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route, was a departure from medium line,
and would suggest St. Louis as the terminus.
NJ. Benjamins motion to postpone the fur
ther consideration of the subject until Decem-
ber, was then carried by yeas 25, nays %, as
follows:
YEAS.
Bayard, of Del. Houston. Texas.
Benjamin, La. Hunter, Va.
Bggs, n. G.. Iverson, Ga.
Clark, n. II. Jones, Iowa.
Clay Alabama. johnson, Tenn.
Colamer, Vt. Johnson, Ark.
Davis, Miss. Mason, Va
Dixon, CT. Pearce, Nd.
Evans, S. C. Sebastian, Ark.
Fessenden, Me. Sidell, La.
Hammond, South Car Thomson, N. J.
olina. Wade, Ohio.
Hale, n. H. Wilson, Mass %
NAYS.
Allen, R. I. Gwin, Cal.
Bell, Tenn. Henderson, Texas.
Bigler, Pa. Kennedy, Md.
Bright, Indiana King, N. Y.
Broderick, Cal. Polk, Mo.
Chandler, Mich. Pugh Ohio.
Doolttle, Wis. Seward, N. Y.
Douglas, Ill. Simmons, R. I.
Fitch, Indiana. Stuart, Mich.
Foot, VT Trumbull, Ill.
Nreen MO. wright; " D. ~
ABSENT.
Bates, Del. Harlan, Iowa.
Cameron Pa. Mallory, Florida.
Crittenden, Ky. Reid, n. G..
Durkee; Wis. Sumner, Mass.
Foster, Conn. Thompson, Ky.
Hamlin, Me. Toombs, Ga.
Yulee, Florida. 13
The bill to construct a line of telegraph to
Utah WAS AIKEN nm in tho Sanata on ba
April and on motion of Mr.. Iverson, of Ga,
its further consideration postponed until De-
eember next
Under date of April 10Th, tire Washington
correspondent of the N. Y. Herald writes
The city is excited by rumors based on
telegraphic dispatch from New Orleans that
Vice President Breckenridge is dead The
statement wants confirmation"
Thomas Hart Benton, ex-senator of the U.
S. from Missouri, and author of the "Thirty
Years View," after a long and painful illness,
expired at his residencein Washington, on the
10th April, 1858, aged &c years. Both houses
of Congress adjourned Immediately on hear
ing of his DEATH
Kansas has enunciated a new Constitution i
through a Convention which met a Leaven-
worth. 1t provides against the tolerance of
slavery in the new State.
ELECTIONS.
In St. Louis, Jefferson City, Mo-, and in
Cincinnati, Ohio, the Adminstration-Lecomp
ton-Democracy have been badly beaten at the
late municipal elections. In st. Louis the
majority in favor of the opposition was over
1000.
A Territorial government has been refused
to the people of Arizona for the present year.
Sierra Nevada will probably share the same
fate.
Santa Anna is about to set sail from his late
quarters in Venezuela for Mexico. He says
the unhappy condition of his country demands
his presence, and it is only in answer to pa
triotic impulses that he consents to tear him
self from his much-loved privacy.
General and ex-President Comonfort makes
positive denial, by card, in the n Y Herald
OF completely with Walker and the Fillibus-
ters, in the designs which they have lately
been charged with against Mexico.
1t is said that the President, with a view to
the speedy acquisition of Cuba, intends to ap-
point Mr.. Slidell, to the Paris Ministry, and
Mr.. Belmont to that of Madrid, who are to
work together for the purchase of the island,
without regard to its cost. 1t also rumored
that the Spanish Government will shortly re-
move General Concha from the Government
ct Cuba because of his growing power and
extravagant administration. The expendi-
lures of his administration, for the past year,
have exceeded the revenue by $l5, 1000, ,000.-
Spain has to foot this enormous BILL Under
the Governorship of Tacon, the expense of the
Police of Havana was but 240, 900 reals un-
der the last year of Concha's, it reached A.
100000. But the friends of the Governor as
sert that these large expenditures are for the
common veal, and that while his predecessors
sought only to make the Gem of the Antil-
les subsidiary to the home Government
and squeeze out of her. revenue to support
the ragged fortunes of Spain, Concha is devo-
ting his energies to the improvement of the
island and the benefit OF her inhabitants
Hence, though in bad odor with the Queen, he
is popular with the Cuban planters, and it
might be both difficult and dangerous to at
tempt his removal
By joint resolution, the two houses of
Congress have agreed to adjourn on the 18th
of June.
NEW GooDs-Messrs. Moch Bachman,
Main street, opposite the Courthouse, Mokel- !
umne Hill, have just received a new and spen-