WASHINGTON, March 3. – The Senate to-day confirmed Gen.
Morgan of Ohio, a Brigadier General of Volunteers.
The Assistant Postmaster General received a dispatch from
Nashville yesterday saying the Federal flag floated over the Post Office
there. A special agent has charge of it
for the present.
It is understood that Col. Blair had an interview with the
President to-day respecting the appointment of Sigel as Major-General. It is understood that the President will send
his name to the Senate immediately for confirmation.
WASHINGTON, March 4. – From 600 to 1,000 barrels of flour
belonging to the Confederates have been seized and stored here.
A woolen mill owned by a man named Davis which had been
manufacturing Confederate cloth was seized with considerable stores.
Richard Washington, brother of the late John A. Washington is
now confined at Harper’s Ferry.
The President has recognized Gerhardt Larson as Vice Consul
of Sweden and Norway, to reside at Chicago.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
