Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-03-14
From Washington.

WasmSGros March 12.--The homestead bill which
passed the Ilonse to-day provides TINT any person
who is the head of family. or who has arrived at
the age of 81 years and Is citizen Of the L. ). or
who SHALL have filed his intention 10 become such.
shall be entitled TO enter free cost 100 acres of the
public lands upon which said person may have filed
a presumption claim, or which may at the time the
application Ia made be snhject to pre-emptoh ut
- or less per acre SDacres nj 500 per acre
No certificate TO De given patent issued until the
expiration Of Ave years from the date Of the entry aud
on pay ment OF $l0 The rights secured by the actual
settler issue to the heirs and devisees The lands thus
acquired in no to become ablcto the satisfaction
of any debts contracted prior 10 the issuing OF the pa
tent.
" D. Shipman was to-day confirmed by the Senate
ns T. = district jndge for Connecticut, In place Of
Judge Ingersoll, deceased.
TIE tariff bill Ahich Mr. Morrill, endeavored TO re-
port to-day under suspension Of the rules is the same
that brought, forward By him last year, with scve
raj notifications only.
Mr. HYATT, In accordance with an order oil the SEN
nte has been lodged IN jail
Mnior b. b. French. j. j. Coombs, l.. A. Hall and
Lewis Clephanc have been appointed by the Repnh-
can .socn,ion of Washington delegates to the Chi
cage convention.
in Congress from North Carolina state that tho four
delegates at large to The Charleston convention are
for the nomination of Mr.. Hunter tor the Presidency,
and that two Of their congressional districts that have
elected delegates similarly represented.
The Senate hurried through to-day what purporici
10 ben join; resolution for suspcndIeg the operation
Of late act requiring that the printing Of posothce
blanks be done by contract with the lowest bidder
The original act Is not expressed as 10 insure the
result intended aud the one passed o-day ia illegal,
because blank spaces were leftn the bill to he I'LL
ed up BY clerk subsequent to its passage in the Sem
Tho Hyatt case growing out OF his declining to te
,y IN the IIarpers Ferry in.ntrccton, Is likely 10
olsrrnct the bu sness Of the Senate II IL to be
sldcrcd and discussed, The points presented on FRI
dry have already been considered by some Senators,
who determined 10 debate them. IL appears from
the paper Of lhe respondent and from tho nterptc,a-
ton, given by his friends, that he is willing TO APP
pear before the committee and answer legal mud pop
questions but not upon conpnlson. lie obstinate.
~ irnc, TIE power oithe Senate committee TO coeree
an attendance
The resolutions of the Democratic Senatorial eau
Gu. concerning the protection Of slave property III the
territories have not yet been brought before the body
Tor discussion and decision. They will be adopted il
brought up though not without some opposition
Several Senators, though fully concurrng in tho
doctrines of the resolutions, deem it incXpciicnt In
adolt them rs suggestion for the Charleston con-
fcuitun,
The ln,cs advices from the Rio Grandc show that
prevails there, onn small scrlc. but Major lor
itzlrmun writes that the excitement is somcw hat hn
ted The Mexicans, it would appear, have been very
severely chnstsed. The Ieinioreemcnts from Utah
cannot arrive at the place of action for two months
anA it would require two months to raise and cqu IL
the Texan regiment of mounted rangers; after con-
gfrsS shall pass the necessary appropriation. Gov.
Houston can, therefore, have ample time within which
to execute his threat to seize upon Ma,amoras, md
take the State Of Tamaulipas, in the absence OF ae
qnate aid from the central government.
i. S.--The government has received Information
that Mramon has ordered the blockade of all the Mex
lean ports the gulf The government has determi-
ned not to respect it, and have issued orders
dinghy