note. From the first-mentioned, who is a wealthy farmer, the troops took ten horses, and plenty of fodder and provisions from all the rebels in the vicinity. They returned with twenty horses and a considerable quantity of provisions and nine prisoners. One of the prisoners, put on a confession, divulged the names of all the men, eighteen in number, who fired the other day with such fatal effect upon the railroad trains. Jones was the President of the Knights of the Golden Circle. The property of the Union men was left untouched. -Dubuque Times, August 27. -HAMILTON R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri, at Jefferson City, issued a proclamation calling for forty-two thousand troops to aid the Federal Government in expelling the forces of Ben McCulloch from the State.-(Doc. 7.) -THE Memphis Argus of this day publishes the following proclamation from the Mayor of that city: "To the Citizens of Memphis: Applications have repeatedly been made to me, as executive officer of the city, for protection against indiscreet parties who are sent out to impress citizens into service against their will on steamboats. Many of these men have been dragged from their beds, wives, and children, but never has there been a man taken who had on a clean shirt. I hereby notify any citizen who may wish a pass within the city of Memphis to call on me, and I will furnish the same, and will see he will be protected. One poor man being shot yesterday by one of these outlaws, as they may be called, causes me to give the above notice. "JOHN PARK, Mayor." conveyed to Moyamensing prison in charge of the officers.-N. Y. Commercial, August 26. -ALL the large craft, schooners, and sloops, and small rowboats and skiffs on the Potomac River, were seized by the Government authorities.-N. Y. Herald, August 27. -A UNION man named Moore was killed, and another named Neill mortally wounded, this afternoon, by a gang of five secessionists, at Shotwell Toll-gate, Ky., seven miles from CoVington. Both men were stabbed in the back. A party of Unionists, gave pursuit to the murderers, who fled toward the Tennessee line.— N. Y. Times, August 27. --WM. HALSEY, hailing from Ithaca, N. Y., was waited upon by a party of citizens at his hotel, in Scranton, Pa., and requested to leave town in three hours, or accept the alternative of riding out on a rail. He had given provocation beyond endurance, by endeavoring to induce parties to take the New York Day Book, and by uttering the rankest treason. IIe left precipitately.-N. Y. Times, August 27. -WILLIAM B. TAYLOR, the Postmaster of New York, received orders from Washington that no more copies of the Journal of Commerce, the News, the Freeman's Journal, or the Brooklyn Eagle, should be sent through the mails.-N. Y. Times, August 26. -EGBERT L. VIELE, late Captain of the Engineer corps of the Seventh regiment, received his commission as Brigadier-General in the regular army. General Viele is a graduate of West Point, and served through the Mexican war, but of late years has been engaged in civil life as an engineer.-N. Y. Commercial, Aug. 26. August 25.-This evening, Mr. William S. August 26.-The Eighteenth regiment of Johnston, a nephew of the rebel general of that Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command name, and grandson of Mrs. Henry Gilpin, of of Colonel James Barnes, of Springfield, left Philadelphia, was arrested in that city as he their camp at Readville, near Dedham, this was about leaving for the South. Mr. John- afternoon for the seat of war. The regiment ston made no resistance whatever, and was numbers eight hundred and seventy men, but taken to the Central station, accompanied by will be recruited to one thousand and forty some friends, among whom was Townsend within a few weeks. They are uniformed in Ward, of Philadelphia. A strict examination the conventional blue and gray of Massachuof his effects was made by the District Attor-setts, armed with Springfield muskets of 1842, ney. In his trunk was found a large number and fully equipped. They have camp equipage, of papers addressed to prominent Southern company wagons and ambulances, and sixty citizens, and a map of the seat of war in Vir-horses, a band of twenty-five pieces enlisted for ginia. His commission, however, was not the war, twenty-five thousand rounds of ball discovered. After his examination, Mr. John-cartridges, and twenty-five thousand rounds of ston bade farewell to his friends, and was buckshot, and, in fact, all the paraphernalia of war ready to fit them for immediate service in | dred were missing, out of nine hundred enthe field. one. gaged. The rebel loss was fearful. Lieut.-Col. Creighton captured the rebels' colors and two prisoners. The following is a list of national officers known to be killed: Captain Dyer, Company D, of Painesville; Captain Shurtleff, Com I; Adjutant Deforest, of Cleveland; Lieutenant Of the officers, many are specially qualified for their positions. Col. Barnes is distinguished for having been in the same class with Jeff. Davis, at West Point, graduating A one, when Jeff, was No. twenty-seven, in a class of thirty-pany C, of Oberlin; Captain Sterling, Company Lieut.-Col. Ingraham was in the Massachusetts Fourth, stationed at Fortress Monroe. Major Hayes is a graduate of Harvard College, and quite popular. Adjutant Hodge was an -THE Twenty-fifth regiment of Indiana Volofficer of the Massachusetts Fifth, and distin-unteers left Evansville for St. Louis, Mo.guished himself at Bull Run, saving the life of Louisville Journal, August 28. Col. Lawrence. Surgeon Smith was educated in Paris, and was connected with Major Cobb's battery. Other officers of the regiment have seen active service. Most of the men are farmers and mechanics, of moderate means, excellent health, and unwavering devotion to the cause of the Union.