DIARY.

JUNE 1, 1863.

vidence which has guided us thus far through this bloody wilderness.-Savannah Republican. -AN expedition, under the command of Colo

MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS, at Port Hudson, La., issued an order forbidding the passage of steamers from New-York past the quarantine at New-nel James Montgomery, ascended the Combahee Orleans, without a special order, unless they River, S. C., and succeeded in destroying a large should be mail steamers or others transporting quantity of rebel stores and other property. stores for the Government. This regulation was (Doc. 1.) made necessary by the continued "refusal to -THE bombardment of Vicksburgh continued. transport the soldiers' mails, except upon in- All the guns in position opened fire at midnight, admissible conditions." The provost-marshal and continued their fire until daylight this mornwas charged with the execution of the order. ing. After a short cessation the firing was re-AN expedition into Tappahannock, Va., was newed, and kept up all day.--THE second party made by a party of Union soldiers, who succeeded of recalcitrants left St. Louis for the South. They in destroying a large quantity of stores belong-numbered seventeen, among whom were the wife ing to the rebels, besides carrying off a number and two daughters of Trusten Polk. of negroes.-Richmond Enquirer, June 6.

—AT Philadelphia, Pa., a meeting was held to protest against the arrest of C. L. Vallandigham. Judge Ellis Lewis was appointed chairman, and speeches were made by Messrs. Bigler, Biddle, and Charles J. Ingersoll. The latter counselled obedience to the laws and the constitutional authorities, but resistance to any attempt to control the elections.-GOVERNOR DAVID TOD, of Ohio, appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, in obedience to his recognizance, to answer the charges filed against him by Dr. Edson B. Olds, when the case was continued to the next term of the court.

-A LARGE meeting, to procure funds to send supplies to the wounded at Vicksburgh, was held at Chicago, Ill., at which nearly six thousand dollars were raised.-THE schooner Echo was captured yesterday, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the United States steamer Sunflower.-A FIGHT took place at Clinton, La., between the Union forces under the command of Colonel Grierson, and the rebel forces stationed in that town, resulting in the loss of twenty-one killed and wounded of the rebels, and a number of the Nationals.

June 2.-The circulation of the newspapers, Chicago Times and New-York World, was prohibited, in the Department of the Ohio, by a general order from Major-General Burnside, their "repeated expressions of disloyal and incendiary sentiments" being "calculated to exert a pernicious and treasonable influence."-AT Nashville, Tenn., C. F. Jones was arrested for writing treasonable correspondence to the Freeman's Journal of New-York.-F. H. PIERPONT, Governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation, calling upon the commandants of the State militia to hold their regiments in readiness for the field at an hour's

-A GOOD deal of publicity has been given to a rumor that General Lee is preparing for a forward movement, from which the newspapers in the United States infer that it is only a ruse to cover a demonstration in some other quarter, since they affect to believe that we would be more reticent if an advance were really in contemplation. The month of June, upon which we have this day entered, will unravel the mystery. In the mean time, the confederate army and people can well afford to possess their souls in patience, and to leave their cause in the hands of that kind Pro-warning, as "the enemies of their liberty and VOL. VII.-DIARY 1

prosperity were again threatening their homes." Governor of New-Hampshire. In his message - THE Twenty-fourth regiment of New-York he stated that over eighteen thousand troops volunteers returned to Oswego.-THE city gov- had been furnished for the war, and continued: ernment of Portsmouth, Va., was organized. "In such a contest as that in which we are now -WEST-POINT, Va., was evacuated by the Union involved, I am unable to discriminate between troops.-THE ship Amazonian was captured in the support of the Government and the support latitude 11° 15', longitude 34° 30', by the rebel of the National Administration. It is no time privateer, Alabama. now to speculate upon the causes of the rebellion. The only facts which we need are that it exists, and that it is our duty to put it down. It was a remark made to me, by a former Governor of this State, the late venerable Isaac Hill, in which I fully concur, that a man who will not stand by his Government is a coward and a traitor.'"

