Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-16
washington Items.

midshipmen at the naval academy at
Annapolis on the LIST Of June.
Prof. F. V. Hayden,of the Universi-
ty Of Pennsylvania, has been appointed
to make the geological and mineralogi-
cal survey of Nebraska, ordered by
Congress. Exploration for coal beds
will be leading object.
Lieut.. Col. Conger, who took the
contents OF Booths pockets to the Sec
rotary of War on the day after his death,
is at Washington, He says that the
missing leaves OF the diary were torn
out by Booth while he was at DR.. Mudd's
house.
The new Turkish minister Blacque
Efendi is expected soon at Washington,
with his wife, and is expected to live in
great state, the sultan having provided
plenty Of money for that purpose, in
order to dazzle and captiyate the Yam
KEGS. Blacque is a Frenchman, and his
wife is daughter Of the late Dr.. Mott
Of New York.
Attorney General Stanberry has not
yet found time to prepare an opinion on
the DISTINGUISHING sections Of the recon-
struction laws, and Gen. Sheridan has
| been instructed to extend the time for
registration, so as to enable thercgistrars
to revise their action by the Attorney
Generals decision, if necessary.
Official information has been re-
ceived at the Office Of the lighthouse
board at Washington that during the
Sc ason navigation is open light will
be exhibited on the peninsula in Gaspe
bay, in the Gulf Of ST. Lawrence, The
light is fixed white light, elevated 40
feet above the level Of the sea and is in
tended to serve as q guide to vessels
passing between Sandy Beach and the
main land opposite.
The Secret Service money expended
| by the State Department, by order Of
the President, between December 1865,
and Novembet 80, 1866, was, in all,$ll5,
615 IS. The parties to whom this money
was paid, for services which they rem
dered, are not known to the public, the
entries being made on the books Of the
State Department simply as presidents
| Approval" with the amount.
President johnson has not yet de
termined whether ne will go to NORTH
Carolina this month or to Massachusetts
in June. He partially promised the
President of the Bunker Hill Monumen'
Association last year that if he went tC
New England this year he would attenC
the 18th Of June celebration. Or
Wed nesday he told some gentlemen from
Mass achusetts that he hoped to attenC
either the Masonic or Bunker Hill cele
bration, and that he would decide OF
Friday next.
Owing to the rainstorm on Wednes
day, the japanese commissioners
Was hington did not visit the nava
academy at Annapolis as they intended
After visiting the naval school and othe
: places Of interest at that city, it is thei
intention to visit Fortress Monroe, Yves
Point, and the several national nav
yards, Annapolis, iron.Clads, and ma
chine shops. During next week the
| will visit Gen. Grant at his office an
) present to him the sword sent to him b
the Tycoon.
I A special order from the Adjutar
= Gen erals Office at Washington al
4 nou noes that q commission consisting
! Gems. Grant, Meigs, Dyer, Humphrie
1 and Surgeon General Barnes will Assem-
, BILE in that city on Thursday, to considt
T. the subject Of head-stones or blocks b
d which the graves in the national Gem
: teries are to be marked. The board wi
J report upon the following points Firs
a the best, most durable and most ec
: nomical material second, the most a.
propriate form Of the head stone {
n block and third, the estimate Of Il
h cost of each stone, and the aggrega
r cost of the whole number required f
re all national cemeteries. The COMM
sion is appointed under an act Of Co
r. gress approved February %, to establls
4 and protect the national cemeteries.
l. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.-One 7
n suit Of the utter failure Of Ferianism
10 Ireland has been to give fresh sta
70 to emigration. In the second week
re April, one thousand emigrants, all
Sc whom were persons Of some means, le
CT Queenstown for the United States; al
u, "a the Cork Herald says that berths ha
vs been secured in the outgoing INN
or steamers by one thousand and thI
Of hundred others. From Kerry, also, t
lg exodus has been very great, and near
70 all the Southern counties have suffer
" more or less from the same cause. 7
Y; great emigration has already crippl
as farming operations in the South Of Il
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