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THE GAZETTE OFFICE ha 3 just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.—TERMS CASH. All letters should be addressd to METERS A MENGEL, Publishers. a he 6mrite. THE REMOVAL OF GEN. SHERIDAN. Correspondenee Bi'lwern 11- President nud tieii. Grant. President Johnson to General Grant. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17, 1867. DEAR Slß— Before you issue instruc tions to carry into effect the enclosed order I would be pleased to hear any suggestions you may deem necessary respecting the assignments to which the order refers. Truly yours, ANDREW JOHNSON. Gen. U. S. Grant, Sec. of War ad ink rim. The order of Removal. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C.. Aug. 17, 1867. Major General George H. Thomas, is hereby assigned to the command of the Fifth Military District, created by the act of Congress passed on the second day of March, 1867. Major General P. H. Sheridan is here by assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri. Major General Winfield S. Hancock is hereby assigned to the command of the Department of the Cumberland. The Secretary of War ad interim will give the necessary instructions to car ry this order into effect. ANDREW JOHNSON. General G fan I to President Johnson. HEADQUARTERS, ARMIES OF THE U. S., WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 17, 1867. Hits Excellency, Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States: SIR— I am in receipt of your order of this date, directing the assignment of General G. H. Thomas to the command of the Fifth Military District, General Sheridan to the Department of the Missouri and General Hancock to the Department of the Cumberland ; also, your note of this date (enclosing these instructions) saying, "Beforeyou issue instructions to carry into effect the enclosed order, I would be pleased to hear any suggestions you may deem necessary, respecting the assignments to which the order refers." 1 am pleased to avail myself of this invitation to urge, earnestly ilrge— urge in the name of a patriotic people who have sacrificed hundreds of thous ands of loyal lives and thousands of millions of treasure to preserve the in tegrity and union of this country that the order be not insisted on. It is un mistakably the expressed wish of the country that Gen. Sheridan should not be removed from his present command. This is a republic where the will of the people is the law of the land. 1 beg that their voice may be heard. Gen. Sheridan has performed hisciv il duties faithfully and intelligently. His removal will only be regarded as an effort to defeat the laws of Congress. It will be interpreted by the unrecon structed element in the South—those who did all they could to break up this Government by arms and now wish to be the only element consulted as to the method of restoring order—as a tri umph. It will embolden them to re newed opposition to the will of the loy al masses, believing that they have the Executive with them. The services of General Thomas in battling for the Union entitle him to some consideration. He has repeated ly entered his protest against being as signed to either of the five Military dis tricts, and especially to being assigned to relieve Gen. Sheridan. Gen. Hancock ought not to be re moved from where he is. His depart ment is a complicated one, which will take a new commander some time to become acquainted with. Thereare military reasons, pecuniary reasons, and, above all, patriotic reas ons, why this order should not be in sisted on. I beg to refer to a letter, marked pri vate, which I wrote to the President when first consulted on the subject of the change in the War Department. It bears upon the subject of this removal, and I had hoped would have prevent ed it. 1 have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, General U. S. A. and Secretary of War ad interim. •President Johnson to General Grant. EXECUTI VE MANSION, WASHINGTON, I). C., AUJ. 19. F GENERAL.— I have received your communication of the 17th inst., and thank you for the promptness with which you have submitted your views respecting the assignments directed in |my order of that date. When I stated, I in my unofficial note of the 17th, that ! I would be pleased to hear any sugges tions you might deem necessary upon | the subject, it was not my intention to j ask from you a formal report, but rath j er to invite a verbal statement of any reasons affecting the public interests which, in your opinion, would render the order inexpedient. Inasmuch, however, as you have embodied your suggestions in a written communica tion, it is proper that I should make some reply. You earnestly urge that the order be not insisted on, renia. king that '"it is unmistakably the expressed wish of the country that General Sheridan ■ should not be removed from his pres j ent command." While lam cognizant of the efforts that have been made to retain General Sheridan in command | of the Fifth Military District, I am not aware that the question has ever been submitted