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IMPEACHMENT.
The trial was resumed yesteiday, and, af
ter the examination of two witnesses for the
prdsecution, the case for the defonse was
Inopened by Judge CURTIS, in an argument
several hours' duration. Its main points
were the denial that Mr. STANTON'S case
was covered by the Tenure of Office Law,
and the assertion of the right of the Execu
tive to construe the law for himself, and con
stitutionally to remove officers without Con
sulting the Senate. He also maintains that
act to be an infringement upon his consti
tutional powers, which it'was his duty to
resist. The line pf defense thus revealed is
in consonance with the general expectation.
To what other points it may extend, we are
not, at the present writing, informed.
A Snocraxat DISASTER is reported to have
marked the opening of navigation on the
lakes. The steamer Sea Bird was butned
on Lake Michigan, early yesterday morning,
and it.is supposed that all on board; includ
ing some thirty or forty passengers, have
perished.
THE LATE Maryland Legislature in re
vising the school law of the State, abolished
the proiision by which the fourth of July
- was made a holiday in the schools. The
same Legislature has been accused of doing
many things which indicated an intense
spirit of disloyalty to the Union, but this
abolition of the National holiday is doubt
less only a proof of equally intense devotion
to the cause of popular education.
RECENT experience in the financial world
has convin&l the public of the existence of
a serious error In the Natiomil Banking EMl
tem. It is agreed on all sides that the pro
vision requiring all tile banks to make up
their quarterly statements on a day fixed by ,
law and known in advance, must invariably
result, as it did a few days since; in a very
considerable temporary derangement of the
money market, for the two or threepreced
-ing weeks wine these institutions_ are thus
preparing theinselves to make a good ex
hibit. It is Proposed to change 'this provis. .
ion, reqniring, instead, a statement to be
made to the Comptroller, exhibing the con
dition of the banks upon any pad day at
his discretion. This :you'd obviate the mis
chief resulting from the preparation for ar
tificial exhibits, and would operate perma
nently as a wholesome check upon any im,
proper use of the banking privileges.
A NEw Ypnx JOIJRNAL having stated
that Gen. GRANT was in favor of the im
peachment and removal of the President,
the statement his been taken by the,Dento
cmtic press as an authorized and official
exposition of his opinions, and he is accord
-
"ugly denounced unsparingly, by these con
sistent friends of free speech, for what they
represent to be an attempt to overawe the
, Senate by military power. Unfortunately,
however, all their fine writing, its indignant
_ eloquence, its vehement protests, its glow
ing vindication of the independence of an
American Senate, &a., &c., is so , rauel ink
shed for nought. Gen. GE-Aarr has made an
explicit denial that he had ever authorized
the statement as made in the New York pa
per. He undoubtedly exercises that• free
dom in opinion, and in private conversation
with his friends. in behalf of which tho
Democratic newspapers have been industri
ously defending Mr. Jon:Elms, but, far
more discreet and self-contained than the
Presidential orator, he reserves all official
expression of his sentiments for suitable
occasions as they may arise. His denial ,
the authority of the jburnal in. question to
speak for him in that way is well knOwn at
the Capital, and has been telegraphed genet-:
ally to the press. This does not content his
Democratic assailants; they would have him
make a formal publication, contradicting
that and every other paragraph about him
with which the newspaper s abound; The'
General has never been in the habit of wast
ing powder in that way.
THE GREAT MBE of 1845 affords to`the
older citizens of Pittsburgh the most pronu
nent chronological topic of discussion in the
history of this city. The date of its recur
rence-, its Precise origin, the state of ti at
mosphere, the extent of the destruction and
the rapidity with-which the-tire'did ihiSferil•
ble worli; thelistricts-Whicli it swept
ts influence 'upon:the hhitory:and fortunes
of than/tali and' their , neightiere i :the'per.
=Dent dad, - dirigAT and hniireetlyi upon
the external characteristics of the town,L-all
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these points are regularly cliscussid; and
'mingled with the narrationof interesting in
cidents of personal experience, quite as
often as the annivemary of the greht event,
upon this 10th dayL of April, comes
around. And the press, with con
stant uniformity, marks the return of
a day which, twenty-three years ago, was
so terribly disastrous to Pittiburgh. We
follow thdusual example only so far as to
say that, by a lire, which commenced at
noon of that dag, near FronLand Perry
streets, in the brief space of nine hours, a
densely populated and closely improved
area of fifty-six acres, being ; over twenty
squares of ground in the heart of the city, was,
completely swept over and every building
destroyed, causing a loss then estimated at
nearly four millions of dollars, Twenty
three years have since elapsed, and, if you
would now see a noble monument to the
energy and success of the business men of
Pittsburgh, traverse the district once so fear
fully devastated, then penetrate into every
quarter of the rapidly extending suburbs,
and afterwards ascend one of the. grand
hills which tower above the confluent
streams, and lciok about you.
