The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-10-30
IMPEACHMENT AND SUspENsIoS I'm

q communication lately published hv
Isaac d. Jones, Esq, the conservative
nominee for Attorney General of the
State, explanatory Of that portion Of his
speech at the democratic conyention
relating to the impeachment movement,
Mr.. Jones produces the following from
the record Of tho Convention which
framed the constitution Of the United
States. Every candid reader will agree
with him that IL is impossible to read
the constitution in the light of this re-
cord. and maintain that Congress has
any right to suspend" the President
from office pending his trial on impeach.
ment
"ln the Convention Of 1887 it was
moved that persons impcacb.d BIZ sus-
pended from their Offices until they bc
tried and acquitted Mr.. Madison OBJ
Jccted, and said Tho President is made
too dependent already on The Lcsisla
tnre by the power Of one branch TO try
him in consequence Of an Impeachment
by the olher The intermediate
suspension will pnt him in the power Of
one branch only. They can at any
moment in order to make way for the
functions Of another who will DO more
favorable to their views, vote tempora.
ry removal ofthe existing Magistrate.
"On the question to agree to it, Con.
nectlcut, South Carolina and Georgia
voted aye-3; New Hampshire. Massa.
chusets, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, nos Multson PuDeys
81 ool, p 1879.
WAR.-A continental convulsion is
imminent in Europe. Consols are de-
pressed. That is the best financial
sign. Napoleon has announced his
intention to intervene in the affairs of
Italy and uphold the fortunes of His
Holiness the Pope. That is tho war
sign. The official journal of France
declares that Italy is secretly aiding
the Garibaldians and other revolu-
tionists, and the next echo may be the
thunder Of the French cannon across
the Tiber. AS betty cen Italy and
France, the struggle would be brief
but if Prussia intcrfcrcs what then
The Papal power must rule in Rome
or nowhere. Whom it goes down, it
will be in an ocean Of blood, that will
drench Europe.
VISIT TO Ex-PREsIDENT BUCHANAN
Ex-Prosident Buchan was visited at
Whcatland by two or three Phiadcl-
phia fire companies on Wednesday.
Ono of them presented him with
badge of membership and another
with a photograph Of the members iu
a groupc. Mr.. Buchanan, in return,
offered the hospitalities of his mansion
to his visitors, and made speech. In
conversation he stated that he looked
moro upon the past than the future.
A correspondent tells the following
story of one of the farmers in the Vi
cinity of Culpcpper, whose possessions
lay in q district where both armies
foraged. Tho old chap one day while
ruefully the strcaks in the
soil whore his fence once stood, re-
marked, with much feeling, ssI hain't
took no sides in this here rebellion,
but I'll bo doggoncd if both sides hain't
took me |"
"Bill Arp" "the good Union man,
so Called" is tho Mayor of our city.
Mayor Charles II. Smith is grave
dignifed gentleman, and withal
Presbyterian elder. A stranger would
nevor take him for the author of tho
amusing letters which have given him
a world wide reputation. Rome (Ga.)
letter IN Religious Herald.
Tell mo, ye angelic hosts, yc mes
songcrs of loyc, shall swindled prin-
tcrs here below have no redress abovo :
The shining angle band replied: sTo
us is knowledge given; delinquonts
on tho printers book can never enter
Heaven.
a straw showing which way the
wind blows, is seon in a despatch from
Cincinnati, stating that the editor of
the Buckeye Jcurnal was mobbcd at
the polls in that town for presenting
negro to exercise the right of suf-
rage.
Nor BAD.-Tt is said that Buffers
butler, having sccreted some tea.
spoons from his masters cupboard at
Lowell, with various initials,) the
General reprovcd him stcrniy:--
"When | took you for my butler, / did
not think you would take me for your
New Orleans"
Fernando Wood is not troubled
with modesty. He was callod upon
the othor day to follow Mayor HoT-
man in addressing regiment and
said M have not como hore TODAY
to mako speech, but as am called
upon to succeed his Honor the Mayor,
| do it with pleasure"
The Treasury Department has trans
ferrcd to the conscience fund 49,
854,whioh was received in letter from
Urbana, Ohio, without any cxplana-
tion whatever. Tho numbers on all,
tho notes and coupons wore cut out,
leaving no way by which they could
be traced to the sender.
(ronnrn1 ptoro., ak,