Vontrost pematral. A, J. GERRITSOIII, Editor, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1808. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, ZION. CHARLES E. BOYLE, OF FAYETTE COUNTY FOR erRVEYOIC GENERAL, GEN. WELLTNGTON H. ENT, OF COLUIMIA COUNTY Election l Tuesday October 13, 1868. rer Th e Wilkesbarre Record of the Times keeps Grow's name up for Vice President, in spite of Curtin's selection by its party as their choice for the State.— Theditor is displeased because the Sen ate does not put the President under ar rest during the impeachment trial. It is proposed to build a lunatic asylum in that village ! The Impeachment Trial. On Monday, March 30th, the trial of the President was formally opened by a three hour's speech from Butler, oue of the managers. It is a wild, windy, polit ical harangue, calculated to stir up politi cal passion, and composed to a great ex tent of misrepresentation and abuse of the President, and distortion of legal princi ples to suit party purposes. As the Llouso ordered 40,000 copies to be printed at the public expense, for use as a partisan elec tioneering document, it is evident that the Radicals are not only bent on making a partisan use of the trial, but intend to spend the people's money to aid them. On Tuesday the trial Was resumed, and damaging points established against the Radicals. First, they showed that Stanton was appointed Secretary of War daring Lincoln's first term in 1862, but had no later authority to act from Lincoln, and none from Johnson. Next, when objec tions were raised to some irrelevant testi mony being heard, the Chief Justice ruled that it might be received ; whereupon the Radicals were thrown into excitement, and a denial was put in that Chase had any right to decide any points ; as Chase insisted upon his privilege, the. Rads in dulged in an angry debate, and a motion was made that thopSenators retire to de oide upon that question. The vote was a tie, whereupon Chase gave the casting vote for the motion and carried it, which caused the Radical fever to rise still high er—they not Wishing to allow him to vote at all. The Senate caucus was long, and an ex cited debate ensued ; but the extremists were beaten at every point. The majuri ty not only decided to allow Chase to rule points, subject to appeal to Senators; hut a motion from Sumner, that Chase, not being a member of the Senate, could not vote as a member of the Court, was de• feated 22 to 26 ; and the Rads concluded they bad made a bad day's work of it, and Chase was freely denounced. Wednesday, April Ist, as soon as the trial opened, Sumner raised the issue as to Chase's right to vote; bat the right was sustained 2t to 27. Thus the mana gers begin to realize that at every impor tant step taken, both as to evidence and management, their case grows lame ; and a tighter turn of . the party screw see:ns necessary to prevent the defeat of all their schemes. April 2d, Gen. Emory and Col. Wal lace gave evidence in reference to inter views with the President, in which he asked if changes of troops had been made; but nothing important was shown except that there was no ground for alleging a conspiracy on account of such inquiries.-- The letter from the President to Grant in reference to Stanton's suspension was read ; but the Radicals declined to allow the statements of the cabinet to be read, in which they showed that Grant had de nied the truth of the controversy. Only one point of importance was pro ven ; and that was that the President had telegraphed to the Governor of Alabama advising that it is proper to stand by the Constitution, sustain the government,and place confidence in the people! Unless the Radicals hold such advice to be a "high crime," why did they offer it iu ev idence? Some evidence was taken on Friday in referer.ce to speeches, etc. The mana gers seemed to be through with evidence except on that point. So far as any proof indicates the alleged commission of" high crimes," &c.; it does not amount to enough, if in a petty larce ny case, to cause a J. P. to hold a prison er to bail for trial. As to Butler's article charging Johnson with having spoken dis respectfully of Congress, the evidence would not warrant a jury in giving the managers one cent (each) damages in a slander suit. The only question is : Can two thirds of the Senate be forced, by party pressure, to vote for conviction in the face of the law and evidence to the contrary? April 4.