Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-05
From our Own Correspondent.
wAsHrNaroN. Feb. {. is7


On Thursday last. the State Of Virginia was
readmit,ed 70 Congress and the country. The
credentials of John l.. Lewis and John w,
Johnston were presented 10 the Senate and
they were admitted. Both Of them are f. F.
VS., and the Lewis's have been connected
with the Washingtons. by marriage and friend
ship, for over century Three Representa-
tives were also sworn in from Virginia; Fer
nando Wood objected to one of them for dis
loyalty, and was Immediately answered, that
if disloyalty was an objection, the seats Of the
Democrats would be generally vacated.
The same day the House voted by the trir
umphant majority of ia to IA that the Frank.
ing Privilege be abolished. 1t was an uncx-
pcctcd success to see the members strip them.
selves of this right, and Uy so large majori-
ty. One strong reason of their unanim-
ity Is, that they have large, a very large
amount Of business to do for their constituents.
which comes TO them because it costs nothing
to write to Member of Congress. The mo-
ment postage must be paid, they expect to
have n much smaller amount Of letters. An
other great benefit of this abolition, will be the
stoppage of the printing Pub. Docs. Members
will not send them, If they must lose the pos
tdge in doing so. The objection to the law is
that it cuts off the free county circulation of
our local newspapers; and our county papers
a;c a great blessing as an antidote to the ten
dcncy of Capitalization in our large towns and
cities
Senator Ravels, the colorcd Senator from
Mississippi, has arrived in this city and is
ready TO take his seat. | could wish that il
might be between Garrett Davis and William
Salisbury. Hencciorth the colored man is TO
vote at every election in the United States and
be eligible to any office. Universal suffrage
naturally follows in the wake of universal lib
erty, but has hitherto been kept back by
slavery to-day suffrage is triumphant Those
who opposed the cxtention of the ballot to the
freedman have been conquered more thor
ougly than those men who opposed freedom
and maintained slavery. The XVIII Amend
ment will soon be put among the organic and
irrepcalable guarantees of the Constitution.
Georgia is now certain to vote for this amend
ment, and she was the last sta.c rccedcd. The
admission of Virginia has ratified her previ-
ously-given ratification, and there are one
or two states yet to come that will make as
surancc doubly sure. New York is not needed
Secretary Boutwell, has ordered that mill
ion. of gold be continued to be sold through
the month of February and milion of bonds
purchased on each alternate week on account
of the sinking Fund. This nsures reduction
of our national debt to at lerst that amount
and a corresponding reduction of interest. The
riv lnoI IL. IL, Of
Boutwell, and Dawes, will so reduce the
debt, during the present administration, as TO
ensure its total payment within the lifetime
of many a child now born.
An incident occurred in this city on Christ
mas Eve, wherein Charity was pleasantly
wrapped in the cloak of Humor The Treas
ury Building is the largest building in this
country, il not in the world and every morn
ing huge quantity of ashes and cold Goals
are brought out, the remains of the fires of the
day before 10 be carried away by the dustman
An old gentleman. who had noticed how in
duslrously every heap of ashes was culled
over to select the half burnt Goals by a poor and
aged woman each cold morning purchased
two tons of coal on Christmas Eve and had
them dumped on the spot where the ashes
were commonly thrown. The next morning,
the messengers Of the Treasury, who were let
into the secret, carefully empticd their cold
ashes near the two tons of coal. Soon the
poor woman came, according to her usual
want, and began to push over the dirty mass
The donor of the coal stood on the sidewalk
near by, watching tic scene. Presently an
exclamation from one of the senrchcrs re-
vealcd the fact that she had found n nice new
lump of coal that had not been burnt at all;
and pretty soon, quite number began to find
the same clean coal The old gentleman then
came forward and told the astonished old wo-
man that all the good coal there was for them,
and that they were welcome to take away full
baskets of it. He made one company OF poor
people enjoy happy Christmas morning
WORCESTER.