ailtstrugti &Into WEDNESDAY, 31.8:E L TCH. 4, 1886 "nut LAW is binding on me, Consti tution or not, until set aide by tbe II aence, One month ago, General GILAXT em bodied the true theory of the Federal Constitution, and the fundamental duty of patriotism. It was the great troth which invigorated and sustained the Rohm arms from Fort Sumter to Ap pomatoi, and which, as we thought, was nalliciently and forever - windiest. d in the closing victories of 'B5. = Submission to the constituted authoEty, acquiescence ito all legally cue ed laws, the right and the correlative duty of appeal to the only constitoUonal arbitrament of the judiciary,—these plain, primary oblige lieu of each good citizen were never more clearly conceived, or expressed with more plain and direct simplicity, than in those words of Gee. Graf. Had the South accepted that truth 1861, there would have it-en no sece ion, no rehellion t ne war, and no necessity for reconstruction. Had the Smith, last yesr, interlarded either by traitors In and out of cilia., or by the _terrible power for mischief which it has again been able to wield through Artintaw Jonsson -President by virtue el an assassination —consented to receive this simple truth 1 u its political guide, the ten States Would ere this have 'regained all their practical relations, reconstruction would have been complex in restoration and the union of thirtyarven States, once more bound. together upon the broad and hieing basis of Liberty, Jus tice and the Constitution ea it is, would have entered upon the year 180.4 stand. lag before the world the freest, the most prosperous, the most powerful and the most enduring republic of all time. And, now, let us choir that we, the loyal citizens of the Union, accept and recognize in this simple truth the pledge of our own obedience to', the written law, the plainest and moil imperative duty of the hone. Disregard that truth, emulate the bad example of that bad run whOm the "People are about to hurl down from the high place he bunbused, and the days of- the Republic are num bered. Accept it, act upon it , each and every citizen who loves his country, and this male, which now seems so lull of peril, will be stripped of all its terrors, the laws will have universal obedience, and the country will soon emerge from all peril and with an unclouded future. In hoe myna eirienausf TEE ern= of the prom, of both pu ttee, touching . the present matter of im peachnient, i s under the judgment of our rmdcra this morning, in the ex tracts- which we hart collated from „leading journals. The Repuhllean pa pers coincide, as may be scan, with re markable unanimity, In the opinions whichhe Oaxxxrz ms almdy expreu ed. On the other hand, it is main- Mined Eby . Demeentic jotouals, as by . lifessrs. Woodward, EAridge, Brooks and other . - Democratic repre sentatires 'in debate, lit, that the I rrealdent pasiesses the right to judge of the conmitetionality of any law, exe- exiting it, or disobeying it accordingly; t 2d, that en adverse judgment upon the validity of the Tenure-of-efilw Low, if I rendered at any time prior to the final 1 action of the Court of Inpearrnent, I would have the effxt -to acquit the recusant Executive of all le- I gal • guilt or official delinqunecy. I The true issue, we scarcely, need i , repeat, is upon the first of those 'pillar the second le entirely immaterial, since no judicial decision—were it prob able or possible that ouch migot bo ret dered—can, now or hereafter, anymore than in the past, clothe the . President, with the solely judicial prerogative, vim of ;announcing upon the con stitutionality' of laws, by, Mau lying him in the extra oonstitu• . Bonet function which he has risked so Muth In usuming. Tne finding of hiss judges. upon the first point, covering u it does not only the latest offense, but abut his two years of both open anti se cret opposition to the congressional poi sley ofloysl reconstruction in the rebel ar l , Staten, willhave an ple effect - for all the purposes of loyalty and to meet all requirimacts far the pu lie weal. THE House Impeachment Committee have not 'yet completct their prepara tion - oflthe articles whir+ they were in structed todraw op, but , probably May beprepared to report to-day.. The mam ba and tenor of the /tea which they may piesenfire, of co , entirely cm- I t known, isnd ruiners purporting to giro the sutnance of this report in advance, ore merely: Sensational and entitled to no credit. Oze of these romot?, which huu =greet - probability than rests 11 to the effect that the Como:Mb:a Will ca ll= their charges end speciflations to llii - the apt of - in attempt- Um Ito gain politizion of the I War—Office, - and disregardieg the law to the contrary. This; if correct, takes the offender upon his own ground, and pole hire at once upon Ids detente in Om alleged briaii dity of the law. When ha - nidertika to establish that defense family by fora of the argument of come sal, end zusinstsiced by competent - and timely judicial declare:9;lm may begin to- realize exact positron. The 400urtof frapachment takes cognizance only of 'fats,. of enacted laws and of their istablktai judicial interpretation& And any defenseoutaide of these will be lux primary - meetings to be held thrtaighOut the oirmity,m-itorrow, for_ the nuiptiniorelecting delegates to ; he - Republi'cni Convention, which will as- I serublinon !Smky next, Mould be at; tended by . e7ary member of the party.- The important busbiese to be transacted by the Conventloi on Monday demsnes that none other Run able, Et and late* gent delegates be sent there to represent the voters of the various 'districts,- and 'we trait not a single Republican will re . main away. from the primary elution. Aside from the selection of delegates the oters ire requested to give ekpree liOn their' Metimenti . regarding the proposed change in the manner of snak ing nominations in Allegheny comity. EleeWhere we publish - the call. of the Union -Executive - Committee- for- the Convention, which designates the boars for the primer, elections to take place in the alit:meat wards; boroughs and townships. • - " Tax Home haling 4:crammed In. the Senate amendments to the supplemen tary reconstruction bill, thls halt gone to the 'President for his action, and Mr. lontrnme trill signally, the possibly last tours of his adratenstration by inoilter, veto, of wtlch it need only besaid in advailen that Lis ,well known role la be austained to the lag. The main fea— ture of the new bill is that which -sub,. ethane; %simple majority of the votes ,feet fey the present requirementof a majority of thevegistraticin, In the .11C cepteneeSouthern by any Sou t her n Sere of its new Ottostitetion. Orf the day of kir. Elrareron's Instatennent in tho War office by the Pen, ate, be prepared a letter of resignation, Intending; aftcr - .three or _four days of quiet riugisision of the affix, to forward tbia letter to the President: That , it was not se' sent war solely In eons/ Atom of the adiyely hostile suited° which the - President instantly assumed, and which in effect forbade the Secretary to make any personal eoneess one wbstever. • - Tna, Titan Ilsanoen Stu. 'Lae gone to a.bomzolttee . Conference tom the two Holten io little the disagreements The Committee Will hold its Ant seenloo 4 .Tnewlety next. VOLUME THE DUE CoUNSE or LAW The Gres, Republic has lived for eighty years. Front its feeble begin nings, it has grown, year after year, with& steady progress in popreation, In territory, in wealth, and in all the mate rial elements of sovereign greatness, mall our generation finds it ranking as high as the highest among the diet-rate powers of Christendom. 'The Inherent elementa of Its strength, its constitnUonal, vital forma have sustained it triumphantly through several foreign wars and ban brought it safely ott of an intestine re bellion, the last and severest trial of all, with that vital force unimpaired, with its physical vigor renewed sad Increased, and with s final and absolute redemp tion from the one vicunas TM formida ble weakness of its birth, To-day; our Republic stands, before the world, more than ever able to defy foreign agaves dons and to maintain not - only its Polit ical independence, but all the rights and the responsibilltlea of a sovereign Stitte. All this we owe to the wisdom of our fathers, to the simplicity and parity of the popular institutions which they founded, to. the efficient and skilfully practical workings of the social and municipal regulations which they ,stab. tithed, to the patriotism and intelligence which has ever taught our citizens to respect the law, and to abide by the. constituted authorities, and, more than all, let us lay with reverent gratitude, to the Divine blessing which, through all seeming prosperity or adversity, Las guided our nation to its deliverance from the thraldom of -errorand injustice, and blotted out forever the last trace of hu man slavery. And now, at list, for the first time in our history as a people, we are about to I avail ourselves of that far-reaching wit- dom of the lathers which provided for the nation the nay to reach and punish a delinquent Mitt llsgistute, whose trial offeaces against the public weal is to be commenced and prosecuted to its e after the forms and in the mode which they prescribed. The Republic' .has lied for nearly a century in the trust that the constitn. tienal provisions ter an iropeachnue, of its highest officer might, for all time, continue the mitre shadow of-a pos.tmli ty, never to be enforced as en tromedi. ate relief from en imminent public dan ger. The representatives of the people fled that the President is utility of high misdemeanors and, taking recourse to ' I the fandamentel law so long since pout. lied in that behalf, have impeached him. The law is clear. Re has boldly awl flagrantly offended it. The penalties prescribed by the law itself for any di*. reurd of its terms, are equally dear and puitite, so that no convicted often= d:r need hope to escape