RECONSTRUCTION NOT A FAILURE
Arkansas has adopted her Constitution,
and her new Legislature, now in session at
Little Rack, will send to Washington, be
fore the end of the next week, that instru
ment for the approval of Congress, together
with two Senators to be admitted as soon
as the State shall be thus recognized.
The South Carolina election commences
to-moirow, continuing until the 16th. The
Constitution to be submitted resembles that
just adopted in Arkansas, in its just, liberal
and well guarded provisions for securing
all private rights, for the promotion of edu
cation and intelligence, and for-the encour
agement and protection of a spirit of loyal
obedience to the Federal supremacy. But
the old rebel element of her population
evince no disposition to interest themselves
in such a surrender of all the political her
esies and class-prejudices which have in
other years been peculiarly the boast of her
great slave-holding aristocracy. Conse
quently, we hear of but one candidate for
Governor, Gen. R. K. Scorr, who runs on
the Republican ticket, and its success is a
matter of absolute certainty.
The Louisiana election takes place April
17th and , 18th. A few of the members of
the recent Convention have pronounced
against the Constitution, and the Conserva
tives therefore are encouraged to hope, from
the aid of those dissentients, for success in
their active opposition to it. But the latest
advices are that the instrument will be adop
ted, and the Republican ticket, headed by
WARMOUTII for Governor, will be elected.
Georgia votes on the 20th, the election
continuing to the 24th, Col. BULLOCK head
ing the. Republican ticket for Governor, and
North Carolina votes from the 2-Ist to the
23d, with GoVernor HOLDEN at the head of
the Republican nominations, dn these
States, the elections will be sharply contest
ed by all the rebel-democratic -conservative
element, aided to some extent by local causes
of discontent • among the Republicans.
Great confidence is, however, felt in well
informed quarters that the new Constitutions
will be adopted and the officers of civil gov
ernments under them chosen.
We see no reason to dpubt that, by, the
15th of May, we shall see all the machinery
of &new civil organizations in the States
of Loiiiiiiana and South Carolina completed,
and waitingenly the approving sanction of
Congxess to set them in motion. If Georgia,
North Carolina and Mississippi shall prefer
military rule to self goverment; andan en
tire exclusion from any Federal rights except
that of protection under the'Federallaws, to
the fell restoration to all former privileges
which is now offered to them upon the just
and yet generous conditions prescribed, thek
will signify it by,, their votes next -week.
But themxperience of Alabama, will teach
its proper lesson to - the - rebels'ef these other
States; they will perceive that nothing is'
gained in the refusal to adopt Constitu
tions which may, nevertheless, as in
Alabama, be
,subsequently prescribed, for
them, as the basis "of provisional
governments, to continue until wiser and
more patriotic impulses shall control their
people. They will not; be; forever
Sooner or later, they will accept the inexo
rable destiny Which' awaits theni,.the, neces
sity of an unconditional suinnissiori. to the
power, which subdued, their armed, opposi
tion, and which will never stop short Until
it ' shall have secured a complete acknowl
edgment of the political necessities which
must control the solution of• all the remain- ,
ing difficulties. With three of these States
restored, the othere will, sooner or later, .see
their interest in following the , example.
Each State restored weakens the moral force
of the recusant spirit which• animates' the
rebels of the States still unreconstructed. In
deed the admission of the first of them, Ar
kansas, cannot fail of so increasing the pres
tige of loyalty and of so Stimulating tie pop
tiler, practical appreciation of the higherpo
laical and materiel' itliinitages of aetuies ,
cenctin the paramount and inflexible'' re
quirements of the Federalspower,that it is
sure to operate most beneficially upon Intel
ligent sentiment in all of the other States.
Were the Arkansas, in their seats
to-day, and the State fully under the gov. ,
ernment of its recently chosen officers at .
Little Rock, the practical aigument - which.it
would afford, would conclusively decide all
these remaining elections
_in the, in4resteof
a loyal reconstruction'
The situation is embarrassing to politi
cians antn..pidefUt one for .pittriots' fn. any,
section of the Union But, hfrAT:ver. much
it may divide_and distract pane_ sentiment
in the Nortli,ike Southern Statesthemselvcs,
experience all itsvv,ils - Flti! a bittern,
nifold greater. The loyal States recognize
the inflexible neceSsity . of a patiel4 Agiligfir
ante to their poi* which wIU ncitrebtiii
fleger_froin..ita firm - graft,. tiiion :Southern
rebellion' in any :‘Pf its.forma • TWs policy
Will' be adheieit to.. There is the, Minna
es:lic:tsaibility,of its .sbandonment r . neither:
tialiT'ear, the next, nor - oi' firs years. t4=
benie. ihan.that, the ob.
