Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON
rnIAL OF JrrpEnsos DAVIS.

FROM WASHINGTON.
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Washington RepublieGH of Wednesday says;
The law officer Of the Government, under instruc-
tong of the President is preparing to have Jefferson
Davis anaigned before the United States Circuit
Court Of Virginia, which meets at Norfolk, Va, on
the first Monday in May, upon the charge of high
treason. Nothing will prevent this action but the
Intervention of Congress or the refusal of Chief
Justice Chase to try it.
But the Geographic correspondent from Washing
ton of the Baltimore Sum- under date of 25th, says
This is a mistake. No such instructions have
been given, but there have been frequent cOnsuta
tons with eminent legal gentlemen respecting JEFF
ferson Davis and Others implicated in crime against
the United States, in connection with the late re-
beon, and looking to their trial at some future pc
rod, and the subject is still under consideration.
THE PATRONAGE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO BE
BROUGHT TO BEAR.
During an interview this forenoon between the
President and one of the Representatives from the
keystone State the former laid down his policy for
the future in pretty decided language, and among
other things declared that the he had marked
out should be sustained, if it required wholesale
removal of those in office who are known to oppose
him in his work of restoration. This is the first
known instance in which the President has spoken
so freely upon the subject o. removals in connection
with the maintenance of the principles he has laid
down.
This paragraph is communicated from Washington
to the Philadelphia Ledger. Its statement is pretty
we'll confirmed by the following paragraph in a let
ter from Dead Duck Forney to the Philadelphia
| Press:
Andrew Johnson's conspiracy to destroy the great
Republican Union party OF America is being rapidly
| developed. The signs this morning are uHmstaka
| bic. 1t is now confidently asserted by the politi
cians to whom Johnson has given the contract that
| Colonel Richard Coulter, of Westmoreland county
Pennsylvania, has been fixed upon as the johnson
candidate for Governor, and will be placed in NOM
nation at Pittsburgh in July next, when and where
the purposes of this new movement will be formally
and explicitly stated. But this is wholly unnecessa
ry as these purposes definitely understood to be
the overthrow of the Republican Union party, the
election of Cymer over Geary, the obliteration OF
| the Republican majority in Congress and the ad-
mission of the rebels into the Senate and House.
| Whether Colonel Coulter is willing to assist in pro-
ducng this amentable condition of things remains
| to be seen. But the ball has now fairly opened,
and there is not county in Pennsylvania in which
Republicans are not to be tempted by the patronage
belonging to that party to aid in its decentralization
and defeat The busiest man in this shameless
treac hery is the President himself
THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
The National nteHigencer of yesterday says;
There are well-authenticated reports that the Re-
terday, were dissentient upon the programmes that
have been regarded orthodox and prime neceSSi-
ties by the extremists. This is in cOnsistence with
warnings of late from Western papers, and which
we believe to be based upon the heartfelt sentiments
of nearly one-half of the Republican members, to
the effect that steps would be taken in behalf of the
restoration of Southern States.
ANOTHER DESPATCH TO MINISTER MOTLEY.
There are rumors that Mr. Seward has addressed
another despatch to Mr.. Motley, our representative
at Vienna, Since the one of the 10th instantly in
which he takes even more decided ground than on
that occasion, inasmuch as he threatens to send
back the Austrian Minister here if his Government
carries out its determination to send troops to MeXi
co, while Mr.. Motley, at the same time, will be re-
called.
CONGRESSIONAL sPAT.
Tuesday, when the bill recognizing the army was
under consideration
Mr.. Conkling moved to strike out the clause esta
blishing a Provost Marshals Bureau. Mr.. c. made
a long speech against Provost Marshas and their
dongs He (Conkng) had been directed by the
Government to prosecute the Assistant Provost Mar
shall Major HaddOck, who was justified by his supe-
riOr officer (Fry) down to the time when his sentence
was published he having been convicted of the
very basest forms of official atrocity Every Of
fence, from highway robbery, up and down, had
been charged and proved against him and although
this man had dsgOrged 100000 under the prosecu-
ton he had purchased the other day establish
ment in Philadelphia, for which he had paid s7l 900
down.
Mr. Blaine said he would not go into the quarrels
that the gentleman from New York MR. Conkngl
had had with General Fry, in which quarrels he UNI
JerstoOd, that the gentleman from New York had,
through the decision of the Secretary of War, come
out second best He took great pleasure in saying
that an efficient officer, as heightened gentle
man, as man ready TO meet the gentleman from
New York anywhere and everywhere as man
without spot or blemish and who was ready to meet
all his accuse, James B. Fry was not second to any
officer in the American army.
Mr.. Conkling rose to respond He said the state
ment made by the gentleman from Maine, with re-
ference to myself, and my quarrel and issues with
| General Fry, is false Mr.. Speaker false; that is
what mean to say, it is
Mr.. Blaine, rising-What does the gentleman
mean to say is false
Mr. Conkling-I mean to say that the statement
made by the gentleman from Maine is false. Does
| he (NIr. Blaine) understand what mean.
Mr.. Blane-What statements
Mr. Conkling-The statement concerning my is
| sues with General Fry.
Mr. Blane-I call the gentleman to order.
| On the next day, Wednesday
| Mr. Blaine, of Maine, arose to personal explana-
ton, and after abiding to the debate of personal
| character between himself and Mr. COnkling of
| New York, on yesterday, relative to the Provost
| Marshal General of the army, said that he had
learned that Mr.. c. had gone to the Globe Office and
altered the report of the debate that then took place.
He found that that gentleman had made essential
phrase that he (Conkling) responsible here and
elsewhere" for what he had said in debate to the
phrase that he was responsible at all times and in
| all places" The phrase here and elsewherc,
which was known a kind of bullying language
familiar to Congress and used by the gentleman
| Yesterday, had been stricken out and other words
substituted. He (Mr. b. spoke of that phrase as
cheap swagger." lie considered these alterations,
interpretations by MIR. u, VIOLATION OF all prlncl-
| pies of honor.
| Mr. Conkling, ofNew York, rose to a personal eX-
PLANTATION, and in reply to the gentleman who had
Just spoken, said that he was as incapable of doing
ANYTHING as gentleman in violation of the rules OF
| propriety and decorum as that gentleman pretended
| to be. He denied that he made in any respect or
particular change in the report OF his remarks so
| as to alter anything that had taken place in this
House. The only alterations which he had made
| were such as all gentlemen make in correcting the
surplusage and diiiusveness of their remarks. On
Yesterday he Mr. c. spoke Of the administration of
| a public officer and the member from Maine (Mr.
| Blane) in q frivolous and impairment manner,
charged that in denouncing tnat officer he was actu
ated by private motives and was skulking behind
the Constitutional privilege of debate to traduce
| him.
In reply he (Mr c. declared that to be false, and
said that he would be responsible for what he had
said about that officer, "here and elsewhere" The
member from Maine had spoken of those words as
meaning duel, but his knowledge Of that member
did not lead him to believe that duel or anything
| in that line could be got out of him. Mr.. COnkling
then proceeded to say that he had simply used the
words "all times and places" for the words there
and elsewhere" There was no alteration which put
that gentleman in different position or lessened the
force of his Alr. C.s) remarks. He threw back the
| imputation of the gentleman about violating the
| honor of a gentleman and he thought that the time
was far distant when he should take lesson from
| that member.
Mr. Blaine, of Maine again arose and said that
| those remarks came with i'll grace IRON member
whose reputation for personal courage was not very
| brilliant Here the matter ended.
The colored Methodists of Charleston, S. c., have
purchased the Second Baptist church in that city for
! $4,000 in gold