them. The Constitution expressly provides the tri bunal before which he shall be tried. Thu mode of inquest into all criminal allegations, the manner of their formal embodiment u charges, tie presentation of these to the Octet of Impeachment. end the regular course of proceedings upon the Anal luring, are also adequate ly and minutely prescribed. Teals con. tultrulonal tribunal the people have now ordered that the offender shall be remit ted for a constitutional trial, under all the constitutional forms. It will be the province of that tribunal, under duo ad visement, to decide upon tits truth at the charges or the sufficiency of the defense. It will net be within the province of that tribunal to decide upon the merits of his plea of the inherent unconstitu tionality of any law, unless that plea be supported by the decision of some coin potent indicial authority rendered prior to the alleged offence. Nor if, before the Court of Impeachment shell come to a final judgment, this qttestionof the in herent validity of any law which he has defied, should be decided adversely by any court of competent authority, and In ac cordance with the avowed opinions of the offender then under trial, would that fact render Ids. offence any the leas fla grant, or avail him is udtigsticut of his sentence, if fone4 guilty. llor, though seemingly but technical, his offence would, upon conviction, still stand as fatal, the crime of lama majadatii, the highest rouble offense against the pub lic Wan and the sentence of his Jades/ inlet make it known to all citizens, the highest and the lowest, - tbst no one man, be he President, no body of mem though, it haves political or municipal/or:paha, dm,. shall hereafter. dareto usurp the sole province of the Judiciary by snow lag to pronounce upon those high con satutional questions which belong only to the Jadicial preens:arm. - • - The judgment of the Court of Im peachment will discharge the 'President sf proved innocent, bat If he be found guilty will =mint him as a violater or the Constinotion and the Law, aim will inflict a sentence commensurate with his edam - . Not awe Antrasw ..lowesos, President of the - United States, studl with impunity arrogate to unser the interpretation of those laws which it is his first dirty's+ a ettises to obey; and, which he is sworn and chastest as Preti• dent to execute. AMISS:A Jaassoxalrezdy proposes is some sort, clement kb (Ira instance by proceedings under it gni warrant*, or at instance!iftlie people actiegthrough an application in behalf If their repre- [ sentaUm, to refer the constitntlemal question to the Court and to take its apish:di thereap:m. He is too Lae. Ha ha l, in his own mad folly, been blind to his own opportunbles. The golden me. mant [ for him has gone by, and forever. His hour was when the Berate lawfully restored t'io War Secretary to his office. Had the President the; icqubsdnit presently faits action, proceeded, for his own_ ultimate _relief from his fancied [ grlevanau to mug the Diener um to b 3 made and submitted far judicial code!- , mai, he would him been acting whe t ly, patriotically and with tke hearty consent-of the people of , all par. ties. But, if he saw • this, he fail ed 'to improve the opportunity. He turned his tack upon the lawful remedy, and Ling himself dedently against the strength .of the people,. And notelet breadth oilengttt ot sa pipets judicial luterpratstien decisting the inrslidity of the law witch - he has defied can came this' man's arbitrary amimption of , Paler, or lasses t'he magultUde of his' o ffense. For bim, all the men that he L the atetEsecetlee, and fin all of us' -who would be loyal duress,: the_ latter of the law as enacted shall ever, "con stitution or not, be held %Wins until set aside by the proper tribunal" • We repeat that the ease i< a simple one. The tad Constitution deal abundantly with IL To the lawful ['tribunal, it Is to be remitted by, the pen `Pie, aid the people, from the Lunt to the highest, from President to ploughman, of all sections. end of all parthre, must and will abide by the result. In that ['obedience will be - Lsw,' Order, Patriot ' ism and Peace. In reitsitice would be Rebellion, to be swiftly and sternly Panther) nor; lib now too late to let this grave „matter *u of by aiding a cam for jitliW bfterlifttiot l o ll .. .Wo repeat that no amount of such. interim talon; be it which way ft' might, can lessenthe offense of hint who has dazed beforehand to amp in his awlyipertati thosolodide! inoctions, to disregard his oath , u the Execatireotrid of his own' ravolutionary and despotic will, to do clare what laws bole:Wm will not it the President, who is -bound to obey On the linzabled of es, sad • who Is sworn to =Me as the highest of in, A F 7/ 1. 2 t_ .1 To -7 1 C — K IN id TN7 IT c i .L3 u ;it Gil wra-i4 7x_. the embodiment of our power. may 41 , this with Impunity, much more might any private eitiwn refuse a simple obe dience to Buell laws as he may find dii teeteful to his opinions or unfriendly to his persomd interests. The representa tives of the people have determined to uphold the power which the people have committed to the legislative branch' of the 'government. They will, further, not flinch from their no: late high and solemn duty to protect and Moat:cats the Supreme Judiciary of the nation from each dangerous and revolutionary en croachments by the Executive upon', its constitutional prerogative+ Of the three great divisions of our Ooremtment, two stand to day squally assailed by 'the The defense of both has been wisely entrusted by the people to one of them . ,•with ample powers in law and in fact. And so because this offender, is our Chief Magistrate, our sworn 'Execu tive, we ahall make of ills high offence and as Just punishment a perpetual ex ample, that Lovelace, far all time, IS may be known that no citizen stands so high that the law cannot rtsch I.lm, or en low that the hat: till nc pint:et him. In the interest of of la:Mesa prosperity, of alat repose foe every ele ment of the pub& welfare which the people need and moat have, we urge upon the National Legislature this speediest performance of its deuce. And if im peachment results in eon v ictma, wet shell Cod that our representatives have crap pled .with and finally overthrown that man who, liaV7B believe, is and hen been, for every hoer of his Chief liegleire'Fr. the Lead and front and life ofa deep-laid and continuous plot against the Union and Its law,. Let them vindicate at ones the law which he defies and the Constitution which ho hen trampled upon, by "Omitting him to all their ob ligations, and, if guilty, to every tittle of their penalties! ME. jOHNsOIe , PRESENT wraTtri. We concur fully In the opinion ex pressed by Republican journals that it would! be inexpedient and unwise to raise • qustion now as to the legal tight of the President to continue in the discharge of his Executive functions during the pendency of the proceedings for his impeachment. Thatsuch agues don exists was manifest is the Intro duction to Congress, Rome weeks since, of a bill which proposed to suspand,l by expilcdt enactment, the incumbent of Say high Civil office while under such trial. That sleeps quietly in a Committee room, and whatever of expediency or propriety its enactment heretofore might have had, its passage at this juncture is, for ObTitialll reasons, not wisely to be thong/Ito!. On all previous occasions of impeach. ment[befere the Senate, cases some six or scrl in number, it is known that in each instance the alleged offender MX, in point ! of fact, abstained from the exer cise of his cads' fanatic= while tie Prootl -Were pending. In u i . but one of those cases, th at of -13 re y, Senator from Tennessee, Im peached in Il'7l forcompluity in a treas onable intrigue with Great Britain, ins the quesiion raised of suspension from ofilos pending trial. In that cue the Et:use demanded the segnestration of the offender from his rest in the Senate and the &cued wu granted by the Sen ate is Its vote of the Mae day, ordering Mr. j Mount' into the custody of its MuSenger, from which he wu only re-, leamd upon diing adequate securities for Ids appearance at trial. Mid, on the hest diky, the Senate expelled him abso lute* from Ids seat, aa "having been guilty of a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public trout and duty as a Senator." It is to be &sure. ed that this expulsion wee prior to the sittlagof the Court of Impeachment upon his etre. Ifo one would deny that the Be= t e, constituting the entire body of the Impeachinent tribunal in the awe of arraignment of any civil cilium below the grade of the Chief Xagistrate, has ample authority, under the preced ent, to take steps for wearing the it tenderest of the accued by the usual teethed of ordering him into mistody. It iirequally evident that the Sento, as a Serum, had the naked right tb pee- Naga the case of Mr. Bronx:, ai a Bee atm; by summarily declaring his Wit to be established and expelling him from its body. Why the same Senate should subsequently loomed, as It did, with what had then become a mere formality —trie re-hearing of the case as an let peachmeniatribanal with a finding 'of mdity—hu not been vary satisfactorily explained. I The Provident of the 111ii•ed Ettate is now to be on trial. Fin' his cue, sad 1 for inch cue alone, the Constitution adde the Chief Janice to the body of his triers, and to preside over the inquest. And it may be safe to deny that any lea authority than that of the fully and legally constituted tribunal to which the charges against Mr. Jamison are !Many to be remitted, could legally take other order, in the way of egellmlnuy process, dun the "summons" which is already expressly zegnineL The impolicy, not to u s e stronger language, of raising any rineetion as to the President's °Metal state, pending the trial, Is quite appa rent and the techoical difficulties sad onliarmasnients which would Weed its decision. That it is unnecateary, L TOY generally admitted by iatelligent and local citizens. TM pending proceedings will be con ducted to • speedy conclusion, and ; In the meantime the accused is powerless for any open and forcible resiatance to ' the Constitutional authority of the Court of Imptmcluirent, while the simple pen- ' deny of the trial itself disenns him of the moral power and of Moot of the cfflebd influence which he his until now so grossly and recklessly abased it is useless to hope that this man will • follOve the example of his predecese rs under arraignment berme the highest court Minn to our laws by forbearing the Mterinediste nerds* of any of his ficlM thaticaut. It most be-admitted that his past record, in the way of both perional and official delicacy and digni ty, levee no encouragement for that hem . Let Mu stand, the shadow of a Chief Magistrate, until the analog of thertourt shall close , this painful nano is OM. national history 1 NATIONAL COAT/CATION . of refiners and dealers; in petroleum has been called. to meet at rittaburgh on the 4th dsy of Much next. 