Orleans from some of the West India Islands. November 16.-The Fifty-first Ohio regiment, Before arriving at Panama, however, they were Col. Stanley Mathews, and the Nineteenth Ohio placed under arrest by General Sumner. They regiment, Col. Beatty arrived at Cincinnati from were conveyed across the Isthmus under guard Camp Dennison, and left for Louisville. The of the National troops, notwithstanding a pro- Fifty-first took passage on the mammoth steamer test on the part of the New Granadian authori- Strader, and the Nineteenth Ohio on the Monties, who considered such a proceeding a viola- arch and Hastings. Both regiments were in tion of the neutrality. The force at the com- fine condition, and fully equipped.—Ohio Statesmand of General Sumner was too formidable to man, November 19. be interfered with, or a forcible rescue would probably have been made. The prisoners were unfortunately, allowed to destroy a quantity of documents while on board the Orizaba, by

throwing them overboard.-New York Times,

November 16.

-AN expedition left Paducah, Ky., to-night, in the direction of Columbus. It was composed of the Fortieth and Forty-first Illinois regiments, a section of Buell's artillery-three guns, and two companies of cavalry, under command of

General Paine. Information had been received that fifteen or eighteen hundred secesh, com

-LIEUT. H. C. BULL, of the Ninth Iowa regiment, with fifteen men, went from Camp Her-manded by H. Clay King, were at Lovettsville, ron, Mo., to Manchester, twenty miles distant, and captured a large secession flag.-(Doc. 165.) -THE Norfolk Day Book, of to-day, contains the following notice:

Plans and offers for the construction of four seagoing, iron-clad, and ball-proof steam ramships, to carry at least four heavy guns each, are invited by the Navy Department, up to the 1st of December, 1861. Parties making offers are requested to accompany their plans by descriptive drawings and specifications; and a proper compensation for the labor of preparing such plans and drawings as may be submitted will be made by the Department.

S. R. MALLORY,

Secretary of the Navy. -FORD'S FERRY, eight miles below Caseyville, Ky., was visited by one hundred rebel cavalry, under command of the notorious Capt. Wilcox, who was supposed to have been killed in the skirmish at Saratoga, Ky. The rebels seized upon three casks of bacon, five sacks of coffee, twelve barrels of salt, and five hundred empty sacks, and announced their determination to take in future whatever they desired. Ford's

Ferry is the terminus of an excellent road which

leads out into the heart of Kentucky. Wilcox's cavalry belong to a camp of twelve hundred rebels, about thirty miles in the interior. They are becoming very bold and troublesome, and require the attention of a regiment or two of

Union troops.--Louisville Journal, Nov. 21.

THE British schooner Mabel was captured by the U. S. steamer Dale, in the attempt to run the blockade at Charleston.-(Doc. 166.)

sixteen miles distant, on the road to Columbus. There is a large flouring mill there, and it was the design of General Paine to rout the rebels and take possession of the mill. No enemy was found, however, and General Paine confiscated the flour, and took some of the machinery of the mill to prevent its being of any use to the rebels, and returned to Paducah.-Louisville Journal, November 23.

-FLOUR, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is held at twenty dollars per barrel. The Vicksburg Sun hopes it will be "taken," its owners paid a "fair market valuation for it, and receive a strong hint to leave the country."—(Doc. 167.)

-SALUTES were fired at various places in the loyal States, in commemoration of the victory at Port Royal, South Carolina.

-THIS morning a foraging party, consisting of fifty-seven of the Thirtieth N. V. Volunteers, attached to Gen. Keyes' Brigade in the army of the Potomac, went out to Doolin and Brush's Farm, three miles and a half west of Upton's Hill, Va., to draw away the forage which they had collected and left a day or two before. They took with them five four-horse the owners of the farm, invited the men in to wagons, and after loading up, Doolin, one of

dinner.

more foolishly stacked their arms outside the The soldiers foolishly accepted, and house, and went in, leaving eight men acting as pickets in the neighborhood. The moment the men sat down to dinner Doolin despatched a servant to the house of Brush, a mile distant, with a message that he should inform the rebels of the presence of the soldiers. This being

-GEN. PATTERSON, at an entertainment given by the Philadelphia City Troop, made a statement in relation to his conduct while in command on the Upper Potomac, which appears to relieve him from the odium of failure to participate in the movement which resulted in the defeat at Bull Run.-(Doc. 169.)

