assume the station God intended him to attain.
The yeas and nays were ordered, and resulted as follows:
Yeas.--Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Conness, Cowan, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harland, Harris, Howard, Howe, Lane, (Ind.,) Lane, (Kansas,) Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, Wilson--34.
Nays.--Messrs. Buckalew, Davis, Harding, Hendricks, Nesmith. Powell, Richardson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Winkle--12.
The loyal member from Kentucky would like a few slaves to be Spared.
Mr. Stevens offered an amendment to the Conscription bill, that persons of African descent, between 20 and 45 years of age, whether citizens of the United States or not, shall be enrolled and form part of the national forces, and when a slave shall be drafted and mustered into the service, the master shall receive a certificate for $300, and the drafted man shall be free.
This Mr. S
864, unless they shall be mustered for a period of six months.
Rejected--19 to 17.
The bill was then put upon its passage, with the following result:
Ayes--Messrs Anthony, Clark, Collamer, Cowan; Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, He is,
Harian, Howard, Howe, of Indiana, Laue of Kansas, Morgan, Morrvill, Strerman, Sumner, Van Winkle, Willey, Wilson 22.
Nays — Buckalew, Tarlist, Chandier, Conness, Tavis, Harding, Henderson, Johnson, Nesmith, Pomercy, Powell, Riddle, Sprague--13
No quorum having voted the Senate adjourned at ten minutes past five o'clock.
The Red river Disaster — reported safety of Steble's command.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says that no official reports of the recent battles on Red river have been received from Gen. Banks in addition to those published in the New Orleans Era.
Unofficial letters from persons upon whose testimony reliance is placed in high quarters give an even more unfavorable a