PN The Impeachment. | 'PropABILIY OF THE ACQUITTAL OF | THE PRERIDENT. SENATORS GRIMES, | Fessexpey, Trovsvnn Axp Hex- | i BER CRON The Sandwich Islands, Disastrous EArTnQuaxke axn Vor- caxie Brvermon—Oxe HuNorep Lives Losr—Cruerenis ap House | ks ProsrraATED—=UNIvERSAL Dis- | TRESS AND TERROR. SAN Fravcrsco, May 7.=The bark Comet, from the Sandwich Islands, | : brings accounts of a terrible voleanie | DEMOCRATICSTATENOMINATIONS | called them, may be succeeded by more | eruption by Mahra Loa, which began | } , l rineine i 1 We quote a por- its demonstrations on March 27. On | the longue un Fang uw the ears of (the 28th one hundred earthquake | nearly every person in the ( apital of | | shocks were felt, and during the two | the Nation as this despatch is written, | weeks following, to April 13, two thous- | Senators Grimes, Henderson, Trambull | At | and Fessenden, declared to-day from | hE ————— A —— ———————— | lican against conviction, and members | The great controversy in the Meth-| A little hoy some six years old, was of the House, seemingly satisfied that | odist Church as to the admission of | using his slate and pencil on a Sunday, others would vote with him, gave up in | laymen into the government of the | when his father, who was a minister, | despair and went home. By this time | Church, will come up in the Trien- | entered, and said : DERSON Acarsst Cosvierron, | it was Ho’clock. The temporary va- | nial General Convention in Chicago.! “My son, I prefer that vou should SEveran Ormer Rervpicay Sex- | cation at the Capitol gave the city a | [tis expected that 9 bishops wiil be | not use vour slate on the Lord's day.” ATORS CONSIDERED SURE ror Ac- | chance to discuss the day’s events, and | present and 235 delegates, represen- | “I'm drawin’ meetin’ houses, father,” QUITTAL. there is not a public or private place in | ting 8,000 ordained ministers, | was the prompt reply, WasmiNaroN, May, 11, | town that is not busy to-night with the | sibs | lyin That is the sentence dropping from | hopes and fears of to-morrow. M L i rf fi pes 4 Abyssinia. Tur Brreisn Forers Moving To- WARDS THE Ren Sea—Macpara Buryenp Dow, A Gloomy Picture. The N. Y. Herald in the following forecasting of our political future, draws |» strong picture, but we vet hope for | i» 4 iv +h :¥ uk 1%] ' 3 : } 0 1 | y ¥q ] ) arts | ret . . eA Y the awakenme of the people to the sit NTRE HALL REPORTER. |, : peipe T ation, so that such anticipations of | = vi » y en 3 i Harp 1 FRIDAY. MAY 15h 1868 evil may be avoided, and the “archi- teets of ruin,” as Thurlow Weed has | WAS FORSALE. A good two-horse wagon, apply at Centre Hall to mays oN, C.F. HARLECHER. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL : HON. CHARLES E. BOY LE, | patriotic counsellors, | tion of the Herald's article: : : : IN “Whatever may be the consequences ( AREAT BARGAINS : AT of Fayette County. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: GEN. WELLINGTON H. ENT, of Col County. Unconstitutional Laws. PRESIDENT EXECUTE THEM. Upon the doctrine, that the Presi- dent must execute the laws of Congress, whether he holds them to be constitu- tional or not, the radicals base their claimg of the absolute rule, and the sovereignty “of Cong Upon this the accusers of the President have laid the greatest stress, The President's re- fusal to execute the tenure-of-office bill, and his endeavor to have the Supreme- y A: tinea MUST THE FOSS, lation of his oath. : This doct Mr. in learned argument, in defénee’ of the rine Evarts’ his President, has completely demolished. He asserts the President greater power, but then neither a less IE IRSGESCS NO power, relative to a law, so far as con- cerns his rights, than any other citizen, as regards the laws, so far as they touch his private interests, Congrss has no right to pass No one need give un- constitutional laws; them unqualified obedience, no one can receive the same punishment for a vio- act, as lation of an unconstitutional for a violation of a statute which 1s constitutional. [t is every man’s privilege to raise the question whether an act is tonstitu- tional or not ; more than this, it is the citizens duty to do this, for the Consti- tution is entitled to our preeminent dience when Congress attempts to in- terfere with its judicial sword against hima who doubts the constitutionality