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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-23

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-23

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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
From tho Baltimore Sun.
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Impeachment Issue-COnditiou OF Sem
ator HOward-COnGInued Public Excite
ment-TIying Rumors-Opinion in En-
VOr of Acquittal-Mr. FOrney's ResienH-
ttOn-Pressure on SenatOrs-Geu. Gran;
and the Chicago Convention.
WASHINGTON, May II, III ?. M.-T0c
events connected with the Impeachment
trial to-day were few and the proceedings
brief. The opponents of impeachment are
confident of acquittal of the President
The advocates of impeachment assert that
they can convict on the 18th article with
the votes of Senators Wade and Howard.
The latter is tonight pronounced danger
ously i'll, and there is no probability of his
recovery, if he shall recover at all, 10y next
Saturday.
The excitement and extraordinary inter
est continue, and the most improbable
stories are current. Senator Henderson
is the subject of speculation. He was
called upon this morning by delegation
of Missourians, who urged him to vote for
the eleventh article. The report says lie
promised that he would not vote at ali end
would resign his seat in the Senate FROM
a reliable source / learn that he made no
such promises. The prepondarance Of well
grounded opinion is that the President will
be acquitted.
The resignation of Mr. Forney as clerk
of the Senate is announced, and report
says his purpose in resigning is that he may
be free to say what he pleases against the
Senators who vote for acquittal of the
President without subjecting himself to
being called to account as an officer of the
Senate.
A meeting of citizens of Illinois was held
tonight, at the rooms of Gen. Logan, to
consider the propriety of calling on Sena-
tor Trumbull tomorrow and requesting
him to resign his seat in the Senate.
One report says the meeting did not
agree upon anything definite another has
it that the party will cali upon Mr.. Trum-
bull tomorrow and request him to resign,
A meeting of few lowans was also held
tonight to request Mr.. Grimes to resign,
but no definite action was determined
upon.
A. T. Stewart, of New York, report has
it, was to-day in consultation with General
Grant relative to the nomination at Chica-
go, and both Grant and Stewart decided
that Grant must decline to permit his name
to be submitted to the convention for nomI-
nation.
Among the absurd reports said to have
been sent hence to-day by telegram is one
to the effect that Senators Fessenden,
Grimes, Trumbull and Henderson had an
interview with the President, at which it
was agreed that Gen. Schofeld should be
nominated for Secretary of War. There is
not one word of truth in this rumor.
A perfect avalanche of kilograms has beeu
received here by Senators who oppose i'm
parchment. Some threaten, others depre-
cate, but none have moved the Senators to
change their conscientious convictions.
DATA
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
"ArnOIds and Burrs."

We know there a few cOlOred men, and a
few Northern men among us who are Conserva-
tives, so called. such lerrOns have reached a
dep'h of political degradation more easily ina
gined than described. There were Arnolds and
Burrs in the oden time, and the breed seems not
entirely TO have run out Raleigh Standard.
It is we'll enough for Holden to denounce
Northern men, who live South and vote as
= majority Of their friends voted in many
of the Northern States, as traitors, and to
villify those colored people who preferred
to stand with their friends, "tried and
true" than to follow after the desperate
political adventures who are leading most
of their fellows to ruin; but when we init
mate that native Southerners who desert
their section and friends have reached a
depth of political degradation more easily
imagined than described" we are con-
demned without trial and set aside for ex-
ecution. Poor Holden--out of his own
mouth is he condemned; with his polit-
ical degradation he has sunk personal hon
or, and none have q more supreme con
tempt for him than the few-yery few
honorable Northern men who, for party
purposes, were induced to vote for him.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
InnDeachInenS.

