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Telegraphic items. By way of Nashville, Tenn., we have the following: From Washington. Washington, June 21.--Wm. Porter Miles, of Louisiana, is appointed Consul to Tripoli. A battle between McDowell's division and the Southerners at Vienna is deemed inevitable to-morrow. It is now evident that the main blow of the Federals will be struck from Washington with 45,000 men. There is surprise in some quarters that Gen, Scott does not prevent the erection of batteries at various points on the right bank of the Potomac. Washington,June 22.--A requisition will be sent to Indiana for four additional regiments. It is believed that the Government here will not interfere with the due course of law in the case of the privateer Savannah. The case of the condemned schooner Tropic Wind will probably be appealed to the United States Court. It is said that Crittenden will offer his compromise to Congress, coupled with a threat of the secession of Kentucky
s skin pass with the credulous multitude for the genuine roar of the veritable king of beasts. Another of their Generals--one Schenck, of Ohio, a coarse, vulgar, Buckeye lawyer, and pot-house politician, gave a specimen of his military genius at Vienna, and made a report to the commanding officer at Washington which is disgusting from its assumption of military knowledge, and shows him to be as audacious in disregard of truth as he is incompetent in the presence of an enemy. But the criticismsosition for adopting the latter alternative was the best, with the exception of Gen. Butler's arrangement at Great Bethel, which has yet been taken during the war. We have no means of ascertaining the exact time which was made by Schenck's men at Vienna, so as to institute a comparison between the foot race on the Vienna course and at Great Bethel; but there need be no jealousy between the friends of Butler and Schenck. The first kept out of the way, and the last got out of the way, which is all