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The apathy of the people about impeachment has been variously the pretext for comment by writers whom the incidents of the subject have attracted more than the subject itself. This indiferenee arises from a eontempt for the character of the prose? cutors and their charges; the cop? viction of the partisan prejudgment of the Senatorial tribunal and the indisposition of the sovereigns to become excited over a shameless washing of the private linen in public by the wrangling members of a Radical administration. The Tribune de .clares the "Democratic party have given up the President in advance," The Democratic party cannot "give up" a cause whidi they have \evcr taken up with them. Impeachment is a quarrel by and within the Republican party. A Presidtjnt elected by Republican votes is itnpeache^l for || violation of a Republican l?w. in the attempted removal of a Republican officer. He is itnpcachod by Rt'i.mb1ican Representatives, prosecuted by Republican Managers, mainly <jeH B fended by Republican counsel, and, B if deposed, will be removed by ReV* publican votes, as well as succeeded V by a Republican Senator. The Republican cast.of Mr. JohnWR. ..son's administration can, be .deter.-, W mined from the agents he lias appointed to carry out his acts. Our revenue service at home and our diplomatic appointees abroad fail to reveal in any prominent position**, if any position at all, other than Republican incumbents. At London, Pekin, Berlin, Paris, { Lisbon, St. Petersburg, the Hague, ^ and elsewhere at lesser places, the policy of the administration has sent the proteges or continued the appointees of the late Mr. Lincoln, '"he very cabinet of the President does not contain a statesman who did not ardently support the Republican party at the last Presidential eloction . and as ardently oppose the candi* dates and the platform of the Dernocvatic party who are now gratuitously barged with deserting a cause they have never made their own. The real position of the Democratic party in this impeachment business entirely definable, and their preL 6 rnt attitude consists thoroughly with L their traditions and their history. F An illustration will bring the matter j ito plain light at once. If a husband 4 id his wife have a bitter quarrel, in k "which the latter is unjustly treated, L that is no reason why every man who chivalrously espouses her cause f should be compelled to espouse the woman too, as a consequence. Her r advocates and herself would be led to exclaim, even with no Utah recollections of Artemus Ward, "This is too much!" Every reuresser of -injured innocence could as logically be 'l|old accopntaWe for the facts wjijeh brought tfic innpcqnpp into injury. Cuch a course would makb champions chary, to say the leastThe Preside it is accountable to |he Senate. No demonstration out side that body can help him. Only such few Democrats as are in the Senate can be of direct assistance to the arraigned Executive. While the action of these Democrats is uncquiv[ heal, the reasons of that action must 'not he confounded. They behold a 1? nT\nK1!f?.in Prneolnnt. tried before v , ihetn and tlieir preponderating Hej publican colleagues and his conviction, and the Republican charges on which this conviotion is sought, they | atrenuously oppose. But they do F / pwt oppos^ these isspes because tjieir Republican" colleagues support them, 1* j.or do they advocate the President^ r : <sc ' because he Jieads a section oi ie warring Republican forces. Party V ding has: no place in their action, cause no party success is dependent . >on any result which the case may > *" ,induce. The Democretic Senators Ji v ? i I 4 it . ft; .I - . . have received, and in the event of the President's acquittal will receive, quite as little from Mr. Johnson as 1 they could reasonably expect from j Mr. Wade. They rise to the plane ' of perfect impartiality where the air of influence is too rare to he breathed. The support of the President is intrinsically the support of the Con stitution struck at through him. It is the advooacy of the equality of the p co-ordinate branches of the Government, whereof the integrity of the 11 executive department is menaced in the person of the ruler now discharging its duties. Thus the support of the President is simply the snpport of u the system of Government of which j' , the President is a constitutional ele--; < ment, indeed it is the Presidency and ' not the President that cl";ms and receives their defence. Thus, on i grounds of duty and of statesman* j < ship, r.o resource is allowed the Dem- j ] erratic party but to stand up for the [1 < xt'cufiveoffice in its rights under the i Constitution which are assailed hy ! j this impeachment. To be sure, they show wise foreknow!, dge of the future < in avoidi g the infamy which will < attach to every man actively and t affirmatively connected with this i prosecution. To hp sure, they show j magnanimity in their efforts to shield i si noliti(?:il advers-sirv from his furioUS 1 * r -foes, who .