"break up the hitherto boastful Union;" and | outright and several were wounded; one of the it desires that England and France may recognize the confederacy as the speediest way of destroying the Government. After that work is accomplished, that paper thinks that England will, in a little time, by productions of cotton in India, make herself independent of the Southern States in regard to that staple, and that, it further says, would lead to the emancipation of the slaves, and the final overthrow of both sections.-N. Y. Herald, Sept. 18. September 20.-At Lexington, Mo., Colonel Mulligan surrendered to the rebel general, Price, after a fifty-nine hours' fight without water; the only supply-from the river-having been cut off by the rebels, after a severe fight. The camp ground contained no springs or wells, and embraced ten acres, with breast works around it, except the river front. The rebels procured bales of hemp and rolled them in advance, and under their cover succeeded in securing a posi tion in the rear. They made but few assaults, their object being to surround the fort and cut off supplies of water, and this accomplished, wait till necessity compelled Mulligan to yield. Previous to the surrender, Colonel Mulligan offered to take a position on a level spot of ground and give General Price the odds of four to one in a fair open fight, but he declined. After the surrender the rebels mounted the breast works, mad with joy, and trailed the National flag in the dust. A large amount of gold, supposed to be a quarter of a million, fell into the possession of the rebels. It had previously been buried by Colonel Mulligan, but was unearthed by the enemy. The brave Colonel wept like a child when he found himself compelled to surrender. -(Doc. 33.) -THE rebels troops evacuated Mayfield, Ky., this day. They numbered about seven thousand, under the command of General Cheatham, were nearly all armed, but poorly clothed and indifferently fed. Mayfield is a small town, the seat of Graves County, on the railroad from Paducah to Union City, and midway between the two places. It is about thirty-six miles east of Columbus, Ky. -Chicago Tribune. A FEDERAL Scouting party from the Thirtyfourth N. Y. regiment at Darnestown, Md., went across the Potomac near the mouth of the Seneca, and were attacked by a superior party of the rebels. One of the Nationals was killed latter was shot through the cheek, but fled, pursued by the attacking party; on reaching a creek he threw off his gun and plunged in himself laying on his back and resting his head upon a stone with his mouth and nostrils above the water. He avoided his pursuers, and after three hours' submersion he crawled to the shore of the river; his companions, who were concealed on the Maryland side, discovered and rescued him while making a vain attempt to swim across. A SKIRMISH took place below Fort Holt near Cairo, Ill., between company I, of the Tenth regiment, and a small party of rebels, in which the latter were routed.—Ohio Statesman, September 24. -COLONEL CRITTENDEN, from Indiana, who was the first to bring a regiment from another State into Western Virginia in aid of the Fed eral Government, and the first to come to the aid of Kentucky, passed through Louisville, with his regiment well armed and equipped. The troops were enthusiastically received at different points on the route.-Baltimore American, September 21. -Two changes have been made in Jeff. Davis's Cabinet; Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, has been made Secretary of State in place of Robert Toombs, of Georgia; and Braxton Bragg, of Louisiana, has succeeded Leroy P. Walker, of Alabama, as Secretary of War.-N. Y. World, September 21. -A GRAND Union meeting was held at Newark, N. J. Speeches were made by Daniel S. Dickinson and others. Large delegations from the surrounding towns were present. Resolutions were adopted, deprecating party movements as unpatriotic and prejudicial to the public interest; and proposed an inauguration of a people's Union movement throughout the State. A committee was appointed for that purpose. September 21.-General Lane's command surprised a superior force of rebels at Papinsville, Missouri, and, after a severe engagement, routed them, losing seventeen killed, and a large number wounded. The rebels lost forty killed, and one hundred prisoners, and all their tents, wagons, and supplies. The gang of rebels who recently sacked the town of Humboldt, Kansas, was defeated by a America and the President thereof, treasonable complicity with Southern rebels and their agents in Liverpool and other parts of Europe. It is stated that letters and papers were found in the baggage and on the person of the accused, justifying the vigorous measures adopted. He was sent to Fort Lafayette.-N. Y. Times, September 22. force from Fort Scott, and their leader, Mathias, | seditious language against the United States of killed. On his person was found an order from Ben McCulloch for the enrolment of the Quapaw Indians.