Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
BY THE NATIONAL LINE.
REPORTS Furnished by the Associated Press.l


HALIFAX, January 1O-rhe Cunard steamship
America has arrived from Liverpool, with dates to
the Sd.
Money unchanged and active. ConsOls Oh ac-
count 94a941
All qualities of cotton considerably advanced;
advance on the week, ID Sales of two days %, 600
Interpretations and exporters taking 500 bales.
Fair Orleans II; middng Orleans u; fair Mobile
7s; middling Mobile II; stock at Liverpool 200. 900
bales, Of which l73, 900 are American. Sales Of
Friday are estimated at II, 00Oibales-closing firm.
Breadstuffs are steady. Wheat generally adj
vanced 81. Corn Is. Provisions are dull. Naval
stores unchanged and inactive
Manchester advces are favorable. Barring Bros.
L Co. quote iron firm, With an advancing tendency.
At Havre cotton is quoted at O6 flames for
New Orleans Tres Ordinaire.
Bullion in the Bank of England has decreased
goo, 900.
Tea has advanced lIs. Sugar steady.
Chinese news is fully confirmed. The Americans
we're also engaged against the Chinese.
The U. S. ship Portsmouth had destroyed one of
their forts in consequence of an insult given the
American flag.
The Congress at Paris was proceeding satisfac>
toriIy.
The Swiss difficulties was clearing up.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 19.-Flour firm, at S. 40.
Whisky active, at % 2SSc. Provisions, Wheat
and Corn firm. Groceries in moderate demand.
FURTHER BY THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
New York, Jan. 7.-China-Bogue forts were
captured. The foreign factories were evacuated,
and much property was b1rned, and commerce
paralyzed.
Recent intelligence from Prussia and Switzerland
is favorable; although they were making warlike
preparations.
The demands of Prussia were d;.sesHishing. It is
said that Napoleon has made coneIFatory offers of
arrangement to the federal authorities.
The American Envoy offered loan OF $1,000, =
600 TO Sw txerland.
Austria strongly protests against the war;
The Wertemberg Chambers protest againt troops
crossing their territory.
The first troops passed through Berne on the
22d, en- route TO Basic. $4,000 are en- route to
Rheinstadt and the same number to Schaffhausen.
Count Kdsef, the Russian Ambassador to Paris,
has formally agreed to the Bessarabian frontier,
as proposed by the Allies.
The new Minister to Washington has been Sc
lected. He will be here about the 4th of March;
his name has not yet transpired.
There are rumors in France of another loan of
lS0 900, 900.
The Swiss residents at Paris have demanded
their passports home.
Several French ships Of war are fitting out for
China
WASHINGTON Jan. 17.-Kineman and Pike, cor
respondents for the press, and Chase, of New York,
were examined to-day before the committee.
The House was brought to abrupt adjourn
ment this afternoon by Giddings, while speaking
on private bill, being seized with atrophy of the
heart, he fell aud was carried to the lobby, and
from thence to the Speakers room. He was at
tended by medical men in Congress-then by the
city physicians He removed TO his lodgings
in the evening, when there were prospects OF his
recovery and he was improving, when ne had
second attack much more severe than the former
one.