Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-28
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FROM THE UNITED STATES AND
EUROPE.

EUROPE.
GREAT BATTLE EXPECTED NEAR NASHVILLE
MOVEMENTS AT CoLUMBUS-YANKEE F1NAN-
CIGRING = LATEST FROM EUROPE = GREAT
FIRE IN BoSTON-sEvERE STORMS.
NORFOLK, Feb. ga flag Of true to-day from Fort
ress Monroe brings Northern papers o. yesterday.
Sixty passengers, principally women and children,
bound for The South, arrived.
The Nsw York Herald advances the opinion that q
great battle will soon Nashville.
The Confederate troops actively engaged at Co
lumb1s, en- Monday for an important movement aIg
Of truce had en- sent from Columbus BY the Confede
rates TO the Federal gunboats Some Of the S.utbern
,fieers went 90 b)ard ard bad consultation for two
hours with the Federal officers The fquadron then Left.
President Lincoln signed, on Tuesday, the Treasury
noe bill for two hundred millions The fifty millions
previously issued win be Recognized as legal tender.
bill pissed the Houss Tuesd.y, prohibiting all
military officers from restoring fugtves from justice
W virtually repeating the fugitive slave Law.
A resolution was also adopted irstruc!ing the Com
mttee Of Ways and Means to enquire into the e1ped
ency Of imposing an export duly of three cents pr
pound cotton and that cotton shall be sent away
until the tax is pai5.
Tho N Y. Herald says that G N. Tigaman has been
sent tho Illinois Psnentary at Alton, and to remain
there until bis blood cooA
Nav Y,RK Feb. 25-Nore cotf ieues Is felt in u o
cotton trade Middng uplands are quo:ed at from 22
to IS cents per pound.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. THE stock Of American cotton il
Liverpool 2O4 900 bsss. The quantity Of cotton Of
sea at the present time from America not siusls BALI
vale at this date las. year there we're 40 900 bales
NV YoAK Feb 2o The North Star arrived TO-DAY
from AsPinWal. She b.icgs s7S9, 600 in sp,cis.
Toe intelligence from The Soulh Pacific coat annouu
css that peace regns from Ecuador to Uruguay There
is strong feeling against the Spanish Government be.
cause has threatened TO reconqasr all her former prov
ines.
The Lincoln Government has taken military possesso
OF all telegraph lines in the United States
skirmish occurred on Tuesday the Osc.qulp,
between body Of Texan Rangers aud Federal troops
S.varAl OF the latter we're killed and woundsd
TIE nomination Of Gen. Win6sld Scott, as an add
IiOnsl Envoy EH rsordinary, has not been acted on
BosToS, Feb. rs IA mos. disastrous FIRE occurred
here to-day during furious storm Of snow and bail
AZ immense smou5t Of property was Destroyed, and
many buildings, ircuipg the Exchange HOTEL were de
sroyed. Tic los, is estimated at 500 OOO TIE great
tower Of the Catholic Church in East Boston was blown
down during the same night, demolishnz the smaller
toSsr Five Thousand bales Of cotton and SO 600 bush
els Of corn and oats among the goods dss red
tsn'h1 storm ragged throughout. the North On
hOsday, causing great destruction to property in N Y
aad Brooklyn. Buildings and s.ecpes were blown down,
shipping damaged and great hy caused to holdings
N Washington, Baltimore and other cities.
BcsreS, Feb. IS b.-The ship Gro,tc, from Ha,re,
and tLfes seboorers, ashore ia Msrtha's Vineyard
SQUAD. The sea is breaking over them.
Another new gun-bOat has been finished and had ar.
lived At New York.
Four gun'bOAts left New York on Saturday for Key
WCs',
The Nav York Hersli the Fedora! Congress that
this s time 10 aOS tho import of foreign goods 10
Increase and says that in few months the exports Of
fIOd 10 EiroPe may CEASE ard cotton is not r,ady to
tsEs their place the fssrcy viii have to be tu2psd
nv cold