The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-23

further interrogations OF Sen. Sigel pre-
judicial TO bis case, the other witness,
Capt. Dahlgren, might be called. Gen.
Med. said BE- did not so prefer, but in
sisted on the manifest improperly Of
CaptD. remaining iOngor in the room, as
hewas TO be examined on the same point |
The Court then requested Capt. ID. TO |
leave the room, and be ready to appear
when required The remainder OF Gen.
Sigeps testimony was substantially the
same as the foregoing.
The Navy Department. has been in
formed by Lieutenant Commanding Eng
fish, of the Sycamore, that he recently
captured the schooner By George, from
Nassau, N. p, with an assorted cargo Of
coffee, salt, &c, and sent her to Key
West
II is understood that the Secretary of
the Treasury has completed bis finance
bill, recommending a nine hundred mil
lion loan at not over 7:30 per cent, and
the repeal of the five twenty conversion
act. He adheres firmly to the opinion of
his annual report that the money can be
raised by loan.
KANSAS OTTY Dec. 20.--The San
ia Fe mail, witll.dates to the 10th, has
arrived.
Orders have been issued by General
Carlton that all persons arriving in that
city shall report TO the Provost Marshal
Strangers will exhibit written authority
under which they travel, and give salts
factory evidence of their loyalty.
Efforts have been made to quiet the
Navajoes, and their chiefs have made
promises.
1t is rumored that the Texans, six
thousand strong, with twelve siege guns,
are marching on Santa Fe via Los Vajos
Elpaso, under Brigadier General Bayler.
The rumor is not confirmed.
ST. LOUIS, Dec, I0.-Gen. Schofeld,
having fully recovered his health, lett for
the Southwest to- day, to resume COM
mand of the army of the frontier.
SAN FRANo1soo, Dec. 90 Arrived
Ship Franklin, from New York. Sailed
this evening-Steamer Sonora, for Pana-
ma, with 80 passengers and $650.000 in
, treasure for New York, and $775,000 for
!, England. Herman sails Monday.
The Josephine brought fifty bales raw
silks from Japan for reshipment via Pa
mama for New York.
MILWAUKEE, Dec 18.--At the Repub-
lican Congressional Convention of the 9Th
I District held at Sparta to-day, Hon. W
h d. McIndoe, present Provost Marshal o
Wisconsin, was nominated by acclama'
, ton for both terms, to fill the vacancy
9 occasioned by the death of Hon. Luthe
Hanchett, without one dissenting voice.
a HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAc,)
December 20.
Yesterday morning about daylight
It about one hundred of Hamptons rebe
cavalry entered Accoquon and captured
n a Lieutenant and thirty privates of tn
u 10th New York cavalry, who were guard
a ing the telegraph lines. Eleven sutler
and six suffers wagons were also seize,
t by the rebels. All is quiet
. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAc, }
a Dec. Il, :
e No new movements of the enemy hav
: been observed since we evacuated tn
n south side of the river.
= 1t is not known by Burnside's staff tina
r he had rendered his resignation as com
:, mander of the army, as stated by
e Washington correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2l.--The Wash
: ington Star of yesterday says: Tn
/, state of feeling here is more interestin
. and exciting than any field Q
. battle. Washington is full of rumorl
y none of which are reliable. Halt doze
! statesman are confidently named; also
: Fessenden has been positively rendered
s the State Department. but declined {
a accept it, unless there should be an en-
tire new Cabinet. Further, that Sumne
has been rendered the same position
and, further that all the Cabinet has fol
lowed the example of Seward.
1t was reported at IL o'clock to-day
that the President had not accepted Mr.
Stewards resignation, nor had he tender
= ed the State Department to Fessenden o
u any one else. Our efforts to ascertain
: whether Stewards colleagues have ten
= dered their designations have been un
n !, successful. We are unable to lear
whether a single one has taken that step
. The President keeps his own course s
: exclusively that no one has received tn
. slightest information of the manner il
= which he proposes TO settle the affair.
Neither the Secretary nor the Assistan
! Secretary had attended the State De
u partment up to noon. II is understoo,
they were preparing for an early depar
! ture for New York. rf
. The three O'Clock edition says MI
y Chase has rendered his resignation, an
I we have every reason to believe that MI
Blair has done the same. II appears {
! be universally believed that by nightfal
] all their colleagues will follow their ex
ample, if they have not done so already
e New YoRK, Dec. 2l.-The Washingto
special dispatches are filed with specu
/. lations as 10 the reconstruction of ID
!. Cabinet. They are too unreliable to bea
II repetition.
0 The Times despatch says: We hay
r high authority for the statement thatPres
: ident Lincoln wrote a dispatch TO Gen
Burnside TO use his own Judgment il
1 Al D.ruHhanuocly "a unaka an