Year: 1867

Expected Change in the Cabinet-COm-


gress and the Hmpeaehment--The


President 20 Strengthen Himself


and Prepare for All Emergencies


The stanton Case-The Virginia


Election, etc.


Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.


WASHINGTON, Oct l6.-The determine
tiOHof the President 20 change his Cabinet
has been repeatedly alluded to in this cor
respondence. There is authority to repeat
the same, with full permission of the Pres
ident. 1t was suggested to him this after
noon that the great popular verdict in
dorsing his policy would prevent further
agitation of impeachment. The President
replied he thought not, but apprehended
that the Radical leaders would become
even more desperate, and hesitatea al nothing
TO accomplish their revolutionary purposes.
In response to the question of his course,
should Radicals attempt to depose him be-
fore trial, be said he would resist with all
the powers which the constitution furnishes
for its own protection and preservation.
This was said with great warmth and earn
estness. 1t would be criminal, he said, not
to resist an effort on the part of Congress to
usurp or destroy the Executive Depart
ment, and he thought it well for the coun-
try to know his opinion and his purpose in
relation TO Cabinet changes. He said he
would strengthen himself for any emer-
gency that might arise. Circumstances,
he said, necessitsted a change, and this
should be done before Congress met.


In the selection of his Cabinet the Presi-
dent declared he would not consult or be
governed by party cliques, but act on his
own judgment, and for what he thought
was the best interests of the country 1t
was his intention to draw around him men
of nerve, ability and patriotism


In answer to an inquiry about General
Sherman, be said: II can assure you that
General Sherman will be here between the
10th and 18th of November, and in ample
time for the discharge Of any duty, how
ever responsible, which may devolye on
him." The General, he further said, had
deemed it best to return to his command
10 meet the Indian Peace Commissioners
as he had promised, and that done, he
would return forthwith to Washington.
The President evidently expects to avert
trouble by being prepared to meet it.


An expert of the Treasury Department
positively asserts that the alleged conn
terfeit bonds are printed from the same
plate as The genuine, and the impression
has been obtained in the department by
the same means as was the hundred dollar
interest-note plate months ago. Chief
Detective Wood processes that the thou
sand dollar plate is in possession of the
same gang of counterfeiters who put the
hundred dollar notes of. This does not
invalidate the statement of the expert.


Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
WAsHNGToE, Oct. 16.-It is learned to-
day that the President denies having au-
thorized the statement, as published in
New York afternoon paper of yesterday,
that he had decided, on the removal Of
Secretary Stanton, to utterly ignore the
civil tenure act, though he does claim that
under law still in force he may simply
announce Mr.. Stanton's successor without
giving reasons for the latter's removal or
suspension. The law under which he pro-
poses to act is not repealed by the civil
tenure act, and he declares his intention TO
simply send a nomination to the Senate to
Gil vacancy caused by the suspension, and
not by the aemoval, of a civil officer
The election in Virginia, for State Con-
yention under the reconstruction act, Is
named for Tuesday next, and will not be
postponed. The white majority is about
ten thousand. Some doubts are expressed
if a convention is called, owing to the fact
that there are three tickets in the field, the
third of which declares it is the intention
to vote with the first to defeat convention,
to spite the second for making certain nomi-
nations on The convention ticket


Official notification has been received
that convention has been called in Ala
bama by a very large majority over the
number required by the supplemental re-
| construction law.