Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-12-26

fer as to the designations which have
been sent in, while according to some
rnmors, there is to be an entire recon-
struction Of the list of the Presidents
official advisers. Though there is some
ground for expecting the retirement OF
Messrs. Blair and Bates, all that seems
to be certain at present is that Mr.. Be-
ward has resigned. This step was I'M
doubleday caused by the action OF Repub-
lican Senators, as reported by telegraph
But as 10 what caused their step we are
wholly in the dark. There has, howev-
err, been an impression more or less
prevalent throughout the country, that
Sec'y Seward has exercised an impe-
ding and hampering influence on the
conduct of the war. But this objection
must have assumed far more definite
shape to the Senators in question than il
has before the country, and must have
related TO recent operations in order to
7 have eliminated in the results we have
announced. But we trust the whole sub.
ject will be cleared up, as the present I'M
settled state of things around the Execu-
tive is painful to the public and not pro-
! a..
Thus far Mr.. Sumner appears to be
generally assumed as Mr.. Stewards sue
cessor in the office of Secretary OF State.
His appointment, if it should be made,
would, we presume, be less indicative Of
political bearings than of marked APP
probation of his unequaled knowledge
oc foreign affairs, and his high reputation
Observation-Disclosures unusually impor-
tant at this time
We append all the information which
has come to hand respecting Stewards
resignation. The Washington Star says
at seems that the Republican party
of the Senate, met in caucus on the 10Th
inst, when the original resolution, virtu-
ally requesting the President to dispense
with the services of Mr. Seward as Sec
rotary of State, was introduced and dis
cussed, developing the fact that the eau
cls stood about l6 for and l3 against it.
Finding it impossible to obtain anything
approaching to unanmity of action upon
it, or upon either of the many PROPOSE
lions as substitute for it, TO which its
introduction gave rise, they adjourned
over until the next day.
On again meeting, the substitute for ii
reeo m r,dinS the President to paI TALLY
remodel his Cabinet, was unanimously
agreed to, the conservatives believing
that it would be regarded as being a
general Republican party Senatorial in
viiation to the whole Cabinet to resign,
leaving the President free to elect who
should hereafter be bis official advisers
and that the grand result would surely
be to induce him TO aecep, what they
considered to be the recent unmistakable
manifestations of popular sentiment as
his guide in the necessary recommends
ton.
We learn, further, that the comaittee
who waited on the President bearing
this resolution, consisted of nine Sena-
tors-six regarded as radicals, and three
as anti-radicals. 1t was doubtless SO
composed by the Senator who presided
in the caucus on the occasion, who in all
probability, was himself member of the
radical wing"
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says:
ut is said that deputation of Sena-
tors land perhaps representative wait
ed upon the President and demanded
more vigorous and enlightened admins
tration of the Government, and especial
ly that the Cabinet should be unit up
on the war policy, and that Mr.. Seward
resented this demonstration of distrust,
and rendered his resignation. Another
story is, that Mr.. Seward, without any
provocation, was determined to remain
no longer in the Cabinet with Staunton,
and that he desired that Gen. Haleck
should retire, giving way to Mcclellan
aud further, that be demanded that the
'on to Richmond policy should instantly
be abandoned for one more quiet and
peaceful.
But whatever the causes may have
been which produced the trouble, there