ico, and John Greiner, Indian agent, on the part of the United States, and certain chiefs acting in behalf of the Apache Nation of Indians, concluded at Santa Fé, New Mexico, on the first day of July, 1852, was read the first time. On motion by Mr. Borland, Ordered, That the treaty, with the message and accompanying documents, be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and printed in confidence for the use of the Senate. On motion by Mr. Atchison, The Senate adjourned. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1853. Mr. James presented resolutions of the legislature of Rhode Island relative to the imprisonment of James H. West, a citizen of the United States, and the seizure of his property by the authorities of the Island of Cuba; which were read. Ordered, That they be printed. Mr. Mason submitted the following resolution, which was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate copies of any correspondence relating to the imprisonment or detention in custody of James H. West, a citizen of the United States, at Saugua le Grande, in the Island of Cuba, and of the seizure of his property by the authorities of said island, together with all information connected therewith. The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Clayton, the 7th instant, respecting certain propositions for the settlement of the territorial controversies between the States and Governments bordering on the river San Juan; and, On motion by Mr. Douglas, Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow. The following messages were received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Webster, his secretary: To the Senate of the United States: I nominate Sidney Webster, of New Hampshire, to be secretary to the President, to sign patents for lands, in place of M. P. Fillmore, resigned. WASHINGTON, March 9, 1853. To the Senate of the United States: FRANKLIN PIERCE. I nominate William Henry Vesey, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United States for the port of Havre, in France, in place of Lorenzo Draper, recalled. WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1853. To the Senate of the United States: FRANKLIN PIERCE. I nominate John F. Bacon, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Nassau, in the Island of New Providence, in place of Timothy Darling, resigned. WASHINGTON, March 9, 1853. FRANKLIN PIERCE. To the Senate of the United States: I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for regular promotion and for appointment in the Army of the United States, as proposed by the Secretary of War. WASHINGTON, March 9, 1853. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WAR DEPARTMENT, March 9, 1853. SIR: I have the honor to lay before you the following list of persons for regular promotion and for appointment in the Army of the United States: I. REGULAR PROMOTIONS. Ordnance Department. Second Lieutenant Charles P. Stone to be first lieutenant, February 26, 1853, vice Dearborn, deceased. Brevet Second Lieutenant George T. Balch to be second lieutenant, February 26, 1853, vice Stone, promoted. First Regiment of Dragoons. First Lieutenant John W. T. Gardiner to be captain October 9, 1851, vice Kearny, resigned. Second Lieutenant John Adams to be first lieutenant, October 9, 1851, vice Gardiner, promoted. Second Lieutenant Thomas F. Castor to be first lieutenant, October 9, 1851, vice Couts, resigned. Second Lieutenant Orren Chapman to be first lieutenant, February 1, 1853, vice Love, resigned. Brevet Second Lieutenant William T. Magruder to be second lieutenant, October 9, 1851, vice Castor, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Robert Ransom, junior, to be second lieutenant, October 9, 1851, vice Adams, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Robert Johnston to be second lieutenant, February 1, 1853, vice Chapman, promoted. Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Second Lieutenant Dabuey H. Maury to be first lieutenant, January 27, 1853, vice Hawkins, dismissed. Second Lieutenant Innis N. Palmer, adjutant of his regiment, to be first lieutenant, January 27, 1853. Brevet Second Lieutenant Joseph G. Tilford to be second lieutenant, January 27, 1853, vice Maury, promoted. Second Regiment of Artillery. Second Lieutenant Henry Benson to be first lieutenant, March 2, 1853, vice Ripley, resigned. First Regiment of Infantry. First Lieutenant Joseph B. Plummer to be captain, May 1, 1852, vice La Motte, promoted major in the Fifth Regiment of Infantry. Second Lieutenant Andrew G. Miller to be first lieutenant, May 1, 1852, vice Plummer, promoted. Second Lieutenant Daniel Huston, jr., to be first lieutenant, December 31, 1852, vice Brewerton, resigned. Brevet Second Lieutenant James B. Greene to be second lieutenant, May 1, 1852, vice Miller, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Charles R. Woods to be second lieutenant, July 31, 1852, vice Alvord, resigned. Brevet Second Lieutenant Peter T. Swaine to be second lieutenant, December 31, 1852, vice Huston, promoted. Second Regiment of Infantry. Captain Hannibal Day to be major, February 23, 1852, vice Seawell, promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Regiment of Infantry. Captain William R. Montgomery, of the Eighth Regiment of Infantry, to be major, December 7, 1852, vice Miller, promoted. First Lieutenant Alfred Sully to be captain, February 23, 1852, vice Day, promoted. First Lieutenant Edward Murray to be captain, January 8, 1853, vice Westcott, deceased. Second Lieutenant George H. Paige to be first lieutenant, February 23, 1852, vice Sully, promoted. Second Lieutenant Nathaniel H. McLean to be first lieutenant, January 8, 1853, vice Murray, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Adolphus F. Bond to be second lieutenant, February 23, 1852, vice Paige, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Marshall T. Polk to be second lieutenant, January 8, 1853, vice McLean, promoted. Fifth Regiment of Infantry. Captain Joseph H. La Motte, of the First Regiment of Infantry, to be major, May 1, 1852, vice Abercrombie, promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Second Regiment of Infantry. Sixth Regiment of Infantry. Captain Albemarle Cady to be major, January 27, 1853, vice Kingsbury, dismissed. First