succeeded in this expedition, the rebels retreat- | them at Fort McHenry. He also arrested ing in all directions.

cion of having run the blockade at Georgetown, S. C. Letters of instruction and the charter party, found on board, clearly show that there was a plan to land a cargo of ice at that rebel port, but the Consular certificate at Havana proves that the Mystery entered the latter port on the 7th of August, with the identical cargo of ice, and two days afterward cleared for Matanzas, where she received a cargo of sugar, and then sailed for the North, coming into the port of New York.-N. Y. Times, September 17.

-THE Second regiment, of Kansas Volunteers, arrived at Leavenworth, from Rolla, Mo. Ohio Statesman, September 21.

-THE Philadelphia Inquirer, of this morn- | of the port of New York, to-day, under suspiing says: "It is understood that the property of Robert Tyler, a traitor, was seized yesterday at Bristol, Pa., by order of the Government of the United States. This property includes real estate and household goods. Robert Tyler first appeared before the public of Pennsylvania about twenty years ago, in the character of a lawyer without clients, and with no very good references as to his past career. He married the daughter of Thomas Cooper, the celebrated actor, having become acquainted with her at Bristol, the residence of her father. He took up his abode at that place during the summer months, and became an active orator in behalf of the Irish cause, in the excitement which preceded the riots of 1844. IIe won many friends by his oratorical powers. He was afterward appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a position worth ten or twelve thousand dollars per annum. While thus in the service of the Government, he lost no opportunity, during the early stages of this rebellion, to uphold the South and denounce the North. His denunciations became so violent, that immediately after the fall of Sumter he was obliged to leave the city, and now holds a subordinate position in the Treasury Department of the so-called Confederate Government at Richmond. His treason has availed him but little."

-CONSIDERABLE excitement was created at

Kansas City, Mo., to-day, by the appearance of rebel scouts. A company of twenty mounted men was sent over from Kansas City in the morning, who discovered a rebel camp of from two hundred to three hundred men, some six

miles distant from the Missouri River. An additional force was detailed in the afternoon, who killed seven of the rebels and took six

prisoners, with the same number of horses, and destroyed their barracks. Only one of the Union men was wounded.-N. Y. Herald, Sep

tember 21.

-A DETACHMENT of Col. Young's Cavalry, under Captain White, arrested three spies, today, near Port Tobacco, Maryland, and brought them to Washington, D. C. On their persons was found topographic and other information designed for transmission to the enemy.-N. Y. Times, September 16.

September 15.-The British brig Mystery, of St. Johns, N. B., was seized by the Surveyor

-COL. F. P. BLAIR, Jr., was ordered by the Provost-marshal, at St. Louis, Mo., to report himself under arrest on the general charge of using disrespectful language when alluding to superior officers.-Louisville Journal, Sept. 17.

-ABOUT three o'clock this afternoon a force of five hundred rebels attacked a portion of the troops under Col. Geary, stationed about three miles above Harper's Ferry, on the Potomac. Col. Geary commanded in person, and the fight lasted about three hours. The enemy were driven from every house and breast work, and no less than seventy-five of them are reported as killed and wounded. The National loss is one killed and a few slightly wounded. The troops behaved like veterans. Companies B, D, and I, of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania regiment, and two companies of the Thirteenth Massachusetts, were engaged in the conflict. During the fight a rebel was seen taking aim at Col. Geary, when the colonel grasped a rifle from a soldier and shot him on the spot.-(Doc. 50.)

-THE Thirty-ninth Ohio, Colonel Groesbeck; Third Iowa, Lieutenant-Colonel Scott; Sixteenth Illinois, Colonel Smith, with a force of the Missouri State Militia and Iowa State troops, under Colonels Craynon and Edwards; three hundred regulars and irregular cavalry and six pieces of artillery, under Captain Madison, left St. Joseph and Chillicothe, Mo., in two columns for Lexington, to-day, on their way to reinforce Colonel Mulligan.-N. Y. Herald, September 20.

