Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1868 — Page 2

THE EAGLE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. BEC4TIIR, iHBIAIYA? FRIPAYTmAY 1868.' BEMOCI{ATIC_STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, T, A. HEADRICKS, -of Marion. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, A. P. EDUERTOA, of Allen. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. GENERAL REUBEN C. RISE, •* of Boone. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH V. BEMUSDAFFER, of Franklin, FOR TREASURER OF.STATE, JAMES* B. RYAN, of Marion. TOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, NOAH S. LAROSE, of Cass. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. A. O. PACKARD, of Marshall. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, JOHN R. PHILLIPS, of Davies. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, SOLOMON CLAYPOOL, of Putnam. COUNTY TICKET. ; FOR TREASURER,'■’P' _ j JOHN MEIBERS. FOR SHERIFF, JAMES STOOPS, Jr. FOR COMMISSIONER, IST DIST., GEORGE LUCKEY. FOR COMMISSIONER, 3RD DIST., JOSIAH CRAWFORD. FOP, LAND APPRAISER, ANDREW BARKLEY.

THE NEWS. The receipts of customs from April 13 to 18,inclusive, were 85,241.738. The Democrats of Massachueetts will hold a State Convention I at Worcester, on May 20 v to 1 choose delegates at large to the ' National Convention. General Schofield has issued an • order indefinitely postponed the 1 election in Virgina for the ratifi I cation or rejection of the new Constitution. The annual report of the Cen- 1 tral Pacific Railroad shows nearly I a million and a half dollars ofi earnings from all sources during! 1867. The Secretary of State has dis-; ■ I patched Minister Lamon to ask of the RussianJdovernment an ex- ! tension of time for the payment of; the purchase money for Alaska, until Congress makes the appropriation therefor. The Treasury Department re- i covered of Confederate property, i in Europe, 3114.167; of which ‘ 890,000 have been disbursed for i counsel and other expenses. The radicals of Chicago have ' called a meeting to consider the i feasibility of erecting a wigwam for the use of the Republican Na-1 tiona Convention. Thu movment | contemplates a bnil ling large enough to sent 12,000. The first direct shipment of whoatin.hjilk.from St. Louis to New York, left the former city on Tuesday, ruz New Orleans The lot consists of 20.000 bushels ofspring wheat, at 82 05 per bushel I —freight 30 cents, ineludintr hand- j ling at New Orleans and towage at - New York. The President, in a commuiea-1 tion to the Senate nominated 1 John M. Schofield to be Secretary of the Department of War. in the ! place of Edwin M. Stanton, to be | removed. This appointment withdraws the nomination of Thomas Ewing. Jr. The argument filled bv Manager Logan occupies twenty-three and a hall columns of the C'oajrei#-. ion al The uvst important thc line of the Union Pacific Rail has been completed. It ia the Dale Creek bridge,. four miles west of Summit. Twenty additional miles of track have been laid, making 260 miles now finished. Ffteen hundred bales of South American wool were tion in New York last week. The range of price was2ol/a29 cents for unwashed, and 60(0,83 cents for cleansed. The Secretary of the Treasury •xvs there is special ne ■ 1 of four steamers for the marine cutter ser vice—one at Ala>ka,--one oh Columbia River and the cost of Oregon. one for Charleston, and one for Mobile The aggregate cost of these a’eatners will be ?350,<vv)

Impeachment—An Extract of Judge Nelson’s Speech. Mr. Nelson resumed his speech, and proceeded to consider the articles of impeachment separately. He held, in the first place, that there was a distinction made by the common and statute law between crime and an attempt to commit crime, and U 3 the Civil Tenure Bill relates only to actual removals from office, and the President had made none, the charges made in most of the articles of the bill flail. But, aside from this objection, which, though technical, should still, he claimed, have weight, would maintain three proposition's, namely, that the Tenure-of-Office law is void : if it is not Mr. Stanton's case is not covered by it, and that eyeiuif it is legal and applicable, the President is not guiity of crime, because lie

