murdered, in cold blood, Private Cyrus McKey, Company I Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and escaped by flight, it is therefore ordered that the dwellings of said Diggs and Lane be burned, and that all property on their respective plantations, which may be of use to the army, be seized and turned over to the Quartermaster or Subsistence Department, for the use of this army.

Captain Bacon, commanding detachment Eighteenth New York Cavalry, will detail a company to report to Captain J. W. Martin, Company I Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock, who will execute this order.

The commanding officer of the Forty-eighth Ohio Infantry Volunteers will cause the men of his regiment, who were with private McKey, to be punished severely for violation of orders in leaving camp without authority. By order of

C. E. DICKEY,

Brigadier-General T. E. G. RANSOM.

Captain, and A. A. G.

MURDER OF MR. WILLIAM FROGG.

A SHORT time after the rebel forces were driven from Kentucky, in 1863, Mr. William Frogg, who had been from his family some time waiting upon his sick brother, at Summersett, started for his home. Upon his arrival some of his friends told him that it was dangerous for him to stay at home, and advised him to leave, as that notorious cut-throat, Champ Furguson, was out on a hunt for Union men, and had threatened to kill him if

he was caught. One of Furguson's men, Harry Sublity, hearing that Frogg had been advised to leave home, called and told him to stay at home, and he would see that he was not injured. Frogg answered him that he should have to stay at home, as he was sick, and could not lie out in the wet and cold. After the traitor was satisfied that Mr. Frogg would remain at home, he left the house, and hunting Champ up, informed him how he had succeeded in decoying Mr. Frogg into the trap he had set for him. The next day Champ, with Vest Gwinn and Sublity, visited the house, Champ entering and the other two standing outside. Champ asked Mrs. Frogg, in a friendly manner, where her husband was. She, not thinking he had, come to murder him, pointed to the bed upon which Mr. Frogg and his little child were lying, saying that he was there; at the same time asking Champ to take a seat, and eat some fruit. "No," answered the bandit, turning toward the bed, "I have come to kill Frogg," at the same time ordering him to get up. "I can't," said Frogg; "don't kill me!" His wife, hearing the conversation, commenced begging and imploring the fiend not to kill her husband. Champ, hearing this appeal, turned and went to the door, when Gwinn motioned to him to return. He went back and deliberately shot Mr. Frogg, who sprang up in the bed. The bloodthirsty scoundrel then fired at him again, when Frogg fell back on the bed. This done, the fiend went out of the house, and joining his associates left the premises. Immediately after their departure, Mrs. Frogg started for assistance, and proceeded a short distance when she fell, fainting. The neighbors, hearing the shooting, soon gathered and found Mr. Frogg quite dead, and the little infant lying by his side covered with its father's blood.*

* Dr. J. D. Hale, of Tennessee.

FIRING ON DROWNING MEN.

FLAG STEAMER Dinsmore,

Off Morris Island, August 8, 1862.

SIR: On the night of the 5th, one of the launches designed to guard the right flank of our shore batteries, having been drawn out into the harbor in observation of a rebel steamer, was suddenly attacked by the latter.

Eight of the crew were picked up, and stated that the launch had been sunk. Yesterday a flag of truce came out from the enemy with a communication from General Gilmore.

Captain Green, the senior officer outside, reports to me that the officer informed our boat that the launch had not been sunk, but was captured with Acting-Master Haines and twelve men. This leaves only two men missing. The eight men who were received by our boat were all positive that they were all fired at from the steamer when they were in the water, and as this is in violation of the usages of war, I addressed a communication to General Beauregard on the subject, requiring that whoever should be convicted of the fact should be punished, otherwise I would not be able to prevent retaliation by our men. As yet I have received no an

swer.

Ensign B. H. Porter deserves mention from me for the energy, courage, and intelligence with which he performed the duty assigned him of observing the enemy, and also for picking up the eight men who in some way were lost out of the launch.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN A. DAHLGREN, Rear-Admiral, commanding S. A. B. Squadron. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, ' Washington, D. C.

MURDER OF CAPTIVES IN TENNESSEE, BY
SHOOTING AND DROWNING.

HEADQUARTERS, Department OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1864.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6.-It having been reported to these headquarters that between seven and eight o'clock on the evening of the 23d ult., within one and one-half miles of the village of Mulberry, Lincoln county, Tennessee, a wagon, which had become detached from a foraging train belonging to the United States, was attacked by guerrillas, and the officer in command of the foraging party, First Lieutenant Porter, Company A, TwentySeventh Indiana Volunteers, the teamster, wagon-master, and two other soldiers, who had been sent to load the train (the latter four unarmed), were captured. They were immediately mounted and hurried off, the guerrillas avoiding the roads until their party was halted, about one o'clock in the morning, on the bank of Elk river, where the rebels stated they were going into camp for the night.

The hands of the prisoners were then tied behind them, and they were robbed of everything of value about their persons. They were next drawn up in line, about five paces in front of their captors. One of the latter, who acted as leader, commanded "Ready!" and the whole party immediately fired upon them. One of the prisoners was shot through the head, and killed instantly, and three were wounded. Lieutenant Porter was not hit. He immediately ran, was followed and fired upon three times by one of the party, and finding that he was about to be overtaken, threw himself over a precipice into the river, and, succeeding in getting his hands loose, swam to

the opposite side, and although pursued to that side, and several times fired upon, he, after twenty-four hours of extraordinary exertions and great exposure, reached a house whence he was taken to Tullahoma, where he now lies in a critical situation. The others, after being shot, were immediately thrown into the river; thus the murder of three men, Newell E. Orcutt, Ninth Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Artillery, John W. Drought, Company H, Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteers, and George W. Jacobs, Company D, Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteers, was accomplished by shooting and drowning.. The fourth, James W. Foley, Ninth Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Artillery, is now lying in hospital, having escaped by getting his hands free while in the water.

For these atrocities and cold-blooded murders, equalling in savage ferocity any ever committed by the most barbarous tribes on the continent, committed by rebel citizens of Tennessee, it is ordered that the property of all other rebel citizens, living within a circuit of ten miles of the place where these men were captured, be assessed, each in his due proportion, according to his wealth, to make up the sum of $30,000, to be divided among the families who were dependent upon the murdered men for support, as follows:

Ten thousand dollars to be paid to the widow of John W. Drought, of North Cape, Racine county, Wisconsin, for the support of herself and two children.

Ten thousand dollars to be paid the widow of George Jacobs, of Delevan, Walworth county, Wisconsin, for the support of herself and one child.

Ten thousand dollars to be divided between the aged mother and sister of Newell E. Orcutt, of Burton, Grange county, Ohio.