—Having finished proving they had no case, the persecutors allowed an adjournment till the 9th. The Legislature. The Governor having vetoed the free railroad bill, a new one has been passed. An expensive and annoying registry bill has been passed. The debate upon it was very exciting—the Radicals insisting that negroes were superior to foreigners or catholics. Rickman led the Radicals so far that some of them became alarmed and tried to check him ; but be despises their evasion of the negro equality doc trine. Parson Laudon alleged that negroes are better entitled to vote than Irishmen. He is the fellow who declared in Montrose in 1858, that be wished he was as sure of the kingdom of Heaven as Fremont was of being elected President. In view of Fre mont's defeat, what is the parson sure of? The appropriation bill has been swelled by so many extravagant items that it was defeated in the Senate, in spite of the Radical attempt to pass it by operation of the previous question. Radicalism and corruption have run riot in the body ; and a purification is sadly needed. Rights of Minorities. The Radical rule is to pay no regard to the rights of minorities, as between par ties; and growing bold, they now begin to indulge in a similar practice in refer ence to matters in their own party lines. At their late State Convention, the Grant- Curt in majority were insolent towards the minority who were for Wade, &c. The effect is beginning to crop out, all over the State. The Bradford Reporter, a ve ry Radical organ, says : " The outrage upon the rights of the people, perpetrated by the Philadelphia Convention, has aroused an intense feel ing throughout the. State. The desire of the men who controlled the Convention was to make its action appear as if the State was unanimously in favor of the nomination of Gov. Curtin for Vice Presi dent. To do this they usurped powers which did not belong to the Convention, by electing Delegates to Chicago, and de nying the people of the several Congres sional Districts the right to choose their own Representative Delegates. We are pleased to see the press throughout the State speaking the feelings of an indig• nant people,. The usurpation of the Con vention is littely to have a contrary effect from that designed by the majority." The Coming Man, George Alfred Townsend went to Washington lately for the purpose of wri ting letters to a Radical organ at Cleve land called the Leader. He applied to Ben Wade for a seat in the reporter's gallery, and received the following reply from the prospective successor of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson : " Well, that is the dila:meths:. n'eane-.t paper in Ohio. It's a Chase paper ail the time. It don't owe me nothing, and I don't owe it. nothing back. That's no re commendation to me." The Leader thereupon wades into Ben in rather severe style; exposing his bad grammar ; telling ,how be begged for its support for the Presidency in 1860; how his wife besought it to defend him at the lime of the " Wade and Davis manifes to ;" bow he asked its aid to contradict the reports about its drunkenness; bow be solicited his aid to secure a re-election to the United States Senate, &e. •We have only to say that when the Radical chaps get to photographing each other they make ugly pictures.—Patriot & Un ion. Car The Press, a Radical paper pnb lisbed at Nat'l:ll4lle, Tennessee, declares that the negroes in that State will be sure to vote the Radical ticket, and "not per plex their heads about taxes, foreign wars, bonds, or any question that may in terest white voters. Of course not ;as long as the Radicals continue to feed them through the Freedmen's Bureau, and Bureau agents can keep them organ ized into loyal leagues,the expenses of all which are paid by t he people of the North. But will not the overtaxed and underpaid white men of the North tire of supporting negroes in idleness, and living under a government controlled by negro votes ? We think so. rOF'At the recent election in Houston, a guard of big negroes beset the polls, stopped any black voter, took his ballot from him and examined it, when, if Radi cal„they allowed to deposit it, but if conservative tore it, up and drove him away. The judges of election were all Radicals, and electioneered while receiv iva ballots. The Houston Telegraph says the belief is general that the tickets of ne groes who voted for Conservative candi dates are taken out at night and Radical ballots inserted. A prominent citizen is ready to swear that be saw this ddno while the election was going on. —Radical contractors for the supply of the Freedmen's Bureau with food, cloth ing, doe:, have a ',Tat thing" of it. They furnish corn at 5i cents more and 6 pounds less to the bushel than the ruling price and measure. —Two negroes were arrested in Memphis on Tuesday evening for a rape on a little white girl eight yearr old. A Registry Law. Whenever the Radicals aro eatisfied they cannot command a majority of the white freemen of this country at the polls, they devise some scheme to prevent a free ballot. Some