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vekanitt, zetLy 4, 1888.
liljr4A M IPS the ifylial part •Of thu
ageniivg'sti elicond peric .Poetri,
Apliesecris; Ireteediansous &ending Matter.
27sird - page:: Financial .dollars in Nee
York, Mtnekete , by Th4eigralph,- River Hews,
&Ea pays. Anne Markets,
. stanee,,aind , Irnsde. iicerienth : Farm,
Glartletektind Rousalteitt.,
4:iinn closed in mew - York yesterday *st,
1441..
Tan lilemonnmr•reseltredin -1864- tbstai r e
Niraxwelsfailnre. i1n , 11368, itiisunderstioof
lhatiiliy will reaolve.that the war &mow,
.1410A/the extinction of akswery. ander:the
hegiesrof secession. So .much for Demo
cratiantallibility!
Bms thehuoigtuation of- a Rope;Heap
zcoretrnientio. Lonisisum, the State bonds
base Ogeelated Ikea thirty cents to 'fifty
'VIP/Waite on the .ds'llar, aisa with an ozir
waraandeneY. 'That is the way in which
igen street discounts the Pandletoniantrav
.
inpisgsdnst the recenstdiedriolicy.
•
'MB SPIRIT Wiadh.ailimatet; the .c ol i v ar t7 ,
lion of "Doutole Bailers" at Sew
York,. may be judged of from the faetithat
the addretti, which they yesterday ordered
to be preseated 'to' the other Demoessec
.gathesing, Aenouness _Gen. 4-rant as a vans
sadz 'What do,the 'Boys in Blue think of
that!
BE r i t tiNG the proeOeclinge of the Demo-
cratic - Convention .uk Satinday, we were
struck by •the evident 'demoralization of She
Psataprarroxuar delegates, frown the want of
good parliaments:7 leadera, and we remark
ed, yesterday, that however val:mble the
mob of his friends might he outside, the
'•Conv, entiMi •would be mardpulated against
•' 'um by , more skillful opponents. For
this :unpropitious state of uffmrs, his friends
:have attempted to pro:Me a remedy. The
Ohio delegation met on Sunday morning,
discussed the situation in that point of view,
and a half dozen of the nobodka represent
ing some of the country districts resigned,
sad Mon en, PEGH, Vsmszlnionsm, Yai
Taincr, and other expert tacticians were
chosen to' fill the vacancies. Before the
close of the day, however, Mr. Panre.cron's
sincere friends were led to apprehend that
- what bed been gained in parliamentary
skill was more than lost is the lukewarm
rust of : some of the new appointees for their
favorite candidate. Be this as it may,
things have evidently a bad look for "Young
• 4reenbacka."
- Wiwi the first law was passed by the
legislature of Pennsylvania disfranchising
deserters, while telly concurring in its
spirit and intention, we could not approve
the method by , which the end in view was
Labe reached. 'Recognizing the fact that a
citizen who refuses to perform the duties
properly laid on him disqualifies himself
for demanding and exercising political
rights, we could not consent that so impor
tant a question should be determined other
wise than by "due process of law." 'What
tha is every lawyer knows, and• most
American citizens who are not lawyers.
Neither the war powers, nor the necessities
of the great struggle, could be- reasonably
stretched to cover this case. Hence, we
- were not displeased when the Supreme
Court decided the law' to be uncoastitu
'demist.
Directly a new bill was framed and passed
into a law, to the same end, but with a
- view to avoiding the points decided under
the former law. When the bill was under
consideration we carefully =mined it, but
failed to discover that it met the case.
'Election boards were still constituted tribu
suds for virtually determining the whole
question - of citizenship. We are not, there
fore,'either surprised or grieved that the Su
preme Court has set this law aside.
is not probable, in view of the position
of limftupreme Court, and of the condition
of pnblie sentiment, that farther legislation
this direction will be attempted.
'-.'SE REPORT , of the Impeachment Com
mittee, relative to the corrupt means alleged
• to have been employed to secure the acquit
tal of the President, is completed and given
rto the public. It proves that several dis
tinct funds were raised, varying in magni
tude from ten to one hundred thousand dol
lars; for the purpose charged, and expressly
to buy the votes of Senators. It does not
prove that these votes were in fact so
.`bought, but ;the report conclusively shows
that Senatore who had been most active in
Initiating the impeachment, and stood stead
.- lly and ostentatiously committed to it until
,s very few days.before the verdict was tobe
-given,-did Urn, suddenly ' and without be.
