that they will use all legal
means to resist the payment of any ad
ditions to the State debt beyond the
amount of $2.5,000,000 already incurred.
Initl*KUPl l 7)9:el , o4W.V.ll tql11:11 /AI
Couvlctiork of the noVernor of North
Carolina.
RALEIGH, March 22.—The Impeachment
trial of Governor Holden closed to-day on
the forty-fifth day, resulting in his convic-.
Lion on the six last articles by a mixed
vote of both political parties. The ceremo
ny of taking the vote was very impressive
and somewhat exciting, and the deepest
interest was manifested in the ease by the
throng of spectators in the galleries and
lobbies. At eleven A. M. Chief Justice
Pearson took the chair as presiding
officer of the court. Soon afterwards the
managers, their counsel and the members
of the !louse of Representatives, marched
IMO the Senate Chamber in the order nom.
ed and took the seats that were assigned to
them. The galleries in front and on the
left of the Chief Justice were tilled with a
brilliant array of the beauty and elite of
Raleigh, while, in striking contrast, a gal
lery on the opposite side was densely pack
ed by a crowd of sooty black and strongly
scented negroes. At the call of the roll
forty-nine Senators answered to their
names—one member only, a Republican,
being absent, making the body stand po
litically, thirty-six Conservatives to thir
teen Republicans Due notice was given
that if any demonstration was made upon
the announcement of a vote in the galleries
or lobbies that the chamber would be clear
ed of all but the members of the I louse of
Representatives. The Chief Justice com
manded the doorkeeper to maintain strict
order and to keep silence.
The Chief Justice—The Clerk st ill read
the first of the articles of impeachment.
The clerk then read, 1111111 i a profound
silence, the first article, Wirral charges the
respondent With raising unlawful armed
bodies of troops, and causelessly declaring
the county or Aitunam , e in a state of instil
, section, and afterwards inida arrest
ing Lucien 11. Murray and eighty one oth
er citizens of Alainanco and unlawitilly
detaining them, when Mere NV:IS no insur
rection, and when the civil officers of the
law Were in the full ex fircisio or all their
functions. The clerk then Senator
Adams, w hereupon the Sturm cr ar, roe in his
seat.
The Chief Justice - Senator .kdams,le
say you, Is NVIII:aln \l'. I ildt11•11 guilty
nut guilty, as cliarg4o In tit, artwle, nI the
nnpuuebinent ?
Senator Adain,--lluilty.
ThiS queaiun %VilS prtp,llllqtuti citch
Senator, in the manner above, on (Itch ar
ticle of inifielidlitient, the Senator Imi-dyer
guilty '' or "not guilty." lht the
first article the vote wil-i—ittolty, :le ; not
guilty, 14; lacked three of the re
quirod two-thirds to i'otivict, l'ieetcrva
lives voting for acqUillai.
A 2. The same as In. Cosier 11, ar
resting John I:err and IT other citizens of
that county. Upon this the vote w
guilty,li2; not guilty, ; Inuit the respond
ent Ivinsacquittnid.
1. IThlawfully arresting, inn the
county id . Orange, J.isiith Turner, Jr., and
imprisoning him. guilty , a 7; not guilty,
12; which convicted the respondent. tnivin
Itepublicruis vn.ting for isaiviction and Dine
Conservative for acquittal. \ l . the
Justice made the announcement int this cute.
there tams a loud and suppressed limn and
smiles of approval from the ladies inn the
gitlVries, wall a general whisper in lion
gratulation from one to the other.
Fulawfully arresting:mil nle•
taining, in the enmity .110111
(,1n 111111 three other citizens. g may, 33;
not guilty, ; which tieing a con c urrence
or t‘vo-thirds, the respondent \VI, ConVicl-
Cc', com...,.rvative . s voting not guilty.
