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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 10

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News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.
The Italian Government Displeased.—FLORENCE, August 16, Evening. The Italian government is displeased with the visit to Rome of the French General Dumont, and will soon look for a change in the treaty of last September.
—The jury in the Surratt trial having failed to agree, Judge Fisher discharged them on the 10th inst. The Judge afterward read a note prohibiting Mr. Bradley from practicing in that Court, which led to a challenge from the latter gentleman, and created great excitement.
Immense fraud on the Government by means of soldiers' discharge papers have been discovered.
There are apprehensions of the yellow fever becoming an epidemic at New Orleans.
Indian outrages in the territories continue, murders and robberies being fearfully frequent, even on the new railroad lines.
Opposition Gains in France.—PARIS, August 16. At an election recently held throughout the empire for members of the Councils General the Opposition made very heavy gains.
The Suspension of Secretary Stanton.—Mr. Stanton having declined to resign in compliance with the President's suggestion, was by him suspended from his office as Secretary of War, and Gen. Grant appointed in his place ad interim. Aug. 12. Mr. Stanton yielded, under protest, to the President's order. There are rumors of further disagreements in the Cabinet, according to the following dispatches:—
New York, August 13.
The Tribune's special says:
The suspension of Secretary Stanton has created some excitement and many speculations as to whose turn it will be next—Randall or Seward. It is the almost universal impression that both of these gentlemen will sever their connection with the administration, for the reason that both are disgusted with the President. Seward has leaned strongly toward Stanton in all his troubles with the President, and especially in this last one. This afternoon, after Cabinet meeting, the Ex-Secretary and Mr. Seward were out riding, and this, with other things, has given color to the report that Seward will leave the Cabinet by his own free will sooner than was expected.
The Herald's special says:
It is stated that the President desires that all of his Cabinet should send in their resignations that he may make a general revision of his council. Seward and McCulloch are believed to be in bad odor at the White House. Reports were in circulation looking to the speedy decapitation of Judge Hall and Gen. Sheridan.
The Times' special says:
The President intimated to-night that he will soon tender the office of Secretary of War to a distinguished Ex-Governor of New England, probably meaning Andrews, of Massachusetts.
The Tribune's special says:
Gen. Sheridan has written a letter to Gen. Grant, complaining bitterly of the conduct of Gen. Rousseau in New Orleans, stating that he exerted his influence with the rebel citizens to prevent the acceptance by them of Gen. Sheridan's construction of the reconstruction acts, and also of his general demeanor toward Sheridan.
It is not true that the President telegraphed to Gen. Steadman to take Mr. Stanton's place. Gov. Flanders, of Louisiana, has ordered an investigation of the connection of Ex-Governor Wells with the three bond swindle.
The Adjournment of Congress.—Before Mr. Johnson gets through with the business he has laid out for himself, we think that the judgment of those members who opposed the adjournment of Congress will command the respect of the most conservative person in the Republican party. In his debate with Mr. Fessenden, it will be recollected that Senator Chandler, of Michigan, predicted that the previous conduct of the President gave every reasonable assurance that he could not be trusted without the restraint of a continual session of Congress, and maintained that the people demanded either that Mr. Johnson should be so restrained, or that he be deprived of all power to inflict injury upon the Reconstruction policy of Congress. This was the feeling of both of our Senators, and it was shared by the Radical portion of the Senate and House. But other counsels prevailed. Congress was adjourned. The healthful constraint of impeachment was removed by the mere indifference of a certain portion of the Republican party, and four long months were gratuitously given to Andrew Johnson to obstruct and overturn what had been accomplished after eighteen months of vigilance and contest. In one month he has rid himself of the most important obstacle in his way; for he was evidently obliged to remove Mr. Stanton first in order to weaken and tear down the military power which Congress erected against him. He has still three full months in which to continue this work of destruction. What there is left when they meet again in November of all that Congress gained in a prolonged and incessant fight with him will be the result of a want of energy and skill on his part, not of foresight and wisdom of theirs. That new and more important responsibilities will devolve upon them in consequence of their mistakes there can be no room for doubt.—Detroit Post.