Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-31
Washington Items.

The Cabinet session Tuesday was
SHINY attended, and there was nothing
OF public interest done.
The Chronicle says Gen. schofeld
has been rendered, but declined, the
Office of Secretary OF War. -
ALI the New York clerks in the
Washington departments are to be
allowed to go home to vote.
BY direction of the President, Capt.
E. d. Harding, now suffering with
epilepsy, is wholly retired from the SER
vice. ..r.- .es-... .. .... .-....
Secretary MeCulloch has appointed
]. E. Risley OF Indiana to the vacant In.
ternal Revenue Commissionership caused
by Messmore's dismissal.
by direction of the the President, so
much OF the orders as drops from the
army rolls additional Paymaster William
J. Camp is revoked, and his resignation
is accepted instead. .I.
William NJ. Evarts OF New York,
associate counsel for the government in
the JEFF Davis case, has arrived at Wash.
ington to assist in arranging the prelim-
inaries of the trial. .. ...
The sub -committee on retrenchment
were In session at the Treasury Depart.
sylvania has arrived in the city, and
was with the Committee that morning,
The Internal Revenue receipts do
not show any Improvements. They are
now Averaging about quarter Of mil.
lion per day, when the estimate was
fixed In July at about one million per
day. s gr.ua aa r1-.t F .ru
Secretary Seward left Auburn, N.
Y, for Washington, Tuesday morning.
Senior Goni, the Spanish minister, and
Senior Cerutte, the italian minister and
his Secretary, Catagalli, who have at
tended the Secretary on bis visit home,
returned with him. ..-a 49,. s.-. Al
Gen. Badeau, military secretary to
Gen. Grant, has completed the first vol
ume OF his"Military History OF General
Grant" and it is soon to be published by
the Appletons of New York. 1t extends
from the beginning Of the rebellion down
to and including the Chattanooga cam
paign at the close of November, 1868.
Caleb Gushing and Richard Merrick,
the latter one of the counsel of Surratt,
are engaged in preparing cases looking
to the restoration to its former owners
of all the property sold in the District
of Columbia under the confiscation law.
Some of these cases are to be taken up
to the Supreme Court on writ of error.
a The sub committee Of the House
judiciary committe examined the editor
Of the Wilmington (Del.) Commercial on
Tuesday, on the question whether or not
Delaware has republican form Of gov
eminent. 1t appeared that in that State,
as well as in Maryland, colored citizens
and tax payers are deprived of many of
their rights, and the apportionment of
representation in the legislature is such
as to give the rebels great advantage in
controlling the affairs of the State.
--Ex-Gov. jenkins of Georgia has ap.
piled to the President and Gen. Grant to
have an order issued to Gen. Pope for
the re'districting Of that State In the
election Of delegates to the convention
called under the reconstruction act. He
alleges that the election order OF Gen
Pope is such as to throw the control of
the convention entirely into the hands
OF one political party. Gen. Grant
stated that his power, under the law,
gave him no right to interfere in mat.
tiers Of that kind, as it confined him en-.
tirely 70 supervisory power In the re.
moval OF STATE. officials. The Presiden.
also declared that he has no right under
the law to compel change in the or.
ders Of Gen. Pope. They will, therefore,
be allowed to remain as first issued, and
under which the election Is to be held.