damages inflicted upon them by riotors."-COR- -JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor of Massachusetts, delivered an eloquent speech at Boston, on the occasion of the presentation of four flags, the gift of the women of Ohio, to the Fifty-fifth regiment Massachusetts colored volunteers. — ONE hundred guns were fired at Cambridge, Mass., in honor of the fall of Port Hudson. -THE rebel steamers, James Battle and James Bagaley, were captured off Mobile, Alabama. --GENERAL RICHARDSON, the notorious guerrilla, returned to his former field of operations in the neighborhood of Hickory, Wythe, Galloway's Station and Belmont, in the counties of Tipton, Shelby, and Fayette, Tenn. Richardson had a force of about two hundred men. These were, AT Baltimore, Md., an order was issued by like himself, destitute of all principle save that General Schenck, directing all officers in the milof self-interest. Richardson was aided by the itary service of the United States, residing at Rev. Captain Burrow and Captain Murray. One Barnum's City Hotel, to leave that establishment thing very remarkable was, that each of these men without delay.-WYTHEVILLE, Va., was captured once laid claim to sanctimoniousness. Richard-by the National forces, under Colonel Toland.— son was once a great exhorter among the Methodist friends in Memphis. Burrow was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, while Murray was a very sanctimonious elder of the same denomination with Burrow.-Memphis Bulletin, Moly 17. - July 18. General Beauregard, from his headquarters at Charleston, S. C., issued the following address: "While the Commanding General regrets that the enemy have succeeded in effecting a landing upon Morris Island, he acknowledges with satisfaction the conduct of the troops in their brave and prolonged resistance against a force largely their superior in numbers; and he is especially gratified by the spirit and success with which the garrison of Battery Wagner, and the troops under Colonel Graham, repelled the assaults on that fortification, as it gives the assurance that he can rely upon the conduct and courage of both officers and men to check the progress of the enemy."-GENERAL GEORGE C. STRONG, with a column of General Gillmore's forces, made an assault upon Fort Wagner. The storming party was led by the Fifty-fourth regiment of Massachusetts, (colored,) under Colonel Robert G. Shaw. After gaining an angle of the Fort, and holding it for some time, they were repulsed with terrible slaughter. Colonels Shaw and Putnam were killed, and General Strong severely wounded.-(Doc. 41.) (Doc. 132.) -AT Yates' Point, on the Potomac River, an action took place between a party of rebels on shore, and the gunboats Jacob Bell, Resolute, and Teaser, and mortar-boat Dan. Smith. While the firing was going on, a party of Nationals was sent on shore, and the rebels were put to flight. MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN G. FOSTER assumed command of the Department of Virginia, in addition to that of North-Carolina. July 19.-At Charleston, S. C., a large sidewheel steamer, endeavoring to run into the harbor, was chased by the Canandaigua, and other outside blockaders, and finally driven upon the shoals by Commander George W. Powers, of the Kaatskill, then anchored abreast of Fort Wagner, on picket-duty. The steamer was fired by her crew, and was totally destroyed.--Rear-Admiral Dahlgren's Report. -GREENVILLE and Sparta, N. C., were visited by the National forces, under the command of Brigadier-General Potter, and every thing at those places belonging to the rebel government destroyed.-(Doc. 101.) -JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General, issued the following circular: "Existing laws make a distinction in the matter of pay, bounties, or other allowances, between soldiers of African descent and other soldiers in the service of the United States. Men of African descent can only be accepted as substitutes for each other, under the Enrolment Act."-THE battle of Buffington Island, Ohio, was fought this day.-(Doc. 47.) --GEORGE W. L. BICKLEY, supposed to be the originator of the order of the Knights of the Golden Circle, was arrested at New-Albany, Ind. -THE draft in New-Haven, Ct., was concluded.THE expedition into North-Carolina, under the command of Brigadier-General Potter, left New-in New-York. He was unsparing in bitter debern.