New-York tribune., 1868-05-12
NEw-YoRK, TUESDAY, MAY 10. 1865.


ing room of the Senate mostly on tie part Of mem
bers with enough more to fill newspaper page The
fact il there was nothing trustworthy in it at all
One man asked another what the prospects were,
He simply gave his opinion, but would give no
| facts upon which he based it.
Ono person was sure that conviction would be de-
| clared by two votes but he could not select the
names of the two Senators from the list of the doubt
full. Another confident that the President would
be acquitted having four votes to spare but he could
not name Fessenden, Grimes and Trumbull as sure
to vote against conviction all of the articles.
Crowds we're in the receiving rooms and crowds in
Senate corridors, but in the hall leading from the
main entrance to the Rotunda there was such dense
mass of persons waiting for news, and satisfied with
the merest scrap of speculation from those privileged
to pass the Gordon of police that it with extreme
difficulty that entrance could be forced to the ro-
tunda which was also overrunning with excited
people,
Out in the open air, crowds still bent toward the
Capitol were every street. and at every cor
ner greater or less number had collected, and the
Senate was canvassed by every complexion, age and
condition
The hotels near the Capitol were entirely deserted,
and the answer came from the United States, the
Washington the National the Metropolitan, and
the KirkwOod that there had been no no crowd
since early in the evening Willards however, and
the Ebbt were swarming with such crowds only
infest Washington hotels to be surrounded without
possibility of escape it only necessary to say
that you were just from the capital There was little
betting in the evening, the odds being so largely in
favor of acquittal. The safe at Willard's contains
$4,000 il is said. waiting for owner 20 be decided
by tO-morTOws vote if the latter shall be reached,
! which seems doubtful.
For want of news and while waiting for the Senate
to adjourn the time was filed in by discussions in all
forms Stanton, Johnson, Chase, Trumbull Fessen-
! den, the Civil Tenure law, and the Constitution
When talk ran low or hoarseness seemed inevitable
! the bartenders kept busy passing the bottle.
| The entrance of the White House. for the first
time lately. was silent in its glory it was dimly
lighted, and the rooms were entirely deserted. The
ushers replied to the visitors inquiry that the Pres
dent was not receiving tonight The persistent
questioning revealed the fact that not half-dozen
persons had called during the whole evening. How
does the President teeli" "Feci Why. he feels
well enough" i" / mean is he cheerful - I'VE han't
any difference in him, have we Curtawf He's
! in Jolly good nature: never knew him more
cheerful. He 8 gone TO the theater."
For almost the first time in 10 years Mr.. johnson
was al the theaer; he arrived at 9l0 in his carriage
accompanied by Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Slower his
daughter he felt called to attend the exhibition of
festival at the National Theater he occupied with
the ladies and one two friends in of the stage
boxes and his countenance for the two hours of his
stay, beamed all over with genial good nature and
happiness-sO says the report visitor occasionally
entered the box from without, evidently bearing
hopeful news from the Senate; but the President
was serene. His friends say that he has known the
result as we'll as he knows il now, for the past
month, and that he is hopeful to the last degree
Stanbery Nelson, and Evarts are more excited
Snd interested than the past appears TO be- and the
fo17rer's quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel were
ponuld,,s with visitors. Evarts rs holding high
carnival with Seward It is currently and cred
IDLY reported that Mr.. Crimes remarked to-day that
If Johnson. Wade, and Stanton were in bag a wei
shaken he would not flip q copper for a choice be-
tween them. -
At1l o'clock D. m the Senate adjourned until 10 a.
m. At that time the multitude, IN and around the
capital had been considerably thinned out The de-
bate within the Senate Chamber was confined to
those Republicans whose principles arc never doubt
ed and who never keep their friends IN painful
anxiety concerning their position. Those honest and
stauneh Repubcans-M Morton, Wilson, Harlan, and !
Connesseonsnmed two hours of the evening session,
all speaking strongly for conviction. Harlan replied TO
Crimes's euloRy Of Johnson, and asks him whether
lie thought he representing the sentiments OF the
people of Iowa in the course which he was taking
Wilson spoke on behalf Of New-England, and ap- |
pealed to his colleagues TO stand firm in this the
hour of trial. and warned them not to be led astray
by the apostacy Of disappointed and ambitious |
man. The gentleman from Cal. tConness) made
strong speech following up the position previously |
taken by the other Pacific coast men, Williams and
Stewart Indianas noblest son. Governor Nor |
ton, spoke thirty minutes His speech is said
TO have been great and convincing to any but an
rnfar mind that the friend of justice aud liberty
eluded that if any Republican who heard 1t could
vote for acquital indeed lac traitor to all that
is true.
Buckrlew finished the debate for the day. When
the Senate adjourned none of the yet remaining
doubtful men had spoken, and the anxious assem-
Jlage returned totheir homes tolivein hopes. Taking
a calm and careful survey of the days work
Conviction looks very, very doubtful. There are
"a Senators; il will take 80 votes TO convict 12 of
the "a are Democrats, and to acquit Mr. Johnson Z
Repubcans must vote with these IL COpperheads.
Fessenden, Grimes Trumbul and Henderson have
become apostates they have deserted to the folio
of Doolittle. DIXON and Norton. Three more are
required TO make up the seven. Those three must
come from the seven considered doubtful, VIZ
Fowler Van Wrinkle, Anthony, Frelinghuysen'
Ross, Wiley and Sprague OF these seven the
friends OF conviction cOncede Fowler and van Wlne
90 that one of the other four holds the Presidents
fate in his hands The friends of Wiley claim that
he will vote for conviction on the second ana ele'-
etl articles Those who are intimate with Freling-
bnvsen say that he will do the AS to the other
tbrae no one ventures more than opinion Some
still hone that Foster will remain true TO his
record. Those members of the Republican Ex-
ecutiye Committee who remember Fowlers