about two miles from Frankfort, in a beautiful the band, by mistake, played "God Save the forest.

Queen," which made considerable fun at the taConsul General Murphy, the President of the ble. Not understanding English very well was day, opened the proceedings with some remarks, probably the cause of this little mistake. Unforafter which the Declaration of Independence was tunately for the London Times and its celebrated read in English by Dr. S. Townsend Brown, of prophecy of what would be the manner of the Philadelphia, and afterwards in German by Aug. celebration, it happened to be in a very different Glaser. Gen. B. A. Hill, of St. Louis, made some style. No abuse of England took place in the very striking remarks on the causes of the civil replies to the toasts. The day was very pleasant, war in America, which he said could all be charged and was the first for the past four weeks that to slavery, which was the real cause. He said a had been fine. The party broke up about six great fight was going on to maintain the Union | P.M.-London News, July 12. and constitutional liberty, and the God of battles would give the victory to the army of freedom, right, and justice. Being an intimate friend of Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War of the United States, he gave some interesting facts about the

army.

After the oration the party, at half-past two o'clock, sat down to a dinner, prepared by the host of the Forst Haus, in the large hall in the grove. The room was elegantly decorated with evergreens and flowers, and a large portrait of Gen. Washington, painted expressly for the occasion. The flags of England, America, and the city of Frankfort waved side by side.

To the toast of "The Union, one and inseparable," Gen. Hill responded in good style; and to the toast of "The Queen of England," one of the thirteen regular toasts, Sir Alexander Malet, the representative of her Britannic Majesty, responded. He said there was no cause for ill-feeling between England and America. There was no reason for jealousy. England was proud of her children in America-a people with whom they were associated largely in business, and connected in language and consanguinity. Mother England was as proud of an Irving and a Cooper as were the people of the United States; and he knew America must reverence a country from whom they derived their notions of civil and religious liberty. The good feeling and the attention shown the Prince of Wales on his journey through America would long be remembered and appreciated by the English. His speech elicited much applause.

The English Consul was also at the dinner, as well as Consul Stote, of Manheim, and Mr. Strauss, Consul for the Argentine Republic. The Rev. Dr. McClintock, of Paris, spoke to the toast of "The Clergy." About one hundred persons sat down to dinner, and there was generally a very pleasant time. To the toast of "The President,"

-GENERAL MCCLELLAN issued an address to the "Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac," recapitulating the events through which they had passed during the preceding ten days, and declaring that they should yet enter "the capital of the so-called Confederacy."-(Doc. 79.)

-A SMALL body of Union troops under command of Lieut.-Col. Wood, while reconnoitring in the vicinity of the Little Red River, Ark., shelled a rebel camp, putting the rebels to flight, and captured a large quantity of provisions and stores.

-GENERAL MCCLELLAN, commanding the army of the Potomac, issued an order directing that the day should be celebrated in the army by firing a National salute at noon at the headquarters of each army corps; and that immediately thereafter the bands were to play appropriate National airs. In the afternoon Gen. McClellan paraded the troops, and made them a few hopeful and encouraging remarks, thanking the men in feeling terms for their uniform bravery, fortitude, and good conduct.

-A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Springfield, Mass., was held for the purpose of devising means to meet President Lincoln's call for more troops. Patriotic resolutions were unanimously passed, and speeches were made by Mayor Bemis, George Ashmun, Gen. Devens, M. K. Kum of Missouri, George Walker, Judge Chapman, and others.

calling upon the citizens of their States for their July 7.-The steamer Emilie, formerly the quota of troops, under the call of the President Wm. Seabrook, of Charleston, S. C., was capfor three hundred thousand men. tured off Bull's Bay, S. C., by the United States steamer Flag and the bark Restless.-At NewOrleans, La., the system of distributions and sales of provisions to the poor of that city went into operation. -The Anglo-rebel steamer Adela, was captured off Abaco, by the National gunboat Quaker City.-Official Reports.

-THE British schooner Richard O'Brien, laden with medicines and a general cargo, from Jamaica, and bound for Matamoras, Texas, was this day run ashore near San Luis Pass, and captured by the United States steamer Rhode Island, under the command of Captain S. D. Trenchard.

