AMEEICA.

Southland Times, Issue 926, 1 April 1868, Page 3

AMEEICA.

New Yoke, Feb. 14, 1868. The correspondence between President Johnson and General Grant, in regard to the reinstatement of Secretary Stanton as head of the "War Department, is closed. The President sent in his final letter on the subject to Congress on the 12th inst. It is very sharp, decisive, and to the point, and is supported and verified by the written statements of five members of the Cabinet — namely, Secretary Seward, Secretary McCulloch ; Postmaster General Eandall, Secretary "Welles, and Secretary Browning. The President says : — " When a controversy upon matters of fact reaches the point to which this has been brought, further assertion or denial between the immediate parties should cease, especially when upon either side it loses the character of the respectful discussion which is required by the relation in which the parties stand to each other, and degenerates in tone and temper. In such a case, if there is nothing to rely upon but the opposing statements, conclusions must be drawn from those statements alone, and from whatever intrinsic probabilities they afford in favor of or against either of the parties I should not 'shrink from this controversy. But fortunately it is not left to this test alone. There were five Cabinet officers present at the conversation, the details of which, in my letter of the 28th ult., you allow yourself to say contains ' many and gross misrepresentations.' These gentlemen ! heard that conversation and have read my statement. They speak" for themselves, and I leave the proof without a word of comment." Eesolutions and bills for the protection of the rights ■of naturalized American | citizens in foreign countries, continue to be introduced in both Houses of Congress without number, but after the expenditure of a great deal of "buncombe" upon them they are invariably referred to the committee on Foreign Eelations to report upon. The bill providing for placing the ten Southern States under the military dictatorship of Greneral Grant, known as the supplementary Eeconatruction Bill, is still being earnestly discussed in the Senate, but will without doubt be passed. The Senate Committee on Territories has reported favorably a bill to admit the Territory of Colorado into the Union as a State immediately. The bill will in all likelihood speedily pass both Houses and another State thus be added to the Union.