Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-08-31

cious acceptapce of their patriotic oner 10 retfe
SHERIpAN.-The transfer OF General
Sheridan form New Orleans to the plains
NAV be sensibly felt as an insult to the
Ioyal masses, but, it will doubtless prove
a proridential thing for the pioneers of
the far West. The Indians have been
dealing in all sorts of wickedness, MUIR
dering and scalping defenseless men wo-
men and children pillaging and destroy
ing all the property which fell in their
reach and seriously obstructing the COM
plction of the great railway lines will
soon learn that "Cavalry" Sheridan is
not to be trifled with; that he will give
measure for measure and subject them to
law and order at all hazards. Under
| him a new order of things must succeed
in that Department. At New Orleans
as statesman and administrator of the
laws among rebels, or on the plains as
a soldier, engaged in the protection Of
those who are now suffering from Indian
depredations, Phil Sheridan will be equal
ly at home. Such men are useful any
where.
A correspondent of the Erie Dispatch, wri-
ting from Washington on the 27th, gives the
following view of affairs between, the General
of the Army and the Executive
The state of affairs existing between
the President and Gen. Grant is not only
becoming critical but alarming. The Or
der of President johnson in relation to
General Hancock-in which lie directs
that officer to annul, alter, amend, or
modify as he may deem proper any orders
which he may find in force, and In which
he directs Gen. Sheridan to proceed I'M
mediately to Kansas without reporting
to Army Headquarters-is considered by
General Grant as an insult, iuasmuch as
it deprives him Of the supervisory power
over the Military Districts conferred up
on him in the Reconstruction law. This
power he will not yield. He also con-
siders the question as a regular suspen-
sion of General Order.
On receipt of the order Gen. Grant
wrote another letter to the President.
This letter. not being ready for trans
mission did not reach the President until
after the cabinet meeting. 1t was very
sharp and pointed, and presented certain
considerations and suggestions not touch
ing the propriety Of Sheridan's removal,
on which argument has ceased, but the
more important questions rs TO whether
this order of the President is not so franz
ed as to conflict directly with the powers
granted to the General-in-Cheif by the
acts of Congress. Unless the President
backs down from the position he has ta-
ken and modities the order, an open rup-
ture must occur between him and Gen.
Grant. The consequence OF rupture
would he the retirement of Gen. Grant
from his pro tenpOre Secretary-of-M W ar
ship, and another appointment to the
place.
Should this occur, and the latter un-
dertake to transmit orders throuoh any
new Secretary of War, the issue Is then
direct and unavoidable, for Gen. Grant
is acting under timely law of Congress
one of the sections OF the Amy Apppro-
priation bill.
The course of Gen. Grant will proba-
bly, be to refuse to issue the orders Of
johnson, and vacate the War office. A
new Secretary pro tenn. will be appointed
probably Gen. Steedman. All orders
from the President must pass through
the headquarters of the Army, where
these are in violation of the letter spirit
of the late acts of Congress will be qul-
city pigeon-holed. johnson may rage
and imagine strange things" but he is
powerless to help himself: He cannot
''remove, suspend, relieve from command
or assign" General Grant "to duty else
where" And no officer of the army
would be SO lacking in discretion as to
obey an order unlesss it come through
Gen. Grants headquarters, knowing that
4 very few weeks would find his carcass
in some Jail, there to remain for the peri
cd of twenty years.