7 - big able to assign any plausible reasons for
their change of front, reverse their entire
recorder and pronounce themselves for ac
-- quittal.2den, it is eonsidered that these
Senators tirevionsly no influence`. with
-the President, even to secure a village post
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office or a de vaitershiP, and that -since the
• trial they ye ,become,..sa,-potential at tile:
"White Ron as to control the Feaeral pat
ronage to a y extent desired, these elicum
stances 100 very much as if the corrupt en
gagements hI
ad been made which the Oom
--mittee 10 t(. proie specifically. In short,
o
i t
Senators R 8, Foisrunt and HiaIIDBESON
say possibl be innocent of these corrup
.
Xions„4,t they were really guilty, the 1
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3 ij
--; eircumstante. 'proof could not well be
stronger thP.n it is, - as set forth by the Com
mitte& This proof may not be such as
vror.lilnecessarily convict those Senators of
Vie orrruption with which they have been
clunted, but it is strong enough to leave no
toatbt in the minds of reasonable men that
the three Senators named are guilty to the
tkillest extent heretofore credited by an in
dignant people. •
The, report, in the same way, and as clear-
ly though indirectly, establishes the corrupt;
intent with which the-:President's Mends
worked out their schemes to: influence the
Chief Justice, by .tempting, him with the
prospectof a Democratic nomination for the
office which has been the ambition of his
pnific career. The three Senators are :a
real enjoying their reward in an Execu
tive favor which they could never have had
except as aconsideratiort for services of the
most valuable character. The counsel even
OftVe been repaid with nominations to office.
kit Mr. Gansu has not yet secured what he
Es believed to have bargained for. The
Democratic Convention hesitates to ratify
1 like-contract to that extent, and he clay yet
fail of achieving any solid except In
the indignant vontempt of the American
_ _
TEE DEMOORAVIC CONVENTION,
The dielegatesin New York ranssernbied
Itesterdszf,undarganized permanently with
•Ersmortans Chairman. The 'rules of the
Convention of '64 were adopted, without
;any contest, 'although this action fastens
upon the .Coavention the sequiremeat of
two-thirds •of its vote toaaorninate the candi
dates. ft appears that the PinidLETON del
egates recognized the danger of any serious
oppositionto this rule, and that the interests
of their candidate axe committed to wiser
tacticisms. Trizszipzurtem is one of the
aeinforeentosts to the Ohio delegation and
althoughestensiblyworking for PENDLETON'
ill net tail to improve the proper opportu
nity for sevenging the defeat of his own .
Senatorial aapi.rations butt,... winter by
i
Pxttramors's friends at Columbus.
It became generally known and
was on all hands admitted, yester
day, that th suggestions of "Mr; Cats;
touoliing the platform and his pledge to sup -
pprtthe nominee, place him in full accord
will the Denioccacy. His letter to that
purport, wntien to Mr. Cisco, cannot be
kept from the Pubhe much longer, nor is it
intended. to Withhold it when the proper
moment for its publication is resched. We
may look for its full text probably to-day.
These two met, PENDLETO'N and CHASE,
still appear as the prominent candidates.
The friends of the first have improved
their organisation and cltdm to have recov
ered some of their lost ground, but it is be
coming evidentthat the corabination against
Lim is so po'werfid as to reduce his chance
to a • miniimm: The friends of Qum
evince their strength thus far, ra
ther by indirection than by any 1
open muster of his supporters. They are
dividing the preferences of all sections, and
so shaping the local policy of the respective
delegations ai to prepare the way for bring
ing in the Chief .Tustice, at the right mo
ment, without any systematically organized
opposition. ?to this end they have already
made much progress. The Convention
voted that the platform should be adopted
before the candidates were ballotted for. It
was intimated that the platform would be
reported last night, but it is more likely to
be presented to-day. The Convention was
disorderly in the extreme, and its continued
session for several days is regarded as
probable.
A CANDIDATE'S DYING BEQUEST.