'the tall emanates from thit'etiolennt Alsoeiation of this city, Mk Is at the instanot of the bade .gen. Iy in all parts of the country. Ques tions of much importance to the Interests of renews and dealers an oil will be con sidered by the Onsventiou, and it Is hoPed and expected that the entire trade, which has now become m vast in its iresources and commercial inflame, will be fully and ably represented in its Tux London Stamford basing,' ,be , sides • lingering fancy for rebel loan; a deenind grudge, based on Alabama sod Persian questions, lumina America, this bids farewell to Mr. C. P. Adams, a man who would command respect, and praise OTEllfrota s metal enemy: a*, It Mr Adams is going heck to America, he takes our good wishes with Min. Amidst the crowd of empty tams, emptier thinkers, would.be statesmen, sad liali.brad politicians, who seem now to be having It all their own way In the .North and „Bomb,' Mr. Adams will stand preeminent Pleas prPtesPa, 61 vine not only of hie birth and superior Malian, but Dr his advan tage In all thennallnea which make man htfully mists over their fellowcr = LIZZIEM The veteran has fallen. Full of year., of services and of honors, ho yesterday tell asleep with his fathers, at his resi dence in'Allegheny. Born upon the soot where he died, December 17th, 1783, he was the first nude of Anglo Saxon parentage who had his nativity west of the Ohio river. That vast development of population, of wealth, and of manifold improvement, which now exists between the Allegheny range and the l'acitlc coat, was all wrought out substantially in his life time, and under his eyes. .It is not au exaggeration to affirm that's° wonderful a spectacular enchantment was never before, in all the cycles of civilisation, presented to the oontemplation of a mos. tel. The companions of his early years were the children of white men of the border and of the Indi •s. Several times his father and th- family were driven from the log het in which they abode, aid which occapie pi 4.ml:A stately mansion, Into que:no, Watch stands an start. natal, degraded from attune, ocznproloy by an humble ouch.' oonrso, big- opportnultle• for e warp lintasd. Ho learn mo tutrua than from art. Sallow lum to • 11 d. or oration from d with o iicaroca physical ccnititutio , with o vigorous end analytical under amnding, ho grew early in man- I hood into consptcully and useful nms. Prominent in pilvnto and public entrap:lms, Le was ideatified not only with the growth and expansion of Lis Entice city, of which ho was the tut Mayor, but became influential in broader fields of enterprise, at the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company, which received most important benefits from his experience and jatignitinL He was not only a clear-headed business man and general thinker, but at one period was warmly enlisted in public concerns. Intelli• gent in such matters much beyond the ordinary ran of busineu persons, he acquired facility in composition and became a pungent and lucid newspaper writer. Nor did the fire of his mind or his force and exactness of expression abate with the accumulated infirmities of old age. During the present month he called upon as with an article, writ tan with all the trenchance which char ecterised hh mantra manhood, and de sired itepubllcation. It was noon a mat ter of municipal consequence. In the course of the coact:radon. that ensued. ho remarked that the first article he wrote for the Gaxerra was published in 11303. We may add, his last article f.sr these columns appeared in Pebrtuiri, IS6& The wide 'pan. of sixty-three years separated Ids first literary effort from Ids hut. He is gone. One of the old land marks Is removed. A link test con nected the present with the put, his been broken end cannot be replaced. Ile bee rude his march with the great procession that went before lilac He cannot be lamented as one who falls in aild.u.rear, with all his usefulness cut short. A. life protracted beyond the com mon lot, tilled with ICLITitieS, crowned with abundant compensation', end lengthened oat Into serene and honored ,ld age, bass closet peacefully as the sun descend' to rut In the bowel of the west ern ocean. WEITEUN Nary BLICANI Cita EMINCY Ant) TA'S 4TION. The Republicans of lellaoa, in their tate Conte:awn last week, resolved eith entire unazisaity, that ell property should bear alas% proportion of the Dar den 'of taxation; that the public debt should be honestly met, and that all bonds ehould be paid In legal-tenacrs, or greenbacks, except when en express contract has proveled otherwise, and with due regard to the proper volume o the currency. They also resolved spinet contrition, and for the supply of the daddy:lcy of legal•tender currency to the extent rtquired by the business wants of the country. The Republicans of Ohio will hold .their State Convention on the eth of Ruch, when the same questions wit: come up for consideration, sad, it is not unlikely, will be met by limiter mole dons. At the primary meeting. for ep• pointment of delegates In ma.y of the Ohio cot:tette; as well as in the editorial, of not a few of the local Republican journals, special attention has been already given to the subject. In Logan county, for example, the resolutions, drawn IV by Attorney General WEST, deprecate every form of repudiation, fever the eubstibution for the present public obligations of "another clue or securi ties which 'hall be subject to their equal 'proportion of the public burden," and advoceting a supply of currency adequate to the wants of the country, which, “to the extent consistent with its express stipolattons, should be made re. xlvable as coin, alike on account 01 private dues and public obligations." While the expression of opinion hat In nearly all cues been equally favora ble to the poeition taken in Indiana, we notice among a few of our Ohio ex changes a decidedly spirited opeasitiot to what is denounced as an endorsement of the Pendlstonista theory. But the ediocates ef no contraction, of equalised taxation and of the redemption of the Five Twenties In legal•tenden, under proper regulations as required by the in tenets of business, will be materl ally atrengtirsed by the mosso( Gen. 'Rutty, whose large majority in the late special election in the VIIIth COOrtat. atonal District is admitted to have been In put, it not wholly, dire to his almlia position on these questions.. Then indications chow the strong probability that the Onio Republicans will Join their Indiana brethren on 'these questions. In both of those States these questions Uve been made for oh dons rpuons leading topics for popular dismission of late, and It Is our own duty is journalists 42 note the posiion to which our friends In those States are evidently tending. MIL BIUMMAN yesterday reported from the Finance Committee of the Sen. ate an amended bill providing for the funding of the national debt. In TICW of the tide of public opinion setting in against the discharge of the obligations of the Government In gold, Ifr." NAM'S plan of redemption will prove popular sad Sod favor with many Democrats and Itepubileins. He claims, that the public faith would not be weakened, inasmuch as every 'dollar of debt wilt be paid with interest, in that sort of money which n acknowledged by all classes as the currency of the oountry. Be believes iSmetuing must be done to lighten the burdens left by the war to we•gb down Industrial inter cep, and, while his bill does not contemplate injustice to -- the bondholder so mach as justice to the people, he urges that ft should be favorably acted upon by Congress. Ho takes the ground that the obligations entered into In the name of the Government by its ellicials, while Congress was not in session, are not binding—the Government not being re sponsible for the representation of its agents—and.that to redeem dve-twenties In any currency butthat in which they were bought, would . prove fatal to every commercial and fluancial interest, de preciating public securities and pressing with tenfold inconvenience the muses of the people. - PYITSBITIZGI WhiiNESDAY. MARCH 4, 1868 A CASE IN POIN OF NE- I= An impregnable ground upon which It is cloimed that negroes in the South ehould have the right of tut:tram I. that they stood loy at to the di; of the free against their traitorous masters in the late rebellion, and for this reason should have power to preeerie what they helped to defend. They are now constitution ally free, but their freedom will ho but a mockery if not allowed to protect it by the The following Virginia statut4 ef Oen). ber, 1783, found in fienuing's &Mutual Lsrge, Vol. xl, nage 309, needs no com ment. Intelligent readers can flt It to more than one of the events of the last seven yearn. ti "WnsintAs, It bath been reprifwented li , to the present Ger eral ' Assemb ly that during the course of the war ( 1 the Revolution) many persons in th State had mitred their slaves to enlist I tier• lain regimente, or corir, raised