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many, and capturing some prisoners; among Majesty has viewed with the deepest concern the them, Colonel Adams. Captain Roses, of the Fourth Missouri cavalry, led the charge into the town most gallantly. Such of the rebels as could not crowd into the boats, swam the river. onel Waring remounted his men from the country. -General Davidson's Despatch.

desolating warfare which still rages in those regions; and she has witnessed with heartfelt grief the severe distress and suffering which that Col-war has inflicted upon a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, but which have been borne by them with noble fortitude and with exemplary resignation. It is some consolation to be led to hope that this suffering and this distress are rather diminishing than increasing, and that some re vival of employment is beginning to take place in the manufacturing districts.”

-THANKSGIVING was celebrated in Texas, "for the successes that had attended the confederate arms. The ram Fulton, on the way to Vicksburgh, was fired into by a rebel battery at Cypress Bend, and disabled. One negro on board was killed, and another so frightened that he jumped overboard and was drowned. Before the rebels could capture the ram, the steamers Rattler and Wilson came up and dispersed them.

-THE National troops had a brief skirmish with a small body of rebels, five miles from Lake Providence, in which they lost several men, and over thirty of the rebels were killed, wounded, and captured. More than ninety horses were taken.-The examination of Rev. R. J. Graves took place, at Hillsboro, N. C., before Judge M. E. Manly, at the conclusion of which he was bound over to appear at the rebel court at Richmond, Va., to stand his trial on a charge of treason.-Raleigh Progress.

February 5.-Captain Wm. K. Ranney, of the Fortieth regiment of Missouri militia, while on a scouting expedition on Bear Creek, Johnson Co., Mo., encountered a party of rebel guerrillas. "On seeing them he put spurs to his horse and commanded his men to follow, which they did with a will, and coming up with the enemy, routed them on the double-quick, the fleeing rebels leaving seven dead on the field. Pursuing the rebels about seven miles, night came on, and the weather being extremely cold, he gave up the chase. Captain Ranney and all of his men escaped unharmed.”—Lieutenant-Colonel Brown's Report.

-A SMALL detachment of National cavalry was attacked at Wigginton's Mills, near Stafford Store, Va. At the first fire, Dixon, the scout who was wounded a few days previous in a skirmish with party of South-Carolinians, was again wounded seriously. The rebels were finally dispersed, and several of the neighboring farmers were arrested. -New-York Times.

-CAPTAIN ROBERT MAUPIN, of the rebel army, was captured in the vicinity of Columbia, Mo., by a party of National troops under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Russell, of the Sixty-First Missouri regiment.—Missouri Statesman.

February 6.-A detachment from companies II and F, of the Fifth New-York cavalry, under the command of Captain Penfield, made a raid into Middleburgh, Va., and at Aldie captured eight of the First Virginia rebel cavalry, and the post-master at Little Washington. They were en route to a ball given to them by the citizens of that place, and were fully armed and equipped.—— The rebel Colonel Cushman, the celebrated "cotton-burner," was arrested at his residence, near Ripley, Tenn., and taken to Columbus.— C'incinnati Gazette.

-A PARTY of the Twelfth Virginia rebel cavalry, attacked the mail-coach between Martinsburgh and Winchester, Va., this afternoon, and captured the driver and occupants of the coach, Brigadier-General Cluseret's assistant adjutant-THE British Parliament was opened and general and aid-de-camp among the number. the Queen's speech was read, in which she said: The aid managed to escape, and reported the af "Her Majesty's relations with foreign Powers fair to General Milroy, who immediately ordered continue to be friendly and satisfactory. Her out two companies of the First New-York cavalry Majesty has abstained from taking any step with to cut off their retreat. Companies A and K, a view to induce a cessation of the conflict between commanded by Captain Jones, and Lieutenant the contending parties in the North American Laverty respectively, were sent out. Captain States, because it has not yet seemed to Her Jones left Lieutenants Laverty and Watkins with Majesty that any such overtures could be at- a small party at Millwood, thirteen miles from tended with a probability of success. Her Winchester, while he and Lieutenant Boyd went

