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[[first column]] that you can to keep General Howard at the head of the Bureau, for the good of my people and for the friendship I have for him. Further, sir, I am fully satisfied that General Howard has administered the affairs of that Bureau in the most conscientious manner; and looking only to the good of the colored people and the Government. I cannot, therefore, consent to take this position; and further, I desire to say that I will not accept it, believing it to offered to effect the removal of General Howard and to embarrass the interests of my race."- That the above statement is substantially correct, is proved we are told, by a letter (which we have not seen) written to the Tribune by Mr. Langston. The main points referred to are- 1. General Howard's removal; 2. The President's wish for some competent colored men to take the place. 3. Mr. Langston's consultation as to whether it would answer for Mr. Langston to take the place. 4. Mr. Langton's wish expressed that General Howard retain the place. First, then, General Howard's removal, seems to have been determined upon by the President. That this view of the President is not new, General Howard, Mr. Langston, Mr. Day and others have reasons for knowing. As long ago as January, even while Congress was in session, General Howard was looking for the ax to fall. It is, at least, no new freak of the President's, as some claim, but a judgment entertained for some time past. Second, the positive removal being determined upon, we ought to help the President to find the best man to fill the vacancy. We ought to do this, for the love we bear for our Freed Brethren; and their interest can best be [[announced?]] by [[efficient?]], working of the Bureau for [[?]]. We are not responsible for the determination of the President to remove General Howard, and [[he ought to do?]] to have the office properly filled, and the affairs of the Bureau properly administered. The President suggested to a colored man that he would be willing to give the place to some colored man if the people would designate some one was most [[creditable?]] to President Johnson. It shows the President is both politic and philanthropic. We care not what reason be assigned either by Mr. Langston or any one else for the [[?]] we are free to say that the offer of such a post to some responsible colored man whom the colored people might indicate, was worthy of the Chief Magistrate of this renewed democratic Nation, and was the logical sequence of the position held and announced by Mr. Johnson in Tennessee before his election as Vice President of the loyal Nation. We are friendly to General Howard; we wish him retained in his present position, for we think he has endeavored to administer well the affairs of the Bureau, and has succeeded except so far as he has been imposed upon by ambitious designing men, white and colored. We do not believe one word of the stories started that General Howard has speculated with Bureau funds, or prostituted his office to unworthy purposes. Not a word of this do we believe, and we think the President will make a mistake if he remove the General; but to say that there are no more competent men than in the Howard family-is as absurd as it is for Mr. Langston to suppose that there is only one colored man in all the Nation competent for the place, and that man John M Langston. Where (among the whites,) is General Gregory, where us General [[Fuke?]], where are such men as General Ewing? men we should suppose, who would not be obnoxious to the President. Where is General [[?]]? Where is General Roberts. Either of these men would [[ask us?]]; and [[?]] they represent a whole slew of tried and true men, perhaps not as radical as some others, but as reliable we believe, in every respect. [[?]], he regards colored men, the relation of Mr. Langston to the President's suggestion is simply amusing. The President [[?]] for Mr. Langston, and says he would appoint some [[?]] testant friends had Church Schools half so good. In addition to religious instruction, says the catalogue, the pupils are taught the English and French languages, Arithmetic, Geography, History, English Grammer, Orthography, Writing dewing in all its branches, Embroidery in Cotton silk, Ohenille or Gold Tapestry, Tuft-Work, Bead Work, Lace embroidery, Wax Flowers and Fruits, and Music and Painting, if desired. The Boarding Pupils number, we believe, above [?], while Day Scholars attend to well the pupils in regular attendance to nearly one