sion, and some six hundred rebels, under Colonels Coleman and Hicks, in which the latter were routed, with a loss of one hundred and fifty left on the field and quite a number wounded. -A FIGHT took place at Princeton, Va., between the Nationals under the command of General Cox and a body of rebels under Humphrey Marshall, in which the Nationals lost thirty killed and seventy wounded. vanced pickets were met, and a skirmish ensued, resulting in the loss of one Lieutenant and four privates belonging to the Nationals. The rebels lost nine killed and two prisoners. -LIEUTENANT S. M. WHITESIDES, with eight men of company K, of the Sixth cavalry, captured a train of one hundred mules and eight contrabands belonging to the brigade of the rebel General Whiting, near the advance of General McClellan, en route for Richmond. -S. PHILLIPS LEE, United States Navy, commanding the advance naval division on the Mis-THE Legislature of Virginia adjourned in acsissippi River, demanded the surrender of Vicks-cordance with a resolution previously adopted. burgh to the authority of the United States. In the House of Delegates, the Speaker, Mr. (Doc. 111.) Sheffey, of Augusta, delivered an affecting vale THIS afternoon a boat went ashore from the May 19.-Gen. Stoneman's brigade of McClel-dictory.-(See Supplement.) lan's army advanced to within fourteen miles of Richmond, Va. They left their encampment Wachusett, lying in the James River, Va., with near White House at daybreak this morning, and a flag of truce, containing six officers and twelve preceded by the signal corps, pushed on to a men. The surgeon of the ship had been sent for point six miles above Tunstall's Station. Soon after they reached a position within four miles of the Chickahominy, where the signal corps discovered a body of rebel cavalry drawn up in line to receive them. The National pickets fell back a few yards, when one company of the Sixth United States cavalry came up and charged upon the rebels, driving them back and capturing two of their horses. The Nationals lost one horse. -GENERAL HUNTER'S proclamation, by which the slaves in Florida, Georgia, and South-Carolina, had been declared free, was officially repudiated and pronounced void by President Lincoln.-carried to Fortress Monroe; but Brown, who was (Doc. 42.) from the shore, and the officers and the men, and the rest remained to guard the ship. For some reason, the party in the boat were fired on by some twenty or thirty men, and simultaneously the party on shore were attacked and all taken prisoners. Of the party in the boat, the master's mate, Almy, of Philadelphia, and W. P. Pierce, seaman, were instantly killed. Henry Johnson was severely wounded in the face, breast, and neck; Brown, wounded in the kidneys; John Close, wounded in the thigh. The three latter were placed on the George Washington and severely wounded, died in an hour after being and sev -JOHN T. MONROE, Mayor of New-Orleans, and other municipal officers of that city, were arrested by order of Gen. Butler, and sent to Fort Jackson. -GOVERNOR YATES, of Illinois, issued a proclamation calling for recruits to fill up the volunteer regiments from that State. Many of our regiments, he says, entered the field with numbers scarcely above the minimum. These have nobly done their duty, and many have purchased lasting honors with the price of their lives, and it remains only for us to maintain what they have achieved, and therefore I call upon the people of Illinois to raise men in every precinct in the State for the May 20.-Edward Stanly, of North-Carolina, regiments that were sent from their own sections, received his commission as Military Governor to fill up their own companies. Relying upon of that State. He is invested with the duthe same patriotism that has thus far furnished ties and functions of that station, including the a brave and noble host at the shortest notice, I power to establish all necessary offices and trisend forth this proclamation, and confidently ex-bunals, and suspend the writ of habeas corpus pect a prompt response that will maintain the during the pleasure of the President, or until present glory of our State. the loyal inhabitants shall organize a State gov ernment in accordance with the Constitution of the United States. -A RECONNOISSANCE was made to Clinton, nine miles south of Newbern, N. C. The rebels' ad -LIEUT.