Within the game, having tendered such Slaves to the bilkers appointed to recruit forces within the State as suestitntes for free IMM persons,. whose lot or duty it was to nerve in Inch regiments or corps, it the same time representing to aubh redrait— lag officers that the slaves so enlisted by their direction and concurrence, Were free; and it further. appearing to 'We Assembly lh.t, on the expiration of the term of enlistment of such slaves, tdocir former owners have attempted &gal* to force them to return to a state of selivls trit:, contrary to the principles of justice end to their own solemn promise. And whereto, it appears Jost and reams/Mies that all persons counted as - aforesaid, who have faithtully served agreeable to the terms of their enlistment, and have thereby, of coarse, contributed toward* the establishment of American Liberty and Independence, should enjoy the blessings of freedom gals toward tor their toils MA labors, "Be it therefore enaAted, That ouch and every stave who served as aforesaid, shall, from aid after the puling of this Act, bo folly and completely emancipa• led, and shall be held and deemed free: and the Attorney General of the Com— mouwexith is hereby required to cue is forma pouperis for the freedom of era, such person, end if (cued - entitled to treedom *jury shall be empanelled to easels his damages. art Da i mon• THE CRAW YURI/ COUNTY 15111- 1123 ♦n effort will be made In the ap• proaching Republican Convention to change the present delegate system, of nominating State and County officers, and to adopt what is known as the "Crawford County Systeut"—that is, to nominate by the popular vote cast at primary meetings throughout the county. In a sparsely populated county that system may . do very-well, but in oar county, with its two cities and unmet• nos boroughs, densely populated; it Is easy to foresee the result of adopting it We hays had Jest cause to complain of t ee action of our Lelegstes, but faulty a* th«Ly may prove, the proposed change wilt ho worse. How easy would It be for as tutrola cipled candldate to steam control of a leer wards and boroughs, and with the large number of votes that could he itt socA an diet-gum, out run say ~ , ppoaag candidate At present the rwal districts dad it theacult to make that:wolves felt la con vention, an/ if this popular vote system !POs d. opt ci they may at once trld faro• wed to all future notainatmas. All they heed do will be "go it tilled" for the :wadi:lee, or Wit the puty Duzdieatlone oho join with ...itee other caghe4wios. ley change will be for the worse, and we cenuot afford to "swop, horses" so m. thfle. X. EDIT3RI Gazyrre: Ai there proposition before the people of dile !heny canary to change the' mode of :slaking nomination, for the avetblican at! t bare it ante doubt is say r.lad bat theta will be" home change easte by the next Convention, se the parr. ii!e are heenily disgutied with the pres. . nt eiriegate syatcus, atter viewing tbe "Crawtord C-arty System," as you ,astalivhcil on Saturday, the 22.1 Instant, I think it h the very thing we want, ea ,ler tbe following mill/aloes for this Letenty, Let the Erectelre Committee Mel le the county, ci already rarnammicleol Sy .Fact, into three tllStrittll, esy Pittehursh, Aliegheny, two, and the meth Mile if livers the land dietrict; each district be emillied to lira member. of Assem ily and one County Commissioner. As we only elect one County Com• ,nitaioner each year, lei the Committee .n lie call for the election devises:a ir Web dlsi rice is eatttled to the nominee. Under this ZI711:1/CO3eta let the voters 01 .acs &miles elect by popular vote their 0110 candidatm (or those seises, zed all .her Mitosis for nomination to be toted ?or by all of the tom of the coos y. Wtachever of the districts is entitled to the Comity Commtsalonar, lot them nominite him, by popular vote; nooe ~there voting, bat the voters of that dis• trict Under this arrangement, 1 think, .11 will he lately represeuted according to ite number of voters, and will glee tat nisi:eon to ell, and certaluly will , be • .teat Improvement over the present 4,113712 t. A MINIMS 07 TWO CO lIIIITTEL Method of tomeSmoot. In the United States, thaimpeachnunt of the President la without precedent. Only once, in 1843, an attempt was nude epithet President Tyler, but it failed. There have, however, been see end cure of the impeachment of other civil effitxra. In 1797, William Blanca, Senator from Tennessee, wari Impeach ed for haying intrigued to transfer New Odessa to Oreat Britain ; in 1803, John Pickering, Jostles of the District Court of the Dietrict of New Hampshire, wee impeached ea four charges, one of which alleged that be tees a man of loose ater els and Intemperate habits; in 1805, the impeachment of Samuel Cnoae as Aa somata Justice of the Supreme Court 01. :be United States, was the cause of treat public excitement; In 1830, James Peck, 'odes of the District Court fur the District of Miasourl, was Im peached misdemeanor& The latest rases are thole - of Judge Warm. of Tense, who was Impeached in 1857, and of Judge Wes. 11. Humphrey' of Ultimate°, who in 1883 wee impeached for complicity in tea Balaton. All these oibres constitute precedents for the impeachment of the President, which will bo conducted to a similar mariner, except that at the trial of the President, the Chief Justifx of the Supreme Court' of the Un.ted States must preside. The main points In the procedure against the President will, therefore, be as fol. lows; A. committee apnointed by the House will sower before the bar of the Senate and officially announce the resolution or impeachment.. The President _the Snows will appoint a Select Conimittee to bear the report of the Committee of the Rouse. A report will then be male by the Semite Committee to the &netts The Senate will take action, and its .11C• don wIJ be officially communleated to the Rouse. The Speaker will appoint a Board of Idanaacre to conduct the lin. enactment; they will carry to the Sen ate the articles of impeachment. The action of the House will be read to the Senate; which then appoints the time when it will "resolve itself into a Court of Impeachment." . Bich Senator takes the oath that he will do impartial justice. The Board of Managers of the House be% leg Introduced to the bar of the Court, formally present the articles of impeach u ent. A enamel:ate leaned to the party accused to aaswer the uncles of Mu, peachment, fixing the day returnable, which is served at least ten days before the return thereof. The day of the trial having arrived, the House, resolving itself into Committee' of the Whole, proceeds la a body to the ;Senate Chamber, and ad mitted. The return %read by the Sec retary of the Senate. Arrangements are then made for the summoning of wit nevus - The trial being completed, each article is read by the Secretary, and the roll called, when each Senator answers "Guilty" or Not Guilty," tero.thirds biting required to declare the accused guilty. The decision is given, and nom. municated to the accused. If found guilty, the President will from that mo. meat be deprived of has cilia. - The trial of President Johnson will . _ rani In history ri nse of the most celo• braced state tnals of all thane. Rarely has the world watched the proceedings of a legislative body with so intense en interest as it will watch the action of Cougress In this impeactunent ca c, and the decision of the Senate, whatever it may be, will make a profound impres sion throughout the Tribune. 122111:12 t . Cupid, If stnryine letende ten aright, Ones fram'd . rich !Mitt of ilslit. A chalice o'er love , kind nett fl me, ne Aged, And to It nectar and , amino. , tnisNlt With these the magic dews which evening MiM!MEMI . vrings4 E nob tender pledge of sacred twat beJoined. Zech gentle plesstire of tat. unsp3tted mind— Dn.T-Orostne, vs boss that. with sportive Ho ge glow. And Hop., the themeless pars:alto of Woe. The eyeless Checolst heard the groans rise. The neatly hubbled In sighs, heroes sound* transprO, as when the eeam• or'd dove Nene the soft merte , ringorresnonstTe love. The fetched work might t err Vainly' blase, And %Ilse* , was the precious 00UttrOunIr9 aama• With half, the Gad b{r Cyprlas nether bled. A.D.4 breattiklon Sue. loTellerllps the rest. FROM THE SOUTH —Prumnortia scarlet fervor are troubling Ifissouril —Kentucky papers are troubled shout the dullness et the mule trade. —The Richmond Enquirsr delights In milling Hunnicutt millspsed dems goguntl_ —Bishop (Jarred, of CoYington, By., is so 111 that but little hopes are enter tained of his recovery. —The Georgia GonienUon has left the question of eligibility if neicroes: to caw to the State Legislature. --Bishop Martin is hard at work raiz lug fonds to proceed with the building of the cathedral at Natchitoches, Li. . „... .... _ . Gen, liO.Dowoll McCook to the commends rt ~ the sub-district of rens. His headquerters ere at Browns. yule. —Mrs. James PreWIEI, of Mercer, Ky., has rno off with Mr. D. d Daps. Mr.. Prewitt is not going off to dud either of them. —Peas and potatoes am being planted in Georgia, a fact ' , Which must be espec• tally pleasant to Wm liners of those vegetables. —Bears are very plcaty to Tana, A catty of hunters started out from Bran ham and so two days killed stibcars to Breton's county. j —The 6h Louis I.R•publieasi says that the Rev. Jas. W. Kellogg, of Dearborn, eloped last week with the wife of Wil liam Itoorehouse Of the same place. —Last summer tho - Missouri 'river at GIUSOW meaurred:l,47B feet acrou. A few days silica, pf , the same Place, it =aimed but 600 feet. Water fall was there. i. —Thu wlll duchcand geese are so en. mesons Ls to be -a Pest, in the lowa por tie% of Jackson j county, Missouri. Whole:fields of en'ti bare beat destroy. rod by them. 4 —Tberowas a meeting in Yazoo City, oaths ith last, to Menu means to lac .as midst the , pay uteut of taxes. Whether they wilEsuccood to their ribi rises remaisui to tro'leart. —The widow 4, John C. Cal:boon Way (Med ItCILI,II to aell his library at 'action, and it protata. only SV); whole 'belies of books were knocked off at Ofe to scx dollars tier abet. • • —The North C 411.