-Tae Seventh Illinois cavalry attacked a force ing away all the government stores and property.

sisting of the Ninth Illinois and part of the Four- when she was surprised by a gang of guerrillas, teenth Missouri regiments, under the command who took possession of her and moved her to the of Colonel Mersey, evacuated Rienzi, Miss., carry-opposite side of the river, and after rolling out

-THE Seventh Illinois cavalry attacked a force ing away all the government stores and property. of rebel troops encamped near Summerville, This movement was made in anticipation of an Miss., and captured twenty-eight of their num- attack upon Corinth by the rebels, who were reber, including a captain and two lieutenants, with ported to be advancing in two heavy columns their horses, arms, etc. upon that place, respectively from the south and east.-Missouri Democrat.

November 27.-Colonel Kirk, commanding the Fifth brigade of General Sill's division, made a November 28.-The battle of Cane Hill, Ark., reconnoissance from Nashville toward La Vergne, was fought by the Union forces under General Tenn., with two companies of the Third Indi- Blunt, and the rebel troops under the command of ana cavalry, and that portion of his brigade General Marmaduke, which resulted in a retreat. not on picket-duty. He came upon the rebel of the latter with considerable loss.—(Doc. 34.) outposts of cavalry three quarters of a mile be-THIS morning, while doing picket-duty near yond Scrougesville. The rebels fired a few rounds Hartwood Church, about fifteen miles from Faland fled, until they fell in with their other out-mouth, Va., the first and third squadrons of the posts on the right and left of the road, when they Third Pennsylvania cavalry, belonging to General made a stand at a church three fourths of a mile Averill's brigade, were suddenly attacked by a beyond. Here they discharged several rounds at numerically superior force of rebel cavalry, and the Union advance, slightly wounding Lieutenant-after a brief resistance, in which four of the Colonel Hurd, of the Thirtieth Indiana, who was Unionists were killed and nine wounded, were bravely leading his men. This regiment, under finally taken prisoners. lead of Colonel Dodge, quickly drove the guerrillas from their position, who retreated until they reached their artillery, which was planted on a hill. They fired a few rounds and continued retreating. The National troops chased them some two miles beyond La Vergne, when the rebels fled so fast, that they soon became invisible. Several of the rebels were killed and wounded, a number of them being seen to fall. They were carried off by their friends. The Nationals had ten privates wounded; none killed. A guerrilla, who was captured, stated that General Wheeler, who was in command, was wounded. Nashville Union, November 29.

-A UNION Cavalry force, two thousand five hundred strong, under the command of BrigadierGeneral C. C. Washburne, left Helena, Ark., this afternoon, on an expedition into the State of Mississippi. (Doc. 61.)

-AN important reconnoissance was this day made by a large Union force under the command of General Stahel, to Upperville, Paris, Ashby's Gap, Snickersville, Berryville, etc.--(Doc. 50.)

-AN expedition consisting of five thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, under the command of General A. P. Hovey, yesterday left Helena, Ark., and to-day arrived at Delta, Miss., for the purpose of cutting the road and telegraph wires, on the Tennessee and Mississippi railroads, and creating a panic in the rebel forces under General Price. Bridges on both roads were destroyed, together with two locomotives and thirty or forty freight-cars.-The cavalry under General Washburne had several skirmishes with General Price's rear-guard, the main body of whose army being in full retreat to the Big Black River, driving them and capturing about fifty prisoners. The expedition was considered to be very suecessful.-New-Albany Ledger.

-POLITICAL prisoners were released from Fort Warren, Mass.-At Louisville, Ky., General Boyle issued the following order: "All commanding November 29.-The steamer Star was captured officers serving in this district are ordered not to and burned by guerrillas at a point about two permit any negroes or slaves to enter the camps, miles below Plaquemine, La. This morning the and all officers and privates are forbidden to in- Star went up as high as Plaquemine; she soon terfere or intermeddle with the slaves in any left, and came down about a mile, when she landway." The schooner Mary E. Mangum, while en- ed and took in forty-five hogsheads of sugar; tering the port of Roscau, Dominica, was fired after which she crossed over to the left bank, at into by the rebel steamer Alabama, without dam- a wood-pile about another mile lower down, to age-This morning the United States forces con- take in wood. She had not got more than a cord sisting of the Ninth Illinois and part of the Four- when she was surprised by a gang of guerrillas, teenth Missouri regiments, under the command who took possession of her and moved her to the of Colonel Mersey, evacuated Rienzi, Miss., carry- opposite side of the river, and after rolling out

