HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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The House was engaged all day on the bill
authorizing the President TO appoint TWO adj
dltlonal Major Generals and four Brigadier
Generals. For three hours it was debated,
and during two hours amendments were Of.
tered. One OF them reduced the number Of
Major Generals to one, and the Brigadier Gen
erals TO two; another extends the articles Of
war beyond the limits Of the United States,
that soldiers or camp followers may be pun
ished for crime, after trial by Court Martial.


Without disposing Of the bill, the House,
at O'Clock, adjourned.