A oracle: h, lielti,ing to nitiey the writ of
1 . 0/7///8 iu tilt! ea,e or Awdph. (;.
iinilty dirty; not guilty nine;
four of the Republican,--:\ lessrs• Lehman,
„NlcCotterinnil I wkitis —‘ oling
conviction. This uas regarded as the
strongest of the articles, involving. as it
did, the great principles of civil liberty.
The vote mei a 'all a goan:ral coprt.,,i,rll
approval, and would have been applailded
but for the strict decorum observed in the
Court.
For rtift,itil i t t., „hey the
‘vrit, of Itetho is r.O pu.a in Hie va,e ul John
Kerr and eighteen other citizens of l'it•well
emote. tittilty, forty one; not goitty,
eight; lice 11,10,614 n,, ),Lintz for
ARTICLE 7. For unlawfully recruiting a
large bittly of troops from (his State and
the State ,t . 're11110,,,,e and ',hieing in COM
mand of them Kirk and other desperatlites
Cron the State for unlawfully
arresting and imprismiing John Kerr and
many others; for hanging In' the neck
William Patton, Lucien 11. Murray nod
others; for thrusting in a hauls, ne dun
goon Josiah Turner, .1 r., and F.:\. Wiley,
and without la wfulatithority; her mai:night,
warrant upon David A. Jenkins, Treasurer
of the State, Mr seventy thousand dolla s
or more to pay his said uulaictul troops.
Guilty, thirty six; not glibly, thirteen, one
Conservative voting Mr actitultal and title
Republican for conviction.
AnTicim S. For inciting; and procuring
the said State Treasurer to Nid egirsl the
injunction to restrain him from paying the
sum of eighty thousand dollars or more out
of the public Treasury for the unlawful
purpose of paying his said unl aw fit I troops.
Guilty, thirty-six; not guilty, thirteen- a
strict party vote and the only ono cast on
the articles of impeachment.
This made. ix upon wh it'll the rf , po;lld -
enc. was convicted, and r. Manager Spar.
row moved that the Senate proceed, in the
name of the people of North Carolina, to
pass judgment upon William \V. Holden.
Graham then offered an order that
William W. Holden hodeposed front M11e..,
and that he be forever after disqualitle4l
front holding any place of einolumeht or
trusts in the State. Upon this the yeas and
nays were called—peas iii , nays 13. 'Cite
order was adopted, and upon beim.; verb
tied to and copies lodged with the Chief
Justice and St,retary of Stile it Was in
effect.
The trial lasted forty five days. Entire
cost, including reporting, printing and all
the witnesses, about t•71l,0101, and the report
CM' ers over .1,000 octavo pages.
The result is as was generally anticipated,
and is hailed as the harbinger of pea., and
quiet in the State.
Among the negroes Holden is re,4arded
as a unirtyr, for whom they will no doubt
oiler up prayers at an early day but the
better class of Reim hl iiians congratulate the
party and regard his conviction as a good
riddance. It will have a happy effect in
putting a stop to outrages of all sorts,
whether by the Union Leaguers or the Ku.
Klux, and will, it is thought., inaugurate a
new era in the Ohl North State. Ex-tftiv.
Holden will, it is said, never return to the
State, as he would be iminesliately saddled
with a hundred suits for false imprison
ment, and it would require all the friends
he has in the State to keep him out of jail.
To-morrow the Legislature will take ac
tion in regard to thief Justice pearson,
,when his impeachment or severe CNISII ru
may be looked for, for tailing to enforce the
privileges If writ lit' habeas corpus in the
late llolden-Kirk outrages upon the 1/00pill
Of thin Skit,
I:=1
WIN nson, March 21.—The weather i'
charming, and the marriage of Primoess
Louise has been celebrated with brilliancy.
At 11 o'clock this Mrenoon the ministers,
ambassadors, nobility, and clergy, and the
bridegroom's family were admitted to the
Royal Chapel. At 11:.10 the royal carriages,
with all the members of the Queen's family
and other royal personages, left Queen's
gate, at Windsor Palace, and proceeded to
the south entrance of the chapel, where
they were received by the Lord Chamber
lain and conducted to their places.
