Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-01-24
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
FROM WASHES TON.

The stanton Embroslfo-tGu,nors and lex
aggeratious--I,attst Developments OF
fhe Casc-G,nerai Grant CIR Reconstruc-
lion, &c.
WASHINGTON, January G-Expectation
has to-day been on tip-toe with regard to
the Stanton imbroglio. Something was to
accorling to the quidnuncs and curbstone
gossips, and it is said that kilograms of q
sensational order were sent Oft in all direc-
tons.
According TO the assertion of some, the
President was about to issue an order for
the arrest and trial of General Grant for
disohedicnce of the orders of his Com
WANDERING Chief, and the War Department.
WAS to be closed by order Of the Execu-
tive. Some had it that those orders had
been issued.
Absurd as the stories were, they never
tholeSs received credit among intelligent
persons, and even among Republican mem
bers Of Congress. It can be stated, ad-
visedly, that no order of any kind in re-
lation to the War Department troubles has
been issued to-day, nor is any proposed at
this time, and it is scarcely necessary to
add that there was no foundation whatever
for the extravagant run1ors above men,
toned.
General Grant did not hold the position
of Secretary ad interim by virtue of a mill
tary order, and he could not, therefore, be
held to account and tried by court martial,
as suggested, for his surrender of the War
Department to Mr.. Stanton, and closing
up the Department would not decide the
legality or illegahty of Mr.. Stanton's claim
to perform the duties of Secretary
The truth is, that no new feature in the
Stanton affair was presented to-day, so far
as your correspondent can learn and, as
far as he is advised, the dispatches to your
journal on this subject embrace the correct
history of the tril artite controversy between
the President, Gen. Grant and Mr. Stan
ton, except that we have not given the de-
tails of the interview between the Executive
and Gen. Grant yesterday, at which Gen.
Sherman was present, and when Gen.
Grant admitted, substantially, that he had
had an understanding with the President
either to continue in the War Department
and test the controversy with Mr.. Stanton,
or give notice to the Executive that he
might appoint another Secretary at interim.
This matter has not been formally con-
sidered in Cabinet meeting as reported.
General Grant WAS upon the floor of the
House this afternoon, comforting with
members upon the features Of the Recon
strUction bill now under discussion. He
advised them not to pass the bill, and he
especially objected to the section giving
the General of the army power to appoint
the military commanders.
General Ord had interviews to-day with
the President and General Grant, and gave
an account of affairs in the Fourth Military
District. General Ord says negro suffrage
cannot be successfully accomplished in that
District; that the negroes evince desire
to move to other regions, and that many
of the whites have a disposition to remove
in disgust
A delegation Of the Radical members of
Congress from New York called on Mr..
Stanton to-day and urged him to remain
in the War Department. Mr.. Stanton re-
piled that he had now nc intention of re-
signing DATA.