by the United States House of Representatives by tured by the rebel guerrilla chief, John II. Morgan, a vote of ninety-six to fifty-five, having been pre-arrived at Nashville, Tenn., this day. viously adopted by the Senate.-J. Wesley Green published an extended statement, that he brought certain peace propositions from Jefferson Davis to President Lincoln, and that he had several interviews with the President, and two with the Cabinet.-New-York Evening Post. December 11.-The United States gunboat Cairo was sunk in the Yazoo River, by a torpedo. The vessel sank in seven minutes after being struck. The crew were saved, but every thing else on board was lost.-(Doc. 72.) --A RECONNOISSANCE was this day made by a strong force of Union troops, under the command of General Ferry, to the Blackwater River, Va. The rebels were discovered, in great strength, all along the river in the vicinity of Zuni. After an artillery fight of three or four hours, in which the rebels were driven back, the National force returned to their camp at Suffolk.-(Doc. 71.) -This afternoon the gunboat Essex, accompanied by the transport Winona, while making a reconnoissance of the fortifications at Port Hud-COLONEL JONES, of the rebel army, surren- son, was fired upon by a party of rebel artillerists, dered himself to a scouting-party of the Sixth under the command of Captain Boone, and comMissouri cavalry, commanded by Colonel Cather-pelled to retire.-About day-break this mornwood, near Warrensburgh, Mo.-President Lin-ing, a large body of General Stuart's rebel cavalry coln, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate entered Dumfries, Va., and captured thirty-five of the United States, sent a message to that body, accompanying all the information in his possession, touching the Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota.-An expedition, consisting of a strong Union force of all arms, under the command of Major-General Foster, left Newbern, N. C., this morning, for the purpose of destroying railway and other bridges in the interior of that State. (Doc. 73.) -GEN. BRAGG, Commanding the rebel troops at Murfreesboro, Tenn., addressed a letter to Gen. Rosecrans, commanding the Union forces at Nashville, informing him that as a number of citizens of Tennessee, charged only with political offences or proclivities, were arrested and imprisoned in the penitentiary at Nashville, he should enforce rigid and unyielding retaliation against the commissioned officers, who should fall into his hands, until this violation of good faith should be corrected. -GOVERNOR VANCE, of North-Carolina, issued a proclamation prohibiting, for the space of thirty days, the transportation from the State of articles of food and apparel.-Fredericksburgh, Va., was bombarded by the National forces under General Burnside. (Doc. 68.) December 12.-A skirmish took place near Corinth, Miss., between a body of Union troops, under Colonel Sweeney, Fifty-second Illinois, and a rebel force, commanded by Colonel Roddy, result ing in a rebel loss of eleven killed, thirty wounded, and forty prisoners. The Union party lost one killed and two prisoners.-One thousand seven hundred and fifty paroled Union prisoners, cap National pickets and sutlers. After destroying the telegraph and several Government wagons, they retreated, and the town was soon after occupied by the Union troops, under Brigadier-General Steinwehr.-A skirmish took place on the Kinston road, about fourteen miles from Newbern, N. C., between the advance column of the cxpeditionary forces, under General Foster, and a small body of rebels, resulting in a rout of the latter with some loss.-(Doc. 73.) -THE rebel salt-works, at Yellville, Ark., were completely destroyed by a body of Union troops, under the command of Captain Milton Birch. Six thousand dollars' worth of saltpetre was destroyed. The works cost the rebels thirty thousand dollars.-(Doc. 70.) --BRIGADIER-GENERAL D. S. STANLEY, with a strong force of National cavalry, made a descent from Nashville, this morning, upon Franklin, Tenn., and after routing the rebels from the town, destroying mills and other property useful to them, returned to his camp, having lost but one Five rebels, including one lieutenant, were killed, ten wounded, twelve taken prisoners, and a large number of horses were captured.-Fredericksburgh, Va., was occupied by the National troops, under General Burnside. man. December 13.-To-day the battle of Fredericksburgh, Va., was fought, between the Union army of the Potomac, under the command of MajorGeneral Burnside, and the rebel forces, under General Lee. The battle was fiercely and stubbornly contested on both sides, and resulted in the repulse of the Unionists. (Docs. 25, 68.) -JEFFERSON DAVIS reviewed the rebel forces, muskets, forty thousand rounds of cartridges, under General Bragg, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.