Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-23
From our Washington Correspondents.

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From our Washington Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July 10Th, 1870.
Congress has adjourned-l congratulate the
country on that fact If some needed laws arc
not passed, a large number ofimpro?er ones arc
now killed off 1t has been prudent cconomi.
cal Congress, for which we may thank the
House and Mr. Dawes the Senate was eXtrava-
CANT all through. The taxes and tariff have
been cut down sixty TO eighty millions of dol
lars year. to commence on the first of Octo
Der next, The national debt has been funded
and if the loan can be carried out, If capitalists
will lend money to government and only re
ceive four per cent. therefor our interest pay
ments will be diminished twenty six millions
annually. The Bank system has been more
firmly nationalized than ever, and free banking
has been authorized on gold basis it is hard.
ly probable that any body will organize a
specie-paying bank just yet. Virginia, NIisss-
sippi, Texas, and Georgia have passed from
under the dominion of military rule, and be-
come reconstructed as integral members
Of the Union. The right of suffrage
has been lcgi,lativcly insured TO all classes OF
citizens. The army has been reduced from
81 900 men to 30 900 and over GOO officers dis
charged. The department of justice has been
organized and election frauds thoroughly xe-
posed Taken as whole, the work of Con.
gress has been good one and its members de.
serve much credit.
GEN. .. o. HOWARD.
Almost on the last day of the session. tho
Education Committee brought in report OF
the investigation of the Freodmen's Bureau ant
Gen. Howard. Eight of the Committee exon
Grated the Gen. entirely, praised highly Iii
management Of the Bureau and reported tha
the country owed him debt ofgratitudc Tive
o. the Committee ofDemocralic prodivities re
ported that he had trlcd with the great funds
entrusted to his charge, and deserved 10 bt
tried by Court martial. There was no time
at SO late an hour to discuss the subject, ant
it has therefore gone over TO the next session
1t will then pass by party vote; every Re
publican will endorse the Bureau and Gen
Howard every Democrat will agree with Fer
nando Wood that the whole thing has beer
shockingly mismanagrd.
1t will be remembered that Fernando Woo
expressly stated that he did not originate thes
attacks that was done by Gen. Boynton, tn
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette, iron
figures and statements furnished him by hi
father, the Rev DR. Boynton, formerly of Gin
cinnati and now of Washington. DR.. BOyn
ton and his son have been pursuing Gen How
ard with great bitterness for two or three years
a year and half ago, DIR. DUyntOn summoned
an ecclesiastical council here to invesigat
Church difficulties between himself and til
Gen. To secure council that should be i
his favor, DR.. Bpyntoa named all the mem
bers of the council himself and entirely iron
his old friends; but after Il full investigation
they unanimously decided that DR.. Boynto
was entirely wrong, and made such a repo
that it eventually led to his resignation of Ia
pulpit. He is now preaching to Prcsbytcria
Church.
Foiled in this attempt, DR.. and Gen. Boyr
ton enlisted Fernando Wood as an ally an
attacked Gen. Howard as the head of the Freed
mems Bureau. Here they had full swing ovC
four years action in new AMI untricd circun
stances. More investigation was had Owe
these numerous changes than they were worth
yet the Republicans of the Committee rcpol
that every item of the accusations is unfount
ed. Gen Howard is lriumphanily acquitted
in what shape the Boyntons will hereal'C
pron ont IL unl,nolyn