New-York tribune., 1867-09-02
WASHINGTON.

GEN GRANT PROHIBITS REAPPOINTMFNTs.
TIE LOUIsIANfANs TROUBLED-THE FORTH.
COMING AMNESTY PROCLAMATION TO Br
UNIyERsAL-BINCKLEY's REPORT ON GEN.
SICKLES-PERSONAL.
rRr5csx.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 1851
Gen. Grant has issued the following order 10 Dis
trct Commanders. which it is said. has been toIo
graDhed to all of them:
HDGRs OF THE ARMY. .ADJUrAsT-GE ENERAL's OFFICE
WASIiINGTOS, Aug. 20, 1867. !
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 429.- Commanders Of the Military
Districts created under the Act OF March 1867 will
appointments to civil Office of persons who lave
removed by themselves their in command
BY command OF Gen. Grant.
T. ID. TOWNSEND, Assist. Adjutant- General
The Louisiana johnson politicians here are in great
trouble Gen. Giants order to the new district
commander in which he forbids their reinstating
any officers that may have been removed from office
by their predecessors. These fellows were boastine
that OF the first acts of Hancock would
be to reinstate Wells as Governor of Lou
isana They expected great things to bo
done, but Gen. Grants order destroys their
best hopes. One of these Louisianans, whom
Sheridan called bad man in his correspondence on
the New Orleans massacre has been going around
Dragging of his having been tho principal mover in
getting the President to Sheridan. The
italy expecting Hancock TO renstate Wells and tho
Levee Board. These assert that the Presi
dent will countermand Grants ORDER he having that
power as Commander-i.1- Chief. IL the President
does so. he can only do it through Gen Grant, aud
that. il is claimed will make an open rupture be.
tween them.
The venerable and usually well-informed cores
spondent of The Charleston Courier, states in letter
TO that Journal "that the forthcoming proclamation
of amnesty will be universal in its character which
is most likely correct. 1t is known the President
favors universal amnesty, but his Cabinet are not
unit in the matter The proclamation Will DO
before the Cabinet probably at its next meeting
II may be week ten days, however
before it IS issued; but that it is now un-
der consideration by the President, there Is no
doubt In view of the fact that the Reconstruction
law prohibits Presidents pardon from enfranchis-
ing any one the probable issuance OF such proca'
nation does not excite the comment that it other
wise would However, there is an idea prevalent
here among Johnson's Southern friends that the
Presidents amnesty will cnttle man who may have
been Rebel to vote. They trying to impress
Johnson with this dea and are being backed up by
able Democratic lawyers. If necessary, they claim
that the Attorney General, or, in his absence.
| the famous Buckley, can make an lnterpreta-
| ton of the law to suit them. IL TINS
could be done, then registration i'll the South would
| be reopened and the newly enfranchised citizens
allowed to register This is hardly probable, how
oyer as be law on this subject is explicit that t
is seriously impossible for wrong Interpretation to
| be made by sane man. The Rebels here are very
| jubant over the prospect ana state that Johhs3u
| will follow up the amnesty proclamation Dy
something startling, and that VIII be equaly az
| beneficial to them, - . -,
Binckleys report on Gen. Sickless difficulty with
regard Order No. 10 is partisan AFFAIR hxec up 10
suit the President, and TO shield HIM from censlre
| for removing Sickles. The correspondence on the
subject between Gen. Grant and Gen Slckles VIII not
be published 1t was agreed in Cabinet meeting last
Friday II the whole correspondence was before the
public instead of Bncklcy's report alone different
state of affairs would be to exist but this cor.
respondepce il is said would help Sickess case. and
expose the President. Therefore, 1t Is suppressed.
Those posted i'll the matter state that the whole re-
sponsibility of Scklcss actions belong to Grant as
he was acting under his orders. 1t is further sai
that Grant elcgraphed to Sic les to arrest any civil
officer who attempted to Interfere with him., . ,
Gordon Granger, now a lieltenant-c0l0nel In the
army is soon to be taken from the political arena
and put on duty with his regiment, which he has not
seen for some time Gen. Grant served Custer after
| the Cleveland Convention, in n similar manner.
| Senator Cameron of PENNSYLVANIA Is Ill the CITY,
| He had an interview with Gen. Grant yesterday -.
| Gen Grant gave yesterday evening parting dln-
ner to senior Romero the Mexican Minister.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives has
selected The Hartford COnrdnt and The Bridgeport
| Standard 10 publish in Connecticut the laws of the
first session XLth Congress also Inc JdcSSone'"e
! Union iii Florida. n...,.
male and female scattered through almost all tho
| Bureaus of the Department. have received hOtee
that their services will longer be required after
the LIST pIoximo In nearly every case the persons 20
yacate are those who have within the past IL months
al,sented themselves without leave commencing WIN
those who lost the most time without good ana
| sufficient excuse
The following Internal Revenue decisions have
| rerson who distls brandy from pure grape juice,
wine or from pure apple cider is To be taxed the same
in all respects though he distilled 1t directly from
Te proyon allowing manufacturers TO deduct freight
from tie place manufacture to the place OF delivery was
repeacd BY the OF Jy l3, 1866 NO such deduction
shoud he made Manufacturers who sell their products
time, without interest, should De allowed 70 return
their sales at the present worth OF the sum Tor wch t
letter was received by Commissioner Wilson of
the General Land Office, recently, from gentlemen
in Hartford, Conn., asking II IN case tue uoVeIneo ~
concludes the purchase of territory bordering on to
| Bay of Samana in st. Domingo the land VIII DO
held for disposal under the existing laws, and II SO
whether he will be permitted 10 take up Thousand
acres of the same. The commissioner tePheu 'iae
the purchase of the tract in question had not yet
been made aud should il be made, Congress would
have 10 pass an act directing that the lahd De helt
nnder the present laws governing the uisposai vi
| public lands before entries coulti DC nlaue.
The PoSt-O Office Department has directed inquiry
IN be made respecting the reported careessneSs ana
| obuse of mail matter by the overland mall con.
| tractor. In the course of n few days special man
agent Campitt will start from Washington Tor tho
! Plains with a view 10 correct the reported denii-
ouencies The contractor. however denies the alle-
cations and spromises to furnish aidaylts eXoner-
| ating him from censure. All mail matter LOT tho
! Pacific Coast if not marked by steamer, or py
Isthmlls, is sent overland
THE PRESIDENTS DISPATCH.
The recent order of Gen Grant that District Com
manders will make no appointment to civil office of
oil hxr fhans al INps