Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-16
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FROM WASHINGTON,
The President Confirms the ActIol
of Tho Minister TO Japan.

The President Confirms the Action
OF The Minister 10 Japan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The President
issued a proclamation dated Jan. II, sane
tioning and confirming the regulation by
the United States Minister to Japan forbid
ding American vessels shipping or anchor
ing at any ports In that country, except
the three open ports Naagosaki, Hakodadi
and YOkohoma, during hostilities between
the Tycoon and the DamiOs, unless in dis
tress or forced by stress Of weather.
Two C0lOred Boys Returned to their
~ G; III Old Master.
y Two colored boys, who escaped from
: their former master in Montgomery county,
Maryland, were yesterday before the Su-
preme Court of the District, on writ of
labeas corpus. After hearing, the Court
ordered them returned to their old master,
on tlfe ground Of evidence that they had
been, under Maryland statute, apprenticed
after their emancipation. Counsel for the
children's relatives pleaded i'll treatment
by their master, and that their mother had
died from neglect and hunger in the woods.
After decision by the Court an appeal was
taken, buttbefore it could be heard the mas
ter had departed with the children. e. -
General SIcIkIes and Secretary stanton
TO give Evidence Before the Com
mittee 10 Investigate the Murder of
Union So dIers.
General Sickles will give evidence before
the committee to investigate the murder of
Union soldiers in South Carolina. Secrc-
tary Stanton will also testify. .|
The cutter McCulloeh should have been
at Havana to-day. She is understood to
form oneof the expedition to SamaTa.
Mr.. Morrill, 70 Report a Bill for the
sale OF Gold. ~ %
Mr.. Morrill,, chairman OF the Ways and
Means committee, will report bill for the
sale of gold before the close of the week,
and make speech advocating the gradual
contraction OF currency. - y
The Secretary of the Navy Dismissed 10
the officers of the New irOnsides,
The Secretary of the Navy has dismissed
all officers of the new IrOnsides, on the
ground that twas in consequence Of their
carelessness that the vessel was burned.
Annual Meeting of the African Colo.
nizaLiOn society. -,
The annual meeting of the African Col
| onization Society met to-day. Receipts OF
the year, $38, ,l53; disbursements, $3,S34.-
Much OF the funds expended was In the
purchase and fitting out of the ship Col
| conda, which carried ego emigrants to Lii
IBERIA in November. Additional freedmen
to the number of GAO are ready to sail.
Circular of Com missioner of Pensions
The Commissioner of Pensions issued a
circular that applications for pensions un-
der the acts of June and July last, filed
! from aud after the 1st Of January cannot
be adjudicated before the 4th of March
next. u
| Report OF Assistant Commissioner OF
the Freedmen's Bureau for Mary
land. ~t
Gen. Gregory, Assistant Commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau for Maryland
for the last quarter of '66 states that the
condition of the colored people generally
are satisfactory; although difficulties are
,i,tillmet in securing justice for freedmen
Through civil courts, owing to the exclu-
sion by magistrates of testimony of colored
people.
I The chair occupied by President Lincoln
! when assassinated, has been turned over BY
the War Department to the Interior De-
| partment for safe keeping.