- several hundred uniforms, and a large supply of John N. Cocke and company, of Portsmouth, Va., provisions. having refused to pay their debts to Northern citizens, on the ground that a law of the rebel Congress had released them from all obligations to Northern creditors, General Viele issued a pro- the military prison.-Coffeeville, Miss., was this clamation informing them that their excuse was not valid, and that they must pay or a sufficient amount of their property would be seized and sold. Two regiments of Union infantry, and one company of cavalry, surprised a band of rebels, at Tuscumbia, Ala., completely routing them, and capturing seventy prisoners, their horses and baggage. The National loss was four killed and -THE True Presbyterian and the Baptist Recorder, published in Louisville, Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of the Recorder sent to fourteen wounded. -GOVERNOR JOHNSON, of Tennessee, this day issued an order assessing certain individuals in the city of Nashville, in various amounts, to be paid in five monthly instalments, "in behalf of the many helpless widows, wives, and children in the city of Nashville, who have been reduced to poverty and wretchedness in consequence of their husbands, sons, and fathers having been forced into the armies of this unholy and nefarious rebellion." day occupied by the Union forces under Colonel Mizner and Colonel Lee. -A BATTLE was fought near Kinston, N. C., by the expeditionary forces under General Foster, and a strong body of rebel troops under the command of General Evans, resulting in a retreat of the rebels, and the capture and occupation of the town by the Unionists. In this affair a rebel battery of field-pieces and four hundred prisoners were taken.-(Doc. 73.) -AT Helena, Ark., a picket-guard, consisting of a Lieutenant and twenty-three men of the Sixth Missouri, were surrounded and made prisoners by a party of rebel guerrillas. A skirmish took place at Woodsonville, Tenn., without any result. This evening about eight o'clock, a body of rebel cavalry under Major White, made a raid into Poolesville, Md., and captured a party of the Scott Nine Hundred cavalry.-A wagontrain, laden with provisions and clothing for the troops at Ringgold Barracks, Texas, escorted by a small party of soldiers on the way from Fort Brown to the Barracks, was this day attacked by a party of Mexicans and captured. All the soldiers and teamsters, except one man who escaped, were killed.-Brownsville Flag. December 15.-The National War Committee of the citizens of New-York addressed an urgent memorial to Congress, asking for the passage of a law authorizing the granting of commissions to private armed vessels for the capture of the Alabama, and other cruisers, and the offer of a suitable reward for the capture. -THE Michigan Twenty-sixth infantry, Colonel J. S. Farrar, numbering nine hundred and three men, this day left Jackson, Mich., for the seat of war in Virginia.-A fight took place at South-West Creek, N. C., between a detachment of the expeditionary forces, under General Foster, and a body of rebel troops, in which the latter were routed with the loss of a number of prisoners, a six-pounder gun, caisson, etc.-(Doc. 73.) —A FLEET of small boats, under the command of Captain Murray, left Newbern, N. C., to attack the rebel works on the river at Kinston; but owing to the lowness of the water, only one boatunder Colonel Manchester, marine artillery-was brought into action, and the works being found -THE General Assembly of the State of Louisitoo strong, she was obliged to retire.—(Doc. 73.) ana, in accordance with a proclamation of the December 14.-A skirmish occurred at Wire- rebel Governor, Thomas O. Moore, met at Opeman's Shoals, about five miles below Prestons-lousas, "to consider and provide for the exigenburgh, Ky., between a body of Union troops, cies of public defence."-The advance of General numbering two hundred men, under Captain Thornbeery, who was sent by Colonel Dills, of the Thirty-ninth Kentucky, to guard some arms, munitions, etc., intended for his regiment, and a force of rebels, estimated at eight hundred men, which resulted in the defeat of the Unionists, and the capture by the rebels of seven hundred VOL. VI.-DIARY 3 Banks's expedition arrived at New-Orleans. -GENERAL BUTLER having been superseded by General Banks, as commander of the Department of the Gulf, issued his farewell address to the "Soldiers of the Army of the Gulf," and another |