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-GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters at Murfreesboro, Tenn., issued a general order, announcing to the commissioned officers of the rebel army, taken prisoners by the forces under his command, "That, owing to the barbarous measures announced by President Davis, in his recent Proclamation, denying parole to our officers, he will be obliged to treat them in like manner."

-AT Galveston, Texas, the rebel General J. B. Magruder issued the following proclamation: Whereas, the undersigned has succeeded in capturing and destroying a part of the enemy's fleet, and in driving the remainder out of the harbor of Galveston and beyond the neighboring waters, and, the blockade having been thus effectually raised, he therefore proclains to all concerned, that the harbor of Galveston is open for trade to all friendly nations, and their merchants -THE expedition under the command of Genare invited to resume their usual commercial in-eral Samuel P. Carter, reached Manchester, Ky., tercourse with this port."-Official Proclama- on its return from East-Tennessee.-A meeting tion.

was held at Beaufort, N. C., at which resolutions were adopted, denouncing the course of Governor Stanly, in his administration in that State.

January 7.-The Richmond Examiner of this date, in discussing the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, says, that it is the "most startling political crime, the most stupid political blunder, yet known in American his

January 5.-Captain John H. McNeill of Imboden's rangers, made a descent upon the National troops in Hardy County, Va., and succeeded in killing one, and in capturing thirty-three men, sixty-one horses, with accoutrements, besides several revolvers and other articles of value. This was accomplished after the rebel forces under General Jones had retired from Moorefield.-tory," that "servile insurrection is the real, sole Richmond Dispatch.

-Br direction of the President of the United States, the troops in the Department of the Gulf were constituted the Nineteenth army corps, to date from December fourteenth, 1862, and MajorGeneral N. P. Banks was assigned to the command.—The English sloop Avenger, while trying to run the blockade at Jupiter Inlet, Fla., was captured by the gunboat Sagamore.-Captain W. B. Cushing with the schooner Home, made an expedition up Little River, N. C., surprised and cap

tured a rebel fort, destroyed all its defences and stores, and retired without any casualty.-Official Report.

-BRIG.-GEN. R. H. MILROY, commanding the National forces at Winchester, Va., issued a notice to the citizens of that place, of his intention to maintain and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.-The rebel pickets, stationed eighteen miles below Kinston, N. C., were driven in by the advance of General Foster's forces.—An emancipation jubilee was held at Cooper Institute, in New-York City.-Jefferson Davis returned to Richmond from his tour in the South-west.

January 6.-The British iron steamer Antona, laden with Enfield rifles, a battery of brass fieldpieces, powder, medicines, boots, tea, etc., from Liverpool vid Havana, was captured off Mobile, by the United States steamer Pocahontas, while attempting to run the blockade.--(Doc. 97.)

purpose of the Proclamation," that it "shuts the
door of retreat and repentance on the weak and
timid," and that the "Southern people have now
only to choose between victory and death."--
Washington, D. C., for Richmond, Va., and other
Four hundred and fifty women and children left
A reconnoissance from Winchester to Woodstock,
parts of the South, under official permission.-
Va., was made this day by a party of the First
New-York cavalry, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Von Schickfuss.
Inquirer.
- Philadelphia

January 8.-A fight took place at Springfield, Mo., between the Union forces under BrigadierGeneral Brown, and a numerically superior force of rebels under General Marmaduke, resulting, after a contest of more than ten hours' duration, in a retreat of the latter. The loss was nearly equal on both sides.-(Doc. 98.)

Union troops, under the command of Major Wm. -YESTERDAY a large reconnoitring force of P. Hall, embarked at Yorktown, Va., on board the fleet of gunboats and transports, under the command of Captain F. A. Parker, and arrived at West-Point, at the junction of the Pamunkey and Mattapony Rivers, early this morning. Thence they proceeded to Lanesville, where they captured a wagon-train, consisting of contraband goods, en route for Richmond, consisting of gutta-percha, block-tin, paints, medicines, shel-lac, and ordnance stores. Leaving a strong picket-guard at Lanesville, they next proceeded to Indian Town,

upon their respective grounds, by fire, or any other means at his command-General R. B. Mitchell's Special Order.