-N. Y. Times, August 28. -A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives an extended account of a visit of the privateer "Sumter" to Puerto Cabello, together with a copy of a letter from Raphael Semmes, her commander, to the governor of that place. (Doc. 9.) —A BATTLE occurred at Summersville,* in Western Virginia, this morning. The Seventh Ohio regiment, Colonel Tyler, was surrounded whilst at breakfast, and attacked on both flanks and in the front simultaneously. The national forces immediately formed for battle and fought bravely, though they saw but little chance of success. The rebels proving too powerful, Col. Tyler sent forward to the baggage train, which was coming up three miles distant, and turned it back toward Gauley Bridge, which place it reached in safety. Companies B, C, and I suffered most severely. They particularly were in the hottest of the fight, and finally fought their way, through fearful odds, making great havoc in the enemy's forces. The rebel force consisted of three thousand infantry, four hundred cavalry, and ten guns. The Union forces scattered, after cutting their way through the enemy, but soon formed again and fired, but received no reply or pursuit from the enemy. Not over two hun * Summersville is the county-seat of Nicholas County, the next east of Kanawha County, and is about fifty miles from Charleston, the central position of the Kanawha Valley. It is about twenty five miles from Gauley Bridge, and up the Gauley River. -HENRY WILSON, Senator from Massachu In his setts, was commissioned to organize a regiment -THE War Department issued an important order, prohibiting all communication, verbally or by printing or telegraph, respecting the oper- ations of military movements, either by land or sea, or relating to the troops, camps, arsenals, intrenchments, or military affairs, within any of the military districts, by which information shall be given to the enemy, under the penalty prescribed by the Fifty-seventh Article of War, which is death, or such other punishment as a court-martial shall impose.—(Doc. 11.) -THE Postmaster-General of the United States, acting under the proclamation of the President interdicting commercial intercourse with the seceded States, directed the postal agents of the Government to put an end to transmission of letters to the seced States, by the arrest of any express agent or other per sons who shall hereafter receive letters to be carried to or from those States.-(Doc. 12.) -CAPTAIN FOOTE was ordered to the command of the United States naval forces on the Western waters-namely, the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers.-N. Y. Herald, August 27. -A NAVAL and military expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe, under the joint command of Commodore Stringham and Major-General | dy-the person arrested being Samuel J. AnButler. It consisted of the frigates Minnesota derson. He has carried on a very extensive and Wabash, the sloop-of-war Pawnee, gun- correspondence with Vice-President Stephens boats Monticello, Harriet Lane, and Quaker of the Southern Confederacy, and has been City, with numerous transports.-See Aug. 29. in constant communication with the secession For the last -A CAMP of instruction at Scarsdale, West- sympathizers in New York. six weeks, according to his own confession, chester County, N. Y., was opened under comhe has been contributing editorial articles for mand of Brigadier-General E. L. Viele. The The Daily News, Day Book, and Journal of camp is about seventy acres in extent, situated on an upland which gradually slopes toward Commerce. An intercepted letter from Washthe Bronx River, where there is excellent bath- ington advised him to go south via Kentucky, ing. All regiments and companies recruited, as a passport could not be obtained from the Government. Anderson's correspondence gives and not imperatively needed at Washington, as fast as they are sworn in, will be sent to this a great deal of important political information, camp, and there subjected to the most thorough besides implicating parties well known in New York.-N. Y. Tribune, August 28. drill and discipline. General Viele has adopted stringent and wholesome regulations for the government of his camp. All officers are required to stay in camp, and put up with soldier's fare, instead of dissipating their time in the city. No officer will be allowed to wear the insignia of rank until he is sworn in. All the -JOSEPH HOLT made a Union speech at other rules in use among the regular service, Boston, Mass., to-day, in the course of which for the government of camps, will be enforced he said he nowhere heard the word comproat Scarsdale. The name of the new encamp-mise, which was now only uttered by traitors. ment is "Camp Howe."—N. Y. Commercial, So long as rebels had arms in their hands there August 27. -COLONEL JONES, of the Fourth Alabama regiment, died at Orange Court House, Va., from wounds received in the battle of Bull Run. -THE First regiment U. S. Chasseurs, under the command of Colonel John Cochrane, left New York for the seat of war. This regiment numbers eight hundred and fifty men, and will be armed with the Enfield rifle. was nothing to compromise. He concluded by saying that it was in vain to toil at the pumps while men were kept on board boring holes in the bottom of the ship.