Thomas F. Wilson, of Virginia, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

James Beach Clow, of Pennsylvania, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

Francis Darr, of Ohio, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

Daniel Saint, of Florida, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

W. C. Tarkington, of Indiana, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

Isaac C. Woods, of

rank of captain.

to be commissary of subsistence with the

R. N. Comly, of Indiana, to be commissary of subsistence with the 'rank of captain.

William W. Jackson, of Illinois, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

William Donaldson, of Pennsylvania, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

Richard McAllister, of Iowa, to be commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain.

I am, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant,
SIMON CAMERON.

The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

To the Senate of the United States:

Secretary of War.

I nominate George E. Law to be a lieutenant in the Navy, to fill an existing vacancy and to take rank next after Albert Kantz, who is now before the Senate for confirmation as a lieutenant.

WASHINGTON, D. C., 31 July, 1861.

To the Senate of the United States:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I nominate Gustavus V. Fox, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy, under the authority of the act of Congress, approved July, 1861.

WASHINGTON, 31 July, 1861.

To the Senate of the United States:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I nominate the following-named persons to be assistant surgeons in the Navy, from the 30th day of July, 1861, to fill existing vacancies:

1. Arthur Mathewson, of Connecticut.

2. Archibald C. Rhodes, of New York.
3. Michael Bradley, of Pennsylvania.
4. Newton L. Bates, of New York.

5. Frederick E. Potter, of New Hampshire.

6. Adrian Hudson, of New York.

7. William Howell, of New York.

8. James H. Tinkham, of New York.
9. Alexander Hutchins, of New York.

10. Charles O. Carpenter, of Connecticut.
11. John Wilson, of Pennsylvania.
12. Samuel D. Flagg, of New York.

14. Absalom W. H. Hawkins, of Pennsylvania.

15. Harvey D. Burlingham, of New York.
16. Henry M. Wells, of Massachusetts.

17. John Otis Burt, of New York.
18. Wm. C. Lyman, of Massachusetts.
19. Wm. H. Leavitt, of Massachusetts.
20. Jacob H. Gotwald, Pennsylvania.
21. James H. Macomber, of Massachusetts.
22. Edward S. Bogart, of New York.
23. George S. Beardsley, of New York.
24. Thomas H. Whitney, of New York.
25. Adoniram B. Judson, of Pennsylvania.
26. James S. Knight, of Delaware.
27. Walter K. Scofield, of Connecticut.
28. Henry Ackley, of Pennsylvania.
29. Almon O. Leavitt, of New Hampshire.
30. Edward M. Stein, of New York.
31. Edward S. Matthews, of Pennsylvania.
32. Charles H. Covel, of New York.
33. Jeremiah R. Little, of New York.
34. Wm. Lamont Wheeler, of New York.
35. Aaron S. Oberly, of Pennsylvania.
36. Walter B. Dick, of Pennsylvania.
37. Sam'l B. Tuthill, of New York.

WASHINGTON CITY, July 30, 1861.

To the Senate of the United States:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I nominate Thomas W. Harrison, of Virginia, to be attorney of the United States in and for the western district of Virginia, in the place of Fleming B. Miller, resigned.

I also nominate Edward M. Norton, of Virginia, to be marshal of the United States for the same district, in place of Jefferson T. Martin, resigned.

WASHINGTON, July 31, 1861.

To the Senate of the United States:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I nominate Erie Locke, of the State of Indiana, for appointment in the Army of the United States, as proposed by the Secretary of War. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, July 31, 1861.

WAR DEPARTMENT, July 31, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to propose for your approbation the name of Erie Locke, of the State of Indiana, to be an additional paymaster in the Army of the United States under the act approved July 5, 1838. I am, sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.

To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The messages were read.

Ordered, That the nomination of Walter D. McIndoe be referred to

Ordered, That the nominations of Thos. H. King, Wm. L. Baker, Wm. Webb, and Mortimer M. Jackson be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Ordered, That the nominations of Nath'l P. Banks and others and Erie Locke be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Ordered, That the nominations of George E. Law, Gustavus V. Fox, and Arthur Mathewson and others be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Ordered, That the nominations of Thomas W. Harrison and Edward M. Norton be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Hale submitted the following resolution; which was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to.

