of rebel guerrillas, resulting in a rout of the rebels, with a loss of six killed and five mortally wounded.

-LARGE and enthusiastic meetings, for the purpose of promoting enlistments into the army under the call of President Lincoln for three hun

-A despatch from Gen. McClellan, at Harri-dred thousand additional troops, were this day son's Landing, on the James River, of this date, held at Boston, Cambridge, Roxbury, Brookline, Somerville, Malden, Springfield, and West-Cam

said:

"All quiet. We are rested. Enemy has re-bridge, Mass., and at Portland, Maine. Speeches

treated."

-By order of President Lincoln, Major-General Henry W. Halleck was this day assigned to the command of the whole land forces of the United States, as General-in-Chief.

-THE rebel Gen. Ruggles refused to grant the petition of the inhabitants of Saint Tammany Parish, La., to permit them to exchange their wood, bricks, lumber, etc., for food, with the citizens of New-Orleans.—A skirmish took place near New-Hope, Ky., between a body of Union troops, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Moore, and a force of rebel guerrilla cavalry, resulting in the complete rout of the rebels.

by distinguished and prominent citizens were made in each place. In several of the towns large sums of money were collected for the purpose of paying extra bounties to the volunteers.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN received the Senators and Representatives of the slaveholding Border States at the Presidential mansion, and addressed them on the subject of emancipation.

-GENERAL SMITH, of the rebel army, issued an address to the forces under his command at Vicks

burgh, Miss., thanking them for their bravery in resisting the attack made by the Union forces on the city. The rebel General Albert Pike, in command of Fort McCulloch, Indian Territory, forwarded his "unconditional and absolute" resignation to Jeff Davis.

July 12.-The Senate of the United States adopted the Confiscation Bill as it passed in the -THE British schooner Julia, of Digby, N. S., House of Representatives yesterday, by a vote of captured by the National gunboat Kittatinny in twenty-seven to thirteen.-The advance of Gen. Barrataria Creek, La., and the schooner Uncle Curtis's army under General Washburn reached Mose, captured by the gunboat Tahoma on the Helena, Ark., at nine o'clock this morning, hav-coast of Campeachy, arrived at Key West, Fla. — ing left Clarendon, on the White River, yesterday, Colonel Thomas Cass, of the Ninth Massachusetts at six A.M., and made a forced march of sixty-five regiment, died at Boston from the effects of miles in a day and a night.

Gen. Curtis left Batesville on the twenty-fourth ult. with twenty days' rations, and after a halt of five days at Jacksonport, to concentrate the forces on his outposts, he took up his line of march, and his entire command are now en route for Helena.

wounds received before Richmond.

-FAIRMONT, Missouri, was this day surprised by a band of bushwhackers, who plundered the

town and carried off several of its inhabitants.

-THE New-Orleans (La.) Delta, of this date, speaking of the sanitary condition of that city, said:

In the memory of the "oldest inhabitant," our city was never more healthy at this season of the For this great blessing we are greatly indebted to Gen. Butler's idea of relieving the poor, and at the same time getting said poor to clean up the streets. The order was intrusted to Gen. Shepley, who very judiciously selected Col. T. B. Thorpe to superintend the distribution of the charity of the Government, and see that the thousand laborers, the recipients, did their duty. The result is, that our city is a model of cleanliness.

From eight to twelve hundred rebels, under Matlock, who were on his front, fired on foragetrains from canebrakes, and barricaded all the roads leading southward with trees felled by ne-year. groes, and placed every conceivable obstacle in the way of his men, but he overcame them all. Gen. Washburn had a number of skirmishes on the route, in all of which the rebels were whipped, and with considerable loss to them, though with few casualties to the National troops. -A FIGHT took place at Lebanon, Ky., between a small body of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Johnson, and a force of rebel cavalry under John Morgan, resulting in the defeat of the Unionists and the capture of the town by the rebels-(Doc. 87.)