where they found two wagons loaded with meal, farms, and all property susceptible of destruction awaiting ferriage to White House, and destined for Richmond. After destroying these, with the telegraph, and seizing the mail, they crossed the Pamunkey to White House, where they destroy- -COLONEL LUDLOW, of General Dix's staff, reed by fire the ferry-boat, two sloops laden with turned from City Point, Va., to Fortress Monroe, grain, two barges, four pontoon-boats, the steamer having accomplished an exchange of prisoners, Lottie Maynard, a store-house, containing over by which twenty thousand men were restored one thousand bushels of wheat, a large quantity to active service in the National army.—The army of commissary stores, etc. The torch was next of the Cumberland, under the command of Majorapplied to the railroad depot, containing a large General Rosecrans, was divided into three army amount of freight for Richmond, the tank, the corps, to be known as the Fourteenth, commandrolling stock, signal station, sutlers' buildings, ed by Major-General Thomas, Twentieth, comand stores. The force remained until the demo-manded by Major-General A. McD. McCook, and lition was complete, when, the object of the re- the Twenty-first, under the command of Majorconnoissance having been accomplished, they re- General T. L. Crittenden.-General Orders, No. 9. turned to Yorktown, having sustained no loss -THE lower branch of the Legislature of Inwhatever during the expedition.—Official Report. diana, adopted a series of resolutions, condemn-CAPTAIN MOORE, of the Twentieth Illinois ing the arrests made by order of the National cavalry, this morning at sunrise, made a sudden War Department as "acts of tyranny and flagdescent upon the camp of Lieutenant-Colonel rant violations of the rights of the people." Dawson's rebel command, near Ripley, Tenn., and dispersed the occupants, killing eight, wounding twenty, and capturing forty-six prisoners, among whom were one major, two captains, and one lieutenant. He also seized twenty horses, and one wagon-load of arms. Dawson's party had been engaged for many weeks burning all the cotton that could be found in that part of the country. Captain Moore did not lose a man, and had only three wounded.- Wolverine Citizen.

-THE English sloop Julia was captured near Jupiter Inlet, Fla. - General Mansfield Lovell was dismissed from the service of the rebels for incapacity.—The steamer Mussulman was burned by guerrillas at Bradley's Landing ten miles above Memphis, Tenn.-General Pemberton, in command of the rebel forces at Vicksburgh, issued an order expressing his high appreciation of their "recent gallant defence" of that position.The rebel steamer Tropic, formerly the Huntress, of Charleston, S. C., while attempting to run the blockade, was destroyed by fire. Her passengers were saved by the boats of the National gunboat Quaker City.

January 10.-A skirmish took place at Catlett's Station, Va., between a party of National cavalry, under the command of Colonel Schimmelfennig and Hampton's rebel cavalry.-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, in response to a requisition of Jefferson Davis, issued a proclamation

calling out the militia of the counties bordering on the North-Carolina line, to aid in repelling any attempt at invasion by the National forces.Orison Glines was riden on a rail at Stoneham, Mass., for having deserted from the National

army.

January 11.-The United States steamer Hat

teras, under the command of Lieutenant R. G. Blake, was sunk off the coast of Texas, by the rebel steamer Alabama, after an engagement of twenty minutes.-(Doc. 100.)

-THE steamer Grampus No. 2, lying at the mouth of Wolf River, Tenn., was surprised and captured by thirteen rebels, taken five miles above Memphis, and there stripped and burned.The Virginia Legislature passed a resolution, directing the Special Committee appointed to consider the resolution touching the legal tender of confederate notes, to inquire into the expediency of "punishing by suitable penalties, any citizen

of the commonwealth who shall refuse to receive

January 9.-In consequence of the destruction of a locomotive and construction train, upon the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, this day, by Richard McCann and Thomas Kilkird, leading a gang of outlaws, Col. R. S. Moore, of the Eighty- the Treasury notes of the confederate States, in fifth Illinois volunteers, was ordered to proceed discharge of any debt or obligation for the paywith his regiment to the houses of the above-ment of money."-Richmond Inquirer.