APRIL
_lO. 1868
sbriacy of the.Southem people will yield' td
the logic of events, and they will return'to
their obligations and privileges under the
Federal laws, convinced by their interests
and in spite of their still lingering and hesi
.
fitting. pride. - They have for three years
awaited the Northern " reaction " which
was promised for them by their Democratic
brethren. This "reaction" comes in in the
shape of an offending Executi veimpeach
ed and removed, of a Congress with nearly
three-fourths of its members in each House
uncompromisingly pledged to the en
forcement of a rigid and uncondi
tional policy of reconstruction, of
a Senate which, by no contingency possi
ble under ordinary human calculations, can
be otherwise than loyally animated during
the entire period of GRAvvr's administra
tion, of a House which no politicifin, not
even the. blindest- Copperhead, can suppose
to be in danger of excbanging its present
Republican chaMeter for the control \of the
Democracy. Southern •politicians I have
watched and waited in vain; nowhere, in the
field of Northern politics can the acutest or
most hopeful of them discover any sign that
the great popular heart beats with impulses
less loyal and lesolute than when a million
of armed men went marching Ott to rescue
the Union from its enemies. There is a
limit to all human patience, 'and neither
Southern strength nor,pride can endure the
trial for five years to come.
The day can no longer be very far—dis
,
tent when the Southern people will per
ceive the utter hopelessness of protracted re
sistance. They will see that nothing has
been gained either by arms or by their
passive, sullen refusal to accept the situa
tion. They will see that they are no stronger
to-clay, either in themselves or in the North
ern alliance and sympathy which they have
relied on, than In April, 1865. And, seeing
this, one State after another, they will yield
to the pressure of necessities and return
loyally to the Union.
A PLEA FOR THE FASHIONABLE
A strong tendency exists among many
people to decry and depreciate fashionable
people. Even Mr. Gonna, in his lecture on
"Curiosity," descends to this. Descends,
because it shows either gross ignorance or a
mean, pitiful spirit of envy or narrow mind
edness quite beneath the level of most of
that great orator's views. Even some bodies
of men, calling themselves Christians, de
mean themselves in a •• like manner. Be
cause then - choose to hold 'different views of
right and wrong, or to live, in a different
manner from others; must those others ne
cessarily hiss them down ? This was the
view of the powers of the Roman, Church
during the early days of the reformation; of
the. Pagans during the infancy of Christian
ity; of the Jews during the last half century
of their existence as a nation, and of the Puri
tans who fled from blind persecution in Eng
land only to themselves' become persecutors
in a ten-fold degree in America.
In very many cases the people who decry
and•defame people of fashion do so only be
cause they know their own inability to
themselves become so.- . For in all large
towns in the civilized world the people of
the highest fashion use good language and
grammar, as (well as good clothes, and be
have themselves decorously and according
to the generaoaws of etiquette recognized
the world over. But, in fact, fashioqable
people need no advocate; they themselves
are their olvri vindicators. The history of
thcfworld shows very few proininPlit• char
acters who, if they did not start as fasluon
able people, aid not end as such. What sol
diers fought more bravely than the iiarella of
the English florae Guards during the"
Crimea ? The gallant six hundred at Bala
kblva were many of them of, high standing
in the gay world. Geo. Washington was
a gentlem a n of .fiudflon, who delighted in
riding behind six white horses, and iri P send
ing out cards printed in England for his
evening `receptitins. Many of the nurses
and most of the subsistence committees
during the late war were ladies of fashion;
all of the prominent men and women of
America have had more or fess experience
01 fashionable life. Florence Nightingale,
Byron, Lafayette,, Goethe, Napoleon, Maria
Therese, Gutitavus Adolphus, 'and evert.
Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great,
were people of fashion; and many of them
liiaders of the Ton. With such overwhelm
ing facts A-staring him in the .face, it really,
seems quite incomprehensible how Mr.
GOUGH could join the ranks of the narrow
minded and allow his influence to be weak
ened by lending himself to so vulgar and
absurd a prejudice; and we do not find any
such prejudice existing. among learned men,
who from choice, and not from inability,
keep aloof from fashionable lit e.