to the people themselves for determination. It certainly would be unjust to the army to assume that, in the opinion of the nation, he alone is capable of commanding the States of Louisiana and Texas, and that, were he for any cause removed, no other gen eral in the military service of the Uni ted States would be competent to till his place. General Thomas, whom I have designated as his successor, is well known to the country. Having won high and honorable distinction in the field, lie has since, in the execution of the responsible duties of a department commander, exhibited great ability, sound discretion and sterling patriot ism. He has not failed, under the most 1 trying circumstances, to enforce the laws, to preserve peace and order, to! encourage the restoration of civil au thority and to promote, as far as possi- j hie, a spirit of reconciliation. His ad-J ministration of the Department of the Cumberland will certainly compare ! most favorably with that of General Sheridan in the Fifth Military Dis trict. There affairs seem to be in a dis turbed condition, and a bitter spirit of j antagonism seems to have resulted; from General Sheridan's management. He has rendered himself exceedingly obnoxious by the manner in which lie nas exercised eveil the powers conferred by Congress, and still more so by a resort to authority not granted by law nor necessary to its faithful and efficient execution. His rule lias, in fact, been j one of absolute tyranny without refer ence to the principles of our govern-1 ment or the nature of our free institu tions. The state of affairs which has re sulted from the course he has pursued has seriously interfered with a harmo nious, satisfactory and speedy execu tion of the acts of Congress, and is a lone sufficient to justify a change. His removal, therefore, cannot "be regard-! Ed as an effort to defeat the laws of 1 Congress;" for the object is to facilitate ; their execution, through an officer who | has never failed to obey the statutes of the land, and to exact, within his jur isdiction, a like obedience from others. It cannot "be interpreted by the unre constructed element in the South—those who did all they could to break up this government by arms and now wish to be the only element consulted as to the method of restoring order—as a tri umph for, as intelligent men, they must know that the mere change of military commanders cannot alter the law, and that Gen. Thomas will be as much bound by its requirements as General Sheridan. It cannot "embold en them to renewed opposition to the will of the loyal masses, believing that they have the Executive with them for they are perfectly familiar with the antecedents of the President, and know that he has not obstructed the faithful execution of any act of Congress. No one, as you are aware, has a high er appreciation than myself of the ser vices of General Thomas, and no one would be less inclined to assign him to a command not entirely to his wishes. Knowing him as I do, I cannot think that he will hesitate for a moment to obey any order having in view a com plete and speedy restoration of the U nion, in the preservation of which he has rendered such important and valu able services. General Hancock, known to the whole country as a gallant, able and patriotic soldier, will, I have no doubt, sustain his high reputation in any position to which he may be assigned. If, as you observe, the department which he will leave is a complicated one, I feel confi dent that, under the guidance and in structions of Gen. Sherman, General Sheridan will soon become familiar with its necessities, and will avail him self of the opportunity afforded by the Indian troubles for the display of the energy, enterprise and daring which gave him so enviable a reputation dur ing our civil struggle. In assuming that it is the expressed wish of the people that Gen. Sheridan should not be removed from his pres ent command, you remark that this is a republic where the will of the people is the law of the land, and beg that their voice may be heard. This is in deed a republic—based, however, upon a written Constitution. That Consti tution is the combined and expressed will of the people, and their voice is law when reflected in the manner BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6. 