Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-08-03

II musI pe specEaliy pleasing W 'n0
Conservative 'ex-rebels, the Sharkeys'
Perrys 6 Co., TO find the Supreme Court
in the hands of the Radicals, the death
of Judge Wayne giving the majority to
their keeping. The lsat hope OF the trail
torous faction was in this court. They
hoped to spring number of questions
on some cavilling points in the situation
and bother and perplex the country for
some time yet. Bat through the good
ness of Providence that last anchorage
has been swept away, and we shall have
questions decided in the interests cf lib
erty and the CONSTITUTION as it is."-
The great heart of the people will not be
wrenched with any more hair-splitting
before this court, and there may possibly
be chance for the country to get recon-
structed.
A Madison wis.,, correspondent of
the Milwaukee Seminal, in giving an ac-
count of the movements there OF General
Sherman, notices fete given to the Gen
eral, at which congressman Hopkins sta
ted it was generally conceded that Gen
eral Grant would be the nominee of the
Union Party for the next President; the
speaker also stating his assurance that
one of the warmest supporters would be
General Sherman. To those remarks
General Sherman gave an affirmative re-
sponse.
The action of the New York General
Committee in nominating Gen. Grant for
the Presidency, was evidently taken after
deliberation and upou consultation with
prominent republicans in different parts
Of the country. For several weeks past
matters have been shaping to this end
The General felt it incumbent on him to
relinquish the neutral position he long
maintained. When approached by Mr.. S.
S. Cox with overtures relative to the
democratic nomination, he gave that geil-
tleman to understand that his opinions
and sympathies did not run in that dlrec-
ton. In some of his official acts he went
farther, fully endorsing the Reconstruc-
ton Policy i'll Congress. In his late in
tcrviews with leading Republicans, he
has expressed himself without reserve,
and to their complete satisfaction. This
nomination at New York, therefore, may
be taken as significant of the converging
lines of preference in the Republican
ranks. ...
1t has been recently announced that
the libel suit brought by Mr.. Gerrit
Smith against the Chicago Tribune has
been settled. The libel was alleged to
consist in statement that Mr. Smith
knew, beforehand Of Mr. John Browns
raid into Virginia, furnished money in
aid thereof, afterwards fciened insanity,
and went to Lunatic Asylum to escape
responsibility. In settling the suit this
charge was virtually Withdrawn.
More recently Mr.. Horace White one
of the editors of tine Tribune, has publish
ed Over his signature a card, i'll which he
says he was from home when the settle
ment was made, and was dissatisfied with
it. He adds:
81 am in possession CT information
which enables me to affirm that Mr.. Ger
rit Smith was fully advised Of John
Browns purpose to make an armed inva-
sion Or raid upon Virginia, for a long
time prior TO such invasion OF raid; that
the said Gerrit Smith assentcd to and CO.
operated in such invasion or raid, with
advice, money and council that inter
views took place between John Brown
and Gerrit Smith at the residence of the
latter in Peterboro, n. Y, in the summer
of 1859, at which John Brown unfolded
to Gerrett Smith his plan so far as it was
then matured, informing him particular
ly that Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
had been fixed upon as the place to
which arms should be sent that the
plan contemplated not merely method
of running off slaves, but military occu-
patton of slaves, accompanied by violence
and bloodshed, and that Gerrit Smith
knew it, assented to it, and furnished
money to carry it forward"
Letter from Gen. Garfield.