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s of Congress are equally due to the patriotic and self who, at the commencement of their services at the disposal of without condition or as to little. Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Claims, reported back the joint resolution for the of Capt. Walter Anderson, which was considered and passed. On motion of Mr. Sparrow, the House bill to provide for preside for wounded and disabled soldiers seamen an to be called the Veteran Soldiers Home, was taken up and On motion of Mr. Semmes, of La., the resolved its if into secret session. The House was called to order at 11 o'clock the Speaker. The Chair laid before the House a communication from the President, in response of the House, covering a of the Secretary of War, showing the condition of the question of exchange between the Confederate States the United States; which was withdrawn considered in secret session. The House then took up for consideration the bill to allow commissioned officers of t
The Florida. We are glad to hear that the Confederate steamer Florida is once more at sea, though we are not informed whether her commander, Mafritt, has sufficiently recovered from his late illness to resume his duties. If he is once more on her decks we may soon expect to hear of more Confederate piracies.--It is an astonishing thing that the hundreds of Yankee cruisers on the alert for Semmes and Maffitt always make out to miss them. It speaks volumes for the skill and energy of those commanders, that they have so long successfully eluded the pursuit of the whole Yankee navy.