The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-28
WASHINGTON connEspuNDEScE.


TIE p1FFEltENr DErARrMEETs-ruE uRANr-JoTN
SON OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sIoKLEs' ADMIN
IsTRATtoS--TuE CONGRESSIONAL roLIcY OF TIL
wiSTER-rHE NORTHERN ELECTIONS, Erc
WASHINGTON, August 25.-Will thcro DO a ro
construction OF tho prcsont Cabinet and il 30
how long ia tho world to await tho now ordor
events? nro questions which arc tlaiIy under con
stderaion hero Mt this timo. Tho journal of tl,i,
city, which has tho name, whether correctly ol
not sio not pretend to say, OF being tho orgai
Of tho administration has boon clamorous OF late
for Wholesale display OF Cabinet designations, &c
NJ to leave The President free to choose over again
his constitutional advisers. So steady has bpeu
this cry, and 80 WILDLY repeated, that sono nre
disposed to believe that thero III no doubt OF other
changes occurring before many days.
Now, i'll the State Department, tlere ia not the
| Bhndow of doubt that Mr.. SEWARD has boon for
somo time contemplating retiring to private life;
nut II no docs, 1T will not DO because, as somo OF
tho wlscacrcs would have it 'eiioYcd, tho President
relieved AIr. STANTON Taken all together, tho
situation in tho Cabinet is puzzling ono ut pro-
sont. For all tho most prominent Offices, tho War,
Navy, State and Treasury Departments, thsro nro
no end to tho aspirants for the chief positions aud
probably tho Treasury Department would undergo
! a change sooner than any other, were tho outside
clamors to be hooded. At present thero arc 10
| evidences that Mi. McCULLocu will with
draw, notwithstanding charges against the
Department, and his administration OF it,
which have boon, timo and again, proven
tho ycrits OF false charges, onco moro in for
Inidnble use. With regard to tho War Office tho
soundest opinion that can DO expressed is that
MIR. STANTON will DO roinstatod when Congress re-
assemblies. His friends promise this aud thero is
not tho aiiGhtest reason for believing that their
word will not bo vcrifod. somo pooplo talk OF q
moro national Cabinet; that cannot be, at least
until somo time in tho future. No statesman OF
tho South, no matter how able or worthy for tho
position lie might DO, would stand tho slight
est chance for confirmation. II Mr.. JOHNSON
should appoint now Cabinet entire, tho moul-
bcrs would of necessity havo to bo all men
from tho North. Public attention is excited just
now on tho subject Of tho correspondence botwcon
tho President and General GRANT, with reference
to tho removal OF General SHERIDAN, and hints arc
thrown ont that unless II is made public before tho
meeting of Congress resolution will thon DO in
troducod to draw it out which will DO for tho pur-
poso of ascribing apostion tho political issues Of
the day for General GRANT, which at present no
body socms justified in doing. Neither tho Presi-
dent nor the commander of tho armies has an vet
given any ono all insight into this correspondence
nnd the refusal to do Causes increased specula-
ton, as well as Increased dosires oil the part OF
newspaper men to get copy Of tho documents
Now that SHEhIDAN's removal is du Jda 1ccontnii
all eyes are turned to tho Second Military Diptrict
aud watching with eagerncss every move Of
& eneral SIckLEs, since II has boon moro thnn
oIlcu limited thsL lIo also is to be relieved from
In that oonnoati"n tho friends OF
hIr. JOHNSON assert that his removal would
loc for no other cause than persistent disregard
OF the Supreme Court repres ,nted in tho orders
of its Chief Justicc. Somo have gone very far in
their assertions that GcnBral SIcKLEs would be re-
moved shortly but thero has certainly beau no
definite Indication OF any such disposition on the
part OF the President 40 far.
Very little is being said az to what will be the
policy Of Congr: on its meeting here in NoYem-
bcr Tho impeachment men have not been idle of
In te, but ii s rather questionable Oh to whether
thoir theory will be pursued any further, although
- u. ~i-:. au,uEntes Vi tnnt measure that
tho lato action OF tho Prosid Ont has boon the
menus OF supplying that extreme party with much
additional fuel for their rirc Upon this question,
however there has been little or no discussion
of any moment here Of lato, owing to
tho fact that tho members OF Congress and
the intcreated outsiders who havo that Hchomo in
charge arc now absent from Washington, and will
not convene ngain in their committee rooms ut
the Capitol for scme time. But leaving that mat
ter out OF the question altogether, it deserves
to be lett, tloro is every indication Of tho next
session of Congress- being from tho very start ono
of great interest and sensational acenes. These
will doubtless bo much enhanced, ahould THAD.
STEVENS bo well enough to lend his mid in dlsposing
of it's affairs but tho friends of that representative
4,
present. His declining health md advanced ago
arc more than ever telling upon him; and it ap-
pears probable that whom next tho House Of Rep-
rescntativcs is called together it will be found
without it's leader.
Tho election to take place in Ohio this fall is be-
ginning to attract tho iiveliest interest be-
tween men Of all parties. Tho Republicans
arc working very hard aud without tho most
sanguine hopes OF being ablo to re-eiect
Senator WADE to tho United States Senate,
although they claim that there is nc doubt Of tho
election of General HAYES, tho Radical candidate
for Governor Of that State. Tho iHsue will before
long be narrowed down TO tho question OF negro
supremacy, one that has already commenced to
work, and II is not difficult to perceive that tho
peoplo of tho Northwest will begin to think seri-
DUSTY on that subject. It has already taken
hold Of the foreign element, particularly tho
Germans, who have hitherto always, or gon-
orally boon OF the extreme Radical typo OF
voters, and the "new issue," together with other
circumstances which has boon brought into play
in local politics in New York, Ohio, and other
Northern StateJ, will most assuredy work change
from the present status. There ia light breaking
ahoad, and IL will soon burst upon the people OF
this nation, in o manner which must lcave no
doubts OF tho great good which is to be roalizod
by tho Northern people, acknowledging and reme-
dying the evils that now resting upon tho
Southern section OF the country. bal.
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