-COL. Downey, who was sent to War- Gen. Thomas A. Davies. The rebels were routdensville, near Moorfield, Va., after the guerrillased, leaving a good many prisoners, guns, haverwho recently overpowered a party of convalescent sacks, blankets, etc., in the hands of the Unionsoldiers in that neighborhood, reported having |ists.-(Doc. 113.) killed the notorious chief, Umbagh, and three men, and that he wounded four. He took twelve prisoners. The Nationals lost nothing. -A TRAIN of seventeen wagons, laden with government stores, which left Rolla, Mo., on Monday last, was overtaken to-day, when about twenty miles out on the Springfield road, by a band of rebel guerrillas, who burned the wagons and their contents, and carried off all the mules, eighty-six in number.-Four United States gunboats bombarded the rebel works on Cole's Island, Stono Inlet, S. C., when the rebels burned their barracks and evacuated the Island. -COMMODORE PRENTISS, with the United States steamer Albatross, penetrated the interior waters of South-Carolina as far as Georgetown, and up the Waccamaw River ten miles above the city, but having an insufficient force, he did not make an attack. -GENERAL STONEMAN, in company with Prof. Lowe, made a balloon reconnoissance this morning, from Gaines's Mills, Va., and reaching an altitude of five hundred feet, obtained a complete view of Richmond with the aid of a glass. Very few rebel troops were visible within the limits of the city, but at the left of it, on the line of the road leading to Bottom's Bridge, a large number were seen. -LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WEST took possession of Tucson, Arizona, this day, without firing a shot. The confederate troops stationed in that -At one o'clock, to-day, two mortars opened city fled across the Rio Grande on his approach, on Fort Pillow, and the firing was kept up at inand the citizens of Tucson who were imbued tervals of five minutes, until six in the evening. with secession proclivities started for Sonora. The citizens of the town came out and met the troops in great numbers, greeting them with cheers, and of their own accord sent out wagons and brought in loads of forage for the animals, which were worn out by their march from the Pimos around by Fort Stanford.-Los Angeles • News. —A PARTY belonging to General Fremont's command, under Col. Crook, made a successful descent upon the Central Railroad at the Jackson River dépôt, Va. -THE rebel pickets were driven across Bottom's Bridge by skirmishers of General Couch's division of the army of the Potomac. On the right General Stoneman's advance reached NewBridge, also on the Chickahominy. It was returned three or four times by guns from the rebels, either from the fortifications or from their mortar-boats, their shells bursting wide of the mark, and doing no damage. Deserters from Fort Pillow state that one hundred and eighty dead bodies were removed from the rebel rams and gunboats on their return from the late naval engagement. On the Mexico, whose boilers were exploded by a well-directed shot from the Benton, every man was either killed or so badly scalded as to render recovery doubtful. None of the rebel vessels, according to this story, were entirely sunk, but three of them were so badly disabled as to be rendered almost useless. The impression at the fort was that they had been badly whipped. -THREE regiments, consisting of the First, Second and Twentieth Kentucky, under com-GENERAL SHEPLEY, Military Commandant of mand of Col. Sedgewick, made a reconnoissance New-Orleans, informed the citizens of that town, near Corinth, Mississippi, for the purpose of asthat, in the absence of the late Mayor, he, by or- certaining the position of the enemy. After some der of Major-General B. F. Butler, commanding sharp fighting, which lasted for about two hours, the Department of the Gulf, would discharge in which he had some thirty men wounded, Col. the functions which appertained to the office of Sedgewick, being completely successful, returned mayor, until such time as the people of New-to camp. (Doc. 114.) Orleans should elect a loyal citizen of that city, and of the United States, as Mayor. May 21.-To-day the battle of Philips's Creek, Mississippi, was fought by the second division of -RECRUITING offices which had been previously closed were reopened by order of the United States Government. -BRIGADIER-GENERAL I. P. HATCH, commandGeneral Halleck's army, commanded by Brig.-ing the cavalry in Gen. Banks's division, on his |