-Boston Post, Aug. 28. -A CORRESPONDENCE between the President of the United States and Beriah Magoffin, governor of Kentucky, respecting the neutrality of that State during the present crisis, was made public.—(Doc. 13.) August 27.-Colonel Hoffman, of the Twentythird New York (Elmira) regiment, with Captain Dinglee's company and one other, started this afternoon to the vicinity of Ball's Cross Roads, for the protection of the Federal pickets in that locality. Near Ball's Cross Roads they encountered about six hundred secessionists, August 28.-A party of National troops unwhen a volley was exchanged. The two Fed-der the command of Capt. Smith, detailed on eral companies retired, in presence of the the 24th ult. to break up a force of secessionrior force, in excellent order. About thirtyists at Wayne Court House, Va., returned to rounds were exchanged, and Carrol, of Camp Pierpont, at Ceredo, having been sucElmira, was killed by a shot from the rebels. cessful in their expedition.-(Doc. 14.) supe He was a young man, and was very popular -PRESIDENT LINCOLN to-day appointed as with his regiment. Another of the national aides-de-camp to Gen. Wool, Alexander Hamtroops was wounded in the neck, and had a fin- ilton, Jr., and Legrand B. Cannon of New ger shot off. Whether the Confederates suf-York, each with the rank of Major, and Wilfered any loss is not known. The nationals and the pickets fell back to the camp, about half a mile beyond Arlington.-National Intelligencer, August 29. -AN important arrest was made in New York at the instance of Superintendent Kenne liam Jay, of Bedford, N. Y., with the rank of Captain. These appointments were made at Gen. Wool's request, and the official notification from the War Department instructs the aids to immediately report to him in person.-N. Y. Tribune, August 29. -THE funeral ceremonies and military dis- | the plan. Captain Harris has also a company of mounted rangers, with double-barrel shotguns, for home defence. If every county will imitate the example of Old Hancock we would have 15,000 drilled troops in the field at the at any point on a brief warning. Will not the editors throughout the State urge this thing on the people?" play in honor of Gen. Lyon took place at St. Louis, Mo., to-day. The procession which escorted the remains to the railroad depot consisted of Gen. Fremont's body-guard, under Gen. Zagoni, Capt. Tillman's company of cav-command of the Governor, ready to operate at alry; a section of Capt. Carlin's battery; the First regiment of Missouri Volunteers, Col. Blair; Gen. Fremont and staff; a number of ariny and volunteer officers; city officials; prominent citizens; and the Third regiment of United States Reserve Corps, Col. McNeil, all under command of Brigadier-General Siegel. The streets through which the procession passed were thronged with spectators, and the flags throughout the city were draped in mourning. -Louisville Journal, August 29. -THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel gives the following reasons to the Confederate States for organizing a coast defence: "1. Because there are many places where the enemy might commit raids and do us damage before we could organize and drive them off. Beaufort District, opposite to Savannah, has several fine ports and inlets, navigable for large vessels, wholly unprotected. (See United States Coast Survey.) This district has five black to one white inhabitant. Several inlets on our coast, which our enemies know like a book, from surveys in their possession, are equally unprotected. "2. In two months more they will not fear our climate. By that time they might be ready to make a sudden descent and find us unprepared. "3. A small force might eject them if ready to go at once; when, if we have to wait, a much larger one will become necessary. "4. By organizing and drilling infantry and guerillas at home, there will be no need to call upon the President for troops, and a feint from the enemy would not injure our Virginia operations. "There are many who are so situated that they cannot enlist for the war who would will ingly organize to go for a few months, if necessary, to defend the coast. We earnestly hope that the Governor will soon have companies organized for this purpose all over the State. Captain Cain has a company drilling for this purpose in this county, and we understand that Gov. Brown has accepted them as State troops to defend the coast, and is much pleased with -THE Nineteenth regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Col. Edward W. Hincks, of Lynn, left Boston for New York, on the way to the seat of war. The regiment has been in quarters for four weeks at Camp Schouler, Lynnfield. They are fully equipped and are armed with Enfield rifles. They have with them seventeen baggage wagons, seven ambulances and hospital wagons, and one hundred horses. Col. Hincks was formerly Lieut.-Col. of the Eighth Massachusetts Militia regiment, that held the Annapolis Railroad with the New York Seventh; and Lieut.-Col. Deveraux was Captain of the Salem Zouaves, who, with the Massachusetts sappers and miners, brought out the Constitution from the Annapolis navy yard. The Tiger Zonaves are a part of this regiment. -GOVERNOR DENNISON, of Ohio, issued a proclamation to the citizens of that State, calling upon them to rally to the defence of the Union, in accordance with the late call of the Executive at Washington.