named persons, and to destroy their houses, barns, -FORT HINDMAN, Post Arkansas, was this day

captured by the National army of the Mississippi, --HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss., was visited by a party under the command of Major-General McCler- of rebel guerrillas, who retired after committing nand, in conjunction with the fleet of gunboats, various depredations on the property of the loy under Admiral Porter, after a combat of three alists.-General Banks, at New-Orleans, issued a and a half hour's duration, with a loss of nearly general order, confirming General Butler's order one thousand Union men killed, wounded, and of December ninth, 1862, assessing cotton factors missing. (Doc. 101.) and others who had subscribed to the secession fund, for the support of the poor.

evening. The National gunboat Queen of the West, under the command of Colonel Charles E. Ellet, commanding the ram fleet in Western waters, while on a reconnoissance on the Red River, was fired on, near Gordon's Landing, by a battery of four guns, and subsequently captured by the rebels.-(Doc. 105.)

war were adopted unanimously.-New-Orleans True Delta.

-THE transport ship Planter, with men and material belonging to the National army, was wrecked this morning, near Stranger's Key, Bahama.-The rebel steamer Oreto, escaped from Mobile harbor, Ala., running directly through the National flect blockading that place.—(Doc. 107.)

January 15.-Mound City, Arkansas, was burned by a detachment of National troops, the place having long been the resort of guerrillas.— January 17.-Major-General Joseph E. JohnThe bill authorizing the issue of one hundred mil-ston, of the rebel army, issued a general order lion dollars in United States legal tender notes, was signed and became a law.—A detachment of the Twenty-second Wisconsin regiment, carrying despatches from Helena to Clarendon, Ark., were attacked by a body of rebels, who succeeded in capturing seventeen of their number. In the skirmish a rebel lieutenant and six men were killed and wounded.—Chicago Tribune.

January 16.-General James G. Blunt having discovered that certain attorneys and war claim agents, in his military district, had been guilty of endeavoring to incite dissatisfaction and insubordination among the soldiers, issued an order to his subordinates, authorizing the arrest of all such offenders, and that they be sent to his headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with the charges against them preferred.-Commander Couthouy, and the officers of the United States steamer Columbia, which vessel was stranded at Masonboro Inlet, N. C., yesterday, surrendered themselves to the rebels, under Colonel Lamb, this day. -THE naval expedition up the White River, Ark., under the command of John G. Walker, of the gunboat Baron DeKalb, landed at Duvall's Bluff, meeting with no resistance, and captured two eight-inch guns and carriages, two hundred stands of arms with their accoutrements, and three platform cars, upon which the guns were being hoisted, when the rebels took the alarm and fled. Lieutenant Walker also captured seven prisoners. He then retired, leaving the place in the charge of the troops under General Gorman, who arrived shortly after the captures were made.- Lieutenant Walker's Report.

modifying a previous order issued from his headquarters, in relation to unauthorized absentees belonging to the departments of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, so as to grant them a full pardon provided they should return to their proper commands by the twelfth of February.-Jackson Mississippian.

-DES ARC, Ark., was taken possession of without opposition by Captain Walker of the gunboat De Kalb, and a regiment of infantry commanded by Colonel Spicely of the Twenty-fourth regiment of Indiana volunteers.-A skirmish took place at Pollocksville, N. C., resulting in the flight of the rebels and the occupation of the town by the National troops.-At Liverpool, England, an antislavery conference took place, at which Mr. Spence, a sympathizer with the rebel government, attempted to resuscitate the argument that slavery could be supported on Scriptural grounds, but he was refused a hearing. A resolution in favor of the National Government was carried by a large majority, and a committee was appointed to bring the subject before the people of Liverpool.-Numbers of families who, during the expected attack on Charleston last summer, removed from that city, returned "to their homesteads, content to await the storm that may at any tim burst over their heads, and to abide the result Mobile Register.