about thirty hogsheads of sugar, set her on ing to the Fourth North-Carolina confederate fire. Captain McKiege and the engineer, William troops.-George P. Kane, late Marshal of BaltiDewey, were detained as prisoners, but the rest more, Md., issued an address to his fellow-citizens of the crew were given their liberty.-New-Or- of the State of Maryland, setting forth a statement leans Delta, December 2. relative to his incarceration at Fort Warren, Mass.

-A SKIRMISH Occurred between a scouting-par--The schooner Levi Rowe, while attempting to ty from Captain Mear's Maryland Home Guard, run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., was capstationed at Berlin, and a body of Bob White's tured by the steamer Mount Vernon.—The bark rebel cavalry, in which the latter were put to Parker Cook was captured and destroyed, in the flight with a loss of two men.-General Curtis, at Mona Passage, by the rebel steamer Alabama. St. Louis, Mo., reported to the War Department at Washington, that a cavalry expedition, under Major Torry, to the forks of the Mingo and St. Francis Rivers, had captured Colonel Phelan and ten men of the rebel army.

-THE Savannah Republican says that "the people of Charleston, S. C., have pulled up their lead pipes and contributed sixty thousand pounds to the government, and that the government will issue receipts for all lead pipes and other fixtures, and binds itself to replace them at the end of the war."-The advance column of the Union army under General Grant, passed through Holly Springs, Miss., this morning.-(Doc. 55.)

November 30.-A skirmish took place near Abbeville, Miss., between a reconnoitring force of Union troops under the command of Colonel Lee, and a strong body of rebels, resulting in a retreat of the latter to their fortifications at Abbeville, with some loss. Not a man of the Union party was injured.

The

December 1.-Both Houses of the Congress of the United States met at Washington. message of President Lincoln was received and read. Among the recommendations offered for adoption in the message, were the following resolution and articles emendatory to the Constitution of the United States:

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures or Conventions of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures or Conventions, to be valid as part or parts of the said Constitution, namely:

ARTICLE. Every State wherein slavery now exists, which shall abolish the same therein at any time or times before the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, shall receive compensation from the United States as follows, to wit:

-AN expedition to Yellville, Ark., by the First Iowa, Tenth Illinois, and Second Wisconsin regiThe President of the United States shall dements, under command of Colonel Dudley Wickliver to every such State, bonds of the United ersham, returned to General Herron's camp, havStates, bearing interest at the rate of for ing been successful in destroying portions of the each slave shown to have been therein, by the rebel saltpetre-works, arsenal, and store-houses, eighth census of the United States; said bonds with about five hundred shot-guns and rifles.to be delivered to such State by instalments, or General Curtis's Despatch.

in one parcel at the completion of the abolishment, -A RUMOR was prevalent in Washington, that according as the same shall have been gradual a proposition for an armistice of thirty days was or at one time within such State; and interest made by the rebel government, and that General shall begin to run upon any such bond only from Robert E. Lee was in that place negotiating the the proper time of its delivery as aforesaid, and terms.-The Forty-seventh regiment of Massa- afterward. Any State having received bonds as chusetts troops, under the command of Colonel aforesaid, and afterward introducing or tolerating Marsh, left Boston for the seat of war.-An ex-slavery therein, shall refund to the United States pedition to Hyde County, N. C., under the com- the bonds so received, or the value thereof, and mand of Major Garrard of the Third New-York all interest paid thereon. cavalry, returned to Newbern, having thoroughly ARTICLE. All slaves who shall have enjoyed destroyed all the bridges in that vicinity, besides actual freedom, by the chances of the war at any capturing Colonel Carter, of the Thirteenth North- time, before the end of the rebellion, shall be forCarolina volunteers, and a rebel sergeant belong-ever free; but all owners of such, who shall not

have been disloyal, shall be compensated for them at the same rates as is provided for States adopt ing abolishment of slavery-but in such a way that no slave shall be twice accounted for.

