The Van Buren press., 1867-08-30

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do not venture to suggcs, remedy
for the evils that may be developed.
Such matters merit, and no doubt will
tommsnd your patient examination and
careful action Having laid before you
the facts and my general views on them,
consider my duty performed.
Your obt. serv't, JouN PorE.
Itappears that the Cabinet yesterday
decided to sustain the President in re
lieving Judge Holt from his place as
Chief of the Bureau Of Military Justice
AS Judge Holt is an army officer, and
liable to be ordered anywhere in the reg
ular army, his transfer by executive. or
der is not necessarily a subject for Cabi-
net CONSULTATION. Pending the issuance
of this order, Judge Holt has been grant
ed leave of absence, which he intends
not to avail himself of. ta.
... NON WASHINGTON, Aug. Is.
General Grant, it is understood, will
reply to General Pope's letter, wherein
complaint is made that ex-rebel Senator
Hill, of Ga, is making speeches against
the reconstruction act, advising his ar
rest y and all Others who may be. in the
opinion of the district commander, OBJ
structing the working Of the Reconstruc-
ton act General Grant some time since
advised the arrest of Governor Jenk-
ins { y on precisely similar grounds,
Six clerks more were disc soharged from
the Paymaster Generals Office yestcr-
day by order Of General Grant as Acting
Secretary of War, for charges preferred
of inefiiciency and improper conduct in
office. .. ..rr,.., .. f. ..a.te.- .....
Judge Advocate General Holt will
publish brief card to morrow, in which
he will state that the recently published
ailidavits about Ben. Wood, Roger A.
Pryor and Others were never furnished
from his office, and that as an official he
has never recommended the pardon of
Sanford Conover. He then says "All
the averments or limitations that are
made, and by whoever supported, that |
am or have been in an alleged conspiracy
against the President, are all false"
1t is understood that the President has
assigned Maj. Gen. Geo. II. Thomas, to
command the Fifth Military District in
the place Of Maj. Gen. Sheridan, who has
been assigned to command the Depart.
ment Of Missouri, from which Maj Gen.
Hancock has been transferred to the De
partment of the Cumberland in the place
of Gen. Thomas. Itis reported that the
order carrying these assignments into cf
feet will be issued from the War Depart
ment early this week.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 90.
The following spicy diplomatic CORE
spondence relative to ex-Minister Camp
bells sudden retirement from the Mexi.
can mission is just made public, The first
is the following telegram:
WASHINGTON, June l5, 1867.
LEWIS d. CAMPBELL, New Orleans 1t
is important that the Minister to Mexico
should proceed at once Your resigna-
ton will therefore be accepted with
thanks fox your service and regret for
your retirement. Communicate by tele-
f graph. ,a oiea
(Signed.) WM II. SEW ARD.
The following is Mr. CampbelPs reply,
by telegraph, to Secretary Seward: ~.
New ORLEANS, June 16, 1867. 4
In pursuance of the telegram of yester-
t terday | now formally resign my posi-
+ ton as Envoy, DC, DC, of the United
States to the Republic of Mexico
should DO injustice to my own feelings
, not to avail myselfof the occasion TO say
thatmy appointment and confirmation
excited my grateful sensiblities, and that
the compliment was more highly appre-
ciatcd because, when my nomination was
made, you knew did not oesire il. 1t
is gratifying to me also to know that dur
ing the entire career of this moving and
/, somewhat anamolous legation, your in
f structions were always strictly obeyed,
| and that all my official acts have been ap-
/ proved and some Of them highly com
f mended by the Department OF State Per
init to add that it is not fully understood
why, upon such record, the Government
!, recently declined to furnish me the slight
i est facility for going under its glorious
| flag directly to the shores Of struggling
sister Republic, and has required me fur.
nish my own conveyance to Havana, now
sorely afflicted by scourging epidemic,
! and thence to proceed on my mission to
Vera Crnz, a point of doubtful access,
t under the protection Of the ensign OF
Q England, or Of France, both enemies OF
Q rcpublicanism, and responsible to some
8 extent for the misfortunes Of Mexico,
0 and neither friend Of the United States
Y during our late terrible struggle for ma.
q tional existence. The primary object OF
n this requirement would seem to be tie
@ safety Of the fallen Emperor, whose un.
!. hallowcd ambition led him TO bid def
$ ancc to a principle long cherished IN the
n hearts Of the American people. If the
@ Government to which my whole soul is
l.. attached is content with its record,
+. must be with mine. If you, its highes,
n officer, are willing to receive resigna-
. ton forced on me by want of transDor.