New-York tribune., 1867-08-27
WASHINGTON.
OF GEN. SICKLEs.

I
FMPowERED TO RENDER sHERIDhNs ORDER
NrII. AND yorD-rHE CABINET CRUMBLING
no PUcEs-MCULLOCH THOUGHT TO BE
sAEE--sFwtRD AND RANDALL TO LEAVE
THE PRESIDENT DECLARES WAR ON RADi-
CAL NEwspAPERs-JUDGE BLACK ADVISES
HIM TO uIsPERsE CONGREsS-THE lNPEAch-
nENr PROJECT STILL GROWING.
n, rE1EsAAra 20 Tss
wtsHISeToE Monday, Aug. &c, 1867.
Tho President to-day ordered that Gen. Siekles be
relieved of tho command of the Second Military
District. and that Cen Candy be appointed 10 SUI
coed him. It's not kaown whether Gen. Sichdes 10
70 Ne mustered out of the Volunteer Service as MOr
General but 10 is believed that Gen. Grant VIII issue
an order to that effect, thus placing sickes as Col
onel his rank in the Regular army
The order suggested in my last nights dispatch
relative TO relieving Sheridan and appointing h'h-
cock in his place was issued to-day
In the order assigning Gen. Hancock to Gen. Sheri-
dams command the President gives Hancock the
mower TO annul and make void any orders that nave
been issued by Gen. Sheridan, BY this be is eni-
powered to 1einsato all those civil officials removed
by Sheridan. This is in direct opposition to Gen.
Grant and is intended as a reprnand on that oincer'
The proposed removal of Judge Holt was not acted
spon to-day by the President as expected
There is GOOD dead of lively excitement in political
circles here. The Grant and johnson correspondence
on the removal Of Sheridan, published here to-day
together with the TumOrs of Cabinet changes anc
further change among the District Commanders in
the South are an beng talked about and commented
ON. The White House is lively with Democratic
politicians. The Radicals are very jubilant over
Grants letters. They have been waiting with pain
full anxiety for him to show where he stands and
now they feel relieved 1t has come 10
light to-day that the President and Grant
had had almost an open rupture The latters friends
assert that the President being foiled in trying TO
rse him is getting desperate. In his order relieving
Sheridan and assigning Hancock to the Fifth Mill
tary District he OverTues Grant and orders Sherl-
dan TO proceed directly from New-Orleans 20 the
Plains without first visiting Washington. This the
President cites to his friends hit at Grant tor his
Impertinence. There other matters also on when
johnson and Grant cannot agree The PRESIDENT
urged on by his political advisers, contenpates many
radical changes in the War Department. Many OF
these do not meet the approval of Grant,
and the IreSlQcuI seems QlspOScu W ASHO4S
1t is intimated that Grant viii ask to be relieved
from duty at the War Office soon. AS indicated III
this correspondence of yesterday this is but the be-
thinning of a plan to carry the next Presidential
election by the Democracy. Changes in the Cabinet
will certainly take place, Stewards friends say ne
will surely 60 The old man has been keeping very
quiet lately and has little to say at the White House.
Randall expresses to his friends willingness to re-
sign. He had q long interview with the
L., r~rrat n
White House he told his friends that on the
interview would depend whether or not he would re-
sign Shonld it not have been satisfactory tonight
Randall will send in his resignation tomorrow
Ward H. Lamon a law partner of jerry Black, here,
once appointed Marshal for the District of Columbia
by President Lincoln, is being pushed for the pace
by the Democracy represented by The hteth9eac6
The pressure on McCulloch has been considerably
checked The feeling is strong against his reslg-
nation that his opponents have begun to give MIN
no as hopeless case. Jerry Black is spoken OF as
Mr. Stewards successor. Black is great friend OF
Johnsons He still holds out the idea that johnson
has power to dsperse Congress should they insist
"overruling the law" he calls it, and further, that
he will do it, if they attempt impeachment. This
seems TO be absurd, but is well known by those who
know Black and his followers that they believe in
this, and are trying to impress it on the President
Impeachment is being talked of here by prominent
Republicans the only resort to head OIL the fres
dent The editorial in to-days TRIBUNE on the stu
aton is looked upon here as next to an open demand
for impeachment
The publication of the Grant and Johnson CORE
spOndence to-day in two papers only, one OF New
York and one of Boston and both supporters OF the
President surprised the journalists in this CITY, III
IS usual 10 give matters of the kind to the press OF
the whole country. In this have the singular
spectacle Of the President in the special service OF
single newspaper and supplying twith exclusive
intelligence" by trick Of which no upright journalist
would be guilty. The facts in the case are these
Up TO a late hour last night the NewYork corre-
spondents here were trying to obtain copies Of the
correspondence between Gen. Grant and Mr.. johnson
from the President himself The President informed
the correspondents of THE TRIBUNE The Times
The World and the Associated Press, that
he would not give the correspondence out
until to-day. Al the same time he had
already given it to two papers In fact he had sent
for the correspondents OF these papers, had given it
TO them, and ON Saturday the letters of Grant and
Johnson were forwarded To New York by mail The
public will therefore understand that The limited
publication of the correspondence not the fault
of the leading newspapers. The President chose to
break his word and deliberately deceive the repre-
scntatves of the press. After his treachery TO the
Republican party it was hardly to be expected that
he would be true to anything yet there were men in
Washington weak enough to suppose that even if he
had no regard for the substance Of truth itself, he
might have a lingering respect for the shadow The
President announced to-day that hereafter he would
0ve no news to a6y paper that did moi support his
policy
After careful inquiry it is ascertained from several
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