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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-25
Charges Against General SchOneld-Dfore
Radical Reconstruction.

The thing above all others the radicals cannot
endure is an honest man. Honesty in the exc
cution of the Reconstruction laws must not be
permitted, because it would surely be fatal to
that reconstruction policy upon which the poll
ticians count for their ability to control the
the clamor that is sure sooner or later to be
raised against any officer in command Of a
military district. Before man can rise to the
position of brigadier general in the United
States service he must have shown himself
possessed of qualities that are always found
associated with personal honor. Such men
cannot become the plant tools of political
jobbers; for they will not turn aside from duty
and abuse their positions to secure the ends OF
this or that man in party contest. Some
times they may err in an interpreta-
ton of law, and, from the influences
and accidents of education, lean little to one
side or the other. But this they do not con-
sciOusly do. 1t follows, therefore, that they
never can pursue the shameless course
politician would point out, and never can meet
all the requirements OF the ulchSIerS III party
games. Politicians are sure, sooner or later,
therefore, to find such men in their way and to
urge their removal. This is the whole phi
losophy of the charges preferred by Governor
Pierpoint against General Schofeld. Schoheld
has administered the law in Virginia wisely,
moderately and with rare and admirable fidelity
to the highest sense of honor. Who does not
know that this must necessarily be disagreeable
to the radicals? Pierpoint, therefore, only acts
consistently with the known character of his
party in taking the preliminary step to secure
Schofield's removal. The charges are that he
has appointed to Office men who could not take
the oath. The fact is that he could not find
decent and honest men to act under the regis
tration law who could take the oath. He
had, therefore, the option to knowingly put
rascals into office or to take the responsibility
he did. He may be removed; but if ne should
succeed in holding his place, and not doing 1t In
defiance of the party in power, it would, per-
haps, be the one fact in his history that would
not be to his honor.
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Impeachment-The Argument Of MIR. Nelson.
Mr. Nelson, speaking for the defence before
the impeachment Court ON Thursday, went
general sense. He argued closely, cogently,
earnestly many important points in the case;
but the main feature of his address was that he
went aside from strictly technical argument
on the evidence and the law to state his clients
position broadly, politically, morally. This
was rendered necessary by the course the
prosecution had previously taken. No one,
surely, can have failed to notice the gratuitous
auency of alusion to the Presidents career,
outside the record of this trial, that has
marked the speeches of the Managers. One
man speaking of another, whatever contempt
and dislike he may feel, controls the extrava-
gance of his speech and keeps 1t within
certain limits, if not out of respect
toward the man of whom he speaks,
yet in respect and Difference to those who
hear. 1t might have been supposed that such
q regard to good manners and feeling of re-
spect toward the Senate would have restrained
the Managers from referring to the President
in terms Of coarse abuse and from reciting to
his prejudice their own accounts of events not
fairly within the cognizance of the court; but
it did not, and thus Mr.. Nelson has been
drawn to the vindicatiOn of the President from
all the loose, vague and altogether improper
aspersions that the Senate had permitted the
Managers to make. His defence was well
cto CO.. In Of
earnest, honest eloquence. 1t evidently came
from the heart and carries the sympathies Of
the reader. It will do much to show by con-
trast the whole spirit in which the effort
against the President is carried on. One of
Mr.. Nelson's strongest points is the
production of the resolution introduced
into the Senate by. Mr.. johnson in
the first year of the war and then
adopted by Congress as the expression
of the country in regard to the object Of
the war. That resolution declared that the
war was for the Union, and not for the de-
struction of slavery, nor for conquest nor the
subjugaton of the Southern people. The
spectacle now is that Mr.. Johnson Is the only
man in the government who adheres to that
declaration and stands up in opposition to
those who are trying to secure the results OF
the war as though it had been one for con-
quest He is the man who holds to the main
idea, and all the rest have been swept on by
the revolutionary current He is tried on
party questions, and yet not because he de-
serted. his party, but because he did not go
with il when it deserted its principles.
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of the Union war party for their leader, and
Admiral Farragut is their man. His platform,
up in the rigging of his good ship Hartford,
will be a fair equivalent for General Grants
Appomattox apple tree. The last taste of the
copperhead being thus washed out of the rank
and file of the democracy, they, in coalition
with all the other opposition forces, will have
fair field before them upon which to fight the
revolutionary schemes of radicalism With
this immense advantage in such fight the
issue may be as astounding as was that of 1852,
when militia subordinate routed, North and
South, the greatest soldier of that day--our
conquerOr of Mexico. -
What says Mr.. Belmont to all this? We
call upon him because he holds the destiny of
the democratic and of all the other anti-radical
elements of the country in his hands. He can
lift them up or put them down. We dare say,
too, that in following our advice in 1868, as
Horatio Seymour did in 1862, the results will
be equally satisfactory. The cool, experienced
observer, standing aloof from either party,
knows more of the weak points of both than
their wisest leaders.
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city have forwarded letter to Governor Fenton
urging him to secure an opportunity Of examining
the New York Tax Levy at his leisure before the
Legislature adjourns and assuring him that his veto
VIII be fully sustained II he dsapproves OF any OF
the bills.
The president OF the Erie Railway Company pup
fishes special report to the board OF directors re
tive to the complicated litigation that has been going
on In the courts OF this city the affairs Oh 'no
company He appends report OF the superin'en.-
ent OF the road relative the late disaster ~ oars
Rock.
A prize fight took place In Warwick. H. L. yester'
day. The police captured the two contestants, ana
although they were both terribly bruised In the nght
having become completely blinded from the blows
inflicted they were locked up in jail in East Green
witch.
A boiler explosion in Mainstee, Mich, on Wednes-
day night, killed eight workmen and wounded four
others.
The Anchor line steamship Europa Captain Craig,
will leave pier 20 North at noon to-day for Liver
pool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land
passengers &c.
The fine steamship General Grant, Captain Hill.
dreth OF the Merchants line, viii leave pier No. IL
North river at three r. N. to-day for New Orleans
direct.
The popular steamship San JacintO, Captain At.
kns OF the Empire line will sail from pier IL North
river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga.
The stock market was variable yesterday. Govern
ment securities were nrm Gold closed at lasA.
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stands the tess Of ross-examinaiion, may solve
tne mystery; but evidence of this kind is gen
er"i'y accepted, and very properly, with good
deai OF caution. The case, however, being in
the hands OF skilfaI lawyers on both sides,
there is little doubt that the matter will be sift
ed thoroughly and that Justice will be done,
whoever may be guilty of this cowardly act Of
assassination
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to insure the proper classification Of their business
announcements, all advertisements for insertion in
the, HERALD should be left at the counting room by
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
An ASpirant President.

