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The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The redoubtable Gen. Butler. (search)
Confederate Congress. --The following is a summary of proceedings on the 11th inst.: Mr. Ochiltree, of Texas, introduced a resolution instructing the Committee on Indian Affairs to report on the propriety of the Confederacy taking charge of and providing for the Indians upon the reserves in Texas. Mr. Brooke, of Mississippi, reported a bill establishing a Patent Office. Congress then went into secret session. Subsequently secrecy was removed from a Message of the President communicating to Congress a copy of a letter from Hon. John A. Campbell, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, which he addressed to Wm. H. Seward, pending the negotiations with the Southern Commissioners at Washington. Judge Campbell acted as a voluntary mediator between the two Governments, for the purpose of preventing a collision, and he charged Seward with duplicity during the whole correspondence. Another Message from the President recognizes Hon. Thomas L.