The Radicals have played a desperate
game AID lost. The country will take the
failure OF impeachment as the step back
ward " SO fatal to revolutions. The out
rage sought to be perpetrated was so
heinous, the crime so great, that nothing
but success could have saved them, if that
could have done SO, from disgraceful dis
aster-defeat but adds contempt to crime.
The party had staked SO much upon this
issue, that it is hardly possible that the
seven contumacious Senators, who dared
do their sworn duty, regardless of party be-
hests, Will soon be forgiven-and in Sena-
tors FEssENDEN and TRUMBULL, at least, we
recognize the head and front of the party
Every future failure will find excuse in
this, and all mishaps will be visited upon
these Senators. We believe that in this
vote we have the beginning of the end
which will terminate in the disintegration
of Radicalism. God grant that CIR predic-
tions may be soon realized
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

nothing to change the results of the recent
elections, and universal negro suffrage.
whether for good or evil, is fastened upon
us. But if otherwise, the decision of the
question will assuredly revert back to the
legal citizens of the States. Then. and not
until then, will the question of qualified
negro suffrage De practical one. 1t will
then come b atore us on its merits, and we
have always believed, in this event, that
those negroes who have, by their industry,
intelligence and character, entitled them
selves to the favorable consideration of
their white friends, will be justly dealt
with No rights which they are entitled
to will be denied them, and no privileges
which will be for the general good. will be
refused them.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
The Articles OF Impeachment.

As the Senate votes separately on each
of the eleven articles Of Impeachment, and
as we are constantly having the telegraph
announce the opinions of Senators upon
each by its number, and con lectures rs to
the certain defeat OF one and the doubtful
status of another, We publish, III an abroyi-
ated form, the substance of each. Pend
ing the vote and during the discussions
rumors and speculatiOns, which come to us
daily, it will prove convenient to have the
points of the indictment itself at hand, and
we advise our readers to cut them out SO
that easy reference can be made to them:
Article I. That the President issued an
order to remove Secretary Stanton, with
intent to violate the Tenure-of-oflice act
Article II. That he by letter authorized
Lorenzo Thomas to act as Secretary of War
ad interim, when there was no vacancy in
that Office, with intent to violate the same
act.
Article III. That he SO authorized Thorn
as to act as Secretary, with the intent to
violate the Constitution of the United
States.
Article ". That he conspireii with Lo-
reno Thomas and others, by intimidations
and threats to hinder Mr.. Stanton from
holding his Office rs Secretary of War,
thus violating the Constitution and the
conspiracy act, of July 31st, 1861, thus
committing high crime in office.
Article V. That he conspired with Lo-
reno Thomas, Ind other persons unknown,
to prevent the execution Of the Tenure of
Office act ; and, in pursuance of this con-
spiracy, attempted to prevent Mr.. Stanton
from holding his Office of Secretary of War;
thus committing high mislemeanor in
Office.
Article VI. That he conspired with Lo-
reno Thomas to seize by force the War
Department, contrary to the conspiracy act,
and with intent to violate the Tenure-of-
Office act, thus committing high crime
in Office.
Article VII. That he conspired with Lo-
renzo Thomas to seize by force the War
Department, with intent to violate the
Tenure Office act -; thus committing
high misdemeanor in office.
Article VIII. That he delivered to Lo-
renzo Thomas letter of authority to act
as Secretary of War ad interim, with in
tent unlawfully to control the military ap-
preparations, in violation of the Constitu-
ton and of the Tenure-of-O Office act and
so committing high misdemeanor in Of
flee.
Article TX. That on February odd last he
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

instructed Major General Emory that that
part of the Appropriation act OF March T.
1867, which provides that all orders OF the
President and War Department relating TO
military operations shall be issued through
| the General of the army, was unconstltu-
tional, and tried to induce Emory to Vlo-
late it, by receiving orders direct from the
President with the further intent TO pre-
vent the execution of the Tenure ot-Ofhce
act, and to prevent Mr.. Stanton from mold
ing the office of Secretary of War.
Article X. That he delivered lntiammatory
and scandalous harangues, at various times,
to bring contempt upon Congress. In this
charge, specification first quotes speech
at Washington. August 18th, 1866 about
q body changing on the verge Of the gov
eminent"
Specification second: The Cleveland
speech of September 3D., 1866" Your
Congress that is trying to break up the
government, etc.
Specification third : The st. Louis speech
of September 8, 1866-"If J. have played
Clo "AO USCA ny OAAA4SO SA'So ="
have played the Judas with Was It
Thad. Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips?'
&c.
These speeches are charged as high
misdemeanor in office.
Article XI. That he declared IN public
speech in Washington, August Is, 1866, that
the Thirty ninth Congress was not con-
stitutional Congress of the United States,
but Congress of part of the States thus
DENYING the validity Of their legislation,
except so far as he chose to approve it; and
in pursuance of this declaration, attempted
to prevent the execution Of the Tenure of
Office act, by unlawfully continuing means
of preventing Edwin N. Stanton from re-
summing the office of Secretary War, when
the Senate had refused to concur in his
suspension and, also, attempted to pre-
vent the execution of the Appropriation
act Of March 2, 1867, las IL article q; and,
also uf the act of March 2, 1867, d" for
the moro efficient government Of the rebel
States - thus committing a high misde-
meanOr in office.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
Death of Hon, John A. Gilmcr.

