The Freedmen's Bureau—Reform. • Washixotox, December 22.—General Grant said in his recent report that the Freedmen's Bureau was a present necessity, but seemed to be operated by the different agents of the Bu reau according to their individual notions.

General Howard, the Commissioner of the Bureau, in view of this assertion, has issued a stringent order that the most thorough in spection shall be nt once made, and the errors