Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore srn
FROM WASHINGTON,

| General schofieId's ConfrmatIon-status
OF MIR. Stanton and the War omoe-mr
Stanbery's Nomination ms Attornev
General-Othsr Appointments by tn.
acknowledgements of Pardoned Con-
federates, &c.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-As anticipated in
these dispatches yesterday, the Senate to.
day confirmed the nomination Of General
Schofeld as Secretary of War, vice Stan.
ton. Whether the latter is removed nv
reason of the Presidents action heretofore
or by operation of the confirmation of the
Senate to-day-whether he claims to have
resigned after his peculiar and equivocal
letter of the Goth inst, remains question
open for construction. Mr.. Stanton's
| friends claim that the letter referred to WIS
not resignation. If it was but tempo
rary or uncertain suspension of his func-
tions, then it is held that the effect of the
action of the President, confirmed by the
Senate, is a removal.
Under the rule of the Senate notice of its
confirmation is not given to the President
until one day after the confirmation takes
place, and therefore the certificate of the
| Senate's proceedings of this afternoon has
not yet reached the President but it is
said that the Senate will certify preamble
and resolution adopted to-day which will
Indicate the decision of that body as to the
matter of removal.
The extreme radicals do not approve OF
the confirmation of Schofeld, whilst the
conservative classes of both republicans
and democrats express entire satisfaction
with his appointment
The President to-day nominated Hon.
Henry Stanbery to be Attorney General
Thaddeus p. Mott, of New York, minister
to Costa Rica Henry G.. Worthington,
minister to the Argentine republic, and
| Admiral Dahlgren to be chief Of ordnance
Navy Department.
The nomination of Hon. Henry Stan
berry to be Attorney General was not unex-
pected, as it was known that the President
felt such an honor was due to his late exc
cutive legal adviser, who had promptly
and voluntarily resigned place in the
cabinet to defend the President in the i'm
parchment trial.
The nomination of Gen Thaddeus p.
Mott to be minister to Costa Rica is 10 fill
the vacancy occasioned by the recall of
Gen. Lawrence, who was one of the princi-
pals in the late duel near Baltimore. As
our government had requested the recall
of the other principal, Baron Kussecrow of
the RUSSIAN legation, it was deemed Just
and consistent to apply the same penalty
20 an officer of our own government.
On Monday last the judges of registra-
ton in this city ordered to be stricken from
the registers of voters the names of all who
have been pardoned or claimed amnesty
unless the certificate of the voter shows
that his original paper or affidavit under
the proclamation of amnesty, has been filed
in the State Department.
This matter having been submitted to
Mr.. Seward, he decides that the failure to
! 10 no in no Sfota ant
does rot vitiate or impair the rights of the
citizen provided and acquired by the Presi-
dents proclamation of September 7th,
1867 but nevertheless, if the voter desires
he can obtain at the State Department such
certificate as will enable him to come within
the resolution of the judges of registration.
Popular and Electoral Vote fer President
The following table gives the popular
and electoral vote, so far as we have been
! able TO procure them, since the first election