Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-17
washington Items.

Gen. Beauregard arrived AZ WASH
Ington on Sunday on private business.
Col. Forney comedies Pennsylvania
to the Democrats by about six hundred
majority.
Gen. Grant on Saturday authorized
the Star to contradict the statement that
he was pleased with the result OF the
elections,
-Adviaes from Gen. Mower show that
the Convention in Louisiana, under the
reconstruction act, has been called by
nearly 10000 majority.
The President has officially decided
not to grant Gen. Slckles Court Of ln-
uuiry. He bases it on the ground that
the publication of the official cores
pondeuce Is sufficient,
The Fenians at the capital are moving
again, and will hold mass meeting dur
ing the present week. 1t is proposed to
revive the spirit of the organization, and
raise additional funds.
Detective Baker has been arrested
by order Of the Judiciary Committee,
who will try to make him explain many
OF his statements, which are in direct
conflict, concerning President Johnson.
The sixteen soldiers Of the United
States artillery sentenced to lose two
month pay each, for joining in Fenian
parade at Buffalo, N. Y, last summer,
have had their sentence remitted by the
President and been returned TO duty.
The Cabinet makers have new
slate, which they aver will go into effect
Nov. 8. The changes are as follows
Secretary OF State, Reverdy johnson
Secretary OF Treasury, Erastus Corning
Postmaster General, William s. Groes-
beck of Ohio; Secretary Of War, Frank
P. Blair; Secretary of Navy, John Quincy
Adams; Secretary Browning and Attor-
ney General stanberry are to remain.
Secretary McCulloch states that
bankers and brokers throughout the
country have been supplied with suftici-
ert data to prevent them from receiving
| 7.30 counterfeits. Thus far the Depart
ment has received 10000 Of these coun-
terfeits for conversion in 5-20s. 1t will
return them to the parties who sent
them.
The movement in Richmond OF the
pardoned ex.rebel Gen, Imboden to test
this constitutionality Of the Reconstruc-
tion Act is part OF the plan anticipated
some weeks since in our dispatches,
which was inaugurated by Judge Rice
OF Alabama. The effort will be made to
get it through the District Court and
into the Supreme Court at the coming
term in December.
The President has made an impor'
tant move regarding the Reconstruction
question by summoning all Of the Dis
trict Commanders to Washington. Gen
schoreld has been there and gone, anC
Gen. Pope and Gen. Ord are expected tc
be there this week. So far as can bC
learned, the orders requiring their pre-
sence there have not gone throughGrant':
headquarters, as required by the act o
Congress of March last.
The surplus number Of freedmen il
and around Washington having been il
a large degree disposed OF, free transport
alton to those seeking employment else
where will not be given after Novemoe
1st, except for orphan children unable t.
support themselves-to the homes 10
freedwomen and children in Brooklyn
New York and Cambridgeport, Mass, o
to other places where suitable assuranc
is given that good homes have been pre-
vided.
Full files of the Southern journal
reached the capital Sunday from as ia
as Mobile, commenting on the elections
There is 8 unanimity in the sentimer
that the result will prove that the Mil
! tary Reconstruction act will fail in th
South, so far as negro suffrage is col
cerned, and that Congress will be calle
: on to modify the law ir that regar'
, These journals show that there has bee
=, intense excitement all over the South
II hear the returns from Ohio and Pennsy
- vania.
- The members of the Judiciary, be
=. ter known as the Impeachment Commi
tee, are nearly all at Washington, and
was expected therewould be quorum
,' the meeting fxed for yesterday. M
= Boutwell, of the Committee declares tn
: his convictions on the question of il
~ parchment are as strong as they were
:, the July session, and the other membe
- who were in that way OF thinking
not seem to have changed. The comm
W " tee will be prepared, in accordance wi
ID resolutions of the House, to make
II, port on the first day OF the coming Sc
sion.
pc A Pooh CLAIr.-George Francis Trai
il we see. has written letter claimil
ve that he is the real author Of the reput
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