1867. which that instrument prescribes. While one of its provisions makes the President Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, another requires that he shall take care that the laws he faithfully executed. Believing that a change in the command of the Fifth Military District is absolutely necessa ry for a faithful execution of the laws, I have issued the order which is the subject of this correspondence, and in thus exercising a power that inheres in the Executive under the Constitution, as Commander-in-Chief of the military and naval forces, I am discharging a duty required of me by the will of the nation, as formally declared in the su preme law ofthe land. By his oath the Executive is solemnly bound, "to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect and defend the constitution," and al though in great excitement it may be lost to public view, it ishisdu ty, without regard to consequences to himself, to hold sacred and to enforce any and all of its provisions. Any oili er course would lead to the destruction of the republic; for, the Constitution once abolished, there would be no Con gress for the exercise of legislative pow ers, no Executive to see that the laws are faithfully executed, no Judiciary to afford to the citizen protection of life, limb and property. Usurpation would inevitably follow, and a despotism fixed upon the people, in violation of their combined and expressed will. In con clusion, I fail to perceive any military, pecuniary or patriotic reasons why this order should not be carried into effect. You will remember that, in the first instance, I did not consider General Sheridan the most suitable officer for the command of the Fifth Military District. Time has strength ened my convictions upon this point, and has led me to the conclusion that patriotic considerations demand that he should he superseded by an officer who, while lie will faithfully execute the law, will at the same time give more general satisfaction to the whole people, white and black, north and south. I am, General, very respectfully yours, ANDREW JOHNSON. To Gen. U. S. Grant, Secretary of War ad interim. RAPID AM) STARII.IXG PROGRESS OP Ul'K REVOLUTION. On we march! The negro cloud still hangs upon our political horizon and threatens the nation. The radicals de scend from great legislation to the pet ty passions of party politics, and are bent upon absorom'g in the one control ling idea the whole forces of the gov ernment. Fortunately, the executive power comes to the rescue and stands between Congress and the national sui cide they would commit. This is clear ly shown by the masterly answer of President Johnson to General Grant, in the correspondence of officials relative to the removal of General Sheridan, which we publish to-day. General Grant, evidently felt the force of the de mand which the radical party was mak ing upon him to place himself right with them and seized the opportunity thus unwillingly given him by Mr. Johnson. The latter, however, was not unequal to the task of parrying the thrust, and in his answer to General Grant gives us the best State paper and the most exact explanation of his position that have been issued from the Execu tive Mansion during his administration. The General, true to the instincts of the soldier, merges too much of military feeling into his remonstrance, lie ap parently forgets what we have for some time past been advocating—that the removal of Sheridan changes no law, alters no result. To imagine that any one man is absolutely necessary to the preservation of our institutions or the government of any section, is to forget the fundamental elements of re publicanism ; merge principles into men ; give rule to the latter; ignore any innate force in laws themselves; and march the people at a double-quick to military despotism. In this view alone we applaud the removal of Sheridan; for the political cry raised by the par ty in power shows how closely they are treading upon the dangerous ground we have designated. A brave soldier, indeed, is Sheridan, and the President pays a just tribute to his worth; but it must be a principle of our republican ism that no man is absolutely essential tons. This lesson we must that'll at once. Ignoring it, we touch the bor der of dictatorship and its inevitable se quence. Andrew Johnson attempted at lirst to seize the three branches of Government and embody their forces in himself. — lie failed. Congress has lately tried to do the same. They, too, have failed. All this shows the strength of our Gov ern meat and the terrible st rain to which it may be subjected without breaking. It is useless for Congress to hope that by any enactment they can usurp all power. Their efforts to break the ex ecutive branch by splitting it into frag ments is in every sense illegal, and to be deplored by every man who seeks the general good instead of political victory. The desire, niorever, to force to the surface a vast negro element — untrained, uneducated, unfitted to con trol themselves, much less legislate for those who have just set thein free—is the maddest phase of a revolution which is urged on with a partizan vio lence which forgets, in its present suc cess, that it must finally bring a reac tion which will be terrible to both white and black. The former will dry up his sympathies for a race which is for ced so rapidly upwards that sympathy now turns todisgust. The latter, taught that it is his color that gives him merit, will sink to the level from which, in common with ignorance of any color, he must slowly march upwards. Here he too will be filled with disgust; dis gust for the white who have inflated him; disgust that he has tasted at a spring he must leave and afterwards reach by long years of toil; disgust that, after all that has been told him, brain is the