• anisentlati re cently adjotanti2,l,oh motion of-Yr. Rood, .a prisibryiefisit minister, until the circus had psaro the cipitol; Biter which their doles ewe titan:Led. —The people of Ltriugton end Paris, in the State a littaiucky, Led an neck la grnatch fro thatheroplanshirt recently. Oat of ins east 'cock tight* as record took place, and W4l 'tutorials". —During the ket swath the hoary onion traisamionii in Nuhrtila hare used so much mutiny that currency is Teri worse theiiitouta. From $40,- 000 to =40,000" per diy hare been seat 11:110 the COIIIIIII to floaters.- —A young U. who was walttio gat a ball in Neer fdartlt. Tenn., stew days stuns, tell to the d J,r. Ills wine: en ilcavorol to nice qua, and tt Rai not until then that bier act . taint acquainted the tbocked =eery re, hers thlt he MIA I corpse. —The stories or ;destitution to Ala• bows are heart rendlnt, • clouthern Ex cbaage says that li - vbea of reftalitient, well brad and ten4tr4 tutored are begging for a little ,ern for themtelvm I end children, suCthare is none for them. —After reading tith kllowing In a Bt. Louis paper we one adcd that the color ed man referred to It dead "A drunken negro stepped Into the dock at Mel mond, Vi. Touradiay night, and was I tithed gout Yridsi it an expired condi- two." —Farmers In thip neighborhood of I Mesephis are beginning to appreciate the situation and arsi hard at work clear. tug the ground ar plowing, having found oat that only iy the sweated their sew brows can Ismail in sufficient quart mks be procured. - —A Bra Parley and her Km attempt ed to cross the rivet let Menem City on the evening of the lb:h inst., but took I the w tong track, and fell through a hole In the me. Bra larley was rescued alive, but the body at Ler little son his not yet been reooTer'ed. - —Rather an exciteng scene took place 1 on the 10th but. in .he Vicksburg Her obi office. A gentl4man caw In vans On cop fell of Petrd oil and undertook to show off its .nori explosive qualities by touching a lighted match to it. In; atantly the room wln a blaze and the occupants, covered 111th dames, rushed from It. By the efforts of outsiders they were extinguished, that the editor and one or two other gentlemen were vary badly but —la New Orleans a man was found on the 18th inst., 'in the breast and lying on the priement. Ile said that a one-legged man came out from behind a corner, called him liCoal heaver and cut him. After repeating this statement , SOveral t ime ,01 he dled. A DWI named Maddox was &lora afterwards arrested because ho was washing • bloody knife, which he attempted to conceal when he saw the policeman. Maddox has but one leg, so that circumstances are not In his favor. —The Lebanon. Sy., CRoriongrayely , . announces that "a ',negro child, of the male persuasion, was born at Dlr. Lloyd Adams', In that county, between four and flee weeks ego! tiud has well devel oped breasts, and Seen milk. All the means usually resorted to, for the pur pose of checking the flow of milk In fo armies, have been tiled in this me with- Ltd success, the milk. contlaulne to ac• cumulate. The aim is a very curioni one; and is attracting a good deal of at tention from medical men. If thislac teal flow continues, what a flue wet curio the boy willimake after 16rhile." Thle is a sort of ,vital to the woman turned man story. I=!!;;;=iiii Excavations on the site. of the old White Ilartl Illottfi In Rath. England, .have revealed cool t interesting , Roman conabding of the Imminent of • largo building mid the continuation of the frieze of the great temple dedicated to Minerva, a portion of which is pre served to the musehtu of h.e lath Liter ary and Scientitio Institution. The tem ple stood on thlreastern side of the Attest teem" rood, rotating ,through the city from north to south, and nearly midway between the Porta Decurnatut, North gate, and the Porta Flualentens, South gate, leading to WS river, Its front wen toward,, the west.; and consisted. of a portico supported by vm7 large fluted columns oT the Corinthian order crowned with rich sculptured capitals'. Behind the temple, towards the treat, stood the Item= bathe, Wet fouiedatlons of which were discovered ialTifi, at the depth of twenty. feet beneath the settees of the ground. The recent excavations have laid bare a. kind of concrete pavement, leading to the inference that there had 'been a large area :of parade-groand led joining the' temple. Other diaooveries show that the DM= Forum extended oomuderably beyond the sot and or the present abbey Chttech-yard. NEWS FROM ABROAD —Thirty deaths per diem is the horrid record of the cholera in BL Domingo City. —The new Record handing in London is said to be (be only absolutely fire. proof structure In England. , • —The Merchants' 'and Commercial Banks of Montreal. hisse amalgamated, and are hereafter to . be known as the Merchants' Bank of Cinada. Dr. Carl Ilugen, one of the moat H. Instrions of German historians, is dead. At the time of hie demise he wan Pro fearer of History at the Unlyeraity. of Berne. —The boiling down of meat for ex. portation has become a very Important branch of Australian trade, and bids fair to become the most impurtantbefore very long. —The Suez 'Canal is to be finished in October, 1905. The . total cost will be 077,000,000. Several steam navigation companies are already negotiating for leading!' at Port Said. —ln mercantile shipping Great Britain is it the head of the list, razng 7.000,• 000 tons. America follows with 5,000,- 000 tons. . . Germany Germany LI third and Prangs comes up slowly a bad fourth: -- - —President Cabral and his iGhtnet have lied DOM Domingo to ices). allele. What a blessing ft would be if a certain other President add part of his Cabinet would follow President Cabral. —On the 19th of Febrbary the Crown .Princess of Prussia presented her peo ple, that are to be, with a floe healthy Prince. The. family of the Princess is already nearly as . large as that of her august mother. • —London has at last to succumb to the pressure for street railways. Like every other American ides, Goa ono has first been Looted at, then attributed to the inventive brain of some Englishman, and at last adopted. —London Is tired of having the huge droves of Deitch cattle parading the streets, and is about to have a foreign cattle market' located besides the Thames, where they can be sold imme diately on importation. —A London tailor who has purchased I the right of calling himself Court tailor to the Prince of Wales, bas given notice that ho will make clothes, for no man who does not belong to a family of goal ton or standing in the country. .America, champagne is cider. In England, champagne Lts gooseberry wine. At a late grand balllgiven by the Mayor of Liverpool, ninety-seven dozen of this delectable Said disappeared down • the throats of happy Englishmen. —1n.1807 the paupers of England and Wales, exclusive rf lunatic poor, and vagrants, inciessed 00,855, and the Rug (lisp journals think that the present state of that country glees reasons for expect tug a still further increase thin year. • `—Two young girls were recently brought before the Staffordshire who could neither read per write, had never heard of either Cod or the Bible, and bad never been at school or chapel. They were scullions on board of canal boats. —Mr. tlodgkin, as English member of Parliament, has made ► speech ridi culing the Pan.Angftesu Convention, and particularly the ides of la siting American Bishopt,to mist in it. The Honorable member le letting Isis spite and envy of thiega Americas ctrry him I out of his de'rth_ —The now flag of the German Con federation la rather oblong in shape and has a white ground with a black cross 1 which dividta it into four equal parts. Three of these parts are white, the fourth being the upper left band corner,' it, striped with • red. The arms of the i Matt CTOp do not unite to the centre, 1 but enclose a round white medallion in the centre of which is the black eagle of • Prussia. —The mercantile marine of oh Italy Is remuk 0.4 diminutive in comparison to that or other countries.' In spite of a amp stretch of sea co...at and good har bors, there Is no perceptible advance . 1a this particulsr. France, England and Austria are the largest consumers of her products, and do most of her carrying. Ifedlways are now being rapidly coon pleted, whhalt will develop large tracts of country heretofore only accessible by tedious journeys from the sea coast. The Pope has refused 'to render the coin of the Butes of the Church similar to that of the surrounding kingdom, and much monetary contrition Is the natural result. Italy is evidently nut yet a land of very great progress. I=l3 1!=! GM! do not lot my loved one die, Bet ratter wart until ;ha time That tam posh to purl,/ • Hanel toasts? Thy pore Them tate 1:66. 110.1.1 wholly an. So Mat my lore rarnaln Wont 0. let bar *Mel ate 1 by birth What 1 through .'oath most learn t 6 be. We need hot mom on our poor earth Than ?non least need In neaten with rhea; She bath her eeings already, I Yen bunt %lila earth-al:ell ere Ley. Tben. Uod, take met We 0%11 b, Mons Man 'war, .solt topsoil; Her angel sacs Initt anti mon alms Oravea.y lbws my marbly smooth; And / draw Watt o Trow s Her soul and miss shalt closer be. ♦ az+l of Ltf*ama ', lmig the Kailts\ _ • rewc The London Review tells th Is wad story: "A poor woman drowned herself In the Thames hot week, so the oirocer's pry I found. 'while to a state of unsoiled mind through dlstres.' • tier husband had for Mx months been unable to make more than six shilling. • week, out of which i he had to pay in. 81. a week rent, lid. for the Im in o of • harrow to carry on ton trade of general Motor,' and tat support • wife and tour children with the re mainder. The 'wife, who was sucklieg her youngest child all this time, did her beet to contriibute to their neourees. She made stop shirts eta penny shirt, and for the hotter newt of shirts she used to get lid., *1;. and even so much aa9.1.. But to earn mien this pittance she had to Bud her own upealeS &unthread. For weeks there poor creatures. who bore the highest chareetor for Industry and good conduct, would go without tasting meat; they tired on bread.