Congressional

Congress appears to have become more than commonly indolent. The Senate adjourns and adjourns, and the House meets often at eleven o'clock with no quorum. We mentioned last week that the House was trying to reduce the pay of the pages from $2,00 to$l,50 per day, which would be asaving of $5,00 a day. This was laid over. Since that a House Committee has proposed retrenchment in great style in the war department, to wit:1 he pay oí a dragoon is to be reduced from #8 to $'6 a month; ihat of a foot soldier from $7 to $G. How long will it be at this rato of retrenchment before the laboring people of this country will be complete serviles to the "upper classes" - mere appendages of aristocratie dignity? Here we see men who receive eight dollars a day (and the perquisites of a part of them amount to eight dollars a day more,) proposing to legislate (tthe mokthly pay of the laborer from seven to six dollars!, - What say Fourierists to this'? Mr. Calhoun is oxpected to accept the nomination for Secretary of State, but nothing is known defiaitely. Mr. Semple's resolution to give notice to the British to quit Oregon, was lost in the Senate, yeas 18, nays'25..