Show LATEST LATE ST EASTERN EAST ERN NEWS by the st joseph mail which arrived on monday in the forenoon w we e 1 have dates batea from new york and washington to jan 26 the the news does not seem to be ve very ry important no speaker had been elected arid the daily proceedings proceeded Z s and discussions were about as stormy as ever on the after a lengthy len C thy debate in which many members participated mr etheridge za made a humorous speech which put the members all in good humor and prepared them to take a vote after a call of the house a vote for speaker was taken with the fol foi following lowin result whole number of votes necessary to a choice j sherman low 3 bocock 51 smith of north carolina 26 the remainder were scattered amon among 0 a dozen other gentlemen previous to that date the roll of the F house 1 ouse had not been called for nearly two we weeks eks A bill appropriating appropriation 12 for a state armory has passed the legislature b of virginia the message of the governor of louisiana to the legislature of that state recommends that the state be prepared to meet its sister states of the south in convention in case of certain contingencies favors retaliating upon the hostility of the north by licensing 0 and inflicting discrimination against northern goods amounting to an absolute prohibition the house passed a joint resolution declaring in 0 the harpers ferry affair an attack on the ri rights lits and privileges 0 of or the south and alle alie alleging 9 in that the hostility of the north and the election election of a republican president will cause a dissolution of the union mail contractors in different parts of the union have declared to the department b by y I 1 letter that if no appropriation is made by the first of march they intend to cease carrying the mails on their respective lines great complaints are made because the tile money due the united U imail states by the postmasters upon these mail mall routes and which they in many cases would be glad to get rid of cannot be levied upon by the contractors these moneys received by postmasters are of the treasury virtually and cannot be used unless appropriated I 1 by congress |