-This morning the Abbé McMaster, proprietor and editor of the Freeman's Appeal, a peace organ of New York city, was arrested by the United States Marshal, Mr. Murray, and sent to

Fort Lafayette, on a charge of treasonable mat- | each other, the colors were saluted, and then ter contained in his paper.-N. Y. Herald, Sep- transferred from the Vermont to the Highland tember 17. regiment. On transferring the banners, General Smith thus addressed them:

September 16.-An expedition from Hatteras Inlet, under the command of Lieutenants Maxwell and Eastman, of the steamer Pawnee, visited Ocracoke Inlet and destroyed Fort Oregon, a fine fortification at that place. The expedition was entirely successful.-(Doc. 51.)

SOLDIERS OF THE SEVENTY-NINTI: By direction of the Major-General commanding, I restore to your custody the banners of the regi ment. Since you have been under my command you have earned them. I hope that when any opportunity offers you will prove yourselves

-THE gunboat Conestoga captured the steamers V. R. Stephenson and Gazelle, on the Cum-worthy of them. berland River, Ky. The Stephenson had fifty tons of iron aboard. The Gazelle was without a cargo.-Louisville Journal, September 19. -SHIP ISLAND, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, was evacuated by the rebels and immediately taken possession of by the National forces.-(Doc. 52.)

-MAJOR FRENCH, the commanding officer at Key West, published the following important order; its promulgation caused a vast amount of commotion among the secessionists:

HEAD-QUARTERS U. S. TROOPS, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, September 16, 1861. I, Within ten days from this date all male citizens of the Island of Key West who have taken the oath of allegiance will send their names to these head-quarters to be registered.

II. Within thirty days from this date all the citizens of this island are required to take the oath of allegiance to the United States.

III. At the termination of sixty days all citizens of this island who have failed or refused to

take the oath of allegiance to the United States will be removed from Key West. This will also apply to their families and the families of those who have left the island to join the ConWM. H. FRENCH,

federate States.

Brevet-Major U. S. A., Commanding.

The Seventy-ninth then saluted the colors, and a salvo of artillery from Captain Mott's bat tery of thirty-two pounders also greeted them. After these ceremonies the troops were reviewed by General Smith, the two regiments from the field.-N. Y. Times, September 17. warmly cheering each other as they marched

-GOVERNOR HICKS of Maryland issued his proclamation exhorting the observance of the last Thursday in this month, as appointed by the President of the United States, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. — Baltimore American, September 18.

-GENERAL PRICE commenced an attack on the intrenchments at Lexington, Mo., commanded by Colonel Mulligan, this morning. The eral Price assaulted the works, and was refight lasted all day, and was very severe. Genpulsed with severe loss.-N. Y. Herald, September 20.

-THE Forty-sixth regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Knipe, left Harrisburg for the seat of war, being the first instalment of the last requisition on Governor Curtin. The regimental colors were presented by Governor

Curtin.

The Second Buffalo regiment, under command of Colonel D. D. Bidwell, left for New

York.

The Forty-third regiment N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel Francis L. Vinton, left

Albany to-night for the seat of war. They are a fine body of men, fully equipped and armed. -N. Y. Times, September 17.

-THE Washington Grays, Forty-seventh regiment N. Y. S. V., commanded by Colonel Henry Moore, left East New York for the seat of war.-N. Y. Times, September 17. -THERE was an interesting ceremony at General Smith's camp near Washington, this afternoon. Some days ago, General McClellan gave directions that the flags of the Seventy-ninth -THE Provost-marshal's Police seized over should be restored to the regiment. This after-two hundred muskets and a lot of ammunition, noon the regiment marched to the paradeground of the brigade, for the purpose of receiving the banners, which were escorted to the field by the Third Vermont regiment. The two regiments being drawn up in line, facing

to-day, which were found buried in the establishment of Messrs. Egerton & Keys, on North street, at Baltimore, Md. The guns are of Harper's Ferry manufacture. The Police also seized a lot of muskets at the armory of the Independ

ent Greys, on North High street.-Baltimore | to the war. Talking is over. Fight is the word." American, September 17. -National Intelligencer, September 20.