AN IMPARTIAL VIEW OF IMPEAOII-
MENT
.We annex from the Washington corres:
pondence of the New York Times, a very
clear, distinct, and impartial• statement .pf
the Position' of the case as it stands at the
close of the Managers' testimony. It is the
more worthy of oonsideration since the
journal in which we find it does not edito
rially declare itself partizan; and, has been
fact, during
,the progress of the trial, as
prompt to censure the RepubliCan party, as
any journal, not avowedly Democratic,
which has come under,. our notice. tll4
Writer states the case, hilts presentpiultiOn,
as •follows: '
"The case as made by the prosecution,
though not developing much' dust is'acir; is
yet conceded to substantiate all the !indite
charges of Abu articles, except, the mitth,.so
far as oral and 'record eviftnee can do it.
The shier questions are, after all, the ques
lions oflaw,, and a ft er all that the' Prosecu
tion claimJs admitted by the defense, there
still remains the original theory set sp
by Mr. Johnson; :that laving, done.: all
_these things, he has nevertheless violated no
law. As to %the evldence,,i4cs4 safely. be
said that the following - points are filly
proven, namely; .
,that the President first
suspended- .:Mr Stanton under. the, : .Terturel
of Oce n act ; that Lb '-recogulied
that'act by &informing to it inrepeated in
stances. thsthististilittelyremciVeddifs, Stan
lotouring, t h e figim d mi of tbe. Senate, --with
('lnt'Atil *VIM ill t r f l i rt / 1 4t) , Act
176% 44 „sr ,Viumula,Psec-:
miry *me m *, violatimi tiftbe:
1887. t` Mb.' Themes. acting up
,
"And now, to leave e,pleasant story, let
me say a , word of the Ku—Klux. Every
body, by this time, must luiVeleard of the
Klan—the Ku—Klux Klan—'lf,. K. , K. Be
ware !'—and wondered what it was all
about. Ku—Klux, then, is a secret organi
zation, of late origin in'the South, having
its birth-place in Middle Tennessee, and
now spreading like wild-fire all through
this country. It Li' in Mississippi, and in
Alabama and all over Tennessee, and in
Louisian4, and, following Sherman's track
iii Georgia, is sweeping do*n through this
State into Florida, and out into Virginia,
Maryland, and the Carolinas. Wherever a
petty- tyrant, or a great one, oppresses the
people, there the K. K. K. rears its head,
and, wherever there are soldiers' graves the
order has a 'Den.' The idea put forth ( is
that the dead Confederate rises at midnight,
and, forming into the Pale Brigade, rides
forth to redress the wrongs inflicted on those
for whom- he died.. Dire portents are
said to be seen by night, mystic lights
and Cloudy forms, and squadrons that
go charging by, all in skeleton forms, mount
ed on shadowy steeds that move with the
speed of the whirlwind and without a sound.
The negroes, superstitious at all times,
given'over to belief in Obi and conjuration,
and the Evil Eye, are in lurge pertdrbation
at the K. K. K. This Cuff has met in his
midnight rambles a man, and, falling into
converse therewith, has suddenly heard his
bones, rattle or seen fiery lights in a fleshless
head, and, of course, knowing this was Ku-
Klux, has fled. And then that Sambo, not
to be outdone in trepidation or lying by
Cuff, has had his hand shaken at his own
cabin door, and found, 'bress de Lor', skel
eton fingers left within his palm. 'Ku-.
Klux !' if but whispered after nig,htfall, is a
sound to scare the Great Enfranchised into
fits. Great thrbughout the South is now his
fear. And whereas, . once he prowled
about at all hours, haunting the Loyal
League, and drinking in ,poor, impres—
sible, doomed barbarian—the murderous
talk ofincendiary &constructionist agents,
now he keeps close within doors after sun
down. , Mysterious placards appear in pub
lic places. Men are pointed out as a probe,
ble Grand Cyclops or a possible High White
Death, and in the midst of all this super
stition and surmise and joking, the fact ap-
pears that there is a Ku-Klux-Klan that is
growing with the rapidity of a snow-ball
rolling in the snow. No man enters, the
order but a •true man,' and a true man is
one that hates a tyrant. History is full of
instances where a people greatly oppressed,
and with no present remedy, have had
secret organizations arise among them to
dispense.a wild justice in those cases where
the law's are powerless to either protect or
venge. Let the reader turn to Anne •of
Giersteirt, book second and accompanying
notes, and he will there find an old time
original of the Ku-Klux in the German
Vehmgericht, or 'Tribunal of the Bounds.
