The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-07
Names Of Vessels Captured or Calves
ton and the Florida Coast.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM ALBANY.
Meeting Of the Republican State
Central Committee.
lfoposed Union Of the Republican and Demo
cratic Parties on Union Platform,
&e., Ac., &c.
oCR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

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........ WASHINGTON, August 8, 1861
CLOSING SCENES or THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
OF CONGRESS-.
The Senate was m executive session until twelve
ecleck last night The following nominations for Brga
der Generals addition those heretofore announced
wore, IL 10 said, conhrmed,--
Acssrs. Stephen 4. Hurburt John A. McClerDand,
Robert c. schcnck, Ulysses s. Grant, Edward D. Baker
Nathaniel Lyon j. D. Cox, B. NJ prcntiss Robert Andcr
son Rufus King, Franz Segel and David Couch
The principal officers for tho army regiments were
al confirmed while the reflections comprised only afew
tho minor appointments
Lieutenant Colonel Emory's nomination Was also cen
Armed.
he President several Members Of the Cabinet were
q Capitol this morning. attending to the
approval d bills.
All the bills which passed. both houses approved
BY the President who yielded reluctant approval OF
thai for the oonscaon Of property used for rsbeious
purposes.
Yesterday each House provided separately for On in
the pay Of volunteers and regular soldiers four
dollars month but finally they united bill which
win Increase the pay only two dollars month.
Many members Of both houses leave to-day for their
homes
Senator Latham will not return TO California during the
rccess but will remain transact the business Of his
constituents.
recent law Of Congress- authorizes the Secretary Of
War and the Secretary Of the Navy under the direction
and approval Of the President to assemble board
10 determine the facts as to the nature and
occasion Of the disability Of such officers as
appear incapable Of performing military service, with
view to their reracy from the army and marine corps
The report Of the board subject TO the Presidents
approval Those who may be retired to receive the
%
the time Of their retirement, and four rations per
day, without any other pay, emolumens allowances
But exception made favor Of Brevet Lieutenant
General Scott Should he be this it shall
be without reduction in his pay, subsistence
allowances
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
M following diplomatic appointments sent TO the
Senate and confirmed to-day;-Ey Governor Alexander W.
Randall Of Wisconsin, Minister to Rome John E. Love-
Joy, Of Illinois, Consul at CalIao.
The Senate has confirmed George W. Peck, of New York,
a. Consul to Gambia, in the Turkish domnions.
The name Of John Day, Of Bedford New York, Is
stoned in prominent connection with the Austrian mission
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
Tho Senate has confirmed Commanders Craven Hall,
LArncr and Foote be Captains in the Navy, and the
following named Leutenants to be Commanders-D. D.
Porter, Amy A. n. Craven, Strong Fraley, Baldwin,
Parrot, Wainwright Renshaw sarori Lanier Stanley,
Stemhel, Coivocoressis and Brasher.
Various promotions TO Leutenants have been made,
Including Edward A. Selden, Charles Graves George
B. Law.
The Senate has also confirmed o large number OF Sur
geons and Assistant Surgeons Leutenants Of Marine
Corps and the following named Assistant Engineers be
Chief Engineers-Georgo R. johnson John W. Moore Jas
B. Kimball, Alexander Henderson and Stephen D. Hib-
bort.
THE INCREASED PAY OF THE ARMY AND NAVY.
The increase Of four dollars per month in the pay Of
soldiers sailors and Marines authorized by Congress- will
ncrcas the expenses of three hundred thou.
sand men seven millions per annum, Eve hundred
thousand mon, twelve millions
There is no increase Of officers pay.
The bills passed by the House increasing the number Of
cadets and midshipmen failed in the Senate.
rrECT OF THE UNION VICTORY IN KENTUCKY.
Tho news from Kentucky has aroused the widest en-
thusasm here When it waa announced in the House
Of Representatives adjournment by the venerable
Ex-Governor Or. Wcke), with the declaration, tina,
"Kentucky the first adopt the constitution and
would be the last desert the thunder Of applause
from the floor and the galleries shook the solid walls
Of the Capitol It was rrepressble outburst Of pa
triotic feeling.
This moral victory will DO followed Immediately BY q
physical not less magnificent There this
mont ten thousand organized Union in Kentucky
only waiting tho accomplishment Of this victory the
ballot box TO tako the field, and with their unerrng
rifles drive the rebel forces out Of Kentucky and Tonnes
zee. The Kentucky Legion II now ready to be mustered
into service, and the men burning with desire aid
their Union ncghbors In Tennessee to free themselves
from the despotsm Of the Davis mobocracy.
CAPTURES ny THE BL0cKAprYo SQUADRON OFF GAL.
WESTON AND FLORIDA.
The Navy Department Is in receipt Of Official advlces
from the Gulf squadron On the 9Th Of July OF Calves.