At 12 n.", the bridegolom arrived, ac
companied by Earl Percy, and Lord (low
er, who were conducted to scats on a raised
dais. At I^_:l3 Me bride, accompannnl by
the Queen and suite in live carriages, ar
rived at the entranec of the chapel, where
they were joined by the bridesmaids :mil
moved up the nave amid nitedc by the
choir, fj bride supported by the Queen,
Prince of Wales, and Luke et Saxe-Coburg.
'rho bridesmaids were I,adies Campbell,
Cecil, Butler, Montagu°, Gordon, Len-
Septiour, and Fitzgerald. The
bride was sedted on the left of the
altar, with the quenn near at hand.
The verenymy was per;orined Iry• the
Bishop of London in choral style, the
Queen giving the bride away. At the end
of the last prayer a royal salute was fired
Iron] artillery inn Windsor Park, and the
guests repaired to tho castle Mr luncheon.
bride and bridegroom departed at 3
fin . Claremont lor the lioneymwm.
About st thousand guests Wlttiessol the
ceremony. The grounds of the castle were
tilled with immense crowds. The Marquis
of Lorne wore the unilorm of the Argyll.
shire Artillery,and not a High:all.lolStinoe.
hue Bishop of 1..,r111.41 was assisted by the
Bishops or (is ford, Al'mehester, and Wor
cester. To-night there trill he a grand
banquet, and the castle illuminated. The
festlvities continue two days.
Thomas Hart Clay, 010 second son of
Henry Clay, died min, residence, near Lex
ington, Ky., on Saturday night last, lie was
a graduate of Transylvania University, and
it is said, of West Point. Upon the election
of M r. Lincoln he was appointed Ministertu
Nicaaagua, and afterward to Hoed liras, both
of which appointments he accepted. Since
his return he has been an Invalid front neu
ralgia, from which disease he died. Says the
Lexington Press: "The death of Thomas
Hart Clay (he was named after his grand
radio') 'nukes a void in the social !wilily
circle in this country which will long
remain unclosed; for, while his illness de
barred him in a great measure, of late seat s,
from visiting or entertaining to any consid
erable degree, his companionable nature,
his cordiality and suavity, and the kind
ness of manner that always so pleasantly
impressed visitors, rendered his society
attractive. Mr. Clay's sympathies wen)
readily aroused ; he was sincere and open
in his friendships as iu his dislikes: dis
daining all potty measures and artifice;
generous and impulsive ; devoted to friends
and just to his enemies, ho was a man de
serving of the love of his family - and the
esteem and confidence of hie fellow-men.
In dying, he leaves behind au untarnished
name as a priceless heritage to his children,
and a record of usefulness in private and
in public life for his friends to point to with
pride."
A Ffrc•BnC Caught
PotionK E EPSI E, March-3.--William Van
Doner, the Ellenville incendiary, was ar
rested on Tuesday, and has made a full
confession, implicating fifteen members of
his hook and ladder company, in the firing
of many building,+ in Ellenville, timing
the past winter.
REIGN OF TERROR IN PARIS
Prominent Citizens Enicbered
Their Bodies Pnrritleil lu the Streein
Energetic Action of Bismarck
PA kis, March 23.—A serious disturbance
terminating in a riot, occurred at the Place
Vendome. Last evening a re-actlonary
crowd had congregated in that vicinity and
were expressing in strong and equivocal
terms their disapprobation of the course
pursued by the insurgents. The mass of
people swelled to such proportions and
appeared so touch disposed to Indulge in
riot and disorder, that an order was given
to a company of Nationals to clear the mob.