obstruction is placed in the way of the way of the citizen voting, in the hope that a tew votes in every dis trict may he lost to the Democracy. One of the methods of doing• this is by the passage of very objectionable Regis try laws—which, it many instances make it a troublesome thing for the citizen to qualify himself for the ballot. Thus far we have escaped this hindrance to a free ballot ; but the Radical legislature, fear ing that their party may lose the State at the next election, are about to treat us to a registry law that will throw numerous obstructions in the way of voters, and at the same time prescribes a qualification not known to the Constitution. We have not yet seen the bill, but we copy the fol lowing synopsis of it from the Age of the the 25th ult. viz: By the provisions of the proposed regis try law, before a man can vote the assess or must first pass upon is right; they must put his name upon a list to be made out by them, and state whether he is a housekeeper and where his house is loca ted ; if not a housekeeper they must note who he boards with and atso who he works for. If he should be a naturalized citizen, he must produce his certificate to the assessors, or his name will not go on the list. This last requirement is a most beneficial one for our naturalized citizens, who will no doubt have nothing to do but, stay at home and wait for the assessorsLo come around that they may show thorn their papers. Having gone througN this ordeal, the voter has secured the first step to vote. On the tenth day beforo the second Tuesday in October, the judge and inspec tors of each election district meet in their respective precincts, and, together with the assessor, constitute a board to hear proof and try the right of those whom the' assessors have put upon the list to vote; (how the assessors are to manage to meet the judge and inspectors of each electiou district in wards where there are as high as fifteen districts, we do not find in the bill). This is the second ordeal tin• the voter to pass through, but he has not done yet.— On election day his vote may again be challenged, and notwithstanding his right has once been passed upon by the assess ors, and a second time by the election board, and notwithstanding every election officer inside has seen his proofs, and if a naturalized:citizen,examined his certificate, they are authorized to again harrass and vex him by again compelling him to again produce his proofs and his certificate of naturalization before they will permit him to deposit his vote,and then a slur is to be oast upon every naturalized citizen, by re quiring him to present his certificate to have written upon it " voted," with the day and month, to prevent him from vo ting on it again. The eighth section provides that upon cotnp:aiut of-eve oitivris residing in any part of the county, stating, that they are apprehensive of fraud in any election dis u jet, tile Court of Common pleas, or a judge thereof; may appoint two overseers from any part of the county, to be present at such election in any such district, with the privilege of challenging and examin ing all persons who may offer to v,,te. This section, under the guise of preventing fraud, means fraud. The complaint is not to be by citizens of the district in which the contemplated fraud is alleged, but by any outsiders. The overseers are not re quired to be residents of the district in which they are to be present, but they may be taken from any part of the county, and sent to a district where they are not entiled to vole themselves, to vex and hinder those who do live in the district, ' and by their hindrances and delays pre vent the legitimate voters of the district from deposiiing their votes. These over seers are not even to be sworn, so that there may be no restraint or check upon their plans; and, we suppose, if some of the skillful radical managers are sent to strong Democratic precincts, they may not only prevent, the vote from being polled, but may succeed in obstructing some of the voters and arresting them, as they did in the former days of the regis try in the Northern Liberties. The eleventh section undertakes to reg ulate file naturalization laws of the Ifni teil/States, and to direct the judges of the Courts of the State how they shall act under those laws. It declares that no court of this Commonwealth shah natu ralize any alien within ten days preceed ing any general election, or within ten days preceding any presidential elec tion. We cannos speak of this bill otherwise than as infamous, and if passed will be a disgrace to the legislature. Its sole ob ject is to place obstructions in the way of the poor man, and the naturalized citizen voting, as most of them are known to be democrats. If the arbitrary