The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-05
WELLINGTON GOSSIP.
Yhe Order Removing General Sheridan
Ready to be Issued-The Reasons As
aligned for His Removal.

Yhe Order Removing General Sheridan
Ready to be Issued-The Reasons As
aligned for His Removal.
WASHINGTON, August At was rumored to-
Gay that the order removing General Sheridan
had been issued by President Johnson. 1 have
It on the best authority that such is not the fact;
but l have good reason TO believe that the
order IS all ready, and would have been issued
some time ago but for some little hitch that has
not yet been removed After all believe there
is a lack OF backbone In quarters where great
stiffness was expected. Combinations nave Deen
formed that embarrass the President In his
policy and render him uncertain how 70 act,
whether TO push forward boldly or 10 reCeue.
1t is rumored now that there Is delecton In
the Cabinet, and that another memDer 8, DeSlues
Stanton has kicked against the antl;Snerldan
policy. However this may De, DelleVe Lne
President will not yield in his determination TO
remove Little Philn Tue order VIII assign as
cause for the step that Sheridan himself is an
impediment in the way of atlonal and constitu-
tional reconstruction, and that, therefore, he
should be removed in the same way that Sheri-
dan himself removed Governor Wells, OF
Louisiana It will direct General Han
cock to assume command of the Dis
trict, and to so administer the laws of
Congress as to conflict as little as may be with
the letter and spirit of the Constitution. The
President believes that, though the recent acts
of Congress clothe military commanders with
absolute power, still these commanders should
use Ithe utmost discretion, and exercise their
powers go as to bear as lightly as possible upon
the people, and so as 10 give satisfaction In their
districts. He considers that Sheridan has not
thus acted; that he had been un wise, arbitrary
without cause, and in many instances despotic
in the exercise of power. Some other person,
he therefore considers, equally patriotic and
far more efficient and discreet, should be sub
sttuted for him as commander OF the Fifth Mill
iary District. In General Hancock he believes
such man will be found.
RumOrsd Resignation of Secretary STAN
ton and Appointment of General Grant
as Secretary of War, Ad Interim.
Among the rumors of the day is one that the
President has worried Secretary Stanton into
resignation, and that General Grant has been
called upon to act temporarily as the head of
the War Department. We cannot trace this re-
port to any authentic source, although IL is
known that Mr.. Stanton has become difficulty
block to Mr.. johnson, of which it would please
him to be relieved.
The Proposed Assembling OF the Mill
tary Commanders at Washing gtOn.
The difficulty in the way Of Sherdan's re-
moval has suspended for the present the project
of summoning all the military commanders to
Washington for general conference. The idea,
however, has not been abandoned.
NO Complaints Against General Pope.
Statements have been made recently in some
of the New York papers that deputation of
people from Alabama waited upon the President
and preferred complaints against General Pope.
The only knowledge the President has of the
matter is the statement of these newspapers.
No suoh committee waited upon the President
and no recent complaints have been made
against POpe.-N Y, Herald,