As stated, this K. K. order arose in Middle
Tennesset3, asection of the State peculiarly
oppressed by Brownlow and his myrmid
ons, and was, doubtless, originally only in
tended as a species, of Regulator organiza
, tion for local use—the numberless sepulchers •
of brave men slain in the Western cam
paigns in those regiops furnishing the hint
for the peculiar insignia and phraseology of
the Klan. But, sin/ilia sinaiMus., like op
pressions elsewhere existing have superin
duced a like State of mind4o that in which
the Ku-Klux> had its origin in Tennessee,
and the Klan has branched out in almost all
the other Southern States. How far the or
ganization really extends, or what are its
entire or ultimate purposes, it is hard to tell,•
but in quitting the subject, it may (be said
that it appears to meet, with all but univer
sal favor, and promises some developments
'ere long of interest. ,
'‘'When at Augusta it is but a step for yon
to leave the State, and in leaving it it is im
possible to restrain a sigh over a great com
monwealth now given over by a fragmen
tary:and misrepresentative Congress into
turbulence, apprehension and gloom."
,
It suits
.. a certain, partizan view of cur
rent -events •to deny the existence of any
'secret organization in the Southern States,
having for its object systematic assaults
.upon the property' nd lives of such citizens
as :have become, by their avowed Union
,
'sentiments, obnoxious to their : rebel neigh
bors. But the evidence that such secret
ization , does exist," is indisputable,
organ .
while the treasonable and atrocious nature
of its operations has;become so dangerously
manifest that it . luis at last 'obtained the
-40 wit, cognizance from the military author-
We print elsewhere an article freal a
well known Democratic,journal, Which Dilly
adinits the existence'and Objects of die Ku
THAT RECUSANT.. rDIVANE, Dr. Wm,
needs mete 'reprhnande Undismayed by
the swiA4PPII3 Vlich'tllo:gPlßCP*o/-
In*lfas*eriophim,,, be h t i s agat t c,,b e in•
gillty preaching in'`BaPtistl 4#441/fO/11:.
'altit'churches.
, •Zr.O , ..'..4'.?.‘Wni%M,TW.ZV, •
on the order of the President, did attempt
to take posse,ssitai of the War Office, and
was only prevented from using force in so
doing by the intervention of Mr. Stanton's
legal proceedings; that he did attempt to ex
ercise the functions of the office, in giving
orders and signing himself Secretary of
War ad- interim; that the speeches made
upon the Chicago trip were actually made
as reported, whatever shiide of misdemeim
or they may establish; and that the Presi
dent, in dealing with the Senate, has stead
ily maintained that he did not
_recognize the
Tenure of Office act, while in dealing with
appointme is and removals under it, he has
tmiformly respected its provisions except
in this on instance of the last removal of
the Secre ry of War. Whether the Tenure
of Office has been violated depends upon a
law question. as to whether the act covers
Mr. STANTOF'S' case. It does, the prosecu
tion will hate no troable in proving its vio
lation, as k they have allready proved that for
cc inptposos the President conceded it
to b vali law, while for others he did not.
~
On is p int, the most elaborate arguments
will be mde, and it will be one which the
Senators ill End it most difficult to decide,
as some o them are on record heretofore to ,
the effect hat the law did not touch Mr.
t
'
STANTOW case It will be by a very close
vote, if at 1, that a verdict of guilty is ren
dered on this article.
One of the points which it is understood
the defense will attempt to prove, and
which they, will maintain - with all their
ability, is that in all these acts the President
intended'no violation of the law. They all
maintain the well known principle of - com
mon law, that to prove . a crime the intent
must be fully shown. But against this She
prosecution will set up the well established
fact that in the last removal of Mr. Stanton
he did actually violate alaw, on the ground,
as he maintains in his answer, that it is no
law, having nevertheless repeatedly recog
nized its validity by performing various ac
tions under it. The matter of intent, there
fore, the .3,1 ambers claim is fully established.
The charges,of the ninth and tenth articles
are among those on which, if on any, a ver
dict of not guilty x ill be rendered.
THE KU-KLUX-KLAN.
A letter from Augusta, Georgia, to the
New York World, a Democratic journal,
gives the annexed sketch
.of this secret or
ganization: -
CONGRESSIONAL.
MESSRS. EDITORS GAZETTE :—The name
of A. 31. BROWN, Esq., has been mentioned
in connection with. Congressional honors in
this district, through your columns. Can
you inform many Republicans whether he
will accept the nomination if tendered ?
No gentleman in the district can rally more
friends, nor can any present a fairer political
recdrd or better qualities for the positipn.
RADICAL REPUBLICAN.