The death of Hon. John A. Gilmer is
announced in the Greensboro Patriot OF
the 18th instant, as follows:
eve have barely time before going to
press, to announce the death of the Hon.
John A. Gilmer. This melancholy event
occurred about ten o'clock on Thursday
morning, at his residence in this place. To
all who knew Mr.. Gilmer, the intelligence
of his death will be sad tidings. We hope
some pen more competent for the task
than our own. will pay to his character the
tribute it so eminently deserves. Truly
great man in our midst hath fallen"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
The New Internal Revenue Law.

The new internal revenue bill was re-
ported on Tuesday from the committee of
Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed
and recommitted. The bill erects The In
ternal Revenue Bureau into separte de-
partment of the Government, with the
present Commissioner at its head, with
salary of $4,000 per annum. His powers
are greatly enlarged, and he is rendered,
as far as possible Independent of the Presi-
dent. The bill also provides for six deputy
commissioners, who are to be the chiefs of
divisions in the office>here, and otherwise
reorganize the whole department.. It also
provides for solicitor of internal revenue,
to be appointed by the President, with the
consent OF the Senate, who is to be indie
pendent of the Commissioner, and to act
as check upon him. as the consent of the
solicitor is required to many acts of the
Commission before they are valid The
| bill leaves the tax on whiskey at So, but
also taxes retail sales Of the same. Tax on
all kinds of chewing tobacco is fixed at 40
cents per pound, and on smoking and
other inferior kinds 16 cents. Cigars are
all taxed at $40 per thousand. Petroleum
remains at 10 cents. Taxes on sales of
merchandise and mechanical productions
are one-ffth of one per cent. over SIS, 600.
Special taxes are largely increased in many
cases, requiring them to be paid on many
branches of business heretofore exempt
The following are some of the items pro-
vided for in the new bill
! Retail dealers whose sales exceed SIS, 600 and
not So, 900, pay. $40 90
| Wholesale dealers ga for each 81, 600 ill ex-
cess of S25, OOO) whose annual sales
coed $4,000. ...... Observation-Disclosures. so 90
Bankers using a capital of $50, coo or less,
(s2 for each 81 600 Additionally ......... 200 90
Brokers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100 90
Commercial brokers Observation-Disclosures. 20 90
Foreign commercial brokers. ..........5, 600 90
Custom house brokers. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 90
insurance agents, when receipts from fees
and commissions do not exceed So 000.. 10 co
Exceeding 81, 600. Observation-Disclosures. 20 90
AuctlOneers, If annual sales do not exceed
$4,000. Observation-Disclosures. ... 10 90
Not exceeding $25, 900. Observation-Disclosures. 20 90
Exceeding $25 co.. observation-disclosures. so 90
Produce brokers whose annual sales do not
exceed $40, O00 Observation-Disclosures. ..... 10 90
Claim and patent agents. d 90
Retail liquor dealers. Observation-Disclosures. 25 90
Distiilers. Observation-Disclosures. 200 90
Brewers. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1G0 90
Dealers in leaf tobacco, when annual sales
do not exceed $25 600 .................. SO 90
land 50 for each 81 ,OUO exceeding $685.
600
Dealers in tobacco, when annual sales do
not exceed $1,000 &c 90
(And 81 for each $1,000 in excess Of So
COO
Manufacturers OF tobacco. ................ 10 90
(And ~ hen the penal sum OF the b ,nd of
manufacturers OF tobacco exceeds 49,
Geo. 81 for each 81 600 in excess Of So
GOO
tAnd 50 for each $1,000 III excess Of IS, 00O.)
Manu- ctnrers not otherwise provided for,
eaCil III w
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

