Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-13
Washington Items.

III Is SIdIeu ILdG a. H. CLCHCuo 10
much more feeble than usual. A letter
from him says: II am very unwell
hardly able to be up"
j. NJ. Langston, the Ohio colored
lawyer, has been appointed by General
Howard inspector of schools for freed
men for Virginia.
The motion to set aside the sentence
of Sanford Conover to ten years impris-
onment at Albany, N. Y, has been over
ruled by majority Of the judges, and
the sentence will take effect this week.
Republican meetings are all the
rage in North Carolina. The QolOred
citizens are holding conferences with the
radical whites in almost every part of
the State. A resolution of protest has
been invariably passed at every meeting
against the continuance in power of the
present rebel State organization.
Gen. Howard has recently asked the
War Department for a detail of twenty
more army officers for service in his bu-
reau, but failed to get them for the rea-
son that it is with difficulty enough can
be found to do duty on registration
boards in the South.
The President will leave on Friday,
the 2lst inst, for New York, and from
there will 60 to Boston, to be present at
the dedication of the Masonic Temple in
that city. He will be accompanied by
Washington Commandery No. /, and
Columbia No. Of the Knights Templar.
The newly-elected city councils Of
Was hington organized on Monday. The
lower board appointed as their record
ing clerk colored barber from the Cap.
itol, named John l.. Johnson, and also
appointed colored messenger. The
aldermen elected white officers, the Dem
oCrats being in the majority in that
board.
Senator Patterson, the Presidents
son-in-law, returned on Monday from
Tennessee, and reports the political
campaign there as exceedingly bitter.
He fe ars an outbreak. The delegation
who are here from that State have been
unable to see the President, to ask him
| to interfere with the militia. They wish
him to direct Gen. Thomas to send reg
ular troops to East Tennessee to disarm
| the militia.
The contrast for quarrying the mar.
BILE for the extension Of the capitol at
Washi ngton, has just been completed at
Lee, Mass. A Philadelphia firm were the
contracting parties, and they commenced
operations fifteen years ago last April.
| About ore million cubic feet have been
| furnished at an estimated cost to the
government of over a million and half
of dollars. The quarry is not yet ex-
hausted, but still contains much good
stone yet undiscovered.
There is authority for saying that
nothing will be done just at present by
the President toward restoring Governor
Wells and the Mobile officials. Delay is
excused because Of the absence of the
legal opinion on such removals and the
needed consideration Of the matter be-
fore the Cabinet. The anti-Administra-
ton men put the delay on the ground
that the President does not intend to do
anything to bring Congress together in
July.
A new evening paper has been start
ed in Washington, called the Express.
1t is independent in politics and devoted
chiefly to local interests. Owen Thorne
& Co. are the publishers, and Mr.. F. A.
Mccartney, recently managing editor Of
FOrney's Chronicle, and deposed for
roasting the health of JEFF Davis at Rich
mond, is the leading editor. The paper
starts with capital of but $40 900, and
must win success soon if at all.
On Wednesday party of prominent
Southern men will meet in Alexandria
Va, to devise, in conjunction with a
number of farmers from different parts
OF the State, some practical method for
encouragement of immigrants. The cir
cular which these gentlemen have issued
contains special admirable subjections,
especially that which uses the policy Of
combining interest with liberality, by
offering small tracts for sale on easy
terms and long credits, with the assn
rance that should immigrants come they
will be kindly received, Hospitality treat
ed and offered every assistance to start
through their farms fairly.