When Gen. Grant was instructed by
the President to accompany Minister
Campbell to Mexico, if he thought fit
or to proceed to some point on tho
frontier most suitable and convenient
for communication with that Minister
"to give him the aid of his advice il
carrying out the instructions of the
Secretary of State" Gen. Grant asked
to be excused, and suggested Sherman
Hancock or Sheridan, for the duty
To the Secretary of War, he said:
81 would not dare to counsel the Min
lister in any matter beyond stationing
troops on United States soil.
sincerely hope may be excused from
undertaking duty so foreign to my
Office and tastes as that contemplated
To the President, asking to be excus-
ed, he wrote:
at is diplomatic service for which
/ am not fitted either by education Oh
taste. 1t has necessarily to be conduct
ed with the State Department, with
which my duties do not connect me-
Again, then, l most respectfully but III.
gently repeat my request to DO excused
from the performance of duty entire
ly out of my sphere, and one, too,
which can be so much better performed
by Others"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
North Carolina.

A Raleigh dispatch of the 30th says :
The Legislature meets tomorrow
A quorum will be present.
Gen. Candy suspends the test-oath.-
1t is understood that he issued an order
to!Chief Justice Pearson Yesterday to
be qualified before the United States
Commissioner by taking the oath re-
CURED by the new Constitution, and
administer the same oaths to the other
Judges and officers. To day he ap.
pointed w. w. Holden Governor, vice
Worth, and ordered the State officers to
be sworn in tomorrow.
Governor Holden will deliver his in.
augural address on the 4th.
The city is full Of office-hunters and
many candidates for the United States
Senate and other offices.
General Abbott, of New Hampshire
is prominent candidate for the United
States Senate. Also Colonel Heaton, Of
Ohio.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
Sumner and the Negro.

Senator Sumner, says the New York
Times, "has written letter to say that
he should welcome the election of q
competent representative of the colored
race to either House Of Congress as a
final triumph of the cause of equal
rights. Until this step is taken our sue
cess is Incomplete He does not, how.
ever, take the trouble to say from what
State he would like to see colored
member elected. Nor does he indicate
his purpose to secure the triumph OF
equal rights by advocating the election
of colored Senator from Massachu-
sets in place of the distinguished Sem
ator' whose term of service expires
next March,"
This is good hit, coming as it does
from the Times. A negro to supplant
Sumner, would be just rctribution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
South Carolina.