An overworked woman is always a sad
sight-sadder great deal than an over
worked man, because she is so much more
fertile in capacities of suffering than man.
She has so many varieties of headache
sometimes as if Jael were driving the nail
which killed Sissera into her temple; some
times tightening around the brow as if her
cap-band were Luke's iron crown, and
then her neuralgias. and back-aches, and
her fits of depression, and many more tri-
ais, linked to her fine and noble structure,
entitle her to pity, when she is placed in
conditions which deyelop her nervous ten
denotes,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore SUI

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
POstpOnement of the Vote on hnpeGCh-
ment-Senator Towards IIIncss-Evi.
dences of Weakness in the Ranks OF the
Impeachers-An AprOpos Lesson for FIR.
Wade.
WASHINGTON, May 12.-The failure Of
the Senate to take the vote upon impeach-
ment to-day was great disappointment to
the people generally, and especially to the
intensely anxious persons who are not adj
vised of the status of each particular Sena-
tor. It was not known until this morning
that Senator Howard was too ill to be pre-
sent in the Senate chamber, and although
some who are we'll posted looked for a mo-
ton to postpone, probably the object OF
the delay was not expected to be found i'll
the illness and absence of o radical Sena-
tor. The postponement of a final vote I'M
til next saturday is construed as an evil
dence of conscious weakness on the part of
the radicals, who must have been certain
that the President would have been ac-
quilted had vote been taken to-day.
1t was about two years ago that upon q
motion to postpone action upon mes
sage of the President vetoing the civil
rights billy because of the illness of Sena-
tor Dixon and the late Senator Wright
Mr.. Wade made one of his characteristic
SpecCucS, WHICH drew from Senator NC
Dougal reply which was characterized by
all who heard it as one of the happiest i'm
promptu oratorical efforts of the age. The
appositeness Of these remarks to the pre-
sent occasion is notable.
In opposing the motion to postpone be-
cause Of the illness of Senators, Mr.. Wade
said some shockingly blasphemous things,
and among them the following GO l feel
myself justified in taking every advantage
which the Almighty has put into my hands
to defend the power and authority of this
body, Of which [ claim to be part. will
not yield to these appeals of comfy on
question like this, but 1 will tell the Presi-
dent and everybody else that if God Al
mighty has stricken one member so that he
cannot be here to uphold the dictation Of
despot, thank Him for His interposition,
and will take advantage of it if can"
In pleasing contrast with the illiberal
and unfair spirit manifested by Mr.. Wade
two years ago, when he proposed to take
advantage of providential interposi..
tion," the quiet and ready acquiescence OF
Senators in the proposal to postpone ac-
ton to-day is noticeable"
DATA
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
Election Frauds at Red Banks, Robesor
County.
Editors Journal, Wilmington, ". G.

County.
Editors Journal, Wilmington. NJ q
GENTS For the benefit of the vr;to,
of Honest Poll Holder, forward Won tho
enclosed certificates of gentlemen &C to tbo
manor born" not an imported negro wor,
shipper, who can only see one side of tho
question when case of litigation occnrs
between white and black men. Poor Poll
Holder, if he is an honest man, he is keen
ing very bad company, when he allows an.
other to use his name to a palpable false.
hood, which he knows can be proved Inv
as honest men as himself. If you reoniro
any more evidence of the alleged frauds
at this precinct, you can get them from
truth-telling men not connected with conn.
ty canvasSers on electioneering tome
throughout the county.
Yours, RED BANKS
RED BANKS PRECINCT, RoBEsoN COUNTY, c.
May 18th, 1868
We, the undersigned, do certify that we wore
present on the last day of the election at Rel
Banks Precinct, Robson county, and heard the
proposition made by a Conservative to count ont
the votes and it was refused unless they hsd
room to lock up in. The poll holders were asked
why they wished to do things in tho dark One
of the poll holders and one of the candidates who
was present and seemed to be managers, went
out and had a consultation came back and
agreed to count the votes. They commenced
counting, when soon alter two Radical tickets
came out rolled together. One Of the poll holders
remarked that they were done so in order to get
them the box. Next, there we're three come To.
gether; one of the poll holders then remarkCd he
will be armed if he put them in. Then came
from two to five six different times After throw.
ing them out, there were fourteen Radical tickets
too many in the box.
DANIEL MONROE,
PETER PAUL,
ABRAHAM PAUL,
3. f. MATTHEW'S
J. J. MCLAUCHLEN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 18th Of
May, 1868.
JOHN G. MCLEAN, J. ?.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