done, rebel cavalry, numbering about two hun- in the aggregate, from thirty-five thousand doldred, suddenly appeared, overpowered the lars to forty thousand dollars.-Tallahassee Senpickets before they could give alarm, and sur- tinel, Nov. 17. rounded the festive fools at Doolin's table. A number of men made their escape, but the following, together with the wagons and horses, were captured by the rebels: Captain W. L. Lanning, Second Lieutenant James W. Andrews; corporals, M. White, P. Cooney, and G. H. Vanderzer; privates, P. Frazier, George McWharton, L. Hardigen, Harris Stafford, John Sleight, D. G. B. Morris, A. Holtzer, N. W. Rowland, Coles Stanton, C. B. Elms, William Peck, A. W. Porter, Thomas Porter, Walter Merrick, Louis Marto, H. C. Smith, Robert Whelan, William McCormick, Stephen Stickles, Freeman Clapper, James Morrison, Daniel Connor, and Ned Riley. Doolin and Brush, who previous to this time were supposed to be good Union men, were arrested on the charge of having betrayed the troops.-N. Y. Tribune, November 18.

November 17.-This morning a detachment, under Col. Alcorn, stationed at Calhoun, attacked Hawkins' regiment at Cypress Bridge, three miles back of Rumsey, in McLean County, Ky., and completely routed the rebels, killing a great number, taking twenty-five prisoners, three hundred horses, and a number of guns, blankets, etc. The national loss was ten killed and fifteen wounded.

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-A PANIC prevailed at Charleston, which a week before the battle of Port Royal was regarded as absolutely impregnable." In explanation of the panic it is said: "The entire fighting population of Charleston and Savannah, as well as the intervening and adjacent country, is on active duty. The exempts are very few in number, being confined to those who are en

—GEN. C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Adjutant-General of Ohio, issued a stirring appeal to the men of that State, calling upon them to swell the number of soldiers already provided by Ohio, by contributing at least thirty-five thousand more. He urged upon them the duty of open-gaged in expediting the preparations for the ing the Mississippi to the Ocean, which was the work of the great Northwest.-(Doc. 168.)

war, or are detained by other occupations which the public interest requires not to be suspended. -NEAR Pleasant Hill, Cass Co., Mo., fifty Thus the community of Charleston and that of wagons and five hundred oxen, on their way to Savannah, alike shorn of the young and vigorSedalia, were captured by the rebels. When ous men, who give buoyancy and a sense of the wagon-master escaped, the yokes of the security to the household, is now made up aloxen were being burned, and preparations were most exclusively of women and children, and also being made to burn the wagons. The nervous old men who have passed the period teamsters were all taken prisoners.-N. Y. of military service. In such a condition of Times, November 17.

things it is scarcely wonderful that vague and unreasonable apprehensions should prevail."Richmond Examiner, November 20.

-A PARTY of Union troops recaptured nearly all the wagons and cattle which were seized by the rebels yesterday, near Pleasant Hill, Mo.

-THE D'Epineuil Zouaves, under command of Col. D'Epineuil, and the Sixty-sixth regiment N. Y. S. V., under command of Colonel Pinckney, left New York for the seat of war. -SIXTY-EIGHT prisoners arrived at Tallahassee, Florida, in charge of a detachment of Cap- -This morning the Ninety-seventh regiment tain Sheffield's company, the whole under Colo- Pennsylvania Volunteers, numbering nine hunnel M. Whit Smith. They are composed of dred and fifty muskets, under command of Col. Spaniards, Yankees, and Floridians, and were Guess, arrived at Baltimore, Md.-Four huncaptured while engaged in fishing around the dred and eighty-eight U. S. Artillery and InFlorida coast in the vicinity of Egmont Key fantry, commanded by Lieut.-Col. C. S. Merfor the Federals at Key West. Colonel Smith chant; the Sixty-sixth regiment N. Y. S. V. says they are the crews of twelve fishing under command of Col. Pinckney; the Fiftysmacks, and that the craft captured are worth, first regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and

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a detachment of five hundred sailors, belonging Cavalry. The rebels lost three killed, five to the Ellsworth and Naval batteries, com- wounded, and sixteen prisoners.-N. Y. Commanded by Col. Wainwright, also arrived at mercial Advertiser, Nov. 17. Baltimore during the day.-Baltimore American, November 18.