acted from laudable motives. He quoted at great length from the debates on the foundation of the 1 Constiution and on the passage of of the act of 1789, and from numerous legal authority to show that the question of the Presidents pow er of removal was definitely settled by the action of Congress at that time, and claimed, therefore, he had grounds for honestly forming the opinion on which he acted from the constitutional requirement that the Attorney GcaeraLis to furnish the President with opinions in collected and bound by authority of Congress. I Mr. Nelson argued that they have a quasi authoritative character for the President's action. lie then cited a large number of opinions by various Attorney Generals since the formation of the Govern ment. in which they place.the same construction on the law of 1789 and express the same views regarding the power of removal as President Johnson. He referred also to the opinion of Air. Jefferson, to the action of President Jackson and to that of the Senate in expunging its resolution of censure on him, and then recapitulating the authorities and precedents for Mr. Johnson's course and policy and insisted that the presumption of honest intent was clearly made out. He next considered the position that Congress has by implication superior power to the Executive, and maintained that no greater powers were granted in that way to the Legislative than to the Executive branch as the Government. Mr. Nelson then elaborately sustained the proposition that no charge can be maintained which does not allege criminal intent, which, he said, was not done except in the fifth article. In the course of his remarks he. spoke of the friend! v embrace of Mr. <Stan ton and General Thomas, and the equal division of the spoonful of liquor between them, as the most remarkable exhibition of force on record. [Great laughter.] While eulogizing the honesty and simplicity of General Thomas he explained his language to Mr. Burleigh and others as caused not only by pride of office, but by the enlivening effect of the good liquor then consumed on tho’appearance of the siipleniental bottle. He proceeded to give a hnrnorons satirical account of the arrest and subsequent discharge of Gen. Thomas ; ridiculing the idea that anv

one believed he designer! foipe.— Passing to the consideration of the second and. third articles,’ lie adapted the statement in the President's answer as sufficient reply to theni. With regard to the fourth article, which charges conspiracy to obtain possesion of the War Office by intimidation and threats he claimed : t was not covered by the act of 1 SGI. which he claimed was violated. The fifth article, alleging the intended employment of force, he held was not-support ed by the testimony. The sixth article, in which a violation of the Tenure of Office law is also alleged he considered he disposed of by the argument on thy constitutionality of that act. The article was passed over with denials I that the Presddt nt's oath of office i was violated by the offense chargi ed. The eighth article, he met by i the argument that the alleged enjdeavorto obtain possession of the moneys in the War Department I i even if made, was not yj violation Civil Tenure law, ns stated I with reference to the ninth article. He held that the President was in the line of his duty when confer ' ring with General Emory about the 1 disposition of the forces. and that !no evidence had been a bduced to , prove bis purpose in that interview was evil. Considering the tenth I article be claimed that it was based on the principles which underlie ■ c ince its passage l»a<l stunk in the nostnls of the American people, fie said the President had followed tire example of certain TuemtK-rs of Congress in disregarding the aI menities of expression, and was excusable for using strong lan- ■ gunge in reply the abuse which had : been heaped upon him. Mr. Nelsort ‘ liisistod that the preservation of the right of the freedom of speech was indispen ; sable to maintain nur liberties. After a brief consideration of the cl’-eutli article, which he said was '■wk#* -!K -X " -

I sufficiently answered by his remarks concerning the preceding , article. He referred to the charge J of Mr. Boutwell that the President • wished to control the elections in i the Southern States, and asked how ’ that could be possible, with officers • designated by Congress in com- ’ mand, and exercising control o-j I ver all that region. -In coneluI sion, he reminded the Senate that trouble and confiscation had usui ally followed the exercise of re- ‘ volutionary or constitutional power in the deposition of kings and , rulers of people, and implored ■ them so to perform the high duties ■ now devolving upon them, as to ■ merit the approbation of their con- : sciences, their countrymen, and : their God. i Senate then, adjourned. 1 lie Democratic Victory in , Chicago. The Chicago Times thus sums • up the result of the brilliant Democratic victory at the election held in that city on Tuesday last: The Republican National Convention will be compelled to hold its session in a Democratic city—unless it moves away from Chicago. The chief city of Grant's own State has pronounced against him. , Chicago is At the election yesterday, the Democracy carried the city by nine j hundred and ten majority—electI ing: | The Democratic candidate.-for Judge of the Recorder's -Court; and The Democratic candidate for Clerk of the Recorder’s Court; and Gaining four Aldermen. This is great glory. Last year, at the mayoralitj’ election. the Republican Majority was 3,638. Democratic gain, 4,848. The Democracy have covered themselves with honor and triumph. ■ The Republicans have covered themselves with confusion and defeat. It is a magnificent victory. The people have spoken in a ! loud voice. It is a great premonitory symptom. It is the handwriting on the wall. It means greenbacks. It means,Pendleton. It means revolution. It means that civil liberty and rights of the States are to be reestablished all-over the land, ami military despotism crushed under the heel of the people. Had there been a perfectly free election yesterday, the Democratic majority would have been three or four thousand. It was not a free j election, because, in the Democrat- ; ic ward, the voting; was obstructed I by Republican partisan election i boards in every possible way:, while, in RepulJican wards, it was -facilitated in every possible way. But the scan Inions conduct of Republican partisan ' election boards makes our victory greater. The Democracy succeeded against every obstacle that could be thrown against them. We repeat, the Repuibican National Convention will be compelled to hold its session in a Democratic city—unless it moves away from Chicago. Chicago is Democratic.