-ire of his own house- I hold. Rut these creditable iittri- t butes only incidentally grow out of { the case, and pertain more to the character of the defenders than they do to the direct issues of the controversy. j Hence, as the Democratic r a'fy { did iior make or minister to this Re- , ! pubiicaTi quarrel which h*as eulmitia- { ted in a Republican impeachment of v a Republican President, tlie dojrrce v of unconcern with which the formal ( progress of the Republican fight is t pursued should not be wondered at, f Gentlemen of the Republican Unliap- c py Family, we are able to appreciate j, your anxiety, It is as raging a9 your intentions are prescribed.. Youi purpose*is to changd one President | for another ad interim. . Our resolu- , finn i?s not fn ho tronhlod hv VOUr :-v - > domestic dissensions* but to elect ft ? President of our own for tlie full v term, ftfter the botch-work you have ( designed shall have passed into the f calm infamy of history along witj) r "the kindred conspiracies against the ? rights of peoples. You will do well j( to work while it is yet day. t New York World. .. j THS NEW OPPIOERS V Gen. Canby has issued an order in a which is embodied a full list of the 1 Federal, State and County'officers c recently elected. Wp copy the fol lowing for the information gf the pubr 1 Ijc^ . / . . ? Under the provisions of the Con- s stituiion, (he General assembly of the i State elected thereunder "shall meet v on the fifteenth day after the appro- a val^tlioreof (the Constitution) by ,t)ie United States, if it fall not on Sun- 1< day; but if it should so fall, then on r the next day thereafter." (Article v II, Section 29.) t The officers of the Executive De- s partment of the State, "first elected, | c rhall assume their duties ten days : i after the approval of this Constitu- \ t tion by the Congress of the United c States." (Article III, Section 1.) ! The term of office of ;jll officers of , 1 the Judicial Department "shall begin I '< upon the approval of this Constitution ' r by the Congress of the United States." J t (Article IV, Section 82.) |{ The cpupfy otfiqfli:? provided for 1 ,-vnd elected "shall enter upon their duties ten days after the approval 1 of this Constitution by the Coi gress I of the United States." (Article VII, ( Section 10.) But in order that there may be no ' t confusion, delay, or failure in the administration of justice or other gov- |< ernmcntal functions, and to ensure tli<% nf nohlio nrnncrtv. the So , ,? ,, , licitors of Judicial Circuits, clerks of courts, sheriffs, coroners and other executive officers charged with active , administration duties'," or with the care of public records, qr with the custody of public moneys or public property, Mill not be relieved from i responsibility for the due discharge ; of the duties of their office^ until their successors are duly qualified, i It is made the duty of Commanders P.osts. within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, to see (hat , the officers elect who are able (o qual; ffy qnder the Constitution .and- laws ' of the United States and the, Constii tution and laws of the S^ate, and 7 have so qualified, are duly installed in the offices to which they have been elected and as .above proscribed. Under the requirements of the ninth Section of . the law of March, 186T, "to provide for the more efficient government of therebel States," the officers elect, both of the legislative a^d executive departments, will, before entering upon the discharge of tha duties of their offices, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed hv the law of July 2, 1862, ^prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes." This oath will be taken in duplicate; one to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State for the State of North Carolina and the other to be forwarded to Pistrict Headquarters. If any of the State officers elected under the new Constitution are disqualified by the third Section of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United Stares, "known is article XIV, or are unable to tnice the oath prescribed by thclavrof July 2, 1862, they will not be allowed to-discharge any officiul functions until the Usability has been removod by the Congress of the United States, or jnless the oath of office required by the ninth Section shall have become noperative by the fact that the people of the State have been declared jy law! to be entitled no represenatiori in the Congress of the United States.