on still further. The Captain's party had scarcely Southern States, informing them that the Namoved away, when the rebels made their appear- tional fleets having been dispersed at Galveston, ance at Millwood, with all they had captured. and Sabine Pass, Texas, those ports were open to Lieutenant Laverty immediately ordered a charge, the trade of the merchants of their several naand dashed upon them, when the rebels broke tions.-Eli Thayer, at the Cooper Institute at and ran, though fighting desperately as they fled. New-York, delivered an address advocating the They were chased seven miles. The expedition colonization of Florida with loyal colonists from resulted in the recapture of all which the rebels had the North. taken, and the killing of one of them, and taking February 8.-Colonel W. R. Penick, from his prisoner of another. The escape of the remainder headquarters at Independence, Mo., sent a deof the rebels was owing to its being night. Lieu-tachment of fifty men from the Fifth cavalry of tenant Laverty was the only one injured, on the Missouri volunteers, under the command of LieuNational side. tenant D. A. Colvin, in pursuit of a guerrilla camp, which he ascertained existed in the vicinity. His scout came up with the enemy at two o'clock this afternoon, when a running fight commenced, which lasted about thirty minutes, and resulted in the rout of the guerrillas, with eight killed, two wounded, and all their arms captured. To test the fighting qualities of the negro, Colonel Penick sent a contraband with the party at his own request. The negro was severely wounded in the shoulder, but expressed "his willingness to again fight the bushwhackers as soon as he should recover."-Colonel Penick's Report.

February 7.-This morning a deserter from the rebel army came to the National headquarters at Yorktown, Va., and stated that there were some twenty-five more of the rebels nine miles from Williamsburgh that wanted to give them selves up, but were afraid to come into the lines for fear of being fired upon. LieutenantColonel Lewis, in command of the Fifth Pennsylvania, sent a squadron of his cavalry after them. When the main body of the squadron had reached the spot where the men were said to be waiting, they were fired upon by guerrillas in ambush, and twenty saddles were emptied the first volley. At the same time a body of rebel cavalry was seen charging down the road at some distance off. What remained of the Union cavalry, immediately started to receive them. They had just got under good speed, when they came in contact with telegraph wires that the guerrillas had suspended across the road and tied to the trees on each side, throwing horses and riders to the ground and tumbling them in a heap together, cutting and bruising both man and horse terribly. One captain and one lieutenant were taken prisoners, one captain was mortally wounded, and one lieutenant was killed. Thirty-five of the men were missing, and were either killed or taken prisoners.

-THE guerrilla leader, Captain Dawson, and several of his men, were this day captured by a detachment of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Wood, Twenty-second Ohio volunteers, in the vicinity of Dyersburgh, Tenn.-Chicago Tribune.

-THE expedition under Generals Davis and Morgan, sent from Nashville, Tenn., in pursuit of Forrest and Wheeler's rebel force, who were retreating to the West, returned this evening. Seven miles east of Charlotte, thirty rebel prisoners were captured, among whom were Colonel Carroll, and Major Rembrant, of Forrest's staff.-Lebanon, Tenn., was entered and occupied by the National forces, who succeeded in capturing six hundred rebels, most of them belonging to the command of General Morgan.-The work of cutting the canal at Vicksburgh continued rapidly, a large force being engaged upon it night and day.-Rear-Admiral Porter reported the capture of three rebel transport steamers on the Red River, Ark., by the Queen of the West, under the command of Colonel Ellet.-The circulation of the Chicago Times newspaper was prohibited in the command of General Hurlbut, by a general order issued at Memphis, Tenn.

February 9. A cavalry skirmish occurred near Summerville, Va., between a detachment of THE steamers T. D. Wagner, Leopard, and Union cavalry belonging to Major Knox's comRuby, all from Nassau, N. P., with "large and mand, and a scouting-party of rebels, in which valuable cargocs," ran the blockade and arrived the latter were compelled to retreat, with the at Charleston, S. C., at an early hour this morn-loss of several of their number killed and wounding.-J. P. Benjamin, the rebel Secretary of State, ed. The National party were uninjured.-Phiaddressed a circular to the foreign consuls in the ladelphia Inquirer.