Lieutenant Thomas Hendrickson to be captain, January 27, 1853, vice Cady, promoted. Second Lieutenant Winfield S. Hancock to be first lieutenant, January 27, 1853, vice Hendrickson, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Robert E. Patterson to be second lieutenant, January 27, 1853, vice Hancock, promoted. Eighth Regiment of Infantry. First Lieutenant James Longstreet to be captain, December 7, 1852, vice Montgomery, promoted major in the Second Regiment of Infantry. Second Lieutenant Horace Haldeman to be first lieutenant, September 13, 1852, vice Street, deceased. Second Lieutenant Theodore Fink to be first lieutenant, December 7, 1852, vice Longstreet, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Robert G. Cole to be second lieutenant, May 25, 1852, vice Bold, deceased. Brevet Second Lieutenant Frederick M. Follett to be second lieutenant, September 13, 1852, vice Haldeman, promoted. Brevet Second Lieutenant Melancthon Smith to be second lieuten ant, December 7, 1852, vice Fink, promoted. II. APPOINTMENTS. Adjutant-General's Department. First Lieutenant David R. Jones, of the Second Regiment of Infantry, to be assistant adjutant-general with the brevet rank of captain, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Assistant Adjutant-General Joseph Hooker. Medical Department. T. Charleton Henry, of Pennsylvania, to be an assistant surgeon, vice James W. Russell, resigned, to date from March 1, 1853. Second Regiment of Artillery. Benjamin P. McNeil, of New Hampshire, to be second lieutenant, March 2, 1853, vice Benson, promoted. I am, sir, with great respect, your ob't ser❜t, JEFFER. DAVIS, To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The messages were read. The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider the nomination of Sidney Webster; and Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to his appointment, agreeably to the nomination. Ordered, That the nominations of William Henry Vesey and John F. Bacon be referred to the Committee on Commerce. Ordered, That the nominations of Charles P. Stone and others for promotion and appointment in the Army be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred, on the 24th February last, the convention between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty for the adjustment of certain claims of citizens of the United States on the British Government and of British subjects on the Government of the United States, concluded at London the 8th day of February, 1853, reported it without amendment. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred, on the 15th December last, the convention between the United States of America and Belgium, for regulating the right of inheriting and acquiring property, concluded at the city of Washington the 25th day of August, 1852, reported it without amendment. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred, the 7th February last, the new draft of a general convention of friendship, reciprocal establishments, commerce, and for the surrender of fugitive criminals between the United States of America and the Swiss Confederation, concluded at the city of Berne the 25th November, 1850, reported it without amendment. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred, the 24th February last, the treaty of extradition between the United States and Belgium, concluded at Washington the 11th February, 1853, reported it without amendment. The said treaty was read the second time, and considered as in Committee of the Whole; and, On motion by Mr. Mason, Ordered, That it lie on the table. The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the convention for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases, concluded between the United States on the one part, and Prussia and other states of the Germanic Confederation on the other part, at Washington the 6th June, 1852; and no amendment being made thereto, it was reported to the Senate. Mr. Mason submitted the following resolution for consideration: Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the convention for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases, concluded between the United States on the one part, and Prussia and other states of the Germanic Confederation on the other part, at Washington the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. On motion by Mr. Weller, The Senate adjourned. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1853. The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Clayton in relation to certain documents relating to the territorial controversies between the states and Governments bordering on the river San Juan and the conflicting claims of Great Britain and the state of Honduras; and, After debate, Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Cooper submitted the following resolution; which was considered, by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Reolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, required to communicate to the Senate the contract entered into with Messrs. Howland and Aspinwall for supplying the Japan squadron with coal; the price per ton which the said coal will cost delivered in the Chinese seas; the amount of commissions and insurance, respectively; together with the rate of exchange which the Government will be required to pay for such of the coal as may be purchased in England; that the Secretary be also required to inform the Senate whether offers were made by other parties than Messrs. Howlands and Aspinwall to supply the above-named squadron with coal, by delivering the same at such places as might be designated in the Chinese seas; the prices per ton at which these parties proposed to deliver it, stating particularly the rates at which anthracite, American bituminous, and English bituminous were respectively offered; and whether, after these offers had been made, a contract at higher prices was not entered into with Messrs. Howland and Aspinwall for English coal; that the Secretary be further required to inform the Senate whether, previous to the time of contracting for the supply of the said squadron with coal, the Government had not regularly authorized agents employed for the express purpose of purchasing and inspecting all coal necessary for the supply of the Navy, |