Kr. Punmarrop's financial theories gain.
favor daily with the masses of the Eastern
Democracy, but he is himself losing ground,
every hour, in' those high councils of the
party where the masses have little consider
ation and no influence, and where "be is op
posed by politicians who have both public
and private reasons for regarding his propo
sitions with disfavor. The rank and file of
the party in New - York, or the New England
States, have as little direct pecuniary interest
in the mode of payment of the public debt
as the same portion of the party in Ohio or
Illinois. And we should be sate in predict
ing that the greenback theory, practical re
pudiation as it is, will: gain strength more
and more with the Democratic masses of
the:Atlanlic States, the more boldly and per
sistently it shall be''agitated. Nothing
would gave the entire party from the de
moralization so fascinatingly involved in
this new way, to pay old debts, but the fact
that its leading politicians in the Atlantic
States differ fr;om-the mme class in the West
and Northwest in one very important partic
ular—that they arc, individually, wealthier
men and with large means invested in these
securities. It is notorious that, the leading
Democrats in the West, the men who are
the most prominent In conventions and
who publicly and privately control the
party, are, with a very few exceptions, im-
Pecumous adventurers • who live from hand
to month, upon the current plunder of office'
or upon the transient tribute of their
partizans; these fellows are not bond-hold
ers and never will be. If they t b ance at
any, time to come into possession of such
securities, they convert - them into more
convenient cash, and spend the avails as
rapidly as mar be. Not so with the promi
nent leading Democrats of the' Atlantic
States; these are almost invariably men of
larger means,
.who follow politics with an
eye to personal thrift, and lay up their
gettrngs, no matter how goL
Our inference is, that there ,will be no
difficulty,in making a platform of a PENDLE
TONThli cast tte acceptable to the pleases of
the Party in thellinidlt and Eastern States,
mat the West, that the East will control the
applicitioti 6f lbp platform by ite, selection
of 'the candidate;- iret°Miele, the
Presidency, would so expoundita principles _
as to protect the bond-holders faithitilly; —A disitraeieal riot'oecurred at s t i , P f enian East
that, con fi dent of having the man, the East- tigal l ethsrreet, ( New ° York, on ns , ftrePlourth.
era Democracy will cheerfully make such The police, being called to quell the riot,
concessions in principle, as shall Batley the were
attacked wionhineullttritirte
West; and, therefore, that the Convention swords 4
merit, some lut the police speedily overcame
will ultimately adopt a bond-holding candi- them and quelled the disturbance.
ITTSEVE,GII GAZETTE : TUFAiDAT, JUIN 7, 1868,
date upon a platform to suit all quarters.
That candidate may be ClL!.ss, or some one
else, but it will not be PERDracrox; the
i latter is too decidedly plcdged and tou
manifestly sincere to suit the , situation.
Thus the theory bids fair to survivt. its mi
-1 'thor.
BRIDGING THE 0111.0.
We are gratified to note the decisive vote
(eighty to twenty-four) by wkich the House
yesterday paned the .ohio River Bridge
bill. Its terms require that all bridges, now
in progress or hereafter to be built, except
that at Louisville, shall have an elevation of
not less than fifty feet above the high-wt
level, and no spans between piers of 1 ,
Akan five hundred feet in
,width. It his
been clearly deMemstrated that these re;
!Trim:tents are not unreasonably at vari
ance with railway interests, and it is also
understood that .tkey are equally satisfsc
- tory to those concerned in navigation. It
is earnestly to be hoped that Senators, who
comprehend the real merits of this question,
and who justly regard the sentiment of the
vast majority of citizens in this Valley, will
see to it that the action of the House Ob
tains the concurrence of the other body, so
that the question may be finally settled,
and upon a basis which' gives general satis
faction. ' •
A CHANCE FOR ALL YOUNG MEN.
One of the West Point mdetships for this
(the XXIId) Congressional District being ,
vacant, the appointment will be conferred
on the young man who may pass highest in
a competitive examination, to be held in
August, by .a competent committee, at the
Western University. Candidates must be
residents of the Congressional District, not
less than seventeen nor more than twenty
two years of age, but any who have served
one year in the army are eligible untiltwen
-ty-fouT. If two or more of the applicants
be found equally qualified, a preferenco
would be given: Ist, to the son of a widow
whose husband fell in the war; 2d, to the
son of a poor parent otparents. The exami
nation will be free to all, but intending ap
oplicants will do wOll to notify the Represen
tative from - this distriCt. •
THE following sensible editorial leader
appeared in the Eiening Mail of the 3d, tul
dressed to the Workingmen:
"The workingmen of the Eastern cities are again
in a state of tumult, demanding In some instances
an advance of wages and in others asking that eight
hours constitute a legal day's tabor. AVlallootir apts..
pgtbies are with the toilers, we cannot bat depre
cate the wisdom that urged the adoption of these
measures at this time, believing that nothing but
evil and disaster, alike to
stokesployr and em
ployee, milt result from the just irrangurated.
