Nashville Union And Dispatch

FURTHER CHANGES IN THE CABINET

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Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Washington, August 15, 1867.-A most energetic and persistent effort upon the part of influential persons has been made, and is yet in progress, to induce the President to make further changes in the Cabinet.

These parties in some instances urged Mr. Johnson to make three further removals, but generally the complaints were leveled at the incumbents of the State and Treasury Departments. They assert that Mr. Seward is impracticable, effete and powerless for good; that he should be succeeded by a statesman of broader views, vigorous, practicable, and popular withal.

Mr. McCulloch, it is urged, while he comes squarely up to the support of the President in the great questions brought before the Cabinet, he nevertheless substantially wars against the interests of the Administration by distributing the patronage of his department among the enemies of Mr. Johnson, with a view to strengthen himself personally among the Radicals, and secure the support of his peculiar financial plans.

Thus they say the vast patronage of the Treasury Department is doing disastrous execution against the Administration, while the Secretary himself merely gives his vote of assent to the measures and views of the President when they come up for consideration in the Cabinet. It is not made known to what extent these arguments have affected Mr. Johnson, but the gentlemen who present them confidently assert that we shall soon have another Secretary of State as well as a new Secretary of the Treasury.

The members of the Cabinet having unanimously decided, a few days ago, that it is the duty of each to withdraw upon the slightest intimation that the President would accept their resignation, Mr. Johnson can have no difficulty in making way for more acceptable advisers when he shall have discovered such.

It is quite probable, therefore, that we will have some further changes in the Cabinet ere long. The pressure expected from additional potential politicians in a few days is confidently relied on as a means of persuading Mr. Johnson to make the changes sought. We are not yet at liberty to give the names of the persons suggested as successors in the departments mentioned.