Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-09
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acknowledgements Report
A DENIAL.
Chief Justice Chase did not Intercede
for Ketchum.
Bancroft Invited to Deliver the
EulOgy on Lincoln
Indian Interview with the
President.
Washington News.
Washington News

Items.
New YORK, January S.-The Tribune
Washington dispatch says it is considered
certain that Congress will grant the petition
for the transfer Of all hospital buildings at
Point Lookout as at least q temporary asy-
lum for soldiers and sailors.
Andersonville is now guarded BY a garri-
son of twenty men. The cemetery is under
the immediate charge of a Union man
named H. A. Walton.
There is no foundation for the report that
Chief-Justice Chase has asked for the pardon
of young Ketchum. He has not directly or
indirectly expressed any wish in the prem
Uses.
The Special Inspecting Officer of the
Freedmen's Bureau reports that General
Forster, military commander in Florida,
has been notified by several of the planters
that unless they are permitted to shoot the
negroes whenever they choose, they will
leave the State. Quite a number, not hav-
ing received the required permission, have
emigrated to Texas and other States. The
Inspecting Officer also states that notwith-
standing reports to the contrary the har-
vests in the States mentioned, with some
exceptions, will be amply sufficient for the
support Of the colored people during the
winter.
The War Department has Just issued an
order assigning a number of officers of the
Veteran Reserve Corps as assistants of Gen. |
Bard, Assistant Commissioner Of She Freed
mems Bureau for the State of Louisiana.
To be Mustered Out.
h Times Washington special saws that
the order for the mastering out of troops
relieves Virginia of all white troops.
ner Invited to EulOgize Lincoln.
George Bancroft, the historian, will be in
vited to deliver the Congressional eulocv on
President Lincoln.
The Ohio State Agency.
During the year 1855 the Ohio State
Agency in this city, under James C. Wet
more, Esq, has collected at the -Pavmaster
Generals, and at the United States Treas
ury, for individual Ohio officers and soldiers
discharged the service, and for soldiers
and citizens, and RENTED free of
cost to them 1866, 1852. :
An Interview with the President,
AT noon yesterday the representatives of
Indians, the Shawnees, Sacs, Foxes and
lowas, were received by the Presidentin the
room of the Executive mansion
The Indians, including their interpreter.
numbered sixteen. They were severally
introduced to the President by Judge Cooley,
commissioner of Indian Affairs GeThev =
allied on their Great Father, they said. "tSo /
,,ay their respects and give assurances of q
hetr good feeling"
The President informed them he was glad
see them, and they might take to their
eople the assurance that the Government
'ould act with them in good faith. In re =
ponse each ofthe Chiefs gave the President
conclusive jerk. accompanied by a gut
grant which, according to the Inter
refer means 81 am glad" They were not -
pparently much affected towards the fur. CO
Iture and surroundings of the White House.
oklng on the whole thing with evident
'ntempt, till they espied a chair in the
l6rary, made principally of the skin, head
Id bones of a huge bear, and heretofore
'esented 70 the President by Seth Kinsman.
1ey took to this greatly.