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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

Indian War.—From reports constantly being received from the far West, it would seem that a war with the Indians is unavoidable. They are engaged in plundering and burning railroad trains, killing and scalping the employes of the road, and committing such outrages as their cruel and blood thirsty ingenuity suggests. If the government does not at once interfere, the people will organize, and wage a war which cannot come short of a war of extermination.

Political.—Affairs at Washington still remain in an unsettled condition. The President seems bent on making a thorough renovation of his Cabinet, desiring for his advisers, men who will not oppose his policy, nor prevent the accomplishment of his designs. It is believed that Sheridan will be immediately removed, together with other officers who are in sympathy with his plan of reconstruction.

Contempt for Traitors.—MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS with as little good taste as sound judgment, has left the home in Canada in which he decided to pass his self-inflicted exile, and paid a visit to the loyal region of Northern Vermont. With some show of discretion, he entered the State at a point as remote as possible from the line of march taken by the Saint Albans raiders a few years ago. His experience in the village of Newport was hardly of a character to tempt him to call again; the incidents which transpired did not give his ride through the streets, in the best turn-out which a few obsequious sympathizers could afford, the semblance of a triumphal march. Boys and men hooted at him as he passed; crowds on the corners sang the refrain made familiar in war times, beginning with “We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour-apple tree;” loyal gentlemen residing in the suburbs of the village declined in gentlemanly but emphatic terms to permit him to drive through their parks or to enter their houses; and one, a woman, bitter with the recollections of a boy lost at Andersonville, hurled a stone at him as he dashed through the streets.—Harper's Weekly.

Cabinet Meeting.—NEW YORK, August 23. A special from Washington says: A meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day, but no further action was taken in relation to the removal of district commanders. The President, however, expresses his determination to remove Gen. Sickles. The Intelligencer, to-day, calls upon Secretary Seward to resign.

—The Pope has sent some valuable presents to the Sultan and the Viceroy of Egypt for protection accorded to Catholics in their dominions.