—and dripping, whet they could. got itr When the father had no week they lived on nothing; and the daughter aaye not ber mother used of ten to fay to her, 'Oh toy, Polly, ain't it dreadful; we have got nothing again to eat to-day. Tbcoe poor people never applied to the workbou.t. They thought or doing no, but refratoexl In the hope, es the husband said to his wife, that 'Pat han* there will bo bettor luck another - - —An Importing thentranctimase la oil trial to the Moult Court of Kt. Lon/s.. Kilpatrick and Thomanbringsult agalnet the Thatnets Insurance Company, of Cin cinnati, fur 95,000 damages, growing out of the burning of the steamer Magnolia hem in 1806. The defence le that the boat wan net on are by or through con nivanCes of. the owner. The case in- TOM $lOO OOO, , tomoo In CLEICIIII3IIII COM gl5.OOO in St, Louis and 050,000 In foreign companion repregentpd there. A deposhion from Mr. &ruder, one of the pilots of the liagnolls„ was road, to the effect that Marshall offered hint (Strada) live thotteaud dollars to Sink the steamer. Mrs. Strader teetiftwi that IClipatriek had offered her three than sand dollars if cite would prevent her husband from testifying in the case. . . —The Governor of Now Youndiand baying Intimated •tu his address to the Legielature that the question of confed eration whouid count up for considera tion, • large meeting was bold at St. John" and :resolutions passed depreca ting the Intention of the Government to introduce the subject. Subsequent ac tion In the Gomm showed a majority of the members unfaverelde in' abY steps being taken to the matter of confedera tion. • —A. foreign mathematician has calcu lated that half a million people In Psris alone have averaged half en hour each In trying to solve the "Roman Question" puzzle, which is neither nines nor leas than the double hook Dania. The time altogether amounts to tilly.sevett veers . Moue inane life . , working twelve bow , ' a a day. Paris is now puzzling its brains aver another toy cilled the ••Meiteen questlon." ESTABLISHED IN 1786. rot El 0.. :UR LOYAL PkO,SS nepu,lt,•l Eserythtle is proven, ever; thin; is admitted, so-I con4ress hat no eKlpt from the choir and the • levee wntoh the Pruotent has forced upon it, unless it etsthdons the whole contest forever, and establishes the precedent that the Bum ties Department may annul and defy at pleasure the acts of the Legislative. The Tenure-of-Ceice till may or may not be constitutional—of :hat tie President not the judge, bat until the carats have athirst's, decided, it is the law of the land, and the President eannvers/uase himself freer itie obligaiion to obey it. =I The provision of the act Is so distinct ly intended to bring bim within the pur view of thls clause of the Constitution; that it is impossible to doubt that be de liberately took his steps in contravention of the act with the set purpose of defy ing Congress to impeach him IWTI It is not a question between President Johnson and the Republican party which is the Issne.• It is net whetherthe policy adopted by Congress is right or wrong that is to be adjudicated upon; but it is to be sottled whether the Presi dent of the United States can wilfully defy the whole people by aseuming the powers of a dictator, and, by a total of law, subvert the great principle of the right of the people to self-gotirm- =1 • .. . ~ - If thiPreildent'e oath • tbn items' &leader or 'Coraffelffit - E; against-whom/nut he defend - 1m John son. says Congress—but why limit the defence so eesinet Coogreenl 0o mast defend the Constitution against the Ju diciary Jut as readily as against Con sume. The oath makes no exceptions. If that oath he an au hurts) , to the Pres ident to suspend, disregard or nulltfy any act of Congress whisk to him ap pears to be tieconstitational, • thou it gives Dim an equal 'authority to accept or disregard Judicial decisions. Tee Constitution make. no exception's. It vests thipower to mate a law in Con gress. It TeSta the power to interpret a law io the Judiciary. .It makes it the duty of the President to exscute the I.wa. If In addition to this the nest dent his the power to revise the 'tithes tion of Congress, and execute only such laws as he approve., then be hu the same power to - revise Judicial decis ions and extent. only such Judgment, as he thinks •are "Correct. It Id only neces sary to look at the claim ef the President to be convinced of Ito absurdity- Con gress may, as Congress has often dune, by oversight or inclination, legislate or. foriebtley, bet the authority rut so de riding has never duty claimed by any President. Hisduty admit.. no unsaid cations. • • • He find. -himself without allies, with impeachment close upon him, and he seeks' now to compromise with the officers of Jun Om It is too late! Tine ..hmerican people Impeach you, Andrew Johnson, as a disturber of the national peace, the violator of national law—the stunt— 'tiling block of national Justice, and the organiser of national trust. MO. eaatO.l . s.3 Congress Is the constitutional repro eenlatieet of the people, and the grant law -making power of the GOVernalerit. Aa such they have enacted laws, by un precedented majorities, Tor the won traction of the Southern States. It is the great, first, and sworn duty of - the President of the United States to exc. cute these laws. This duty he has not only failed to perform, tut month slur month and year after year has tortured his ingenuity to devise ways and means to detest these isms, and to defy the will of the people and the representatives of the people who enacted` the lows. 'lle lies quarrelled with Gun. Grant because the Genera! would not resist the law of Ciegress; and he has given him orders to disobey the commands of his superior the See.eze.ry of War, the more effectu ally to thwart and defeat Ise execution of the larva These are "high crimes end roboietneanorr," and impeachment Is tie remedy p:ovided for them by the Cdnetitutios of the United. States, the highest law of the land. -The offences have been committed. Let the lawful and merited punishment be inflicted, and Itist epeedily. Tao patience and for bear-mica of a patriotic people are ex• tisusted, sad cry aloud for the enforce ment of the law. tr wria.4l. J.nrsa ) - 'The pecple are ready to suatain Con gress in a speedy and emphatic ?indica tion of the law against the assaults of the telselievone deo:lnagua at the White llowle, even though that gludi catton cam coma effectively only through thegolemn and unwelcome proceeding of impeachr—ent. . =3 Either the Prerident mart execute the laws parsed by tiongress in good faith, which would he carrying out his proper 'auction under out lionstitutlon; or CAgrers must abandon the field and sllorrthe Preaident to do as he will, in which case representative government cesica = Technically, tee Praiderit Is now ar raigned for a defiance of the Tenure of once law. But le reality he haw ser himself to nuinfy all toe Ilerinetructioe laws, and his desperate determination to get possession of the War Ilepartment ie for that object. • • • • It Is sald• that the puree of Johnaon in making this open violation of the law is to force it to en tune in the Supreme Court, and thus obtain a decision et to the constitu• donality of the act. But this -ammtons that he may disregard a law instead of enforcing it, and no sorb authority Lee ever before bean asserted by any Pres'. dent or tete republic. It is not the duty of fiber men to take each judicial pro i•clitani ea will moth in a deciaion by t etßispreme Court.. That responsit4lity properly mats upon the party holding the law to be invalid ; sa that however we may view the cue, the conduct of the President was without Justification. The set has been done In an open and tionsplcuorta canner, and the evil exam ple It sets of disobedience to law Is ao important end flagrant, that in a country where the suboulasion to law has been so general and so much of a national tract, we could not fora moment afford to tot ' erste such an act, - - • We cannot doubt that the Senate will give to the President a lair and imps: tbd trial, each as n demanded by the nature of the MO and the momentous issues et stake. Tho censor's, it stands. Is • body eminently worthy 'of the con fidence of the country, and will inlflll its great duty to this case w ith. circum spection end dignity, but with a patriot ic determination to uphold 'the laws at all herard• As to whether Johnson will submit to these proceedings and to a coal impeachment, in case that should ho the result of the trial, we do not give ourselves any tineu neu. He le with. out the power of resistance, if ho should hoover so much Inclined to It. N. T. Trnette.i ' It Is conceded by Mr. Johnson and 61i apologists and trioxide everywhere that Ms 'order removing SectetarY Stanton was s violation of the Tenerent.:4llyll -081ce law, that It wee such a violation re that law makea criminal, and that his viniation of it wee intentional, b,nd with a clear. recognition - of its character. lint, say they, he Violated the law, elm• ply to leg. its cenatitutionality. .The same plea might be. made- for Jefferson Davis. The Nesitient claims that he, can in the ffret place veto a law, and then not execute It. unlit 'the Supreme - Gantt deeldee lu conatrnattonalny. To concede this , 5 to clothe Mr. Johnsen with the prerogatives of a tyrant. does not eremite the lowa, bat only such co salt his fancy. - Greeting this right, however, the President We his remedy. lie might easily bare 'obtained a 'dads. lon of lba Supreme Court. , Were thla the first step in the. Presi dent'scareir o f official crimes and hsnr: potions, Congress and the country