'fire recompense fur all kinds of labor at present Is
fully equal to the rates of living, and considering
the depressed condition of all kinds or business and
the unsteadiness in commercial circles, labor's reap
ing a gveater reward than Is capital.
"The fact should never be lost sight of that at a
time when capital shrinks timidly away from Invest
ment. it Is always injudicious to make an onslaught
upon lt In the shape of an advance In wages. Owing
to thehlgh rates of taxes. there are millions of dol
lars Invested In manufactures about Pittsburgh that
are not paying a per centage above one-half what
could be obtained by titer purchase ofGovernment se
curities, which are exposed to no risk either by tire
or a pan ic In trade.
Persons who advise strikes at loch a time- as this.
cannot lay claim to the title of the workingman's
friend, and should be treated as public brawlers.
When men who have families depending upon their
exertions for support can make their families com
fortable by the proceeds of their toll, they are ex
tremely selfish to allow the persuasion - of Idlers to
Come between them and their source of revenue,
Strikes arc only advisable when business is pros
pering and trade offers golden inducements to capi
tal, and when wages are cut down below living rates.
In the litter case especially, "strikes" are com
mendable, and should receive the co-operation of
every philanthropist in the land. We offer this ad
monition now to prevent. endossible. Statepread of
the strike epidemic in this of the
THE Military Committee of the House are
about to report a bill establishing a new sys
tem of military education, of which a dis
patch says : •
Each State, on complying with certain
conditions, is to have connected with it a
military department, to be under the charge
of two officers of the army detailed for the
purpose, and a portion of the vacancies in
the lieutenants of the army era to be filled
from among the graduates of such colleges
who shall pass the best examination. The
system is fully elaborated in the bill, which
does not propose to abolish West Point, but
to make the new system auxiliary to it.
The Midland Railroad.
Ground was broken with due ceremonies
on the construction of the Midland Rail
road at Norwich, Chenango county, on the
afternoon of Tuesday last. We hope and
trust that it is to be vigorously pushed on to
completion.
The Chenango Valley and its 'vicinity
has, since the partial construction of the
Albany and Susquehanna road.'been quite
the most secluded of all the populous sec
tions of our State; while it has a fertile soil,
a thriving industry, and a most intelligent,
energetic people. It needs cheap and ready
access to market; it needs factories and
foundries such AS will follow the iron track;
it needs cheap coal, and ready- intercourse
with the great world—and the Midland
Railroad secures them- all.
BRIGADIER GENERAL, LA:RA.IIIi IE C.
BAENA, widely known throughout the
United States as the Chief of the Detective
Force-of the War Department during the
rebellion, died at his residence in this city
yesterday morning. He was a native
of the State of New York, and a grandson
of Colonel Remember Baker,- of Vermont,
of revolutionary note in that State. He
subsequently resided in Michigan, in Phila
delphia, and in San Francisco, in which
last named city he was an active member of I
the Vigilance Committee which was brought
Into requisition there to put down • the dis
order and violence that for a long time,
defied the law. Since his connection with
the War Department ceased, he has resided
mainly in Philadelphia. Although he has
been • ill for several months, the disease
that proved fatal was a recent attack of
typhoid fever. He was in the 44th year of
his ago.
COMILIBBIONEULsort' of the General
Land Office, has addresseds circular to all
land officers setting forth thattxtensive
tracts once designated on the maps as de
serts are now found to be fertile and tilled
with thriving agricultural populations, and
that vast general wealth has been wasted
owing to the ignorance of miners of the_
value of the refuse they were throwing
away. As an instance of this, the great
Comstock lode was at first worked for its
small proportion of gold, until a scientific
miner examining its refine found it to con
tain $4,000 in silver to the ton. sug
`gads the necessity of forwarding to Wash
ington, for a national cabinet, every attain.'
able specimen of the minerals and products
of the new Territories, so that they may
come under the eyee‘of acientitie and practi
cal men. •
TWIDNIOCIMIC VENTI:oN.