terms of the law are bot complied with the citizen lo loses his right to vote and the election board will have the right to reject it. We believe any such law in this state to be unconstitutional. The first section of the third article of the Constitution de clares the qualifications of an elf ctor. Ile mast be a " white freeman Of twenty one years of age, having resided in this State one year, and in the election district - Where he offers to vote, ten days immedi ately preceding such election, and within two years paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least ten dap before the election." We are only disappointed in the bill that it does `not contain a clause disfranchising all who are not "loyal," as the radical Congress bas done elsewhere. We call . the atten tion of oir readers, of all partici!, to this outrageous bill, sad ask C o give it their ouqualified condeinnatioo t . - News From Washthgton. WASHINGTON, March 31. THE 111CARDLS, In the Supreme Court today it was de cided to postpone furtheargnments in the McCardle case until the next term, which coinmenees on the gist Monday in December in the present year. When the case was Winded to in the Court yesterday, Judge 4rier read the following paper, in ex nation of Lis views on the question OPpostponement Ex parse Win. El. MCCarci le. This case was fully argued in theeginuing of this month. It is a case fa involves not only the liberty atf:ritibts of the appel lant, (McCardle,) bit of millions of our fellow citizens. thik country had a right to expect it wotild receive the immediate and solemn atten9n ) of this Court. By the postponementof this case this Court will subject themselves (whether justly or unjustly) t 9 igio imputation that we have evaded the performance of a duty imposed uponiis by the Constitution, mid waited tor legislative interpoAtion to su persede our-action and relieve us from our responsibility. I can only say "Pudet liaec opprr4ria nobis, t 1 putuis,se dici, a non poi a isse DIVISION OF THE ATLANTIC Getieral Hancock issued a formal order to =day announcing that he has assum ed Oommand of the Division of the Atlan tic; composed of the Department of the 'rakes, embracing the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wiscon sin; the Depart ment of the east emhracino the New England states, New York N. Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the De partment of Washington embracing the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Del aware, excepting post of Fort Delaware attached to the Department of the east. The headquarters are established :st Washington D. C. THE 31A.NUFACTUREES ' BILL. The house to day followed the action of the Senate and adopted the report of the second committee of conterence on the bill to exempt certain manufactures from internal taxation, and it was sent to the President t;o. his approval this afternoon. It was intend'd that it should take effect. April 1. (It, has become a law; but does not af fect articles made and sold in March.) --- --- -............- _ Gov. Geary's Abuse of the Pardoning Power The Clearfield Republican cites an oth er instance of the manner in which the pardoning power is abused by Governor Geary. From that paper we learn that a few weeks ago a man named Paulhamus, in that county, " whose character ie and always has been bad, was proven guilty of the crime of swearing corruptly false to cheat a soldier, who could neither read nor write, out of eleven hundred dollars." ILi was cr.nvicted on the evidence, and committed to prison. But some radical politicians represented the case to the Governor as one of" copperhead persecu tion," and the prisoner was pardoned within five days after sentence, without public notice of application, without any of the docket entries, reasons, evidence, or notice tot he judge or district attorney. This is radical love for the soldier, as well as radical regard for the sanctity of law. The same paper, in contrast with the above instance of executive clemency, says that " in the case of Erhard, who plead guilty of larceny in this county, and who served nine months of his term, and then was dying of consumption, this most consistent Governor required the literal compliance with every one of his rules, and this, too, although, conrt, jury, dis• tuiet attorney, and leading citizens prayed for his release. The reason of this differ ence was, that Erhard was a Democrat, Paulhatnus a republican." The Impeachers. The character, or rather the want of character, of the leading managers of the impeachment, is one of the singular fea tures of the drama which opens today in Washington. Butler and Bingham com bine their peculiar talents to effect a con viction of the President of the United States. Thesetwo impeachers have help. ed to make each other known. Not quite a year ago, Butler formally charged Bingham, on the floor of Congress, with guilty complicity ill ajudiciat murder, per petrated through the prejudiced and has ty action of an ignorant, illegal tribunal. Butler declared, what subsequent devel opments have more fully proved, that Mrs. Surratt was wholly innocent of any connivance at the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Butler went. further. He charg ed Bingham with dishonestly obtaining the comdemnat ion of this innocent woman, by suppressing the testimony that would have shown her innocence. All this ap- pears in the rccord of the Congressional debates for 1867. 