June 3.-Col. Kilpatrick returned from an expedition through the country situated between the Rappahannock and York Rivers, in Virginia, having been entirely successful.-(Doc. 3.)

-A MEETING was held at Sheffield, England, under the presidency of Mr. Alderman Saunders, at which the following resolution was adopted:

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-PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF, in a dispatch to Mr. Clay, the American Minister at St. Petersburgh, after expressing the satisfaction of the Emperor at the reply of Secretary Seward to the proposal of France to join the diplomatic intervention in favor of Poland, remarks: "Such facts draw closer the bonds of sympathy between Russia and America. The Emperor knows how to appreciate the firmness with which Mr. Seward maintains the principle of non-intervention."

"That this meeting has heard with profound regret of the death of Lieutenant-General Thomas Jefferson Jackson, of the confederate States of North-America; a man of pure and upright mind, devoted as a citizen to his duty, cool and brave as a soldier, able and energetic as a leader, of whom | his opponents say he was 'sincere and true and valiant.' This meeting resolves to transmit to his widow its deep and sincere condolence with her in her grief at the sad bereavement, and with the great and irreparable loss the army of the -MAJOR-GENERAL STAHL sent the following confederate States of America have sustained by dispatch to the War Department, from his headthe death of their gallant comrade and general." quarters at Fairfax Court-House, Va.: "All is It was decided to request Mr. Mason to transmit quiet along our lines and in front, on the Orange the resolution to Mrs. Jackson and the troops and Alexandria Railroad. This morning, when lately commanded by the deceased General. the relief passed, our pickets were attacked on -ASHEPOO, S. C., was destroyed by the Na- Sawyer's road by guerrillas. Colonel Gray at tional forces, under the command of Colonel once started, with about one hundred and twenty Montgomery, of the Second South-Carolina col-men, in pursuit of them, but could find nothing ored volunteers.-(Doc. 55.)

-ADMIRAL DU PONT ordered Lieutenant Commander Bacon to proceed with the Commodore McDonough on an expedition against Bluffton, on the May River, S. C., a stream emptying into the Calibogue.

of them in the woods. He then went on to scout the whole country, and when he passed FryingPan, his rear-guard was attacked by about one hundred rebels, who were hidden in a thick wood. Colonel Gray turned his column, and charged the rebels, who fled in great haste through the woods. He followed them up to Aldie, and from there returned, via Drainesville. Our entire loss is three, and some horses wounded. We captured their surgeon, Dr. Alexander."

The army forces were landed near Bluffton, by the gunboat Mayflower and an army transport, under the protection of the Commodore McDonough, and took possession of the town, the rebels having retreated. By the order of Colo-AN expedition left Yorktown, Va., proceednel Barton, the town was destroyed by fire, the ing to West-Point, and thence to Walkerstown, church only being spared; and though the rebel by way of the Mattapony. Thence it proceeded troops made several charges, they were driven to Aylette's Warehouse, about ten miles from back by the troops, and the shells and shrapnel the point of landing. At this place, the iron of the Commodore McDonough. Bluffton being foundry, machine-shops, cotton mills, lumberdestroyed, the soldiers reëmbarked without casu-yard, and four government warehouses, containalties, and returned to Hilton Head.-(Doc. 54.)ing large quantities of corn and grain, were June 4.-JOSEPH A. GILMORE was inaugurated burned; also a large mill owned by Colonel

Aylette, of the rebel army, with six thousand serving the United States as armed soldiers, or

bushels of grain. The Colonel made his escape, although in the vicinity. The surgeon of the Fourth Delaware captured his horse, which was ready, saddled and bridled. A great number of barns, containing stores for the rebels, such as grain, corn, whisky, cotton goods, etc., were destroyed. (Doc. 56.)