-? Wilmingion Star. AFIELD OF BT.OOD The soil of Bladensburg, Maryand, has a bloody record/ It has )een the scene of many a refined murler in days past. One who visits bo place now will find the field green nth verdure, whjch a few years since vns trampled by the Feet of men in leadly hostility, Here, on a beauiful graSB-plfit, surrounded by trees, oruis made after the image of (5od uune to insult naturp pnd defy leaven, In 1814, Edward Hopfcins was illwl in a dueh Tbit'aeeuwt to bar? teen the first of these fashionable nurders on this dueliiqg ground. In 1819, A. T. Mason,# a United States Senatpr from Virginia, fought rith his sister's husband, Jolm Mc 3arty, here. McCarty was averse to ! igliting; and thought there was no lecessity for it;' but Mason would ight. McUartv iiamcri hiuskcis , oaded with buckshot; arid so near ogcther that they would touch heads f they fell on their faces. This was hanged by the seconds to loading nth bullets, and taking twlevc feet ,s the distance. Mason was killed nstantly, and McCrtrtv, who had his ollar-bone broken, still lives wj:|i Jason's sister in Georgetown.* His lair turned white so soon after the ight as to cause comment. He has ince been solicited tc act as second n a duel, but refused, in accordance nth a pledge made to his wife, soon 4'*ry? Imr Kr/?tkfir .ItU lYJIllllg UVi VIW>?IV?? In 1820, Commodore Decatur w is :illed in a duel by Commodore Baron. At the first fire, both fell formrd, and lay with their heads within en feet of each other; and as each upposcd himself mortally wouned, :ach fully and freely forgave the oth r, still lying on the ground. Decatur , ,'xpired in a few days, but Barron tventuallv recovered. In 1883, two strangers, named [jega and Sega, appeared here, fought ma Sega was instantly killed. The icighbors only learned his much of heir names from the marks on the doves on tjie grqund. Lcga \yas not jurt. In 1822, Midshipman Loke was (jlted here in a duel with a clprk of :he Treasury Department, named Gibson. The latter was not hurt. In 1826, Henry Clay fought his second duel with John Randolph, just across the Potomac, as Randolph preferred to die, if at all, on Virginia soil. The latter received Clay's shot, and then fired his pistol in tfie air. This was in accordance witlj a declaration made to Mr. Benton, who spoke to Randolph of a call the'evening before pn Mrs. Clay, and alluded to ' the quiet Bleep of her child and the Repose of the mother.? Randolph quickly replied, "I shqll d* nothing to disturb the sleep of the child or the repose of the mother." Gen.' Jessup was Clay's second.? When Randolph fired he remarked, "I do not shoot at you, Mr. Clay," ant|, extending his hand, advanced toward Clay, who rushed to mec^ hifli. Randolph showed Clay, vrjierG'tjhe ball struck Vs coat, and sa'd facetiouslyj "Mr. Clay, you owe me * % a obit." "Thank God, the debt is no ' greiVpr." They were friends ever that, In 1832, Martin was killed heie by ?arr. Their first names are not remembered. They were from the Irtfl898, Mr. Key, (son of Frank Key, and brother of Barton Key, of SickUs notoriety,) met Mr. Sherbon, and Sherbon said, "Mr. Key, I have no ffeaire to kill you." 'No matter" saitljKey, "I came to kill you." , tiVery well then,", said Sherbon, "I *fjjl now kill you;" and he did. lift; 1845, a lawyer, named, Jon es foUgfe a-ith and killed a Dr. Johnson. In*T851, It. A. Iloole and A. J. Piillis had a hostile meeting here. Pallas was shot in the shoulder, but recovered. Ta Ifi.W Tianiolo on/1 T/iVincon All JUfUIUWIO C?IIU UV/II IIOWIIJ two Richmond editors, held a harmless set-to here, which terminated in . v '' ^ lfi$ 1852, Davis and Ridgway fought here. Riijrgway allowed his antagonist to fire without returning the shot. f its uSevest Stars.'*?^Till tJie Radicitercad out the immortal "sebifid so nohly repudiated the ' iideathat the public will, as proclaimed by the Radical party, was the l|w of the land; that: it supplanted thie Cons: ittitfon?Was the guide of senators 'tinder^iofith to try the President?and demhnded i:hat they should convict him regardless of their . i . * m i .'i 1 i.i _i i j oatns ana tne law ana me eviaenqe : I' Ho not believe they will. They ' cannot, in tbo close'division of par- ! ties, afford to give upk,'such'men ns Fcssfn'den and Trumbull, tl\p ablest ' of their leaders. The vituperation and insults to which these indepon- j dent gentlemen have been Subjected i may-put them in a fV&me of mind that ^ jjl require a little coquetting to bririf them jnto full communion with the<b?minant party; butwchave seen So ttiiaehof quarrelling and matfjng up fits or gains that wo do not see that anybody need be surprised?nobody , is shockedr.ow-a-dayg?at- the entire restoration of "amity and commerce", I etwcerithe recent Radical beligerents. , We mean, however, to say noting reflecting upon the "seven." They , have behaved like men?and able, , independent men at that. But the vulgaf unscrupulous partisans will have to make all the concessions. The "seven" occupy lofty ground. They are the conquerors, and may dictate terms. The Tribune has been all along? ' ' k-.l!?..? 1 t)?o true J unu, we uejjtivu, 19 -IIU??i?.t uv organ of the radical party. That paper has exactly reflected