13ingham's reply is there too. If he did not cleanse himself, ho most successfully bedaubed Butler, charging him with theft and other kna very too notoriously a part of his ill fame to need to be recalled. The qualities which they thus recognized in each other are now to be jointly used to secure an other unjust. condemnation. —M'Adam, a Tennessee negro, who was recently pardoned out of the State prison, to which he had been sentenced for committing a rape upon his mother in law, is raising a company of negro militia, having been commissioned captain for that purpose by the . " loyal," "reconstruc ted," radical state authorities. —By depriving the President of the means of carrying the tenure of office act into the Supreme Court, and by passing a bill to deprive that Court of jurisdiction, the radical conspirators have- frankly ad mitted the imeostitutionalily of the actg. How the Bads Lost only NM In New limplft). .While the rads are rejoicing over the fact that they have lost only about 800 votes in New Hampshire, Democrats are ." calculating" that if this loss is followed by like losses in Connecticut, it will carry the Democratic majority in that State to nearly 2,000. A Concord correspondent says that to gain their much reduced ma jority in New Hampshire, the radicals re sorted to a systematic bribery heretofore unheard of in that state. In Wof borough a closely contested town; the racal's rul ing price for votes was -from 825 to 75. The Boston Commonwealth, which is un lderstood to be the only organ of Senator Sumner, says that money enough was sent linto New Hampshire to put ten weekly I political j lurnals in every family in the I state. The Commonwealth adds: We confess there was a good deal of nervousness as to the result of the canvass in New Hampshire. Money was freely spent to aid in the result—we try to think legitimately—in paying for speakers, mu sic, ike., - The sums sent directly from this city, by an interested Commit tee, were fearfully large for a state of the size of New Hampshire. Brutal Outrages. Near Knoxville, on Tuesday of last week, a brutal outrage was perpetrated by a negro named Geo. Walker on the person of Mrs. Rogers, a married lady. The lat ter, with her two children, was returning from a visit, when she was accosted by Walker, who first made base proposals to her. On her refusal he knocked the chil dren down, then knocked his victim down, accomplished his purpose and made his escape. He was afterwards arrested and identified by both the lady and children. Outrages of this kind by negroes are be coming alarmingly common through the South. bliss Emily E. Ledbetter, eighteen years old, who lives three miles from At lanta, Ga., visited that, town on Monday. On her return she was h.llowed by a negro named Henry Brown, who, when she had reached a secluded spot on the road, seiz ed and ravished her. He was arrested. O 41• Apr A aar•worn veteran of the t?nion army gets off the following on General Grant : Grant is in the condbion of a boy Who was about to start out in the world, and as he was a I . , reat favorite with his moth er, though a complete simpleton, she gave him this piece of advice : " Now, Torn, keep your mriuth Mbut and people will not know you are a tbol ' Tom, a dutiful boy, remembered the ma ternal advice. Ho had been frem home, however, but a little whi!e, wh e n an in quisitive Yankee commenced asking some questions, and upon his obstinate silence, turned away in disgust, exclaiming, "Bab, he is a fool." Tom went back to his mo ther, and his first words were, "mother, I kept my mouth strut, but they found me wt." —Beast Butler and Judge Bingham, two of the managers in the Grand Im peachment Show, walked into the Senate, we see it stated, arm in arm. A short time ago, duritify, a heated debate in the House, linigham branded Butler as a thiet, and the Beast retorted by calling Bingham a murderer. They both spoke the truth, but now we see the thief and murder arm in arm. God cave the Commonwealth. —The telegraph brings intelligence of disturbances in France. Knurls are