tion and consternation among merchant and fishing vessels, from the coast of Virginia to that of Maine.
Swift cruisers were sent after the Tacony. when informed of this, Read transferred his crew anarragut have knocked the bottom out of the Chicago nominations; and the elections in Vermont and Maine prove the Baltimore nominations stanch and sound.
The issue is thus fairly made up — McClellan eceding session by the strong vote of thirty-eight to six.
The following was the vote: yeas.--Maine--Fessenden, Morrill; Yew Hampshire, Clark, Hall; Massachusetts--Sumner, Wilson; Rhode Island--And by a vote of one hundred and nineteen against fifty-six.
The following was the vote: yeas.--Maine--Blair, Perham, Pike, Rice; New Hampshire--Patterson, Rollins; Massachusetts--Alley, Ames, BaldwShannon.--119.
Fifteen of the above were Democrats.
The nays were all Democrats, as follows: Maine--Sweat; New York--Brooks, Chanler, Kalbfleisch, Keirnan, Pruyn, Townsend, Ward, Winfield, B. Woo
ps) during that period, was, as stated in the text, 2,656,558, leaving a deficiency of 102,496, when the war closed which, says the Provost-Marshal-General, would have been obtained in full, in fact in excess, if recruiting and drafting had been continued.
We have observed that in enforcing the draft, those thus chosen for service were allowed to pay a commutation fee. The Provost-Marshal gives the following table of the amounts paid in this way, by the people of the several States:--
Maine $610,200 Connecticut $457,200 Maryland $1,131,900 Indiana $235,500
New Hampshire 286,500 New York 5,485,799 Dis't of Columbia 96,900 Michigan 614,700
Vermont 593,400 New Jersey 1,265,700 Kentucky 997,530 Wisconsin 1,533,600
Massachusetts 1,610,400 Pennsylvania 8,634,300 Ohio 1,978,887 Iowa 22,500
Rhode Island 141,300 Delaware 446,100 Illinois 15,900 Minnesota 316,800
Total $26,366,316
This sum was collected by the Provost-Marshal's Bur
of the Senate.
Its decision was given on the 26th of the same month.
Every member of the Senate was present, and voted.
Thirty-five pronounced the President guilty, and nineteen declared him not guilty.
He escaped legal conviction by one vote.
The vote of the Senate was as follows:--
For Conviction--Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Morrill of Maine, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson and Yates.
These were all Republicans.
For Acquittal--Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Van Winkle and Vickers.
Eight of these, namely: Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Saulsbury and V