Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-30
Mr.. Sumner has contracted for the build


ington. 1t will hardly be completed be-
fore the expiration of his present sena'
torlal term, which fact is suggestive OF
DEMONSTRATIONS for the future,
The court OF claims dispensed with
the test oath in the case Of a Georgia at
torney, on Monday. 1t was decided that
the purpose of this oath is to secure 10y
atty in practice now, and as the loyalty
OF the present applicant was not In
doubt, the court directed his admission
on taking the oath in use before the war
Alexander Delmar, the government
statistIciau, has made ont census, part
ly from actual count In the revenue dis
trlcts and partly from guess, and he
makes the population of the United
States at the close Of last year "a, 800 900,
a gain Of 100000 since 1850, There Is
a loss in the South, small increase In
the East, and large one in the West.
Several bankers have written to
Secretary McCulloch stating that, con-
trary to law, certain parties have sue
ceeded in exchanging at the Treasury
Department Registered Five.twenties
for Coupon Five.twenties, As there is a
difference Of per cent, in the market
able value the opportunity for profit Is
apparent. The Secretary Is looking into
the allegations,
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Chandler will visit Kansas next month,
His resignation takes effect on the LIST Of
June. A successor to Mr.. Chandler has
not been selected, Mr.. Fessenden, late
member of Congress from Maine and
brother Of Senator Fessenden, is among
those named as successor to Mr.. Chandler
in the Treasury Department.
Congressman Bingham telegraphed
on Tuesday declining to be counsel in the
surratt case. The government is to-day
making extra exertiOns to have it COM
mence next week, and Hon. "A. G. Rid
die, formerly member Of Congress from
Ohio has been retained by it.
The President on Tuesday received a
letter from Mr. Bancroft accepting the
mission to Prussia. Mr.. Bancroft says
this is the only office he could accept
with satisfaction. The reasons assigned
for this satisfaction are Of private
character, This appointment was made
exclusively by Mr.. Johnson, Mr.. Seward
did not make the selection, as has been
stated. 1t is understood that Mr., Ban
croft is fully conversant with Prussian
history and policy, and is as well &C
quaiuted with the German as with the
English language.
An effort is now being made to in
duce the President to pardon the rebel
Capt Duncan, who will be remembered
by thousands as the brutal, hard hearted
COmmissary at AndersOnville. This man
was convicted by a military commission
of murder aud manslaughter, and SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the peniten-
tiary. He was far more deserving Of
death than his brother officer Wirz.
Hundreds OF the starved prisoners there
will remember him as feeding to his hogs
the refuse from his bakery and tables,
which they implored him to give to
them, but which he would refuse with
curses and imprecauOns.
The recent intimations held out from
an apparently authentic source in the
Washington Republican that financial
meters would neCessitate a meeting Of
Congress in July, are completely mega
tived by Secretary McCulloch's opinion.
He says the Treasury can get along easily
till December The maturing indebted
ness Of the country is being converted
at the rate of more than one million per
day, and there is no reason to doubt but
that the first series Of -thirtes and
early compound notes will be all con-
verted by the end Of the fiscal year.
The Treasury will therefore not be
pressed to redeem them.