The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-08-29
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The Timer Washington special says: The
Presidents order transferring Gen. Hancock
TO the Fifth Military District has mot ys4besn
promulgated BY Grant. Thsrs arc numerous
reports afoat that Gen. Grant has refused to
promulgste it, bat these are incorrect. OF
the order Gen. Grant wrote another letter 10
the President, and he has mot yet replied.
Gen. Grant regards the lase order Of the
President asentirsly superceding General Or
der No. n, including bis instructions TO Gen.
Thomas, and there il. little doubt that e.
rioaa difference has occurred between the
President and Gen. Grant regarding the pow.
ere of the latter under the Reconstyuctiou
acts, and the purpose Of his lettar 70 the
President to-day is believed 70 have been 10
present to him certain suggestions for his
confederation on tho important questiou a
TO whether the order of the President is not
90 framed - to conflict directly with the
powers granted to the General in Chief By
the acts Of Congress. There 10 also good
grounds for the belief that the order when
issued, which may possibly be To- morrow.
will be accompanied with instructions similar
to those which accompanied the first order.
The situation of matters before the Exective
Mansion and the War Department last night
were exceedingly delicate. Pretensions are
made that Gen. Grant will refuse to issue the
order unless modified or accompanied by iu-
structions Of his own, and that, as . copse-
| quence, he will be relieved from duty in the
War Department. Should this occur and
the latter undertake to transmit orders
through any new Secretary of War; the issue
| will then BE- direct and unavoidable, for Gen.
Grant 10 acting under Section two Of the army
appropriation act approved March, 1865.
/ Iko mi LAT O.. E. II. .
N. Langston, the colored orator Of Ohio, 70
inquire regarding the views Of thU colored
people regarding the Freedmsn's Bureau
Langston told the President he thought the
interests Of the blacks demanded the reten.
| tion Of Gen. Howard. The President supke
ID very severe terms of Gen. Howard, and
intimated very clearly that he must relieve
him, and put in some true friend Of the col-
ored race; and If the colored men here
would agree upon one Of their own race, he
would surely appoint him. he ssked lanss.
ton 70 take this matter under consideration
6R the close Of the week. Langston and
has friends seem wholly ayerse TO the propo,
sition. III
series of gigantic whisky frauds on the
ferenue have recently been discovered,
wAich, it is said, implicate merchants of hish
Standing in this city and Boston. Names
bot gwen. f4*f
The Tri6une's special says: That Grant
and johnson have quarrelled there is not the
slightest doubt. It 10 we'll known the Presi.
dent has made several orders which Grant
as Secretary Of War has refused to issue or
countenanee. This, it is stated, he does for
the purpose Of being relieved from the War
Department folio, and an order relieving
him is looked for hourly.
The Times special says: Jerry Black had
an interview with Mr.. Seward yestsrday. *
The President still refuses 70 give 10 the
press his correspopdece With Grant on NE
removal Of Stanton, He regards his reply
to Grant on Slsfidan's removal . reply to
both.
Resissration in Georgia has been .csp.
pletsd, and, CONTRARY TO expectations, Ne
blscks are some 80 in the majority. Ii was
e4pected the whitss would have . majority
ot3N00O.
yshes Duncan, commissary to The rebel
Wirz It Andersonviile, escaped from Fort
Pulaski last week. He was sentenced for
fifteen yesrs. He has gone to France.