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llan. The Abolition organs, says the New York Herald, of the 7th instant, have been taking a remarkably deep interest in the reconstruction of the English War Department lately. They have been circulating a report that the Duke of Cambridge is about to resign, and that it has been determined to abolish the post of Commander-in-Chief and vest it in the Secretary of War. Simultaneously with this appeared a statement in the Washington correspondence of one of them that the President and Mr. Stanton had determined upon assuming the complete direction of the affairs of the army, and confining Gen. McClellan to the command of the Army of the Potomac. In yesterday's Tribune we again find a paragraph which was followed up by an attack on the General-in-Chief in the Post. The Tribune says: General McClellan's New Rank.--The better opinion is that General McClellan will not resign in consequence of the change which the censor allowed us partially to indicate last night, but will str
hat that Republic is virtually dead, and the island is only a Spanish province. General Santa Anna has ruled as Captain General, in the name of the Queen of Spain. Representatives from Accomac and Northampton counties had arrived at Wheeling, Va. Bennett, in his Herald, says the rascally contractors have pocketed $50,000 of the public funds within the past nine months. The position and official authority of Gen. McClellan have in no way been modified since the advent of Secretary Stanton. The etiquette question at the Francis Court is viewed in Washington as unworthy of serious consideration, and of no political significance. Lincoln is laboring hard to facilitate preparations for an instant attack at all points, at any moment. The Herald says the objects in taking Roanoke Island are to seize other points on the railways running to Richmond, and to cut off supplies, to stop the inland coast navigation in the Carolinas, and also to threaten. and, if deem