-A FIGHT took place at Culpeper, Va., between a body of Union troops, under the command of Gen. Hatch, and a force of rebel cavalry, in which the rebels were routed, having had one killed,

five wounded, and leaving eleven prisoners in the President of the United States, he had assumed hands of the Unionists. command of the army.-(Doc. 150.)

-THE Unionists of North-Alabama having been much abused and persecuted by the rebels in that region, a body of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Streight, Fifty-first Indiana, were sent to relieve and protect them.-(Doc. 86.) | -THE Union ram Switzerland, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Ellet, made a reconnoissance up the Yazoo River, for the purpose of ascertaining if the rebels had erected any breastworks along its banks.

-A BAND of rebel guerrillas, under John Morgan, destroyed the long bridge on the Kentucky Central Railroad, between Cynthiana and Paris, Kentucky.-In the United States Senate, a resolution of thanks to Flag-Officer Foote, for his gallant services at the West, was adopted.

-AN enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Utica, N. Y., was held in that town for the purpose of promoting enlistments into the army under the call of President Lincoln for more men. Speeches were made by Ex-Governor Seymour, Judges Denio and Bacon, Francis Kiernan, E. H. Roberts, Charles W. Doolittle, and others. Resolutions offering extra bounties to volunteers

July 13.-The railroad bridge over the Rapidan River, at Rapidan Station, Va., was destroyed by a party of Union troops under the command of Major James M. Deems. On proceeding towards the bridge, and when about six miles from Fair-were adopted. fax, they were fired upon by a force of the ene- -PRESIDENT LINCOLN sent to Congress a mesmy, and a sharp skirmish ensued, resulting in sage embodying the draft of a bill to compensate the defeat of the rebels, who were driven for a any State which should abolish slavery within its distance of ten miles. On arriving at the bridge, limits, the passage of which, substantially as preanother party of rebels were encountered, who, sented, he earnestly recommended.—(Doc. 151.) after a short fight, were dispersed. Besides deJuly 15.-A body of Union troops, numbering stroying the bridge, the Unionists cut the tele-about six hundred men, under the command of graph wire and destroyed the battery at the station. (Doc. 149.)

The

Major Miller, Second Wisconsin cavalry, attacked the combined rebel forces of Rains, Coffec, Hun-A PARTY of rebel guerrillas entered Memphis, ter, Hawthorne, and Tracy, numbering about sixMo., captured the militia troops stationed there, teen hundred, at a point eight miles beyond Faydrove out the Union men, and robbed the stores. etteville, Arkansas, and routed them with great -GREAT excitement existed in Louisville, Lex-loss.-David E. Twiggs, who was dismissed from ington, Bowling Green, Danville, Frankfort, Cov- the United States army for treason, died at Auington, and other towns in Kentucky, in antici- gusta, Ga. pation of a visit from the rebel guerrillas under John Morgan. In order to be prepared for such an event, General Boyle, commanding the Union forces at Louisville, issued the following order: "It is ordered that every able-bodied man take arms and aid in repelling the marauders. Every man who does not join will remain in his house forty-eight hours, and be shot down if he leaves it." General Ward, commanding at Lexington, issued an order directing that "all able-bodied citizens of Lexington and Fayette County are to report themselves at the Court-House Square, in Lexington, forthwith. Those having arms will bring them; those having none will be armed." -MURFREESBORO, Ky., was captured by the rebel forces under the command of Brig.-General Forrest. (Doc. 88.)

July 14.-General Pope issued an address "to the officers and soldiers of the army of Virginia," informing them that by special assignment of the

-THIS morning the rebel iron-clad ram Arkansas passed down the Yazoo River into the Mississippi, and landed under the batteries at Vicksburgh, passing through and receiving the fire of the Union fleet of gunboats and mortars. ram returned the fire, but, except killing and wounding a number of men on several of the gunboats, without material damage to the fleet. The ram, though struck by a great number of shot, was not much injured.-At about six o'clock in the evening, the whole Union fleet got under way, and while the mortars attacked the land batteries, the gunboats, in the hope of sinking the Arkansas, poured their broadsides into her, but without effect. The bombardment lasted for an hour, when the fleet dropped below the city, and came to anchor.-(Doc. 152.)

