Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-24
Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
FROM WASHINGTON.

More of the Alta VeIa Case-InGuences n
Work on the President -Interest1ng Rev
elations-General Sherman and his Tes
timony-Loutsiana Elections, &c.
WASHINGTON, April Is. The President
has received official notification of the pas
sage of a resolution by the New Jersey
Legislature recommending the administra
tion to protect the rights of American
claimants to the island of Alta Vela. Mr.
Johnson replied by calling attention to
Secretary Stewards report on the subject
and enclosing copy of the report of the
New Jersey House of Representatives.
The merits of the controversy between
Judge Blacks clients and adverse claimants
and Mr.. Seward have been set forth in the
newspapers by the parties respectively
but, in addition to the efforts mentioned
to induce the Executive to comply with the
petition to send an armed vessel to take
possession of the island, it may be stated
that paper was filed with the President 6
day or two before Judge Blacks with
drawal as counsel in the impeachment case,
signed by Generals Butler, Schenck, Logan,
Garfield, and Messrs. Stevens and Bing
ham, in substance setting forth the right
of Judge Blacks client to the possession OF
the island, and giving the opinions of the
signors that the Executive should send an
armed vessel and forcibly seize the island.
The paper is dated March 9th, the day the
writ of summons in impeachment was
served on Mr.. Johnson. The paper was
filed with Mr.. Johnson March 10Th, three
days after articles of impeachment were
read in the Senate. On the 10Th of March,
four days before the trial regularly COM
menced, Judge Black wroto letter to the
President declining to serve as counsel.
All the government department were
closed to-day to give the clerks an oppOr-
tunity to attend the ceremony of unveil-
ing the Lincoln monument. This monu-
ment is pronounced by competent critics
to be an excellent work of art, and sue
cess on the part of the sculptor, MIR. Flan-
merry.
Gen. Sherman left this afternoon for
Fort Laramie. The impeachment mana
gers have had him before them, and tho
roughly examined him under oath, and OBJ
views with the President, but have cOnclu-
ded that they will not call the General as a
witness.
The illness of Mr.. Stanbery has disturbed
the order of procedure with the testimony
for the President, as he has had the entire
management of this branch of the case for
the defense.
A letter received here to-day from New
Orleans relative to the elections to take
place in Louisiana this week states that it
is admitted on all sides that the reconstruc-
tion acts will be strictly carried out in the
elections, and the main controversy will be
as to the officers. There are already three
tickets out, viz: The Wammouth or So
called black republican ticket the Tallia-
ferro, or white republican, and the r. King
Guitar, or nobody's ticket, styling itself the
Union republican. The policy of the Dem
ocrats will be, so far as known, to vote for
the Talliaferro ticket, the Democrats giving
up the State to the Republicans and the
latter giving up the city of New Orleans TO
the Democrats. DATA.