Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-23
Washington Items.

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Congress, of several weeks, for financial
legislation.
For the week ending Tuesday, the
2sth inst, 800 patents will be issued
from the Patent Office. During the past
week over 500 applications.and so cave
ats were filed.
The Secretary of the Interior is now
able to attend his office daily, but does
not attempt to do any business. He is
still very weak, but rapidly recovering
and will soon be able to attend to the
duties of his office.
The Attorney General was sum- !
moned Monday before the Judiciary
Committee to testify relative to the |
Kohnstamm pardon, Secretary Seward
has also been summoned to testify about
the distribution of the contingent fund
of the State Department. This inquiry
is based upon the allegation that Mr.
Seward has used the fund for political
purposes.
The Printing Bureau Of the Treas
ury department has completed the print
ing of the three per cent, certificates, to
tax the place Of the compound interest
notes. There are only two denomina-
tions, five thousand and ten thousand
dollars. Fifty millions is the limit
which will be outstanding at any one
time, and will form portion of the re-
serve fund of the national banks,
The story published in some of the
New York papers respecting develop
ments before the Judiciary Committee is
untrue from beginning to end. There
was not particle of evidence about
Kohnstamm's case, and Attorney Gen
eral Stanbery was not examined at all.
Monday, however, Mr.. Stanbery was be-
fore the Committee, and likewise Gen.
L, C. Baker, head of the secret detective
service during the war. What the sub
ject of their testimony was is not per-
mitted to be stated.
The annual sale Of articles remain
ing in the Dead-Letter Office, which took
place yesterday, included several thou
sand articles The list embraces almost
every article Of wearing apparel, jewelry,
medi cine, &C. most of them for ladies.
Among these are false breasts, shoulder
braces, hair, hoop skirts, curriers', baby
f clothes, white enamel bloom for the
' com plexion, hair dyes, hair restorers
e vitalizng recuperators, strengthening
e lotions, pimple banishers, patent blisters
e and drunkards' cure.
0 The Pennsylvania capitalists eX
# press themselves highly pleased with
s their tri p through Virginia, and it is be
n lieved that the visit will result in larg
l. investments being made in Virginia
e The married portion Of the party lef
l. Richmond Monday morning for home
n The remainder, about twenty and
o number of ladies, remained and VISITED
e the cemeteries, the prisons and Othe
1t points of interest. Among them is Hon
e S. j. Randall Member of Congress fror
g Pennsylvania, who is surprised at tn
IS advanced stage of reconstruction, tn
e. good feeling among the races and tn
n will exhibited to work among all. The
is leave to-day for Norfolk.
y Gov. Smyth of New Hampshire, VIII
e. arrived at the Capital on Monday las
IN succeeded in obtaining from Cover
OF ment that afternoon $4,000 for tt
Is towns of that State for United State
gu bounties advanced in 1868. This is fl
ne bounties of those soldiers transferred
VI the Veteran Reserve Corps, payment #
Ill which has been refused repeatedly und
Is the ruling of the Department, but whit
III the G overnor has now, after persistel
ou efforts, succeeded in obtaining q modiI
lis cation of. Under this change he w
St. also receive the present week about SO
ne 900 more, bounties of those transferrC
ID to the Navy, making about SIS, 900 to
NE distributed to those towns. Near
$500 900 of assigned bounties have be-
:" before received by them. The Govern
"a also succeeded in obtaining $4,000
zee an old war claim of the State which hi
ny been heretofore thrice rejected.
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