UNITED STATES

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2590, 29 October 1867, Page 5

UNITED STATES

Now York, July 11

Acting Attorney-General Buckley has written a very elaborate opinion, addressed to tho President, relative to the action of General Sickles in approving the forcible prevention of the execution of legal processes issued by the United States Courts in North Carolina. He severely censures General Sickles for his insubordination and contempt of the powers of the judiciary, and pronounces his action as a high misdemeanor, liable to punishment by the constitution and laws. He further shows that under no circumstances cau a military commander interfere with the Courts of the United States. Upon receipt of this opinion, the President, on the 3rd inst., issued a proclamation warning all persons, civil and military, against obstructing or hindering the faithful execution of the j laws, nnd commanding the army and navy to render duo submission to tho judgment of the courts and to give every needed aid in : enforcing them. This proclamation ia called [ the " Ciril Supremacy Proclamation," and orders have boen issued that every military, : naval, and civil officer in the United States bo furnished with a copy of it, so that they may understand it and obey it.

On the Bth the President issued another proclamation in which he declares the nonexistence of organised rebellion in the Soufcli, and says there is no reasonable ground for apprehending any renewal of the same. Standing armies, martial law, military tribunals, the suspension of the writ of habeas and the right of trial by jury, he declares are dangerous to public liberty in a time of peace, and he thinks unnecessary pains, penalties, confiscations and the usual elements of a vindictive policy ought now to be done away with. For these and other reasons he issues a move general aunesty than has yet been granted. The classes excepted from this amnesty are the President and Vice President of the late would bo Southern Confederacy; all rebel officers abovo the rank of Brigadier-General in the army and captain in the navy ; all who represented the rebels abroad in a diplomatic capacity ; all who treated Union prisoners of war barbarously ; all who were engaged in piracy, and all who were in any way connected with the assassination of the lamented Abraham Lincoln. All persons availing themselves of this proclamation must take the oath prescribed in the proclamation of the 29th May, 1865.

The issue of these proclamations has caused the Radicals to denounce the President more fiercely than before. They also speak very bitterly against General Grant for having accepted the office of Secretary of War, and allowing the President to ride roughshod over him by removing against his earnest protest, Generals Sickles and Sheridan from their respective commands. It is rumored that Secretary Seward, Secretary McCulloch, and Postmaster-Gene-ral llandall, are about to leave the Cabinet, and that their places will be filled by Revedy, Johnson, Robert J. Walker, and Governor Andrew.

Secretary McCulleeli is about preparing a revised and corrected statement of the public debt, in which he will show that the debt has been reduced nearly $265,000,000 within the last two years. The Fenian Brotherhood are now holding a Congress in Cleveland, and the hitherto discordant wings have become united, and a grand Fenian war is shortly to be opened upon Canada, if the Fenian Delegates, Generals, Head Centres, and others high up in Fenianism are to bo believed.

The yellow fever has become epidemic in Galveston, Indianola, New Orleans, Pensacola, and the Dry Tortugas, and is sweeping away its victims by hundreds.