would - 1 have retarded it with infinite forbear..., coca. Bat deafened as the climax-, of .a long Belles of otfoiscs and critata.which ho callable "policy," ho con claim' no Inch forbearance. • - • - • • • ills present act to the crowning high crime in a lon , aeries of. usurpations. Andrew Johnson, asitued and pelf ! deceived by thia edt.repertcd delay-to , punish, assuanm a pinition which.ssould enable him to revolationiss tau Dovere- Meet and make himself Dictator within twenty days, If congress should concede the power he claims. No other--Peed dent has over advanced toe preposterous claims now pit iorward by Mr.: Johnson. They are wholly . In violation of law, and at war with , constitutional liberty, and the vary aliatenea. of the .Govern .. TEL DESOCIVITIO imsaa. I I bi Ynt stetinila Age ) • •,• • - . Where is the authority for.f.'oogees tu pass laws, aed at the same time 'promo:ice upon their euri • 'tin:atonality? In what part of the C'et stitution Is it written tbst.. the Legleht. tice Leanthot the euve'rament shall over shadow both the Esecu , lve and'Judlcial? • • • That they (the Rump)'will Convict him, after it Ma trial; them is no doubt, unleu the Supreme Court ..bl , llld "'top is it: Ibl. Ments.illar,ll4 , l dr elate that the retort. of rtflcr. bill 19$a coustitudunal. and c..g,rquectly told. =1 Congress d.,re ant await toe decision of the Supreme Court, which would probably deprive them of all colorable ground for iMpetlebineOL • • • - It locks as if Congress is running a race against the 'Supreme Court, to head off an adverse decision. 'Tao decency, the dignity, the wise moderation, which bell, a national legialateret in a grave emer gency, have been cast to the winds from an arparent fear that unless Congress is prompt and preMpiate, the Supreme Court will adjudge unconstitutional the law - for the alleged violation of which the President is to be deposed. If the Tenure-of-Office law should be declared null, Congress has no case. It is only on the assumption that it is a valid law that tee President can be held to have committed an impeachable offence. If, therefore, the Supreme Court should de cide against its constitutionality before the conclusion of the impeachment trial, Congress would be covered with deris ion., Thls is why they dare not wait, as decency requiems that they should, Until the.validlty or the law can bo tested by a judicial decision. WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS, .—Prof. ft. 0. estevens, of tho West Vir• gluts Qollsio, late of this city, has per ctissott- ths residence -of' Mr. John H. gvir. mr two .thoc. ur island • -I'ho Romnok Intelligencer under. stande Last Col. stophen W. Downey, of Mineral enmity, has rec.:deed the op pa:nu:mat of Amsessur of Internal Reve al., far the 6ococol Coagre•aional Dia trint. to All . the vacancy irawboned by the death of Itr. Thomas/frown, offifar titiabarg. The Wolleburs Ilin;cad eve that Judge Black. who was There as ominsal In the lath .p. Campbell- will - me, was NUM- Incned to 'Weehingtort 'by :a telegram, and departed lust Itiviiniaulay. 2lodoulu Jerry coat the bottom of all the mischief width A. J, has bawl stirring up within the past low days. . . —The editor of the Slorgantessu Port has been shown a specimen of beautiful marble, discovered in Pen dleton county. It is or a light greyish color, harder 'and deer than hurl on marble. It is said that there is a 12110U13 . 1011 of this marble, coo oriog a hoes of 1,800 sores, and riaing.to a height of SOO teat —The Point Pleasant Perpnttir says that iron ore has been discovered on Carer, bell's creek, West Virginia, near the Kanawha river, ou the lands of JOhn Loris nod the Steele Survey, the seam averaging treaty-six Inches in rhick -111.3. Gen. Lewis Ruffner and others ate organizing a company to erect afar- Prestoh county has begun on her own account the work of organising fur the aiming . campsign. The Comm,. Con-,. venilon has appointed the following gen tlemen: Prof. Garvey. Col. I. Kirk, Col. Chas. Houton, Major W.D.3l'Grew, John P. Jones, It. Werthon, Joseph IL rlibson, whose duty it 1.3 tr ade to organ ize township vigilance commiuees. The Morgantown Post says that Mr. ferry Madam of that town, Wt Friday morning while asleep In bed, was severe ly bitten through the nose bye ferocious rat. Last Friday morning the residence of Mr.. William Fear, of Morgantown, was discovered to boon fire AII alarm wait given and the fire soon subdued by Um "luau, women and citiliznoi". who turned out with buckets. On Friday afternoon Isst; Mr. B. F. Payne,' while standing at the counter, in lir. John C. JOilmon's atore, In Morgan town, was accidentally shot by a Mr Brent, who woo examiali g a pistol, and who had cocked it, or attempted to cock it, bat whoa° thumb atippoil off the cock. The boll entered the rig - U.lde, pasliing Omagh his body, causing.. hie death in a half hour. • Toe shot was purely &eel dental. Be leaven a wife and four child ren to mourn his untimely end. He was a member of th*Baptlst. Church. —The Union men of Harrison county are organizing for the ca opaign. The county Convention held at _Clarksburg on the 19th appointed the following gen tlemen a County Committee: • Messrs. Fernando A. Robinsou. Esq. Mal. A. C. MoOre, Ms). Jam. W. Moirott, Dr. A. F. Barnes and James S. La*, Esq. Maj. Lee Hammond, Mai. N. A. Bauble worth and James H. 'Taylor, Esq , were oripointed , a Committee' to procure and dbtrl cute documents. A. resolution was idopte I requeatlog the Union men of the to anshlpa to hold meetings and appoint township Committees. • —The West Virginia Republican Con vention elected the following delegates to represent that Slate at . Chicago: Jno. R. Hubbard (from tirst district, ).Sllery It. Hall, (front second district,). Hon. D. D. T. Parnaworth (from second distriel,) and Ceptain H. C. McWhorter (from third distrint.) These delegates were • author inid to appoint their alternates seers nary. The six delegate• for the dietricte were chween bribe district delegations 11 :0110 First liletrlct—General perms (alternate, John and General Frank P. Pierpont: (alter nate, General R. B. Northeott.) Second Dlatriet—Hou,...loseptc T. Hoke, (Wm. )I. Welch, alternate) and Captain 'Lmonani B. Perry (Captain It. W. Blue; alternate.) Third District—Me)orCyrue Newlin, (Hon. Ci. Bleak, alternate,) and Capt. Thomas Burgeon, (IdaJoi R. S. Brown, alien:de.) Resolutions were adopted: I. rittelsring General Grant to hn the chokes of the . Convention for Preeldent. 11. Declaring that 'in the coming contest the Republican party - of West Virginia should.lgnore all aide iwues end deroM- Itmlf with a eingte nese of purpose commensurate with the great results luvolead tp the triumphant rleiglon of the hoininees of the ChifalSo Convention." • - RAILWAYS —The conductor. on the the New York and New Haven Reamed. are soon to mum uniforms or navy blue.. . —The VI ratnia end Textual's at Railroad has commeoeed the use or coal In part, fuel fur thelepassenger lines. - —The New York - "Errtfirtg MmT Ores tbanumberot tames On the Central Road last year,aonulled now, as 8t3,000..... —The people of Peru, Indiana, want that:icy Vounell to craft $3O 000 to the Goatten,Knacittake and Peru Railroad. —The rails of theirtira,Chentuatto and Suequehanna Valley Ratlmad are laid to wlthlo twelve stales Of Strerhurne Vil- —The Prcratier lade= says that the ITolou roeth.Green rtver ' `79 notes west of Fort Senders, by nextDthembei. —Stealing 'cool -railroad;-cars freighted with the article, is carried onto an Immense extent on . 01 the great lines of rail ro ad in Pennsyittanla, • . - —The Knoxville Extension of the Louisville end Nashville railroad is now open to Broadhead station, eight and a helf.mPtc south of Crab Okbard: -- —On the 19 h lost, McLean county, lIL, voted 2,771 for, and 1,187 against the county appropriation -for .tho ,Lafayette, Bloomington and.lllasistilppl railroad. —Prospect favors the - building - of a railroad between -Mount Morris and Bums, on the New. York and Buffalo, thus making a direct connection with Rochester in that direction. *. =Henry Smith, of Lowell, master me chanic on . M and Le Heston anowell rail road, died on Tueeday, night. 13th last, of his Injuries from the locomotive ex plosion at Lowell that morning.- . .-41111:13 Tate says that theillemphis and Chariedon railroad NMI npver in better order, or its trains running more regu larly.. It has not bad a wbuel - of a - pas , wager one off Um track this aunt - Cr. • —The final opt, fling_ of the finished portion 'of the liairate end Washington .ratiroad (to Aurora, 171 , miles) took place on the gist Inal. ' The statics between, Bu gide an d Aurora are nowt i-iambi:mod. . —lt is propageti - bir the capitalists of Rochester ' a , railroad from the coal arid lumber districts or rounitylvaast, making oeuriectien with' the Ede railway, theuft son - Rate the coal gelds. -The railroad 'Mint - Portland. li lo , and .Yrritsmoutit, Dr. 7.14 which- la -fifty Chiles loug,, has. been fn. operatiou twenty-lire yam, carrying millions 'of passerareri,'not one of whom has '•bwria killed or permanentiy lialurnd•Vl'_any. ":-It is stated that cinietacts haie heeri made to d the new breed guagiiread from Titan. to' Zalcido.aruldhat Asaliab llo,dy hoe. a leading interest in it. Tim cost of the Mad Is'eatimated it $3;000,000, and the time mot nlred.is stated at from nine to twelve months._ -.John li. Carson, late tigent at„Tolirdo for the New . York. Central railroad, the • 'Moslem Tranaporiallim iginpanY. been appointed Geneniayinght Agent or the Tolello, Wubasit and Western rail road, with headguariers at' Toledo. lid °Menton bin duties oa bfarohl... Preddentof the Eldon' and Ackley (Iowa) Railroad- Company, writ eon tie buque.Fferalci hem New York that helms purchased ilia lend nee enemy le ocinplem his Veal° . Eldora, and itill Arrive itoort, ' The mid will be completed from Ackley - to radon early lo itaispringn —A 'tiny In Wimonain giant ld drawn pall of water, and while bringing it home Upped tmdlail. Before ha could get up. Ma clothing wall frown'to "the ground, and he; flat on his back, c o uld not Cold weather . la Wionotraim Youlleols`barlng . I hole In the Ithieklillis to .tunaish CkkeY wine whit a vOietU2o to be In superior to troulvtua Ira every rdaptoet. ,, It 3,111 be Illumltuated by natural 112 , 112iut on orrery Fourthut July. P•Wi I 7617 POOR. ax i cwszies *wet.. :01 Owes the sorts t' me, • I Lite ow, mod motet iCeictOne a xlsothwet thee PastOk tire door, v ... n•nwto notreb.lng• to wart / 1n taws. rco-t4 beta Tnmhlrl my heat: . lont.o.lth/ / sew Tat thole. • ' htothlths'o•uldelltl , :V :slop a.