Probable Continuance for. Two
or Three Days Longer-r-Thirty
or. Forty Ballots Likely—Pen
.
dletonites • Giving Up—They
- -_
Bold the Balance of Power and
EXprets Open Hostility to Chase
—The Platform Committee in a
Snarl on t e Financial Ques-
I
tion—The t and West Differ.'
1
ing Widely Letter from."A.J.”
—Bii Bid f r the Nomination.
• i
(By Telegraph to,t Pittsburgh Gazette.: -
1 sw YOBK, July 6, 1868.
It is the gene 1 belief that the Conven
tion mist Conti ein session two days, and
possiblt . three ys,longer. The Platibrm
. ,
Commi e report tainorrow morning
,
and a length discussion is anticipated,
which. may - nsume the entire day..
Prominent inembeis of the Convention
say thirty or forty ballots are nicely to take
in
ere a candidate for President is nom-
Pendletonita think they cannot gain their
favorite. Th e y have, it is conceded, the
power to pre ,ent the nomination of any
other man, and openly pronounce their
hostility to Chase and Hendricks.
The Ohio delegation held a meeting at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-night, some del
gates animadverting in severe terms upon
those of their number who, it was alleged,
were seeking to exercissundue influence
upon the action of the del gation in en
deavoring to compel the to vote as a
unit on all subjects. The d legation con
tinue enthusiastic for Pe dleton. The
newly appointed members, is conceded,
show much more advan tactics than
those whose places they upply. They
claim that they have secure a large vote
front the Southern States a d a considera
ble proportion of the Pen lvania delega
tion. _ . - .. .
The Platform Committee
sessions to-day, earnestly
reSolutions placed before t
come to no final decision
phraaeolegy of the financial
document. The east and
at variance on this question. ,
Sandford E. Church declined to attend
the Convention to-day. .
The proceedings in the Convention this
after noon, on the subject of nomination of
candidates, excited great interest. The par
liamentary tactics displayed in defeating
Hammond's motion by calls of the States
and motions to adjourn are the themes of
much talk.
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
A number of citizens of New York, on
the 24th of June, addressed a letter to
President Johnson, asking permission that
his name be presented to the Democratic
Convention as a candidate for the Presi
dency. Mr. Johnson replied as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C. July, 1868.—Gen
tlemen : To your friendly inquiry, whether,
if deemed desirable for the preservation
and unity of the Conservative interests of
the country, I would permit my name to be
presented to the Democratic Convention as
a candidate for the office of President of
the United States, I would respectfully re
ply that I am not ambitions of further ser
vice, I may say, indeed, of further endu
rance in that elevated and-responsible po-
Bitten, unless by a call so general
unequivocal that it would be an endorse
ment by the people of my endeavors to de
fend the Constitution and the reserved
rights of the several Commonwealths of
what was once in fact the Federal Union.
Of such approval, in the present temper of
parties, I can perhaps 'have no reasonahle
expectation. All histor proves that
men who, in official GOO, oppose
for any reason the the fished schemes
devised by factions to ace re power, usu
ally find more determined assailants than
open and earnest defenfle . Hence, in re
sisting measures which, though sustain
ed by Congress, I hone.tl believe to be
encroachments neon the natitution, my
task has been made ardno s, and seerning
ly ungracious, by an oppo ition powerfully
weal organized and pons ing a controlling
influence in the ha ,of legisla
tion unprecedented i the history
of the country. Compelled to devote
my entire time to the issues that have
been forced upon me, and to contend
against a majority repreSented by - two
thirds of each House of Congress, I have
been unable, while striving to protect and
maintain the liberties of the people, to
check extra extravagant expenditures for
objects not contemplated by the C4institu
tion, and to lighten the _burden of taxa
tion which now rests oppressively upon the
nation. In tho midst of these embarrass
ments I have not been discouraged. When
from the - public prints, or front
some unusually frank and outspoken
friend, I have heard that I have no varty,
the suggestion has only served to remind
me of a memorable remark, uttered when
faction ruled high in Rome, "that Caesar
had a party, and Pompeii and Cressus each
had a party, but the commonwealth had
one, aiming only, as the representative of
the people to stand by the rights of the
commonwealth." May I :not pertinently
make the application to my own
cue. Constrained in occupying mv posi
tion as the Federal Executive to abide in
silence wrongs and encroachments of the
most insidious as well as desperate char
actera, or, sometimes, when incapable of
arresting them, permitted only to employ
futile protests. Compelled; with only the
privilege of remonstrance, or the terrible
alternative of counter revolution, to resist
revolutionary projects; obliged to stand in
the attitude of a mere spectator whilst the
invaluable time of the nation' has been
wasted in causeless assaults upon
myselfor Ville° for the (meat of a party,
I cannot complain of the people.while wit
nessing have not been able to make my
cause thoroughly their own, the defence of
the Constitution and laWs, their own bat
tle. Until, however, the people's represen
tatives will recognize more plainly the im
perative needs of the country, by lighten-.
