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Year: 1868

The result of the election in South
Carolina is of the most gratifying char
acter The new constitution is adopted
By about forty thousand majority. State
officers, members of the Legislature, and
local officers have been chosen, and with
in short time after a seif-expatriation
of more than seven years-the foremost
Secession State will return to her place
in the Union.


The new Constitution is liberal and
just in its provisions The Convention
that made it embraced many excellent
citizens of ample qualification for the
work, and in spite of the ceaseless food
of vituperation poured upon its members
by malignant and unscrupulous press,
its work was calmly, carefully, properly
done.


We are glad to feel assured that the
white men of South Carolina have at
least acquiesced III this reconstruction
If the indications given of the vote as far
as received hold out, it must show that,
while great many whites stayed away
from the polls, very creditable number
came up and voted squarely for the Con-
stitution. We are also glad to say that
we have heard of no serious attemps to
coerce poor men either to vote in the
negative or retsrain them from voting The
tactics of the Alabama Rebels found no
favor in the Palmetto State, and we are
encouraged to hope that she, who went
out of the Union because she really and
honestly believed in Secession, will be
the most earnest and honest in her good
faith in restoring her old connections.


The advces from Lo uisiana are also
favorable and the new Constitution has
been adopted by about 1000 majority.
The Republican party was somewhat
divided and the Democracy made des
peraue effort to defeat them. In this they
were encouraged by the action of Han
cock officers of election. But all was of
no avail, and the triumph of the Repub-
licans of Louisiana, under such circum-
stances is highly satisfactory.


The advicesfrom Georgia are also good.
The full official returns have not yet been
received. An Atlanta dispatch says that
Judges who are thoroughly competent
to give an opinion, now estimate that the
constitution has been carried by at least
1000 majority, and that Bullock is chosen
governor by 5000. 1t is probable that a
majority Of democrats have been chosen
to the legislature. but it remains to be
seen whether enough of them can take
the oath to make IA quorum.


North Carolina has followed the eX-
ample of It's neighboring State and has
ratified the Constitution by at least twen-
" five thousand majority, elected Holden,
Republican candidate for Governor and a
majority Of the Republican Congressman.
The Legislature is largely of the same
political faith.
Year: 1868

ter how humble their victims, no matter
what their own reputation as law abiding
citizens in the past they should be pur-
sued relentlessly and punished to the
full extent of the law. There is no safe
ty In any other course. 1t must be de-
monstrated once for all that it will not
DO to Introduce assassination as an ele
ment of an American politics.
Year: 1868

A Washington dispatch says: 'The
best judges of the situation in Washing
ton have come to the conclusion that
there can be no doubt upon the result OF
impeachment. Some have said that
Senators Grimes, Fowler and Van Winkle
may be among the minority, but it is now
generally conceded that upon the articles
In reference to breaking the law and
swinging round the circle expedition, there
Will be stout party vote. A prominent
New Yorker offered wager, the other
night, that Reverdy johnson would vote
for conviction on questions of law unless
delays occur, which are not now anticipat-
ed, the trial will come to a close this
week and decision given.
Year: 1868

Ottawa, April %. Two detectives
have sworn to have overheard conver-
sation between Whelan and Doyle in the
jail, in which Whelan it is said to have
admitted to Doyle that he shot ID Archy
AlcGee and he would be either hung
or go to the Penitentiary for life for it.
He was prepared for either and seemed
TO take pride in the idea that his name
would be handed down to posterity as a
great man.


Doyle was placed in a cell adjoining
Nhelan as stratagem to lead him into
conversation the detectives taking a
position near to listen


The evidence bears hard on Doyle as an
accomplice
Year: 1868

Official returns have been received
of the recent judicial election from
every county in the state but Shawono
The Republican majority will not vary
twenty votes from 7.000-a gain of over
two thousand since last fall.
Year: 1868

The Union Pacific Railroad terminus is
at Benton, six hundred and ninety. eight
miles west of Omaha, to which place the
stage offices have been forwarded
from Laramie, thus shortening the stage
travel one hundred and twenty-five
miles Chicago is now several hundred
miles nearer the seaboard than
she is to the terminus of the Union
Pacific, and within few years will
be so confessedly central to the railroad
system of the country that no one will think
Of calling her Western city. The summer
travel westward is immense, and has this
season shared with the seaboard the hegira
Of our leisure or pleasure hunters.
Year: 1868

One night lately while the New York
and Bristol line steamer was coming down
the Sound, person on board was so indls-
Greet as to boast that he was Ku-Klux
man in the South, and that he wanted
to exercise his peculiar qualities in that
line on any one present. A late officer, who
served under General Candy in New Mexico,
was present and told the fellow that he had
mistaken his latitude, and that this was no
place for such boasting, but the advice
was not taken, and the Ku-Klux man
being determined to insult all the people
on board, the Union man knocked him
down, and he was carried off very much
crest-fallen, and apparently cured of his
sanguinary ideas.
Year: 1868

Ne are daily in receipt Of communica-
|ns requesting that our paper be mailed
certain mentioned points, and bills for
|rded.


