The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-02
FROM NEW YORK.

Proclamation OF Amnesty TO be Essnea
| -Correspondence Between the Fres-
ident. General Grant md GenerHi
acknowledgements Wells.
NEW YORK, August 31.-The Worlds
special saws: There is reason to believe
that in a few days the President will is
ne an important order of amnesty,
n supplement to that issued ON the Doth
of May, 1865. 1t will not proclaim uni
versal amnesty, but will enlarge the
14th clause named in that proclamation.
Among the classes excepted by the lat
ter, bnt which / am assured will be in
cluded in the coming proclamation, will
be all persons who shall have been mil
itary or naval officers of the pretended
! Confederate government who are below
the rank of Brigadier General IN the
army and of Captain i'll the navy; also;
all persons who have been pretended
civil or diplomatic officers or otherwise
domestic or foreign agents OF the reDei
government; also, those who nave Deeh
engaged in any way in treating other
than lawfully as prisoners OF war per
sons found in the United States service
as officers, soldiers, seamen, or III other
canacitv. Other details are yet to be
arranged which may delay the issue Of
the proclamation for ut least n week
vet. but it is probable that it will be
decided to pardon all persons, except
bigh officials, who have been on bail for
trial before or after conviction.
In the Cabinet to-day it was decided
! i. thn .nppaSnnn1anpa l,af
Generals Grant and Sickles, in relation
to the latteI's course i'll North Carolina,
and interfering with the process issuing
from a United States Court, and which
eventually led to Sickles; prompt remov-
al by the President. This record, it was
decided to publish and it will be given
out in MONDAYS paper. The cOrrespon-
dence however with General Grant,
which is important and interesting, will
not be made public at the same time,
though it was ready at tO-day's Cabinet
meeting. 1t appears from this that
when General Sickles' military officers
prohibited against the execution of the
civil process from the United States
Court, the United States District At
torney reported the fact to the Attorney
dllN pIuCl I'll anu W tlS ihlOl
ed of it. Believing at the same time
that he has the power TO annull or modi-
fy the orders from the military COM
mander, General Grant telegraphed to
General Sickles to modify his order No.
10, under which his subordinates Oh
structcd the United States Court, so as
to obviate said obstruction in the future.
General Sickles replied to General
Grant, asking that the latter condition
of supervisor might be held in abey-
ance until he could explain by mail.
When this explanation arrived it APP
peared to be plausible statement,
lshowing that order No. 10 protected the
people from summary execution for
debt and that it gave great satisfaction
to the States of North and South Caro-
lima. Grant thereupon telegraphs
to Siclles, the important fact that
he withdraws his order To him to mod
ify order No. 10, thus leaving the lat
ter in force. At this remark
able stage of affairs the United States
Marshal of North Carolina steps in and
again attempts to serve the civil pro-
cess. but is resisted 10y Sickles by re-
! tanning the continuance in full effect of
his order. These facts were reported
here, when the Executive directed
the United States District Attorney to
procure an Indictment against one Dan
! lei L. SickleS for a violation of the
criminal laws of the United States in
obstructing United States Court. Cen
eral Sickles hearing of this at once tel
egrapned to General Grant in spirit of
denuncation of the step, declaring
| that he had command of military dis
| trict, created by an act of Congress, and
was not amenahle to any Grand Jury,
/ United States Marshal or United States
District Attorney. and intimating that
/ he would answernO indictment founded
on that charge.
1t does not appear that General Grant
answered this but it does appear that
the President issued an order last Mon
day, which removed Sickles, and has
vindicated the Judiciary of the Gov
eminent and secured the execution of a
provision issued by the highest tribunal
in the land. The full correspondence,
of which the above is an extract, will
probably be made public in due time.
! The Times special says: Efforts are
making to reinstate Ex-Governor Wells,
! of Louisiana, but Grant has power to
prohibit it.
The government is Informed of swim
dlerS going about the country repre-
Senting themselves as officers of the
| government. sent ont to enable dis
charged soldiers to obtain back pay and
/ bounty.