Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-14
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.A--senator Sherman OF Ohio, and the
new Governor of Maryland den Bowie
arrived Friday, ''- 20 +v
y SECRETARY welles is still confined 20
his bed with slow fever, but his ply
siciaus say that he will soon recover.
The Democrats are preparing FOR
grand jublation at Washington this
evening, including = serenade OF the
President. .7# H.'.n
Several delegates to the Virginia
convention are at Washington, seeking
counsel OF the Republicans as to what the
convention had better do. ... .
The Presidents order to disband the
militia companies of the District In
cludes, In terms, the Fenian and German
organizations, though he did not mean 1t.
The Washington Intelligencer Is
anxious TO have Gen. Grant define his
position, and the President is reported to
he in worriment over the general en-
thusiasm for Grant. -@rr T-'eer..
Senator Sherman is in good spirits
over the election returns. Ohio, he says,
is sure for either Grant or Chase next
year, and the next Congress can easily
be carried republican. ....
. Representative Hulburd OF New
York recommences his investigation of
the custom house in New York next
week. He is a chairman of the commit
tee on public expenditures, and has been
on the same track for three years.
The cabinet meeting was well at.
tended Friday, all the members being
present but welles. 1t lasted till
o'clock, and It is reported outside that it
was decided not to send in the message
or any Of the department reports till
December. .u .rr
The President has signed the pardon
Of James A. Seldom, who was at one
time Confederate Secretary OF War.
The application for the pardon was in
dorsed by Horace Greeley, Henry Ward
Beecher, ex-Congressman Dodge, Mayor
Hoffman and Gov. Burnside.
. The Butler committee to investigate
the assassination OF President Lincoln
has not taken any testimony, though it
has had possession OF two committee
rooms since July, for that purpose. If
any is to be taken it will be done next
winter, s.
Gen. Grants political friends say
that they understand the game of the
New York Herald in supporting him as
8 conservative Presidential candidate.
1t is intended to kill him off before next
June, but they are confident that 1t will
not succeed. Chase stock is at dis.
count, buthis friends by no means des-
pair. ' s.n .1F..
The trustees of the colored schools
oI w asuingIon nave tIauc GaSIl ea1 49,.
report to the Secretary OF the Interior.
There are five good school-houses for
colored children, capable of aecommodat-
ing 1000 pupils. The expenses of the
schools for the year were $4,000. The
trustees complain that the authorities
withheld s6l5 due to these schools.
There were 81 schools supported by
Mort hern associations, st an expense OF
$4,000 -.
The Star announces, as If upon
good authority, that Mrs. Sumner is
about to return from Europe, and, II her
heal tn permits, 10 join the Senator In
Washington in presiding over his new
and mag nitlcent mansion on Lafayette
Square, which, contrary to common re-
ports, has not been disposed of. Mr..
Sumner is at present In the West de.'
livering his lecture, care we Nation r.
but will arrive In Washington next
week. ...E ..#a. .4.s
The statement that Mr.. Fox awarded
3 lucra tive contract to his brother while
In Office is denied. The facts are stated
to be as follows by the friends of Fox
A brother OF Mr.. Fox, or rather firm In
Boston OF which he was member, did
receive a contract from the bureau of
ordnance to supply quantity of brass
fuse stocks, of which the navy depart
ment was then in great need, as they
could not be supplied fast enough from
the government workshops where they
had always heretofore been made. This
cont ract was given to this firm without
any action, by word or deed, of the AS
sistan Mt Secretary, and without any
knowledge on the part of the chief of the
bureau that the gentleman referred to
was his (Fox's) brother. The committee
will deny this in their report.
ALABAMA In the Alabama Recon
struction Convention on Friday resolu-
| tions were offered substituting a prop.