The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-23
THINGS IN WASHINGTON.

T1oN-MoRE TINE REQUIRED FOB FILING Al
ANSWER AS TO THE RESULT OF
THE TRIAL.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Gazette, writing under date of Thursday
evening says:
The Presidents counsel were in consultation
with him at the White House most of the day,
and but few visitors were admitted to an audi
ence. The impression of the counsel tonight
is, that it will not be possible for them to have
the Presidents answer ready for filing on Mon
day next, as ordered by the Court Of 1mpech'
ment. They will have a partial answer ready
and will upon their professional responsibility
ask additional time, which will no doubt be
granted.
About the same diversity of opinion con-
tinues to exist here as to the probable result
of the trial. The Radical politicians are per.
fectly sanguine that the President will be con.
victed. General Wald1idge, Radical, declared
this evening that there were two parties on
trial, Andrew johnson and the Senate and that
He insisted that Mr.. Johnson's acquittal was
the Senate's conviction, and that no one who
understood politicians could be at q loss to
determine in advance what the Judgment OF the
Senate will be. he furthermore declared that
johnson had gone back on his friends who had
elevated him to Office, and must be punished
and if senators dared to go back on their
friends and acquit the President, they would
themselves be punished. The General, no
doubt gave expression to what is the true
sentiment of the Radical party.
It is but proposition to punish the Presl-
dent for daring to take issue with them on the
great political questions of the day. On the
other hand we had the declaration OF q violent
Radical to-day, that whatever others might do
he would be governed only by the law and the
facts and Whatever doubt existed he would
give the benefit of that doubt to the accused.
It NAV also be stated that the senator alluded
to is one of those who have been counted as
certain to vote for conviction. The President
is in fine spirits and expresses no fear that hls
reputation will be in the slightest tarnished by
the Judgment Of the court, whatever it may be.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON ALONE RESPONSIBLE FOR BIS
DIFFICULTIES.
In the meantime, however, even the friends
of the President regard him as alone respon-
sible for the difficulties in which he has become
involved, as his leading peculiarly has been
never to consult; with any one as to the policy
or propriety of his official action. He has al.
lowed the entire patronage Of the Federal
Government to remain steadily in the hands Of
his political enemies against the solemn pro-
test of those who we're endeavoring to sustain
his administration; he has refused to remove
personal enemies and political spies from his
official household until so shackled by Con-
pressional enactments that he is unable to reg
ulate and control the personnel OF his own
Cabinet; he has allowed coordinate Drancn
of the government to usurp his prerogatiyes
until it has left him little more than change
of linen. During all this time MIR. johnson
has kept his own council and withheld his con-
tidence from his friends. 1t is understood thnt
his purpose to remove Stanton end appoint
General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary OF war da
anter,Da. was never disclosed even to his Cabl-
net. nor had any Democratic member of Con-
eress received the slightest intimatlon OF the
movement in advance Of it's actual occurrence.
Hence the contest has been Andrew johnson
single-handed against the whole Jacobin force,
and this contes. has eliminated in an attempt
TO seize the executive reins of the government
by formal impeachment Of the President.
THE SCARE AT TIE WAR DEPARTMENT-MovE-
MENTs OF TROOPS.
There has been an attempt to discredlt the
ssscare at the war Office, but there ls substan-
tiai Foundation for ali the reports put afoat in
this particular regard. Many Of the military
have been ordered and executed In
the greatest eecreoy, but there ls, neVerthe-
less. one quite as extraordinary as any OF its
brood. which is familiar to the eye Of every
resident OF Washington. a military patrol now
occupies our streets night and day, reminding
the people of the days Of the rebellion, when IN
the hour OF midnight started into being un,
pleasant apprehensions OF the Old Capitol and
Carroll PRISONS: There may be good reasons
known 10 the military authorities for this unu-
sual display of bayonets in our midst, but II
80, those reasons are unknown to our metro
politan population. Mr.. Stanton may not be
but his loud wbistling is Suspicious.
xo DECISION TO BE GIVEN By THE SUPREME COURT
ON THE MARBLE CASE.
Although the impression among the legal
profession is that the Supreme Court Will on
Monday next deliver its opinion in the McArdie
case in spite Of MIR. Schenck's attempt to TRICK
them out of jurisdiction, yet there IS Good
reason tonight for saying no judgment will be
rendered in the case. 1t has been ascertalned'
from an unQuestionable source, that the Su-
or eme Court will decline to act, in view OF the
act of Congress which is now awaiting tho
Presidents approval or disapproyal. This ac-
ton on the part Of the court will take many by
surprise, and among them those who have
been protesting to doubt whether the court
had the nerve to defend its own dignity. Never
theless, it is certain there will be no OPINION
rendered in the McArdle case, and MIR. Schenck
will have the qualification, OF knowing tnat n ne
WAS indeed successful in his efforts to clip the
wings of the Supreme Court. Congressional
must stand for season longer,
THE ALABAMA DIL-RADIcL ATTEMPTS IN ALA
BAMA TO PROVOKE COLLISION BETWEEN THE
WHITES AND THE BLACKS.
The Alabama bill, alluded to in my dispatch
last night, will be again reported tomorrow,
and it is the purpose Of the friends OF the Dill
TO force a final vote. There seems to be no
doubt of it's passage as amended, and wltn i!s
new title. "a bill to admit the State OF Aie-
bama to representation in congress-. Aayl-
that the caruet-bag men in that State, acting
under advice from Washington, are doing
everything in their power to bring about q
serious collision between the whites and
blacks. but that they will fail, although. the
most provoking insults Of oil kinds are omered l1
the citizens by Radicals and negroes. Ihe:e
adyices state that peace and good ORDER VIII
be maintained at oil hazards, anu tnat tne
Radicals will fail in their scheme 70 create rioS
and bloodshed to secure party enos'
THE ALASKA PURCHASE.
Parties interested in the ratification OF the
Russian treaty for the purchase OF Alaska nad
an informal interview to-day with certain men,
hers of the House committee on foreign rela-
t;ons and members OF Congress, to induce the
rescindment of the order postponlng the mat
Tar in fbe House until May, and have the ap-
nronriation disposed of by the goth OF April,
tbat being the end of the term fixed within
which The treaty is to be ratified. The con-
gressmen have refused to reconsider, and, as
one of them expresses it, they ewant the thing
to 90 BY default, and thus hit Seward slap In
the face
The Struggle in Georgia.