AMERICA.
We have telegraphic news from America to Jan 15. General Cameron had resigned the Secretaryship of War , baring done so, it is said at the suggestion of the President. He bad been appointed Minister to Russia in the place of Mr. Cassius M. Clay, who will take a command in the Federal army. Mr. A. M. Staunton had been chosen to iill the vacant secretaryship, but neither his appointment nor that of General Cameron to Russia, had beeu confirmed by the Senate. Some excitement had taken place in the House of Representatives in connection with the Trent affair. When tl:e bill for defraying the expense of forwarding the contributions of theUnited, States to the International Exhibition came berore the House, Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois delivered a violent speech on the sur render of the commissioners.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1710, 25 March 1862, Page 5
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