Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-21
Washington Items.

4 iC lNNGip ptS 4lOl luISluai 1ENGuuC
last week were s2 O5O.000.
The President will not remove Com.
missioner Rollins, Notwithstanding the
immense pressure by the whiskey rings.
-Sherman's finance bill proposes con.
soldating the debt into a thirty year
loan, at six per cent, with q tax OF one
per cent.
Gen. Grant has issued a special or
der, which takes effect January l, hon
orsbly mastering out Mai Gen. sickles
and Brig, Gen. Scott.
Some OF the Northwestern Repubi-
cans are trying to take the clerksbip of
the Senate from that virtuous politician,
Col Forney.
Gen. Sheridan has been supP uaed to
appear on Thursday, the day of the
meeting of Congress, before the judiciary
committee.
The trades unions Of Washington
will serenade Gen. Cary of Ohio, elected
to Congress by promising to do impossi-
BILE things for workiDgmen.
About Is Senators and 80 Repre-
sentatives have arrived in Washington,
some of them from the remote borders
OF the country, including the Pacific
States.
Charles B. Freeland OF New York,
clerk in the Internal Revenue Depart.
ment, committed suicide Sunday even
ing, while laboring under ft of tenn
porary insanity.
There are host OF applicants for
the vacant post Of Collector of Customs
at Brownsville Texas, though the salary
is but $3.50; reason, lots Of smuggling
there.
Some of the Philadelphia Democrats
are urging the nomination of Robert c.
Winthrop for President, with James R.
Doolittle OF Wisconsin for Vice.Presi-
dent.
The President has thus far been un-
able to find suitable person to relieve
Gen. Grant from the War Office, and it is
likely its appointment will not be made
for some days yet.
The friends of Gen. Stone intend
asking the President to order court
of inquiry in his case, to examine the
charges upon which he was imprisoned
without trial by Secretary Stanton.
A Johnson club has complained to
the President that two clerks were lately
removed from the Paymaster's Depart.
ment for being members OF the club, and
the President promised to have the mat.
ter investigated.
The President Is gathering a num-
ber Of regular troops in and about Wash
ipgton. Some people look knowingly
over the fact, but it has no particular
meaning. Those who know the Presi-
dent intimately say that he fears radi-
cal plot
The Intelligencer has long letter
from H. R. Helper, author Of "The I'm.
pending Crisis" written from Asheyille,
N. c., deprecatiDg the presence of blacks
in the South and advocating their col,
onization as the only means to secure
the elevation of the white race.
Mr.. Chase's friends say that he made
a good hit by his recent visit to Rich.
mond, and that he will carry the dele
gates from Virginia to the national Be.
publican convention. Chase men in Con,
gress are talking in favor OF the speedy
reconstruction of the South, so that its
vote can be counted in the electoral
college.
The complication as to the govern.
orship of Idaho has brought affairs into
a deplorable condition in the territory
The President suspended Gov. Ballard
but the Senate refused to confirm th(
successor nominated, and Ballard holds
on. The departments will not recognize
him nor settle his accounts, and the ap
preparation to rstify a treaty with tn,
IndiaBs is held back, because it woulC
pass through his hands.
The President said a day CT TWO agt
, that be Was determined TO remove ever.
revenue officer who wss discovered 70 b
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