EittsintrO etayth Washington Items. The President said to the Texas poli ticians during their late visit here, that .the Administration cannot give its influ ence to aid the people to full restoration before Congress, unless they elect men to office who can take the test oath, choose a Legislature that will promptly ratify the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, and make laws secur ing the most complete equality and pin tection to all- classes of citizens. He does not yet, so far as is known, expreas a preference either for Hamilton or DaVis as Governor. A letter was received on Friday from C. Gordon Adams resigning his position of United States District Attorney of Southern Mississippi. Adams was charged with desertion from the Repub lican party, and with manipulating the Dent movement for the purpose of des. troying the party in Mississippi. Wof• ford, the Postmaster Of. Corinth, was suspended from office Thursday. •It was the intention of the President to have suspended Adams, but his resignation renders that task unnecessary. Adams, in his letter of resignation, is very bitter in his denunciation of theßadical Repub licans of Mississippi, and is especially severe on Gen. Ames, the military corn mander`of the State. The published opinions of the President relative to the parties in thebouth has had a dampening effect upon the few Conser vative Southerners who are here. There were several Federal office holders among them, who, supposing that the President really sympathized with the Conserva • fives, were, preparing to go over to that party. The conversation with General Tarbeil has removed all doubts on that subject, and to-day it is difficult to find any than among the Southern politicians now in this city who ever entertained any but the most radical sentiments. Repub licans are, of course, jubilant. They re gret, however, that the President's views were not made public earlier as they be lieve it would have given a different turn to the Tennessee election. The course that the Administration will pursue in regard to exacting the test oath from the members of the Virginia Legis lature, is still in doubt. It is understood that the view taken by Judge-Advocate -General Holt is that the law is impera tive, and General Canby has no discre tion in the matter, except to enforce it. The propriety of doing this is what he wants settled before any order is issued on the subject. Reports differ as to the feeling oflthe President in the matter. Some say he will insist upon the oath being taken* by the members-elect, and others argue that, to harmonize contend ing parties, it will be quietly ignored. General Canby left this morning, so a few days will develop what policy will be pursued. From a high official source it is learned that General Canby's recent trip to Wash ington was made at the request of Presi dent Grant, who desired to consult with him about affairs in Virginia. At the Cabinet meeting on. Tuesday the Presi dent made known the substance of what General Canby had said, and expressed an opinion that the peculiar condition of • political affairs in Virginia demanded his retention there. Strong appeals had been made by the Mississippi Conservatives to transfer Canby to that State, but to this the President—in which the Cabinet con curred—objected. Some talk ensued as to whether the test oath ought to be re quired of members of the Virginia Legis lature or not. - The President said Gen. Canby favored the exaction, of it, and in this he undoubtedly was right, and he -did not in-tend to interfere. Those mem bers of the Cabinet who have expressed any opinion at all approved of requiring the test oath to be taken. The colored conservatives of Virginia bare issued a congratulatory address to the colored voters upon the result of the recent State election, and calling upon them to organize political clubs to sup port Walker, for the purpose, the address says, "to strengthen his hands in carry ing out, in letter and spirit, the recon: struction acts of Congress and the policy of the President, so far as they . relate to Virginia." The entire address is temper ate in tone, and is free from any senti ments which can be, regarded as a desire to keep alive,lhese dissensions which