-National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. -THE British schooner Revere, of and from Yarmouth, N. S., with a cargo of salt fish, arrived at Boston, Mass., in charge of Henry W. Wells, master's mate, and a prize crew from the United States steamer Cambridge. The Revere was captured while attempting to run the block- -GEN. ROBERT ANDERSON assumed command ade at Beaufort, N. C.-N. Y. World, Sept. 23. of the State and Federal troops in Kentucky -THE steamer War Eagle returned to Jef and issued a spirited proclamation, calling upon ferson City, Mo., from an expedition on the Kentuckians of all parties to assist in repelling Missouri River this evening. This steamer, to- the invaders of the State. Gov. Magoffin also gether with the steamer Iatan, with the In-issued a proclamation, directing Gen. Thomas diana Twenty-second and Eighteenth regiments L. Crittenden to call out the State troops to reaboard, accompanied the steamers White Cloud sist the invasion of the State, and Gen. C. acand Des Moines, with the Indiana Twenty-sixth, cordingly called out the militia.-(Doc. 56.) as high up the river as Cambridge, where they captured the steamer Sunshine, seized a short time since by Green. They encountered no rebel troops. Union flags were flying at Glasgow. The White Cloud and Des Moines went on up the river to reinforce Lexington. While all four boats were lying up for the night, a short distance below Glasgow, two detachments were sent out to reconnoitre. They encountered each other, each mistaking the other for the enemy, fired, and before their mistake was discovered, four men were killed and several wounded. Among the wounded was Major Gordon Tanner, of the Twenty-second.-(Doc. 55.) -THE Fourth regiment of Vermont Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, left its encampment at Brattleboro for the seat of war. The regiment numbers one thousand and eighty rank and file. Colonel Stoughton is a native of Vermont, and a West Point officer, having graduated from the Military Academy in 1854, and being breveted Second Lieutenant in the Forty-second Infantry, July 1, 1859. Sept. 22. This evening, eight pickets of the Iowa Seventh regiment, out at the Cross Roads, a mile and a half from Eliott's Mills, eight miles above Columbus, Ky., were suddenly approached by fifty or sixty rebel cavalry. The pickets fired, —A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of the when the rebels turned and fled. Two or three citizens of Westchester County, in favor of of their number were seen to fall, but were carmaintaining the integrity of the Union, was ried off on their horses. One of their horses held at Lake Mohican. The Hon. John B. Has- was killed. The accoutrements and pistols fell kin made a most eloquent and stirring speech to into the hands of the Iowa boys, and a riderless the assemblage, and declared his determination horse from among them also fell into their to sink all party differences and to support the hands. Their wounded and dead were carried Government in all honorable acts for a vigor- away. The rebels returned the fire before fleeous prosecution of the war and the preservation |ing, but did no damage. of the best Government ever vouchsafed to man. Eloquent speeches were also made by Messrs. Depew, Bailey, and Ferris. —EDWARD D. BAKER, United States Senator from Oregon, was appointed a Major-General of Volunteers in the National army. -A SKIRMISH took place near Hunter, Mo., four miles below Norfolk. Three of the National troops and four horses were lost.-N. Y. Tribune, Sept, 24. -GENERAL A. S. JOHNSTON, of the Confederate Army, having assumed command at Mem-THIS morning John Bateman, a citizen of phis, Tenn., issued a proclamation relative to Portland, Maine, arrived at New York in cus- the armed occupation of Kentucky.-(Doc. 57.) tody of the deputy marshal. The prisoner Sept. 23.-At Fortress Monroe, Va., Ross stands charged with high treason, with using Winans, one of the Baltimore members of the VOL. III.-DIARY 3 Legislature, having taken the oath of allegiance, was this morning released.—Commodore Stringham was relieved by Captain Goldsborough.Baltimore American, Sept. 24. September 24.-Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, the heir of Louis Philippe, (the eldest son of his eldest son,) and Robert d'Orleans, Duc de Chartres, the brother of Louis -THIS night a successful effort to burn the Philippe d'Orleans, were duly commissioned as barn and haystacks around Munson's Hill, Va., captains of volunteers in the service of the was made by Major Frank Lemon and Lieut. United States, and attached to Major-General Chas. Dimond, of the California regiment. At McClellan's staff as aids. These young princes the forge of some blacksmiths they made some made it a condition of their service that they fifty or more conical slugs, and with these and should receive no pecuniary compensation. a Sharp's rifle they started for the line of our pickets, built a fire, and commenced heating shot. One of them with a cloth would drop the shot into the muzzle of the rifle, and the Major, being the