Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-11
Late from Washington.

WASHINGTON, March IA careful
analysis shows that the President viii
certainly be disposed. A powerful pres
sure is being brought on Senators who
have been holding back by their Radica
friends at home. Every means will be
resorted to to secure the requisite mum
Der to convict him.
johnson and his friends seek to pro
crastinate the trial in order to defeat the
revolutionisis, but they will be check
mated. Instead of lengthy examina'
tons Of witnesses for the defense,
the conspirators will readily admit the
proof, aud proceed regardless of the
forms OF Justice, and with the celebrity OF
a caucus, to force matters to q conclu-
sion at once, believing that the excite
ment produced by their action will be
over before the election.
After executing this scheme, the ex-
tremists will carry out the following pro-
gramme: Repeal the Tenure.of' office
bill; add sufficient number of judges
to the Supreme Court to make it twelve,
so as to insure a judicial decision in
favor of any law Congress may pass !;
amend the Constitution, declaring all
male citizens of twenty.one years and
upward entitled to suffrage, regardless of
celor; bring in all the Southern States !;
throw out the electoral votes of those
States that refuse negro suffrage; revise
the civil and diplomatic service bill,
under pretense of illegality cause q
thorough examination into the qualifica-
tions Of all incumbents, and GUST all who
are recreant, and appoint their success
sors for life, and thus perpetuate their
power indefinitely.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-The mist
which surrounds the impeachment con-
spiracy thickens, and cannot be dissi-
pated for some days.
There is authority, however, for con-
tradicting the statement that the Presi.
dent and his counsel have agreed on his
defense. An absurd report is also in
circulation that the Presidents counsel
will object to certain Senators as COM
petent judges; and failing in the chal-
lenge, will refuse to proceed with the
trial, resign, and appeal to the people.
This, too, is canard.
There is complete division of opin-
ion as to the result of the trial. The
President and his friends are confident
of acquittal, unless the Senate are de-
termined to sacrifice truth, honor, and
justice to promote party ends
The presentation to-day of the creden-
tials of Mr.. Vickers, Senator elect from
MARYLAND, was the occasion of interest
1t had been remored that they
would be referred. and Sumner made
the attempt, but Conness, OF
California, an intense Radical, protested
thereat and ridiculed it, and Sumner, who
gloried that he was faithful, when every
body else was faithless, to Sambo, with
drew his motion to refer, and Mr.. Vickers
was sworn in. Schenck sent over COM
munication to the effect that Vickers had
a son in the Southern army, but neither
Howard nor Sumner, after comparing
notes, thought it proper to introduce the
subject.
In the Senate, on the civil diplomatic
appropriation bill, it was moved to strike
out the Bolivian mission and substitute
the mission to Ecuador, which the House
had striker out, and to prevent Hubbel,
of Ohio, getting it. 1t was coutended in
the Senate that the mission to Ecuador
was never more important The ques-
ton is still pending.
John Logan created sensation in the
House to-day by his declaration that
eighteen millions of United States bonds,
which ought to have been cancelled and
destroyed, we're still out But, if Mr..
Logan is right, there may % we'll be
hundred millions. Logan's statements
have been" Wild generally ever since
be failed to force the Secretary of the
Treasury Department to pass a cotton
claim which would have paid him sixty
thousand dollars. The General turned
Radical next day in consequence, and
now holds . front Fapk ia tNs revolution
airy eabah
Tomorrow, under the regular order of
business, the House bill comes up to con-
tinue the Freedmen's Bureau for one
year after the first of July next. NO
doubt is entertained as to its passage,
The President has not yet decided
whether ne will appear before the Sen
ate in person on Friday next or BY his
counsel.