Tho latter, however, resisted, anti it was
not until every etfort.w,iiich was made to
°fleet a clearance without bloodshed had
tidied, that the order was given to the Na•
tionals to tire. At the order the troops
tired, and the mob tell back and finally dis
persed. An immense number of persons
were killed and wounded by the lire of the
troops. Great indignation is felt among
the citizens in consequence of this Inst
crow ning outrage. Tho re• netionary mo vv•
intuit is rapidly assuming Mire and
strength. ;The en liens are armilig through
out the city, the Place d' Auxerroirs has
been selected as a rendezvous, and they
are now concentrating rapidly at that place.
There they will appoint leaders and deter
mine on their future plans and movements.
The greatest excitement pt evails in the
city. All classes of citizens are partaking
of the agitation, which has become general.
II easy fighting is in progress before the
Pala, Royal and the scene in that vicinit
is one of mantel carnage. A similar scene
is :ti, progressing at the Louvre, whom
the lighting and riot has become grileral.-
Th , ,itizons aro meanwhile in
the greatest alarm and consternation lest
their own lives and safety should be int
imperilled or threatened lay the disturb
ances.
1...5n0N, March Nunn.—•l'elegrau,
from hi,, just revel veil eOllllllll intern.,
Lion of turtlier lighting anti rutting, which
occurred 111 that city nth, furenu•.nl.
All lumen,[ number of eittzens have
been killed in them. thstnritatives mud the
cute,[ indignation prevails among the•
riUaou+, who arc no"'
delertuttu,i to 11110111110 111titl11 1 / 1 111,111S.
V1:115.%11.1.F:5, :LI —.M. t • avrc has
inturuu•d the Nati..nal Assembly that lie
1111,1 received a ottimititit.H.nrrmii
lii,uuu - rk, in which Lilo latter aniutitnees
that tl the telegraph %vire, in 1,11111111111 1,1-
11.111 with I'ill'lll are 11,1 1,11/1111,111111111 Lilo lig
gre , stons ‘vltioli are vont:mildly occurring
In three: violatima of the treaty of 111,1111 are
not ,t..pprd 1, :thin twenty-100r hours the
1;,r11.1, troop. \yin 1,--c.i.ctipy the hirtssitr•
rt.titulttP4 Parts and ,pen tiro upon the
e:ty. greate,t exvitentent prevads in
the A , ,enthly:in 11,11,C11111,14,, ut thin uu
-1,111lreim•III.
SeVrrai nt (ha Par.'s har a retn"vva
The l'ark tr4ent. have obtained trill
the Batik of France a 1111111011 train,
agaill-L, 1110 ilopent Or a !Orilla! treikury
bond. .\ re.itmot:utt made by Mont epee
Hue ItethnchwL, wa , milked payinent.
V1 ,,,, k , b 1 • 1, , March 'l3--Evennig.-- The
in.nrreeltou un Paris i. hod inkonling the
proportion, lull horrible character et the
revoititlon of I'l'. L'tO Lain gitartek urn
being drenched in blood, wlnlo 111,1111 Melt
Ito hourly lis,v4,lllatiql by the mob.
I he Ink.t inlortnation receive,. from 111,,
city the mob 11`i .t\ coping all be
Yore it. The need appalling ~rear, are 1,...
mg enacted, :rod among Ibe !Imminent cit
1Y.L . 11,. :ere uuuuu ure.l LO have low
butchered by the riot(( , (0-111t' tiro Nl.
Bwl°, '.IIICO of
reprr.cubttivrat the London Cot,
fidence, 'AI. I lutt•ngner, hanker and mutt ,
her of the ILnu.e, and NI. I lonri CIO hll',
the velebrate.l civil engineer, Immediate
Iv after the,. gentlemen \very murdered
Lboir corp.,. were ',armlet] upon theihttlitt
yard., itittei the Yell. and curses ot the in
furiated mob. •I • he greatc.t knkternatem
prevail, umoug the more rt , pet•tabli , clans
e 4, who have great 1,1, !or OM 11,1 , of
a'llloll ;tall children. All private dwell
ings are kept c Insel and the city i. at the•
mercy of the tannien-Ittil !eds.