ARTICLE. Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.

-WILLIAM W. LUNT, lately a private belonging to the Ninth regiment of Maine volunteers, was executed at Hilton Head, S. C., for desertion.— of The National cavalry, belonging to the army General Grant, under the command of Colonel Lee, took possession of the rebel forts on the Tallahatchie River. By a sudden descent, early in the morning, Colonel Lee captured a battery of

six guns, with the horses attached thereto, on the

north side of the river.-A slight skirmish took

place in the vicinity of Horse Creek, Dade County;

December 2.-Abbeville, Miss., was evacuated by the rebels, and occupied by the National cavalry belonging to the army of General Grant.-A fight took place near Franklin, Va., between a force of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Spear, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, and a body of rebel cavalry, supported by artillery, resulting in a complete rout of the rebels, with considerable loss.-(Doc. 57.)

-LIEUTENANT HOFFMAN of the First New-Jersey cavalry, and six of his men, were surprised while on picket-duty, at a point three miles from Dumfries, Va. In their unsuccessful resistance, private Thomas Buffin was seriously wounded.— General Averill sent a reconnoisance from Brooks's Station, up the Rappahannock River, which suc

ceeded in capturing a number of rebel pickets, and

obtaining valuable information.-At three o'clock

this morning parts of two companies of the Eighth Mo., between a detachment of the Fourth Missouri Pennsylvania cavalry, numbering sixty men, uncavalry, under the command of Major Kelly, and der the command of Captain Wilson, were attacked a small band of guerrillas, in which the rebels at King George Court-House, Va., by a large body were routed, leaving five of their number in the of rebels, who succeeded in getting between their hands of the Unionists.-Springfield Missourian. station and the main body of the National cav-A DETACHMENT of the Third Virginia National alry, and thus compelled them to retreat with cavalry, under the command of Captain S. B. some loss.-A portion of the expedition under the Cruger, entered Warrenton, Va., to-day, after command of Major-General Banks, sailed from routing the rebel cavalry, and capturing one pris-New-York.-Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in Union an elaborate letter to the National Intelligencer, oner, nine horses, and a wagon, without any loss.-T. R. Cressy, Chaplain Minnesota Se- refuted the charges, made by a New-Orleans jourcond regiment, made a report of the operations of nal, reflecting on his conduct as Commissioner of the regiment, from the first of August to this the United States, in that city.—Major-Generał date.-(Doc. 56.) Halleck made a report of the operations of the armies of the Union, from the twenty-third day of July, when, in compliance with the President's order, he assumed command as General-in-Chief, to this date.—(Doc. 58.)

-THE British schooner George, from Nassau, N. P., laden with coffee, salt, etc., was captured off Indian River, Florida, by the United States gunboat Sagamore, Lieutenant Commanding Earle English.-Official confirmation of the hostile plans of "Little Crow," and a portion of the northern Indians, was this day received by W. P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the United States.-St. Paul Press, January 1, 1863.

-A UNION boat expedition, under the command of Acting Master Gordon, proceeded up Bell River, La., and captured an armed rebel launch, mounting a twelve-pounder brass howitzer. This morning, Gen. Slocum, with a body of National troops, had a skirmish with the rebel cavalry, under White, Henderson, and Baylor, near Charlestown, Va., and succeeded in routing them. This evening he again attacked them at Berryville, killing five and wounding eighteen.General Slocum's Report.

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COLONEL J. M. GLOVER, commandant at Rolla, Mo., having intelligence that several hundred rebels were in camp on Current River, at the head waters, on the thirtieth ultimo, proceeded with one hundred and thirty men to attack them. His force were parts of companies A and B of the Third Missouri cavalry, and part of company H, Ninth Missouri cavalry. This morning he found a light force of the enemy in the gorges of the Ozarks and routed them, killing four, capturing two, and taking four horses. The detachment marched two hundred miles in seven days, and not a man of it was harmed. No considerable body of the rebels could be found, and the force returned to Rolla.-General Curtis's Despatch.