The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-01-09

! Nsw Yoxx, Jan. g.
The Tribune's Washington dispatch AVS !
! is considered certain that Congress viiT nan
! the petition for the transfer Of all hospita
! buildings at Point Lookout q st least tenn
porary ssylnm for soldiers ard sailors.
| Andersonville i now guarded BY garriso.
OF twenty men. The cemetery is in the i'm
mediate charge Of Union man named 81. A
Walton. =
There u not particle Of foandatioo fo1
the report that Chief Justice Chase had asket
for the pardon Of Of Yoaag Ketchum. III
nes not directly or indirectly expressed any
wish in the premises
A special inspecting officer Of the Freed
men's Bureau reports that Gen. Foster. the
military commander in Florida. has been
notified by several of tie planters that auIess
they are permitted to shoot the negroes
whenever they choose, they will leave the
state. Quite a number not having received
the required pern,issicn have already emiera-
ted TO Texas and other States.
The inspecting officer als0 states that not
withstanding reports to the contrary, the har
vests IN the States mantoned, with some aid
from the Bureau, will be amply sufficient to
the support Of the colored people during the
The War Department has Just issued an or.
der assigning number of officers Of the vete-
ran Reserve Corps 70 duty q assistants OF
Gen. Bayard, Assistant Commissioner Of the
freedmen's Bureau for the State of Louisiana.
lhe lines Washington special SAYS the
last "a. order for mastering out troops relieves
NifginM OF ali white volunteer troops.
tn stated that George Bancroft, the his
torian, will be invited to deliver Conares.
sional ealogy upon President Lincoln.
Durino tho yaor t,,cx olo.n] a..
Agency in this city, under the superintenden.
cy Of James c. Wetmorc, Esq, has collected
O. the Psymaster Generals and at the L. S.
treasury, for individual officers and soldiers
discharged the service, and for soldiers fami.
hes and citizens of Ohio, and remittted, free
of cost to them, $e65, s62
AT noon yesterday the representatives Of
four tribes Of Indians, the Shawuees, Sac. Fox
and iowas, were received BY the President in
the Lobby Room of the Executive Mansion.
The Indians, including their interpreters.
numbered sixteen. They were scversl!y in.
troduced to Mr.. johnson by Judge Cooley,
Commissioner ofIrdiAn Affairs- They called
upon thelS great father. they said. to pay their
respects and give assurances Of their LOYALTY
and good feeling. The President informed
them that he was glad to zee them. and they
might take to their people his assurance that
government would act with them in good
fsssh, and carry out all iss obligasions to their
several nations.
In response, each Of the Hupdy eAiefs gave
the Presidents hand y convulsive jerk accom-.
panied By CULTURAL grunt, which according
to their interpreter, means-I am glad They
we're not apparently much affected toward
the furniture and surroundings Of the White
House, looking upon the whole with evident
contemplation, till they espied a chair IN The
library made up principally of the skin. head
and bones Of huge baAf, and heretofore
presented q the President by Seth kinman.
he Indians took to this CURIOSITY with grea,
satisfaction.