The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Miieage-speciai Posiofiice Agent APP
poiuted-A New Pioi-The Johnson
stanton Imbrogiio- Governor Worth
The Attorney General.

The Attorney sScnerni'
WASHINGTON, August THE War
Department has issued an order that
hereafter mileage shall be computed by
the shortest route usually travelled, ac-
cordinr to the official tables OF dis
tances' TO be prepared by the Quarter
master General and approved by the
Secretary of War. Mileage will be paid
Inv the Isthmus rOntes Tor journeys to
and from stations west of the Rocky
Maintains when either of these routes
ia DESIGNATED in the order for the jour-
new. Paragraph ", regulation of 1868,
il modified in accordance with this or
der.
Mr.. VIM. f. Macarthur, of san Fran
CISCO, has been appointed a special
agent of the POstOffice Department to
take charge of the United States rails,
to be transported by the branch line of
United States mail steamers, establish
ed under authority of the act of Con-
gress approved February Is, 1867, be-
tween the port of kanaSawa, and 70
kohama in Japan, and the port Of
Shanghai in China.
The Herald's Washington special
SAYS: 1t is stated in Washingtoa that IL
Radical official recently called upon the
President and proposed that he should
Join in u plot for the destruction OF
General Grants chances for the Prcsi-
dency, and il is believed that the propo-
sition to place Grant in Stanton's stead
as Secretary of War, and thus apparent
~ committing him u the Johnson
policy, is part of the plot.
The Times Washington special says:
1t was made known To the President
from an apparently reliable source, that
Mr.. Stanton would vacate should the
President demand peremptOrily that he
give up the office. 1t is the purpose of
Mr.. johnson ~ allow the whole matter
to remain unaltercd for few days,
giving time for reflection on the part of
Mr.. Stanton and the friends who advise
him as TO the coarse lie should pursue.
II he then persist in the refusal to re-
sign, the President will suspend him by
giving him notice that he is thereby
suspended from the further execution of
the office Of Secretary OF war, aud that
the reasons for this suspension will be
submitted to the Senate ut the next SEES
sion of Congress. The subject was fully
discussed in the Cabinet yesterday and
the course above indicated was unan-
imously approved as being within the
third section Of the tenure of office law.
The Cabinet was nearly unanimous in
the opinion that tie first section of the
law leaves Mr.. johnson power 10 re-
move Stanton, who was never regularly
appointed by Mr.. Johnson aud CON
firmed by the Senate. This point will
be discussed again in the Cabinet on
Friday next.
The President to-day ordered that no
communication bee held with Mr.. Stan
ton as Secretary OF War.
The President still claims hat the
recommendation of mercy was among
the papers presented to him by Judge
Holt on the 5th of July, 1850. hen the
Executive approved of ;he sentence of
the assassination COnspiratOrs. 1t was
written out by Judge Holt and signed
by the President.
The Worlds Washington special says
that Raleigh papers received there con
tain letter from Governor Worth, of
North Carolina, urging the people of
that State to register under the recon
struction act, in order that they may
have an opportunity to vote ON u State
Constitution to he submitted by the
Convention.
The Attorney General has yet received
no reply from General Sickles in rela-
ton to his order, No. IL. under which he
has interfered with the process issued
by the United States Circuit Court of
New Orleans, at which Chief Justice
Chase presided.