New-York tribune., 1868-07-29

SEWARD's DIPLOMACY-DISMlSSAL OF UNION
sOLDIERs-CAsE OF GEN. A. B. DYER
WAsHINGTON, Tuesday, July 2s, 1853.
His Fxcellency has already begun to devise means
whereby to get rid of Commissioner Rollins. To-day
Secretary McCulloch sent for Mr.. Rollins to call
at his office to confer with him and Mr. Edmund
Cooper the latter acting in official capacity as
the Presidents agent. They requested Mr.. Rollins
TO withdraw that clause of his resignation
making his surrender of the office conditional on
the appointment and confirmation of sue
cessor They coupled this request with
threat that if he did not comply the President would
feel compelled to prefer charges against him. suspend
him from office, and appoint successor dd interim
Mr. Rollins at the request Of his friends, comprising
many of the leading Republicans of Congress- has
refused to comply with this request from Mr. john
son. and will abide the ISSUE 1t is expected that the
President will soon carry into effect his threat to
remove Mr. Rollins, and appoint Cooper in his stead
He claims that Mr. Rollins has no legal right TO make
his resignation conditional and that he can accept it
at any moment and appoint successor; but TO avoid
any doubt that may exist his friends urging him
TO suspend Commissioner Rollins under the proyis-
ions of the Civil Tenure-of- Office law.
Before the adjournment the members of Congress
from the Reconstructed States held several informal
consultations Oh the subject of making provisions for
next They conferred with the leading men of Con
gress here and the opinion prevailed that the Old
South Carolina system of having the State Legisa-
ture choose the Presidential electors would be the
best under the circumstances. If such plan Is
agreed upon, all the expected trouble of force
and conflict between the two of citizens South
will be avoided. The Southern Representatives here
say that majority of the best citizens OF their Nar
GUS States approve the plan. lt will in all probabl
ty be adopted IN all the Southern States, excepting
may be, Georgia.
Many of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in
this District are soon TO be dismissed though leave
of absence for one month Will be allowed before
their discharge. The asylum at Frccdmen's Village
having been broken mp, the inmates thereof have
been removed. The Bureau force in the state OF
Maryland is also to be withdrawn except few
officers to attend to the educational interests and the
paymenof bounties and back pay Gen. {. H. smith,
Assistant Commissioner Of the Frcedmen's Bureau
for the State of Arkansas has dismissed nearly all Of
the Bureaus civil agents in that place, IN
accordance with the late order Of Gen.
Howard, for q reduction OF the force, and n
like reduction is TO be made in all the Southern
States. so that before Autumn sets in the Bureau
will be almost myth. 1t may be remembered that
no appropriation was made for tho Bureau during the
when its existence ceases at the beginning Of the
new year there will be n surplus on hand TO turn
over to the United States Treasury.
As has been anticipated the President has decided
to rcorganze the military districts OF the South He
has directed his military Secretary 10 issue the order
Tomorrow The order does not provide for the with
drawal of any of the United States troops but
merely abOlishes the system Of military districts,
thus cutting down the number Of general and stan
officers and curtailing the expenses. All the States
comprising the Second and Third Military Districts
have been reconstructed and their Representatives
admitted 10 the Union. The First District consists
of only the State of Virginia which State has not yet
come mp 10 the requirements of the reconstruction
laws of Congress. Tho same remark - true oi the
State of Mississippi in the Fourth Military District,
and Texas in the Fifth District
An erroneous report has been published in regard to
the payment of the expenses Of the Chinese Legation
while here. The newspapers have said that tho
United States Government bears the expense. which
has been at the rate of $1,000 per week, OF about
1750OO in all. This is all wrong The Chinese Gov
eminent pays the entire expenses of the legation,
and Mr.. Burineame pays his own personal expenses
out Of his salary. Among the items Of expenditure
paid by the Chinese in Washington, is the considcra-
bic sum Of 81 200 for hack-hirc. The legation Will
take the 12} train tomorrow for Ncw-YOrk, where
they viii stop two or three days. Then they viii
visit Secretary Seward ut his residence in Auburn.
They arc TO be entertained several days by MF.
Seward, and then they will go TO Niagara.
After passing day or two at the 1alls,
they will visit Boston and remain in that city
until their departure for Europe, Aug. 10. Mr. Bur
lingamc is unable to accept tho invitation of JAY
Cooke esq, to visit his mansion near Philadelphia,
owing to previous engagements and the short time
before his departure from this country. To-day he
visited the State Department with the two Manda-
rims. and, accompanied by Secretary Seward, pro
ceeded TO the White House. and paid their respects
to the President and members OF the Cabinet and
bade him farewell
MI Seward will soon have an opportunity TO make
a new display of his diplomatic wisdom. 1t seems
that the Turkish representative In this country,
Blacquo Bey has been offended by the expression Of
sympathy with the struggling Cretans which has
passed Congress by unanimous vote. The Turks
claim that the Crean insurrecon is ended, and that
our appeal to the Turkish Government at this time is
an unusual and useless cause Of Ofensc. lie has ap
peaed to the other foreign representatives. here for
sympathy, and intends formally to set forth his
grievances to Mr.. Seward and demand an explana-
tiOn.
The Joint resolution that passed the Senate, direct
ing the Secretary of the Interior TO annu the recent
contracts for stationery made 10y HIM with Dempsey
& O'Tooe, and to enter into contract for the ar
ticles mentioned in said advertisement with Blanch-
ard q Mohun, the latter being the lowest and best
bidder therefor, was not reached on the Speakers
table, and consequently goes over to the meeting In
September. Messrs Dempsey & O'Toole are one of
the parties against whom the Printing Committee
made charges of fraud. The statement in The
TRIBUNE that Congress would annul the contracts
held by the firm of Philip IL Solomon was erroneous.
H., oot ~ Ionoress annroved July Goth the office