Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-24
Washington Items.


Great interest awaits an examina.
tion OF the Printing Bureau.
Assistant Attorney. General Binck-
ley returned Saturday, and is at his post
again. -e
Secretary Seward writes that he
will return on Tuesday to remain for the
present. Fa.t #.r1.a
The receipts from internal revenue
last week were 81 $4,000, and for the
fiscal year to Saturday, eos 100000.
Gov. Fenton of New York arrived
in town Sunday, on business connected
with the settlement OF the New York
war claims.
Gen. Grant has not yet commenced
preparing his annual report, either as
General. in Chief of the Army or secre-
tary of War, ad interim, as has been
stated.
b. W. VOORHEES, of Indiana is in
Washington seeking the appointment for
his brother-in-law as deputy collector of
internal revenue. but with very little
chance of success.
The Indian Bureaus advices from
the West show that the peace business
is progressing slowly, and 1t is doubtful
II anything permanent is settled before
winter commences.
The President expects Gen. Sherman
to return to the capital the first week in
November, when, according to present
indications, he will be assigned to a
new and important military depart.
ment. -os "a a y~e,gpra vnf4sf.,,..za
The retrenchments committee were
not In session Saturday, but resumed
their duties yesterday. Their investiga-
tion so far shows nothing wrong in the
Treasurers office, OF which Gen. Spinner
is the head. er vtt-sfa.r q bsv 47qr
The government is so much pleased
with the cheapness and ease with which
the postoflce is lighted with gas made
on the premises, that q similar appara-
tus is about to beput into the treasury
building. 40 38dt gul3jsorq bsssaq
q Gen. Grant has ordered 8 statement
to be made out of all the property be.
longing to individuals in the district,
now occupied by the War Department
and Its bureaus, with view to the cur
tailment of rent bills hna
Gen. Candy notifies Gen. Grant that
he has completed arrangements for the
coming election in North and South
Carolina, and appointed officers to con-
duct the elections, which take place in
the second week in November. asv
Montgomery Blair recently applied
to General Grant for the reinstatement
OF clerk in the War Department, who
was lately dismissed upon the reduction
of the clerical force. The request was
not compiled with, whereupon Blair de-
clared that the clerk could probably be
reinstated if be was not Democrat. He
was informed in reply that politics had
nothing to DO with the qualifications of
clerks In the War Department, either in
rheir appointment or discharge: 1s1
The Presbyterian synod Of Balti-
more, Old School, which is now in ses.
sion at Georgetown, has tabled by a
| two thirds vote resolution expressing
| desire that the two branches of the
Presbyterian church may be united, and
a special committee on the reunion mat.
ter, has reported that experience before
and since the division, has proven "tha,
the unity of the spirit In the bonds o.
peace was better secured by separation
than their organic union '"'-
The Chronicle has a paragraph
stating that Mr.. Wilson, Chairman o
the Judiciary COMMITTEES, has written e
Washington that he has expressed nj
opinions on impeachment outside OF tn
Committee room. This ehectually dis
4. poses of the story so persistently reit
Grated within few days that majorit!
of the committee have come out in favo
OF impe.chment. Of course nothing cal
be ettled officially in the premises unit
the meeting on November l3, when tn
3 committee take up the question for tn
first time since the Goth OF July.
Gen. Steedman arrived on saturda,
from Philadelpbia, and he aud Dal
VOORHEES, and Jerry Black were in con
su,tation a considerable portion Of tn