best shot, blazed away. At the second shot the hay-ricks were in a blaze. In two more shots the barn caught. Out rushed the rebels, and made for the hill. —LIEUTENANT WILSON, with a squad of the Fourth Cavalry, proceeded to Unity, a small place in the northern part of Anne Arundel County, Md., and seized a quantity of sabres, pistols, and muskets, in possession of secessionists in the neighborhood. They were a portion of the arms given to a volunteer company raised at the time of the John Brown raid. -Five hundred of the Fourth Ohio, with one piece of artillery; and Ringgold's cavalry, seventy-five in number, under Colonel Cantwell; and four hundred of the Eighth Ohio, under Colonel Parke, make an advance from New Creek toward Romney, Va. They drove the rebels, seven hundred strong, out of Mechanicsburg Gap, and advancing stormed the town, causing the enemy, whose force numbered fourteen hundred infantry and cavalry, to retreat to the mountains with a loss of about thirty-five killed and a large number wounded. The National loss was three killed and ten wounded. -AT St. Louis, Mo., Charles G. Ramsay, the proprietor of the Evening News, was arrested this afternoon by order of the Provost-marshal, and taken to head-quarters for examination. His offence is publishing an editorial article today, entitled "The Fall of Lexington," reflecting in bitter terms on the campaign of the military authorities in the department of the West. His paper has been suppressed, and all the manuscript found in the office was seized, and the building is now in possession of a provost guard. (Doc. 58.) -GENERAL PRENTISS, U. S. A., assumed command of the National forces at St. Joseph, Mo. No man in the whole Western army could have been sent there who is more acceptable to the people north of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; and, under his command, the Union troops, whether Federal or State, are willing to do battle.-National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. -A PORTION of Colonel Geary's force had an action to-day with five hundred rebels on the Virginia side of the Potomac, near Point of Rocks. They were sheltered on a high point on the Catochin Mountain, and in houses at the base. They were driven away by the rifles and battery of Colonel Geary, and the houses burnt. Several of the enemy were killed and wounded. None of the Federal troops were hurt.-N. Y. Times, Sept. 26. -THE Fifth regiment of Vermont Volunteers, under the command of Col. II. A. Smalley, passed through Jersey City, N. J., on their way to the seat of war. It numbers one thousand and seventy men.-Idem, Sept. 25. -THIS night a party of about fifty mounted rebels rode into Warsaw, Ky., and broke into a building in which there were stored some arms belonging to the State, and carried them off. Six or seven Union men came up just as they were leaving, and were fired upon. The Union men returned the fire, killing one of the rebels One of the and wounding several others. Union men was wounded in the arm. Union men had taken the locks off the guns that were stolen, intending to keep them off until they had organized their company.-Dubuque Times, Sept. 26. The -THE Louisville Journal of this day has the following:-Last Saturday night (21st) lock No. 3, on Green River, was blown up by order of Gen. S. B. Buckner, commander of the Confederate forces at Bowling Green, Ky. We are informed that the other two locks have also BOWLING GREES, Sept. 19, 1861. S. B. BUCKNER. unteers, under the command of Colonel W. L. Brown, left Baltimore for Fortress Monroe.Baltimore American, Sept. 25. -Ar St. Louis the injunction suppressing the Evening News was removed, and C. G. Ramsay, proprietor, and D. M. Grissom were released; assurances having been given that they would not publish statements about military matters as facts without first learning their truth, and that they would not publish any thing injurious to the interests of the National Government. The News has always been a strong Union paper.-Ohio Statesman, Sept. 26. -TO-DAY, while the Second Michigan regiment were performing picket duty at Bailey's Cross Roads, in Virginia, a flag of truce was brought in by two Colonels and a Major, belonging to the rebel army at Munson's Hill, asking a suspension of hostilities between pickets, which was acceded to by the commander of the National forces.-N. Y. Times, Sept. 26. -THE Ninth regiment of Maine Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Rutherford Rich, of Portland, left Augusta for the seat of war. The regiment numbers one thousand one hundred men, hailing from Calais, Canton, Hilton, Cornish, and Aroostook Counties-all parts of the State being represented. They consist of mechanics and laborers, and though comprising a number of Germans and Irish, are mainly native-born. Physically, they will bear comparison with any regiment in the field. They have the regulation uniform, of excellent material, commissariat wagons, and camp equi The Union men, on learning Gen. Buckner's intention from this letter, attempted to guard the locks, and rallied five or six hundred men for the purpose; but, ascertaining the approach of a greatly superior force of cavalry, they retreated, and the work of destruction was done. For this deed, Gen. S. B. Buckner, sooner or later, will have to render a terrible account. The locks and dams of Green River were a por-page.