e of Saturday evening on the Louisiana question, "Mr. Carlile, of Virginia, took the floor in opposition to the resolution.
In the course of his remarks, Mr. Carlile was asked a question in regard to the legality of the Government of West Virginia, and he replied that, if he had the means of supporting his family without the three thousand a year he received as a Senator, he would have resigned his seat on the very day that the State of West Virginia was recognized by the Senate."
James Buchanan, late President of the United States, reports his income, for the last year, as having been eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven dollars.
Stephen Girard.
Stephen Girard has not been so long dead but many of the present generation still remember him distinctly, and his peculiarities; and no man possessed peculiarities of a more striking character.--Various sketches of his life have been given to the public, but the following, from the North American Review for January, is more
The Draco resolution.
--We are glad to notice, by the Nashville papers, that on the Senate resolution No. 18, declaring that Jeff. Davis, R. M.T.Hunter, Robert E. Lee, James Buchanan and other rebels are guilty of the highest crimes and worthy of death, being taken up in the House, it was postponed until the first Monday of March--ayes, thirty-eight; noes, twenty-five.
A motion was made subsequently to reconsider the vote, but it was not acted upon.--Memphis (Tenn.) Argus.