-THE Wild Cat Brigade, under Gen. Schoepf in Kentucky, reached Crab Orchard after a forced marched of four days in retreat.—(Doc. 170.)

November 18.-The New Orleans Crescent very strongly urged planters to destroy their "cotton or other property," rather than let it fall into the hands of the Yankees.-(Doc. 171.)

-THE rebel Congress to-day met in Richmond, Va. Howell Cobb took the chair. Rev. Mr. Flynn, of Georgia, chaplain of Col. Cobb's regiment, opened the session with prayer. The Secretary called the roll, when it was found there was a quorum present, six States being represented.—Present—Messrs. Barry, of Mississippi; Venable, of North Carolina; House, Jones, Atkins, and De Witt, of Tennessee; Curry and Chilton, of Alabama; Cobb, of Georgia; William Ballard Preston, Tyler, Macfarland, and Rives, of Virginia.

-UNITED STATES steam gunboat Connecticut captured the British schooner Adelaide, of Nassau, N. P., near Cape Canaveral, and took her into Key West. She was loaded with coffee, lead, and swords, having several cases of the latter. The supercargo, Lieutenant Hardee, a relative of "Tactic" Hardee, is an officer in the Confederate army. He claimed the cargo as his property, and acknowledged that he was taking it to Savannah, Ga. The Adelaide had made several voyages to Savannah since the blockade.-N. Y. Commercial, November 27. -LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. SNYDER, of the U. S. Engineers, first assistant to General Barnard on the construction of the forts on the line of the Potomac, died at Washington, D. C., to-day, of typhoid fever. IIe was one of the garrison at Fort Sumter, from its occupation by Major Anderson until its evacuation, and during the bombardment commanded a portion of the men. His gallant conduct elicited the highest praise. Fort Ellsworth and six other fortifications, opposite Washington, were constructed under his direction. He was but twenty-eight years of age, but was one of the most talented members of the engineer corps. He graduated at the head of his class, and was thereupon appointed an in-apprehension of the assassin. structor at West Point in the engineering department. Subsequently, on entering the army, he was employed in the fortification of Pickens, at Pensacola, and other forts. He had charge of the landing of the first troops at Annapolis; was in General Heintzelman's staff at the battle of Bull Run, and brought off the last of the troops from the field. At one time he was tendered the colonelcy of the Twelfth volunteer regiment from New York, by Governor Morgan, but his services as engineer in the regular army were too valuable, and the Government would not permit his acceptance of the position.

The Chair announced the presence of a quorum of the House.-Mr. Venable, member from North Carolina, moved that a committee be appointed to wait upon the President and inform him that there was a quorum present in the House, and Congress was ready to receive any communication from him.-The Chair appointed the following members: Messrs. Venable, of North Carolina, Scott, of Virginia, and Barry, of Mississippi.--Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 19.

-A LARGE number of rebels on their way to join Price's army, were attacked near Palmyra, Mo., by a detachment of the Third Missouri

-JUDGE THOMAS S. RICHARDS was shot through a window of the court house in Memphis, Scotland Co., Mo., while confined as a prisoner in the hands of Colonel Moore, of the Home Guard. Colonel Moore subsequently offered a reward of one thousand dollars for the

-THE steamers Georgia and Georgiana arrived at Baltimore this morning from Newtown, Worcester Co., Maryland. Four thousand Federal troops were preparing to go into Virginia. On the way up the Pocomoke River a boat was sent ashore with General Dix's proclamation, which was read to a large number of Virginians in a farm-house, who declared it entirely satisfactory, and claimed the protection of the Government from the secessionists, who were forcing them into the ranks against their will. The gunboat Resolute had given them protection through the day, but at night they had to seek shelter in the woods.-(Doc. 159.)

-GENERAL DRAYTON, at Hardeeville, South Carolina, assured the Governor of that State

that he had "neither seen nor heard of any | N. Y. S. M., from Brooklyn, while on picket act of pillage or incendiarism in any direction" on the part of the slaves.-(Doc. 172.)

-COLONEL WOFFORD's Eighteenth regiment of Georgia Volunteers left Richmond, Va., for Manassas, via Fredericksburg.—National Intelligencer.