-N. Y. Times, September 26. tion, and a large one, of the pride and wealth of Kentucky. We all remember at what cost of money and labor they were constructed. They were one of the most important and valuable internal improvements ever made in Kentucky. They opened a river market for the whole of the immense population of the Green River section. But as a mere military manoeuvre they are ruthlessly swept away, remorselessly annihilated in a night by a renegade Kentuckian, who brings an army for the conquest of his native State. Railroad bridges, railroad tracks, locks and dams, river packets, public and private property of all descriptions, are recklessly sacrificed by the invaders in the pursuit of their accursed purposes. September 25.-At Trenton, New Jersey, the Grand Jury came into the United States Court, and made a lengthy presentment "that complaints have been made before this Grand Inquest concerning certain newspapers published in this State, and copies of the following papers issued during the last few months have been submitted, and carefully examined, namely: The Newark Erening Journal, The Warren Journal, The Hunterdon Democrat, The New Brunswick Times, and The Plainfield Gazette; that during the most critical period, while the capital of the nation has been besieged by armed insurgents, while eleven States in actual rebellion have been striving, by invasion and treachery, to plunge other States still remaining loyal -THE Twentieth regiment of Indiana Vol-into open opposition to the National Govern ment, these newspapers have been, up to a very | vice-and one prisoner, who mistook the Na- -SMITHLAND, Kentucky, was occupied by the National troops to-day.-Stocking-knitting associations were organized by the ladies of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. -THIS day General William F. Smith, with a force of several thousand men from the camps in the vicinity of the Chain Bridge, on the Potomac, proceeded to Lewinsville, Va., for the purpose of reconnoitring and obtaining forage. Upon arriving at that place his troops were permitted to rest from about half-past nine o'clock A. M., till three o'clock P. M., when there came in sight a large force of Confederate troops, consisting of four or five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery. They came from Fall's Church, and in a few minutes opened a fire of shot and shell upon the National troops, without, however, doing any National troops, without, however, doing any other harm than slightly wounding one man. Their fire was returned by the batteries of Cap tains Griffin and Mott, who had thrown only twenty-six shot and shell when the secessionists deemed it prudent to retire from the field. Their loss is not known. The object of the expedition having been accomplished, Gen. Smith, at about five o'clock, returned to his camp. He brought with him ninety-two loads of hay and corn, twenty sheep and twenty beef cattlethe sheep and cattle being the property of Quartermaster Means, of the Confederate ser -THIS afternoon Lieut.-Col. Letcher, with a detachment of Col. Woodward's regiment, captured James B. Clay, with sixteen of his men, while on his way to join Zollicoffer. They were taken to Camp Dick Robinson. John C. Breckinridge was with their party in Cincinnati, Ohio, but escaped.-National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. J. Bell and Seminole, made an attack on a rebel -AN action took place at Chapmanville, Va., between a force of National troops under Colonel D. A. Enyart of the First Kentucky Volunteers and a party of rebels. The latter were completely routed and lost sixty killed and seventy taken prisoners. The rebels in escaping were intercepted by Colonel Piatt of the German Ohio regiment, who surprised them and killed forty beside capturing a large number of prisoners.-(Doc. 591.) -A SKIRMISH Occurred near Osceola, Mo., between a part of National troops of General Lane's army, and a body of rebels, the former the rebels having ten killed.—(Doc. 60.) losing one killed and four slightly wounded, and September 26.-Capt. Stewart's cavalry, numbering seventy-five men, to-day encountered forty rebel cavalry at Lucas Bend, Ky., whom they pursued into Jeff. Thompson's camp at Belmont. Four rebels were killed, five captured, and many wounded. escaped to the woods. The Federal troops captured all the guns and pistols they could bring No Federal troops were away with them. injured. The remainder -THE Thirty-fifth regiment of Ohio Volunteers took possession of Cynthiana, Kentucky. -AT Louisville, Ky., W. G. Querton, formerly one of the editors and proprietors of the Courier, was arrested for aiding the Southern rebellion.-The turnpike bridge over Green |