• I'he iii-otrg.•llls to-day emoted mud eve.
pied Fort, Vincentw. without, ~ppl•sitloli.
It Is ruilmred hero that nn attack will
made 11111)11 the rev.,ltitimtintm teduprrp,
trumps limy held 1)t n.cr re by Ili.,
govern 11101/t.
I.ttNitttN. NlArch Thu
special Inns \ er.aillcs•ta,s tilt, It•twr t.I
Contd. coil I;10111art.k wrap. 10,1.11,01,n 111
antl 111(1 NI. I'avrt., In his re.
tlinrct , n, hinted that if l'aris }mitts
talt tho pt‘ o.rtniwnt still t'il "peroilf seillt
hill I 4. 'lll,O is a cop, rt that NI.
Favrt. I, imilt.tivttrltig tor “list )1. Thler.
fru,lll 1 . 0 “I chlui t•xt•01111,
111111 ' IIII , IIIIIS 11 1111.
buried in a clack.
The IMe de la ['Aix a pool tAt
,10 4AI, ill Pia,.
:%larch 2,1.-10 I. M. Tlwri.
heon nu I . llllllorllco I'. AI.
itrmod ill , tirgents have been reinim - 1 . -
eol. TIIe rite H g,lomny and theexeitement
is hitem.o. l'he Natmnals, tinder orders M
Lill, Central 101,10,114,mi Committee, have
oeuupie.l Furl the
gltrriSUll rflal,lll7.lllg wile 1111111 a-1,011111 11,
they appealed. Tim lrioopy ill
organized in the interest
01 . ardor.
Deputy clemenceau lilts incurred the
hostility of the insurgents, and ins been
expelled Fria!! the "'lke of Mayor
I,N ,
,p,•,•1,1 de , patcli from stating
that the elertions ra-sed It rjeletly, 1111,1
resulted in all overwhelming 0.111111111i41
IllejeriLy. The revolutionary authority I.
(1,111111111 i., unit 010 IlleileaLitel
et 5e1,01.. the Mayors, in
crea.es the hllereSS 011.110 revolution
within a ,veel: will spread to 101 the large
1011'11S, and render the position cif the griV
ernlllellt. in the rural districts initenahle.
The /MIN Neu special despatch from
Brussels says haZainti iv about to lea,. for
France, and Lebour will go to Hague.
The revolt in Algeria is spreading. The.
Tefrgroi///..1 special correspondent lit Ver
sailles reports that the goVerrinient or
dered the prompt arrest of earn. liar; b+ddl
illein his appearalivo on French soil.
t Leib, retires (runt dill Ai tutv!ry of
11'ar aro will be succeeded by 1;1.11. Clerft,
tiault, returiesl prisoner froin
It isgenerittly thought that the governnient
is ilehinet and a rumor Is current that
i'his-rs will he. forced to resign, and will lac
suceeetlisl by the Poe d'Ainnal.
LoNisiN, ..larch credited
with the reinark to his friends that, when
the goVerninent has a hundred tholimanit
troops in which it can trust, an attack will
be made upon Paris.
nis, t iv bolifived the Cap
itol will be renewed to Tours,
VidisAll.l.Es, :der. 27.—The Minister ol
\Var has notified the prefect to raise a bat
talion of 'Mobilized volunteers In each of
the departments, in ptirmilitiliio or the hew
just passed by. the National Assembly.- -
These volunteers to lie forwarded to Ver
sailles immediately and receive daily one
and a half !roues. Their officers are to be
appointed by the Minister or War.
