Mr. Renter's agent in America is a goose. He leaves
undone what he ought to do, and does what he ought not to do ; and what he does do, he does unintelligibly. The Times' correspondent's Washington 'telegram mentioned above was received here in time for Tuesday's bane, and was, no doubt, despatched on Monday, the 7th January. On the Tuesday Mr. Reuter had no political telegram from America at all. On Wednesday he reported under date, "New York, -January 7th" (i. e., Monday) what was evidently a blundering form of Saturday's Washington news, namely, that "a resolution dis- tinctly impeaching President Johnson had been introduced in the House of Repressentativei." Now, the resolution did not impeach the President, but only appointed a committee to investigate the grounds on which he might perhaps be impeached, and it was not only "introduced," but carried on the Monday. On Thursday, under date, "New York, January 8th" (Tuesday), Mr. Reuter reported 4' the House of Representatives have carried the resolution for the impeachment of President Johnson,"—evidently the same resolu- tion correctly reported in the Times two days before ; but even now Mr. Reuter's agent did not give the division, nor did he even mention the explanatory fact of the President's veto on the Negro Suffrage Bill. Finally, yesterday, under date," New York, January 9th," this intelligent person corrected himself, and reported what was quite inconsistent with his previous messages, but confirma- tory of the Times' message, "The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives is examining the grounds for-the im- peachment of President Johnson." Why, if we are to believe Mr.1 Reuter, it had been decided three days before to impeach Mr.
Johnson before it was known whether there were grounds or not for impeaching him. A more tardy bungler of political news than Mr. Reuter's Atlantic Telegraph agent in America never com- posed a message.
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