Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-24
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Outrageous Conduct of the Managers
Their Course Denounced by Radi-
cRIs-OId Thad Disguised with Them
-BuLIer's Detective Legerdemain--
Radical War upon Chase.


eaIs-OId Thad Disguised with Them
-BuIer's Detective LegerdemaIn-
Radical War upon Chase.
Special to the Louisville Courier
WASHINGTON, May 22-It only required
the outrageous conduct of the managers
since the vote on Saturday, 10 set firmly
the seal of public reprobation on impeach-
ment Radicals even denounce the arbi-
trary and nefsrious proceedings. Thad.
Stevens told Butler to-day that the evidence
he had elected, and the manner in which
it was obtained, would provoke the con-
tempt, if not the indignation of the people
that he was greener than country court
lawyer. Col. Gooper's testimony, that two
men bearing a note TO him, being propo-
sition from Senator Pomeroy to secure five
votes of Senators for acquittal, creates a
sensation. POmeroy says the story is
utterly false; that he never heard of
such thing; but it is certain
that Willis GAYLORD, his brother-in-law.
and one Leggett of Kansas, made that
proposition to Cooper, as can be substan-
tiated by coroborative evidence. Pomeroy
is tricky and trading politician, but his
friends claim he is too crafty to have been
thus caught. Notwithstanding this, many
believe ne is guilty of at least attempting
to entrap the President. | think that il
will turn out that Gaylord, his brother-in-
law, and Leggett, both sharp men, are en-
gagged in an enterprise on their own hook
to swindle the Presidents friends, and
Pomeroy is not implicated, but the inn
peachers are very sore over the affair, and
one expressed the opinion tonight that he
feared Pomeroy was in an ugly position.
impeachment will be disposed of Tues
day, and the President acquitted. Butler
Il Co.'s Infamous and outrageous action
during the past week has shivered the
thing to pieces. The anti-impeachers win
all stand firm. Ross will vote guilty on
the first article, but Sherman and Howe
will vote not guilty thereon. sfH .-gs
Special to the Louisville Courier
WksHrNeToN, May o. II mentioned in
a former despatch sthe detective bureau
which the managers organized to
to crawl under beds, listen in chimney cor
ners, and peep through keyholes to spy ont
evidence for the impeachers. That bureau
works 10 a charm, and in the beauty of its
operations is worthy of the genius of But
Ter himself, by whom il was chiefly invent
ed. As an illustration of its wonderful
adaptedness to the work it was intended to
accomplish, l need only instance a case
which has just transpired. Mr.. Newton, of
New York, wrote a letter the other day to
Mr.. Smithe, Collector of the Port of that
city, and left his room for a moment, leav-
ing the nearly written letter lying on his
table. On,returning to his room he found
that the letter had disappeared. What
had become of il he was utterly at loss
to determine. His astonishment and dis
gust were beyond expression when the let
ter with other articles from the same table
turned up in the hands Of Butler.
Sam. Ward, New York banker, bet
heavily upon the acquittal of the President,
and on being asked why he had no strong
a belief in such result, answer ed that he
relied upon the purity and honesty Of Sen
ators, while Radicalism relied for convic-
ton upon their total depravity.
Ii is confidently expected that the de-
yelopments hereafter TO be made will COM
pletely turn the tables upon the impeach-
ers and all concerned with them, and affix
10 their names and characters brand Of
inlamy which even death viii not blot out
The action Of the Chicago Convention is
considered az declaration of war against
Mr.. Chase, and the Conservatives are very
well pleased with the result, "a it is calcu-
lated 10 strengthen our candidates
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt by
Stevens against Butler for summoniug |
Cooper without consulting the other man
ayers. Old Thad told Butler that vii |
hge lawyer would have known better than |
10 allow such testimony 10 come out 1t |
does seem as If Buffers Internal cunning |
had forsaken him at last
The disclosures Of Cooper are especially |
10 the House, inasmuch as its |
sole object in refusing to associate Demo-
Gratis with the managers in the inyestigs- |
lion was 10 suppress the truth, part of |
which has come ont notwithstanding, |
through the unaccountable stupidity Of one
of the managers themselves, and, most IN
OF all, the smartest Of the set.
The Chagrin and fury Of the Radicals here
nay be more easily imagined than de-
Striped. Stevens mildly expresses the
GENERAL sentiment among them.