of a law and endeavors in a legitimate : . Every citizen, manner to bring about a decision upon 1 on y ‘ Presi- } 3) $3 t ’ ~ 1 - nine right to have £. also the $ RT. iL £ Y. dent, has the und: Taw, which a judicial deecizion upon a law, in his opinion infringe: upon his vights, and fo take all legitimate steps in this direction. This has dent relative to the tenure-of-office bill, been the course of the Presi- which he believed to be uneonstitittion- A : order was issued Lo text his constitutional riehis as 118 con=pitutional Flgnts, as written against the tenure-of-office bill, and to brinz about a decision of the courts. There was no intention to use force. Were there no remedy against actual- ly or supposedly unconstitutional Laws, were at an end. It is fittine to remark here that the President in his exalted position, is ex- pressly elivsen by the people to euard the Constitution, and to nrobe all acts of Congress, before he undertakes to enforee the same, and to determine sision; as zoon #5 doubts arise in his mind. Upon thia right rest the impor- tance and weight of his vetoes, and it is this right which gives the highest, judicial tribunal its ev-ordinate ' posi- : dle 3 tion aside tion of the Constitution, nad the seape rr: Sisal of their powers, and the'ednstitutional- ity of new laws, Sr eect li ion. Mi ee impctste e Tyan ££ E “AA vf Nuxr fall the people of Centre coun- ty will vote for persons to fill the fol- lowing offices resent this district in Coneresz: one ney, in place of IL Y. Stitzer, whose terin expirez; one person as county ter, the out-going Comunissioner, and one person for county Auditor. — ee Hann RepoRrTER is Te Cexre sylvania, being only 81,59 per year in J advance, while all other county papers 1 —and we apprehend a great deal of | trouble—the Jacobins and particular- | blame. Levil. It is evident we are rapidly ap- | proaching, in the South, a state of an- Larchy and a war of races more dread- | ful than that which existed in St. Dom- Lingo soon after the revolution conimen- ‘ced. The Jaeobin city of ‘liberty, equality and fraternity’ in France, de- uged with blood and utterly ruined | same ery of our Jacobins that will pro- | duce similar or worse results in the (South. We are on the eve of a terri- ble war of races, and in this war the | blacks must go to the wall. The ne- Laroes in St. Dominga were far more nu- { merous than the whites, but | South the wl are the most numer- tous, Besides, their vast superiority, mental and physical, must lead to the . sib LILUS Tal Uroes, of the War Department! Why, it will require & hundred thousand sol- | mile massacres inthe South, "dred thousand would not. be able to | preserve peace if that war of races ' which is now threatening should com- mence. template. The atrocious attempt to subvert the laws of God and nature by establishing the supremacy of barba- | rous race over the white people of our Lown blood ean only end in the most frightful scenes. The cost of govern- ing the South will be enormous; and the Reopie of the North : have to bear for heavier burdens of tax- ation or repudiate the national debt. This id the alternative we are coming to, and as it is difficult to see how the peonle can bear a greater weight of at the polls. ————————————— d tf pre Europe. Vaoutteu “tit ¢ Tue rd Soir savs: The to appreciate the reports of impending ted and propagated purposely with a view to speculation. Happily they are Government neglects nothing to dis- courage aspirations and strengthen the desire for a peace, the other cabinets all understand that it is their duty to exert their in- fluence in favor of ideas of moderation and of equity. The marriace contract between Prince Humbert and Princess Mareh- : . bellicose On April 22 the Royal family, the | isters, assembled in the great ball-room of the palace for the ceremony of the civil marriage between Prince Hum- The President of the Senate read the thedeelarations of the Prince and Prin- | The cortege then proceeded to the ca- | thedral, HFligh mass was then eelebra- | toed. | lar demonstrations towards the Kine | and the bride and bridegroom were most | cordial and enthsiastic. Lotvox, May Tth—Evening.