-THE town of Henderson, Ky., was entered by a band of rebel guerrillas, who broke into the soldiers' hospital, (whose inmates had been re

moved to Evansville, Ind.,) robbing it of its blankets, sheets, etc., and then left, without doing any further mischief.

--IN consequence of the difficulty of procuring small change, caused by the premium on specie, postage-stamps were now first spoken of as a substitute.-New-York World, July 15.

-THE rebel Colonel Morgan visited Midway, Ky., at noon to-day, and cut the telegraph wires and tore up the railroad. He took away with him every thing he could convert to his use. He had four twelve-pound howitzers. In the evening he left for Georgetown, and encamped there on

Gano's farm.

-Ar Cleveland, Ohio, the City Council appropriated thirty-five thousand dollars to aid in recruiting for the new regiments.-At Detroit, Michigan, a meeting was held to facilitate the raising of new regiments. Patriotic resolutions were passed.

York, a present of his check for twenty-five thousand two hundred and ninety dollars and sixty cents, as his share of profit on a contract for arms purchased by Howland & Aspinwall, and sold to the Government. The Secretary of War ordered "that the check be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury, and that the thanks of the Department be rendered to Mr. Aspinwall for the proof he has furnished of the disinterested and patriotic spirit that animates the citizens of the United States in the present contest against treason and rebellion, giving assurance that a government supported by citizens who thus prefer the public welfare to their private gain, must overcome its enemies."

-GEN. HALLECK, on retiring from the command of the army of the Mississippi, issued an address to the troops, expressing his high appreciation of the endurance, bravery, and soldierly conduct which they had exhibited on all occasions during the campaign.

-A VERY large gathering of citizens was held -THE British schooner Agnes was captured in the Capitol Park, at Albany, N. Y. Great en-off Abaco Island, by the United States steamer thusiasm was manifested. Governor Morgan pre- Huntsville, commanded by Lieut. Rogers.-Offisided, and among the Vice-Presidents were Mayor cial Report. Perry, Senator John V. L. Pruyn, John Tracy, General Cooper, and other prominent citizens. Strong resolutions in favor of the new levy, and recommending an extra session of the Legislature, to authorize the giving of a State bounty to volunteers, were introduced by George Dawson, chairman of the committee, and unanimously adopted. Speeches were made by Lyman Tremain and others.

-GOVERNOR PIERPONT, of Virginia, issued a proclamation calling upon the people to furnish the State's quota of troops, under the call of President Lincoln for three hundred thousand men. To aid the work, he desired the Senators and members of the House of Delegates to act as agents in procuring volunteers in their respective

districts.

-YESTERDAY John B. Clarke, of the rebel Senate, addressed a letter to G. W. Randolph, the rebel Secretary of War, inquiring whether the "Partisan Rangers" were to be considered as be

-THE Ninth regiment of Vermont volunteers, under the command of Col. George I. Stannard, left Brattleboro this morning at nine o'clock, en route for the seat of war. This was the first reg-longing to the rebel army, and whether the rebel iment recruited under the call of July first, for three hundred thousand additional troops.

-A LARGE and enthusiastic public meeting was held this day in Union Square, New-York, in behalf of the Union and in support of the Government in its efforts to suppress the rebellion. Speeches were made by Mayor Opdyke, General Fremont, General Walbridge, President King, Professor Lieber, Rev. Dr. Vinton, Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, Rev. Dr. Clarke, E. D. Smith, William Allen Butler, and others. - New-York Tribune, July 16-17.

July 16.-The United States War Department received from William H. Aspinwall, of New

government would not claim for them the same treatment as prisoners which was exacted for prisoners of war; and to-day the Secretary replied that partisan rangers were a part of the provisional army of the States in rebellion, and were subject to all the regulations adopted for its government, and entitled to the same protection as prisoners of war.-(See Supplement.)