said to have; taken place at Bordeaux, and se ditious placards have made their appear ance at l'itris Lyons, Marseilles. and Rheimq. In other portions of the king dom indications of discontent hare been observed. —The statement of the condition of the public debt at this date will not he ready before Monday next. It is learned at the Treasury Department that there will be an increase in the amount of the debt over the statement issued last month. The re ceipts from internal revenue have been very small for several weeks, whilst the expenses of the gevernment, especially of that branch presided over by Stanton, have been unusual y heavy. —The Impeachers committed a great blunder in not embodying in their indict ment against the President a "count" for calling Forney a "dead duck." We see it stated that this "defunct drake, is offen ded at their neglect and oversight. —ln a negro prayer meeting at Peters burg, Va., acolored mother in Israel knelt to lead in prayer, thereby exposing her skirts, when theartiole watt recognized by one of the sisters as being. her.own right ful property and a scene not entirely de votional ensued. —The spring elections show'untnistalc able that. the Democracy will carry the State by a very heavy majority next Radicalism has everywhere fallen greatly below par. , CAUTION I In omit changeable climate, coughs, colds, and diseases of the throat., lungs and chest will always prevail. Cru el consumption will claim its victims.—' These diseases, if attended loin time, can be arrested and cnaed. The remedy is Dr. %Vistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry. —ln a late number of the Cincinnati Commercial, a radical journal, welind the following specimen of radical love of a free ballot, and , the - rightsofthefieldiera. That paper says : Clay County, Missouri, had voting population of 2 500 before the war. A roll regiment of Ilreee entered thy Federal service' and went through the entire en:m ete. and what was left of them came home at the close of it. Therese° now about 8.060 voters in the county. At the last election two hundred and flfty, were allowed to exercise the right of suffrage, under this test oath and reftlett7 Lowe. The rest, 2,154, were excluded 's -reb els, though tnadye of them had been ailtftwinich the war on the Union aide.. And the bolter the ithe is that the individtml who sat in judgment upon 'the !malty of others, and excluded the 4,750 as disloyal, was himself. violent secessionist at the out break of the war. As la now, however, an 'meet witilcal: —Forty six patients have beta and sad dleelsrvit mna the giagUmtoa Inebriate Asylum alas* Dr. Dar, ameagesseet. —By hist amounted , the Eltatelaetrriat• Asylum at Binghantton,New York, there had been applications Iron thirty ulna clergynisti,elght fudgea.34oterchanta WS physicians, 240 gentlemen, and 1,300 rich mews daughters. —A gang of Vicksburg negroes recently exhumed bodies from the Jewish graveyards at tbat place and cut of the Ilugere of the corpses for the see° of the rings they wore. isasserted here this evening upon what is eel sidered reliable authority, that the radicals exp ended over two millions of dollars In carrying New amp. attire. —A. A. Bradley, the .Boston negro is circulating through Georgia the following incendiary g ra circular, Causin consideble excitement : " Notice I AU ba d m e n of the city of Savannah, who now threaten the ivesof the tattlers and notatneves of the Republican party, and Preeld'ents and members of the Union leaps of dmenca. if you strike a blow the man, or met, ow be toilowed and the house in which he, or they, take shelter will be burned to the ground. Take heed I Mark well I Members of the Union rally t tally I rally For God, Life and Liberty." —Yesterday In the Virginia Convention . the resole. hone inquiring loco thecanduct of Judge Underwood were called up. fie made a statement denying having offered any bribe to the executive Committ3 e, to be paid by Sprague, if they tarared 'base for President. The resolutions were then indeffnithlyi postponed_ ayes 50; noes 17. Mr. flawkburet. the Chairman of the executive rommittee, rose afterwards and reline:l4 his published statements. The Philadelphia LEDoE pulilishes a letter written by Gov. Andrew. of Massachusetts three days before his death. in which, speaking of the President, he says: Cungvess ought to have left him free to select bit cabinet. and to hove him held responsible. as the coon. try would have done, for its composition." The people have the same opinion. Thlcusiovo, Va., Man The United States grand Jury has found a new In. dletment against Jefferson Davis. It covets Alt; gee. and details all his alleged offenses since the oyes. Ing of the rebellion. Arkansas—Seventeen Days of Fraud. Mma