measure of the man. The radical party, in forcing this black ele ment into such prominence, appear on ly to eleVate it the higher that the re action may drep it the lower. Air. Johnson now holds in his hands the forces that can resolve this problem of reconstruction. If he will only rise to the demands o the occasion, he may restore himself to the confidence of the North. His letter to General Grant is full of executive power and a determina tion that it shall not be wrested from him. The whole common sense of country sustains his effort to keep his poise despite the desire of Congress to overturn him. Let them impeach him. He may challenge it and win. Let him overturn the clashing elements in his own Cabinet; tlie country will applaud. Let him drive back the bla k crowd that threatens both North and South ; lie will receive all aid. President Lin coln issued an emancipation proclama tion for the blacks; let Andrew John son issue, by universal amnesty, an emancipation for the white portion of the population of the United States. — New York Ilerald. A CAPITA I. LETTER. We publish below a letter from Jas. F. Shunk, Esq., of York, Pa., to a reli gious paper published at Cleveland, O hio. His "anxious inquiries" are well put, and will doubtless make the "bi ographer" of the Sunday-School book "scratch his head" for an answer: YORK, Pa., July 18th, 18G7. Editor Christian Standard: —l observe in a recent issue of your paper you com menced a "Life of Abraham Lincoln for the Sabbath school and Home cir cle" as a book proper for your subscri bers to introduce into their families, and you refer to "the moral and relig ious characteristics" of "the Great E mancipator" as of excellent and profi table example to Christians. There is nothing to indicate that you have a pecuniary interest in the book, and it is fair to presume that you have en deavored to speed its sale from an hon est belief that Its hero was a follower of Christ. On this assumption alone can you escape the grave charge of hold ing up the example of an unregenerale man, wilfully and knowingly, for imi tation by young people and the emula tion of grown disciples. Since, there fore, I cannot, without impeaching your integrity and zeal for the Gospel, doubt that you truly regard tlie late Mr. Lin coln as having been an eminent and ad mirable example of devoted piety, 1 shall really take it as a kindness if you will be pleased in an early number of the Standard to inform an anxious, in quirer on what ground you rest an o pinion of such grave consequence, and which you avow with such boldness. The inquiry is especially pertinent in view of the fact that Mr. Lincoln nev er made any profession of faith in Christ before the world, that he was never buried with llim in baptism, and nev er partook of any of the ordinances or shared any of the duties which he ap pointed for His disciples—and that while others, since his unhappy death, which took place in an edifice not com monly regarded among Christians as an anteroom to Heaven, have made large religious claims for him, he nev er in all his life made any for himself. It wiJl be gratifying indeed, and of substantial service to the memory ofthe late President, if you can, in the face of these unpleasant facts, show that his ,fet: vere planted on the Rock of Ages and that his walk with God was close and constant. It will be of especial comfort to the unregenerate if you can make it plain that the scripture which calls for faith, repentance, baptism, and a godly life,as the conditions of salvation, is obsolete, and that there are broad and easy ways to Heaven by which one may escape the narrow and thorny path which leads up to the door of Christ and which is the only one of which the word of Cod gives any account. And it will cer tainly tend to liberalize society, loosen the uneasy and conventional bands which restrain the tongues of men from smut, and promote general and boister ous mirth, if a class of jokes of which his late Excellency was notoriously fond and which are as yet confined to bar-rooms or worse places, can be shown to be proper studies for little boys and girls in .mnday school, and harmless chat lor Christian parents around the winter fire. I write this note on my own behalf as well as on that of a sister of the church who is a subscriber to your paper and a constant reader of it.— Please publish it in conjunction with your answer. Respectfully yours, J AS. F. SIIUXK. A VERY sensible woman, who is go ing to Europe, desires that when her husband's name and her own are pub lished in the list of passengers, it shall be Mr. and wife, not lady, for he goes abroad with his own lawful wife, and nobody else. —Belle Boyd, now Mrs. liardinge, is in Baltimore. She has left her hus band, and will settle in St. Louis. VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5.408. A YOUNG HERO KILLSSIXCIIEYEN XES AND ESCAPES WITH A Some four or five weeks ago, one of the grading parties in advance of the rail road had with them a young man of about 18 years named George Wait.