-A SKIRMISH took place near Grand Haze, on the White River, Ark., between a body of rebel guerrillas and the Thirteenth Illinois regiment of Gen. Curtis's army.-The rebel gunboat Teazer was this day captured in a bend of the James River, Va., by the United States steamer Maratanza.-(Doc. 145.)

-THE Common Council of Buffalo, N. Y., appropriated eighty thousand dollars for the purpose of raising a new regiment, giving seventy-five dollars bounty for each recruit.-Gen. Burnside's army arrived in the James River, Va.

-THE battle of the Cache, Ark., was fought this day by the National forces, under Col. C. E. Hovey, and over two thousand rebel troops, com│manded by Albert Rust, resulting in the defeat and rout of the latter with a severe loss.-(Doc. 82.)

July 5.—C. M. Irvin, in behalf of the citizens of Lee County, Va., informed the rebel Secretary of War that Gen. Mercer, of the rebel army, had issued an order impressing twenty per cent of the male slaves throughout the State, and inquired if July 8.-A large and enthusiastic meeting was he was authorized so to do by the War Depart-held in New-Haven, Ct., in response to the ment. In reply to Mr. Irvin, the rebel Secretary of War informed him that Gen. Mercer had not communicated with his department in reference to impressment of slaves, nor had any authority to make such impressment been granted.

-GEN. THOMPSON, of the rebel army, issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of Panola and De Soto Counties, Miss., calling upon them to do the "watching and picketing duty which their knowledge of the country peculiarly fitted them for."(Doc. 85.)

-THE bombardment of Vicksburgh was reopened at about eight o'clock on the evening of this day. The Union fleet of gunboats and mortar-vessels threw shot and shell into the city for an hour.

-THE Governors of Indiana, Illinois, Vermont, and Rhode Island issued proclamations calling upon the citizens of those States for their quotas of troops, under the call of President Lincoln for three hundred thousand men.

July 6.—The steamer Juniata, while aground about four miles from Harrison's Landing, on the James River, was fired into by the rebels, from the opposite shore, and one man wounded.

-A FIGHT took place at Grand Prairie, near Aberdeen, Ark., between a body of Union infantry, under the command of Col. Spicely, and a superior force of rebel cavalry, resulting in the rout of the rebels with great loss.-(Doc. 146.)

call of President Lincoln for volunteers. Speeches were made by Senator Dixon, Governor Buckingham, Rev. Dr. Bacon, A. P. Hyde, T. H. Bond, Rev. Dr. Nadal, G. F. Trumbull, C. Chapman, Capt. Hunt, and others. Commodore Andrew H. Foote presided over the meeting.

-GEN. SHEPLEY, Military Commandant of NewOrleans, this day issued an order extending the time in which those who had been in the "military service of the confederate States" could take the parole to the tenth instant.-Gen. Butler issued an order authorizing several regiments of volunteers for the United States army to be recruited, and organized in the State of Louisiana.

-A RECONNOISSANCE by the First Maine cavalry was this day made as far as Waterloo, on the Rappahannock River, Va.-A band of rebel guerrillas visited the residence of a Unionist named Pratt, in Lewis County, Mo., and murdered him.

-JOHN Ross, principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians, addressed a letter to Colonel Weer, commanding United States forces at Leavenworth, Kansas, informing him that on the seventh day of October, 1861, the Cherokee Nation had entered into a treaty with "the confederate States." (Doc. 147.)

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN arrived at Harrison's Landing, on the James River, Va., and, accompanied by Gen. McClellan, reviewed the army of the Potomac.-Governors Salomon of Wisconsin, and

-A FIGHT occurred near Tompkinsville, Ky., between a body of one thousand five hundred guerrillas, under Morgan, and the Third battalion of Pennsylvania cavalry, numbering about two “By adopting a judicious system of reward for hundred and fifty men, under the command of labor, almost any amount can be obtained. Its Major Jordan, in which the Nationals were rout-proceeds will pay the expense." ed, with a loss of four killed, six wounded, and nineteen taken prisoners.