Even the New York Tribune is | becoming nervous, • about the 1 enormous expenditures of the War Department, It attempts to ex-" Anise the mater by saying that a bill , has virtnaly passed both Houses ; of Congress reducing the expenses j to 832,957.293 per annum. This i idea about the virtual passage is J good, in view of the fact that the , expenditures of the army are nearly fourteen million dollars per month, as shown by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is good, too, in view of the fact that Senator Morrill recently declared that no t sane man supposed this reduced appropriation bill would become a law. The most famous frauds were perpetrated in many counties at the Arkansas election. At Clarksville, for instance, ninety-jiine votes were returned against the Constitution—since then tire affidavits of one hundred and eighty have been taken of those who voted against it. One of the Registrars is known to have voted twice, and was seen to tear up con ; servative tickets from the military ballot box. Negroes were permitted two or three times, and even negro women appeared, dressed in meifs jclothes, and deposited their votes. • - The New York Krening Poet, radical though it is, admits that if there is such an organization as the Kuklux Klan in the South, it was necessarily called into- existence as an opposition to the secret leagues organized among the negroes. If the negroes are organized into secret armed bodies for the purpose of asserting their surpremacy over the whites, it is I no more than natural that the | whites should • organize for self-1 pr'tection.

Election News. New Orleans, April 23.—The complete returns show the majority in this parish against the Com stitutibn, to be 208. One Democrat and one Republican Congressman are elected! Conway, Democrat, was chosen Mayor, with a Democratic majority in both branches of the City Council. Returns from the country parishes, places the Constitution nearly 3,500 ahead in twenty-two parishes. The Crescent concedes the ratification of the Constitution, and the election of the radical State by 7,000 majority. The Republican claims a majority of 2-500. Raleigh, N- C., April 23.—The polls were closed at six o'clock this evening. About 2,250 ballots were polled in this city, approximating very nearly to the whole number of registered voters. The count will require over twenty-four hours, there being Giver 100,000 names to count. Wall County is reported to have gone for the Constitution by 500 majority. The majority against the Constitution in is 500; inCleavland, 1,000; in Gaston, no figures : in Rowan, a large majority, and in Nash, 300. There are no rumors as to the figures in other counties. Both parties claim a majority, Lift the conservatives are very confident of defeating the Constitution and Governor Holden.

Savannah, Ga., April 23.—The conservatives are gaining to-day, and they are jubilant and enthusiastic. The election passed off quietly, and the polls were closed at six o'clock this afternoon. The majority of the city vote is considered to be conservative, and the vote of the county radical. The result is doubtful. The city, vote I to-day numbers 1,604,. and the ! county vote 274. Total for the city and county for four days, 7,664. Columbus. Ga.. April 53.—The election closed in good order. The total vote is 2.834. Over 200 white votes were excluded from voting. I The Democrats are in high spirits. Macon, Ga., April 23.—1 n this county 4,499 votes were cast. The result is doubtful. The Democrats claim a majority of 200. Houston County is claimed to have gone Democratic. The Democrats have carried Lee by a small majority. Baker 240, Mitchell by 300, and Wilcox by 300 majority. Wilkinson gives the radicals a majority. Atlanta, April 23.—The election has passed off quietly. Gordon and the Democratic county ticket arc ahead in Fulton County. The votes will not be counted until to morrow. Augusta, April 23.—The polls have closed. The vote to-day numbered 817, and total for four days, 5,256. Bulloch's majority for Governor is fully 1,000; The election closed in a riot between the whites and blacks, in which several were wounded, but none seriously. «

Subsequently a negro knocked a white ladv down, injuring her severely. This added to the excite ment, and fears are entertained of a general riot. Several shots were fired at the freedman, but he escaped with a slight flesh wound. After the arrest of the negroes the military charged through the streets, dispersing the crowd. After quiet was restored it was ascertained that the.negro who assaulted the lady was laboring under a temporary fit of insanity. When this became known quiet was restored, and at this hour, ten p. m., the city is perfectly quiet, ami order reigns. 'Wilmington, N. April.—The elections returns, are not yet in, but enough is known to indicate thegeneral result. Halifax Countv.gives a radical majority of 1,GOO. The registered negro vote is 2.000. The following are majorities against the Constitution; Wilson, 500; Columbus, 350; Dupion, 500; Sampson, 100. Rowan, Catawba, and Union Counties, with a registered negro majoriiy of about 1.500 went for the Constitution by reduced majority Bruswick will be doubtful. The reported vote of one precinct is about 300 against and 100 for the Constitution. The radicals claim Forsyth, Randolph and Chatham Counties by larg majorities. Conservatives also claim Chatham. * LATER. The radical majority in this city isBG2, being 13G over the registcred vote. The negroes are very disorderly to-night Both parties arc con fident as to the general result, and there has been considerable betting to-day. Newlierp.'N. C., April 23.—The polls closed at six o’clock this afternoon. The total vote ofNewbcm and James City show a Republican majority of 1,750. In Broad Creek precinct nine blacks and ninety-four whites voted. Bay River, on the second day, gave eighty conservative majority. Catterel County has gone conservative.

