JOURNAL OF THE EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. [Second session Thirty-fifth Congress, 1858 and 1859.] MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1858. The following messages were received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Henry, his secretary : To the Senate of the United States: I nominate J. Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria. JAMES BUCHANAN. WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : I nominate John E. Ward, of Georgia, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to China, in place of William B. Reed, resigned. WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I nominate William Preston, of Kentucky, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain, in place of A. C. Dodge, resigned. WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and China, signed at Tientsin, by the plenipotentiaries of the parties, on the eighteenth day of June last. WASHINGTON, 7th December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratifica. tion, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Japan, concluded at the city of Yeddo on the 29th of July last. WASHINGTON, December 7, 1858. JAMES BUCHANAN. To the Senate of the United States: I hereby nominate Morris Lindsay to be deputy postmaster at Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, in place of J. W. Keyes, removed, the said Lindsay having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. WASHINGTON, 10 Dec., 1858. To the Senate of the United States : I hereby nominate William Seaver to be deputy postmaster at Batavia, in the county of Genesee, and State of New York, whose commission expired on the fourth day of August, 1858, the said Seaver having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate George M. Chapman to be deputy postmaster at Canandaigua, in the county of Ontario, and State of New York, in place of Nicholas G. Cheesebro, whose commission expired on the second day of August, 1858, the said Chapman having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Nicholas E. Paine to be deputy postmaster at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, in place of H. S. Allis, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1858, the said Paine having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Lewis S. Ayres to be deputy postmaster at Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and State of New York, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1858, the said Ayres having been reappointed during last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Thomas F. Hooper to be deputy postmaster at Benicia, in the county of Solano and State of California, his commission having expired on the second of August, 1858, and who was reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate John Galbraith to be deputy postmaster at Belvi. dere, in the county of Boone and State of Illinois, in place of John Saxton, removed, the said Galbraith having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. To the Senate of the United States: I hereby nominate William Woods to be deputy postmaster at Madison, in the county of Morgan and State of Georgia, in place of J. S. Walker, deceased, the said Woods having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate James E. Lewis to be deputy postmaster at Newark, in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, in place of Wm. Bell, jr., resigned, the said Lewis having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Josiah Gale to be deputy postmaster at Galesburgh, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, in place of G. C. Lamphere, removed, the said Gale having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Lloyd Bowers to be deputy postmaster at Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, in place of T. L. Toulmin, resigned, the said Bowers having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Henry W. Baker to be deputy postmaster at Abingdon, in the county of Washington and State of Virginia, in place of L. Baugh, resigned, the said Baker having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate George W. Raney to be deputy postmaster at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, in place of Peter Sweat, removed, the said Raney having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10th, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate William H. Carlin to be deputy postmaster at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, in the place of Austin Brooks, removed, the said Carlin having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. To the Senate of the United States : I hereby nominate Freeman Brady, sr., to be deputy postmaster at Washington, in the county of Washington and State of Pennsylvania, the said Brady having been appointed in place of George W. Aiken, removed, and erroneously confirmed by the name of Francis Brady, on the third of June last, and reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate John A. Vanderlip to be deputy postmaster at Danville, in the county of Livingston and State of New York, in place of Merritt H. Brown, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1868, the said Vanderlip having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate og the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Burnett D. Vandruver to be deputy postmaster at Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, in place of Geo. D. McElheney, removed, the said Vandruver having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States : JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Asher Torrance to be deputy postmaster at Lockport, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, whose commission expired on the fourth of August, 1858, the said Torrance having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Joseph Casterline, jr., to be deputy postmaster at Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1858, the said Casterline having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate John K. Cooke to be deputy postmaster at Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, whose commission expired on the fifth of August, 1858, the said Cooke having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Horatio N. Johnson to be deputy postmaster at Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1858, the said Johnson having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: I hereby nominate Eleazer B. Collings to be deputy postmaster at Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, in place of Jacob Sorber, resigned, the said Collings having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Samuel Birdsall to be deputy postmaster at Waterloo, in the county of Seneca and State of New York, whose commission expired on the second of August, 1858, the said Birdsall having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Alanson T. Drake to be deputy postmaster at LeRoy, in the county of Genesee and State of New York, whose commission expired on the fourth of August, 1858, the said Drake having been reappointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Joseph M. Lyon to be deputy postmaster at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, in place of Isaiah Tiffany, whose commission expired on the fourth of August, 1858, the said Lyon having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: I hereby nominate Patrick Gratton to be deputy postmaster at West Troy, in the county of Albany and State of New York, in place of Isaac Hitchcock, whose commission expired on the fourth of August, 1858, the said Gratton having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. WASHINGTON, 10 December, 1858. To the Senate of the United States: JAMES BUCHANAN. I hereby nominate Philip B. Shepherd to be deputy postmaster at Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, in place of J. P. Post, removed, the said Shepherd having been appointed during the last recess of the Senate. JAMES BUCHANAN. |