Senate it is still under consideration. We have already recorded the
attempt and failure of the Legislature to elect a Senator in the
Congress of the United States. On the 18th of March the effort was
renewed by a joint resolution, and after a session protracted until two
hours after midnight, it resulted, through the absence of two Democratic
Senators, in the choice, by separate nomination of each House, of
HAMILTON FISH. In the Senate there were 16 votes for, and 12 against
him. In the House he received 68 votes and there were but 8 against him.
He has accepted the office.--The members of the Legislature and the
State Officers paid a visit of three days to the City of New York, on
the invitation of the Mayor and Common Council. They visited the
different public and charitable institutions, of this city and Brooklyn;
and were entertained at a public dinner at the Astor House, on the
evening of March 22d. This is the first visit of the kind ever made.--A
bill for the suppression of gambling, containing some stringent
provisions, having been introduced into the Senate, and referred to a
committee of three, GEORGE W. BULL, sergeant-at-arms of that body,
endeavored to enter into negotiations with the reputed proprietor of a
gambling "hell" in New York to delay or defeat the bill, for an adequate
compensation. He managed to procure a note from the committee to the
effect that the bill would not come up the present session. The attempt
was exposed, and the offender forthwith dismissed from his office. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to implicate the senatorial committee in
this scandalous affair, upon the ground that they could not have been
ignorant of the purpose for which their note was procured.

Nothing of special importance has occurred in any section of the
country. In Ohio the Legislature has adopted a series of resolutions
concerning the Fugitive Slave law, urging a faithful execution of the
law, but recommending such modifications as experience may prove to be
essential. In view of the Act of the Legislature of South Carolina,
providing for the appointment of delegates to a Southern Congress, the
General Assembly of Virginia has passed a series of resolutions to the
following purport: 1. That while Virginia sympathizes in the feelings
excited by the interference of the non-slaveholding States with the
domestic institutions of the South, yet the people of that State "are
unwilling to take any action, in consequence