Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-12

from our wssGinatOn Correspondent.
WAsmSeToN Feb. 8, 1870
Gold and the national debt are slowly going
down the national credit IN slowly rising
Four millions Of the debt was paid'of during
The last month. Gold is now selling at about
1921, and Mr.. Deutweifs sold million last week
and converted Il into U6nds. Ills coin balance
now on hand is over slO9,OOOOOO, besides
trife of eli O0O, 900 more in currency which
will probably be considerably augmented dur
ing Tie present month. Half of this hundred
and three millions belongs 10 priTate deposit
ors, for whom it h guarded by government,
the remainder to the Treasury.
The result of a Republican Administration
is shown on, now in the rapid dimnution of
the debt, then in the increase of tue amounts
paid for taxes The receipts from the excise
on liquors and tobacco are much greater under
Grant than under johnson, although the nomi-
nal tax remains The same as before. In 1868
the receipts from these two sources were $43,-
341 ,593 in 1869 the receipts were $74 556,9S7 I;
gain of over thirty one millions of dollars in
q single year The rate of taxation was tue
same but the officers that collected were chang
ed. This addition of thirty millions of dol
lars to our annual incomcis wholly due to the
honesty and fidelity with which the officers ap-
pointed by Grant, have fulfilled the duties at
taohed to t,sir offices.
Apropos of economy. Henry l.. Dawes, Of
Massachusetts, Chairman of the Committee of
Appropriations, and one of our most reliable,
though by no means one of our greatest Rep-
rcsentativcs, opened the session with a strong
| plea for economy, which he commenced by
saying that If economical measures were TO be
adopted by Republican Congress, ii must be
dJnc by Congress they would get no aid
| from the other end of the Avenue" Mr..
Dawes speech brislled with figures, showing
au increase of expenditures this year over last;
but 10 made some Mistakes and included iu
his expenditures of the current year items ZEN
dcred necessary by the action of the last Con
gress. Answers involving somewhat of facts
and figures and more n personalities, were
piled in upon Mr.. Dawes, but he succeeded in
carrying his point the defeat of plan TO make
a new Naval depot at League Island, near
Philadelphia. Since then Mr. Dawes state
ments have been answered by Mr.. George f.
Hoar of Massachusetts, in speech that abound
ed in facts and figures, but omitted the po,son-
alitics Mr. Hoar Is the son Of Mr. Samuel
Hoar, of Concord, Mass, who went to Charles
ton in behalf Of freedom more than thirty
years ago is a brother of the Attorney Gen
eral and is the most rising man among the
new members of the House
Attorney General IIoar hss been rejected by
about ten majority. This is owing to com
binaton against him of all the Democratic
Senators, of hose Republican Senators from
the South who wanted Judge selected for
local reasons, not for fitness for the place. (thc
vacancy is in the extreme Southwest, Mr. Hoar
comes IRON Massachusetts) and OF these Sena-
tors VINO wanted the Marshalships and other
Offices in their Districts filled by men who
would strengthen them in their seats while
Mr.. Iloar nomInates TO offices only those whose
recommendations show them 10 be fit for the
places they seek. The rejection insures us q
good Attorney General during Grants Admin
istration.
Mr.. Revcls, full boodcd negro is now
knocking at the door of the Senate for admis-
sion as Il Senator of the United States; and he
will be admitted and South Carolina also, that
initiated the rebellion, precedes Mississippi in
clccting Hon. J. j. Wright, colored man to
her Supreme Bench. lie was Installed in his
new position few days since in the presence
of the South Carolina legislature and was
gracefully welcomed to tie judicial ermine by
Chief Justice Moses.
The Ohio State Association composed of
sons of Ohio resident in Washington, met on
Monday evening of this week in the handsome
hall OF the Congregational Church to take
measures for the adoption of new constitution
A. N. Gaugewcll is President of the Assoca-
ton, and S. NJ. Bryan, Secretary. Very plea
SAINT are these State gatherings, bringing to-
gether those who have left their homes for the
Capitol, but who have not forgotten their first
love and their earliest home. The object of
the Ohio Association is social, economical and
political and the economical and political are
carried out at one and the same time, by send
ing home every Ohio vote at all elections and
at half fare. WORCESTER.