Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-17

Mr.. Justice, of Henderson, gave notice
that he would offer bill to change the
county of Catawba from the 9th to the 10th
District
On motion, the House then adjourned
until 1O9 o'clock tomorrow.
OUR WASHING TON CORRESPONDENCE
The New Impeachment-OldA Age and Ma
hgntty-The Ambition OF Thad. stevens
WV. HOIden-The Democratic COnven-
tiOn-NOrth Carolina Carpet-baSRers-
Rev. JAS. b. Averitt, &c. sc.
WASHINGTON, D. G., July 7, 1868.
The impeachment articles and accom-
panying speech of Thad. Stevens, seemed
to make the same impression on the House
to-day that the psalm singing did upon the
dead horse so often talked about. The old
sinner commenced the reading himself,
but Notwithstanding frequent sippings
from the glass containing the spirituous
fluid beside him, and which is really eau
de oie to him, bis voice failed him after
reading but little while, and he had to
turn the printed sheets over to MacPher-
son, Clerk of the House, who read and COR
rected the proof, as he went along, very
few members paying any attention to it.
Messrs. Beck and Holman of the Demo
Gratis, and Butler, Logan and Williams of
the Radicals, were perhaps the only ones
who heard ten words of it. Without con-
Guiding the reading of the speech, Mr..
Stevens moved the postponement of the
matter till next Monday. Mr.. Holman
moved to lay the subject on the table, but
no quorum voting, he withdrew the mo-
tion.
| 1t is sad sight indeed to see this poor old
man, standing upon the verge of the grave,
evincing all the malignity that his great
cursed disciple to possess. His feebleness
! should admonish him of the necessity of
devoting his few remaining honrs to re-
pentance; but alas, one cant resist the con-
clusion that he has lost all hope beyond
the grave, and is but doing ali the evil he
can while waiting for his master to claim
his own.
There is some speculation as to his rea-
sons for introducing these articles at this
time, when the House has expressed de.
sire to djourn within few days, and there
is scarcely a shadow of u hope that they
will remain to discuss them, yet it is said
that he merely desires to keep Congress in
session that he may die in the House with
his harness on his back, and that a COM
pnittee of those who have so ignobly yield
ed to the crack of his whip may attend his
widow, who also bears the same relation
to the departed Smith, the negro barber.
to their home in Lancaster. But / much
fear that unless he chooses to shuttle off
this mortal coil sometime during the cur
| rent month, he will have to take his last
| journey without the Honorable attend
ance he now hopes for. Williams. of the
Board OF Managers, announced an addl-
tional article Of impeachment drawn up by
himself, which, without reading, he asked
leav to print, and to take the same course
as those of Mr.. Stevens. ". has been oh.
served as quitting on airs since his con-
nection with the late trial, which gave
him a notoriety he had been vaiuly seeking
for for lifetime, and which he is silly
enough to mistake for fame, and hence his
anxiety to try it again.
Mr. Stevens makes one good point
against the President in arraigriDg him for
appointing W. w. Holden Provisional
| Governor of North Carolina, and l quite
agree with him if there is ally one act of
Mr.. Johnson meriting impeachment it is
the appointment of that bad man to rule
in the State that had repudiated him time
and again. 1t was in the nature of pun
ishmeDt but 1 am ready to forgive him for
it, inasmuch as he has in turn been pun
! ish ed by the desertiOn and betrayal of his
quaqdam friend. He now knows him as
every respectable, thinking man i'll North
Carolina then knew him, and I have no
doubt has repented of that error
The Radicals of Congress evinced agreat
deal of interest in the balloting to-day In
The New York Convention. While 1t was
in progress the telegraph offices in the
Capitol were thronged with them, and
many of them, with pencil and paper III
! hand, took down the votes as annOunced
| by the operators, and impatiently awaited
the result of the next. The harmony with
which the deliberations have been con-
Quoted has alarmed these destructives, and
already they see their fate in the hand
writing on the wall. They find that while
the delegations from the several States
have their individual preferences-many
for Pendleton, for Hancock, for Hen.
bricks and others-oM Of them are for
| one country, one party, and tie nominee 0f
| tie Concention. And the enthusiasm pre-
vailing there, so unlike their recent assem-
b.age at Chicago, appalls them. Radiating
from that point it will penetrate all parts
of our country, and ensures a vi yorous and
enthusiastic canvass that will carry every
thing before it, and makes the election OF
the man who may be nominated an abso-
lutte certainty.
A portion of the carpet-bag delegation
from your State arc now occupying seats
in the House, and the rest will be let in, l
suppose, as soon as the oath can be prop
erly adjusted.
[ had the pleasure to meet your class
mate, Rev. James B. Averitt, formerly of
Onslow county, and now principal OF q
female seminary at Winchester, Va, here
few days ago. He came here to marry
member of his regiment to young lady
of this city. and who preferred that the
ceremony should be performed by his late
comrade in arms. 1t was a pleasure to hnd
him looking well, and to learn that ne was