July 17.-A detachment of the Union army, under Gen. Pope, this day entered the town of railroad at that place, being the junction of the Gordonsville, Va., unopposed, and destroyed the

Orange and Alexandria and Virginia Central Railroads, together with a great quantity of rebel army supplies gathered at that point.

-CYNTHIANA, Ky., was captured by a party the army, under the call of the President for more

of rebel troops, under Col. John H. Morgan, after a severe engagement with the National forces occupying the town, under the command of Lieut.Col. Landrum.-(Doc. 89.)

-THE British schooner William, captured off the coast of Texas by the National steamer De Soto, arrived at Key West, Fla.-Major-General Halleck, having relinquished the command of the department of the Mississippi, left Corinth for Washington, D. C., accompanied by General Cullum, Col. Kelton, and an aid-de-camp.-The bill authorizing the issue of postage and other government stamps as currency, and prohibiting banks and other corporations or individuals from issuing notes below the denomination of one dollar for circulation, was passed by the House of Representatives and signed by the President.

troops.

July 18.-Great excitement and terror existed among the citizens of Cincinnati, in consequence of the vicinity of the force of rebel guerrillas under John Morgan. Colonel Burbank, Thirteenth United States infantry, assumed military command of the city, and issued orders directing all officers in the volunteer service to report to him. The Governor of the State also issued an order calling for volunteers to serve for thirty days. The excitement of Cincinnati pervaded the adjoining towns in Kentucky.

-AT Kingston, North-Carolina, two negroes were executed, by order of Colonel Sol Williams, C.S.A., having been found guilty of drumming up recruits for Burnside's army.-Richmond Examiner, July 24.

-COL. SALOMON, of the Ninth Wisconsin volunteers, at his encampment on Grand River, Ark., arrested Col. Weer, commander of the Indian ex

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN sent a special message to Congress, informing it that as he had considered the bill for an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confis-pedition, and assumed command. cate the property of rebels, and the joint resolu- —A DESPERATE fight took place near Memphis, tion explanatory of the act, as being substantially Mo., between a detachment of Union troops, numone, he had approved and signed both. Before bering about four hundred, under the command the President was informed of the passage of the of Major John Y. Clopper, and a force of rebel resolution, he had prepared the draft of a message guerrillas six hundred strong, resulting in a comstating objections to the bill becoming a law, a plete rout of the rebels, who left a large number copy of which draft he transmitted to Congress of their dead and wounded.-(Doc. 153.) with the special message.

-THE Congress of the United States adjourned sine die.-At Louisville, Ky., both branches of the Common Council of that city adopted an ordinance compelling the Board of School Trustees to require all professors and teachers of the public schools, before entering on their duties, to appear before the Mayor and take oath to support the Constitutions of the United States and Kentucky, and to be true and loyal citizens thereof.-Gen. Nelson arrived at Nashville, Tenn., with large reenforcements, and assumed command there.

—A SCOUTING-PARTY of ten men, under Lieut. Roberts, of the First Kentucky (Wolford's) cavalry, when about fifteen miles from Columbia, Tenn., were attacked by a body of sixty rebels. The Union party retired to a house in the neighborhood, from which they fought the rebels six hours, when they finally retreated. Several of the rebels fell. The Union party lost none.

THE Richmond (Va.) Despatch of this date, speaking of the proposition of employing negroes on the Union fortifications, said: "It appears from statements in the Northern newspapers that McClellan proposes to employ negroes to perform the hard labor on his fortifications, with a view to save his troops from the perils of sunstroke. This is the sort of freedom the deluded slaves enjoy when they get into the clutches of the abolitionists. They are worked to death, in order to save the lives of a proportionate number of miserable Yankees, not one half of whom can lay as much claim to respectability as the blackest cornfield negro in Virginia. We hope our authorities, in negotiating for an exchange of prisoners, will make the invaders account for at least a portion of the 'contrabands' they have stolen, though in making up their relative value it should appear that one nigger was equal to two Yankees."

