Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-22
washington Items.

Gen. Steadman declines, Ia advance
of its being rendered him, the position of
Secretary of War.
The amount Of gold in the treasury
is sle8, $50 900, of which S2O,000,O00 is
held in gold certificates. The amount
of currency is s67 2Sl.
Collector of internal revenue, James,
was tried at Richmond, Thursday, for
accepting brides, and acquitted.
Postmaster General Randall has APP
pointed John Fl. Kinkhead as postmss
ter at Sitka, in Russian America.
The Pacific mail steamship compa.
ny has rendered free passage to San
Francisco to the Russian commissioners
for the transfer of the Russian posses
sions.
Bradley senior was arrested on
Thursday, to prevent his fighting q duel
with Judge Fisher, and was put under
$1,000 bonds.
MIR. Surratt's counsel are now both
in government offices. Aiken is in the
treasury department, and Clampitt has
just been appointed special agent of the
post-office department for Utah, Monta-
ma, and other localities.
Gen. Rousseau will leave on Satur-
day evening for New York, where he
will take passage on the 22d inst. for
San Francisco, and from thence to Sit
ka, to take possession of that country.
Gen. steadman is in Washington
on business connected with the Internal
Revenue Bureau. He has not been ten
dered the office of Secretary Of War, and
will decline to accept, it is said, If pro-
posed. There is reasonable doubt if any
change is made until the Senate meets.
Gen. Grant, as acting Secretary Of
War, contemplates transferring to other
places quite large number Of army Off
GERS who have been on duty here since
the close of the war, but whose reten-
ton here the public service does not re-
| cure any longer.
IL is understood to be in COntempla-
ton by Gen. Grant, as a preliminary
measure toward reducing the expenses
of the army, to order change in the
Qusrtermasters Department. There are
at present some twenty-nine Quarter
masters on various duties in this city.
Judge Advocate Gen. Holt, CHIEF Of
the Bureau of Military Justice has re.
turned to Washington, from the North
and is again at his office. The order re-
lieving him from duty as Chief of the
Bureau has not yet been issued, though
there seems to be no doubt that it will
soon appear.
The effort to find something against
the President in the matter of the South
, ern railroads is not successful. The re
port of the committee is printed, and thu
only thing touching the President il
this: The President 0! the Nash
vile and Northwest road testitie
that at one time he offered to Mr.
Johnson, then Governor of Tennessee
half of his salary if they got the roads
but that Mr.. johnson got angry and de
clared that he would sooner remain poo
than incur such an obligation. MI
Patterson, before he was Senator, wa
paid $1,000 by order of certain directors
because they thought he might be bene
fetal in having the roads turned over.
The recent publication of acting At
torney General Binckley's report on tn
petition Of Sanford Conover for pardon
l and The statement of the latter respect
ing an alleged conspiracy to impeac
the President, has led to the exhumatio
of documents which disclose a plot hay
] ing two Objects; the first and princip8
S one being to secure the release of Je
r Davis, and the second, which was aux
iliary to the first, being to break dow
! the Bureau of Military Justice. Th
Chronicle publishes these document
at great length.