Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-08
Washington Items.

ton, Saturday, on the cutter Northerner,
TO be absent till Tuesday, on trip down
the Potomac.
commissioner OF Indian Affairs
Taylor, left Washington for st. Louis,
Saturday, where the Indian commission
ASSEMBLIES on Tuesday.
Col. Henry e. Maynardier of the
regular army has been courtmartialed
for dlsobedience OF orders, and is sus-
pended from rank and pay for two
months.
Admiral Tegethof, c. Tegethof, L.
Gaal and E. Henneberg, the deputation
from Austria to recover the remains of
Macmillan, have arrived at Washing
ton.
The following is the amount OF
available funds in the treasury of the
United States Currency, SOL ,526, 676 .
gold, sl02, 9O5,174, of which $l9,457 $50
Is in gold certificates.
Judge Chase and Gen. Grant had in
terviews with the President on Friday.
The President has been invited to Long
Branch, and says he nay 60 there be.
fore the summer is over.
-Senor Romero, the Mexican Minis.
ter, is about to leave for Mexico, not to
return under the present administration
there, unless President Juarez should be
reelected and desires his reappontment.
The codifying commission think it
will take them five years, instead OF
three, to 60 through the United States
laws. Many of the laws are so imper-
fectly constructed that they must be en-
TREY re. written to make sense OF them.
The Cherokee neutral lands, which
have been surveyed are to be appraised
and those not occupied by actual settlers
on the llth of August last, will be sold
in body for cash, if an eligible offer is
made by responsible party to the Sec
retary of the interior before October
first. If not sold in body, bids will be
received for separate tracts.
The Chronicle states what is believed
to be true when it says "that the friends
of the administration are Offering wagers
very freely that Secretary Stanton will
be forced TO resign before the frst of
September, as they claim that the differ
ences OF opinion between him and the
President will soon result in an open
rupture, precipitated by the latter's
policy regarding the Southern Military
Commanders"
There were issued from the Treas
ury Department Of the currency bureau,
last week, 1886, 500 in fractional cur
renCy. The National Bank currency is
sued during the week amounted to STA
500, snd the total amount to date is
S303, 3,478. From this is to be de.
deCted the amount returned, includ-
Ing worn out notes, amounting to
s., SAT ,562, leaving In actual circulation
at this date $298, 955, ,9l4. The amount
Of fractional currency redeemed and des-
trOyed during the week was 1895 800.
An important question of conflict of
jurisdiction between the military and
civil officials Of the government in the
Southern States was laid before the
Cabinet on Friday. 1t appears that the
United States Marshal of North Carolina
undertook to enforce an execution issued
by the United States Circuit Court lately
sitting in that State, but was prohibited
from doing so by the military COM
mander at Wilmington, who declared the
execution to be in violation of para
graph Of one of Gen. Sickles' orders. The
Marshals process being resisted "a ct
armis, the case was referred to the Attor-
ney General, and in his absence was laid
before the President and his Cabinet.
The civil authorities claim that Chief
Justice Chase's recent opinion, delivered
in North Carolina, sustains them fully.
and that a military order cannot inter
fere with a process issuing from United
States Court. The matter will be held
in abeyance until Attorney. General Stan
berry returns and gives his opinion upon
it.
Observation-Disclosures received on Sat.