—It is 'marriacre to Christian | parent to the throne of Denmark. dm Reconstraetion. In Georara it is announced hy Greneral Muavnithat the “constitution” | 18 nly ratified and the Ruadieal | candidate for Governor elected. We | find the majority given ax 4,134. Six- teen negroes are, so far, known to be | elected to the House and four to the | Senate. To exclude the (elected Meane has made public an Lorder roquirinz the test-oath to be certal { taken by all members of the Legisla- | tureand other State officers. The new Governor-eleet is a CONNECTICUT ex- press-nian, In Mississiprithe bogus convention is still in session, having been towether Just four months, | 1x alto a success, thanks to disfian- chisement and the bayonet. The Governor-cleet was the President of | the bogus convention, a very old man, Land should he die in office, the Licu- tenant-Governor, a jet-black, full- | blooded African, will become the chief | exceutive of reconstructed LOUISIANA. i ig age ol places, and a tidal wave sixty feet high rose over the tops of the cocon sweeping human beings, houses, and A ter- rible shock prostrated churches and in and a thousand horses cottle. and a river of read-hot lava five or six miles long flowed to the sea at the rate in the sea. streams of lava rolled to the sea at one time, the illumination extended fifty miles at might. The lava has pushed out from the shore one mile. At Waiscehina, three miles from theshore, a conical island rose suddenly emit- [ting a column of steam and smoke while the Kono packet was passing spattering mud on the vessel. greatest shock occurred April 2d. oD In the midst then the streams of lava. on the shore were all destroyed by this wave, The earth eruption swal- lowed thirty persons, and the sea many more. region was affected. The sloop Live ' Yankee has been despatched with pro- visions, &e., to rescue and relieve. LATER. SAN Fraxcrsco, May Honolulu correspondence of the Bul- C around Mauna Loa. troyving life, and property. The summit and side of a hill fifteen hundred feet in lenath were thrown a thousand feet over the tops of trees, 3 1 . 1 and landed in the valley below. | gases that issued afterwards destroyed both vegetable and animal Ctain'sside. A lavastream flows under ‘six miles from the sea, and throwing lava and stones one fifteen hundred feet high. The new island thrown up is four hundred feet high, and is now joined to | mile wide. | A large | from the stream of water has burst eruption occurred. 'voleano 1g about thirty miles in eir- eumference, and is desolated. | $500,000 worth of property stroyed. is. rde- The King of the Sandwich Islands had issued a proclamation for the re- | lief of the sufferers. Many visitors had gone from Honolulu, and will go from San Francisco. [tis a grand | spectacle. ee ef rt ee Who Mr. Evarts is. | Mr. Evarts, who so ably defends | President Johnson and =o bitterly de- | nounces the iniquity of impeachment, | was the chief speaker of the Republi- | can massmeetings which was held at | the Cooper Institute, New York, on | the 16th of last October. The New | York Tribune is assailing him most | bitterly for the course he is now pur- suing, and every smaller Radical sheet It is a singular fact that very few | really oreat lawyers are left in the Re- | publican party. They cannot support | 1t without stultifying themselves. Its | dnetrines are so perfectly subversive of the Constitution, and of all law, that no honest man with a well trained in- tellect can foil to condemn them. tenet ef-s . Meese For CoMPACTNESS, ACCURACY, AND ons down to the merest “dust of the | balance,” nothing equals the FAIR- | BANKS’ SCALES. They are the than thirty years careful study, and constant efforts for perfeetions ; and » that the law and the evidence did not sustain the articles of impeachment preferred by the House of Representa- dent of the United States, and by to- hest reason to believe, more than enough | the acquittal of the Nation's Chief | Magistrate. The Senate proper was { called to order at 10 o'clock A. M., mirsuant to adjournment on Thursday ust, | first business in order was the dispuosi- | to each Senator when called upon to record his vote of guilty or not guilty on the articles of impeachment. He | read ; | First. Do you believe Andrew John- 1 i Seeond. Do vou believe this con- stitutes a high crime and misdemean- ur ? The Chief-Justice brefly supported his reasons for submitting these forms ‘motion of Mr. Sumer, unanimously