By the arrival of the Eliza Shairpe at Auckland we (Southern Cross) have Califor nian papers to the sth March. Several vessels had sailed for Auckland with breadstuff's.
WASHINGTON NEWS. New York, March 2, The Times' Washington special dispatch says the President is fully sustained by the Cabinet, and there will be no disruption. Washington, March 1. Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, was dismissed from her clerkship, in the Quarter-master General's Office, on Monday, for languuge disrespectful to the President in a little weekly paper edited by her. Maximilian's agent is floating about Washington in a very unobtrusive way. At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the Trea surer of the United States has invested the amount of twenty-two thousand dollars, voted to her by Congress, in five-twenty bonds. March 2. Thecongressional Committee for the circula tion of documents among the people, are arranging for the most thorough diffusion of such documents as will put all the questions connected with reconstruction fully and fairly before the country. It is charged that this Committee is bent upon sending nothing but the most radical speeches; but the character of the men composing the Committee is a sufficient guarantee of the falsity of this re port, and all opinions will be freely given.. The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill, as passed by the House, included the following: —For the survey of public lands in California, thirty thousand dollars; in Oregon and Wash ington territory, twenty thousand dollars each; in Nebraska, twenty thousand dollars; and in Colorado, ten thousand dollars.
