Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-10-19
Washington Correspondence, 90.
Herald. he
WASHINGTON Oct 10 10,

haHOF hudaiia Herald
new impulse has been given hv
the war to business In this city. II
is more active, aud new BUILDINGS ns
sprlnging up on all our streets. M
population In 1860 was 60 600 h| V
now estimated at 100000. We havana'
the hustle that existed during the W..
Troops, munitions Of war, and supnT.
for the army are not passing d,na
through the streets, but the arts of na,o,
and the pursuits of industry are in N,
ascendant, There is an inclcase. ram
then dimfnution, of labor in the nrh
lie offices, When Gen. Lee surrenderos
We had more than Il million of men m
der arms. The accounts of disburs,r.
officers are yet to be settled and brr
dreds of millions of dollars which hav,
been advanced To them are 10 be accopr
ted for, Treasury clerks were never baro.,
so pressed with labor, white claims a,
pensions OF widows and orphans and 6s
abled soldiers are constantly presented
at the Pension Bureau.
It's gratifying, however, to know
that efforts are steadily making by the
government to reduce the public ey.
penditure. The army has been disbap.
ded as fast as the state OF the country will
permit, and the vast amount of Quartz,
Master and Hospital stores which had
been provided are sold at good prices
The furniture of most OF the hospitals
in this city has been collected in one n
them, and thousands Of bed -steads, mat.
resseS' and blankets are now selling
at auction. The number ofGeneraI hos.
pitfalls in the country has been reduced
from two hundred, to forty, but In these
there linger seven thousand patients who
thus far have been too sick, or have
| suffered too severely from wounds, tobe
discharged. l can never pass large Gem.
eteries in this city, which have been an.
propriated to the burial of deceased sol.
diers, without thinking that great hA
been the loss of precious lives. 1T Is
said that more then three hundred thou.
sand of our gallant sons have fallen in
! battle or have died of disease contracted
in the camp. They Were the young and
robust, the hope Of many q fond parent,
the flower Of the North and the West,
wish that each town in your noble State
that mournS its dead in this war, would
erect amonument to their memory, on
which the name OF each patriotic soldier
that laid down his life for his country
shall be inscribed and thus be transmit
ted to coming generations.
Several large and imposing public
buildings have been lately erected in
this city. Two handsome aud tasteful
church edifces, one for the Baptists and
the other for the Methodists, are nearly
completed. A large and elegant brick
building near the Treasury, erected by
Mr.. Riggs, the eminent Banker, has
been rented by the government atS25.
600 per annum aud is occupied by the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue. The the
atre in which our lamented President
was asassinated has also been rented by
| the Secretary of war with the eXpecta-
ton that Congress will authorize the
purchase it. The price agreed upon
is 100000. The inside work has all
been removed and iron beams and ioists
and pillars have been inserted with the
intention of making it fire proof. 1t is
to be used as depository of the rebel
archives which have fallen into our
hands and are now stored in this city,
They are said to till eight hundred box
es. A commission, at the head OF which
is DR.. Francis Lieber, has been appointed
to examine them and 70 prepare for pub
LEGATION such portions as have a hiStOrl.
cal value. A part Of the building will
be used for the exhibition of large col.
lection of anatomical specimens made
by the surgeons Of the army, exhibiting
every variety of broken and splntercd
bones, often with the very minnie bali
which caused the fracture, inheriDg in
the bone. have viewed this collection
with a sadness which | cannot describe,
for it brought before me the horrors o.
the battle field.
Preparations are already making fol
the meeting of Congress. Workmeu arr
putting down carpets in the Capitol anC
preparing it for the use of the members
The approaching session will he one 0
great interest and Importance to th(
country. We have by no means emerged
from all the troubles in which we have
been involved during the last four years.
Grave questions of public policy and
justice are to be considered ard it Will
be decided whether we shall secure the
great ends for which the war was waged,
or whether by a mistaken policy toward
the South, we shall have restoration
of that state of things which led to the
war. First and foremost among the
questions which will come before botI
Houses, will be the admission OF mem
bers from the reconstructed states
| There is a large Union majority in botl
Houses, but it is we'll known that Their