-Ir having been frequently reported to Gen-ers of state, have been subjected, and reparation eral Rosecrans, that rebel soldiers approached done us in person and property, and for the his lines, near Murfreeboro, Tenn., dressed in further purpose of doing what becomes us as the uniform of the National troops, and that they American patriots to preserve our Constitution had even carried the colors of the United States, and Government from total subversion, and the like savages to deceive his men, he ordered that | liberties of the people from subjection to arbitrary none so dressed should receive, when captured, power." the rights of prisoners of war, and that in battle, no quarter should be given them.-General Or-partment at Washington, that a party of loyal

ders No. 16.

-INFORMATION was received at the War De

Delaware and Shawnee Indians, of Kansas, had February 10.-George P. Hodges, of Kentucky, taken the rebel Wachita agency in Texas, killed introduced the following preamble and resolu- Leoper the agent, and captured a hundred disloytion in the rebel House of Representatives, which al Indians, together with a large number of horses, was agreed to: papers and rebel bonds. Among the papers were Whereas, information has reached this Con- treaties made with the rebel government, and gress of the passage by the Congress at Washing-signed by Albert Pike. The party returned to Kansas, with the loss of four men.

ton, D. C., of a bill for the enlistment of negroes as soldiers in the armies of the United States, which armies are to be engaged in the further invasion of the confederate States of America;

And whereas, the Constitutions both of the confederate States and the United States recognize Africans and their descendants as property; And whereas, we cannot consent to any change in their political status and condition; therefore, Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of bringing in a bill providing the proper forms for

February 11.-William H. Seward, Secretary of State, in answer to the call of the Senate of the United States for information concerning the French Minister's (M. Mercier) visit to Richmond, Va., said that "since March fourth, 1861, no communication, direct or indirect, formal or informal, save in relation to prisoners of war, has been held by this Government, or by the Secre

tary of State, with the insurgents, their aiders or abettors; no passport has been granted to any foreign Minister to pass the military lines, except

the disposition of all negroes or mulattoes who may by the President's direction." -At the Lord

be captured from the enemy in such manner that those of them who are fugitives from their masters may be returned to their rightful owners, and those for whom no masters can be found shall be sold into perpetual bondage, for the purpose of • raising a fund to reïmburse citizens of this Confederacy who have lost their slave property by reason of the interference therewith by the enemy. —A FIGHT took place at Old River, La., between a National force, under Captain T. Tucker of the First Kansas volunteers, and the First battalion of the Third regiment of Louisiana caval ry.-(Doc. 120.)

-A. D. MAHONY, President of the "Prisoners of State Association," published a notice calling upon "all such persons as had been arrested without charge, imprisoned without trial, and discharged from confinement on the mere order of Abraham Lincoln, or of some one of his subordinates, to convene on the fourth day of March next, in the city of New-York, for the purpose of devising, adopting, and putting into practical effect, such means as might be deemed best to obtain satisfaction for the outrages to which we, prison

Mayor's banquet at London, this day, the rebel Commissioner, J. M. Mason, was present, and delivered a speech.-London News.

February 12.-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, sent a message to the Senate and House of Representatives of that State, recommending the passage of a joint resolution, earnestly requesting that Congress should pass laws defining and punishing offences against the Government of the United States, and providing for the fair and speedy trial by an impartial jury, of persons charged with such offences, in the loyal and undisturbed States, so that the guilty might justly suffer, and the innocent be relieved.—(Doc. 121.)

-THE ship Jacob Bell was captured and burned, in lat. 24°, lon. 65°, by the rebel privateer Florida.

February 13.-A large and enthusiastic public meeting of unconditional Union men was this evening held in the city of Leavenworth, Kansas. Speeches were made by General Blunt, and others, and loyal resolutions were unanimously adopted, proclaiming "all who ask for peace with

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