cases of urgent necessity. The second order | months ago; they have principally done guard announces the desecration of Mount Vernon by duty on Meridian Hill, and at the Long Bridge, the bands of armed rebels, and expresses the Washington.-Phila. Press, August 2. hope of the Commander-in-Chief that, should the operations of the war take the national troops in that direction, every possible respect will be paid to the sacred precincts.-(Doc. 144.) -THE Missouri State Convention to-day elected for the Provisional Government, Hamilton R. Gamble, for Governor; Willard P. Hale, Lieutenant-Governor; and Mordecai Oliver, Secretary of State. The opposition were excused from voting, protesting against the power of the Convention. In the afternoon the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor were sworn in and inaugurated. Each made a strong Union and patriotic speech, amid loud applause. After the presentation of an address to the people of the State by the Convention, it adjourned till the third Monday in December, unless sooner called together by the new Government, or demanded by the public safety.-(Doc. 145.) -JOSEPHI HOLT addressed the soldiers at Camp Joe Holt, Ind., this day. A vast throng of civilians swelled the audience, including several parties of ladies and gentlemen from Louisville. Mr. Holt was introduced by Gen. Rousseau with soldier-like directness, and spoke for half an hour or upward in a strain of the most enkindling and enchanting eloquence. The effort was one of the most effective and felicitous of his life.-(Doc. 146.) -THOS. C. REYNOLDS, ex-Lieut.-Gov. of Missouri, in a long proclamation, announces to the people of Missouri that "the sun which shone in its full mid-day splendor at Manassas is about to rise upon Missouri," and calls upon them "to rally as one man to the defence of the State." (Doc. 148.) August 1.-This morning the First Maine Regiment, Col. N. J. Jackson, passed through Philadelphia on their way home. Their appearance indicated the hard service which the regiment have had since leaving. They number 780 rank and file, but intend, on reaching home, to immediately reorganize the regiment, increase the number to one thousand men, and re-enter the service for three years. The soldiers took breakfast at Washington avenue, prepared by the refreshment committee. This regiment passed through Philadelphia about three -THE War Department at Washington received the following direct from Gen. Rosereached Gauley Bridge on the 29th ult. Gen. crans by telegraph, dated to-day:-"Gen. Cox Wise fled without fighting, destroying the bridge to prevent pursuit. We have captured a thousand muskets and several kegs of cannon powder. Many inhabitants of that section, who have heretofore been strong Secessionists, denounce Gen. Wise for his wanton destruction of property, and are abandoning him and his cause. His Western troops are rapidly disbanding. The valley of the Kanawha is nov free from the rebel forces."-Phila. Inquirer, August 2. the rebels of Missouri, that the North is whip-JEFF. THOMPSON by proclamation informs ped in Virginia; that "tardy action, like the gentle south wind, will only meet with Northern frosts," and so invites them to "strike while the iron is hot."-(Doc. 149.) -THE Twelfth Regiment N. Y. S. M., under the command of Colonel Butterfield, and the Twentieth Regiment, Colonel George W. Pratt, returned to New York from the seat of war. The Eighth Regiment, Mass., reached Boston from the seat of war.-N. Y. Herald, August 2. -THE prize brig Herald, with a cargo of naval stores and tobacco from Beaufort, S. C., bound to Liverpool, and which was captured by the frigate St. Lawrence on the 16th of July, arrived at Philadelphia, Pa. She cleared from Boston, May 27, ostensibly for Turk's Island, but was then chartered by parties in New York for Beaufort, S. C., with the intent to try the experiment of running the blockade.-N. Y Evening Post, August 2. -SCOUTS returned to Cairo, Ill., from the South, and reported that the rebels at New Madrid were well-armed and drilled. They have five batteries of ten-pound field-pieces, officered by foreigners, and two regiments of cavalry well equipped. General Pillow is in command. He has promised Ex-Governor Jackson to place 20,000 men in Missouri at once. He has also issued a proclamation, full of bombast, to the people of Missouri, declaring his intention "to drive the invaders from the State, and enable |