The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-11-22

and we had a hong talk with himS He told
IA he meant to hang the leaders of the Te,s
b bslljon right away, as soon ns they could
b. tried aud convicted BY military oomN
As we went away Ben. Butler
said he was delighted with Johnson; that
he seemed TO be regular trump, We
looked up the law OF the case, and in few
days called on him again. | talked to
him about this very question Of reconstrucs
ton. Tie said he was very glad that il was
u matter with which he mad nothing to do s.
flat /. belonged to Congress- exclusively
aud he should lot Congress take care Of it,
We parted. and soon after / went home,
with the assurance from him that he would
take no step not sanctioned by the leadefs
of the Republican party. ] heard nothing
from him until about two months later,
when Imet John Covode at q hotel In Cleves
land, and learned that the President had
been in close communion with GopperheAdA
and rebels, aud had said to Covode that he
lJohnsonl could do without the Radicals
better than the Radicals could do without
him. About month after, went on TO
Washington for the winter, and called pt
the White House. | found tho anteroom
fun of rebels and Copperheads, and was
soon convinced, from the style in which /
was received, that Johnson had found
friends and advisers outside Of the Repubr
lican party. knew then that he had
started on the downward track, and made
up his mind to betray the party and tho
couptry, too. il he could. | tried my best
to keep him in, but II was no go.'
MRS. LINcoLN.
During our nversation, the subject OF
Mrs. Lincoln and her recent disgracoiui
conduct came up, and remembering that
Mr.. Wade was one Of committee appointed
by the two Houses TO investigate the PEE
cuniary condition in which Ar. Lincolns
| family was left, asked him if it was trueS
us stated by Mrs. Lincoln, that Mr.. LinaOlm
| left little or no property behind him. No,t
said he, "its a d--d lie. We looked into
that matter very carefully. The Illinois
men wanted us TO give her one hundred
thousand dollars, aud We agreed to do 30,
if il appeared that she really needed u.
| We sent for the administrators Of the estate.
aud he testified that Mr. Lincoln left rev.
enty.fve thousand dollars in Government
bonds, or something like that, besides sums
little productive property in Springfield.
lllinois---in all, about one hundred thousand
dollars. We thought then, that twenty.
1--WE thousand dollars would be enough
! the same as was paid to the widow OF Gen.
oral Harrison, Mrs. Lincoln very we'll
oil, aud didn't need,i even what she got.
She took hundred boxes Of something or
j other--I don't know what-away with her,
and the Commissioner Of Public Buildiugs
swore there were fifteen other boxes that
she wanted to carry of, and he had to in
terEere to prevent her. At any rate, shc
cleaned the White House. didn't know
but what she was going to run big hotel,
with all she carried eff"
a1r CONFlsCATIoN. %
Mr.. Wade characterized Thad. Stevens'
pending -conhscation bill, az id foolery.
The time for conliscation bills, he said was
during the war, when they could be Of use
in preventing men from going into the re-
bellion, but to think of passing such, .
measure now, was sheer folly and nonsense.
If the negroes OF tho South waited land,
let them work for it. mHrg at