In the Charleston Convention, Ben Butler fifty-seven times for Jeff. Davis, as the Democratic candidate for President. A gentleman now in Washington gives this further incident: When the Breckinridge faction withdrew from the convention, they went over to the Maryland Institute and held their convention in that place. In passing out of the convention, Butler accosted Mr.—, and said: “Doctor, why don’t you get away from this crowd of d—d abolitionists, and come over among gentlemen ?” The Doctor was a Douglas man. What kind of company is Butler in now? ■ — — ■■ — The hair is not only one of the accessories of human beauty, but is designed to protect the health ; as a bad conductor of heat it serves to equalize the temperature of the brain. The nerve contained in tiie hair tube is frequently paralized and the coloring destroyed ; but by proper remedies the gray hair can be restored to its original color, and where it has fallen off a new growth can be produced by the use of Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Ilenewer. The reproducing power of this invaluable compound is beyond a doubt. By its, use the absorbents become active and nourish the bulb which supports the roots of the hair. Here is a Washington special to Thurlow Weed’s paper, the New York Ciimmercial Advertiser: Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia, goes to New York to-night, to collect funds from wealthy merchants and politicians in that city for the Congresional Committee, organized to disseminate negro suffrage in the South. While all the Northern States are rejecting negro suffrage, the] scheme of Africanizing the South I is urged on. Coi’ild anything be more inconsistent and unjust ?

Brownlow has pardoned out a rascal just sent to prison for attainting rape upon his mother inlaw; and commissioned him Captain of a company of his loyal militia. A thief in Buffalo has been sentenced tdTTve years in the work house, for robbing a man of five dollars, A year for each dollar. n£w advertisements Appointment Administrator. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed Administrator of the estate of Mary Anu A spy, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. MARK a spy, May 1, wl. Administrator. Administrator s Sale. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator of the Estate of Mary Aim Aspy, debased, will sell at Public Auction, nt the residence of Hugh Glnncy, in Monroe township, in Adams county, in the State of Indiana, on Satcrav, May 23, 1368, the following articles of personal property, to-wit: Two head of Horses, a lot of Sheep, Geese, Farming Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Cook Stove, and various other articles. TERMS:—Sums under three dollars cash; three dollars and over a credit of nine months, by the purchaser giving his note with approved security, waiv ing benefit of valuation laws. MARK ASPY, May 1, w 3. Administrator. License Notice. Notice is hereby given to Hiecitiiens of Hartford Township, Adams County, Indiana, that the undersigned will apply to the Board cf‘ < iommissrioners of said Adams county, at their June session, 1868, for license to sell spirituous. vinonf, malt and other intoxicating liquors, for one year, in less quantities than a one quart at a time at the following described premises in the town of Buena Vista, in Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: In-lot number seven (7), in said town, to be used and drank as a beverags on said premises. May Ist. 1868. JACOB STALEY. JVolice of Survey. Notjeegs hereby given that Twill, op the 15th.dav of June,. 1868, at nine o'clockj A. M.. begin the survey of seCt'v> n thirty-four, in township twenty-eight, north, of range fifteen east, and the perpetuation and location of lines Mid corners thereof. Said survey to begin Ht the north-west coxfl cr of section, and be continued from day to day till completed. H. C. PETERSON, S. A. C William Drake, 1 Applicant Christian Mitch, J May 1, 1868, w 3. .Votice or Survey. Notice is hereby given that I will, on 1 the'2s th day of June. A- d.. 1868. al nine I o’clock, A. M., begin the survey of secI tion ten, in township twenty-six i north, range fifteen east, location and perpetuation of lines and corrhers thereof. Said survey To begin at she north-w<»«t corner of said section, and continue from day to day till completed. f H. C. PETERSON, S. A. C. Christopher Kuhhix, Applicant. May 1, 1868, w 3. W 4. MTED.—Teachers, Students, and other intelligent Men ami Women I in a business paying SIOO to S2CO per month, according tn ability. For particulars, address ZEIGLER. McCURDI I s CO.. Lombard Block. Chicago, HL vllatA

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