Mr. C. J. INGERSOLL offered the following joint resolution, which was read and laid over:

Whereas it is as much the right as it is the interest of the people of this, the oldest and freest of confederated republican commonwealths, to sympathize and rejoice with all others following our example, and, above all, that great German nation from whom not only we but most of our English ancestors and institutions are descended: Therefore, be it

Resolved, &c., That their congratulations are tendered to the United German Confederation, lately founded on the great principles of the sovereignty of the people in sovereign States, to govern themselves without hereditary rulers, whereby forty millions of Germans may be peaceably restored to the first rank among great nations; and that the President of the United States is hereby requested to transmit a copy of this resolution through the American Minister accredited to the German Confederation.