-THE town of Newburg, Ind., was this day -ENTHUSIASTIC meetings were this day held at entered by a band of rebel guerrillas, under Capt. Bangor, Me., Bridgeport, Ct., and Auburn, N. Y., | Johnson, and robbed of a large amount of propfor the purpose of promoting enlistments into erty.-Evansville Journal, July 21.

-LARGE and enthusiastic meetings were held to forbear to move his resolution. It meant the in Memphis, Tenn., Milwaukee, Wis., Danbury, recognition of the Southern States and intervenCt., and Troy, N. Y., for the purpose of pro- tion by force, which was another word for war moting enlistments into the army, under the call with America. He had never heard, he said, of President Lincoln. such tremendous issues so raised; he, therefore, implored the House not to adopt the resolution.

-Is the British House of Commons a debate took place on the following motion submitted by Mr. Lindsay:

Lord A. V. Tempest, who had given notice of a resolution, "that it is the duty of her Majesty's "That, in the opinion of this House, the States government to endeavor, either by itself or in which have seceded from the Union of the repub- combination with other European Powers, by melic of the United States have so long maintained diation or otherwise, to bring to a termination themselves under a separate and established gov- the existing contest in America," said he thought ernment, and have given such proof of their de- the House should not separate without expresstermination and ability to support their indepen- ing an opinion on the subject of the war. He jusdence, that the propriety of offering mediation tified the interference of Great Britain on the with the view of terminating hostilities between grounds of humanity and of its responsibilities and the contending parties, is worthy of the serious duties. Mediation, however, he thought would be and immediate attention of her Majesty's govern- worthless unless backed by ulterior measures. ment."

In making this motion Mr. Lindsay said he felt assured that an expression of opinion on the part of the House on the subject would have an effect contrary to that which some persons seemed to apprehend. He thought the confederate States had shown their determination and ability to support their independence. There could be no difference of opinion on that point: but there might be a difference of opinion as to the propriety of British mediation. He then addressed the House on the origin and causes of the war; next he spoke of its effects; then he showed that, as he conceived, the end of the war must be separation; and, lastly, he endeavored to show that humanity and British interests demanded that a stop should be put to the war. It appeared strange and unaccountable to him that her Majesty's government had taken no steps in that direction. It was clear that the South could not be conquered, and it was still more clear it could never be brought back again into the Union. He therefore submitted that the time had arrived when the Southern States ought to be received into the family of nations, and begged to make the above motion.

Mr. W. Foster said that, in his opinion, the motion was not calculated to put an end to the war, but was more likely to prolong it, and even to drag Great Britain into it. Was the object of the resolution, he asked, mediation or forcible interference? If the former, the less that was publicly said about it the better, and the mediator should be considered a friend to both parties; whereas Mr. Lindsay had avowed his partiality for the South. Then, if the offer of mediation was to be accompanied by a threat, it would be justly regarded as an insult, and would aggravate the evil. If the North were let alone it was not improbable it would find out that the subjugation of the South was too hard a task. He insisted that the civil strife was a great revolution, that tariffs had nothing to do with it, that slavery was the real cause of the war, and that it would put an end to slavery. He, therefore, advocated the principle and policy of non-intervention.

Mr. Whiteside observed, that although this question was difficult and delicate, that was no reason why the House of Commons should not express an opinion upon it; to shrink from doing it would be a cowardly proceeding on their part, and he thought Mr. Lindsay deserved well of the Mr. Taylor, who had given notice of an amend- country in giving the government an opportunity ment to Mr. Lindsay's motion, to leave out all of making known their sentiments on the subthe words after the words "House," in order to ject. In his opinion the time had come when, insert the words, "it is desirable that this coun- upon the principles of international law, the try should continue to maintain the strictest neu- Southern States, which had so long maintained trality in the civil war unhappily existing in the their independence, might be recognized, without republic of the United States," said he thought giving just ground of war or umbrage to the Mr. Lindsay had not acted prudently in disre- North.

garding the suggestion of an honorable member, | Mr. Gregory contended that though the war