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a pledge that he would make no pledges. He was thus left free to vote for the man best qualified for Speaker. He was independent and would so act as most to benefit his country, and on his action would return and face his constituent. Without further action on the bill, on motion of Mr. Stevens, the Committee arose. The House then adjourned at a quarter of six o'clock. The contemplated attack on Mobile. The New Orleans correspondent of the New York World, writing on the 16th inst., thus speculates on the probability of a movement on Mobile: I was positively told the other day that instructions to Admiral Farragut to pierce Mobile harbor by Grant's pass, a narrow artificial channel formerly used by light draught steamers, had been communicated to Gen. Banks by the Department at Washington, with orders to co-operate in the effort. The presence of Gen. McPherson is not made officially known here. Our laudatory journals do, it is true, tell about several distingu