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payment of mail contractors for service performed by them after their States had seceded from the United States, and before the Confederate Government took control of the service. Referred to Committee on Post-Offices and Roads. Mr. Royston, of Arkansas, presented a memorial on the postal service, which was referred. Also, the following resolution: Resolved, That the President be respectfully requested to communicate to the House of Representatives whether it be true that Maj. Gen'l Hindman, the Commanding General of the Trans-Mississippi district, caused all cotton in said district to be seized, and the object for which such seizure was made; also, whether said Commanding General refused to have substitutes received as soldiers in the army of the Confederate States; also, whether said Commanding General has placed said military district under martial law; also, whether said Commanding General has caused to be organized into new companies and regiments the conscripts of s
he promulgation of the order for the draft. It is asserted that an entire company of cavalry left Montgomery county, on the Upper Potomac, last week, and that squads are constantly moving. It is perhaps, easier to fight these men in Virginia than in Maryland. Desponding view of Affairs out West. The correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing from Memphis, gives the following gloomy summary of Federal affairs in the West: Arkansas is being overrun by strong guerrilla bands. Hindman has collected a force of twenty-five or thirty thousand, and there are almost as many more ranging the country for spoils. There have been a number of skirmishes, of which nobody seems to have the right accounts, and nothing is know except that strong Federal expeditions have been attacked and overpowered, and that a large number of prisoners and valuable stores have been taken from us. There will probably be some important movements in that locality before long. A good deal has been