Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-02
From our washington correspondent.
wAsnrSoroS. Juno a8:n, 1870.

sets. On whatever subject he speaks, he is so
direct and thorough as to stir up enemies on
every hand On Tuesday last, an appropria.
tion was asked FOR for the Deaf and Dumb Asy
lnm ofths city n humane measure 10 which
annual appropriations have always been grant.
ed, Cen Butler opposed the Bill earnestly
lie SAID II was no use to try to teach those
whom The Almighty never intended to have
thaughtl His reasonings about our Heavenly
Fathers purposes seemed to me in conlc, |
with the good done to the Deaf and Dumb all |
ever the country, The next day he came into |
collision with Farnsworll, of Illinois, who |
rose to the point of order that Butler had taken |
a fee Of two thousand dollars to defend pat
ent case, and was therefore deprived of his |
right to speak or act in case in which he had |
pecuniary interest. Butler aud Farnsworth
are sworn antagonists, and the attack was
merely further development of an old quar-
rel Bat Farnsworth was clearly right, and
the House showed lis opinion by voting down
Mr. Buffers patent right by q most tremendous
majority. On Friday came another onslaught.
Two days before Randall had attacked Butler
and the latter accused Kendall Orintoxication.
to which Randall retortcd by charge of dis
honesty. When the proof of the Globe was
broughtto 10 Butler, he ran his pen through Ran
dalrs speech, but left his own attack in 1t
was an unheard of ofproceeding for one member
to alter the speech of another, and especially
to omit the other and to retain his own. Here
again the sympathy of the House was clearly
with Randall
TIE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
f. r. Hoar, of Massachusetts,, has resigned
the Attorney -Generalship; the ablest man in
the Cabinet His successor is Amos r. Acker.
man, of Georgia, an able man, probably the
nblest man in the South, II good lawyer, good
Union man. and good Republican. SO thor
ough is his Rcpublicanism so wcll known is
he at the South that at a late Circuit he was
obliged TO ask an adjournment of the Court,
because the hotel-keeper refused to admit him
beneath his roof on the ground that if Mr..
Ackcrman came there, all his other boarders
would go away. But there is this great objec-
tion to him, that he voluntarily served on the
staff rebel general all through the war, or-
glnally forced into the service, he remained
there ofhis own will till peace come. | do
not doubt his republicanism nor his Unionsm
but do doubt the advisability OF employing
rebel general in the service Of the United States
in SO high position rs % Cabinet officer, who
spent four years in active cnt cavorS TO destroy
the Union. ! have no fears that the precedent
will be carried two far in Republican ranks
But do believe that our Democratic friends
| will hcnccfOrth nominate all rebel generals to
| high Office who desires it, and who still remain
rebels, and when demonstrated with for the
nomination of rebels will retort by pointing
to Ackcrmans case rs precedent. Mr.. Ackcr-
man will enter upon place Of honor The De.
partment ofJusicc has just been organized and
his first work will be to create the personnel of
| that Office. To perfect the organization, he
will have to appoint the Solicitor General two
assistant Attorney Generals and several ad-
diional clerks All the cotton cases, the sugar
cases and all the treasury work ON its legal
side will come under his jurisdiction.
FINANCIAL.
The Senate has decided that the Income Tax
should be continued after the first of January
next. The House had cut il down 10 three per
cent on incomes over $4,000; but the Senate
intend TO abolish it altogether. This is done
in Difference to popular opinion and in opposi
| ton to the opinion and vote of the leading f.
nnnceTs Of both House and Senate and of Sec
rctary Boutwell, The receipts into the Treas
ury are still coming in splendidly, and this
month would show very handsome rcduc.
ton Of public debt, were it not that the close
Of the fiscal year will take some large balances
out Of the Treasury. The receipts from Inter.
nal Revenue are larger than ever before and
! larger than the estimates. 1t is therefore in
tended to strike off duties and customs now
paying sixty millions n year, and some even
| advocate reduction of enc hundred millions
Of dollars year Even if the latter figure
should he adopted, we should still he paying
all our interest and part of the principal OF The
public debt.
VINO SHALL COME To CoNGnEss'
A stranger to Ohio has no right to ntcrrcr
In her elections. do not know how many emf.
ncnt citizens the 10Th District of Ohio possesses
| merely look at the case from n Washington
standpoint and well know that no man who
comes new into legislative assembly ever
docs so well for his District as an old Repre-
sentative, The new conner is of course put ut
the rnot Of ull committees the burden Of proof
OF ha ability Is upon him Con. Garfield has
been here eight years, aud Is thoroughly read
in Parliamentary law and practise. lie al
ways has the ear Of the House, as nh honest,
able man, one more than mere politician
and who ads great ability /, n military rec.
: ord, to honesty of intention and to well bal
anced mind | do not know Gen. Garfield
personally, nor docs he know me, ! can there
fore dsintcrstCdly speak of the great credit he
does to his District not always, it may be,
representing them in their material interests
ofa high tariff, but fully representing them IN
something better; In the intention and the po-
sition always To do what is right, what Is just
what Is Republican, aud what Is best for the
interests Of the whole country. Could your
voters look Mt the question from Washington
standpoint am sure they would be unani-
nous in his reelection. WORCESTER
Brutal ASSAULT At DuLuTH--On Satur.
day evening, about o o'clock, June 20lh DIR.
Foster Of the MinnesotiaR, was assaulted by n
gambler named Biz Hanson. late of Mnneap0.
lis. who after knocking the DIR, down aud
Lob linn IA al A.,