The Charleston NeWs of the 18th pub.
fishes full abstract of the message of
Gen. Scott the Governor elccti to be
presented at tho meeting OF II . new
Legislature on Monday next. General
Scott urges, among other things, the
Legislature to remove the political dis
abilities of every citizen; hopes the
Freedmen's Bureau will be terminated
by October; expresses belief that no
organization exists in South Carolina to
resist the laws of the State, and says
that every man shall be fully protected
in person and property, and in the free
exercise of all his rights as citizen, so
far as they depend upon the Executive
of the State. In conclusion, he express
es the hope that an era of good feeling
has been inaugurated, and that the mar
tial valor of South Carolina, so Justly
renowned, will hereafter be displayed
i'll supporting the flag Of our common
country. ...... ..t
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
Wall Street GOssiD.

The New York 1,1bune's money ar.
ticle takes a rosy view of things, pres
ent and prospective. 1t says:
"Thus far the condition of the crops
is all the most sanguine could ask
Should no disaster occur there will be
received by the agricultural portion OF
the community return for their labor
greater in quantity than was ever be.
fore realized. A full crop assures the
transportation companies all the bust.
ness they can do with all the means al
their command and at paying rates.
At present railway property is held
with more confidence than at any time
since it came into use. Roads of doubt.
full value in 1857, owing to the natural
growth of the country become as sure
of income as the main lines of that day
were felt to be, and like bank shares
are considered as among the safest OF
investments. The country has grown
not only up to roads, but has outgrown
them, and under reasonable good man.
agement railway property as whole
can be depended upon for large incomes
with certainty. What changes in theii
market value may be made by stock
gamblers is another affair, and of small
to bona tide investors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
A Strange Story.

The Chattanooga correspondent of
the Knoxville Press and Herald relates
a singular and mysterious occurrence in
that city. We condense for want of
space:
AT Chattanooga, some two years ago,
it seems that burglar entered the
sleeping apartment occupied by Mr..
Ruohs and his wife, in which was his
safe containing $4,000. The burglar,
it is stated, bore a lighted candle
in his hand, and in his movements
aroused Mr.. Ruohs, who Immediately
recognized in his person a citizen of
Chattanooga who had spent the early
part of the night at his (Ruohs) house
in the capacity of friend and visitor.
Mr.. Ruohs, fearing personal violence,
teigned sleep. The burglar, falling af-
ter repeated efforts to open the safe, de-
parted, first robbing the pocket of the
supposed sleeping man Of $3.50. That
gentleman, it appears, was still too IT,
mid to have the robber arrested, but
has mentioned the circumstance occa-
sionally among his friends, until it got
in possession of a grand jurymen, who
became the prosecutor of the accused
party, who was still living at Chatta-
nooga and doing business as a banker.
A true bill was found at the term of the
Court last week, and the accused man
arrested. Bail has been fixed at $4,000.
The name of the supposed burglar is
not given. 1t is most singular story
as related by the Chattanooga cores
pendent, and has several weak places in
it. If it should turn out to be case of
mistaken identity, which is not at all
improbable, it is most unfortunate af-
fair-more SO perhaps for Mr.. Ruohs
than for the other party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
Beast Butler Tomahawked,

There is sharp set journal in Lon
don with the savage title of the 1oma-
haach. 1t is after our Bejamin-he of
the spoons. We subjoin its paragraph :
There is report that Butler, the he
70 Of New Orlea4s, is to come over to
this country as United States Minister.
We suppose that it is impossible to re-
fuse official recognition to this-polish-
ed gentleman, and that it will be con.
venient for our Foreign Minister to ig-
more the antecedents of this "Bayard''
of the great American Civil War;
However, even in this age of apathy
and sycophancy, we do trust nothing
but the barest official courtesy will be
extended to creature whose name is
so notorious that we would be glad If
our memory could escape the pollution
of recording it. This is no case of a
man holding opinions repulsive to the
majority Of the English nation; it is q
question of deeds; and to accord to
General Butler the same reception as to
Mr.. Adams, let us say, would be to lose
sight of all the respect due to manli-
ness, truth and honor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
The People Terribly in Earnest.