the Radical tactics on impeachment, The ' Tribune was against impeachmppt 1 when the Radical Congress was, and | in favor of it when that Congress turned about and demanded the eviction of the President. So was that ! paper compliant when it was found J | that for tho want of grounds for im- 1 pcachment it was necessary to carry it by exciting the public mind, intimidating the doubtful senators, and 1 driving them by clamor and threat to ! vote for conviction. The Tribune ! declared that impeachment coulfl fail only through "bribery!" that td give j "him (A. J.) the triumph of an ac- ' "quittal would be to conunit an act "of treason only equalled by that of "Benedict Arnold that "impeach "meat or infamy" was "the only al- , "ternative of history, and senators , !-"must meet it!" that "we have had 1 "Benoijtpt Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jef- 1 'ffersqn Davis, and now wo have , "Jarne? W. Grimes. * * Make "him an example to renegades in'all "time to come," &c. Grimes , had 1 just made his speech, and Greeley inserted a skewer into him, and held him ' up in the hope of frightening some of the other doubtful senators I lto withdrawing and leaving him alone inside the Radical fort to be hung ! This was cunning. A sincere and honest gentleman would suppose that, after such ?ts this?which is but a sample of an' ocean of such vituperation?no Rad: ical who voted to acquit Mr. Johnson could by possibility ever be treatec] vrith respect or credited for a qingle honest intention by the Tribyve. Yet we find that paper declaring, immediately after the vote, upon the eleventh article : "Of cqurso nobody, "imagines that such trmn as Messrs, "FessOnden, Grtmepw Trumbull, and "Van Winkle yqted Qtherw.sq than "they believed just." And the Trit i...i ,Vin cont-impnts of its OHTie -UUk I."" '.Y- " ? - * ' party in this. AH the clamor and abuse was for effect ; and the trial < being over, the desire is to avoid J serious party injury by losing able .1 men. Fowler, Ross, and Hendersen I are not included in the Tribunes ^ exculpatory amende ; but that is not .1 important. They will be let alone. ( Forney and one or two more will j continue their fuss and blackguard- j ism ; but they will not be regarded, a Like foolish hounds that have gone t on the Wrong.scent, they will be left f to come back when they are tired of t running and howling alone. j . - iRichmond Dispatch. t t . A Third Political Party Pro- 1 posed.?The most astounding politi- c cal intrigue ever,known to the politics a of this country is now on foot among 0 the prominent politicians and office- F holders in {his city and elsewhere- 8 The chief movers in it arc Andrew Johnson, President of the. United rt:. ; ' n. i ' l_ .1 rivf-i? a orates, aner acquixrni, aim ymei Justice Chase. The object is the for- . mation of a third party, and the'dc- b feht of Gen. Grant if, nominated at Chicago. On Thursday last, ex- i] governor Pratt, of Maryland, said that acquittal would follow, and be- n fore the week was out the country y would be astonished by' an entire P change of Cabinet. It has since transpired that the President has .*1 ngrecd to 6end in a new Cabinet of Renublieans immediately after Vc quittal, and to adopt and strictly d carry out the reconstruction measures of Congress. Senator Henderson h last night stated fliis agreement to be tl a fact, and it is believed by shrewd judges to be one of t}je principal ele- P ments whereby su^icjent strength and power may be given to Mr. Chase's n party to make it formidable, and to * throw the Presidential election into the House of ^epresentfttives, if not; " to elect its candidate beforp the peo-' Q' pie. Tl'is movement expects to be c able to defeat Gen, Grant by arraying Itself Against the extreme RadiBtff efJfe'lwmlP p'srty, f which it is believed, will be his main s support. The proposition that the v President shall abandon his opposi- tl tion to Congress is intended to neu- p trulize the power of that body. One n thing is certain, the Chief Justice is still a candidate for the Presidency; any one w!io doubts this deserves h a straight j teket. N. Y. Tirtizs Washington fetter. c * ? ? The New York Constitution.