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Congressional Proceedings,

THIRTY FIRST coNGREss-sRcoND SESSION.
 WssmSsroN, March ia
 SsNsTEs--Ihe appointment Of Ogden Hoffman. IT.. District Judge fer California. and f. Butler King Collector. were esaennca
 Ky the law of fS5a the mileage of California members s limited Co tho nearest route within tho State. Toe Hoase hstanstAe,' have allowed mileage In the iaJe session by she Panama ronte SenatoT 6aYun submitted his case to the iaili, ciaTy couHnittee, and i iS understood Ehat they VIII feport aEainst the Panama route. and against the constructive nnileAge for che extra session, otherwise Mr. Guynn would be entitled tosl 600 foF mieage sisfee Decemhef.
 Fashef hstcifireS case goes over to pext session MF- C-ss defended himself from an editorial iu sas mofnfgs hspuhflc. in relation te his letter se hetlcgg relative to the sixeS and hsgtssr hIll.
 Mr khett defended south Carolina frnm false ana erroneous statements contained n Hausianis ietter 10 Gen, Hamilton, published in yesterdays ohion. fhiS gave rise to exciting debate hs.- tween MessrS Rhett Houston and Better. which termnated by joke frofa Mir iiall
 communication was reeeived from MesSrs Gales and Seasoa. declining to publish aftet this sesson dalit debates ef fhe Seaae Tcferred to the judiciary committee.
 MThe committee reporied adversely to allowing reute.
 Executive session then adjourned
 March i2
 SENATE. Time was spent In executive business. The doors are opened. and motion to adjourn to morrow at enc Oelack, P. NJ, was adanttd.
 he Senate Teiected Eiuotriek as consul Ia Paris Mr. Mangum called up kss resolution, that aGn0 extra numbers oi Professors of Meteolopy ordered lo be pnnted by the Senate.r and t0 he piared at the disposal Of tbe Prafesser, to enable hm to sun. ply hlss smctsofoloscai correspondents, each with cepY--iaid en the table.
 letter was received from the President with aceompaayng correspondence with Turkey rela- Ne 10 the Hungarian refugees and most of the correspondence has alresdy been published.
 one letter io Daniel Webster, informs hiIu that the Sublime Porte, pnomsed to retain the Hanra- nan refugees, expires n May time. Another let- ter from lion. Danfel Msstiu 10 Mir March, IT. S. Consul at Constantinople, urges hm to prevail on the Sublime Porte, not to renew stfpulations with any power for tac detention of HaRgaFians, and tn say to tue Sublime Porte, f he allows Kosguth and his companions to leave, they win find a ytxsel ready to convey them to our shores The SeeYe tary ot tho Senate aufhGrzed to have this let ter and accompanying documents printed at tAis session. The Senate confirmed the fdllowing Bemnations; iaos. n. h- NeiSoH, CosnnasSioneT Co China; F. Butler King, Collector at San Francisco, Mr Pen dleton, Appraiser at San Francisco; also, the An pfatser at Sacramento; Robert Gardiner. rollactny at Beverly; Allen F. Owens Charles Bradley. and C Edgar, Appraisers al large; Geo. s. Washing ton, Register at Saint Augustine, Florida; Samuel hekal, Consul to ChIli; Thomas Wolf, Collector al Memphis; Thomas Wilson, Collector at Oreean. simpson r. Moore and Wm M. Mathews, Apprai- sefs at Oregon: George F. Nettsi Collector at Pa cihc City, Oregon: Aionzo Lelland, Surveyor al ailwanNe; Edward U. Wori, Collector at Coiuni- bia, N. C.: F. N. Belden. Colleotnr at c,yn,a Christi Texas, Bennett and Brown. Cousuls f,r ports m south America The nomination. of Mir Eastly, as Comnissiontg of public buildings. was under consideration when the Senate adjourned. without coming 10 any conel usion.