Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-22
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE COLOMBIAN COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.-The Colombian Commits
sion adjourned until the 9TH of January. The Com
missioners, General Salgar. for Colombia, and Col
Thomas Biddle for the United States, have worked
faithfully at their docket and out of the one hun
dred and eghty-seven have decided sixty-fve.
and have differed only two, which referred to
Sir Frederick Bruce the British Minister for final
decision. The cases thus far have been argued for
the claimants by S. S. Cox, now of New York, and
for the Colombian government by J. NJ. Carlisle
ESQ, of the District of Columbia. The awards will
not be published for some time. There are many i'm
portant questions submitted in the cases, but the
most important cases are yet to be tried.
SECRETARY M'CULLocH.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.. McCuloch, left
Washington this morning on visit to New York,
and will be absent until after Monday.
CONFIRMATION OF APPOINTMENTS.
The Senate, in Executive session to-day, confirmed
the nomination of Edwin Marsh of Washington Ter
ritory, to be Register of the Land Office at Olympia
vice Denney, elected delegate to Congress; Peter
Edward Van 0lstyne to be Collector of Internal Rev.
enue for the 18th Collection District of New York.
and Charles Durkee, of Wisconsin, to be Governor of
the Territory of Utah. vice James D. Doty, deceased
COMMITTEE on MINES AND MINING.
The Speaker of the House, in his appointment of
the new committee on mines and mining has repre-
sented the gold mines of California and Oregon the
silver mines of Nevada, the lead mines of Wisconsin
and Iowa, the copper mines Of Michigan, the iron
and coal mines of Pennsylvania, and the iron noun
tain mine of Missouri.
DISCHARGE PAPERS.
The Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting of the
Navy Department has in its possession some four
hundred discharge and settlement papers belonging
to soldiers transferred to the navy and which will be
forwarded application to the Chief of the Bureau
Every transferred soldier who has not received his
discharge papers is invited to apply, stating his reg
ment and other particulars to prevent fraudulent ap-
plicatens
SETTLEMENT FOR CLOTHING.
By a recent order of the War Department on the
settlement hereafter of the clothing accounts of vol
unteer soldiers discharged since March Sd. 1865. the
same amount of clothing will be allowed as in the
case of regular soldiers.
LAWYER BRADLEY VS.. JUDGE oLIY.
In the Circuit Court, a few days since, Joseph II.
Bradley charged that JudgA niin arguing
pending to the jury The judge replied that
Mr.. Bradley stated what he knew to be untrue.
whereupon Mr.. Bradley retorted by calling him
liar. Mr.. Bradley having afterwards apologized,
Judge OIin said the former had made all the repara
ton which a gentleman could be expected to make
for the ofense imputed to him, but still he did not
think that Mr.. Bradley could be excused, and,
therefore, he fined him 800 for contempt of court.
WINDER AND DUNCAN.
Captain g. r. Walbridge, military superintendent
of the old Capitol prison. returned to Washington to-
day. He conveyed the prisoners, Winder, Duncan
and Gee to the respective points to which they had
been ordered. Winder taken to Richmond and
turned to General Terry Gee left at Raleigh
in charge of General Roger: and Duncan was con-
veyed to Savannah and placed in the custody of Gem
Steadman. They are to be tried by military COM
mission.
THE QUESTION OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN WASHINGTON.
In accordance with the resolution of the city
thorties. the question to negro suffrage sub
mitted to the citizens of Washington to-day. About
1000 votes recorded against it. and only about
rs in favor of thus extending the franchise 1t is said
that the friends Of the measure. who abstaned from
the polls, obtaining signatures to petition to be
presented to Congress- preferring this mode rather
than the ballot. of expressing their wishes.