Resolved, That the nomination of Frank Munroe, aged 19 years; Robert W. Huntington, aged 20 years; Joseph Fairchild Baker, aged 20 years; John H. Bonough, aged 22 years; William A. Parker, aged 30 years; William H. Hale, aged 29 years, and John H. Grimes, aged 21 years, be returned to the President, and he be informed that the Senate adhere to the opinion expressed in the resolution passed by them of the 19th of July instant, and that the Senate are of opinion that rank and position in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps should not be left to be decided by lot, but that, all other things being equal, preference should be given to age.

Ordered, That the Secretary lay the said resolution before the Presi dent of the United States.

Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom were referred, on the 26th instant, the nomination of Joseph G. Bowman, and on the 27th instant those of Wm. T. Rice and E. S. Eggleston, reported.

Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom were referred, on the 26th instant, the nominations of J. L. Lardner, Thomas T. Craven, Andrew H. Foote, D. D. Porter, John J. Almy, T. A. M. Craven, James H. Strong, J. Madison Frailey, A. S. Baldwin, T. M. Brasher, E. G. Parrott, R. Wainwright, Wm. B. Renshaw, L. C. Sartori, E. Lanier, F. Stanly, Wm. May, J. F. Armstrong, Wm. A. Parker, Wm. Rouckendorff, Wm. E. Le Roy, Maxwell Woodhull, Henry D. Todd, James M. Prichett, Edward Terry, Francis M. Bunce, Byron_Wilson, Henry B. Seely, Frederick V. McNair, John W. Kelly, Arthur R. Yates, Clark Merchant, Henry W. Miller, Allen V. Reed, John Adams Howell, Charles L. Franklin, Henry L. Howison, George Deway, Joshua Bishop, George B. White, Henry Martin Blue, Albert Kantz, E. B. Harringtou, and William O. Conway, reported.

Mr. Doolittle, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred, on the 6th inst, the nominations of Harrison B. Branch, Clinton C. Hutchinson, John Crawford, John B. Hoffman, Gustavus A. Colton, John J. Humphreys, Hiram W. Farnsworth, Luther L. Pease, Peter P. Elder, William W. Ross, Charles B. Keith, James B. Abbott, and Ramon Luna, John Ward, Hose Antonio Mansinares, on the 22d instant that of Isaac Coleman, and on the 31st instant that of Walter D. McIndoe, reported.

Mr. Doolittle, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred, on the 6th instant, the nomination of John H. Charles, reported adversely thereon.

Mr. Fessenden, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred, on the 24th inst., the nomination of John C. Underwood, re

Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred, on the 20th instant, the nomination of David H. Wheeler, reported.

Mr. Collamer, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom were referred, on the 25th instant, the nominations of Nathan Gibbs, Geo. S. Merrill, Sam'l Russell, Jacob G. Crane, and Egbert Lineburgh, reported.

Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred, on the 16th instant, the nominations of Don Carlos Buell, Seth Williams, Julius P. Garishé, Theodore Talbot, Edwin B. Babbitt, Robert E. Clary, Morris S. Miller, Alexander Montgomery, Robert Allen, Amos B. Eaton, Alexander E. Shiras, Charles L. Killburn, Clement A. Finlay, Elisha J. Bailey, George E. Cooper, Ebenezer Swift, Glover Perin, Peter G. S. Ten Broeck, John Campbell, John E. Summers, Charles H. Crane, Lyman H. Stone, Thomas A. McParlin, William F. Edgar, David C. Houston, Walter McFarland, John A. Tardy, jr., Charles E. Cross, Orville E. Babcock, Patrick H. O'Rorke, Haldimand S. Putnam, Joseph Dixon, Orlando G. Wagner, Nicholas Bowen, George D. Ramsay, William Maynadier, William A. Thornton, Julian McAllister, John C. Symmes, Horace Porter, Theodore Edson, James M. Whittemore, Adelbert R. Buffington, Daniel W. Flagler, Thomas C. Bradford, Richard M. Hill, Benjamin L. Beall, George A. H. Blake, Isaiah N. Moore, Nelson B. Sweitzer, David McM. Gregg, James Wheeler, jr., Richard S. C. Lord, Marcus A. Reno, Samuel McKee, Eugene M. Baker, Josiah Kellogg, David H Buell, Stephen C. Lyford, William N. Grier, Beverly H. Robertson, John P. Holliday, Charles E. Norris, Thomas Hight, George A. Gordon, Frances C. Armstrong, John Green, Ebenezer Gay, Lewis Merrill, John K. Mizner, William P. Sanders, Charles J. Walker, Wesley Merritt, Theophilus F. Rodenbough, Charles W. Canfield, Henry E. Noyes, Frank A. Reynolds, John Sedgwick, Thomas J. Wood, Samuel D. Sturgis, George Stoneman, Elmer Otis, James B. McIntyre, Eugene W. Crittenden, John A. Thompson, Joseph H. Taylor, Charles S. Bowman, Thomas B. Alexander, George G. Hunt, Napoleon B. McLaughlin, Thomas H. McCormick, Clarence Mouck, John A. Wilcox, George H. Thomas, Delos B. Sacket, James Oakes, Innis N. Palmer, William B. Royall, William P. Chambliss, Robert N. Eagle, William W. Lowe, James E. Harrison, A. Parker Porter, Wesley Owens, Manning M. Kimmell, Abraham K. Arnold, John J. Sweet, Charles H. Tompkins, William McLean, Sullivan W. Burbank, Junius B. Holloway, Thomas Drummond, Lewis O. Morris, Samuel F. Chalfin, Jefferson C. Davis, Douglas Ramsay, William M. Graham, Samuel Breck, jr., John W. Turner, Thomas C. Sullivan, Jeremiah H. Gilman, Richard H. Jackson, Alanson M. Randol, Cornelius Hook, jr., Samuel S. Elder, Lorenzo Thomas, jr., Edward B. Hill, George A. Woodruff, Horace Brooks, Charles Griffin, Henry B. Hendershott, Frank H. Larned. James M. Robertson, Henry A. Smalley, Oliver D. Green, Thomas Gray, Michael Small, Alexander S. Webb, John W. Barriger, Goilford D. Bailey, Thomas E. Miller, Joseph P. arley, Thomas W. Sherman, John Hamilton, George F. B. Dandy, Abram C. Wildrick, Wm. Sinclair, Harvey Brown, Clermont L. Best, Robert V. M. Howard, Joseph C. Clark, jr., Warren L. Lathrop, George A. Kensel, Charles H. Morgan, Francis Beach, George H. Weeks, Thomas R. Tannatt, Marcus P. Miller, Joseph B. Campbell, Isaac V. D. Reeve, John T. Sprague, Samuel H. Reynolds, Edwin D. Phillips, Charles W. Thomas, John P. Sherburne, Henry C. Wood, Herman Biggs, Robert H. Offley, Charles E. Farrand, Matthew R. Marston, Lloyd Beall, William C. Spencer, James McMillan, John D. Wilkins, Joseph N. G. Whistler, John W. Alley, Alexander