ing the burdens of excessive and onerous
taxation and preventing successive impcsts
upon the same article, - beginning with its
crude state and following it through
the successive stages of manufacture to the
final use and cost, the people. being thus
made to pay extortionately and ruinously
these accumulated taxes ; until the time
appropriated in Congress to, partizan
schemes is devoted more to legislating for
the people's wants, the nation will have to
be content.with the mere delusive hope and
promise of better times, since ;mere party
politics will continue to be con
sidered of grafter moment - than the
study and practice of political' econ
omy, the reduction of tariffii, and
making a President of more consequence
than the diminution of national indebted
ness and a return to a sound currency and
specie payments. With - the people then
must rest the eorrention - Or whalever is
wrong in the respect indicated, and if their
public servants. find them careless of their
responsibility, if the people will not do their .
duty in , Seeing that their representatives
' perform theirs, no Egeeutive will ever have
any . power to: successfully defend their
ucae4.„
rights, and few will e tto make tho apol
ogy coneesitiont. upon, he attempt.. I atn
nowgiowever, hal'have 'over -beent"bs t he
es iliti j cif the'riploi, and'nt, their disposal.
--J atrnagle r the Union : 'and the intefi-:'
AV; 7.4:14if Gevenifiiitt= beg. arrionettp;
Conscious if
laving honestly discharge d
my duties, and satis fi ed-that the writes in
which I have been compelled to t he
will in the and, at least, inure tot the bene
fit, and, indeed, safety of eonsitutiotial
liberty and human rights, I can . Well af
ford, I think, to look calmly on the pres
ent and await patiently the verdict (Atha
future. Whilst I know that the laminae
for the rights of the people and for defer-
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i.s ~:ki„ s ,~ v. ,;,.".mo t -.1- ~-+.L~ ,i~`.wEY .k`d ~j`~a~~
ence to the Constitution is not yet 11
over, yet believing that the late
palpable failure to do violence to
that great instrument and the executive
office, the worst that faction can for the
present do, has been accomplished, I
• would only, in concluding this brief state
ment of my views and - feelings, express
the hope that in the selection by the Con
vention of a canddate th Presi-
denoy, whose duty it
will for
be if e
elected
to ',reserve. protect and defend the Consti
tuilon, and to execute laws made in pursu
ance of its provisions, public good and
leading and well defined principles will
not be sacrificed to mere purpose of party
ascendancy. .
In conclusion, gentlemen. permit me to
thank you most earnestly for the kind ei
pression otyour abiding confidence in me
as a public servant, and to assure you that
the• approval of the people is all that is
requisite to make me feel that the efforts I
have made to restore the Union, on a basis
of justice and conciliation have not
been altogether in vain. Leaving my
cause and myself in their , hands, should
the continuance and conclusion of the con
test to vindicate and preserve the Consti
tutional Government be confided by them
to'abler and more worthy hands, I shall
cordially acquiesce, as has been my habit,
in the decision of the American people,
I have the honor to be, gentlemen,
Very respectfully
ANDREW JOHNSON.
FROM EUROPE.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette•)
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, July 6.-1 n the House of Lords
this evening Lord Stratherden presented'a
petition of the people of Nova Scotia against
the Canadian Dominion, and praying Par
liament to allow them to leave the new
Confederation. The boundary was
passed in Committee.
