The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-30
WASHINGTON.
JOhnson's Friends DESERVING Him.--
The Arkansas SenatOrs----Graut,
wade and the PresIdency-..-
Chase and the Republicans
---WOmRn's Rights.

wade and the PresIdency-...
| Chase and the Republicans :
---wOman's Rights.
Correspondence OF the .Intenlgencer.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
April 9th, 1865.
The proceedings of the High Court
OF Impeachment still drag their weary
length along. The speeches of counsel
fail TO create the interest in the gale
ries which prevailed during the exami-
nation of witnesses. 1t is thought that
the trial will be concluded and direct
vote reached by Saturday the ID of
May; and that Andrew johnson will be
convicted and deposed by vote of
about So TO 10. Mr.. Johnson's friends
are forsaking him as fast as II conve-
nient opportunity offers. Jerry Black
found pretext in the Alta Vela case.
Mr.. Stanbery was obliged to retire on
account of sill health" It is well I'M
derstood here that he is siclS-sick of
the case, and sick of himself for haY-
ing had anything to do with it, after
Butler. The ex-Attorney General is
said TO have been resorting to Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup lately, by
the advice of his physicians; but even
that widely celebrated sedative has
failed in his case, to produce the de-
sired efect-NIr. Stanbery will not
make his appearance again before the
High Court of Impeachment. OF the
remaining counsel, Mr.. Evaris is con-
fessedly the most able; and the friends
of this gentleman are, at his instiga-
ton, it is said, apologizing for, and en-
deavoring to explain away, all over
the country, his connection with the
case; which, they claim, is purely pro-
fessionnl, and for which, personally, he
has not particle of sympathy.
Hon. Benjamin f. Rice and Hon.
Alexander Mcdonald, the Senators
elect from Arkansas, have arrived in
the city. AS these gentlemen are thor
oughly loyal, good Republicans and
just men, il is to be regretted that they
will not take their seats in the Senate
until the close of the impeachment
birth, lawyer by profession, and serv-
ed as an officer during the war for the
Union. Mr.. Mcdonald is Pennsylva-
MAN by birth, and lived some time in
Kansas. He Is a man of pleasing ad.
dress, enlightened views, and has the
reputation OF being an enterprising and
successful business man. Gen. Hines,
one of the three Representatives elect, ar
rived in the city some days ago. Rep.
resentatives Root and Bowles are ex.
pected to arrive to-day or tomorrow.
They are all understood 10 be men oil
ability and undoubted loyalty.
The admission of Senators from
Southern States has been discussed, to
some extent, in its possible bearing on
the impeachment question. Arkansas
has already elected Senators, (althougt
there seems yet TO be some doubt as to
the vote in that Statel and it is possible
they may present themselves here be
fore the conclusion of the trial. Soutl
Carolina is also reconstructed, anC
probably Louisiana, Georgia, anG
North Carolina will also be likely Il
come IN by the ratification OF their re
spective Constitutions in the election!
now progressing in those States. TIL,
trial, however, is so near its close tina
the admission of Senators from any o
these States to n participation in thu
verdict is not likely to become a prac
teal question. Speaking on this point
one cannot but feel little vexeC
at the course of Republican mem
bers of Congress in reference to the ad
mission OF Colorado. Had she been ad
mitted, we should have counted tive
more good radical votes in the Senate
1 feel no compunction in saying tina
we might have counted with conf
dence upon their voting for conviction
in the present trial; because in many
views, the case is so clear that nothing
but the blindest partnership or still
more unworthy motives could induc'
any one to vote otherwise. Their alb
sence ut this juncture is the more pro
yoking, because there are so many
good reasons why the Territory should
have been admitted. Her population
was larger, mt the time of her last ap
plication. than that OF several Other
Territories was at the time OF their adj
mission, while her prospective rate o.
increase is incomparably greater. Hel
mineral wealth is now beginning &c
become popularity known, and the
rapid progress of the Pacific Railroad
toward her chief city will attract &
flood OF emigration in that direction
during the present spring and aP
preaching summer. Her Senators and
Representatives elect are men of suct
weil-known loyalty, high character
and general acceptabiIity, that there
could not possibly have been any OBJ
lection to them on personal or party
grounds, and it is not easy to conjec
ture the nature of the considerations by
which this Territory has been so loni
excluded.
That Grant Will be the Republican
candidate for the Presidency has beer
a foregone conclusion with skillfu
readers of the signs of the times eve
since the publication of The corresPon
deucs between him and Andrew John