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Congressional. Washington, Jan. 16 --House.--Mr. Cox presented a series of conciliatory resolutions from Ohio. Mr. Briggs presented a similar series from New York, praying for the passage of the compromise suggested by the Border State Committee. In Committee of the Whole, the Army bill was discussed. Mr. Garnett, of Va., made a speech, in which he remarked that Virginia would join no Border State Confederacy, but would link herself to the South, and would become the leader of the Southern Confederacy. In concluding his speech he adverted to the propriety of a peaceable settlement between the two sections, the arrangement of a system of customs, and the formation of a defensive and offensive alliance. This, he thought, would secure all the advantages of the present Confederation, without its evils. Mr. Gurley, of Ohio, made a speech, and in it alluded to the seizure of the forts, magazines and arsenals at the South, &c. He called the Southern people traitor