Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-21

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From Missouri.
ST. CHARLES, July 1e.-Brig-Gen. Pope,
| of illinois, in his proclamation says offenders
will be dealt with in the most summary
manner, without waiting civil process.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-An official dis
patch dated clock Friday, says there has
been no lighting since yesterday.
At the time of closing the dispatch the
armies were in sight of each other.
The Keystone State will convoy the Nor
thern Light.
HOUSE.--The bill appointing an Assistant
Secretary of War and enlarging the War b.
reau, passed.
An official dispatch from Mcclellan, da-
ted Beverly 18th says, Gen. Cox drove 600
Of Wise's command out of Barbourville.
WASHINGTON, July 2O.-Mansfield has or
dered that fugitive slaves On no pretext
shall be permitted to reside or march with
the army.
From Ohio.
CINCINNATI July 2O--The Kanawha cor
respondent of the Gazette dated noon 18th
says, two regiments with two guns and the
lrOntOD cavalry were ordered to reconnoiter
Pope's Greek. On reaching the Greek they
found the Virginians 1900 strongly en-
trenched, with a masked battery of guns.
The Federalists fired 40 rounds and silenced
the battery, but their ammunition giving out
retired. The battery opened on the FedeI-
alists as they retired, killing Capt. Allen and
Lieut.. Pomeroy. and badly wounding and
capturing Col. Merton, of the 2lst Ohio re-
giment.
Col Woodruff and Lieut. Col. Neff. of the
bogus Kentucky, and Col. Devillers of the
Ohio 1lth regiments, left Cox,'s camp on the
eth, and as they have not returned are sup
posed to be killed or captured.
From Virginia.
BULL CREEK, Friday, Atternoou.-There
has been no firing to-day.
The Confederates are still in possession of
the three principal batteries.
With the glass large bodies of men are
seen moving right and left.
There are no indications of retreat.
There will probably be no general forward
crates provoke it.
WASHINGTON, July 2O.-Patterson' s divis-
ion is moving on Winchester slowly and eau
tiensly.
Seigel is appointed Brigadier General.
The Post says Banks supersedes Patterson
and Dix succeeds Banks.
Craig reports that we have intelligence
from Bulls Run to last evening, and Fair
fax to this morning. The fighting was not
renewed except by pickets, who are very
close. The armies are only mile apart.
Tyler made general reconnaissance yes
terday, but made no noteworthy discoveries.
The largest house in Centreville was burned
down.
From Boston.
BosToN, July 2O.-The Inward Freight De-
Dot OF the Boston main railroad is burned.
From Fortress Monroe.
FORTRESS MONROE. July 20,-A scouting
party was surprised. Three Federals killed.
From Louisville.
LOUSY LILLE, July 20.-Gen. Buckner, Col.
Hunt and several other officers of the State
Guard have resigned.
Cotton refuses to issue permits to ship to
Russellville or Bowling Green.
Trunks of citizens of Kentucky travelling
from here to their homes near the border are
examined.
After to-day but one train leaves daily, at
8 O'Clock, morning.
CINCINNATI, July 20 5000 Confederates
are at Romney.
Mcclellan returns to Cincinnati to see his
family.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
RICHMOND, July 2O.-President Davis says,
in his previous message be called the atten-
ton of Congress to the causes which formed
the Confederacy, and is now only necessary
to call attention to such facts as have occur
red during the recess, and to matters connect
ed with the public defence. He congratu
lates Congress on accessions to the Confede-
racy of free and equal sovereign States, NEIL
Il "a 1xv.,
able to remove the several Departments and
archives to Richmond, to which place Con-
gress had already removed the seat of gov
After the adjournment of Congress the
aggressive movements of the enemy re-
quired prompt and energetic action. The
accumulation of the enemy's forces on the
Potomac sufficiently demonstrated that his
efforts were directed against Virginia, and
from no point could the necessary measures
for defence and protection be so efficiently
directed as from our own Capitol. The ra-
pid progress of the last five months has
stripped the veil behind which the true
policy and purpose of the Lincoln Govern
ment were concealed and which are now full
ly revealed.
The Message of their President and action
of their Congress, the present session, confess
the intention of subjugating seeding States
ny wal TIC lOtly vi WHiCu 10 StiuoilCu Ouiy
by it's wickedness, war in which it is impos-
sible to attain the proposed result, whilst its
dire calamities cannot be avoided by us will
fall with double severity on themselves
in March last with the affecta-
tiOn of the ignorance of the secession of sev
en- Steates which had organized the Confede-
rate Government, persisting in April in the
absurd assumption of the existence of a riot
which was to be dispersed by posse conf
-.
false representations that these States intend
ed offensive war in spite of the conclusive
evidence to the contrary, furnished as well
by official action as by ithe bssis of the Con.
stititutiOn.
The President of the United States and ad-
visers succeeded in deceiving the people of
those States into the belief that the purpose
of this Government was not peace at home
but conquest abroad, not defence of our lib
critics but the subversion of that of the peo-
pie of the United States. The series of ma
neuvres by which this impression was Great
ed, the art by which they were devised an d
the perfdy by which they were executed,
are already known, but it could not be sup
posed that they would be openly made, and
their success be made the subject of boast
and self-laudation in an Executive message.
Fortunately for the truth of history, Lin
coins message infinitely details the attempt
TO reinforce Fort Piekens in violation of an
armistice, of which he confesses he had been
informed but only by rumOrs too vagne and
uncertain to create attention. The hostile
expedition to supply Fort Sumter, admitted
to have been undertaken with a knowledge
that it's success was impossible, the sending
notice to the Governor of South Carolina of
the intention to use force to accomplish the
object, nd quoting from bis inaugural "that
there would be no conflict unless these States