Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-01
Washington Items.

The British minister accompanied
Secretary Seward to his home in Au-
burn, N. Y.
Alaska, when we get 1t, is TO be
added to the department OF Washington
Territory, and Gen. Rousseau has been
assigned to the command.
The Government is now engaged In
negotiating still another important
treaty OF commercial character, the de-
tails OF which will be made public when
everything is fully accomplished.
There Is little rumpus in the gov
eminent printing Office, because Mr..
Defrees employs more apprentices than
the Typographical Union thinks 1t ad-
visable that he should. compromise
Is talked of.
The receipts and expenditures OF the
Government for the fiscal year which
ended July are being made up at the
Treasury, and will present an exhibit
more favorable than was anticipated
some time since. The public debt state
ment for July will show a reduction of
between two and three millions.
-Quarreling over their local politics,
two pen from New Orleans had a fight
at Washington, Tuesday. Mr.. Sullivan
slapped Gen. Frisbie in the face, for
which he received prompt knock down,
and the General was proceeding to fol-
low up his advantage by a few more
blows, when friends standing by inter-
fered and separated the combatants.
Information having reached the
Secretary Of the Treasury that emigrant
vessels were arriving overloaded with
emigrants for the ports of New York
and Baltimore, instructions have been
issued to the proper officers to remove
the evil. At Baltimore, it is stated, that
as high as two per cent. of deaths among
emigrants has been caused by over
crowding the vessels.
AT Democraticic meeting In Balti-
more Tuesday night one of the members
of the Maryland Constitutional Conven-
tion appealed to them to come forward
and assert the doctrine of State rights,
and carry back the Government to its
real intent as understood by the trainers
of the Constitution. The sovereignty of
Maryland, he said, must not go under,
unless 1t be at the point of the bayonet.
Owing the failure of Congress to
make any provision for payment of the
expenses incurred in the purchase of
Alaska, the Government finds it impos-
sible to send civilian as Commissioner
to formally receive the Territory from
the hands of Russian Commissioner.
Gen. Rousseau has been detailed from the
army to act as Commissioner. The
Russian envoy will be here in a few
days, and will proceed with Gen. Rous-
seau to Alaska.
The officers Of the Senate hold that
so far as the executive business is con-
cerned, the adjournment on Saturday
was the termination of the session. All
nominations, therefore, that were not
confirmed, are in the same position as
those that were rejected. There was
about twenty of these, as is understood,
including Messrs. Greedy, Cspron, Lamon
and stidwall The Senate held 10 this
view, also, as regards nominations made
to the extra session in April.
The President has not yet designa-
ted three Brigadier Generals to serve on
the Special Indian Commission created
by the recent act of Congress. It. Is
understood that he has decided not to
elect officers who have had anything to
do with the existing campaigns in the
Indian country, but will take those who
have been remote from the scene Of con-
fict, and thus enable Generals Sherman.
Hancock and Augur, now operating
against the Indians, to give testimony
before the Commission.
The ex-rebel Commissioners OF Elk.
change, Robert Ould, has entered into
the controversy raised in Congress rela-
tive to the exchange of prisoners during
the war. In letter published Wednes-
day he says:
81 did offer in August, 1864, to deliver
the Federal sick and wounded without
requiring equivalents, and urged the
necessity of haste in sending for them,
as the mortality was terrible.
1 did offer to deliver ten to fifteen
thousand at Savannah without DELAY.
Although this offer was made in Au-
gust, transportation was not sent for
them till December, and during the in.
terval the mortality was, perhaps, at its
greatest height.
If had not made the offer. vhv did
the Federal authorities send trsnsporta.
ton to Savannah for 10000 to Is, 1000
men II l made the offer, based only
on equivalents, why did the same trans.
portation carry down for delivery only