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to meet at Louisville; 3, the delegates to agree | responded to in an able speech by Rev. Mr. upon a modified Constitution; or 4, a peaceable Willets, of Brooklyn, and Paymaster Bingham, separation.

One of its plans for reconstruction is to have a Northern and Southern section in each House of Congress, and no bill to become a law until agreed to by a majority on both sides!—(Doc. 160.)

of the Twenty-sixth Regiment.-(Doc. 162.)

-ADMIRAL SIR ALEXANDER MILNE, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces, at Halifax, in a private letter to the British Consul at Boston, says: "I see a long article in the papers and extracts from a letter from Fort Pickens, alluding to orders I have given; all I can say is that it is not my version of blockade nor my orders on the subject."-Buffalo Evening Courier, August 5.

-AN engagement took place at Messila, N. M., between a body of Federal troops and seven hundred Confederates, under command of Capt. Baylor. Capt. McNeely and Lieutenant Brooks, of the Federal army, were wounded in the engagement, and twelve of the Confederates killed. Night coming on put an end to the engagement.-Baltimore American, August 21.manded by Colonel Charles Wharton, brother of

-DELAWARE has contributed two regiments for the war. One is already in the field. The other has not yet been complete, and is com

-THE secret expedition from Fortress Mon- George M. Wharton, of Philadelphia. One comroe to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake pany of the regiment is entirely made up of Bay, under the command of Captain Crosby, U. Philadelphians. It is the Hancock Guards, S. A., returned to Old Point Comfort. The Capt. John F. Heishley. The men are remarkobject of the expedition was to search for ves-ably well fed, clothed, and sheltered. In this sels engaged in illegal trade, and to reconnoitre particular Delaware has equalled, if not surthe coast for defences erected by the rebels. passed, the other States. They are encamped (Doc. 161.) at Camp Brandywine, Wilmington. - Phila

August 4.-About five o'clock, this morning,

the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, passed through Philadelphia, Pa., on their way home. The regiment is under Colonel A. H. Terry, and participated in the engagement at Bull Run. In the fight they lost sixteen men killed and wounded. The officers of this regiment deny that it was through hunger that the men were exhausted. The Connecticut men were supplied with full haversacks; and the only drawback in their opinion to final success, was the impetuous feeling to go ahead and fight. In order to get within the enemy's lines, a long march was necessary to this end. From two o'clock A. M. until ten they marched; and even then the men were unable to rest. To this fact alone, the officers of this regiment attribute, in a great measure, the reverse. The regiment acted as part of the reserve, and did not get into battle till late in the day.-Philadelphia Bulletin, August 5.

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—A MEETING was held this evening in Rev. Dr. Adams' Church, on Madison-square, New York city, to aid in measures taken for the vention and suppression of intemperance in the National Army. A. R. Wetmore, Esq., presided, and Dr. De Witt offered a prayer. Resolutions were read by Dr. Marsh, which were

delphia Bulletin, August 5.

August 5.-At Washington, the representatives of the newspaper press held a consultation with Gen McClellan by his special invitation, when it was unanimously decided that the following suggestions from him be transmitted to the editors of all the newspapers in all the loyal States and in the District of Columbia:

1st. That all such editors be required to refrain from publishing, either as editorial or correspondence, any description, from any point of view, of any matter that might furnish aid and comfort to the enemy.

2d. That they be also requested and earnestly solicited to signify to their correspondents here and elsewhere their approval of the foregoing suggestion, and to comply with it in spirit and letter.

It was resolved that the Government be respectfully requested to afford the representatiyes of the press facilities for obtaining and immediately transmitting all information suitable for publication, particularly touching engagements with the enemy.

-THE following queries were put to the Confederate District-Attorney at Charleston :

First-Is it lawful for a citizen of the Confederate States to purchase of our enemy State

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stock or bonds of any of the Confederate States, | their advance was from ten to fifteen miles and demand the interest when due ?

Second-Is it lawful for the same parties to purchase notes given by merchants of the Southern Confederacy to Northern houses, and demand payment for the same?

distant. Three of the routes on which the enemy were moving, were the Neosho, Carthage, and the Overland roads. Gen. Lyon called in two thousand five hundred Home Guards from the neighborhood. Farther than this addition to his force, no other reinforcements seemed to be near. It was expected that the enemy were

Third-If lawful and proper to pursue the above course, would it not be equally legal for the small trader to buy merchandise of the ene-resolved on an immediate attack, from the fact my; or, in other words, does the law intend to operate in favor of the fortunate holders of capital against the humble dealers in wares and merchandise?

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The response is as follows:--The acts specified by you certainly constitute trading with the enemy" peculiarly objectionable, because they afford a direct assistance to the enemy, by the transmission of money to foster his resources. And, in addition, such conduct is highly unpatriotic, because directly injurious to the interests of the States and citizens of our Confederacy, whose obligations are thus withdrawn from the enemy's country, where it is for the interests of the States that they should remain, since they could not there be called upon for payment during the war. Such operations are certainly worse than the simple purchase of merchandise in the enemy's country, because they, at the same time, aid our enemies and injure our friends.-N. Y. Times, August 5.

-CLAIBORNE F. JACKSON, the deposed Governor of Missouri, publishes in the Memphis Appeal a document entitled "Declaration of Independence of the State of Missouri," and addressed to the people of that State. The ex-Governor says he takes this step by virtue of authority conferred upon him by the State Legislature to do such things as to him might seem proper to " suppress the rebellion and repel invasion." He thereupon assumes that the waging of war by the Federal Government upon the sovereign State of Missouri, ipso facto, sunders the connection of the latter from the former, and accordingly so declares-subject, however, to the ratification of the people at such future time as their impartial and unbiased verdict can be obtained through the ballot-box. -(Doc. 163.)

-GEN. LYON with his forces fell back on Springfield, Mo. The rebels were advancing on the latter place by four different roads, and

that their commissariat was in a miserable condition, the rebels depending on forced contributions for temporary supplies.

It was generally remarked in Springfield that Gen. Lyon was perfectly confident of success, in the event of an attack. The latest estimate places the rebel force at twenty thousand. Their arms are thought to be very inferior, judged by the specimens taken during the skirmish at Dug Spring, where Gen. Lyon had no intrenchments, depending upon his splendid artillery in the open field.-St. Louis Democrat, August 9.

-IN the Maryland Legislature to-day, S. Teakle Wallis, from the committee to whom was referred the memorial of the police commissioners, submitted a long report, followed by preamble and resolutions, setting forth as arbitrary and unconstitutional the course of the Government in superseding the police board, and imprisoning Marshal Kane and the commissioners. The committee appealed in the most earnest manner to the whole people of the country, of all parties, sections, and opinions, to take warning by the usurpations mentioned, and come to the rescue of the free institutions of the country, so that whatever may be the issue of the melancholy conflict which is now covering the land with sacrifice and threatens to overwhelm it with debt and ruin, there may at least survive to us when it is over the republican form of government which our fathers bequeathed to us, and the inestimable rights which they framed it to perpetuate.-N. Y. World, August 6.

-THE bark Alvarado, having a prize crew from the privateer Jeff. Davis on board, was chased ashore near Fernandina, Florida, and subsequently burned by the sailors of the United States ship Vincennes.-(Doc. 170.)

-A SHARP skirmish took place this morning in Virginia, opposite the Point of Rocks, between a detachment of sixty men of the Twenty

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