AMERICA

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 313, 1 August 1868, Page 6

AMERICA

As is already been known President i • Johnson has been acquitted, we extract the following from the Panama Star \ and Herald ; — New York, May 20, 1868. The United States may congratulate : : itself on the result of the vote taken on the 16th May iD the impeachment question, by which the impeachment ; cause has been virtually killed. The i vote was taken on the 11th charge, the i one on which the radicals had founded i their strongest hopes of convic- j tion. ] The following is te article upon < •which the decisive vote was given, on the 1 16th May. it was prepared bv Mr ( Stevens, and was considered by him < the " strongest" of the series, that is, ' theone upon which conviction eouldmost i surely be obtained. This also was I the general opinion of the friends of i impeachment, and, for that reason, it c was taken up out of its proper order ( and put to vote. That act was, of i course, a clear confession of the weak- i ness of the antecedent articles; and ] from the fate of the Eleventh, the i public may infer what disposition will t be made of Article One to Ten imclu- t sive, if they are even heard of again : J Article Xl.—That said Andrew t Johnson, President of the United States i unmindful of the high duties of his j office and of his oath of office, and in i disregard of the Constitution and laws r of the United States, did heretofore, a to wit: on the lSth day of August, s 1866, at the City of Washington, and t the District of Coiumhia, by public ] speech, declare and affirm in substance, !. that tlitXXXlXth Congress of the j, United States was not a Congress of the United States authorized by the

Constitution to exercise legislative power under the same; but, on the contrary, was a Congress of only part of the States, t thereby denying and intending to deny that tlio legislation of said Congress was valid or obligatory upon him, the said Andrew Johnson, except in so far as he taw it fit to approve the same, and also thereby denying and intending to deny the power of the XXXIXth Congress to propose amendments to the constitution of the United States: and in pursuance of said declaration, the said Andrew Johuson, President of the United States, afterward, to wit on the 2lst day of February, ISO'S, at the City of Washington in the District of Columbia, did unlawfully, and in disregard of the requirements of the Constitution that be should take care that the laws be faithfully executed, attempt to prevent the execution of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil oilices" passed March 2, 1867, by unlawfully devising and contriving, and attempting to devise and contrive means T>y which he should prevent Edwin M. Stanton from forthwith resuming the functions of the office of Secretary for the Department of War, notwithstanding the refusal of the Senate to concur inthe suspension therefore made by said Andrew Johnson, of said Edwin Ms Stanton from s-aid office of Secretary for the Department of War, and also by further unlawful devising and contriving, and attempting to devise and contrive means then and there to prevent the execution of an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," passed March 2, 1867; whereby the said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did then, to wit: on the 21st day of Feb., 1867, at the city of Washington, commit and was guilty of a high misdemeanor in office.

: CANADA. . J The following important intelligence from Canada is from the Panama Star and Herald, of 2-Ith of June : Mostksal, June 1. The Fenians are quiet at Malone and St. Alban's, and no fears are entertained at present for those quarters. There are, however, twentyfive thousand stand of arms at Og ! denshurg ; aud beef and pork for • j six thousand men for ten days, are on J the way. An attack is menaced on ; Preseott and Cornwall, the object ; being to cut the canals. The Government detectives at i every point report all ominously quiet. I It is stated though, that a raid is certain to take place before the first day of July, and this information is received from reliable sources. The Dominion Government has protested against the removal of troops, and insists upon the additional regiments being sent out, and calls for four more batteries of artillery. Two batteries of light field pieces have been sent to the front ("wherever that is) and two million rounds of cartridges. The volunteer officers have received orders to prepare their men to march at a moment's notice. An order has also been issued to-day which doubles the pay of the volunteers, the object of this beiug to endeavour to keep up the efficiencv of the force. The authoi'ities are hard at work preparing for the expected raid, and the people are as much exci ted as they were at the time of the first raid. Oitaava, June 2. The military preparations for the anticipated Fenian raid are very complete. Field brigades have been formed in the various districts, composed of rcgularsn.ndvoluuteers,having attached to each a battery of artillery and a troop of cavalry, under command of officers chosen from the line. Each brigade can act independently, or they may be brought together as circumstances shall require. Tents and field stores of all kinds are ready for use, aud the troops could lake the field at a moment's notice, fully equipped for service. The duties of the quarter-master-general and commissariat depai'tmtnts will be performed by imperial officers. There will be a considerable reserve of regulars and volunteers phould the brigades already formed not be sufficient to meet the emergency. The regulars and volunteers are now armed with Snider and Enfield breech-loaders, and there is an abundant supply of ammunition on hand at ;all the necessary points. The volunteers are to receive fifty cents per day, in addition to free rations when in active service. In addition to the preparations for active service on land, gunboats are now stationed at Prescot, Kingston, Toronto, Fort Erie, and the St. Clair, managed by sailors of the royal navy and supplied with Armstrong guns. . , Toronto, June 2. < Four guns of the Eoyal Artillery 11

