Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Wasbinrton News and Rumors.

Washington News and Rumors.
WASHINGTON, August24, p. m.-On proper
medical recommendations the President has
suspended the order assigning Thomas to the
command Of the Fifth District and Sheridan
will remain in command until relieved proba
bly bv Gen. Hancock. Gen. Thomas is trou.
bled with the liver complaint.
The President will use his powers to ex
haustion:in support of his dignity and au-
thority before the Supreme Court.
The pressure on the President for Cabinet
changes is increasing.
The following is represented as the con-
clusion of Gen. Sickles' argument supporting
his Order No. 10: "Ic the Cpited States
Courts in the rebel States be allowed to con-
troll the military authority, the execution of
the Reconstruction acts will, for obvious rea-
sons, soon become impossible. Some of these
Courts will begin By declaring the acts Of
Congress void."
The following statement in relation to Gen.
era Sickles Order No 10, and Executive or
der thereupon. will correct . current mlsap-
prehsnsion. On the l4lh instant the instruc-
tions sent to General Sickles, excepting Uni
ted States Courts from military orders, were
SUSPENDED until his report and views upon
the matter could be received: On the l1th
the commanding officer of Wilmington re-
ported that the Attorney General had IN
struc,ed the Marshal of North Carolina to
proceed to enforca the execution OF U. 3.
Courts, threatening prosecution against per
sons preventing him. Instructions were Is
sued to Colonel Frank by General SickleS not
to permit the order of any Court to be en-.
forced in violation of existing orders, and
to report fully upon cases pending. hese
occurrences having been reported to the War
Department the instructions originally sent
to General Sickles have been withdrawn.
Cleo" the Washington correspondent of
the Charleston Courier, says:
Tie rumor Of the day is, that the Cabinet
crisis is deferred. If it be postponed till Con-
sress meet, it will rot occur at all. Iresi-
dent Pierce, about the time OF his reputation
bv the Democratic Na!ionsl Convention, as
the nominee for the next term, began to be
President, and took some important aud de-
cisye steps in public AFFAIR.". So some Of his
friends here declare now that he did not begin
to play President till after he was discarded
for the succession. President johnson is
hardly thought Of yet as candidate for the
next term. He may be fattered with the idea
that the people will take him up on the score
of his merits.
Has not General Pope made high bid for
the Presidency? He has shot long way
ahead of the boldest aspirant in the lard.
Who among all the chiefs Of the Radical party
has gone to the same length with him? Pos
sibIy Congress may come up to his mark. Ii
SO ne must have new reconstruction scheme
based on his ideas.
General Pope's letter to General Grant,
Slowing the hopclessncss of reconstruction
in dis District, produced much sensation here
Geperal Grant does not synpathize in such
views. Greeley is right. General Grant
does not 20 with the Radical extremists OF
Congress. General Pope is the newest can
didate of the Radical extremists for the Pres
iacucy. He would no doubt accept the cftice,
and consider it as his just due. But General
Grant has not yet come to the conclusion that
he is either fit for the place or that he will
consent to fill it.
The politics Of this country have always re-
yolyed around the Presidency. 1t will be so
again. The Radical policy OF Congress may
be lost sight Of in presence of the overpow'
ering question of the next Presidency. Dem
ocrats and Radicals may be confused by this
question, and fiud themselves united Tor
common policy.
The annunciation of the removal of Gen
eral Sheridan from the command OF the 9th
District or :ates little or no sensation. 1t has
been so long talked of that it Interests no one.
Politicians had discounted the effect" OF
that movement, as they say in Wali-street,
long ago. 1t has the less significance, lor the
reason that the successor Of Gen. Sheridan is
of the same political party. General Thomas
was selected and preferred for the post by the
President for the very reason that 1t made no
political change, and the measure therefore
referred to no political object. Gen. Thomas
is not obuo1ious.to the Conservatives, though
in politics he ranks with the Radicals. He is
not unpopular in Virginia, which is his native
State, and where he has many relatives. On
the whole, the change does not seem to be
very odous to the Radicals. Gen. Thomas
has been spoken of as cne of their candidates
for the Presidency. He will be their candi-
date before Gen. Sheridan will be, notwith-
standing the wild predictions oil Horaces, OF
the New York Tribune. There is a great
difference between man with power and the
same man without power, and Secretary Stan
ton is no exception to this rule. The suspend
ed Secretary may be commended but not neg.
lected. In country of thirty millions of
people no one man will ever be missed. A
change of the Presidents Cabinet to- morrow
could it be effected in accordance with his
wishes, would not make nine days wonder.
The President has manifested lately an an
bition to be President Tor while. He has
been so nominally, but not in effect. He
would like to change the barren sceptre for
little Executive power. He feels more com,
Portable and independent and self possessed
now since he has got rid of Stanton and
snubbed Sheridan, than he has heretofore
falt since his accession.