ing came up with a squad of repeis at bune-to imprisonment during dom, about fifteen miles from Union City, and Tortugas, Florida, where they would be sent under suitable guards by orders from the army on the second instant, within a few miles of Wilcommanders.-CAPTAIN ROSS and twelve of liamsburgh, with arms in their hands, having his men, deserters from General Price's rebel been pushed forward by Massa Butler with a army, arrived at Van Buren, Arkansas.-COL-negro command on a foraging and thieving exONEL A. D. STREIGHT made a report to the Com- pedition. Their names and military connection mittee on Military Affairs, of the lower house of were recorded as follows: James W. Cord and Congress, in relation to the treatment the Union P. F. Lewis, Fifth United States volunteers; officers and soldiers received from the rebel au- R. P. Armstead and John Thomas, Sixth United thorities at Richmond and elsewhere in the States volunteers. As they claimed to be 'ButSouth. (Doc. 106.) ler's pets,' and it being understood that a great affection and fondness for each other existed between them and the officers captured from the recent sacking and plunder expedition, Major Turner very considerately ordered that they be placed in the cells occupied by their white co-patriots, March 3.—The rebel schooner Arletta or Martha, was captured and destroyed off Tybee Is land. March 4.-The English steamer Don, while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., was captured by the National steamer Pequot.-MICHAEL HAHN was installed as Governor of Louisiana, at New-Orleans. An address was made by General Banks, and other interesting ceremonies performed.-ORDERS requiring the draft to be made on the tenth instant were suspended. March 5.-Yazoo City, garrisoned by one white and two negro regiments of National troops, was attacked by a body of rebels under the com mand of Ross and Richardson, who were repulsed after a severe contest.-(Doc. 109.) each being accommodated with a sable boon companion. We are glad that our officials are inclined to carry out Greeley's idea of amalgamation of the races, so far as it affects the Yankee prisoners in our care. It will result in mutual good. The only party likely to be seriously affected, either in status or morals, is the negro. The Yankee cannot be degraded lower; the negro probably can be." -UNDER the caption of "A Premium Unithe following: "Recently Mrs. White, of Selma, form," the Richmond newspapers published Alabama, went through the lines to Lexington, -A LARGE force of rebel cavalry attacked Kentucky, and being a sister (Todd) of Mrs. ninety-three men of the Third Tennessee regi- Lincoln, was permitted to go on to Washingment at Panther Springs, East-Tennessee. The ton. On her return, several weeks ago, she was Union loss was two killed and eight wounded and twenty-two captured. The rebels had thirty killed and wounded. allowed to carry nothing back, save a uniform for a very dear friend of hers who was battling in the Southern cause. The uniform arrived in March 6.-A cavalry force, sent out from the Confederacy several days since, and on inCumberland, Md., under command of Lieuten- spection all the buttons were found to be comant-Colonel Root, of the Fifteenth New-York posed of gold coin-two and a half, five, ten, cavalry, returned, having effectually destroyed and twenty-dollar gold pieces, set in the wood all the saltpetre works near Franklin, in Pendleton County.-THE English steamer Mary Ann, while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., was captured by the Union steamer Grand Gulf.-THE sloop G. Garibaldi was seized at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, while trying to run the blockade with a cargo of cotton. March 7.-The first negro prisoners of war arrived in Richmond, Va., and were placed in Libby Prison. The Examiner thus noticed the fact: "They were genuine, sure members of the original Corps d'Afrique, ranging in color from gingerbread-brown to tobacco-black, greasy and loud-smelling, encased in blue uniforms, close buttoned up to the chin. They were captured VOL. VIII.-DIARY 4 en button and covered with confederate cloth. The gold thus brought through is valued at between thirty and forty thousand dollars—all sewed upon a uniform." -CONSIDERABLE excitement existed in Frederick and Washington counties, Md., growing out of rebel movements on the Virginia side of the Potomac, supposed to be premonitory of a cavalry raid through the upper counties of the State. -DECATUR, Alabama, was captured by the National forces under the command of BrigadierGeneral Dodge. March 8.-Four Yankee negro soldiers, captured in James City County, were brought to With this city yesterday and delivered at the Libby, of what you have done, and its reliance upon where they were distributed, as far as they would you for what there remains to do in the existgo, into the solitary cells of the Yankee officers ing great struggle, are now presented with this captured during the recent raid. This is a taste commission constituting you Lieutenant-Genof negro equality, we fancy, the said Yankee eral in the army of the United States. officers will not fancy overmuch. The negroes this high honor devolves upon you also a correrepresent themselves as James W. Cord, com- sponding responsibility. As the country herepany C, Fifth United States volunteers; P. F. in trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. Lewis, company I, Fifth United States volun- I scarcely need to add that with what I have teers; R. P. Armistead, company H, Sixth spoken for the nation, goes my own hearty perUnited States volunteers; John Thomas, ditto.-sonal concurrence." Richmond Whig. -THE rebel steamer Sumter was captured on Lake George, Florida, by the National steamer Columbine, under the command of Acting Master J. C. Champion.-FORTY-EIGHT Union officers and over six hundred prisoners arrived at Fortress Monroe from Richmond, Va., for exchange.THE steam-tug Titan, which was captured near Cherry Stone Point, Va., was burned at Freeport on the Piankatank River. March 9.-A fight took place near Suffolk, Virginia, between a force of rebels and a portion of the Second Virginia colored regiment, commanded by Colonel Cole, resulting in a loss of twenty-five rebels, and twenty killed, wounded, and missing of the Nationals.* -FORTY of the Thirtieth Pennsylvania cavalry were captured by guerrillas about a mile and a half from Bristoe Station, Virginia. They were surrounded and compelled to surrender. Several of them afterward escaped. -THE steamer Hillman was attacked by a gang of guerrillas, stationed on the Missouri shore opposite Island No. 18 in the Mississippi River, and several persons were killed and wounded. To which General Grant replied as follows: "Mr. President: I accept this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and, above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.” The President then introduced the General to all the members of the Cabinet, after which the company were seated and about half an hour was spent in conversation. -MAJOR-GENERAL PECK, in general orders, issued the following from his headquarters at Newbern, N. C.: "The moment when we are threatened with an advance by the enemy, is the proper time to remind the gallant officers and soldiers of this command of the results of the recent operations in North-Carolina. "Besides the repulse of General Pickett's army at Newbern, the following have been captured : Six officers, two hundred and eighty-one prisoners and dangerous rebels, five hundred contrabands, two hundred and fifty arms and accoutrements, one hundred and thirty-eight horses and mules, eleven bales of cotton, one piece of artillery, caisson complete, one flag, many saddles, harnesses, and wagons. Much property of the rebel government has been destroyed from inability to remove it, as appears by a partial list: Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of “General Grant: The nation's appreciation pork, eighty barrels of lard, seventy-five barrels -PRESIDENT LINCOLN this afternoon formally presented to Major-General Grant his commission as Lieutenant-General. The ceremony took place in the Cabinet chamber in the presence of many distinguished personages. General Grant having entered the room, the President rose and addressed him thus: The following is the Southern version of the story: drove them in a rout out of the town, killing a number, captur- G. E. PICKETT, Major-Gen. of meat, twenty thousand bushels of corn, thirtytwo barrels of beef, five hogsheads of sugar, five thousand empty sacks, one corn-mill, ten wagons, one ton of tobacco, eighteen mules, two warehouses of salt, and two extensive salt manufaetories. Thousands of deserters have entered the lines, and resumed their allegiance to the Federal |