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Show M'A.SiaiXUTOIV. Washington, 22 Captain J. G. Isham, formerly of the Pacific mail scrvieo and of lata years a resident on tho Pacific coast ol Mexico is hero endeavoring to obtain au appointment ns consul general to tho city of Mexico. ThcHOiilhcrn democratic members ot tho house were much excited to-day by Brayg'a denunciation ol their advocacy of the southern claims. Hia taunting intimation that they adhered to the democratic party mainly us a means of opvu-iufc opvu-iufc Iho doors of the t reinjury and his sneering remark that it tbuy insisle'd that he and other northern democrats should become liberal they would go over to tha republicans. sliTfd up fiielitigs of anger and bitter resentment, which tho reported proceedings pro-ceedings but faintly indicate, and his subsequent intimation Hmt tho democrats demo-crats would bo stronger in the north if freed fre(m the suspicion of an . allinnco with the southern claim ud , vueales, was ho exasperating lo many of the- auditors that not a few of them, to-night, predict serioua dissensions and divisions within the party ranks, aa likely to grow out of it. Tho heati d discussion will be 'resumed at an early day, probably to-morrow, unless Speaker Randall disappoiuta the expect a tiona of the republicans by contriving to postpone 'tho "family quarrel," if he cannot entirely smother it. Avery noticc-able noticc-able feature of to-dny'n dobatu was tbe , double asBortion of Ellis, of Louisiana, j that ho was willing t.) debar southern 1 claims by a consul nilonal amend-I amend-I ment aud that tho confederates woro !ub truo to the democratic party as j General Bragg, for they had gono i tn war in obedience lo clemocratio ' teachings aa they understood them. |