— His business was to break the prairie ground with a plough for the graders along the line. One morning, as he was out about two ami a half miles from the camp, twenty-one miles beyond Ells worth, mounted on a mule, he discover ed a party of about thirty Indians dash out of the timber on the Smoky Hill, and make toward him and another man, who was on foot, about a quarter of a mile nearer camp than he was. He started to go towards camp, but the In dians discovering his intention, by the superior He tness of their ponies, cut him off. Young Wait now saw them divide into two parties—one party go ing toward his comrade and the other towards him. He attempted to make the timber on the Smoky Hill, but the Indians were too rapid in their move ments for him. He had two navy re volvers, and resolved that the red-skins should pay for his scalp if they got it, and a fair price, too. Soon they came near, circling around him with savage yells, and began shooting at him. The Indians seemed to be well armed with pistols and lances, very few having bows and arrows. Wait returned the fire, and he says that several times they came so near that the lances nearly touched him. Indian after Indian fell before the unerring aim of Wait's six shooters, and the assaulting party was getting smaller very rapidly; the dead Indians being carried away by the sur vivors according to Indian custom. — Soon he heard the shouts of approach ing comrades, and the Indians made a final dash to kill the brave boy, who, maimed already with a bullet in his leg, still stuck to his mule. One young war rior came up until the muzzle of his pis tol nearly touched that of the boy; and botli fired—the Indian falling from his horse with a mortal wound, while the hero of the fight only got a revolver ball in bis side. In a few moments more the rescuing party came up, con sisting of half a dozen negro soldiers and some railroad employes, when the Indians suddenly retreated. 'Waitstill had strength to dismount and take the pistols and scalp-lock of the "last of the Cheyennes," whicn last he now bears as a trophy of his fight. A USEFUL RACE.— It cannot be deni ed that the colored race has proved itself the most generally useful race that has ever existed in this country. They have not only cultivated cotton, rice, tobacco and corn, but they have been invaluable to the politicians, the phi lanthropists, the philosophers, the sen timentalists, the poets, the stui np-speak ers and thedoctors of divinity. Whilst their industry produced the staples which laid the foundations of the vast commercial and manufacturing enter prise and wealth of America, their condition has occupied the minds and set going the tongues and pens, and finally the muskets and cannon of the white race. The earth is yet quivering under the shock of that collision of ideas and muscle of which the colored man was the innocent cause. But his uses, his progress of all sorts, have not yet been exhausted. If he is no longer bearing the burthen of slavery, he is hearing the burden of politicians, who are astride of the freed man, like the Old Mail of the Sea, with their legs twisted around his neck, and are deter mined to make him carry them to the high places of power. What would become of American politics, or Ameri can philanthropy, without the colored man? If we could imagine for a mo ment that there was not one of the race in America, what would we do for political staples, and where would there be a channel for those overflow ing sympathies which disdain to in cludeany white men except the particu lar individual exercising them. — Hat timore Sun. STORY WITH A MORAL.. —When Gen era! Jackson was moving on to-strike McClellan's flank on the Chickahom iny, became to a stream which had no bridge, and could not be crossed without one. The General had brought with him from the Valley a rough, uneducated man, fu'l of energy, who had served him in emergencies, and in whom he bad the utmost confidence. He called this man and told him that stream must be bridged immediately; the regular engineers were also advised of the fact. In a short time the rough carpenter and the polished men of science were at the stream ; the former had his plan, the latter theirs, lie wish ed to go at the work at once without drawings, but they objected until they could perfect the plans on paper. The engineers retired to their tent to per fect a paper bridge; the carpenter took his men and went to work at once to make a real one. In a very short time lie appeared at the General's tent, and reported briefly thus: "General, that bridge is done, but them pictures ain't come yet." This story has a moral that all our readers can discover. NOTHING* like love and hunger to drive a man mad or make him happy- Next to a feast upon a seventeen year old pair of sweet lips under grape vines by moonlight, is a foray upon a platter of cold beans after fishing for suckers all day. The one fills the poetic heart and the other an empty stomach. —There are 1,500 men at work in the Philadelphia navy-yard. ! RULERS IN 3IEXICO SINCE 1521. The following isalistof theruiersthai have succeeded one another in Mexico since its independence, in 1821: 1821—Iturbide, General-in-Chief. 