Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-03-26
THIRTY-sEyENTH CONGRESS.
! REPORTED FOR THE ALEXANDRIA GA2ET
In Senate, Monday, March IS.

| REPORTED FOR THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.
In Senate, Monday, March IS.
The President of the Senate announced
that thu res solution introduced by Mr.. Hale
for the election Of Sergeant-at.Arms, Door
keeper and Assistant Doorkeeper was first in
order.
Mr.. Hale moved that the resolution be
permitted to lie upnn the table that the Sen
ator from Wisconsin Mr.. Howe) might con
clude his speech begun on Friday; agreed to.
MIR. Powell introduced resolution re-
questing the President to communicate to
the Senate all dispatches from Maj. Andcr-
son to the War Department during his COM
mand at Fort Sumter Adopted.
The Senate then took up the Douglas res
olutons
Mr.. Howe, resumed his speech, commenc-
ed ON Friday last, taking ultra republican
ground.
lie considered this Government as being
still composed of thirty-lour States, and
| that twenty-six were still necessary to the
| adoption OF amendments to the Constitution,
notwithstanding the attempted withdrawal
| of seven Of those States
| lie was not in favor of war for suhiugat-
| ing the South, but he did not want tu com
promise with traitors. lie only wanted to
treat with the Union men of the border
States He wanted kind relations to be
maintained with the people of those States,
but the desire for this object should not lead
them to do too much.
He contended that it was the duty Of the
general government to prevent the subj uga-
| ton Of the Union men in the states which
had seeded. lie thought it would he il
benefit for the slave states to keep their peo-
pie at home and concluded by expressing Il
willingness TO defend Kentucky against
either foreign or domestic violence
Mr. Douglas defended his resolutions and
urged that the Republican party had been
compelled to adopt the 'squatter sovereignty
principle in the organization of the new ter
rltories and that now that party was in
power, it had abandoned the principles upon
which it had won its victory. lie said that
by the territorial acts of Dacotuh, Nevada,
and Colorado had made all the territory OF
the United States free to slavery. and South
of SO 3O> they had protection by the act Of
the people of New Mexico.
The Senate then went into Executive SEES
sion, and having spent some time therein,
al j0urned.
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Washington Gossip.
Among the best consulates filed by the
present Administration are Ningpoo, China,
(S3, 900 per annum,) conferred on Willie p.
Mangum. jr., Of \. g., IA son of ex-Seuatr
Mangum,) aud the St. Thomas Consulate,
$4,000 per annum,) conferred on Jno. T..
Edgar, Esq, of Tenn, brother-in-law of the
Hon. j. J. Crittenden.
1t is understood that On Saturday. besides
concluding upon a large number OF appoint
mcnts in Minnesota and elsewhere in the in
rerior, the President finally concluded upon
the following: Viz. Hon. Henry Winter Da-
Wis, of Md, Minister to Russia, Mr. Shufeldt,
consul at Havana; Mr.. Bigeow Lawrence, Of
Boston, q son Of the Hon. Abbot Lawrence, J
consul at Florence: and Mr.. Fay, (of the New
York iribune,) secretary Of the legation to
Sardinia.
Applications for cadetships ar West Point
are coming i'll upon President Lincoln from
Louisiana and other seeded States.
1t Is understood that Mr.. L;pnitt now
Secretary Of the t. S. Legation y . leu Il,
will be retained in that position Dy the pres
ent Administration.
L. 5. A., who's resignation we announced not
long since is understood to have become the
Adjutant General of the army Of the Conted-
crate States.
We learn from New York to-day, that the
[. $. loan to be disposed vi Oh Monday next
will be all offered for from Wall street Oh
much more favorable ternIs--very near or at
par--than those obtained by Secretary Dix
not long since.
We find that the Cabinet have been in
full meeting but three times since the fourth
Of March, and that the only occasion ON
which appointments to Office have bceu the
subject matter Of formal consid ration in
their meetings, was on Saturday last; the
President having made nine-tenthS OF his ai'-
pointments SO far without considering it ne
cessary to consult the Cabinet formally with
reference to his selections
The designations Of Assistant Surgeon
". \. CarsweIl, of $. c., and JAS. IL. Ber
eler, Of Ga, and of brevet ID Lieut.. 1larold
Borand, 9Th Infantry Of Ark, IL son of EI-
Senator Scion, of that ilk nave been received
at the War Department.
Chief Engineer BENZ. I. sherwood has
been nominated by the President to be En-
ginecr-in-Chicl of the United states Navy.
Mr.. f. S. Lawrence Of Va, Il 81 200 per
annum clerk in the Census Bureau, is said
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