The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-03-05
NEWS ITEMS.

dispatch declining the appointment O
Brevet general, Grant remarked: "Jus
what l expected from Thomas. He is ;
good soldier"
The World's Washington special say.
that, yesterday noon, double guard wa.
placed at all entrances to the War Depart
ment. Two commissioned officers were
stationed inside. the building, and last
night double line Of troops encircled the
building.
The Impeachment Committee has
been pumping Col Moore, the President
private Secretary, as to whether the
President had issued any orders to the
army, except through Gen. Grants head
quarters. H replied he knew of none,
beyond some inquiries sent to Gen. How
ard relative to the number of men en-
ployed in the Freedmen Bureau.
A Washington dispatch says, concern
ing telegram to the Herald, which we
published yesterday, Senators are very
screet IN conversation on the impeach-
ment, and no one seems to have indicated
how they will vote The announcement
one of the NewgYork papers that six
Republican Senators have SO expressed
themselves as to lead to the impression
that they will vote with the Democrats
against impeachment, is looked upon
here as the poorest kind of guess work. "
The Boston Sunday Courier has a
special dispatch from New York which
announces positively that the New York
Herald has been offered for sale within a
day or two, and that certain partners in
the Tribune Association are negotiating
for the purchase. The price IS under
stood to be 81 10000 exclusive of the
new building, but including the four new
presses, which cost $4O0,O 600. This sale
is not on account of the trouble with the
Associated Press, but if rumor can be
believed, is caused By certain family per-
plezltles OF the senior editor, which have
Tor some time been the subject of gossip.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has received a telegram from Collector
Abernathy, of Knoxville, Tennesse, which
informs the department that, very re-
Gently, his deputies and the Marshal at
that place, while engaged in seizing Illicit
dlstllleries in the mountains ofTenuessce.
were attacked by a armed force, who
captured the government officials, took
from them the property in their posses
sion, and held them as prisoners, until
they ransomed themselves by the pay
inent Of SI60 a piece in return for the
property they had seized. The Collector
las asked that a company Of cavalry be
sent to aid in the enforcement of the
revenue laws in that section.
Since the adoption Of the constitution
there have been five trials of impeach-
ment by the Senate The first of these
was that of William Blount, Senator
from Tennessee. It commenced Deccm-
Der II, 1898, and was concluded January
IA, 1899. The next was the trial of John
Pickering, Judge Of the New Hampshire
District, which lasted from March 3 to
March ~, 1903 The third was that Of
Samuel Chase, one of the Associate
Judges Of the Supreme Court Of tilc
United States, which was commenced
November so, 1904, and lasted till March
|, 1905. The fourth was the trial Of
James H. Peck, Judge of the Missouri
District, which was prolonged through
two sessions, viz: From May / / to May
25, 1880, and from December 80 of the
same year to January 81, 1881. The
last trial by the Sc late was the impeach-
ment Of Judge Humphreys, of the Ten
nessee District, about the year 1868.
The rules for the government of the
Senate in the forthcoming trial of the
great impeachment case, are printed in
the city papers. They are long and
minute, but of little interest to the gen
eral reader. The Chief Justice of the
United States, as is set down in the Con
stitution, is to preside; the proceedings
are to be public, except when the doors
are closed for debate; all orders and
decisions shall be made by ayes and noes.
without debate, except when the doors
are closed, and in that case no member
shall speak more than ten minutes on
any interlocutory question, nor more
than fifteen minutes on the final question.
without unanimous consent. The Court
has power to send for persons and papers,
to examine its own members as witnesses,
and to infiict penalties for contumacy.
The accused may be heard by counsel !;
and, when judgement is rendered, a copy
thereof shall be deposited with the Sec
fetary Of State, These are the maiu
features. without the elaborate details
and copies of forms.
The great national elevator of Armour,
Dole & Co., Chicago, is completed, and
was opened for business on Saturday.
1t is located on the south branch of the
river, near 18th street. 1t has capa-
city for one and half million bushels of
grain, and can unload twenty cars at
once 1t is the largest elevator in the
West.
The following classes of persons are to
be disfranchised by the new Georgia con
stitution: Frst-Those who shall have
been convicted of treason, embezzlement
of funds, malfeasance in Office, crime
punishable by law, with imprisonment
in the penitentiary, or bribery. Second