Losnos, July 6.—Sir Morton Peto has
passed through the Court of Bankruptcy
and been discharged.
have, at their
discussed the
ern, but have
lion the exact
i portion of the
lest are widely
LONDON, July 6.—Dispatches from
Shanghae have been received, which rep
resent that the revolution in Japan has as
sumed a new phase. It was reported a
oowbmation had been-formed by twelve of
the most powerful Diamos against the
Mikado, or spiritual Emperor. This new
complication threatened to prolong indefi
nitely the restoration of tranquility in that
country.
STUTGARD, July 6.—Hon. George Ban
croft, American Minister at Berlin, has
had an interview with King Charles of
Wi rtumburg, at which he presented his
credentials as representative of the United
States, and received an invitation to dine
with the King . It is understood the Gov
ernment is now ready to ratify the natural
ization treaty with the United States.
PARIS, July 6.—lndependenf.43 Day was
celebrated by the Americ,ans in this city in
a spirited manner. A grand dinner and
ball were given, which were very freely at
tended byFrench and American ladies and
gentlemen.
BELGRADE. July 6.---Nematovies, the
brother-in-law of Prince Sara Georgwicks,
has been executed for participating in the
ecerit conspiracy.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
LONDON, July 6—Evening.—Consols for
money. 94%@95; for both bonds, 73,4;
Erie, 46; Illinois, 102. •
LIVERPOOL, July 6.--Cotton firm; sales
of 15,000 bales. Breadstulfs quiet, at Ms.
for flour.
LONDON, July 6.—Petroleum; refined,
ls. falogls. 6d.
ArrwERP; July 6.—Petrolenm firm at
50 francs.
THE SOUTHERN STATES
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh aseette.)
The Georgia Leghdaturo.
ATLAInA, July 6.—Tne Senate a n d House
completed their Organisation tu.day. The
officers elected in the Senate are all Repub
licans. In the House, M. A. Hardin, Dem
ocrat, was elected Clerk. Eleven new
members were sworn in, giving the Demo.
cratil a majority. Messrs. Harris, Spear
and Chandler were amented a committee
to wait upon Gov. Bullock and inform him
that both Houses had organised. In the
election for Speaker of the House yester
day. McWharton, Republican, received
seventy-six votes, and Price, Democrat,
seventy-four. -
COLUMBIA, S. C., July 6.—The Legisla
ture organized to-day by the choice of F.
J. Moses, Jr., as Speaker of the Mouse, and
T. D. Caslin, President pro. tem. of the Sen
ate, Lieutenant Governor Booser being
sick.
in the House, Mr. Whipper. a Northern
negro, nominated a colored man for
Spelker, and said the time had come for
the issue to be made in the party. Here
tofore the Republicaris denied the
black man everything and showed hostil
ity towards him thereafter. He would
assert his own rights and protect them,
too, and the consequences must be with his
enemies. He was severe upon ignorant
white men who had been elevated to office
by colored voters. He said that thing
must stop or go to pieces. Considerable
excitement was created by this,speech.
By Iselegraph'to the rlt6ibiiratrai'det_
NEW ORLEANS, July 6. —The Senate to
day paszied,to second reading the House
resolution ratifying the fourteenth Con
stitntional autentliment. The: Senate ap
pointed a committee on electione consisting
of five Republicans andtwo . Democrats.
Mississippi Rlection. •
Jecxsow, July 6.—Returns from all the
counties but two: give a Democratic ma
jority of 11,400.
WASHINGIVN TOPIC; AND Gossip.
The greatest interest prevails concerning
the National Democratic Convention, and
inquiries everywhere are made for _the
latest reports of the prospects of those who
have severally
named as candidates
been
before that lx)dy. Private telegrams are
being seat here in large numbers, Giving
the state of affairs.
A letter received here from the Chn
merm gold, mines, on Maxwell's grant,
Colorado*
speaks of the recent discovery of
•
an astonishing rich gold lode. The writer
says she people are flocking there in'
'crowds; that 110 W ditches are nearly fin
ished in other localities; that new towns
are started, and new gold discoveries are
made almost daily; the old California ex
citement prevails in Southwestern Colora-,
do. The prospects of gold and silver this'
year, in Colorado, will reach sixty mil
lions 'of dollars and :more than California;
prodtems..