adopted, The Chief-Justice then said | open to discussion, and each Senator wits entitled, undor the rules which had | first Senator to address the Senate. He | lating to the Civil Tenure-of-Office act, | but should vote for the conviction of the President on the second and third | articles, which charge him with the in- tent to violate that law, then arose, and proceeded in an earnest ly and collectively, and to denounce them as unworthy of any considera tion at the hands of the Senate. concluded by declaring that he should vote acainst the convictionof the Presi- dent from the first to last. rill, of Maine, Mr. Fdmunds, of Ver- mont, Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, and aa as successively in favor of convietion. port of nequittal. At this point the Lutes, took the floor and spoke against con- Everybody was waiting to hear from | Fessenden. The friends of the resi- dent had by this time become some- | what despondent, when suddenly news | came from within into the | lobbies without that Mu. | the ninth article. This was the ing point of the day. The break in ‘the Radical ranks had commenced, | and the outside current which had been | flowing for five hours in fayor of the ecomviction had commenced to run in | the opposite direction. Hof I1imois, was the next speaker. Sen- ! terest as he proceeded tor half an hour | dictment presented hy the as a flimsy, weak affair, that would not Lover by justice of the peace, to conyiction was very great with astonishing rapidity. Members vens, and then to Boutwell, retailing Trumbull’s conversation for acquittal. | Mr. Boutwell looked glum enough to seek that the hole in the sky which he had pictured as a place of punishment | for convicted and deposed American | President’s. The house, however, could not sit and hear the revulsion that ‘the Capitol; so the body at once ad- journed and informally found itself as | Committee of the Whole in the main { . . ‘ \ | lobbies of the Senate Chamber. Every { . . fu . . ' Radical member goon satisfied himself bull. “Impeachment hax gone up,” was the private expression of the most | excited, while the cooler heads conten- | tion looked very blue. i { | orous betting by some who had turned, and desired now to retrieve the losses, [By The Atlantic Telegraph.) Loxpox, May 8.—The Times of this morning has later and official intelli- Abyssinia, The despatches are dated at Tabanta, April 21. General Napier expected to start for the Red Sea coast yin his entire army about the 25th of May. Brittish force. il rt A Chicago paper savs: | & new reporter on trial yesterday. went out to hunt items, and after being away all day, returned with the follow- ing, which he said was the best he could do: froze our muscles A with horror. over a nurse and two children. Chad not the nurse with | before she went out, and providentially | the hack passed. "Then, too, the hack- thought of something he had forgotten, and turning about drove in the opposite | direction. 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Telegraph | determining the alue and werziit of | (hat seemed staring them in the face. | every material in the range of trade wards, and none to contain more read- | inT matter than the Reporter, fp ee dent. —— The public dept on 1st of April last, wis 82,518 209 687, if On the first of May the debt stood $2,500,528 827. Impea-hmont seems to have gone up. The Sonate again postponed the ta upon it to Saturdav, next, 16th. wr a ow says that “the extraordinary increase of Democratic newspapers in Pennsyl- 'vania daring the past six months is certainly indicative of and in conson- ance witn the grand political reaction | everywhere exhibited at the elections.” It further says that “new dailies and weeklies, large, neat, bright, sprightly, everywhere, even in regions hitherto regardecd a: Democratically barren, and they not only “stick” with the enaecity of a Stanton to the War Office, They are destined to a © —— A man named Powell, agent of the American Express Company at La- doga Station, Ind., absconded on Mon- day last with several thousand dollars of the company’s money. rt ees el tf pc cee The young King of Bavaria has been dissipating 1 | { { TT ‘essenden was on his feet, and making speech against the convietion of the resident. 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