Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-05
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, sEPTEMBEB 8, 1867,
Washington Items.

and return to the practice OF law in New
York.
Secretary Browning has been quite
i'll for several days. Was much better
on Saturday evening.
Senator Cameron arrived in Wash
lugton on Friday evening, and has been
in conference with Gen Grant.
Gen. Grant gave parting dinner,
Saturday evening, to SenOr Romero, the
Mexican minister.
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Chandler has returned to Washington
from his Western tour.
Gen. Grant has asked TO be excused
from Cabinet meetings, except when
military matters are under discussion.
No formal charges have been filed
against Commissioner Rollins by the
parties who are endeayoring TO get him
suspended.
The internal revenue receipts on
Saturday were sSo9,052; OF the week
1856, ,324, and during the present fiscal
year to date s42, ,5s2,707.
Philadelphia Democrats are besieg-
ing the President for local patronage to
help them carry their city election.
The issuance OF the supplemental
amnesty proclamation, extending the
classes restricted by the one promulgat-
ed in 1865, has engaged the attention OF
prominent officials for some time.
The Government has made no more
interposition to save Santa Anna's life
than 1t did In the case OF Macmillan. 1t
has merely expressed the hope that he
would not be treated otherwise than as
q prisoner Of war.
-Four clerks Of the higher grades in
the internal revenue office were dis.
charged, Saturday, and re-appointed as
first class clerks. 1t is contemplated to
make further changes OF the same
character in the treasury department.
There seems to be no doubt but
that orders were at one time forwarded
TO Gen. Sickles instructing him to arrest
any civil officer who attempted TO serve
warrant upon him for interfering with
a process from United States Court.
Official dispatches received at Wash
ington state that Gen. Sheridan has con-
flrmed the removal OF three Texas Judges
made by Gen. Griffin on the 18th OF
August. The removals were made on
the charges OF disloyslty.
The bones OF our soldiers who fell
on the fields OF Bull Run have, in some
instances, been gathered by the residents
in that vicinity, and, with the bones OF
animals, carried to 8 bone-nill near
Alexandria, and ground into fertilizers.
The surveyor general of Nevada
reports the valleys In the northern part
OF the state to be rich agricultHrally.
Paradise valley produces large crops of
wheat and barley, and has large settle
ment and an increasing population. A
large part of the Usage lands in southern
Kansas have been surveyed and are now
in market.
A New YORK evening paper, which
INDUCES good deal in manufacturing
Washington kilograms, announced on
Saturday that the order relieving Gen.
sickIes has not been promulgated. This
is untrue. Gen. Osnby has already left
for Charleston to assume command.
Solicitor Ware, Of the sixth auditors
office. has been sent to Europe for the
purpose Of collecting evidence regarding
the sale to parties in Canada OF $4,000
worth OF United States postage stamps,
captured by the rebels during the war.
A suit is pending against the purchaser
OF the stamps before Canadian court.
BY order OF Gen. Grant no payments
OF bounty will be made on discharge pa
pers unless the identity of the soldier is
properly established, and the paymaster
has received notice OF the signing OF the
papers from the proper officer. These
precautions are to prevent frauds by
means of forged papers.
-Brevet Brig. Gen. Eastman has been
relieved from duty at Harrodsburg, Ky,
and ordered to report to the secretary of
the interior, and Brevet Brig. Gen. c. H.
Tompkins has been assigned as chief
quartermaster OF the fifth military dis
trict. The order dismissing Lieut.. Col.
Kellogg of the lst Vermont cavalry has
been revoked.
The order issued by General Grant
on the Goth ult., and promulgated on
Saturday for the first time, instructing
district commanders to make no ap.
pointment to civil office Of persons here
tofore removed by them, was tele-
sraphed on the day it was dated to every
District Commander in the South by
order of General Grant.
A letter from the capital says: "Iu
contrast NTH tho prasidopfio fr., i,tor