Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-20
Washington Items.

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Mr.. Dawes will speak in the House
} to-day on the estimates, taking ground in
behalf of intrenchment and economy.
1t is not improbable that martial law
D will be proclaimed in Georgia, to unseat
Gov. Bullock as an obstacle to reconstruc
ton.
C-Gen. Campbell, Governor of Wy
Oming, is vt the capital to procure legis
lation for the territory relative to the In
dams and otheWnbjects.
i The first number OF the Now Era has
been ietatad, with Rev. j. Stella Martin at
SSitor and Frederick Douglass AS cores
ponding editor.
-TbacommittS on elections is work
ing on half dozen important cases, but
a will not ~ ready to call up any of them
Tn the House for some time.
4h2 wgxs aud means committee on
Frio 'ay refused to make bituminous coal
free, qd rejected the proposition for a
AZ 0 80 cFats per ton The proposition
Tor ST. per ton was lost 10y tic vote. Coal,
therefor, .rSsmains as now.
-Pys.ideat Grant ia much dissatisfied
, with theGourse of Gov. Bullock iie Geor-
ogia, and had Gan.61erry received dis
G5atch Cent lan Thursday from the White
House, he would not have approved the
eSoRrnor's QslG adjourniug the House
for the examination of meabers.
y The Postmaster in consultation with
- Postmaster CeneS2l Croswoll have about
csonoludSd their consultations, and the re-
Cal9 will be set forth by toe Postmaster
o Genera ia a series of Recommendations D.
, Congress, but not yet clearly settled upon
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Secret. ny Boutwell, dc, not look with favor
, mon Sen Cor SumnerS financial scheme,
not rege9i, Ng it az expedient to give the
boIaars y. the SEQ bonds of 1862 Il higher
Qee. Of interest chan is to be accorded to
fSn5.2O bonds of 1Ss5-7-8.
-CenlQassi6Si.al Printer Clapp has not
oyet Ruud anyone rAdy to present, in a
definite forTn the newspaper charges
againsQhim. Hs2s preparing the plans
. ofor&n extension of the Government Print
ing Ofice, ,Shichot the immense amount OF
work O. bessna for the census renders
NECESSARY.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Commit
tee have completed the provisions OF the
Frerph Gable bill, and will report it this
week. &4s the intention of the commit
tee to give to Congress the power and
authority to rege&ate the landing of ca
bles onNthis co8tinent, and to protect the
people fSom mAsopoaes of this kind.
Colonel Cufby. Collector of New Or
leans, who less Il few days since for that
city, has been stopped on his way Gy tele'
graz h apd recalled to Washington. The
Seate Central ComDattee of Louisiana
hatb rendSed their attacks upon him for
keeping JohnsonomeH in office, and de-
. clare that the CUSTOM House must be
cleared of them.
Special dispatches from Iowa an.
uounce the nomintGion by the Republican
caucns of Mr.. Howell, lending editor, as
the Successor of Mr.. GSimes in The United
s, 'ates Senate for the remainder of the
ter. u ending March &, 1871, and Judge q.
G. v Trightofor the long term following.
Judge Wright is brother of Gov.
GWright II Indiana. 1aao died while Min
D lister at B. Fflin.
IAN or, a6Rr has 'beon issued from the
Nav Depar .sneut b the commandment of
the Brooklyn eNssyy Yard to speedily put
in order the steam sloop-of-war swatara
and the shiNsof war Saratoga These ves-
sells are to be sent, as Soon as ready, to
the lIsland of San Domingo, othsre being
81 no doubt among OFFICIALS that Congress
will approves tie bill to buy the bay and
harbSr ports of SANTANA
1aInquiries havp been made at the
Treasuryk department, whether silk worm
eggs are 1utfsbie. CocoOns are free of
dusz, and silk worm eggs should be- Ger
tain silk manufacturers in France are try
ing the exrqEinent of bringing their eggs
from China ana Japan via this Pacific
railroad, but they sse required TO give
bonds atQSan Francisco that the duties
will ber4paid if there are any. France
imports ap9uslls $2O0OO,OOo worth of
} these.
H-The Commissioners OF Internal Rev
enue has ruled that all farmers who make
it a business ob oeoupatiopoto sell in the
market hc.lses Or other places, must pay
the regular retailers license, but if they
merely, fRSm time to tine, sold as an in
cident production of their own farms,
they were exempt. He orders the great
EST latitude 70 be lgiven, SO that turner's
may have clRnce, but those parties who
do notoproauoe, and others who do pro-
Ddnoe and sell productions of other farms
as well as their own, must be maize to
pay. q
Treasurer Spinner on Friday received
from the Bureau of engraving new legal
tender rotes to the amount of two hum
dred thousand dollars. These notes are
free on the face from tints, and are the
meanest specimens of bank notes yet is
sued by the Government The quality of
paper is not unlike common straw wrap
ping paper, and the face of the notes are
greasy and black. On the right hand
side ibs vignstte of Clay, and on the left
the full length design Of something that
resembles ! flower girl is printed.
Tho House Banking and Currency
Committee on Friday discussed at length
the various financial measures before them.