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the promulgation of the emancipation proclama- containing eight confederate captains. The camp tion should be instantly hanged, and not subject was situated in a very brushy country; consohim to the uncertainties of a trial by jury.- quently they escaped from their tent, my men Mr. Kenner, of Louisiana, moved that the House following, and eventually succeeding in capturing go into secret session to receive the report four of them, after a brief resistance. We got on this subject of the Committee of Ways and all their arms, camp equipage, etc. The lateness Means. The motion was agreed to, and the House of the attack prevented us from capturing the went into secret session. whole of them. My men camped on the ground. We also succeeded in capturing two of Porter's men in addition.

January 20.—John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, was authorized by the National War Department, "until further orders, to raise such numbers of volunteer companies of artillery for duty in the forts of Massachusetts and elsewhere, and such corps of infantry for the volunteer military service as he may find convenient, and may include persons of African descent, organized into separate corps."-- War Department Order.

-The rebel steamer Oreto arrived off Havana, Cuba, and was allowed to enter and proceed up the harbor to an anchorage.—Major-General Peck, in orders from his headquarters at Suffolk, Va., expressed his satisfaction at the soldierly qualities exhibited by Colonel Alfred Gibbs, of the One Hundred and Thirtieth N. Y. S. V., and his confidence in his disposition and ability to discharge whatever duties might fall to him, with

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"I regret to say that two of my bravest troops got seriously wounded in the fight before we captured the four rebel captains. They never surrendered until they had exhausted all their shots, they being armed with double-barrelled shot-guns, in addition to navy revolvers.

"You can now see why I object to this indiscriminate release of bad men from prison, and why you should not permit banished men to return here."

-COLONEL S. H. Mix, Third New-York cavalTy, with eight companies of his regiment, returned to Newbern, after a successful scouting expedition into Onslow, Trent, and Jones counties, N. C. He obtained much valuable information, had several skirmishes with the rebels, routing them on every occasion, captured a number of prisoners, arms, mules, etc.-(Doc. 109.)

-THE schooner Ettiwan, while attempting to January 21.-Governor Vance of North-Carolina, sent a message to the General Assembly run the blockade out of Swash channel, Charlesof that State, then in session, informing them ton harbor, was captured by the gunboat Ottawa, that since their adjournment the invaders of their under the command of Lieutenant William D. State had concentrated a large force upon the Whiting.—The rebel Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchcoast, and were threatening their remaining sea-inson, with one hundred men of Morgan's cavalry, made a descent upon Murfreesboro, Tenn., and ports and lines of communication; that every preparation possible had been made to resist the captured a large party of National troops and carried off thirty wagons.-(Bragg's Despatch.) invaders, and, he hoped, not without success. But still, that much remained to be done to strengthen their army and add to its efficiency; he, therefore, offered a few suggestions to them on that subject.-(Doc. 108.)

-THE National ship of war Morning Light, together with the schooner Velocity, which were blockading the Sabine Pass, Texas, were surprised and captured by the rebel steamers Josiah Bell and Uncle Ben.-Colonel J. B. Douglass, commanding the Sixty-first regiment of Missouri volunteers, from his headquarters at Columbia, Mo., sent the following to General Curtis: "Late this evening, a body of troops under my command, whilst on a scout and some nine miles from my headquarters, found a confederate camp, with tent and all the necessary appurtenances thereto,

-GALVESTON, Texas, being occupied by rebel troops who were engaged in erecting defences in and around that city, Commodore H. H. Bell, commanding the blockading fleet off that port, issued an order warning the foreign consuls and foreign subjects and all other persons concerned, that the city of Galveston and its defences were liable to be attacked at any day by the forces of the United States under his command, and gave twenty-four hours for "innocent and helpless persons" to withdraw.-Fitz-John Porter was cashiered and dismissed the service of the United States.

-Ar Ashton, England, Milner Gibson, M.P., President of the British Board of Trade, delivered an address to his constituents reviewing th

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