The National Intcliigencer has an ar.
ticle in reference to the Nominating
Convention and the interest manifested
in its action, from which we take the
following extract:
We arc-says that paper-destined to
witness such an uprising, such an en-
thusiasm, such a determination of the
people to restore the CONSTITUTION, az
has never been witnessed in this coun-
try. Let us prove ourselves worthy of
and responsive to these great and gener-
GUS emotions of the peOple% We dare
not look them in the face 18th lie, a
sham, a platform which do(3 bot 20 at
once to their hearts. We1annot de-
ceive them if we would. SICK his strug-
gle is merely for spoils, we will have
none of it. If the crime (which the
white race of the South have been put
by bayoncts under the yoke Of the ne
gro be not in issue, then nothing is in
issue. If we see that our brother have
need and do not help him in the extrcln-
ity, how can we meet him, or face our
our own hearts and conscicnces? If
we do not protest against these foul
crimes if we do not, in the most plain
and direct language that we can use, de-
clare that these statutes and acts of ty-
ranny are unconstitutional, void, and to
be eXtirpatcd, then we fail in our duty !;
we have nothing in common with the
great warnings of the popular heart /;
we will not deserve victory, and there
foSt VIC will n0t. achieve it,. But we
have fulrfaith and trust in the delegates
who are to meet at New York. We
shall look to them with great confidence
for action that shall mean something
more than shams and generalities.-
Coming fresh from the people, animat-
ed by the generous and burning indig-
nation of those who sent them, we do
know that they will give forth no I'M
certain voice. We believe that what
they will do and say will be as the peal
of trumpet. The air is full of popu-
lar electricity. Everywhere men are
burning to wipe out and utterly crush
this dastardly, this inexpressibly base,
cruel, corrupt, dominion of radicalism.
Let our delegates strike, with will,
good, honest, manly blow for freedom.
Never fear the people. They are all
right-right in the East, right in the
great Central States, right in the giant
West, right in the oppressed and suffer-
ing South-nowhere more right than
among the SONS of toll in the great city
of New York. Let the word be spo-
ken truly, bravcly, and the very first re-
spouse will make quake with fear the
heart of every radical tyrant in the
land. Whether it bring shame to the
cheek, or a sickening, deceitful smile
to the lips of those who would tamper
with the convictions of great nation,
is q small matter. Let it piss"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
A Word to the Wise.

Some Of the Radical journals appear
to be fearful that when the Democratic
party succeed to power in Tennessee,
they will disfranchise their coored al
lies. Popular disfranchisement is not
one of the tenets of the Democratic
party. A minority of the white men
of Tennessee have DISTINGUISHED the
majority, and the negroes have hereto
fore voted almost as a unit to keep
them in this condition. If when the
Democrats succeed to power they
should follow the example set them,
and carry out the Radical doctrine of
popular Acknowledgement, what assur-
ance have they-the Radicals-that it
would stop with their colored allies
The doctrine is not Democratic-it is in
the highest degree heretical-and the
sooner it is repealed the better it will be
for all parties and colors: for the mea-
sure you mete to others may be measur-
cd to you again.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
"The Lost Fund"

The article following occurs in the
Memphis correspondence of the New
York Times, the writer of which is a
member of the party in POWER. He
says:
We have just had delegation here
at Memphis to look after the defunct
tennessee National Bank. The dclega-
ton, composed of State Senator Hen
derson and State Prison Warden Nc.
Elwee, were authorized by tho State
Treasurer, Mr.. Henry, to look after
some three hundred and eighty thou.
sand dollars of school fund money that
was carried off by somebody when the
tennessee National collapsed. 1t was
said that our former State Treasurer
was bribed by twenty-five thousand
dollars to put the school fund money i'm
that institution, which was pct of
Governor Brownlow, and, when the
school money was lost, he, in remorse,
committed suicide.
All that | know of the matter is, that
there was strong pressure of leading
radicals brought to bear to haye Mr..
Stanford put the money in that bank.
and subsequent investigations brought
to light the fact that thirteen members
of the Legislature obtained, about the
time the money was put in the bank,
large loans from it. It is now current
ly reported that one of the delegates
from the Treasurer would receive, lib
eral present if he, on bel VIA the
State, you'd, with his asy bcls, SCccpt
somewhere between S75,00UaaH $780,
600 from the bank, and, giving re-
ceipt in full, allow the managers to
enjoy whatever balance might be
left of the original S3S0,OOO that the
State could not recover. Agents of the
bank went before the Legislature at the
last session and offered to give up a GER
tain share of the money if the State
would be satisfied Herewith, but a ma
jority of the members would not bar
gain or consent to give certificates of
good character to the managers of the
Tennessee National Bank.
1t remains to be seen whether Mr..
Henry will make or sanction compro-
mise that was repudiated by the Legis-
lature. If he does, everybody here will
be reminded of big defalcaiion here
under Collector Carlton few years
ago. The government of the United
States was done out of over a half mil
lion dollars. 1t sent an agent here to
investigate, and it is currently reported
that after that agent had got $4,000 he
couldn't find any thing out, and actual
ly gave certificates of the highest char
acter to the parties implicated, some of
whom went Immediately into business
Mr. Ianpr 4
Mr.. McElwec are men of high repute
for integrity, and it is to be hoped that
they will do nothing to induce suspi-
cion in reference to this matter. The
fact is the interests Of this State in the
school fund stolen have not been well
cared for by Gov. Brownlow, or any bo-
dy else. If they were, instead of tend
ering part of their plumber, the rogues
would be quaking in anticipation of
being sent to the State Prison.