Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-03
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From Washington.

New York, Nov. 2.-The Times special
says: The papers In the case of Wirz were
yesterday evening placed in the hands OF
the President for his approval or disap-
proval of the findings and Judgment of the
Military Commission. Up to the present
moment it is not Unknown that the President
has disposed of the case. ,.s,-...t,.
The Worlds special says: The great
pressure of public business on the Presi-
dent has prevented him from doing any
thing In the Wirz case. The transcript of
the record made by the. Judge Advocate
General has not even been laid before the
Executive.
Letters were received at the Freedmen's
Bureau tlTis morning complaining Of the
treatment of freedmen in Anne Arundel
county, Maryland. Every effort will be
made for the abatement OF these COM
plants.
Rev. Henry Ward iBeecher had an inter
view with the President yesterday and
again this mornipg. He is more than ever
pleased with the Presidents policy.
A special Cabinet meeting was held at
noon. There is little or no doubt but that
the Adams-Russell correspondence in re-
gard to the Alabama piracies was under
consideration, and the reply OF Mr.. Seward
to Earl Russell read at the meeting and duly
considered, though in some quarters it is
declared that the dispatch to Minister Ad-
ans went out on to-day's steamer.
special to the Tribune from Washing
ton says: The Government has received
from Charleston, S. c., a quantity of letters
written in the spring Of 1861, by the more
honest pOstmasters, Of places south of
stamps, but all seized at that city by the
Contederates. The stamps, being useless to
them, were allowed to remain there. Gov
ernment has also received 81 400 tor postage
due from Charleston before the war. r.
Ex-COmmissioner Orton received the
farewell greetings of the clerks of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, and left for New
York last evening. -----
Commissioner Rollins, who returned last
evening. resumed his new duties to-day. r-
Sixty-one millions certificates Of indebt-
edness were passed at the Treasury yester-
day to the credit of the various purchasing
quartermasters throughout the country, to
liquidate the outstanding claims of Gov
erilment contractors \ 81 e. AZ. t'Cf
Aspecial to the Herald from Washington
says: The fifty dollar counterfeit green
back is such successful piece of work.
manship that about a dozen copies of it
have been paid over the counters of the
u llCdoulJs LHC NCJClul 1lCdsulCl, dl
Spinner, acknowledges himself puzzled to
distinguish the good from the bad in this
case.
Capt Woodruff, of the Reserve Corps, has
been charged with making out the rolls,
and Major LamOtte is to muster out those
veterans who wish it as soon as the rolls are
made out. Two or three days will elapse
before the men of the Veteran Reserve
Corps In this Department will have an OPP
portunity to vote on the question.
The case of Capt. Petit, the Alexandria
jailor, charged with cruelties to prisoners,
will come up before military commission
tomorrow. Evidence will be adduced to
prove Petit guilty of outrages but little in
terior to Andersonville, bearing on the de-
struction of life at the latter place. He was
a Veteran Reserve Captain, and was arrest
ed by order OF the Secretary of War for in
humanties toward citizens of Alexandria
as well as Union soldiers. .. wv o.
New YORK, Nov. 2-The Posts WASH
ington special says the quarterly report of
Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Cur
rency, shows loans and discounts of Ma
tional banks at $4S5,000,000; Circulation
was Sl7l,000,000; in deposits $I95000, 600.
Circulation of the State banks about $780,
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