Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-06-24
FROM WASHING TON.

June II. the Senate Fixed the Tariff on
wool as follows:
Wool valued at last place Of export at u
cents or less per pound shall pay cents pot
pound valued over 2 and not over "a cts,
6 cents per pound exceeding "a and not *.
seeding 80 cents. o cents and 10 per ceut id
vsottm exceeding 80 cent?. ? cents and 10
per cent. al vslorem. It's provided that wool
reduced IL value by Admxiure Of dirt or 9th
er substance shall pay 2 cents per pound and
10 per cent. ad valorem also, that wool in
bale shall pay 10 centsper pound and / 0 per
cent ad vSorem when appraised above q
cents; ADD further, that wool imported scour.
ed shall pay in lieu Of these duties four time,
the amount OF such duties.
The bodies OF seventeen young women. vic.
tins Of toe late explosion 1t the arsenal. we're
buried in the Congressional cemetery, Sun.
day. The funeral was one Of the largest ever
held in Washington. The procession was
mile in length. President Lincoln and Secy
Stanton we're IN the csrrlsRe next the horses.
About 5000 persons were al tie cemetery.
A general order has beeu Issued BY the
war depattmt nj :, quir ng all sick and wound
ed Ulcers absent from tommand and not ft
for duty in the aeld, but able to lit in court
martial, 10 Immediately report their names
and addresses to the Adjn,aut General Of the
army. All staff and regimental Ulcers now
on leave IN the Department Of East New Jer-
sey, the eastern part Of Pennsy lvania and the
eastern part o. Maryland, il able to travel,
will report 80 the nearest medical di eutor for
examination. and II found nj ii ior active ser
vice, but ab TO do hospital duty. will be or
dered TO report Immediately at the hospital
at Camp Parole, near Annapolis. MI, for
such duty as the surgeon in charge may re-
qure.
The PosTAGE ON MANuscR1PTs.-We beg
to correct an error which is going the rounds
OF the press. The 20ib section Of the act
approved March 50, ls63. authorizing book
manuscripts and p col sneets to be tran, init
ted by mail al the rate # Two cents for four
ounc a. does not embrace manuscripts ioI pc
rlocicals. or communications TO newspapers,
but applies onl, TO bona 6de book manuscripts
and proof sheets. Consequently. if manu-
script communications to periodicals. or news
papers should by any means be sent forwnrd
at the above rates. it would be the duty Of
charge the package with letter postage at
dousle rates, dedocting the smount prepaid
by stamps - Washington R'publicon.
Secretary Stanton has set apart portion
OF Gen. Lees Arlington estate as a cemetery
for our soldiers dying in Virginia The
estate Is now cultivated by a colony Of free
negroes. Such is one Of the At retributions
Of the var
June IS, IN the House, bills were passed es-
tablislilg large number Of new post routes,
and appointing commissioners to adjudieste
claims for prop rty lost or destroyed by the
armies OF the United States.
Mr. Schenck OF Onio tom the committee
Of conference on the bill increasing the pay
OF priva;es to sixteen dollars a month and
officers in proportion, made a report, which
was agreed to, that the lO0-days men and ell
Others are TO receive the same pay.
The joint resolution from the committee on
naval affairs, providing that The president be
authorized to give notice TO the British gov
eminent that II Is the wish and intention Of
the United States government to terminate
the treaty arrangements OF 1917 in respect to
The naval force on the lakes at the end Of six
months, was passed.
June 20, the Senate refused to repeal the
Communication clause, q to ls. The House
passed bill excluding mineral lands from
railroad grants.
John F. Potter. OF Wisconsin. has been
appointed Consul General to British Ameri-
ca, vice Giddings deceased. good appoint
ment.