Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-06
From Washington.

| WASHINGTON, July 1.-The Senate organ
| ized-Powell and Breckenridge of Kentucky
| Polk, of Missouri, johnson, of Tennessee aud
| Kennedy and Pierce of Maryland, in their
| seats.
| The credentials of Lane aud Pomeroy,
| (Pomeroy for the long term,l of Kansas,
Browning, of Illinois and McDougal, of Cal
! ifOrnia, were presented.
Copies of Navy Contracts were demanded.
Wilson introduces bill tomorrow to con-
| firm the acts of the President.
Notice was given of the bills to employ
volunteers and enforcing the laws, to increase
the military establishment for the better or
ganiz alton of the military, to promote the
efficiency and organization of the volunteer
and militia force. to be called the United
States National Guard.
Dickens resigned the Secretaryship.
Adjourned.
Alexandra is quiet; two Southern balloons
are in sight reconoiteriDg.
WASHINGTON, July 4.-HOUsE.-I50 men,
bers answered to their names.
Colfax withdrew his claim for speaker and
Hickman nominated Blair. Galleries APP
plauded.) Grow was also nominated
No choice on the first ballot when Blair
withdrew. The second ballot stood, Grow
SO, Blair IL, and Crittenden II.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-Etheridge, of Ten
| nessee, is elected Clerk OF the House.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-Pattcrson is report
ed having reached Martinsburg yesterday,
the Confederates retiring as he advances.
The Confederates loss at the river was 60
killed.
Eight miles from the river the Confederate s
are in a position for a renewal of the fight.
Mallory, OF Kentucky, nominated Ether
idge.
WASHINGTON. July 5-Senate.--A bill was
introduced confiscating the property of civil
and military officers above the rank of Lieu
tenant. aid disqualifying from holding office
of profit or honor. The traitors properly to
be applied to the restorrtion OF the Union
The resigning Clerk is Joseph Nicholson,
and not Ashbur Dickens.
FORTRESS MoNRoE.-A- truce bearing the
British Consul, who wished officially to visit
Baltimore, was refused recognition by String
ham.
From Boston.
BosToN, July A terrible confagration
to-day, destroying East Boston Wharves and
Salt Warehouse, Suff,lk Mills, East Boston
Iron Foundry, Machine Shops of the Section
al Dock and Marine Railway, the Marine and
Chemical Warehouse, 100 dwellings, a large
amount OF lumber and timber and marine
stores, the moulds for Paul Curtise's new
gun boat, four vessels totally aud i've badly
damaged, also twelve dwellings elsewhere in
the city.
From st. Louis.
ST. Louis, July 4.-Official information
places Seigel at Mount Vernon, Lawrence
county, with strong forces. jackson is across
the Arkansas line.
From Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, July 5. No goods are going
forward. The merchants are generally with
drawing stocks from the Depot. 1t is deter
mined to send no train beyond Bowling
Green at present. The Directors of the road
are undecided AS to the Memphis branch, but
on neither road will trains go beyond the
State line.
From New York.
New York, July 5.-The London Money
Market Review says: We have habitualIy re-
earned the United States with respect as q
provider of cotton. whereby four millions of
our people subsisted. Let US not forget that
we must now transfer this feeling to the Con-
federates.
From Fortress Monroe.
FORTRESS MONROE, July 5.-Tne Federal
steamer Catalina is burnt.
From Indiana.
INDrANAPOIIs, July 5.--Tne 18th regiment
aud a company Of Cavalry, armed with
Sharp's carbiues and revolvers, leave to-day
for Virginia.