UNITED STATES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 880, 1 October 1867, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

New York, Aug. 9. The City of Washington is in a high state of excitement just now. The long looked-for "trouble" between President Johnson and Secretary Stanton has at last come, to pass. The President has known for a long time that' the Seoretary was secretly doing all he could to injure him, and to thwart in every possible way his plans and policy*, and so on the Sth mst., he firmly made up his mind that he would stand the Secretary's manner of doing things . no longer, so he sent him the following concise note duly addressed and signed:-— Grave publio considerations oonstrain me to request your resignation as Secretary of War. To this brief note the Secretary replied in this insulting style : — Your note informing me that grave publio considerations oonstrain you to request my resignation as Seoretary of War has been received.. In answer I have to state that grave publio considerations constrain me to continue in the office of Seoretary of War until the next meeting of Congress. The President has put his foot down firmly, and says that as the Secretary will not "resign," he will have to be under the ■unpleasant necessity of " removing" him, and he believes that he has the power to do it -under, the first section of the Tenure of Office Bill, which is, es follows :— Provided that the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Intorior, and the Postmaster General and the Attorney General shall hold their offices respectively during the term of the President by whom they have been appointed, and one month thereafter, subjeot to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Secretary, Stanton declares that he will not resign nor permit the President to remove him, and what the upshot of the matter will be, remains to be seen — but bets run high that the contest will be short, sharp and decisive, and that in the end the Secretary will be forced to withdraw from the War Department, and there is hardly a respectable man in the whole country that will not rejoice thereat, and be glad to see some better man filling his place. It is quite probable that General Grant will be called upon to act as temporary Secretary of War, the President having the fullest confidence in him. It is even said that the President will make him Secretary of War permanently if he will consent to accept of the position. The trial of John H. Surratt may now be said to be about nearly over, as the case was given to the jury at noon on the 7th inst. The jury are likely to disagree, as they have now been out fifty-six hours and have not agreed upon a verdict yet. The addresses of the counsel to the jury, two for the prisoner and two against him, occupied eleven days, and the charge of the Judge to the jury, which bore very heavily against the prisoner, one day. It is reported to-night, but the authority is not very reliable, that the jury stand eleven for acquittal, and one for conviction. The principal points in the charge of the Judge were, that the murder of the head of the nation was treason ; that all persons engaged in a conspiracy to commit such murder were alike guilty, and that an alibi is of no avail if the accused be then performing a part in the conspiracy. .General Sheridan, down in Louisiana and Texas, continues to remove men from office duly elected by the people and to appoint men of his own choosing in their places. The President in a few days will issue an order removing him from his command. This order will assign as a cause for the step that Sheridan, himself, is reconstructing, and that, therefore, he should be removed in the same way that Sheridan removed Governor Wells, of Louisiana. It will direct General Hancock to assume command of the district, 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 tbe recent acts of Congress clothe 'military commanders with absolute power, still these commanders should use the utmost discretion and exercise their powers so as to bear as lightly as possible upon the people, and so as to give satisfaction in their districts.. He considers that Sheridan has not thus acted ; that he has been unwise, arbitrary without, cause, and in many instances despotic in the exercise of power. Some other person, he therefore considers, equally patriotic and far more discreet, should be substituted for him as commander of the Fifth Military district. ' In General Hancock he believes such a man will be found. The " National Intelligencer," of Washington, the semi-official journal of the Government, announces, that Mr. Seward's informal negotiations to settle the Alabama . claims with England, on the basis of taking, tejratory on the Pacific coast by way i of pjayinent, has failed; The "Herald, of •jt^.&ty/ in speaking of the matter

mn g m _ w^_mmtmmm^^mmtmmmmHm^tm^^memimmjmmammmmmmm\mm ~ an says *.— " We advise the Secretary not to discouraged, but to brinf; all his ingenuity to bear on John Bull. After having obtained tho North Pole from Russia,- the' territory lying between that and our other possessions isnecessary to connect one with the other and ** to round off" our republican empire in that region. Thto British are smart in driving a hard bargain, especially in the matter of territory, and they may be doing so in this case. Let Mr. Seward put on a little more boldness and firmness than is natural to. him, and with the Alabama claims in one hand and manifest destiny in the other, say to the British government that it must be done. Such a plan of settlement will undoubtedly be the most natural and easy for Great Britain, while she would save herself a great deal of trouble in future with regard to those remote possessions. Secretary Seward in a letter to Mr Sauinier, United States Consul at Vera Cruz, says that this Government held no communication whatever with Santa Ana during his residence in this country, and that his departure for Mexico was unknown and unthought of by the department. The President, attended a German Scheutzen Feast in Washington yesterday, and was received by the Teutons with great enthusiasm. He tried his hand with the rifle and hit the •« bull's eye" three times. A San Francisco despatch of the 3rd inst., says : " The United States steamer Resaca has arrived here from Panama with yellow fever on board. She reports sixty-eight cases on the voyage up and eighteen deaths. ' Most of those who died were buried at sea. The Indians on the Western plains still continue to wage vigorous war against the white settlers, and to interfere with those employed in the building of the Pacific Railroad. They almost daily run off stocks of cattle and horses, and commit many other depredations. >An Indian Commission is now in St. Louis to devise measures for making treaties of peace with the various warlike tribes who are banded together. These tribes have been notified to meet the Commissioners in Council at the " full moon" in September, and also for tribes more remote at the same time in October. In the meantime, General Hancock and the commanding officers on the' Plains will be directed to suspend operations and hold a partial truce for the present. Several white men are now known to be in command of some of the depredating bands, probably for purpose of plunder. The iron-clad monitor Onandaga, which, was recently sold to the French government and started for Cherbourg, has returned to this port again. The officers on board of her pronounce her a bad seaboat. During the month of July 23,376 emigrants arrived at Castle Garden. Nearly one-half of the number remain in this State, while of the Western States, Illinois receives the largest proportion. During the first seven months of this year 36^50 inches of rain fell— an unprecedentedly large amount.