•l lad fr , m the, Levees icy htstan,l. ~ .11,•••1 raw. d along, , How tonne my +•W• • •• nrsvol-t 11, throng" Love cou'd be, •ay. IMBEIM • h.l rorbtnz. 'no Li ti 4.1 • . , .C.C.ch lag a. tug thy door. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS • . —There are more than ono thousand Odd 'follows in Harrisburgh. and 'no deposits of Iron ore have iYcently beets found in Millstone townenin, Forrest county. —Alt appeal for aid is mode by tho suffemra arthe ryttent tiro at .1"ftholO. Orcatdostitutlon provabs. Donovan ii to be executed at York, on the 31st of March for the mur der of, the Squibb family. —Tice steam tannery and otbor prop erty it Metio),•totru, ivere destroyed by tire on Saturday morning hut. —The Tyrone Herald sari Mr, SAM pie Anderson or Tyrone Blair county, bocli.covered rich gohmine. —William Donovan haabeen sentenced to biihung at York, tine • Stem, on the lest de of March, for the murder of I he. —Building and SovlogAveoclatlene are helot . established by ma<•haule add °thee., to every town of Itoporukoce throuiatout tho ntate. —run Brownsville Clipper nye: We • - motet to learn teat our red.ootegUillas.-- - ; trough, • Ls seripp.ly. ill Icr,Unlstowal. . . • —Tlo (NW:on '...Dev,Aorra.f. Is ernestly, urgittg.the nomination of David Carer,- ksuldnu, of that eounty, for HUI , voyor General, on the Democratic ticket. —The now DuitailDresbitetiao Churoh in Butler told - be lieliklatad to the servioe of Orel, on next Sabbath. The Reg.;llfs.Diok. of Kittanning; will con duct ate aeronaut. ff ' Palmer,—Airs of Potter's Cen tro te'.unty, sank, gathering kindling in bet, wood house Ivor nt ly, was Instant ly killed by the roof letting in, breaking her neck anti arm. —We regret to announce the danger- . one Sines' of Major' General fromim swirl:aeon° atteck. on Sunday afternoon. Wo learn he wan very low yesterday morning. — !''![age Record. —Lireat ex-Itement was Created bi ScraMon on Wednesday, lathe. tol3ae. queuYe of the sudden.filling tip of one of iltentil minas with water caused by a bidet which let . to the water from the river.' • —The school directors of Polon bor• ongh,.Foyeetaisoinity, will holid daring the coming summer nee ct the laraest nod handsomoist public schools In West ern Pennsylvania. It will be about one hundred f..et long; Slaty-flee white and 11/ 1 9 1 4h- ' -On &today aftennoon, Au. William B. Wood. putor of the new Baptist Church In Doylestown. baptised elaht persona at the borough dam; and not withstanding the Intense add weather, the sOlunn ceremony wan witnessed by a large number of poisons. .-The first notton mlll established In Oita section of country was located In the village of llolmeaburg, the machinery for witlelt woo supplied by Alfred Jenks, in the year 1810. The oldest established cotton mill now In operation le the Koatfog mill , at Alannyunk.—Doyles• lowa Democrat: annPukYinoMposed of the mem bers Of the-Bentngholf. family, to to be foruied fur the purpose of operating the Beninghoff Farm. • It is understood that no nacre leases will be given to •outaide parties. and that us soon as the present les , des give up the lease. they hold, they willibe occupied by the company. —We are glad to hear that the people up Sitine Creek are determined to have a railroad froin MIS Id Meillary's Fort. , Mr. Kidders gentleman of ty and energy, has taken hold of the proJhet In earnest and we hope lie wilt havaihe satlefaetion of coon seeing the roadtinder oontract.--Hientingdon (tote. —The .ahipments of petroleum from Titusville for the week era:hug on Sat• nrday Last reached roue tboutand five hundred and sixty-81i barrels: Of this amoUtit two thooeand five hundred and fifty, barrels were shipped to New York, eight hundred and eighty barrels to Philadelphia, and the remainder to Bpatan, - Albany, and other places. .. • plierottsvilleJournaligivestbecinan tity of ant hr4eite °nal sent from . Penn sy 1- vania to tidewater during the year 1867. aa • 12,699.971 tons, being an increme of. 3.71„fiel tons over the year 1030. Of semi anteracite ind Inturntrioue renchtng tide water there were last Toxr tons being. a decrease of 22,48 tons froutthe preceding' year. ThLs• 'gives en • aggre. anti of 14,003,409 tons, and en increment —The-Erie Dispatch says: Dot one mantis:, been returned by the constables in MU- city' for violation of the license !awl when it is tr feet patent to ell tout hundreds of mem of violation take place ere*. week. Thajudge yesterday im am:rd. open the constables -And the valid July the fact _that n neglect on the porta the former to return cases of which thirrhave personal knowledge was per jury: They should be made to under —Tbn Hollidaysburg Register, Kaye "There is. nu establiahment lauded in Altdma, here the prat:ante of counter feiting Is carried onto au extent acme- . 1y equalled, and certainly not surpsaaed, anyrybere strain this section of conntry. Choi Jaime* of the concern. bear such etriking resembi au ce to the articles eerie terfelled, that the proprietnrs are gaining a wide-spread reputation as practitioners 0.111. Line of business.”, 131rouldult —The Mimed rant; from the steam beat on the Vottnaylaltnia' railroad, to AVekl. Cheater, wee surveyed/est .winter. - According to' the report of the Engineer et fire the distance will be miles, ND -the hieositigride 57. feet the mile e the cost of grading wUt be,t24,(55:1 pert:Mile. The Pennekylvabis - R.tirchid Gull peny have appiented Col. Thomas A. - ,Seott, Paster Morris •and, Wastengten :Butcher, a committee to report to the dt irectien--. West Cheater Rea, (1. 'tie Tlinsville ffeiatri safe that eAtl. sidOsble stir hat...been created at Flea aantsdie by_the success of the Harcoo niat'woll; and corner Into are being look .. Ann with iniereeL • Some fear or Ave Ltrnis and troche uf farms lying•is the vielpity have been leased to 01l- opera toref and will be developed during the Awning spring, °amen of territory be; tweets Pleasantville and Sherolstrg look upon the Harmoslaf well as a sure loal. lmiien that there is in On beitrdorting betskeen the two-plarlea, . • • he . 't'staltingto_rf Brandeis, Alvin "Otte day last week, as a little eon of With Quail, Esti , of rhartiers, eras go logt to thincinaburg oh an. errand for his rather. he wartatoppefil on the public road . by ti man who dew s - tided his money. 4 In being informed Dye SW lad that he had nOO4l, the robber! *k hold "of him and carried him Into ofei co earner:Lod 'Med bitlpockets. Afte being Bandied the botched nothing val ble. the thief bad a hasty retreat Itcrosse A.lietonalWbut7s ; On day; night Teat - The reel ce of John Wolfe, - grocer, on Virginia street, was entered through the- atom door, The knights of the nippers found their way froth the store to Mr. Wolre - bedroom nark. rifled his pockets of - earns $lO In mosey. He did not piss anything from trio - store. with the exception of Some ba ba*, although they have helped * themselves to other articles -which which he bag not noticed. On the samerright, the resldenctiorldr.friulbolisn, in the First' ward, WWI entered, but the burglars ob. tatded "miry little •booty; although they ransacked& couple of bureaus, • occurred on the Lehigh..: Vatley Itaßroad near Bethlehem, on Sat - order' week,- which resulted In the &Ant qC•Benry - Johnsen, fireman. The engine "Liillput" ran off the track in. consemnrace of some obsuiclo belbg on the Johnson "fell otr due. engine ' bed...hie arm =slued by, the fait so a, to reader amputation necessary. The • injured Man died soon ahem:oda from - lot mal bruises, John Boer ; et we isti,_ neer, had his hand crushed, tad mop. ling of the cars and tender-broke at the thlbeeftbeaccideat which was fortunate; OS 2t .muused th e cern" to ;vermin on.. the trek leinrety: - • • I•The Erie dazette sari "From what ht regard to theism foreedloan et,typr, j 300,000 from th e see Jobte• BoduebrAT, we incline ter: • strongly to the belief "ill - e V -the leader - of the - party - biting It was one atlas soy, a younger , . , -fient. not so exemplary--child than Jo ie-ph. In him, the family trelt of avari cluemtese- mast 'have' heroine developed Into *disregard of : the statute, We an- • defamed that. he has dot been seen or hedn'l of aincethe aflisir took_ ' The; andosurt. missing . Waver ICauo.ooo —bat doff much cannot exan ly;.,be ascertained. I.e•conversatiort with ,a responsible gen- - Orman. who bilijaCt returned from the- - OW:Miens, weearn, Amt. this Opinion famely,oblabus in that region. 4•Ttie'gridtlithiterr..Ebomnier, Beden-Beetout died iti 'i&l,ftneri'' ht Amend! treiensid p, en Thursday, 40th tuti..aged-drietY.lx Veers.: ddr.6.wee probably the Weil. Ito log' inhabitant of" . this county, sad had lived upon thelarm • where he died aeventy•esght. seam. Be eointrated to ibisgonnty - with Ede Dither )n )7770 from Sussex eounty,.NeveJersey... Be - Married' Margaret • Valentin Iti - 1701 sad • bail thirteen chi - Snit didd in 1841, since which, time be Uved with lice - son. When B. first came • the county Melte-leas Made trequenr bletiestorm into this restart and theE ceased wak reequeut4 reoll.oo mom„ • with ' parents toe "hlocit,h mese •• • aldett 1111 the•land heretotore benongingtW' the estate of Jphu el. Brady, deed, about,. one mite esot of ,Wachingtom - Mr: 8e... beat, !We'll% of el meet a hendred years,' 4' always sustained ihrtobersaterot. VW( 5' citizen and "honmt titan." • .