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

Receipts from Internal Revenue
Monday amounted to nearly two mil
| lions OF dollars.
The Commissioner of Patents will
issue for the week ending August 9th,
| 227 new patents.
-Advices from London show that no
| progress whatever has been made toward
the settlement Of the Alabama claims.
"A lot Of uneasy Louisiana politicians
is again in Washington seeking the re-
moval of Collector Kellogg of New Or
leans, and it is claimed they have got
the President on their side. But Secre-
tary McCulloch hangs on to Kellogg.
"A dispatch received from New Or
leans says that ex- Governor Hamilton of
Texas left for Galveston on Sunday last,
and it is generally accepted as true that
he had been appointed by Gen. Sheridan
Governor of Texas in place of Throck-
morton.
The appointment bureau of the
Treasury Department is engaged in max
ing up list of all the officers connected
with that department in all branches of
the revenue service. 1t shows that
there are over twenty thousand officials
under its control.
From the records of the Elmira
prison, which were brought to Washing
ton for use in the surratt trial, it is
found that during the spring of 1866
5,035 rebel prisoners were confined there
during that time, and that only six
deaths occurred in six months.
Comparatively few visitors were at
the Executive mansion Monday, yet the
official engagements Of the President
prevented him seeing many who called.
The Secretary of the Interior, and the
Hon. G. M. Conrad, Secretary of War
under Fillmore's administration, had
interviews.
Gen. Sanborn, Col. @. Tappan, and
the Commissioners of Indian Affairs meet
at St. Louis on Tuesday next, with Gen.
Sherman, TO organize the Commission
just authorized by Congress to make
peace with the Indians. The Commits
sioners assembled here on Monday at the
Indian Bureau.
In commencing his argument
against Surratt, on Saturday, Mr.. Car
rington, the prosecuting attorney said
1.-THE Satan Of this conspiracy has gone
to hell, there to atone in eternal fires
his internal crime. But the Belzebub
of this Internal conspiracy still lives,
and is John H. Surratt. You see him"
BY order of Secretary Stanton, the
distribution of rations by the officers of
the Freedmen's bureau to the destitute
in the South and Southwestern States,
will cease after August 20, as the new
crops have remedied the extreme suffer
ing which the distribution was intended
to alleviate.
1t appears that all the law we have
relating to the coole traffic is simply
intended to prevent the trade of coolies
In American bottoms, and Furnishes
those thus engaged, when such persons
are transported from their native land
without their consent, with forfeiture Of
their vessels, and fine and Imprisonment.
1t appears that after all, no legisla-
ton was accomplished at the last ses-
sion requiring the Treasury Department
to suspend payment, under the Judge
ment Of the court of claims, of the
three millions of dollars awarded to
claimants of cotton. The latter are
now pressing for the execution of the
decree of the court.
The principal reason urged to the
President for the removal of Gen. Sheri-
dan comes, 1t is said, from Attorney
General Stanberry, who declares Gen.
Sheridsn's Characterization of the re-
cent opinion on the reconstruction act
an insult to the administration. Gen.
Sheridan alluded to it, it will be remem-
bered, as making broad macadamized
road to perjury.
Ed1 A revenue board similar to that
recently Instituted at New York, has
been established at Philadelphia, CON-
posed of the Director of the Mint, Dis.
trict Attorney, Postmaster and other
officials. A similar board is soon to be
Oruanizad over Rastop Nipo;nno.; -