-CAPTAIN A. H. FOOTE was appointed Flagofficer of the fleet in the Western Military Department. He thus ranks with the Major-General. This arrangement will obviate any possible conflict of authority between the commanders respectively of the land and water forces.

-THE following military appointments were made to-day, viz.: Assistant Adjutant-Generals of Volunteers-Captain Leonard Scott, for General Paine's brigade; Captain George A. Hicks, for General Burn's brigade; Captain John Pound, for General Puce's brigade; Captain Andrew C. Kemper, for General Wade's brigade; Captain William Von Dohn, for General Duryea's brigade; Captain Charles A. Reynolds, to be an assistant quartermaster in the regular service; William Sheffiler, to be an aide-de-camp to Major-General Banks.

duty about a mile and a half west of Fall's Church, Va., were attacked by rebel cavalry and forced to fall back, with one man wounded. They were subsequently reinforced by a considerable body of troops, when the rebels retired, with a loss of several killed and wounded.-N. Y. Times, November 19.

-Gov. BUCKINGHAM, of Connecticut, in a general order, congratulated the soldiers from that State who went with the Port Royal naval expedition, for having been the first to land upon the traitorous soil of South Carolina.-N. Y. Times, November 19.

-THE Massachusetts Twenty-sixth regiment, under command of Col. Jones, and the Connecticut Ninth, commanded by Col. Cahill, embarked from Boston this afternoon on board the steamship Constitution. Both regiments were enthusiastically cheered on their march through the city. They were reviewed on the common by Gen. Butler previous to embarking. They were splendidly armed and equipped.-National Intelligencer, November 21.

-LETTERS from Upper Arkansas relate the imposition practised by Albert Pike upon the Del-Camanche Indians, and the conclusion of a treaty between these Indians and the Confederate States.-(Doc. 174.)

-NORTH CAROLINA, by a Convention of egates representing forty-five counties, declared a Provisional Government, and entirely repudiated the secession act of the State, reaffirming her loyalty and devotion to the Constitution of the United States. The Convention met at Hatteras. The act passed contained several sections, the substance of which is as follows: The first declares vacant all the offices of the State; the second names Marble Nash Taylor Provisional Governor; the third adopts the Constitution of the State, with the statutes and laws contained in the revised code of 1856; the fourth repudiates the ordinance of secession passed at Raleigh on the 20th of May, together with all other acts then adopted; the fifth directs the Provisional Governor to order a special election for Members of Congress; the sixth gives to the Governor authority to make temporary appointments to official vacancies. The Convention adjourned, subject to the call of the President. Governor Taylor issued his proclamation for an election in the Second Congressional District, which will be held on Wednesday, the 27th inst.—(Doc. 173.)

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-THE Sixty-ninth New York State Volunteers, a new regiment recruited mainly from the old Sixty-ninth New York State Militia, left New York for the seat of war. to its departure, the regiment was presented with a stand of colors at the residence of Archbishop Hughes. Speeches were made by Father Starrs, V. G., Judge Daly, and Col. Meagher. -(Doc. 175.)

-ONE hundred and fifty rebels were captured by a company of Union cavalry near Warrenburgh, Mo.

-JEFF. THOMPSON with two hundred men boarded the steamer Platte City at Price's Landing in Missouri, ransacked her in search of papers, and took off two men whom he hung as spies.-(Doc. 176.)

November 19.-Some men of Capt. Hill's Cavalry had a skirmish near Wirt Court House, Western Virginia, with a gang of rebels calling themselves the Moccasin Rangers. There was -A PORTION of the Fourteenth regiment a corn-husking at the house of a secessionist,

about a mile from Wirt Court House, and some | Captain Watson, of Wilmington. They crossed of Capt. Hill's men obtained leave of absence Hampton Creek, and when about one and a and attended the affair without arms. After the men had started, the balance of the company were advised that their companions were to be attacked and captured at the husking, by the Moccasin Rangers. Accordingly the company armed themselves, and proceeded as quietly as possible down to the husking. They had scarcely reached the house and formed themselves in position, when the Moccasin Rangers made a charge upon the house. Capt. Hill's men fired upon the Moccasins before the latter were aware of their presence in force, killing a lieutenant and wounding five or six others. The rangers retreated.