stationed here, left this morning for Preseott. A strong guard from the Twenty-ninth Regiment has been placed over the drill shed aud new gaol. St. John's, New Brunswick, June 2.

The xilberline Oil Works have suspended operations on account of the excise duty, and 300 hands have been thrown out of employment. Advices froth Newfoundland state that, in ten weeks, 450,000 seals were landed, valued at 1,000,000 dollars.

Newfoundland papers report that Thomas Budgett, his wife aud five children, were frozen to death while endeavouring to reach a neighbouring settlement from his house at Green Bay to procure provisions, of which they were entirely destitute. The boat became frozen in the ice a mile from the shore. Moxtraal, June 4. The Fenian scart throughout the dominion is increasing instead of abating, and the authorities add to the general fear of an impending raid by the exteusive preparations they are making. In this city a flying column of four companies of regulars and two battalions of volunteers are under arms ready to leave at a mo. ment's notice to any point they may be ordered. At Quebec the volunteers have been ordered to draw the requisite amount of ammunition and rations, and to keep themselves prepared in every particular for a campaign. A large force of British regulars is to be sent to Prescott next week, and in the meantime large quantities of ammunition and other war materials are being forwarded to that point. At Athlone, Canada, the Fenian sympathizers are jubilant, and boast that the news they have of the movements of the Irish leaders make it certain that the invasion will take place before the 25th instant. Two men were arrested at Sweetsburg yesterday, charged with being Fenian spies. Maps and papers implicating them were found in their possession. One of the men has but one arm ; he says that he came from New York. Both the prisoners are now confined in gaol, and strongly guarded.

RELIGIOUS MOTS IN LANCASHIRE : During nearly the whole of last week a war, instigated by religious unimosity, was raging in some of the large Lancashire towns. Last month, Wigan and its neighbourhood was the scene of desolating conflicts between the colliers and the civil and military authorities, arising from trade disputes. Scarcely were these tumults appeased, by the arrest of the ringleaders and the infliction of severe punishment upon them, than Ashton, Staleybridge, and Bury was panic-stricken for a time by fierce outbreaks of religious fanaticism. The disturbances are fomented by the notorious Murphy, the Anti-Popery lecturer, and his zealous disciples, who have lately regularly organised themselves for the purpose of making war upon the Irish. —The riots commenced on Sunday, the 10th, and were renewed from day to day, the combatants being armed with pistols, guns swords, axes, bludgeons, and other implements of offence. Scores of persons in the conflicts that i took place were wounded, some of them daugerously, and one poor woman was trampled to death; Catholic chapels have been sacked and plundered ; whole streets inhabited by the Irish have been devastated, and the property of the victims consumed in huge bonfires, and hundreds of; sufferers have been cast houseless upon the charity of the benevolent. It was not till the military arrived in force that order was restored. At Bochdale, 3,800 copies of Murphy's pamphlet on " The Confessional " were destroyed, as immoral and obscene publications. A large number of arrests have been made. It is strange that the arch-agitator cannot be put in a safe place. A wondei-ful thing is this boasted English liberty of ours ! Recognition of a Photograph by a Dog.—The other day an enlarged photograph, by Mr Valentine, of a professional gentleman lately deceased, on being sent home was on a table. A favorite doc; on observing it leaped on the table, and and gave evident signs of recognition of its late master by leaping and barking and running to and froin the picture, and when not receiving theexected acknowledgmant it seemed very uneasy, went round the back of the picture, and again returned to the front, increasing the manifestations it made when it first saw the likeness ; nor could the faithful animal be withdrawn from the object of its interest for upwards of two hours. — Dundee Advertiser. The Auckland Evening Neivs of July 14th says, not only has auriferous quartz-been found at Hokianga, Bay of Islands, but indications of silver are also said to exist in that locality.