The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-06

the next day by Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
and Hon. John A. Bingham. On the 4th OF
March articles of Impeachment were form
ally read to the Senate. On the next day
the Senate was organized as high court
under the Constitution. Chief Justice
Chase, Of the Supreme Court of the United
States, presided. On the 30th the proceed
ings began. The specifications were based
on the removal of Secretary Stanton, the
Presidents expressions in public speeches
of contempt for Congress, declaring the
thiTty-ninth not a constitutional Congress,
and his hindTanCe of the execution of some
of It's acts. The trial ended on the 18th of
May. when the vote was taken on the first
article, and resulted 30 to 19. This was
not two-thirds vote, and the impeach-
ment was not sustained. A like result fol-
lowed the vote on the other charges. pom
his retirement from the Presidential chair
Mr.. Johnson returned to Tennessee, and in
October, 1870, became candidate for the
United States Senate. He was defeated by
Hon. Henry Cooper He was also an In
dependent candidate for the House of Rep
resentatives in 1872, but was unsuccessful.
With his usual peruinacity of purpose MIR.
Johnson cluug to his idea of place in the
/ nitcd States Senate, and was rewarded by
an election to that place at the last session
of the Legislature. On the 4th of March,
1875, lie took his seat in the Senate, and
ON the 22d made a two hours speech against
the resolution recognizing the Kellogg gov
ernment i'll Louisiana. This was his last
public effort. On the adjournment of the
Senate he went home aud remained there
Until summoned TO his last account in a
sudden aud unexpected manner. Andrew
Johnson had an unusually active political
life, and his record is ample upon which
to base a judgment as to his acts and char
acter.
LAST HOURS OF THE EX-PREsIDENT.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 1.-Ex-Pres-
ideut Andrew Johnson died at 30 a. m.,
Saturday, at the residence Uf his daughter,
Mrs. W. II. Brown, III Garter county, East
Tennessee. One of his last wishes was
that his winding sheet should be the flag
of his country. a special to Nashville pa
pers from Greenville, dated seven o clock
Saturday evening, says:
''Mr. Johnson died of paralysis and heart
disease. He had been complaining some
what of i'll health during the past month,
but felt no serious apprehensions. Last
Wednesday he took the morning train to
visit his daughter, with whom Mrs. john
son had been sojonrning for the past six
weeks. He rode in a hack from Carriers
depot to her residence, some six miles dis
tant, and seemed i'll good spirits on his az
rival and ate Il hearty dinner, and after a
few minutes of general conversation re-
tired up pstai:s and conveTsed with his grand
daughter Miss Tillie Slower. While thus
engaged his tongue refused utterance, and
to her great CONSERVATION he fell from his
seat to the floor. Help was instantly sum-
moned, and almost rs soon as raised he ex-
pressed. d.indistuctly however, that, his right
side was paIaly zed.
After being taken to bed, when the fam
lily spoke of sending for physician, ho for
bade it, saying that he would soon recover
On this account the summoning of medical
aid was deferred twenty four hours, when
DIR. Jobe was called from Elizabethtown,
two miles distant. He instantly began he
roic treatment, aided by DIR. Cameron, and
seemed at one time the next day to be sue
ceeding. The patient conversed imperfect
ly in regard to domestic matters, and did
not seem conscious of approaching dissolu-
ton, but his case was beyond tie skill of
physicians, and at tseven o clock Friday ght
he became unconscious. Mrs. Patterson
and Andrew Johnson, Jr., arrived an hour
Later with two physicians from Greenvile,
Drs. Brey aud Taylor, but he did not rec
ognize any of them, and after seven hours
and a half of Inconsistencies he peacefully
breathed his last. surrounded by his wife,
children and all his grandchildren, except
the son and daughter of ex-senator Patter-
son.