Ne desire it distinctly understood that
will send from our Office no copies of
j paper until the subscription price is
ed
Year: 1868

The fact that two-thirds of the 160 milk
men of Chicago have been found, on in
vestigation, to supply pure milk, speaks
better for the character and morals of the
place than anything we have heard.
Year: 1868

mittees
we call attention to the meeting of the
publican State Committee at the hall of
House of Representatives on Monday
|ening next.


Iti highly important that all members
The committee should attend, as bust
b Of importance will be transacted.
Year: 1868

RumOrs and Scares- Reported Arrest Of One


Ot the Directors.


There ~ not business man IN our midst who does
not realize the moral Of that excellent OF fables
"Turning the Grindstoner From the wealthiest
merchant to tile mcauest corner oafer we meet every
day somebody who has to grind. Old Daniel
Drew may be what Is termed exceedingly world wise
but II h plain lie has not clear comprehension OF
the extent 10 which designing men, who have axe
old story "a 1carc Of cOurse) that armed men were
preparing To move on his camp from New York.
Presently the police force Is doubled, and
the old man very naturally feels troubled.
Will be continued for there Is vast amount at stake
and men never feel 80 comfortable as when they
are ON the winning sidc There is an additional
safeguard Tor Drew IN tue promptness with which
the New Jersey Legislature have lent themselves /.
TO nun at thus crisis Citizens and legislators alike
are sensible Of tile Importance 1t Is to the that
be defended IA all hazards, and that, according
ne sOuides principles o political economy, the free
and unrestricted development OF the resources OF
such corporation as the Erie Railway Company
Will add immensely to the wealth Of the State.
Hence aaythng tat may be denied to the refugees In
New YORK Will lie granted ungrudgingly at the
other SIDE Of the river. The bill which was
deemed Of such importance to the directors that ~
was put through both houses Of the Legislature and
placed IN the Governors room all within .wo noura,
secures to the company all the privileges wnlcn they
Possessed IN New York. besides Iega''ang sn' ~ issue
0 new stock. The forcible remark OF one OF the
directors, that they would transfer their households
To Jersey early In the coming nlont appears 70 nave
more truth IN u than at first supposed.


simultaneously with the scare OF another INVASION
last evening came the report that Henry thompson
one OF the directors committed To the fortunes or Mr.
Drew, was arrested 10y deputy sheriff IN the Aston
ING parties whom the sheriff may light upon has,
beer, dxed Mt $5O0,000 cash down. To all appear
ance the sherns are likely to have long vigil
Year: 1868

CONSTITUTIONAL GRAND LODGE-SIXTH DAYS


SESSION.


The Convention was in session yesterday
with closed doors engaged in executive business On
motion OF Brother Abrahams the rules changed 30
that meeting should be held today 1t being tho Jow-
sh sabbath Brother Frank moved that committee OF
five from each district be appointed to consider the
port on the Orphan Asylum In this city The motion was
amended To have the report printed and referred
The district committee brother objected to this IA he
believed there was enough 10 lie done without attending
To Institutions outside OF the order This objection sur
prised Brother Frank who believed IL NECESSARY that
something should bc done for the orphan boys who had
become TOO old to longer remain III the institution. The
previous question was called for and the motion 10 prInt
the report and refer It TO the District Grand Lodges was
carried The rules were suspended that business
should be transacted unless by unanimous consent until
the report OF the Constitution disposed OF The
ycntlOn then went Into Committee of the Whole with
Brother T. W. Frank the chair and the several articles
OF the constitution were taken up and passed after
slight amendments.
Year: 1868

The recent alarming Legislation of Congress
warns us of the rapid strides it is making to-
wards tyranny and despotism.


Exhorbitant taxation is eating out the SUBJ
stance of the people.


The moneyed sristocracy have their :" horse"
already in training for the presidential race


Let all those who are willing to give their
votes and influence to maintain and perpetuate
our government and the principles of civil and
religious liberty, and against the mad efforts Of
traitors in Congress to destroy them, and who
have fought for and believe in one union and
t'1oSe union Of Mtry-secem states, and who detest
and abhor tyrants and Di-tators in whatever
guise they may appear. meet at the Court House
on 7hu'sdag evening, February 6M, 1868, with
the Democratic Club Of Otaua, to unite with them
and prepare for the coming contest tor the right.


