anu mv- *iuuov UUIVUILHU.Senate, Jau. 27,—Gen. Shields of Missouri, look the oath of office end his seut. A large number of bills was referred, among then, one for reorganizing the militia of the United dtates. Senator Edmunds introduced a joiut resolutiou proposing ail amendment to the constitution prohibiting the paymentof administrators 01 disloyal persons for propeity injured or destroyed in the war of the rebellion scored on the callendar. A bill appropriating 1-10,000 for the establishment of a inllltury post at El Paso,Texas, passed. House bill to pay Catherine and Sophia German $2,500, out of anuuities due the Cheyenne Indians, *licy baviug been captured by said Indians, passed without discussion. The bill to pay Warren Mitcbcll for cotton taken duriug the war of the rebellion was taken up and ltd to a long discussion, which was inte.rupted by the Senate going into executive s issioa