-THE Fremont Rifle regiment N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel Rudolph Rosa, left their encampment at Turtle Bay Brewery, New York, for the seat of war on the Potomac. -N. Y. Times, September 18.

After

-Two fights occurred at Blue Mills Landing, Mo., to-day. The first was between five hundred of the Third Iowa regiment, with one piece of artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, and about four thousand rebels. a desperate struggle of an hour's duration, in which Scott lost one hundred and twenty killed and wounded and all his horses, he retreated slowly half a mile, dragging his cannon by hand. He subsequently took a position with his how

September 17.-A fight took place at Mariatown, Mo., between six hundred Federals under Colonels Montgomery and Johnson and four hundred rebels, in which the latter were completely routed with a loss of seven killed, and one hundred horses and all their tents and sup-itzer on an eminence, and waited for the enemy plies captured. The Nationals lost two privates killed and six wounded. Col. Johnson, while riding at the head of his command, was pierced by nine balls and instantly killed. Three bullets took effect in his head, two buck-shot in the neck, one bullet in the left shoulder, one in the left thigh, one in the right hand, and one in the left. He died, urging his men to fight for the Stars and Stripes.-Buffalo Courier, September 23.

-THE Legislature of Maryland was prevented from organizing at Frederick by the arrest of its clerk and several of the members. During the evening the Union members of the House and Senate met in caucus and resolved that, the action of the Senators present in not assembling having virtually brought the Legislature to an end, they would return to their homes and not attempt again to assemble.

to renew the attack. But he was not pursued. Not long afterward Colonel Smith's command, with four pieces of cannon, approached Blue Mills by another road and engaged and routed the rebels as they were about crossing the Missouri River.-(Doc. 53.)

-THE Fifteenth regiment (Elmira Engineers) N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel C. B. Stuart of Geneva, left Elmira for the seat of war.-N. Y. Herald, Sept. 22.

-CLEMENT SMYTH, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, in a letter to the Adjutant-General of that State, held the following language: "I ever avoid all matters of a political nature as foreign to my sacred duties, yet in this present hour of trial, when the honor and the happiness of our nation are at stake; when some prejudiced mind may construe my silence into a disrespect for you, whose friendship I highly prize, or into a criminal opposition to our National Government— the Government of the United States, the only one to which I owe fealty-it may not be de

-This evening a train on the Ohio and Mississippi road, containing a portion of Colonel Torchin's Nineteenth Illinois regiment, while passing over a bridge near Huron, Ind., one hundred and forty-three miles west of Cincin-parting too far from my usual course to say nati, fell through, killing and wounding over one hundred soldiers.-Louisville Courier, September 19.

that my feelings and sentiments are for the Union, and though peace is now the darling object of my ambition, yet I would not consent to purchase peace at the sacrifice of principle."

-AT Washington the following order was issued to-day from the War Department:

-A LARGE Concourse of citizens from all parts of the State assembled at Hartford, Conn., today, to listen to Hon. D. S. Dickinson and others. General James T. Pratt presided. All The commanding officer at Hatteras Inlet, N. the political parties of the State were represent- C., is hereby authorized to accept the services ed, and places of business were closed during of such loyal North Carolinians-not to exceed the meeting. Mr. Dickinson's speech was one one regiment—as in his neighborhood may volof his best efforts, and had a powerful effect. unteer to take up arms for the United States, Senator Latham, of California, sent a letter of and to designate regular officers to muster them apology for his absence, full of patriotic spirit. into the service. The recruits will be organThomas Francis Meagher sent a despatch as fol-ized in the first instance into a battalion or reglows: "I cannot go to Hartford to-day. I go iment according to numbers. The mustering

September 18.—The Louisville Courier, hav-tain and crew escaped.-N. Y. Herald, Sept. 20. ing been found to be an advocate of treasonable hostility to the Government and authorities of the United States, was excluded from the mails and post-offices of the United States until further orders.-Post Office Order.