[NorE.—We are in the receipt of a num•
ber of communications of similar character,
advocating Mr.. BROWN for Congress, and
would respectfully ask a card from him
bearing on the subject.]
The Methodist Church on Impeachment.
Nothing so significantly proves that pub
lic, opinion demands the impeachment and
removal of Andrew Johnson from the Presi
dential chair as the appeals Ind prayers and
resolutions of the great religious bodies.
The spirit that prevailed during the war is
everywhere revived, and there is not a
newspaper, a great divine, or philanthropist,
identified with the cause of the country in
that great struggle, that does not now invoke
speedy action from the Senate. The follow
ing report, by the New England tConfer
en of the Methodist Episcopal eChurch, at
Boston,Massachusetts, was unanimouslyadopte on Saturday last, all the mbmbers
rising, amid much enthusiasm:
We give thanks to our Lord and Saviour
for leading our nation through the blood
and fire and vapor of smoke which for four
years enshrouded us in a sulphurous canopy.
We especially praise His name that in this
hour of national agony the greatest crime of
history perished from the land.
We rejoice that in carrying forward the
work of national regeneration the Congress
of the United States has been so 'faithful to
the will of God in building up our ruined
State organizations on the only just and en
during foundations of equal and fraternal
oneness of man.
We deeply regret the constant and vio
lent hostility of the President of the United
States to the action of: Congress and the
will of the people in respect to his duty,
and that it has compelled his impeachment
for high crimes and misdemeanors before
the Senate of the United States.
We hereby heartily and solemnly approve
of this action of the House of Representa
tives, and trust _the honorable Senate and
the Chief Justice of the United States in
this most important trial will magnify our
laws and make them honorable in the eyes
of all nations.
We cordially approve the action of Ulys
ses S. Grant, General of the Army of the
United States, in yielding up the keys of his
office as Secretary of War ad interim to the
regular Secretary immediately on the de
cision of the Senate as to the right of occu
pancy. We also commend his whole ac
tion in this critical history as inspiring con
fidence in the Republic, and as showing to
all nations that in America her first Generals
are obedient to law, in both drawing and
sheathing the sword of victory.
We most gratefully recognize the sagacity,
courage and faithfulness of Hon. Edwin M.
Stanton, the Secretary of War. We honor
his great services during the war, and those
equally valuable which he has rendered in
this our last struggle with the slave power.
May God preserve him in his high trust un
til the rebellion, whether in the White
House or in its Southern departments, shall
be utterly put down!
As our nation has been conducted through
this long. perilous and bloody • controversy
by the spirit of God through the prayers of
thid Church, we request the members of our
churches and all Christians to be unwearied
in their supplications that the' consummating
of the conflict now going forward may be
conformed to all its previous , steps, and ob
tain for us as a nation, the continued and
crowning blessings of God.
Resolved, That a copy of this report lie
sent to the Secretary of War, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, the President
of the Senate, and the Chief Justice and
General of the Army of the United States.
How Connecticut Was Carried
The Hartford Courant of April 4th, two
days before the election in Connecticut, in
dicates the tactics of the Democrats by
which the State was canied for the Demo
cratic Governor. The charges of frauds
in New Haven have been prckved true by
the result of the vote there, as well "as by
the facts stated by the Courant as follows:
"In the Second ward when the Registrars
came to sign the list, the Republican, Mr.-
Andrews, pointed out a great many bogus
names, and demanded that they should be
stricken off before ho signed. He offered
to.o with the Democratic Registrar to the
streets and houses, in which these bogus
voters were said to live, and show him
there were no such voters there. The Dem
ocrat refused to do so. The Republican
persisted in refusing to sign until the cor
rections were made. He was assaulted.
The list was torn awity from him. He was
visited by the Democratic Mayor and oth
ers who.tried to intimidate him. It was
only when.pariers were got ready to enjoin
the list from being printed, until it was
signed, that.the Democrats yielded and
permitted the two Registrars to take the list
anclrevise it. The result was that over sixty
names were stricken of by the consent of the
Democratic Registrar. Of these only four
appealed and were restored by the select
men."
After the. sixty bogus names were struck
off the list the Republican Registrar pursued
his investigations and found fifty more
fraudulent names on the list as made out by
the Democrats. To avoid flirther exposure
the Democratic Registrar told some of the
persons at the houses where inquiries were
made concerning the residence of the bo
gus voters, that they need answer no ques
tions.
THE COURTS
District Court—Judge Williams.
In the case of -Rev. S. Washington vs.
Thomas M. Bell, previously reported, the
jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of
$1,191. '
The first case taken up yesterday was
that of Mary Kirkland : vs. Isaac N. Gill.