The 104,/ffs says (fen. oilier is insane
Mel is eared for by his colleagues of thin
Central Committee.
ortio I% of
'rho insurgents have seized a gun lion,.
on the Seine, capturing the erett and sown
unitnportant doom
journal or the roninilltiiti an
nounces IS hattalinns ol the National
i_itittrtl out or 2.1 iirganizeil iu liyonm • to
htipport the U. 1111111111.4. govin
merit has lit•cii then,
'rho hat 4. becti ml.
Vanced to Vini:,•lll..s.
March Ids.- -M. Thiet, in it,
receipt ode communication from Bismarck
containing an tart, by lierrnany to a.ni.t
the eruitielit , opprep,illutin.•
revolutionary disturbances in Paris. M.
Thier , i, however, acting tinder the 1111,11,10-
LIMO( of llitl ki,..(1111/Iy, 1111.14 1.1 . 1110,1111111111 to
Bismarck a declination of the haul odder
adding tint the (lovertiment would in
stitute active IneloolreS 111.1,110,1 Om 111/.111 . -
gent, if these disturliatives did not colLmo
Wit/1111 11 1111111.1 period. 'rt. govern:m.lll
1111,1 determined on making a powerful
ellnrt to subdue the tlis(111 - 1”1111(1,1 to t h e
Capitol, and 1.111,s 1110 resin 41irre11411(1 .
Wll.lllll a list , " days 0.11411111.1.01V0 their organ
-1Z:111011, and jr,al,:lbly disperse, mops
winch have 1.1.11 , Jar been delayed by
reuses
of various JOllilelo . n, 1111(1 considerations
acting Inn the gonsdiiiiient, will then he
taken, :mil u body of troop's, nullirmuily
subjectedi will be din.
patched to I'm is to attack and milidue the
I,,,ND.JN, Mal% Emperor Napo
leon Viidiieti Ilor ylajeay Rocco\"ietoris
:it Wind sir yesterday. The reception tio•
corded the Queen to the Luperixl exile Wll.l
nl the just cordial and friendly nature.
Ile remained only tor a shunt time iu
elm ve rsati. Pi With bier Majesty, atter
'fief lie quietly took Ili, departure. -
i he officials and dignitaries present treat
ed the ex-Emperor with the ino•t profound
respect, and Ids public appearance in the
eastle-grounds was the signal ti.r much
enthusiasm from visitors and others.
=lt =I
Motu N, March 23.--The daughter
of Chief Justice Chase scion married to-day,
at St. John's Church, to Mr. Sprague Hoy t.
Jr. Lewis, the pamor, declined ~ertbrining
the ceremony on account of his high
church scruples in regard to much matters
in the time of Lent, but Bishop Mc-livable,
of Ohio, who is a low•churemnan and a
friend ul the rale ily officiated to the sat iMfile-
Lion of all concerned. The ceremony took
place after the usual morning prayer, w hen
the congregation had retired, the wedding
guests immediately tilling their places. lin a
,fort time the chancel railing and front Were
covered with MOSS and blooming dowers.
The purple covers were removed front the
attar and reading desk, iind white was sub
stituted. Bishop Mell vaine, in full canon
teal robes, entered, and, after a few Mir-
Meta, iu prayer, took his seat, and the or
gan sounded birth low :onset. There were
four ushers: Hamilton Fish, Jr. Fred
May, Baron von Al vensleben, and Captain
Ward. There were four small boys who
had charge of the white ribbons, dividing
the church. The ushers, grOom and
groomsmen wore what is styed the English
morning dress. The President did not at
tend at the church, nod the Judges of the
Supreme Court could not adjourn in time
for the ceremony. All the ladies best
known din sceicty were present, among
them Mrs. Fish and her daughter, Mrs.
Webster, Lady Thornton and others.
Misses Rathbone, Harris, Parker and Vail,
acted as bridesmaids. The bride came in
on the arm of her father, the Chief Justice,
and lastly Mrs. Sprague, with Mr. Hoyt,
the groom. The dressing was of course
elegant Afterwards there was a reception,
front 3 to 5 P. M., at Mrs, Sprague's.