^ A singular fact of the political oc? . eijrrerices of the day is that the fjp- 11 gjplatyre of New York has adjourned without providing for submittujgjhe Constitution recently framed by a % convention of the people of that State a to the popular vote. A bill for the S purpose passed the lower House, but a the Senate, with a Radical majority, a tabled it. So that after six months h fif Iqbor uppn a Constitution it is left f< like a vessel ready to be launched d upon the stocks, there to rot. si The lending Radical paper of Al- g bany styles that the Senate failed to submit it to the people because of the n apprehension that it might embarrass the issues of the Presidential clectjop. p It proposes negro suffrage, and al* * 1-1 ? - L. il. ? JL Lhougii it was mtenneu to put urn* question separately to the people, tho Radical party at the North aro get- w ting so much afraid of agitating it, ci that they desire to avoid* it at least p until the Presidential election is over, w The Republicans of New York who g apposed the vote on the Constitution jr at this time, admitted that if pressed now it would lose the Republican par- ri ty fifty thousand votes. So that no matter how important the new Con- h stitution may be, and although Gpv- I ernor Wells assumes that the Almighty ? is fighting on the side of negro suf- d frage, they must, in New York, give way to party expediency. Well, since the peace and prosperity of the v 4' -'1 1 1? nation are consmuruu ujr vug t leaders of less importance than the ? interests of the Radical party and j their own claims for office and emolu- ^ men', we cannot see why the Netor g York Constitution may not be made r to wait a little. Indeed, Constitu- ] tions are of no consequence at the J North ; with regro suffrage, they are only fit for Southern people \*r-Richmond Dispatch. : A Friend who passed through por- I tions of Albemarlj Augusta, and 1 Rockbridge within a, few days repre- j sents the^vheatas looking exceedingly i well and premising in those counties, i Lynchburg Virginian. ' A private letter fron. New Orleans, dated April 25, is published in the New York Journal of Commerce, ivhich mentions that a gentleman in Mississippi, owningthree plantations, <. ivith twelve hundred acres in cotton, ias at work on two of them about >ne hundred hands, convicts from the jenitentiary, which is overcrowded. Permission, was giyen the planter to nspect the prison records and select hje hands, And the writer says; "One, :uard is detailed to six hands, and here are sergeants in command, all >rovided with food and rations, and he planter.to give two suits of clctlms 0 the hands, who are delighted with he change, and are working well, ommencing at 6 A. M. and stopping ,t 6 P, M, On these plantations no ither hands are employed. Ckher >1 ai itations may have laborers of the ame olass." Unique Saydwsj?Idleness buries 1 man alive. The language of the sole?creak ng boots. In vtonovi/Mitltr wa noo/1 mnrlorof All pi vupvi lfcj U V ItfVUWIMWVll, i adversity, patience, He who.has good health is a rich lan and rarely knows it, A great mind will be easy in proserity and quiet in. adversity. The oldest business in the. world? be nursery business. .What kind of a face should an aucioneer have ? One that is forbidinn. He who asks nQ questions is queer, ut ho who asks many questions id le querist. Much ado about nothing?tho arting of two young ladies. Who aims at excellence is above lediocrtiy; who aiqs at mediocrity ill fall shprt of^it. _ , Brespnoe of mind is doubtless good i very many case&> but in nearly all f thepn absence of body would be de- , idedly better. ''A young lady, noted for her afijoted manners, recently entered the < how room of a fashionable milliner, .'horn her family were acquainted, foche purpose of making some trifling urchases. On being asked how her . mother was, she replied? "She is not very well." * "Ah! what is the matter with err i'She fpll do^n stairs and hurt her . ourtesy binder." "Her what?" v MTer cpurtesy bender." ^Courtesy bender! What is that ? iquirod the milliner. " Why, her knee" was t^e reply. T\ ,1 I.A. jJUfjng ine late war, couee, sugar . nd flour were things of the past in outhern Texas. A soldier stayed 11 night at a house on the Nueces^ nd finding a large hard biscuit in is haversack, he gave it to a little; )ur year old boy playing before the oor. Half on bour afterwards he iw the boy with the biscuit on tho , round and a coal of fire upon it. "What are you doing that for, sony?" be inquired. "Trying to niake the plaguy thing pke its head out. Southern Mo,mc Journal. A Rebuff.?A white Radical, hile discussing with a negro the neessity of yotin^ for white men in reference to their dusky brethren, as somewhat "set back" by the nero asking him \^hat jnterest he had 1 Virginia. The Radical replied: "Oh! I maried here." "Negro: "You did? Well, I was ere fust, and Ize gwine to vote for layne certain; and if you folks at do lorf don't like do nigger, what do eb.hil does you come here for?" Norfolk Virginian. >?? Bully Butler.?When before . he Managers the other day, lion. ). W. Vorhees gave the bullying [fanager to, understand that he should old him to a strict personal respotiibility for any offensive or impertilent conduct; and the result was Mr. nnvxr onnn rAlieved himself of fUbivi rv* J uvvtt ? dr. Vorhees's presence. BaltimQrc Gazette. j ^ We will do. Mr. Stanton the justice j ' ;p S8y that his letter of resignation is >elieved to be in the hands of one of lis friends, who is instructed to present jt as soon as there shall be fi. al iction of acquittal of the President mder the impeachment charges. $Fqti<pial Zntellrcpwccr, 20th.