Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-09
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WASHINGTON, March 6.-Ihe President has
accepted the resignation of Adjutant.G General
Cooper and Assistant AdjutaDt- General
Witbers. Cooper is n connection of Senator
Mason, and bis resignation is attributed more
to family than political influence. Withers
Isl Tennesseean, Areport i%sprevalent that
Qusrtermaster- General Johnson, of Va, is
about to resign, but he laid this morning the
occasion for such a course has not arrived.
The resignation of Adjutant Cooper has oc-
cssioned general regret. He was appointed
from and is a native Of New York.
The Southern States are making overtures
for some of the best officers in the service.
1t is known that several officers of the army
located here have been offered lucrative ap.
pointments under the Government of the
Confederacy.
Charles Jones, late of the Registers Office
in the Treasury, has left for Montgomery, to
take a place under that Government.
A large crowd at the State Department
this morning was much disappointed at the
absence of Mr.. Seward, who is detained at
home by physical indisposition.
The United States Supreme Court has ad-
journed over until Thursday, when various
decisions will be made.
Commissioner Forsyth and Crawford,
from the Southern Confederacy, are daily
expecting the arrival of their colleague,
Roman. Much solicitude is expressed as to
lutlT DuSlDeSS WIFI luis OOVBTnmeub.
The Senate, in Executive session, to-day
confirmed Norman B. Judd as Minister to
Berlin Herman Christmsn, also of Illinois,
as Secretary of Legation and Jonathan A..
Kasson, of Iowa, as First Assistant Post
master General.
The following are the Senate Committees
On Foreign Relations-Messrs. Sumner,
ColIamer, Doolittle, Harris, Douglas, Polk
and Breckenridge.
H. F;nanoo Mnaora EoocnnIon C.u.u.zz
Wade, Powell, Hunter, Pearce and Bright.
On Commerce-Messrs. Chandler, King,
Morrill,, Wilson, Clingman, Salisbury and
johnson.
On Military-Messrs. Wilson, King, Ba-
ker, Lane, Rice, Latham and Breckenridge.
On Naval Affairs-Messrs. Hale, Grimes,
Foot, COwan, Thompson, Nicholson and
Kennedy.
On Jndiciary-Messrs. Trumbull, Foster,
Ten Eyck, Cowan, Bayard, Powell and
Clipgman.
On Postofice-Messrs. Collamer, Dixon,
Wade, Trumbull, Rice, Bright and Latham.
On Public Lands-Messrs. Harlan, Bing-
ham, Clark, Wilkinson, johnson, Mitchell
and Brsgg.
On Private Lands-Messrs. Harris, Ten
Eyck, Sumner and Bayard.
Baker, COwan, Ten Eyck, Sebastian, Rice
On Pensions-Messrs. Foster, Bingham,
Lane, Simmons, Salisbury and Mitchell. :
On Revolutionary Claims-Messrs. King,
Chandler, Wilkinson, Nicholson and Mes.
smith.
On Claims Messrs. Clark, Simmons,
Howe, Cowan, Bragg and Polk.
On District of Columbia-Messrs. Grimes,
Anthony, Morrill,, Wade, Kennedy, Cling.
man and Powell.
On Patents-Messrs. Simmons, Sumner,
Doolittle, Thompson and Sebastian.
On Public Buildings-Messrs Foot, Dixon,
Chandler, Bright and Kennedy.
On Territor, es-Messrs. Wade, Wilkinson,
Cowan, hale, Douglas, Sebastian and Bragg.
On Auditing Expenses-Messrs Dixon,
Clark and johnson.
On Printing Messrs, Anthony, Harlan
and NiChalsOn.
On Engrossed Bills-Messrs. Lane, Morrill,
and Mitchell.
On Enrolled Bills-Messrs. Bingham, Ba-
ker and Salisbury.
On Library-Messrs. Pearce, Collamer and
Fessenden.
The President did not send in any nomi-
nations to-day.
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford have as yet
made no official communication to the Ad-
ministration, owing to the sickness of Sem
ator Roman, and an informal information
that a little more time would be agreeable.
The Commissioner have been actively
occupied since their arrival in consultation
and unofficial intercourse, having reference
to the objects of their mission.
The subject of the collection of the rev.
enue and the reinforcing of Fort Sumter
has not yet engaged the attention of the
Cabinet, Great efforts are being made to
effect a peaceful solution of the question of
the forts and the revenues.
Elk. Secretary Floyd has published a state
ment vindicstOry of the acceptances in favor
of Russell, Majors & Co, and of their legality
instead of their being Sc, 900, 900 of them out
standing, he shows there are only 5000, 900,
and declares the contractors nave secured
these by assignments of property ample for
their protection, and that if the Government
will permit the earnings of the trains of 1851
10 be applied TO the acceptances, they will
be liquidated in that way without recourse
to the assignments. 1t would seem, also,
that the Government ives the contractors
upward OF $500, 600, which is equivalent to
the cash value of the Indian Trust Bonds, of
the abstraction Of which Mr.. Floyd repudi-
ates all previous knowledge.
He ~denounces the conduct and proceedings
of the Select Committee with great severity,
and says their sole object was the political
persecution and defamation.
Brevet LieutenRnt-COlon Lorenzo
Thomas, second in rank in the Adjutant-
Generals Office, has been appointed to be
Adjutsnt- General, Viee Cooper resigned.
Among the prominent candidates for Con-
sui to London is Colonel Schouler, of Massa-
ehusetts.