This was an action in dowqr to 'recover
plaintiff's portion of the annual rental of
houses and land in• Patton township. The
Jury found that JOsOph Kirkland did not
die siezed of the premises mentioned in the
plaintiff's declarktion. •That the - whole an
nual value of the said premises is two hun
dred dollars,"the third part, of which they
found to be slaty' dollars: - •
Augustus Haftje rt. D. Ririehart and J. A.
Herten. • This was - an action to recover the
value of several promissory notes. On
trial. -
qu a rter geed . ono...Judge Mellon.
DE r.urreTioo' ENQulwElsioo.
jrnmes riteaun wa4'Placed . on trial on an
indictment 'charging him with commit
ting. a felonioui assault unon John MeCou-
The parties were boarding at Connor,'s,
on Hind an evening in February'
last McConnell returned from . : kW,. Work,
and was about ,retiring to bed. In passing
PitAxdnegililOM he saw him (Pitcairn) lying
Anion • his bed anittiMMtio therevassomeN
tVo,g
strange in. his titsuice-l i ns
nnizsuallyinggiisii4) .whg e g
him
utiatftira Muljonnidl taint tatens nd,
and turning. rnnzid , eaw..Pifea4*
lowing him, having a gator in his . hod.
Pitealrn immediately aftliatgadthe pistol,.
, -- 1 --
1 aiming fortunately too hikh, the.ball strik
ing the wall above McConnell's head. Pit
cairn returned to his rooni and McConnell
following him, a scuffle dnsued, in which
McConnell was much inbred, Pitcairn en
deavoring tokouge out'one of his eyes, in
which he might have succeeded but fbr
the interferenCe of Mr. Connor, the
There
keeper
had of
been no diflip the bliardiulty png
reviously,
house.
and there seemed to be 'no. cause - for the
murderous attack. Afte his arrest, Pit
cairn expressed regret thht he had failed
in his attempt on the Are of McConnell.
~For the defense a nufriberiof witnesses were
called, who testified Pitcairn was of un
sound mind; although thdy had not known
him to be predisposed to *iolence, they had
looked upon him as insine for some ten
years. His conduct was •described as sing
ular. At times he was Moody and silent
for hours, declining to Okinverse, and on
other occasions he would4uddenly become
Merry, laugh immodera ly, and when he
did .converse would talk strangely and in
coherently of matters entirely irrelevant to
the subject of conversation. In speaking
about the attempt to shoot; and when ask
ed why ho had so acted, he maintained that
he had a right to shoot himself, which, he
had done, contending that McConnell as
sumed his body and that, therefore. the
man he had attempted to shoot was
James Pitcairn: I Aother testified
that the family had for y ars believed him
11.
to be insane, and he had b Come so trouble
some that it was considered dangerous for
him to be at home with! his mother. It
was noticed that when "the fit was on him"
his eyes assumed a strang , glaring appear
ance, were enlarged and 1 dieated unusual
excitement. During the . rial the prisoner
frequently smiled, seeming amused at the
endeavor to establish his thsanity. Of this,
however, the evidence left but little, if any,
doubt, and the jury retu ed a verdict, of
"not guilty by reason o insanity at the
time of the commission •of the act." The
prisoner was remanded add proper dispo
sition will be made of hini.
Edward Maher was arraigned on two in
dictments for assault - Mid battery, the
charges having been prefdrred by Michael
Maher, and Ann Maher, lii•otber and sister
in-law of the fiefendanti Michael Maher
testified that the defendan was of unsound
i
mind, and that the assaul was committed
while he was in an irritab e humor, result
ing from his malady. Fro n the demeanor
of the defendant in Courtq it was apparent
that he was of unsound Ey nd. Verdict not
guilty. 1 ,
Jacob and Louis Seifert it were arraigned
on a charge of assault and battery preferred
by their father, Jacob *iferth, Sr. The
parties reside on a farmin. McClure town
ship, and the dispute occurred , about the
use of a horse. , j
Comm
The ease
Railroad Coi
sion withon
Thirty-Elgl
male 111b1 _
6tl), 1808.
Another ye. - Society has
passed, and as we pause to . look back, its
days, weeks and months pass in review be
fore us. What is the record? Do we see any
fruit of our labors? Havci we _encourage
ment to persevere?
Did we rely on our own stiength we would
surely be discouraged; buti knowing 'there
is no power for good equal to the word of
God, and that however hi.unble our efforts
may appear td men, they Will be approved
by Him who notices even tie fall of a spar
row, we press on, trusting:that in the end
it may be said of each one:Of us, "She hath
done what she could."
