Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-03-20
From Washington.
WASHINGTON. March 16.

w ASHlNGTON, Mdrcn 10.
The latest impeachment rumor is
that Johnson will resign the Office of
President and claim his position as
Vice President, to which he was elect
ed. This will deprive Mr.. Wade of
his position as President of the Sen
ate pro tem., and Speaker CoIfax will
consequently become President Of the
United States. There is probably as
much foundation for this rumor as
there is for the story that the Presi-
dent intends to resign altogether.
There is much diversity of opinion
among Senators as to whether the pro-
ceedings of the Senate when it retires
for consultation during the trial Of
impeachment should be reported and
published.
Senator Doolittle has returned from
Connecticut and reports that the Nut
meg State will go Democratic at the
coming election. He said the same
dUOuG NcN IdLi pSIIIIG.
Alexander FL. Stephens Of Georgia
called at the White House this morn
ing and was admitted at once to the
Presidents room.
A Virginia Union man, who was at
Leesburg in that State Yesterday
(Sunday,) says that John S. MoSby,
who resides there, was visited by
nearly thousand of his old guerilla
command. They were all we'll mount
ed, and many Of them were armed.
Aftel riding through tic streets of
Leesburg in column, they were exer-
cised in battalion movements and then
formed in a square to hear a speech
from Mosby. What he said my in
formant could not hear, but some Of
the men atterward declared that they
might at any day be called on to Gust
Stanton from the War Office.
New York, March 16.-Washing-
ton specials say it is understood that
the expectation of an attack from the
| Virginia shore has within the past
few days taken a more substantial
form than was at first anticipated
1t is known that an order has just
been issued in the War Department
directing forty army wagons with
teams and teamsters to be kept IL
roo 6iuo-C RI rnoyo of n y,oO,oDt'c M
tice for the transportation Of supplies
Private orders have also been issued
to the commanders Of garrisons about
the city to keep their commands, boil
officers aud men, in quarters.
Since the excitement of Friday
last the health Of Thaddeus Stevens
has assumed a more serious evidence
of decline than at any other time
, since his arrival here; and it i
thought by those intimately acquaint
ed with every phase of his failing con
dition, that it is very doubtful whethe.
he will again be able to leave hi
room. Mr.. Stevens has a negro serv
/ ant toward whom he has always beer
particularly kind, and every morning
l upon entering his room as usual, Nh
/ Stevens was observed to look at hir
2 intently, but apparently failed to re
: cognize him. This indication of s
| great q change was observed by som
r of Mr.. Stevens household, who wer
0 in the room at the time Severa
e members of Congress who called tC
day upon business of an importan
i nature, were requested not to insis
y upon seeing Mr.. Stevens. The grea
, est fears are now entertained tia
e Stevens days of duty have ended.
5 Mr.. Johnson has been for the la;
$ three or four days engaged in maxim
t preparations for his trial, almost t
/ the entire exclusion of other bushes
y Even his friends say that he is consi,
l. erably alarmed at the aspect of a
IS fairs, and begins at last to realize Il
e fact that deposition is almost a ce
It tainty, and expulsion from the Whit
d House inevitable. He is speculatir
y on his future course, and the rune
among those holding confidential rel
1t tons with him is, that he intend
re after his removal, to stump the State
d North, South, East and West, again
+ the Republicans, aud endeavor
y vindicate his administration.
1t 1t is understood that the Pre-;
Re dents counsel are not in harmon
I'd with themselves or the President
ne Mr.. Black is much disheartened. al
n one Of the counsel is satisfied til
le the President will be removed.
It, flee seekers have ceased applying
Mr.. Johnson.
n: Another dispatch says the Pre-
I'd dents counsel declare that it will
or impossible to obtain the necessa
evidence to proceed without furth
delay. The fact that the manage
carried their point on Friday a
Nc succeeded in obtaining an early d
yn for the filing Of the answer has
II. moralized the administration to
7 small extent. The statement Il
four Republican Senators voted W
the Democrats in favor of forty da
of to the President is untrue.
ire ~,
D. The rapidity with which a pers
may travel from Denver to the Att
e. tic seaboard, or rice Uersa, is sho