-(Doc. 101.) --Ar Cleveland, Ohio, Bishop Rappe preached a sermon in the cathedral, on the subject of riots nunciation of the mob that had committed such outrages. He warned his hearers against any burning Way's Bluff Station, destroying six miles act that tended in any degree to provoke like of the track of the Jackson and New-Orleans scenes there. He said that the laws must be and Mississippi Central Railroad, five locomoobeyed, and the conscription law quietly submit- tives, fifty cars, thirteen large manufacturing ested to among the rest. He urged the members tablishments and railroad buildings; completely of his flock to attend strictly to their business, destroyed the Dixie Works, and burned a large and not even to discuss the question of the draft. quantity of lumber. At Canton, they also deIf any of them were drafted, and could not pro-stroyed the railroad, burned two locomotives, cure exemption, they must do their duty to the twenty-five cars, the dépôt, and a large lot of country as soldiers. If the drafted man was cotton. At Calhoun, they destroyed a pontoonpoor, and no provision had been made by the bridge, the ferry at Grant's Mills, and several city or county for the relief of his family, they railroad bridges. They captured nearly one hunshould be cared for by the Church. dred prisoners, and lost twenty in killed and wounded.-(Doc, 138.) He warned them not to ill-treat the colored people. A colored man had as much right to live July 21.-The Fifty-fifth regiment (colored) and to labor for his living as a white man had, of Massachusetts, left Boston for Newbern, N. C. and their right must be respected. It was cow--A PARTY of thirty bushwhackers early this ardly and sinful to molest these people, because morning, made a descent upon a settlement on their skin was of a different color. Indian Creek, near Olathe, Kansas, and after He also spoke against the practice of demand- plundering several of the inhabitants, retired, ing extortionate wages. It was wrong and wick-taking with them a large quantity of stock, and ed to extort from employers more than the fair several men.-THE schooner Revenge was capprice of their labor. tured and destroyed at a point near the Sabine Pass, by the Union gunboat Owasco, under the command of Lieutenant Commander J. Madigan, Jr.-THE Forty-third regiment of Massachusetts, returned to Boston from the seat of war.-THE Twelfth regiment, of Rhode Island, returned to Providence, and was received by the military of that place.-GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters at Tullahoma, Tenn., issued a circular regulating the circulation of newspapers in his army. Finally, he warned them not to provoke a breach of peace in any manner, and said that he had pledged his word, as a Catholic Bishop, to the citizens of Cleveland, that there should be no disturbance from the Catholic Irish, and he looked to them that his pledge should not be broken. July 20.The Chamber of Commerce, at Cincinnati, Ohio, at a business meeting, expelled thirty-three members of their body for refusing to take the oath of allegiance.-Ar New-York City a large meeting of merchants was held, to adopt measures for the relief of the negro sufferers by the riots. Speeches were made by Jonathan Sturges, Richard Warren, A. F. Dow, and others; and resolutions were adopted, pledging the protection of the merchants to the negroes, in pursuing their customary avocations. July 22.-Major-General John G. Foster, pursuant to instructions from the War Department, commenced the enlistment of colored troops within the lines of the Department of Virginia and North-Carolina; and the unoccupied land on Roanoke Island was set apart for the use of the families of negro soldiers and other contrabands -COLONEL BUSSEY, Chief of Cavalry of the in the service of the United States.-THE rebel army under General Sherman, returned to Jack-privateer Florida was at Bermuda, being delayed son, from an expedition to Canton and beyond. there by the refusal of the naval authorities to At Canton, on the eighteenth, he met Jackson's furnish her with coal. rebel cavalry division, four thousand strong, July 23.-The enrolment was resisted in the with three pieces of artillery, and, after a severe vicinity of Jarrettsville, Harford County, Md.-engagement, drove him across the Pearl River. THE First regiment of colored United States volunThe National force consisted of four thousand teers was completed at Philadelphia, Pa., and Colcavalry, under Bussey, and one thousand infan- onel Benjamin Tilghman appointed to the comtry, commanded by Colonel Wood, of the Seven-mand.