The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-15

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nights mail, indicate the following nlne he
nnblican senators as freely spoken OF for &c
ouittal. viz Fessenden, Of Maine; Anthony, OF
Rhode Island; Frehnghuysen, of New Jersey;
TrumbuIl, Of Illinois; Grimes, OF Iowa; hen
derson. of Missouri; Ross, Of Kansas; van
Wrinkle, of West Virginia; Fowler, OF Iennes'
see. The above, with the eight Democrats'
positive for acquittal viz: Buckalew, OF Penn
svlysnia. Baysrd and Salisbury. OF Delaware;
johnson and Vickers, Of Maryland; Davis and
McOreery, OF Kentucky; Hendricks, OF lndi'
ana: and the four Conservatives, VIZ; Dixon,
OF Connecticut; Doolittle, of Wisconsin; Nor
ton,of Minnesota, and Patterson, OF Tennes-
aee-comprise twenty-one votes. With all the
AHy:Sour senator's voting, only nineteen votes
are necessary for acquittal, and these will snil
be REQUIRED for that result if either MIR. Wade
(on account Of being an interested parity or
MIR. Howard, on the other side, should not
vote. If, however, only seven of the nine Re
nublicsns named vote for acquittal, the result
will be the same.
The New York Tribune comedies that
Messrs. Fessenden, Grimes, Trumbull and
Henderson will go against conviction, and says
that the three more who are required to make
mn the seven Republican senators necessary
for acquittal must come from seven gentlemen
considered doubtful, viz Fowler, Van Wrinkle,
Anthony, Freinghuysen, RoEs, Wiley and
sprsgue. OF these Messrs. Fowler and Van
Wrinkle are conceded by the Tribune for ac-
quittal, 30 that one ofthe other five holds the
decision of the case in his hands. Butt has q
Washington dispatch which says that Freing-
huysen is sure to vote for conviction on the
first three articles, and this, he thinks, will
carry Wiley also. This leaves three fror,
which, according to the Tribune's estimate,
to get the one other vote which is requisite,
according to its estimates, and on which it
pronounces that conviction looks very, very
doubtful" .
PoSrPoNEMENT OF THE VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT
TIE RADICAL pRErExT-THE uLTRA-RApIoAIs
DEMoRAIzED, BOTH AS SENATORS AID AS
JuDdEs-PREssuRE TO BE BROUGHT ON Re
pRAcroRY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, OF nnssou-
R1-wAsHBuRNE TALKING OF I'LL AND BUT
Izn OF Di sAT1oN.
The WashM pn correspondent of the Baltl-
more Gazette, writing on Tuesday night, says:
Great was the disappointment of the i'm
mense assemblage at the capitol to-day 81 me
fnouph it was pretty well understood early IN
the morning that an effort to postpone would
he made. The Radical senators had met In
.cauc1s and fixed the adjournment, but when
required to assign some reason for the extra
ordinary movement, Senator Chandler arose
with o long face and spoke OF the serious
illness Of his colleague Mr.. Howard), VINO vas
confined to his room and who nad oeen
dalirious most Of the day yesterday: This may
be All true. but current report is that Senator
Howard had eaten too heartily OF green peas,
which resulted in an attack OF the cholera
'morbus, but which did not necessarily unit
him for the discharge Of hie duties as a'mera-
ber of the high court Of impeachment. 1t 1s
believed he could have attended the session OF
the court with entire convenience, ana Woulo
have done so, had II not been the policy OF the
Jscobins to delay the voting, finding, as they
believed, that the President would be acqult'
ted e they allowed the vote to be taken to-day.
In order to cover up their tracks and al
Law suspicion, they expressed many regrets at
not being able to proceed, and even EXPIRE ssed
q willingness to come to vote II some n1end
Of the President would agree to pair OH with
Mr.. Howard and not vote. This by.play did
not decisive any one. Demorahzatlon was
plainly written on their faces, as plainly as it
was subsequently spoken by MIR. Drake, who
urged that the Senate should adjourn over as
well as the Court, senators not being in prop
er frame Of mind to undertake their Legislative
duties.
In the meantime every possible pressure is
to be brought to bear upon the refractory SEN
ators. kilograms have been sent to every Con-
gressional district, urging that all the appi-
senators to vote for conviction. 1t is rumored
this evening that already has Senator Hender-
son sought relief from the pressure by promis-
ing not to vote at all-but those who report
this know little Of the man. For thirty years
Missouri was represented in the United States
Senate BY Benton, whose mantle has never
fallen upon the. shoulders of another, for none
have proven worthy, unless it be John B. Hen
derson, who has marked out for himself broad
national policy similar to that which made
old Bulicn's' name household word through
out the land.
| The impeachers are clustering and betting
largely this eveing, and now declare they are
certain Of thirty-eight votes on the eleventh
article, which by caucus agreement Will be
made the first one when the vote comes to be
taken. It is thought exceedingly strange here
InaG tn6 erLcle EeShtu6u eQuduy Uy Luo ulhua-
gers and the counsel for the President as being
positively frivolous, should now be made the
peg ON which to hang vote Of convection.
Before the House Of Representatives was
called to order this morning the excitement in
the hall was very great, and the recreant sena-
tors, as the impeachers called them, were f1ee-
IL anathemAtized, and Butler said they "had
demoralized themselves to political dsmna-
tion." Washburne, the special guardian OF
General Grant, remarked that everything had
gone to he'll"
It will be easily seen that the real motive OF
the postponement is (as stately thorough
conviction on the part Of the impeachers that
they are powerless to convict, and desire ito
be let down easily" They Of course feel that
their discontinue will fall upon their parti-
sans throughout the country like wet blan-
ket, and they dare not yet let loose their
hounds upon such as Fessenden, Trurnbull,
Grimes and Henderson This must be the
work Of time, and if possible deferred until al
ter The Chicago Convention shall have sur
rounded Grant with a halo Of Radical glory,
and these gentlemen shall have been commit
ted to his support. They will then be un.,
ceremoniously given up to the assasslns ol
character connected with their Infamous jour
mails!
But / am aware that other motives and hopes
will be alleged to have inspired this cowardlJ
'dodge." It is urged by Radicals at the capi-
tol that 'tme only and proper appliances are
wanted to bring back certain senators to the
control of the leading impeachers." 10 the
eternal credit Of the four senators to whom
have just alluded, their names are in nowlse
mil ed up with this disgracetul suggestion
They, at least, are fairly admitted to be far be-
ycnd the threats or Establishments or corrup-
tons of the unscrupulous men who yet rule the
Senate and bep yorr readers to believe that