In 1861, secession traitor. voluntarily fled the
Capitol We n,R drice out like radical traitors
of 1868
Year: 1868

BRIsK.-Say what you will about duh times,
the Boot and Shoe trade at Child 4 Bros is brisk
The reason doubtless just now is, that they have
marked down their heavier goods to cost price,
and some of them little lower They arc new,
however, who at all times do hesvy business,
for they are known from one end Of the county
to the other for the universal excellence Of
their goods and their low pr;,es,
Year: 1868

JUPITER AND MARS are the two brilliant Plan
cts that are now chasing each other so closely
down the western horizon each evening. Old
Jupe IL gaining on the fiery dog mars and we
reckon intends to give him a trouncing when he
catches hin.
Year: 1868

JOHN STOUT, in spite of having just rushed of
the best part Of the auction stock he lately COB
bed up. is actually resolving new goods, bought
also, we presume of auction men in Chicago or
inst now
Year: 1868

The riva Try with lines of steamboats, running
from this city to connect with Boston and in
termediate places by the way of Long Island
Sound, and between them and the railroads,


has become intense. This has had the good
effect to the public Of reducing fares to very
low rate; to rate, in fact, that does not pay.


On the railroads there is no reduction. On
one of the steamboat lines the fare is only o
dollar; on two others dollar and half and
two dollars. This, as regards the pockets of
the people, Is the bright side of the picture; !;
but in this desperate race for speed with low
rates shall we not soon hear of terrible explo-
sion or some other great disaster2 We hope
not, but would warn the companies not to let
their cupidity and rivalry cause them to lose
sight of the mass of human beings under their
care. While we are on this subject of travel
we would ask why It takes twelve hours to go
to Washington by railroad when it only takes
eight hours to 90 the same distance to Boston,
and why the fare is two dollars
and half more to Washington than
on the Boston Railroad. We have the
answer probably In the competition of the rail-
road and steamboat lines. Well, cannot the
government do something to break down the
monopoly Of the Washington route and to pro
tect the public from extortion as well % tc
Year: 1868

General Grant and the Methodist Church.


The news has gone abroad, through Phila-
delphia letter to Cincinnati journal, that on
Sunday last, in the City of Brotherly Love,
"Grant, Grow and Curtin occupied the Gene
rails pew in our fashionable up town Methodist
church to the perfect astonishment of every
body;" that as the fact of the Generals pre-
sence was whispered round there was good
deal of rising among the audience to get
glimpse of ''the little man of destiny;" that
when the salvers were passed round for the
usual collection ''Grant was not to be passed
any more than on the road, and that he insisted
on paying his entrance fee by dropping green
back into the plate, and that after the sermon
the following splendid, broad-gauge ideas were
drawn from the General:-


"why do you like the Methodsts, General ?" finally


"Because their religion is one Of hard knocks.
They take hold OF man and never let him drop
until they have either converted him or scared him
so he will say his prayers time In his life, and
thus be saved" said Grant with smile. "Then,
too, 1t is an American religion We Methodists are
entirely democratic, yet no Church appreciates the
value OF union, liberalization or Capitalization In
government more than the Methodists wish that
our national government had the liberty and the
strength tnat ought to have from proper exercise
OF these principles"


There is volume of deep philosophy in these
few words, and one of the best stump speeches,
off-hand, that was ever made. Grant likes the
Methodists because they fight the enemy exactly
in his style-in giving him hard knocks all the
time and in never letting him up till he sur
renders And then he likes them because
their system embodies the elements of demo-
cracy, liberty, union and strength. II is evil
dent from the facts recited and from the
Generals remarks that, though not regular
praying Methodist, he is a paying member,
and has drawn his sound philosophy Of govern
ment from the discipline of this powerful
American Church. With Grant Methodist,
backed by the Methodists, he can, perhaps, only
be beaten by Chief Justice Chase another
Methodist
Year: 1868

government which might fac,ii,ats tho snc-
gested settlement of those Alabama Claims.
This arrangement, with satisfactory successor
to Mr.. Seward in the State Department being
perfected, the only remaining Cabinet difficulty
of any moment would be successor to Mr..
McCulloch, OF the Treasury. Senator Fessen-
den, however, would ill this gap, and if
appointed we think the radicals of the
Senate would find it expedient to confirm
him. The War Department, occupied by Gen
eral Schofeld, would answer all purposes for
the present, and. for each of the remaining
departments conservative republican or war
democrat may be readily found who separately
and collectively will give to the Cabinet and the
administration the new departure we have
indicated.


