Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-11
Washington Items.

determined TO appoint a new Minister
for Mexico, and candidates are daily
multiplying.
The friendly officers OF this Govern.
ment have been solicited to aid the Aus.
trian authorities in obtaining the re,
mains of Macmillan.
The defense in the Surratt trial
made some progress, on Monday, but
brought on more striking evidence on
Tuesday. Butler still insists that Mrs,
surratt was innocent, and will try to
prove it with his committee.
-Seuor Romero, the Mexican Minis
ter, has received official dispatches that
Santa Anna is alive. The news that an
Austrian feet is fitting out for Mexico
creates some uneasness at the Mexican
headquarters here.
Secretary McOuloch informed seve.
raj members, during his visit to the
Capitol on Monday, that the National
dition, there being over one hundred and
ten millions of dollars in gold in the
Treasury. He intimated that the money
to pay for the purchase OF Russian Anne
RIGA would not be asked for at present.
The President has list Of all those
pardoned from the States OF North Caro-
lima South Carolina and Mississippi, en-
bracing in all about 1900 names, which
will be transmitted to the House Of Re-
representatives. in answer to their resolu-
tion some time since. The list Of those
pardoned from Virginia, Alabama and
Georgia will shortly be furnished, which
will complete the report,
There is a manifest disposition in
each House to take some action on Mex
lean affairs, and quite batch of reso-
luti ons have been offered on the subject
on the part Of Senator Sumner and Gen.
Banks, who are at the head of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, to prevent
Congressional action that will do no
good and may do US diplomatic damage.
The House requests the President to
send down an account of the proceed
ings in the cabinet meeting upon the
Stanberry opinion. 1t is said that he
will deny its right to do so, though he
has no desire to conceal. There Is
very bitter feeling against him in Con-
gress, but count of members favorable
to impeachment is said to show that
the impeachers are in a minority in the
House.
Official dispatches received by the
Government show that it is not improb-
able that serious complications may
arise out of the conduct of the Mexicans
in taking Santa Anna off the Virginia
and insulting the American flag. Gen.
Grant has received dispatches also
showing that the MexiCans, elated with
their recent triumphs, have acted most
Extensively toward American officers and
soldiers along the Rio Grande. The Of
fetal source from whence this news
comes fears that if the Mexicans contin-
ne in their course there will be an out
break.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, from
the committee on elections reported
back the cases of seven of the Kentucky
members, asking more definite instruc
tions, whereupon the House authorized
them to send for persons and papers,
and to sit during the recess if it should
be necessary. The House adopted the
report which establishes the doctrine
that specific charges against the loyalty
of a member elect should be investga-
ted before he is sworn in, but allegations
against the constituencies by the con.
testants are to be treated as in ordinary
cases.