...quire into the expediency of increasing the salaries of the other clerks in the various State Departments was rejected. Mr. Newton, of Westmoreland, presented a series of resolutions enlogising General Joseph E. Johnston , for the magnanimity he displayed in permitting his military subordinate at the battle of Manassas, General Beauregard, to carry out his (Beauregard's) plane, at that battle, and comparing the act to...