Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-03-25
WASHINGTON, March 20.

WARRINGTON, Marcn ZO.
Colonel ]. W. Lawless, formerly of the Fifth
Kentucky Regiment, was mortally wounded al
Nashville to-day in personal rencontre.
Secretary McCulloch estimates that the recent
aud pending tnx laws will bring the revenue
Sl2O, ,OOO, 900 below hi, estimates, and apprehcnd:
that the customs will be effected unfavorably by
the reduction Of taxes.
1t is showing here this morning.
The House judiciary Committee is considering
Bill to declare the fourteenth article Of the Con-
stituton ratified.
The President has nominated E. II. Smith as
Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Dis
trict of South Carolna.
General Hancock and Colonel Mitchell, of his
staff, have arrived
In the Supreme Court to-day, in the matter OF
the State Of Georgia ~. General Grant ct. al, on
motion Of Judge Black process was ordered to is
sue. motion for Il preliminary injunction was
held under adviSement.
General Hancock has issued special order re-
lievng General Dimick, Governor of the Soldiers
Home of this District. This is not done on the
Presidents order, aud is regarded as step in
advance.
In the House, resolution WAS adopted that du-
ring the scssi,n Of the Impeachment Court, the
House would attend as Committee of the Whole
TIE Pacific Rail Road Bill was discussed. Ii
was stated that tho President Of one Of the ccln-
psnies had spent half million d.llars in coaf'
Dental way in Washington to secure its passage
in 1854. Mr.. Wps!burnc claimed that at the
present rate Of progress and expenditure, when
the ruad was completed from Omaha 10 San Fan.
cisco, passage would cost $2OOO, and 4 car load
Of freight $1,000.
With.ut taking any action in the matter the
House adjourned.
Tu the Senate, Mr. Drake offered new impeach-
ment rule that during the session of the Court Mr.
Chase should be called Mr.. President" and the
Court be addressed rs " Senate"
Mr.. Drake remarked that tho Presidents coun-
sci studiously addressed Chase as Mr. Chief
Justice and alluded to the Senate rs tho "Court.
They hal distinct purpose in this which would
be developed during the triul.
Mr.. johnson objected to the immediate consid-
sratun of the rule and it went over.
After an Executive Session the Senate adjourned
WAsuryGroy, March 2l.-The California AS
scmbly rejected the fourteenth article, 46 10 "a.
General Hancock doubts the success of the Con-
stitutnn iu Texas.
A Memphis dispatch estimates the majority
against the Constitution in Arkansas at $4,000.
Municipal elections in Pennsylvania show Dem
ocra.ic gains.
Tie President and Hancock had prolonged
interview to-d.y.
Tho United States Consul at Zanzibar, under
date Of November, writes the State Department
that there is still room for hope that DR.. Living
stone is alive.
In loose discussion in the House on tho bill
muzrlins the Supreme Court Woodward eharac-
terizei the action Of the House us Indecent
Maynard, of Tennessee, said the indecency was
on the part of the Supreme Court, which seeks to
transcend its legitimate sphere md decide polti-
cal questions.
process has been issued from the Supreme
Court against Grant, Meade, Ruger and Rockwell,
returnuble tho first of December next, to answer
in tho Georgia case,