A lady, stepping into railway car. said
to her little son: Aren't you going to kiss
your mother before you go ?" The little
rogue couldn't wait, and called out "Con-
ductor, won't you kiss mother for me ?"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

The New York Post, discussing the ways
and means of returning to s. ecie payments
says:
It has long been certain that our currency can
not be gradually brought to a specie value by a
mere process of continuous contr action. Tie pol
icy has been carried far enough bv MIR. McCul-
loch to reveal it's worthlessness, and any further
prosecution of it would only Cause revulsions in
public confidence. and ruinous fuctu atoms in all
the markets. without coutri uti1g anything to
the solution of the real difficulties of the An
essential preliminary step to further contraction
is the modification Of the legal-tender act that
gold and silver can again be used as money
among persons who desire it. The peoole will
then have another currency to take the pace of
as they please.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

Beware of closed cast-iron stoves. The
French Academy of Sciences has lately
been discussing the unhealthy effects OF
these articles. It is said-and experiments
support the assertion-that cast-iron, when
heated to a certain extent, is pervious to
through it. They who have to sit long in
apartments so heated, often complain Of
oppression and headaches; henceforth they
may know the cause. The Academy mas
appointed a committee of chemists to ex-
anime and report upon the subject
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

George Wilkes, tof the New York Spirit
of the Times, bets Gen. Valkenburg. Min
lister to Japan, $500 that the President will
be convicted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
DATA.

General Benjamin Huger is at present in
Lynchburg, and expects to settle in that
vicinity.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

Henry Placide, the famous actor OF the
olden time, has become stone blind.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

Ben Wade in the Presidency will be as
vile curse as any he ever uttered.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22

George D. Prentice has recovered from
his late illness.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-02-18
I T-rsa5eEz4 1a4TeAs @aE Hoa4
nrraG aff 10 YfinemEN 9dE
7I7.I75 W ~ - :
EAgricult ural.
Cultivation of the Peanut.


nj. We.eopy theafollowing, by a correspondent
OF the Country Gentleman, writing from Georgia,
sometime IN 1860 4gdsi 3. .n5-iadhIsgga"i9
slt The article is called by a. variety of names
in this part ofthe country such as pedn,a, groand
pea, Gosober. dee. b. The ground should be rich,
and well broken up. 1t ought TO be Of such
description as might be expected to produce
coed crop Of corn.sd L. ought 70 be laid out in
ridges about three feet apart A shallow furrow
ruin with small plow along the centre or each
ridge prepares the ground for the seed. The
pods, which contain ffem one 70 three peas each,
must be broken, and the peas planted in the
drill, from one foot to eighteen inches apart, and
covered with hoe about one inch and half
deep. They ought to, be plowed and hoed three
times during the season. TO destroy the weeds
and keep the ground loose The pea vine while
growing sends up perpendicular stem about
foot high; about this stem many others shoot out
in all dlrecteus,1 and run about fifteen inches
along the surface of the ground. These runners
have joints about an inch and half apart At
each joint strong root strikes down into the
ground about two inches deep; atthe end Of this
root the peapod is found, and there comes to
maturity. Some farmers cover these lateral
vines with earth, while others leave them bare
all the time. 1t is not agreed which is the bet
ter mode Il W hen ripe, one bunch of vines will
have from one to two quarts of peas. Some
planters cultivate them in hills like corn, butt
prefer drills One acre will produce from thirty
five to fifty bushels of peas zil.' - .-@..t-'