McD. McCook, Henry W. Freedly, Thomas W. Walker, John McL. Hildt, William Dickinson, Alexander N. Shepley, William H. Bell, Richard G. Lay, Edward R. Hopkins, Andrew Sheridan, William H. Penrose, Joseph B. Collins, Hiram Dryer, Francis H. Bates, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Gentry, Robert N. Scott, T. Elwyn Turner, Charles H. Brightly, Daniel T. Chandler, Samuel Archer, William H. Lewis, John F. Ritter, John Elwood, Henry B. Bristall, William J. L. Nicodemus, Henry W. Wessells, William P. Carlin, Elisha G. Marshall, Benjamin F. Smith, Orlando H. Moore, Montgomery Bryant, John J. Upham, Henry A. T. Worth, William W. Sanders, Daniel D. Lynn, Albemarl Cady, Robert R. Garland, Gurden Chapin, Thomas J. C. Amory, William R. Pease, Charles B. Stivers, George Ryan, Charles H. Ingraham, Pitcairn Morrison, Gabriel R. Paul, George L. Willard, Richard J. Dodge, Milton Coggswell, William McE. Dye, Zenas R. Bliss, William B. Hazen, Henry M. Lazelle, Edwin W. H. Read, Lafay ette Peck, James J. Van Horn, Royal T. Frank, Alfred T. Smith, Eugene Carter, Samuel P. Ferris, George W. Patten, James Van Vost, Lyman Bissell, Charles R. Woods, David B. McKibbin, James W. Forsyth, William B. Hughes, Elisha E. Camp, Charles S. Lovell, William Clinton, Nathan A. M. Dudley, Lawrence A. Williams, Samuel S. Carroll, Arthur S. Cunningham, Oliver P. Gooding, Edward G. Bush, Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Lorenzo Thomas, James W. Ripley, Ebenezer S. Sibley, Samuel P. Heintzelman, George B. McClellan, John C. Fremont, Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Irwin McDowell, William S. Rosecrans, Robert Anderson, Nathaniel H. McLean, Absalom Baird. John C. Kelton, Robert Williams, William D. Whipple, Chauncey McKeever, Albert V. Colburn, George D. Ruggles, Thomas M. Vincent, Henry L. Scott, Montgomery C. Meigs, Roger Jones, Otis H. Tillinghast, Rufus Saxton, Samuel B. Holabird, Judson D. Bingham, Stephen H. Weed, Grier Tallmadge, Alexander J. Perry, Henry C. Hodges, John G. Chandler, Robert O. Tyler, William Myers, William Craig, Charles G. Sawtelle, Edward L. Hartz, Augustus Boys, Charles W. Thomas, Alven C. Gillem, John McL. Taylor, Amos Beckwith, Beekman Du Barry, Robert Macfeely, Henry C. Symonds, William A. Hammond, Joseph P. Wright, Havilah M. Sprague, Charles C. Gray, William C. Spencer, Frances L. Town, Alexander Ingram, Peter V. Schenck, John W. S. Gonley, Dallas Bache, Blencawe E. Fryer, John H. Frantz, Webster Lindsly, Charles E. Goddard, Henry R. Silliman, Philip C. Davis, Joseph S. Smith, Charles J. Wilson, James F. Weeds, Charles B. White, George M. Sternberg, Brua Cameron, Robert A. Kinzie, George L. Fabiger, William S. Wallace, David Taggart, Adam D. Steuart, Henry C. Pratt, Simeon Frencis, Benjamin H. Gilbreth, Edwin N. Stebbins, John Feilner, James S. Brisbin, Augustus Pleasanté, George B. Sanford, Isaac Dunkelberger, John Adair, Charles W. Canfield, Robert E. Clary, David S. Gordon, Robert S. Smith, Charles McK. Loser, James F. McQuestion, George O. Sokatske, Charles H. Gibson, Francis H. Parker, Walter M. Wilson, Samuel W. Stockton, Malborne F. Walson, Eugene B. Beaumont, Michael J. Kelly, Edward M. McCook, Edward D. Baker, William W. Webb, Joseph C. Audenreid. Junius B. Holloway, Thomas Drummond, Julius W. Mason, Edward H. Leib, Joseph P. Ash, Charles E. Hazlett, Thomas M. Anderson, Leicester Walker, John B. McIntosh, Samuel S. Sumner, John R. Edie, George A. Custer, Lorenzo Thomas, jr., Edward B. Hill, William M. Maynadier, Edmund Kirby, Judson Kilpatrick, William A. Elderkin, Guy V. Henry, Adelbert Ames, John J. Rodgers, Samuel N. Benjamin, John W. Barlow, Francis A. Davis, Leroy