The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-07

q large amount Of testimony, and have in.
vited General Fremont (the President Of
the roadl to appear before them and make
a statement as to it's management. This is
with view Of intelligently passing upon
the bill before them granting the right of
way to the road.
Revenue Returns.
Commissioner Delano has notified asses
sors throughout the country that the publ
cation of the annual list of assessments
made on the income returns of Taxpayers
must be discontinued, ss it is beneficial to
neither the Government nor individuals.
This, however, does not prevent inspection
of the lists by persons desiring to appeal
from such assessments.
COlored Cadet.
Mr.. Prosser, member of Congress from
the fifth district of Tennessee, says he will
be the first to succeed in getting colored
boy into the West Point Military Academy
lie has appointed as a cadet to that institu-
ton Alonzo Napier (colored), of his district,
who Prosser says is thoroughly qualified,
and will pass an examination.
American Registers to Foreign
Vessels.
There was joint meeting of the Senate
and House Committees on Commerce to con-
slder the proposition to grant American re-
glsters to foreign built vessels. Several
gentlemen representing the commercial in
terests of New York and Boston made ar
guments before the committee in favor of
the legislation proposed, and it appears
that majority Of the committee favor the
proposition.
Miscellaneous.
Information received here from ex-Presi-
johnson, who is now ut his home in
G;eenville, Tenn, is to the effect that he is
preparing to go to Europe this spring, ex.
pecting to be absent about six months.
The assessments on income tax for Kan.
sas is ninety-three per cent. more this year
than last. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Rouse.-The bill
removing Shober's political disabilities was
passed by a two-third majority.
Mr.. Wood, of New York, made sixteer
charges of corruption in Office against Gene.
raj 0. 0. Howard, of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, which we're referred tothe COMMITTEES
on the Freedmen's Bureau, with power tt
send for persons and papers at any time.
The following are the specifications il
Mr.. Woods indictment of General How
ard
"lst. That he has taken from appropria
tons made for the Bureau and receipts from
it more than $500, 900 without authority O.
law, and appropriated it to the Howard
University and Hospital lands.
"2d. That portion of the land alleget
to have been sold for the benefit of tn
Howard University fund was disposed o
improperly to members of his own famil
and officers of his staff.
"3d. That bonds issued in aid of tn
First Congregational church of the city 0
Washington were taken for portion of thi
land, which have not yet been redeeme
nor paid, nor have they been returned i
his official accounts az such.
18th. That the University building an
hospital were built of patent brick full
nished by the American Building Bloc
Company, in which General Howard
Charles Howard; General +. Whittlesey
and C. W. Alvord, oil attached to the BIZ
reau, were interested as stockholders.
18th. That the specifications TO: the cor
struction of those buildings provided thu
the material Used in their erection shout
be the brick made by this company, thu
preventing competition, and securing tn
use Of that brick and no other.
"Gth. That the brick 80 used was uni
and nearly worthless ; that parts of I'll
building have fallen down in consequence
and that other parts have been lepaire
and rebuilt at an expense of $4,000.
"7th. That by his consent and with b
knowledge lumber belonging to the Cover
ment was used by this company and appr
priated to its own benefit, being resold to i
employees.
"Sth. That he pays feht to the Howal
University from the funds of the Burca
Tor the privilege of headquarters.
seth. That he draws three salaries, vi
one as brigadiSr-gsneral United States a
my another, as commissioner of the Free
mems Bureau; and third, as head of ii
Howard University.
I cloth. That he has paid from the funt
of the Bureau over 100000 for the col
strHction of the First Congregational churc
in the city Of Washington. taking the ehure
bonds in return, which he had neither r
| turned in his accounts as cash on hand,
sent South for the purposes of the Bureau
"llth. He has advanced q large gu
| from the funds of the Bureau to the Your
Mems Christian Association of Washing
ton, taking their bonds in payment, whie
he sent to Tennessee to help the freedmen
schools in that State.
"l2th. That he caused, or knowingly a
lowed, lands in this city, owned by an of
Ger Of the Bureau, to be transferred to
freedmcn's school in North Carolina, Il
officer taking the money appropriated fl
that school, and thus perpetrating frar
both ON the Government and on the free
men.
"l3th. That he was interested in Il
| purchase of q farm Of about 800 acres ne;
the lunatic asylum near Washington, f
which the public funds and other proper
of the Government we're used. Buildin
were erected thereon built Of lumber b
longing TO the Government, and let or 60
| it to the freedmen at exhorbitant price
and that he and his brother, Charles Ho'
ard, we're personally interested in tn
transaction as private pecuniary specul
ton.
| "14th. That he has discharged the duti
| of the Office of Commissioner of the 3
reau with extravaganza and negligenc
and in the interest of himself, family, OIL