This done, Mr.. johnson, through the medium
of national conservative convention, or with
out it, may bring about such gathering of the
anti-radical elements in favor of Chief Justice
Chase for the Presidency and General Dix, a
Union soldier and war democrat, for the
Vice Presidency, as will convince the national
democracy that this is their ticket-a ticket
with which, on broad and liberal platform
embracing the living ideas of the day and
casting out the dead issues of the past even
General Grant, as radical, may be beaten.
Surely, if anything on the opposition side can
completely neutralize those popular words of
unconditional surrender" as embodying the
war policy of General Grant, it is that stirring
order of General Dix, as Secretary of the
Treasury under the impotent Buchanan, to a
New Orleans subordinate Eff any man hauls
down the American flag shoot him on the
spot" It may be said that Chase and Dix
would be a good ticket for the republicans.
So it would be; but in the present situation Of
things it will be an excellent ticket for the
opposition. What are the exact lines which
will divide the two parties in this Presidential
campaign we do not know. No man can tell
The Chicago platform declares the principles
of the republicans, but the opposition are still
adrift. We may yet see the two parties, as in
1852, on the same platform substantially, and,
as in 1852, we may see the party in power
cast out in 1868 from want of popular con-
fidence in its radical leaders, Notwithstanding
its conservative professions.


We submit, then, that as Mr.. johnson can
now have no purpose or ambition looking
beyond the defeat of the radicals in this
Presidential contest, and that inasmuch as
their defeat will involve an endorsement by
the people of his administration, he should
begin, without further delay, to labor in the
line we have suggested. Satisfied, too that
Chase and Dix are the ticket for an effective
fusion of all the anti-radical elements, we
believe that with even little practical start
from the administration it will be strong
enough by the 4th of July to run the gauntlet
of Tammany Hall.
Year: 1868

The Republican Split-A Fine Opening for


the Opposition and for MIR. johnson.


At caucus of the republican Senators at
Washington on Thursday morning last, called
for the purpose of selecting Secretary of the
Senate in the place of Mr.. Forney, whose resig
nation is before the body, hint was given to
the republican members present who voted for
Andrew Johnson's acquittal which admits of
but one Interpretation. A large number of
the impeachers refused to proceed to the
business of the caucus while any of the re-
creant seven were present, and so an adjourn
ment to Monday next was moved and carried.
In other words, the thirty-ive republican Sen
ment against Johnson refuse to recognize as
members of the republican church the seven
republicans who voted mot guilty" These
seven men, therefore, may consider themselves
accommodated, turned adrift,


with all the world before them where to choose


Here, then, is the just provocation and the
opportunity for o new political movement
which may command the balance of power in
the Presidential election. Chief Justice Chase
is in the same category as the seven prescribed
Senators. He, indeed, is regarded as the par
ticular marplot who, by his rulings and his
example, broke the republican column in the
Senate and saved Andrew johnson from a
swift expulsion. Mr.. Chase, therefore, is the
champion around whom the conservative
republicans ought to rally. AS third party
in this campaign their labors would not amount
to much; but looking to practical and pow
| erful cooperation with the democracy, no
wiser step can be taken than the nomination
Of the Chief Justice in advance Of the demo-
cratic convention as the conservative repub-
lican candidate. To this end President john
son is now in position to put this idea not
only into practical operation, but to bring
round the democracy to harmonious fusion
with the Chase republicans upon q common
ticket and platform in the common cause
against radicalism.


This Is the only rational course left to Mr..
johnson. Whatever may have been the aspi-
rations debating and shaping his fearful conflict
with Congress, 1t is apparent that as candi-
date for the Presidency circumstances have
ruled him out Of this canvass. But he may
still WELD decisive influence against the
radicals in giving shape to the opposition pro-
gramme and cohesion and confidence to the
opposition forces. In this view he should
begin his active measures with reconstruction
of his Cabinet. Mr.. Seward in the State De-
partment has fulfilled his mission. He has


"done the State some service, but he stands
to-day as in an eddy unmoved by the grea,


current Of passing events. The mission tc


England would be ntting recognition Of hi
usefulness and compliment TO her Majesty,
Year: 1868

Widening Broadway-The Biggest Job Yet.


II is proposed to widen Broadway. from
Union square to Fifty-ninth street, in the in
terest, no doubt, of two distinct classes of
persons-frst, the railroad projectors; second,
the promiscuous plunderers In the Common
Council. All these projects for street widen
ing begin with men who want to make room
for railroads, and whose bills appear in the
Legislature very shortly after the widening Is
begun. Beginning thus they are readily
snapped up and carried through by the Coun-
cilmen, who see contracts and the dispensing
of sums of money so large that stealing is
easy. All the property owners are opposed
to the change, which is matter not surpris-
ing, as property is always opposed to change,
and property owners frequently fail to see
their own interests 1t Is matter Of regret that
Broadway Is not wider in that very stretch,
but IL is extremely doubtful whether the i'm
provement will be worth the immense figure
that our Common Council will make IL cost.
They who urge the widening say 1t will cost
three millions; they who oppose 1t say four
teen millions and these latter are of course
nearest right. No doubt this project will go
through, and we cannot say that we are sorry.
II is, perhaps, not the last ounce, but II brings
us nearer TO that final weight that Is to break
the back of popular patience, and so give gov
ernment in'this city new start