1822—Iturbide, Emperor. 1823—Generals Guerrero, Bravo and Negrete, Dictators, 1821—General Victoria, President. 1827—General Pedraza, President. 1829—Guerrero, Dictator. 1830 —Pustamente. President. 1832 Pedraza, Presi(lent. 1835—Santa Anna, President. 1837 —Pustamen te, President. 1840—General Earinos, President. 1811 —Bustamente, President. 1811—Santa Anna, President. 1813—Retireinentof Santa Anna, suc cessor not known. 1811—Santa Anna, Dictator. 1813—General Cavalyo, President. 1817—Jose Justo Caro, President. 1817—Paredes, President. 1818—Santa Anna, President. 1819—Ilerrera, President. 1830 —Arista, President. 1831 —Juan Celiallis, President. 1833—.Manuel Limbardina, President. 1833—Santa Anna, President—April 20. 1851—Santa Anna, Dictator—Decem ber 20. 1855—A1 varez—Dictat< >r. 1850—Comonfort, President. 1850 —Zuoloaga, President. 1838 —Miramon, Vice President. 1839 —Zuoloaga, President. 1800—Miramon. President. 1801 —J uarez, President. 1801—Maximillian, Emperor, and Juarez, President. 1807 —Maximillian fallen, and Juarez, President, VULGAR LANGUAGE.— There is as much connection between the words and thoughts as there is between the thoughts and the actions. The lat ter are not only the expressions of the lornier, but they have the power to react upon the soul and leave the stain of their corruption there. A young man who allows himself to make use of one vulgar or profane word has not only shown that there isa foul spot up on his mind, but by the utterance of that word he extends the spot and in flames it, till, by indulgence, it will pollute the whole soul. Be carelul of your words, as they showyour thoughts. If you can control the tongue so that no improper words are pronounced by it, you will soon be able to control the mind, and save that from corruption. You will extinguish the fire by smoth ering it, or by preventing bad - houghts from burstingout in language. Never utter a word anywhere which you would be ashamed to speak in the presence of the most refined female or religious man. Try this practice a lit tle while, and you will soon have com mand of yourself. lafI'IUiVUMRNTS IN PIIRPAHISU CORNED BEEF.— It was long since known that bladdeis have the peculiar property of pressing water and watery vapor through their pores, but not al cohol, so that brandy or whisky enclos ed in a bladder becomes much stronger in the course of time by the loss of vva terVvaporating through the pores. Dr. Mareet, in England, has descovered that bladders possess a similar proper ty in regard to juices of meat. Hesalts meat, enclosing it in a bladder previ ous to plunging it in the brine. The brine passes freely through the bladder, but the nourishing constitution contain ed in the juice of the flesh are preven ted from dissolving in the brine. The meat thus prepared was found to taste better and to be more wholesome and nutritive than meat salted by direct immersion in the brine. The brine of our common corned beef is strongly charged with nutritive material, and makes an excellent soup when the ex cess of salt is removed by crystal ization after concentrating it by heat. A GOOD STOUY.—A Soldier of tiie West, during the late war, being off duty, was engaged by a landlord to dig a iatci! of potatoes, oil condition that lie should be furnished with a bottle of whisky to begin with. The landlord accordingly took hi in to the field, show id him the patch, and left him a full bottle of his favorite beverage. About an hour afterward the landlord went to see how the son of Mars progressed in !iis business of farming. He found him holding to an old stump, unable to stand without it, his bottle lying empty at his feet, and no potatoes (lug. Being quiteoxasperated, the landlord exclaim ed : "Hallo! you scoundrel! Istliis the way you dig my potatoes forme?" "11a!" says the soldier, lapping his tongue, staggering half round, squin ting and hiccuping, "if you want your potatoes dug, fetch 'em on —for —I'll be banged if I'm going to run round the lot after 'em." WRITE PEAIX.—A petition recently presented to a Buffalo court was rejec ted by the judge on account of "illegi ble writing." Bad hand writing, it generally supposed, is the sure indica tion of genius, but there can lie no grea ter fallacy. To write legibly can never interfere with a man's chance to gain fame, while to write illegibly does in terfere greatly with success in a print ing office. People who write for news papers should remember that good writing and good sense, a plain handand plain words are always most highly pri zed. —"lie leaves five wives and seven teen children to mourn his loss," are the concluding words of a Utah obituary no tice. —Some irreverent thief entered the houseof a minister in Dayton, Ohio, one day hist week and stole all the mission ary money. Twenty thousand emigrants have v gone West over the Pennsylvania ltail road since the Ist of January.
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