-(Doc. 15.) -THE National Intelligencer of this day gives the following on the mode in which the minor affairs of the South are managed: The lamentations which journals sympathizing with the secession cause express over the loss of "public and private liberty," would perhaps carry some weight if their sincerity were be lieved to be equal to their unction, or if any recognition was made of the relation which such losses bear as the natural effects of the causes set in motion by the revolutionists. The vehement denouncers of "Federal usurpations," which, in whatever degree they may exist, are but the inevitable incidents of a state of things precipitated by the secession movement, these journals, with a hypocrisy only equalled by their effrontery, continue to reserve all their virtuous indignation for the secondary, rather than the primary movers in these great transactions-for those who are acting on the defensive in the preservation of the National author ity, rather than those who were the first to invoke the precedents of tyranny for its overthrow. As a sample of the maxims which pass current in the seceded States, without incurring a breath of censure from these sturdy defenders of the Constitution and of public liberty, we make the following selection from a Southern journal: The Charleston Mercury announces the passage of the following resolutions by a vigilance committee of that city: Resolved, That this committee considers it highly inexpedient and impolitic for persons resident at the South to visit the free States of the Federal Government and return to our midst, and especially do we condemn visits of the same person. Resolved, therefore, That in future any resident of Charleston and its vicinity who shall go to any of the Northern States, unless with previous knowledge and consent of the committee, shall not be permitted to return to our community under pain of such disabilities or punishment as the law may decree. Such are the institutes of public opinion as now enforced in "the last home of constitutional liberty,” and it is from men who have no word of reproof for the authors of such usurpations that we are doomed to hear daily homilies on the rigorous proceedings of the National Government. These proceedings would indeed be most abnormal in a time of public peace, and it is quite possible that innocent parties may in some cases suffer from the unjust suspicions engendered in a day of great civil defection and official treachery. But it does not become the apologists of the men who have directly superinduced the public and private calamities which afflict the whole nation, to assume the championship of those who are the victims of a wrong which they seek to palliate and pro tect. August 29.-The joint expedition, commanded by General B. F. Butler and Commodore S. H. Stringham, after two days' cannonading, succeeded in capturing Forts Clark and Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., with the garrison of the latter fort. Thirty pieces of cannon, one thousand stand of arms, and a quantity of provisions, fell into possession of the National forces. Also three prize vessels -one a brig, laden with coffee and provisions, another laden with cotton, and two United States life-boats, together with large quantities of ammunition and munitions of war. There is an inlet across the sand bar at Hatteras, made by the sea within a few years, near which there have been erected two forts of earth and sand and other materials, and mounting a considerable number of guns. These forts were shelled by the National rifled cannon at a range of two-and-a-half miles. Into one of them there were thrown twenty-eight shells in eight minutes. One of the works surrendered, which was taken possession of and its guns directed against the other, which also soon surrendered. Their whole force was captured, and eight hundred of the Federal troops were left to garrison the forts and keep possession of them. At first Capt. Barron proposed to surrender if permitted to do so with the honors of war. This Gen. Butler refused, and demanded a surrender, at discretion, which was yielded, and the enemy marched out prisoners of war.-(Doc. 8.) -THE New Jersey Fifth regiment of Volunteers, fully equipped and numbering nearly a full complement of men, with wagons and horses, left Trenton this afternoon at three o'clock, and arrived safely in Philadelphia, en route for the seat of war.-N. Y. Herald, August 30. -A MONSTER meeting of the friends of the Sixty-ninth regiment, took place in New York in aid of a fund for the widows and orphans of those who have died in the ranks. Upward of fifty thousand people were present, and Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher delivered a stirring address. -A SKIRMISH took place at Lexington, Mo., between four thousand five hundred secessionists and fou hundred and thirty Home Guards and United States troops, in the intrenchments around Lexington. The attack was made by the secessionists, who were repulsed with a loss of sixty killed in the battle, and three of their pickets. None of the Federal force was killed. During the engagement, Arcana Hall, occupied by the Masons, and a private residence opposite to the court house, owned by R. Aull, Esq., of St. Louis, and occupied by T. Crittenden, Esq., (temporarily absent in Kentucky,) were shelled and burned. The impression was that the former contained powder designed for the use of the Confederates. Another attack was threatened.-(Doc. 16.) |