Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-20
Washington Items.

OF devising plans to induce immigration
to that State.
The Star of Wednesday evening
says it does not believe that the Presi-
dent will remove General Sheridan, and
that as consequence there will be no
session Of Congress in July.
Several bodies sunk in hogsheads in
the yard of a building in Washington
used as a medical museum have been
found in shocking state, and unusual
sickness in the neighborhood is attribu-
ted to the nuisance.
The Southern officials who are be-
laboring the President to hasten their
restoration to office begin to charge him
with being afraid that he may bring
Congress together if he acts promptly
on their cases. There is no doubt but
that this is the principle cause of the
delay.
The internal revenue bureau has
now on hand 81 200 gallons of whiskey
condemned and forfeited to the United
States, under the act passed last Febru-
airy, besides which about $50 900 gallons
are under seizure, but have not yet been
formally condemned.
"A private telegram from New Or
leans, received here on Wednesday, an
nounces that Sheridan has another re-
moval on the tapis, and that Judge John
W. Thomas, of the Second District Court
Of Louisiana, in New Orleans, usually
called the Probate Court, is the pros
peCtive victim.
An association has been formed at
Washington for the restoration to freed
men Of their lost friends. The object is
to collect together the families scattered
by slavery, or at least to give the mem
bers information from each other. The
association has an Office at 343 Penn
sylVania avenue.
The Attorney General is considering
the section of the internal revenue act,
laying a tax Of 10 per cent. on the notes
OF parties or institutions of all sorts
circulating as money, which, in this
case, involved a question whether Ger
tidcates proposed to be issued by the
State are bills of credit, and as such
prohibited by the Constitution of the
United States.
Gen. Sheridan communicates the fact
to Gen. Grants headquarters that the
Attorney General Of Louisiana has
quashed the Indictment found last sum-
mer by the grand jury of New Orleans
against the members OF the convention
charged with making and assisting an
unlawful assembly.
The orders and forms for proceedings
in bankruptcy have been printed and
the limited number authorized to be
struck off for the use of Judges of the
Supreme Court dispatched to them by
the Clerk Of the Court, who has no
copies for general distribution. Appli-
cations to him are useless and so numer-
Gus that they cannot be answered. Copies
can be obtained from the various book
sellers.
AT Mondays session of the Baptist
General Association, held in Lynchburg,
Mr.. Reed stated that in many parts of
the country the negroes have come to
learn and manifest great interest about
Africa, and in recent interview with
General 0. O. Howard he was assured
that all colored people who may wish to
90 to Africa will be sent free of cost to
any part Of Liberia. The Freedmen's
Bureau will send them to any part of
the United States, and the Colonization
Society will take them to Africa.
The President on Wednesday mailed
letter 10 the Mayor Of Boston, thank
ing him for the tender of the hospitali-
ties of the city on the occasion of his
coming visit, and accepting the same.
He also sent letter to the Masons, &C
cepting the proffer to be their guest, and
to participate with them in the cere-
monies Of the oath of June. He has
also received letters from the Mayors of
Springfield and New Haven, rendering
him the hOspitalities of their respective
cities, but he has not yet replied to them.
1t is not improbable that he will visit
those cities on his return.
The leading citizens of Louisa county
Va, have addressed a remonstrance to
John Minor Bolts, Governor Pierpoint
and Judge Rives on the subject of par
tisan calls for conventions, and pointing
out the better policy Of inviting all men
to partake in movement tending to
the restoration of the Union. The Ri.
dress concludes by the following ex-
pressions Of a desire to see General
Grant at the head of the government:
"For ourselves, we indulge the hope
that the great soldier who commands
the enthusiastic attachment of his own
section and the undivided respect of ours
NAV he the instrument updor God 90