And when we consider 'sour position as
merely auxiliary to the dAmerican Bible
Society, we feel we do our part in the great
work; that in its ( success ul working we
can rejoice, feeling that oit contribution
helps the great worlti By. the Treasurer's
report it will be seen that the collections
for this year are fully up to the last. We
have made four persons life members and
Dr. Hopper, Missionary tdiChina, a life di
rector in the American Bible Society.
The demand for Bibles in our midst is not
as great, owing in some degree to the num
ber of similar societies hi the city. We
gave out last year seven German Bi
bles, eightEriglish, and one Bohemian Bible,
one large print Testament 'and Psalms. We
have also given twelve Bibles to a Sabbath
School at Woods Run, twelve for distribu
tion in the Penitentiary, and twenty-two to
a clergyman from Virginia, whose congre
gation had suffered greatlY'durinig the war.
The lives of all our members have been
preserved; arid as we enter - upon - another
-
year's work may it be with lb.
new resolvei
do more than ever before in the greatwcirk
of distributing the •Bibled till the whole'
world - shall be evangelized ?
.The'following officers were elected:
President—Mrs. P. R. Brimot.
Vice President—Mrs. Sands.
Corresponding Sbcretam-+Mrs.R.. S. Hays.
Recording Seeretary--Miss Mary George.
Managers—Mrs..Brunot,i'Mrs. Sands, Mrs.
Hays Mrs. - Davis, Mrs. Banks, Mrs. Dickey,
Mrs Jamison, Mrs. Sawyer,Mrs. Swift,
Miss Henderson, Miss I - bitten, Miss
Pressly, Mikis George, Milks Nimick, Miss
Blackstock, Miss Herron, Miss Thompson.
Mrs. E. E. Sawyer, in accounfiwith Ladles' Bible
Society, April 6, 1363:
To Collections and Subscrlpllbnel $385 63
To Collection at Annual Sermon!. .. 43 92
. --
29 55 Cit. -S4
By contribution to American Mole Society at
sundry times i 1270 00
By cash paid for Bibles and Test4inents 65 69
Balance on hand. .... 93 96
S4V 53
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Another . Effo-t.
• • o ,
Some time since we publi hed ai account
of a case in which Dr. .1. - 1 B. Herron was
prosecutor and A. W. F ter defendant,
charged.with obtaining metoines and med
ical,
service under false ,p etence. It was
~
alleged by the prosecutor that he attended
the fatally of the accased fo/ several months
and 'furnished drugs and, medicines for
which he received no reihuneration, the
defendant representing that his father was
wealthy and would settle thp bill whenever
presented, and upon these ; representations
the services were rendered. He further
alleges that after waiting same time for his
pay he made out his bill and forwarded it
to the father at Baltimore, ,irlio repudiated
it. He then made the information for false
pretence, which for some reason was with
drawn. Yesterday he made information
before Alderman Humbert:Charging Foster
with fraud, in which he ic4uses him, as in
the former information , kith fraudulently
obtaining medicines and nicalcal cervices.
Foster was arrested, and !Liter a hearing
held to bail ' for his appearance at Court.'
The information was sent u and will prob
ably-come _before the GrandlJury to-day.
___
—The billiard nutteh for. ithe champion
ship of America and $l,OOO, bet Ween John
McDevitt and Melvin Foste r, closed at half;
past twelve o'clock, at Chicalgo, Wednesday
night. The largest runs wee : Foster, 197;
126,235. McDevitt., '244. 254, 342. On the
fifty-ninth inning tho balls, were nearly all.
together at the lower left hand corner. Mai '
Devitt caroming upon one, struck the cush
ion and apparently passed between the oth
er two. He himself appeared to think so,
as he turned away.from the table. His um
pire, however, claimed that a' count was
made, Foster's ,umPirt claiming the oppo
site. The referee was'esllled for his decision,
,which he gave in fiwor of McDevitt. 'Upon
this Foster put' on his coat and left the
room. Not returning , calla were made for
a decision upon the game which was ren
dered in faVor of McDevitt; ihe score stand
ing: McDevitt, 1,268; Foster:4,l62.
—The Nevada RePtiblican -State ConvertT
Lion met at . Car onyestordAy;pld delegates,
to the Chicago convention .were elected. •'''
Grant wae,unkiOnously,clusani roithe.neXt •
President. Alneoltitioria - wera,adopted `'i
crojing to teectuitritalloh'measures of
ongress and the impeachmoht.
Stowe•
Pennsylvania
:he entire ses-
of the Fe—
gheny. April
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