"Here

January 18.-The Chattanooga Rebel, after surmising how the birth-day of Washington will be celebrated in the loyal States, says: in the South we shall pay a different tribute to the day. We shall honor it by silent homage. -THE funeral of Major-General O. M. Mitchel It is said that the President will issue his proclatook place at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., mation of 'fasting and prayer' as a fit comthis day. The English sloop Brave, from Nassau, memoration of the trials, sacrifices, and glories N. P., was captured by the gunboat Octorora. of Washington. They are types of our own hoAn enthusiastic Union meeting was held at New-roes and martyrs, and whilst we remember and Orleans, La., at which speeches were made by do reverence to the deeds and beauties of charThomas J. Durant, and others, and resolutions acter which have consecrated the name of the urging an earnest and vigorous prosecution of the Father and Country, we shall also bear in mind

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those Spartan virtues of manhood and those Southern virtues of womanhood which adorn our page and ennoble our day."

January 19.-President Lincoln addressed a letter to the workingmen of Manchester, England, acknowledging the receipt of an address and resolutions adopted by them at a meeting held at Manchester on the 31st of December, 1862. In closing his letter the President said: "I do not doubt that the sentiments you have expressed will be sustained by your great nation; and, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and the most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people. I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that, whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual."-(Doc. 119.)

they broke the rebel ranks, and captured all their companions but one, together with four rebels and five horses fully equipped.

-THIS afternoon, in lat. 23° 50', long. 84° 17′, the brig Estelle was captured and burned by the rebel privateer Oreto (Florida) under the command of Captain J. N. Maffit.-The army of the Potomac, under the command of General Burnside, broke camp and began to move down to the fords on the Rappahannock, for the purpose of crossing to the south bank of that river, and attacking the rebel army under General Lee.— (Doc. 110.)

-A DEBATE took place in the rebel House of Representatives on President Lincoln's emanci pation proclamation, and the proposition of Jefferson Davis to execute Federal officers in retaliation. On this occasion Mr. Foote of Mississippi, said he preferred, in lieu of retaliatory measures, as suggested by the resolutions, that an attempt should be made to stop the shedding of blood by -THE Third battalion of the Fifth Pennsylva- a movement to bring about peace. It would nia cavalry, commanded by Major Wm. G. Mc-strengthen the friends of peace at the North, and Candless, made a reconnoissance in the direction perhaps have the effect of producing a state of of Barnesville, Va., thoroughly scouting all the things so much desired, notwithstanding the oproads branching from the Williamsburgh and position of the abolition party. He signified his Richmond turnpike. Two companies which re-intention to offer a resolution hereafter-not for mained on the turnpike, under the command of Captain Cameron, having been sent forward as an advance-guard, Lieutenant H. A. Vezin, with eighteen men, detained twelve as a reserve, and ordered Sergeant Anderson, with six men, to march two hundred yards in advance of the column, to act as videttes, and if attacked by a superior force, to fall back on the column. Thus the squadron marched to within one mile of "Burnt Ordinary," when a party of seventy or eighty mounted rebels appeared, drawn up in line across the Richmond road. Sergeant Anderson ordered his men to fall back, but immediately in his rear appeared some twenty rebels drawn up in line, cutting off the Sergeant and his party, and capturing the whole advance. Seeing his critical position, he put spurs to his horse and Succeeded in cutting his way back to Lieutenant Vezin and his reserve, giving that officer the aların, who immediately ordered his twelve men to draw sabre, charge and give the rebels the cold steel. Here was daring with scarce a parallel in One Lieutenant, one sergeant, and twelve men charging nearly a hundred rebels drawn up in line of battle. Dashing forward,

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the purpose of yielding one inch of ground to the North, but to throw the entire responsibility upon the Federal government, if these scenes of blood were to continue. Mr. Dargan, of Alabama, took the ground that powers at war must retaliate. The resolutions contemplated the turning over of captured officers to the State governments and to let them be punished according to their laws. He did not think that was correct, but suggested that the government should take the responsibility itself. Mr. Lyons, of Virginia, said the government had no power to turn captured officers over to the States. Nor was there any necessity for the resolutions, since the (rebel) President said in his message that he would do it, unless prevented by Congress. He favored the passage of a law prohibiting such a course, and to repose the pow er of retaliation entirely in the hands of the gov. ernment. When an officer was captured, if there should be any cause for retaliation, we might retaliate upon him; if not, we were bound to exchange him. He could not, by any law of nations, when captured by one government, be turned over to another government for trial. He would prefer that any officer captured in any State after