Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-20

LATEST NEWS BIZ TELlGGRAtH Il.
INTRRRsTING FROM rHE soUra.

! announcement Of Foreign MiHisters--ATest,
and Probable Execution, of IasendiGries in
GeOrgid-ShiPs from fks Seeded States to
be Recognized al Harre--P Proceedings of tss
Trginia ConUenhOa-z.P Probabls, Collision ia
Ttzds 6ttveen Gorernor Rouston's Friends
and the Standardization Of, GOpern.
msnt Vessel at Gafsestoa--P Probability Of
an Extra Session Of Congyss--R Reported
Ordering Of MAJOR Anderson md his Men
to the Neagpoyt (Ry.) Barraeks-R Reported
Receipt Of a DisPatch JTsm the Major that
10000 Men are ysqmred to Re enforce Fort
Sumter.
WASHINGTON, March ls.-The President
to-day nominated to the Senate; Charles
Francig Adans, Of Massachusetts,, as Minister
to England George P. Marsh, ef Vermont,
Minister TO Sardinia; James Waszon Webb
of New York, Minister to Turkeyt William
L. Dayton, of New Jersey, Minister TO France.
The last-nanSed nomination was confirmed,
the rule requiring il to be referred, having
been suspended, as Mr.. Dayton was formerly
member of the Senate, and his chsSacter,
therefore, sufficiently known without q
formalinvestigation. This is the usual court
esy in such cases.
The Senate also confirmed Beuianip w.
Bumbull, as Receiver of Public Money. at
Omaha, Nebraska Territory, and ex-C6a-
gresham William A. Howard, Postmaster
of Detroit, Michigan
William S. ThayeF, of New York, YVES
nominated for Consul General 10 Egypt, and
Patrick /. Divine as Consul at Cork.
DR.. Locke Of Indiana, has been appointed
Clief of the Agricultural Bureau at the
Patent Office.
AUGUSTA, Ca, March ls.--The Florida
Convention will reasonable in April. .
Two persons have been arrested for burn
|. ing the town of Newpo-t, and will probably
be hung by the people. 80
| CHARLESTON, March Ie.-The Courier, of
to-day, learns from a dispatch received by q
mercantile house here, that the proper officers
at the Custom house, at Havre, have notified
merchants that ships from the Seeded States
will be admitted on the ssme footing as those
carrying the Federal flag. -. r..
| RICHMOND, March 1s.-The subject of
| equality OF taxation causedan excited debate
in the Convention to-day between Eastern
| and Western members. A, communication
from the Maryland Commissioners on the
subject of Border State Convention, was
referred and ordered to be printed. The re-
| port of the Committee on Federal Relations
was taken up, and Mr.. Randolph made a
I speech. Before concluding, the Convention
adjourned.
New YORK, March l9.-The Times Wash
ipgton dispatch says: indications from
Texas are that there will be an armed col
lision between the friends of Houston and
the Secessionists. Many advocate keeping
the Federal troops in that State to CO ope-
rate with and protect the Unionists.
"The seizure of the vessel with oil, &C., for
light houses at Galveston, is considered most
dastardly and cowardly. 1t was effected by
one Sherman, with a so called fVigilanee
Committee
| The Worlds Washington dispatch states
that the opinion is universal that there will
be an extra session of Congress.
Gen. Roman, Southern Commissioner, has
arrived. n .., fE "t .H .... o..
Ii is rumored that Major Anderson and
command have been ordered to Newport,
Ky.
Geo. Orfutt, for fifteen years Chief Clerk in
the Auditors Office, has resigned, and goes
TO Montgomery.
The New York TFib,us says: 1.-THE Wa,
Department has received dispatch from
Major Anderson, iDdorsed by all the officers
OF Fort SUMTER saying the fort can not bt
REINFORCED without 10000 men"
The Times says: "The reason for the resig.
nation of Engineer Archibald, was the offer
of the same post in the Confederated States
and the gift of furnished house."
WASHINGTON, March l9.-Detroit, Chicago
and Portland have been constituted ex
change offices for the French as we'll as the
British mails, TO be conveyed Uia Portland
and Liverpool or Riviere du Loupe and Liv-
erpool, TO take effect the Let of April next.
Western Postmasters will accordingly send
letters for France to the present offices o
The cities as aforementioned, instead o
New York only.
w. H. Russell, the founder of the Pom,
Express, has concluded contract with th
f Overland Mail Company, transferred by thu
last Congress, the central route, to run th
mail and pony from the Missouri River, con
Meeting with the Overland Company at Sal
Lake City.
The accounts of the Census Marshals il
the Confederate States have not yet beer
settled, as the latter withheld the public
money from which the Government desires
to make the payment. ...
, The State Department is about transfer
ring to the several States ratification o
the passage by Congress of the followin.
9 proposed amendment 10 the Constitution
/, which shall become valid when ratified b,
, three fourths of the Legislatures viz: an
, amendment shall be made to the Constita
! tion which will authorize or give to Con.
/, gress the power to abolish or interfere
within any State, with the domestic institu
: tions thereof including that of persons he'll
to labor or service by the laws Of said State,