Seeretarles - Seward and Weller. have' re
turned froMtheirtrourelOadown the riVer* ,
Mr. lilderheittllffit 'anxious • to call. up.the
Tariff bill in the House. Mr. Sherman is
desirous of action on the Tax and Funding
bills' in the . Senate, and Mr. Cowles wants
to press the bill for the protection of Amer
ica citizens abroad.
Mr. Stevens is also awaiting an opportu
nity to present his now' artiolesof impeach
ment—now four to five• in number. The
articles, end a five eolumn speech in sup-
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JAPAN.
GERMANY.
FRANCE.
SERVIA.
south Carolina Legislature.
Loitslane. ILegislature.
port of them, are in print, but it is yet un-•
decided whether he will present them, as.
he is strongly urged not to do so.
The testimony taken ;before the impeach
ment managers is nearly as volnminousag.
that on the conduct of :the war. It will be
called for in Congress before the end of the ,
session.
The bill to tax the interest on our bonds.
will pass in the Howie, but will be kill c,
in the Senate, probably, where it is looked
upon as a mere set-off to the Demoond4
doctrine in regard to ibis bonds, and got np
for political capital.
Mr. Shellabarger gnes to Europe next
week.
It is possible that Everts may be confirm
ed this week, but Fuller and Smythe are
sure to be rejected.
A joint resolution will be offered by Mr. ;''
Stevens, in a day or two, deslaring the am
nesty proclamation null and void,
as it is
issued in conflict with the general laws or
Congress.
Mr. Blaine, of . Maine, has gone home to ,
stay.
The accounting officers of the Treasury
assert that there is not the slightest founds- ,
tion for the stories of frauds in the payment
of colored soldiers' bounties, and maintain
that such frauds will be impossible. .W
bounty legislation wee passing through
Congress, a. conference was held between
the.Seeond Auditor, French, Second Comp
troller, General Howard and, a COMMitteb
of the most respectable claim agents prao
tieing here, and the result was a provision,
which was subsequently enacted as an ad
ditional safeguard. that bounties. prize
money, &c., to colored soldiers be disbnned
through the Freedmen's Bureau.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
===ll
—John J. Cisco says he has received no.
such letter from Chase as the one recently
alluded to in the press.
—John E. Mulford has been confirmed
as Collector of Internal Revenue for thee
Third District of Virginia.
—An American had been been' arrested
at Havana as an incendiary for selling pic
tures ofPreiddent Lincoln.
—Some leading citizens of - Boston pro
pose to give a public reception to Charles.
Francis Adams on his return from • Eng
land.
—Reverdy Johnson sails from Baltimore.
August Ist for Europe. Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln aid "'Paddle" go in '-the tame.
vessel.
—There were five sudden deaths in Phil- .
adelphia on Sunday. ' The deaths in that. .
city last week numbered two hundred and
seventy.
—George Tratt, while running to fire,
in Philadelphia Sunday evening, was,
knocked down by a horse, trodden upon.
and fatally injured.
—Gov. Brownlow has issued a proclaim
tion convening the Tennessee Legislature
in extra session July 27th. It is under
stood that the chief reason for this is tho
necessity of doing something relative to
the bonds of the State.
—There were about five thousand people
in the Union Grounds at Cincirmatryw
terday afternoon to witness the Match
game of base ball between the Atlanties of
Brooklyn and the Cineinnatis of Cinvin-'
nati. The score stood 40 to 19 in SIMr of
the Atlantics. -
—At a regular meeting of the SOldifyir
and Sailors Democratic Club of St: Louis,
last night, resolutions were adopted re
questing the Missouri delegation to pre
sent the name of. General Frank P. Blair to
the National Democratic Convention, now
in session, as a candidate for the Presi- 1
dencv.
—A prize fight, in which Wm. Clark and
Richard O'Brien were the principals, had
advanced to the twenty-seventh round,Sun
day, on Ward's Island,N.Y., when a detach
ment of police from the !Fwenty-third and
Twelfth Precincts, made a sudden descent
on the party. and puts stop to further pro
ceedmgs. Clark and forty-one others were
arrested, but O'Brien escaped. Judge Con
nelly, before whom the prisoners were ta=
ken, committed Clark to priion, andorder
ed the others to find bail for examination.
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