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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Literary intelligence. (search)
Congressional.
In the Senate, Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, from the Committee on Finance, reported a bill fixing the pay of Senators and Representatives at $2,500 per annum, and mileage at 30 cents per mile; the President of the Senate, when acting as such, to receive the pay of the Vice President; and the Speaker of the House to receive double the pay of any other member of that body.--The bill was amended, on motion of Mr. Oldham, of Texas, by striking out $2,500 and inserting $3,000; and further amended by providing for the deduction from the pay the amount of each day's absence without leave, and passed.
The pay of the officers of the Senate was fixed as follows:--Secretary, $2,500 per annum; Assistant Secretary, $1,000; two Clerks, $1,500 each; Sergeant-at-Arms, $2,000; Doorkeeper, $1,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $1,200--each payable quarterly, in advance, and Page $1 per diem.
A message in waiting from his Excellency, the President, by his Private Secretary, wa
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late outrage on the Rio Grande . (search)
Southern credit and Finances.
--Notwithstanding all the malignant assaults of Northern editors, we are gratified, rather than surprised in finding that the financial credit of the Confederate States and of South Carolina, is maintained abroad above question or suspicion.
We have seen a letter under date of January 18th, 1862, from a leading Bank in Liverpool, authorizing drafts to the amount of £26,000 sterling, or in round numbers, $100,000. The letter is addressed to the President o ich is, has been, and will be, ready for all engagements.
This is also a Bank which has no deposit or credit with the Liverpool Bank, which has made this flattering offer.
This proposal, unsolicited and unexpected, is a gratifying tribute to the financial facility and resources of Charleston and South Carolina and an additional expression of the good will and favor borne by many of the bankers, capitalists, and merchants of England towards the Confederate States.--Charleston Courier.