Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Times telegraphs as follows:-


WASHINGTON, August H.-The President
gave cut to his private journals last night the
ful text OF his order transferring General Han
cock to the Fifth Military District. The order
itself has not yet been promulgated by General
Grant, and has, therefore, not taken enect.
There are numerous reports afoat tonight to
the effect that General Grant has refused TO pro
mulgate it, but these are incorrect. There are,
however, both grave and important reasons
why the order is neld in abeyance, as stated
yesterday. on receipt OF the oTaeT Ge5eraI
This letter. not being ready for transmits
sion until to.day, did not reach the Pre-
sident until after the Cabinet meeting
this afternoon, and he has not yet replied.
General Grant regards the last order of the
President as entirely superseding General Order
No. n, including mis- Instructions to General
Thomas; and there is little doubt that a serious
diffeTence-not TO say conflict of views-has
occurred between the President and General
Grant, regarding the powers of The latter under
the Reconstruction acts and the purpose of his
been to present TO him certain further sugges-
tions and points Tor his consideration, not
touching the propriety of Sheridan's removal,
on which argument has ceastd d, but the more
important question as to whether the order
OF the President is not so framed as TO con
fict directly with the powers granted to
the General-in. Chief by the acts of Con-
gress There is also good ground for the
belief that the order, when issued, which may
possibly be tomorrow, will be accompanied by
Instructions similar 10 those which accom-
panied the first order. The situation of mat
ters between the Executive Mansion and the
War Department Tonight is exceedingly deli
cate, and speculation is rife GS to the result
Predictions are made that General Grant will
refuse TO issue the order unless modified or ac.
companied by instructions of his own, and that
as q consequence he will be relieved from duty
in the War Department by the President
Should this occur, and the latter undertake to
transmit orders through any new Secretary of
War, the issue is then direct and unavoidable,
for General Grant is acting under the following
timely law OF Congress. Section oil the Army
Appropriation act, approved March 2 1867,
under protest, is as follows:-


Section And be it further enacted. That the Head
States shall be in the city of Washington, aud all
sne by S or
shall be issued through the General OF The Army and
The General OF the Army shall be removed sus
pended, or relieved from command, or assigned 70
his own request without the previous apprisal of the
military operations issued contrary the require
ments Of this section shall be nu and void, and any
to the provisions OF this section shall be deemed
the army who shall transmit convey or obey any
orders instructions issued contrary TO the provi
SO issued shall liable to imprisonment for not less
than Two nor more o%H o


The Situation.


From the ~ Y World.


WAsHINGToN August 27.-There has been no
diminuLion in the excitement and rumors to-
day over the political situation within the Ad-
ministration II anything, the stories have
been more wild Than on yesterday. II has been
freely circulated that there was violent time
in the Cabinet meeting this afternoon. Ii has
even been published that General Grant left
the session some time before it adjourned. In
quiry in official quarters shows that these
flying statements are for the most part untrue.
There was an animated but friendly discussion
in the Cabinet, which was participated in
by all of the members present General
Grant remained throughout the session, and
left the Executive Mansion in company
with Secretary McCulloch. The reports of
differences between the President and General
Grant arise from the logical speculation pro-
duced by the publication of the correspondence
relative to the removal OF Sheridan and Gene
raj Grants verbal opposition TO The removal OF
General Sickles General Grants friends as
partment In a few days. With regard to the so
cRlleu cabinet tmbroglio, my statement OF last
night was strictly correct There is not a word
OF truth in the Times story that Mr.. Johnson
has received the written designations OF his
entire Cabinet. On the contrary, he has
even a single member. Mr.. Randall has
not rendered his resignation, nor has he been
asked for IL; but he left town this evening with
IL in his pocket. There is authority also for
stating that Secretary McCulloch is perfectly
satisfied that the President has not intimated
the lightest desire for his retirement, and his
resignation will not, as a consequence, unless
something unexpected turns up, be rendered to
the Executive. 1t Is proper to say that the
greater portion OF these rumors about the Secre-
tartes originate with the clique here who have
bored the President for two weeks urging q
general reorganization of the Cabinet That the
President may make some changes in due time,
does not seem any good reason to doubt. That
the report that the resignation of all his consti-
tutional advisers is probable has no foundation
whatever in fact.