ders were issued by Major-General Peck to Captain John Wilder, "to recruit a company of colored troops, subject to no molestation in removing those so recruited to the place of rendezvous, at Craney Island."-A sQUADRON of the Sixth New-York Cavalry, commanded by Major William P. Hall, on an expedition from York- A LARGE and enthusiastic Union meeting town, Va., to Warwick River, succeeded in dewas held at Chicago, Ill., this evening, at which stroying twenty-three boats and one schooner speeches were made by Senators Trumbull and belonging to the rebels.-Brigadier-GENERAL Doolittle and others.-COLONEL A. BAIRD, in ALEXANDER P. STEWART, of the rebel army, having command of the garrison at Franklin, Tenn., was been promoted to the rank of Major-General, took attacked by a force of rebels under General For- leave of his brigade, and assumed command in rest, and driven into his intrenchments, but being the corps of General Hardee, at Wartrace, Tenn. reënforced by a brigade of infantry sent by Gen--Chattanooga Rebel, June 7.

eral Granger, he succeeded in repulsing the enemy with a heavy loss. At the same time an attack was made on Triune, but the rebels were driven off with a loss of two hundred men, four hundred horses, and a large quantity of camp and garrison equipage.-(Doc. 4.)

-THE steamer Isaac Smith, which was captured by the rebels on the first of February last, was sunk while trying to run the blockade of Charleston, S. C., by the national gunboat Wissahickon.-THE rebel privateer Alabama, in latitude 14° S., longitude 34° W., captured and de---GENERAL BURNSIDE's order suppressing the stroyed the ship Talisman.-THE Second division circulation of the Chicago Times was revoked. of the Sixth army corps, under the command of General A. P. Howe, crossed the Rappahannock THE Twenty-second règiment N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel Phelps, returned to Al-River at Deep Run, on a reconnoissance. During bany from the seat of war.

-A FIGHT took place at Sartoria, Miss., between a body of National troops, under General Nathan Kimball, and two thousand rebels commanded by General Wirt Adams, resulting in the defeat and rout of the latter after a contest of half an hour. The National loss was one killed and seventeen wounded, while the rebels lost over one hundred taken prisoners, and a number killed and wounded.-SIMMSPORT, on the Atchafalaya River, La., was destroyed by the Union ram Switzerland, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel John A. Ellet.-(Doc. 53.)

-THE rebel General Wheeler, with a body of cavalry, made an attack upon the National troops on the Shelbyville road, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., and skirmishing was kept up the whole day. The Second Indiana cavalry, on picket-duty, was first attacked, but being reënforced by the Thirtyninth Indiana, under the command of Colonel Thos. J. Harrison, they succeeded in putting the rebels to rout, with a loss of several killed and

wounded. The National loss was one killed and a number wounded.

June 5.-Contrabands in the vicinity of Suffolk, Va., having signified their intention of

the passage of the river, the rebel sharp-shooters made some opposition, and after the division had crossed there was some brisk skirmishing, the rebel rifle-pits were carried, and over thirty prisoners captured. The National casualties were six killed and thirty-five wounded, among the former Captain Charles E. Cross, of the engineers. (Doc. 5.)

June 6.-THE rebel General J. E. B. Stuart held a grand review of the forces under his command, at his camp near Culpeper, Va., preparatory to his advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania.-NEAR Nicholasville, Ky., a locomotive exploded, killing six and wounding three soldiers belonging to the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts, Seventh Rhode Island, Fifty-first New-York, and Ninth New-Hampshire regiments.—THE schooner Statesman, loaded with cotton, was captured by the National gunboat Tahoma, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Semmes.-SHAWNEETOWN, Johnson County, Kanbushwhackers, under Cy Gordon and Dick Yeager. sas, was sacked and burned by a force of rebel They plundered a number of Union men, and killed four, who resisted. When they had obtained all the plunder possible, they fired the village in several places, and left by the light of