, 1858-03-12
NEWS!
WASHINGTON, Jan. II, 1858.

The Senate went into Executive session
to-day, at one o'clock, and took up the
confirmation of Mr. Clifford for the Su
.preme Court bench After an animated
and exciting debate of three hours and q
half and was confirmed by vote Of 26 tc
,23-Mcssrs. Pugb, of Ohio, Stuart, oI
Michigan, and Broaderick, of California
voting with the Black Republicans. The
opposition felt not-a little chngrined that
4 Mr.. Douglas did not vote with them.
The Secretary Of the Navy has appoint
ed Thomas Wilson, of Missouri, and Johr
Schermerborn, Of Indiana, Lieutsnants il
the Marine corps.
1 The Senate Territorial commtte, in few
days, will report in favor of the admission oi
Minnesota with her present constitution.
The President has written to Mr.. For.
syth, our Minister in Mexico, that his pres.
ence is desired in Washington City.
In executive session the Senate confirm,
ed the appointment Of Mr. Lamar, as Min
lister to Nicaragua, and that of Gen. Den
yer, as Governor Of Kansas
A treaty with the Netherlands, for the
extradtiOn Of criminals, fugitives from JUS
tice and deserting sailors, was ratified.
The House has again engaged in an m
profitable discussion Of the topics embraced
in the Presidents annual message Mr.
Stephens, of Georgia, reiterated his previ'
ously expressed views on the fillibuster
question, and urged the passage of laws
interpreting the neutrality acts. Mr.. Blair
Of Missouri, regarded the niger question
as at the bottom of tue movements against
Central America, and proposed the acqui-
sition Of territory by treaty or otherwise in
Central or South America, for the purpose
of colonzing the free blacks of the United
States there, to be protected as a depend
ency under our flag.
STATE LEGISLATURES ON KANSAS.
On the llth of January, Mr.. Buckwall
offered resolution in the Virginia House
Of Delegates, instructing the Senators and
Representatives from Virginia in Congress,
to use all honorable means to procure the
admission Of Kansas into the Union under
the Lecompton Constitution, as the best
means Of disposing of this question. The
governor was ordered to forward copies Of
the resolution to their Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress. A similar reso
luton was offered in the Senate. Both
we're laid on the table and ordered to be
printed.
On the llth of January, resolutions were
Iintroduceu into the Nebraska Legislature,
deprecating the action of the Lecompton
Convention in failing to submit the Con
stitution to a vote of the people, and ex-
pressing fear that the establishment Of such
a precedent may have an important bear
ing upon the character Of their own domes-
tic institutions. Resolutions endorsing Mr..
Ferguson to a seat in Congress, in prefer
cnce to Chapman, had passed both Houses
by decided vote.
On the 18th of January, resolutions
passed both Houses Of the Ohio LegiSla-
ture, expressing confidence in the admins
tration of Mr.. Buchanan, re-affrming the
Cincinnati platform looking upon the re-
fusal Of the LecomptOn Convention to sub
nit the Constitution to the vote of the
people as unwiSe and unfortunate for the
peace Of Kansas, and instructing the Sena-
vote against the Lecompton, or any other
Constitution, which was not a clear ex.
preston of the will of the people
The Legislature of Alabama, by a unan-
Iimous vote have adopted resolutions author
izng the Governor Of that State to call q
State Convention in the event Of Congress
refusing to admit Kansas into the Union
under the Lecompton Constitution. Here
we have another phase of the Kansas i'm
broglio, looking towards a secession Of the
slaveholding portion Of the confederacy in
certain contingencies.
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama stand
pledged to secede from the Union, should
Kansas, applying to Congress for admission
as slave State, be refused admission.
In the California Senate, the resolutions
of Mr.. Furgeson, of Sacramento, endorsing
the course of Senator Douglas, were made
the special order for the 9th Of March
ayes "a noes IL.
An exchange says The administration
men say it is settled that Kansas, Oregon
and Minnesota are to be yoked together
and forced through, and that the Indiana
Senators, with Bigler and Jones, are relied
upon to unite with them to secure the nee
essary majority.
The ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC DELEGATIoN.-
The Springfield Register claims that all the
Democrats in Congress from Illinois so
with Douglas on the Kansas question. II
says:-"It is sufficient to simply say that
Messrs. Harris, Morris, Marshall, Shaw
and Smith, of the House, will sustain the
position of Senator Douglas. Governor
Matteson entertains the same views, as dc
niuety-nine out of every hundred of the
Democracy Of Illinois"
R%Col. H. L. KINNEY, Of Mosquito
Grant notoriety, was in Panama on the
llth inst. He makes complaints Of the
manner in which he has been treated by
General Walker, whilst attempting to col
onize his grants. He intended going up