—THE draft took place in Auburn, N. Y., ty-eighth regiment of Ohio. They destroyed the and every thing passed off with the best of order, railroad bridge over the Big Black, one mile of The occasion, instead of being one of rioting, trestle-work between the Big Black and Canton, arson, and murder, was rather one of rejoicing and demonstrations of loyalty. The drafted men formed in procession, with a band of music, and marched through the streets cheering for the draft, the Union, etc., and in the evening listened to patriotic speeches from the Provost-Marshal, the Mayor and others. July 24.— General John Morgan, with his guerrillas, was attacked at Washington, Ohio, by a party of National troops under Major Krouse, and driven from the town.-THE blockade-runner Emma, in latitude 33° 41', longitude 76° 13′, was captured by the National transport steamer Arago, under the command of Captain Gadsden.—THE bombardment of Charleston was renewed this morning, and continued all day except for a short time, during which a flag of truce visited the rebel authorities and perfected an exchange of prisoners.-BRASHEAR CITY, La., was occupied by the National forces.-A FIGHT took place at Wapping Heights, near Manassas Gap, Va., between a brigade of National troops under the command of General Spinola; and a brigade of rebels under General Wright, resulting in the defeat and rout of the latter.-(Doc. 104.) -THE battle of Big Mound, Dakotah, was fought this day.-(Doc. 110.) -MAJOR-GENERAL J. G. FOSTER, at Newbern, N. C., made the following report to headquarters at Washington: and eight hundred bales of cotton, were all destroyed. "At Tarboro, two steamboats and one large and fine iron-clad in process of construction, a saw-mill, a train of cars, one hundred bales of cotton, and large quantities of subsistence and ordnance stores, were destroyed; about one huudred prisoners taken, and some three hundred animals, (horses and mules.) "Some three hundred contrabands followed the expedition into Newbern. The force had constant fighting with the enemy, who made great endeavors to intercept their return, but in every case the enemy's position was either turned or they were compelled to retire. Our loss in killed, wounded, and missing, will not exceed twenty-five men."-(Doc. 101.) -A SLIGHT resistance to the draft occurred at Lancaster, Pa.-ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, the Vice-President of the rebel government, delivered a speech at Charlotte, N. C., expressing entire confidence in the ability of the rebels to maintain their cause and achieve independence.— (Doc. 42.) July 25.-The rebel steamers Merrimac and Lizzie were captured by the National gunboat Iroquois, they having run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., the evening previous. — THE rebel steamer Beauregard, after attempting to run the blockade of Charleston, S. C., returned to Nassau, N. P.-JEFFERSON DAVIS, "regarding "I have the honor to report that the cavalry the furloughs granted the paroled prisoners from raid, having for its object the destruction of the Vicksburgh of too great duration in the present railroad bridge at Rocky Mount, has returned condition of the country, with the exception of completely successful. The expedition consisted those of men most distant" from the camp of of the Third regiment New-York cavalry and a General Pemberton, at Demopolis, ordered that squadron of the Twelfth, and of Mix's men, (cav-they be reduced, and an order to that effect was alry,) and one company of the North-Carolina regiment, and was under the command of Brigadier-General Edward E. Potter, Chief-of-Staff. issued by General Pemberton. July 26.-General R. E. Lee, from his headquarters, army of Northern Virginia, issued the following order: "The bridge over the Tar River, at Rocky Mount, a station on the Wilmington and Weldon "All officers and soldiers now absent from Railroad, was completely destroyed. The bridge this army, who are able to do duty and are not was three hundred and fifty feet long, and the detached on special service, are ordered to return trestle-work over one hundred more. A cotton- immediately. The Commanding General calls mill, filled; a flouring-mill, containing one thou-upon all soldiers to rejoin their respective regisand barrels of flour and large quantities of hard ments at once. To remain at home in this the hour bread; a machine-shop, containing shells, gun-of our country's need is unworthy the manhood powder, and every munition of war; a large of a Southern soldier. While you proudly boast dépôt, offices, etc.; an engine and a train of cars; a wagon-train of twenty-five wagons, filled with stores and munitions; an armory and machine-shop, with the machinery and materials, that you belong to the army of Northern Virginia, let it not be said that you deserted your comrades in a contest in which every thing you hold dear is at stake. The Commanding Gen |