States forces at Baton Rouge, La., complaining all along the banks of the river for a distance of that the Union troops in that vicinity had wan- twenty miles, but she sustained no injury, and tonly burned many private houses; had taken or but one person was wounded. destroyed much private property without compensation; had seized and carried away into imprisonment, upon false and frivolous pretexts, many unarmed citizens, and that negro slaves were being armed and organized to be employed against them. He informed him that such acts were regarded as in violation of the usages of civilized warfare; and that, in future, upon any departure from those "he would raise the black flag, and neither usages give nor ask quarter."-See Supplement. August 15.-The Thirty-fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, under the command of Colonel George D. Wells, left Worcester for the seat of war.—A squad of cavalry from Washington, D. C., went into St. Mary's County, Md., and encountered near Leonardstown Capt. Wil liam Clark, of the Thirty-seventh Virginia regiment, with a number of recruits, travelling in a wagon on their way to join the rebels. When they were observed the cavalry abandoned the teams and broke for the woods, but the National cavalry pursued them, and several shots were exchanged. Nine of them, including one officer, were taken and carried to the city and sent to the Old Capitol prison. —A SHARP fight took place at Merriwether's Ferry, on the Obion River, Tenn., between a body of Union troops under the command of Col. T. W. Harris, and a force of rebel guerrillas, under Captain Binfield, resulting in a rout of the rebels, who lost twenty men killed and nine taken prisoners. (Doc. 182.) August 16.-An enthusiastic war meeting was this day held at Lake Mahopac, N. Y.-The One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers arrived at Washington, D. C. -Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, Lieutenant-Col. Brown, and Major Rogers, reached Fortress Monroe, having been exchanged at Richmond, Va. Great joy was manifested at the release of Col. Corcoran and his fellow-soldiers. -HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., was this day captured by a force of rebel guerrilla cavalry, under the command of Colonel A. R. Johnson. A quantity of ammunition and a number of rifles fell into their hands. Colonel Johnson issued a notice to the inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, informing them that he occupied the town and had taken the arms, etc., as a confederate soldier; and that if any Southern man or his property should be molested on account of his visit, he would retaliate on the Union men of the place. -A COMPANY of rebel cavalry dashed across the Rapidan River, Va., near Crooked Run, and captured Lieutenant Black, and five men of the Union army encamped in the vicinity. boats Benton, Mound City and General Bragg, -AN expedition consisting of the Union gununder command of Captain Phelps; the rams Switzerland, Monarch, Lioness and Sampson, under command of Colonel Ellet, and transports Rockett and McDowell, with the Fifty-seventh Ohio, the Thirty-third Indiana, fifty cavalrymen, and two pieces of artillery on board, under command of Colonel Wood of the Fifty-seventh Ohio, left Helena, Arkansas, this day and proceeded down the Mississippi. On the eighteenth, when near the mouth of the Yazoo River, at Millikins's Bend, they captured the rebel steamer Fairplay, laden with an entire equipment of arms, accoutrements and ammunition for an army of six thousand men. At Haines's Bluff they captured four pieces of artillery, and a large quantity of ammunition. At Richmond, La., they destroyed the railway dépôt, together with its contents, a large quantity of sugar, commissary stores, ammunition, etc., and engaged a force of rebels whom they put to flight. On the twenty-fifth instant the expedition returned to Helena, without losing a man.-(Doc. 183.) -THE Richmond (Va.) Examiner of this date, speaking editorially of the approaching session of THE United States gunboat Pocahontas, one the rebel Congress, among other things, said: of the blockading squadron off Charleston, pro-"It will be for Congress to repair, as it best can, ceeded up the Black River, S. C., on a reconnoi- the mischief done the public service by a weak tring expedition, and in search of a rebel steamer and impracticable executive; to look at the reducreported to be in the river. When about twenty-tion of our forces in the field; the decay of milifive miles up, it was discovered that the rebels tary discipline; the demoralization of our armies, had sunk the vessel. In returning, the Poca- and the jeopardy to which our cause has been hontas was fired into by bands of rebel guerrillas put by a long course of trifling conduct, childish pride of opinion, unworthy obstinacy, official obtuseness, conceit, defiance of public opinion, imperiousness and despotic affectation on the part of those intrusted with the execution of the war." charges or evidence a special report will be made to the President." - THE One Hundred and Twenty-fifth and the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh regiments of Pennsylvania arrived at Washington, D. C. - THE National pickets were fired on at Rom -THE evacuation of Harrison's Landing, on the James River, Va., by the army of the Poto-ney Road, Va., and one man mortally wounded. mac, which commenced on the eleventh instant, was this day completed.-(Doc. 184.) A force sent in pursuit overtook a party of bushwhackers near North River Mills, attacked them, -A FIGHT took place near Lone Jack, Mo., be- and killed the notorious guerrilla, Bob Edwards. tween a force of about eight hundred Missouri The rest escaped to the mountains. - Colone State militia, under the command of Major Foster, Michael Corcoran, of the Sixty-ninth New-York and a body of rebel guerrillas under Colonel Cof-militia, was appointed a Brigadier-General in the fee, numbering between three and four thousand volunteer service of the United States. men, resulting, after an engagement of four hours, - THE Congress of the rebel States reässem in the defeat of the Nationals with a loss of sixty bled at Richmond, Va., when Jeff Davis delivermen killed and one hundred wounded and missed his annual message, addressed "to the Senate ing. The rebel loss was one hundred and ten and House of Representatives of the confederate killed and wounded.-(Doc. 185.) States."-See Supplement. - THE steamers Skylark and Sallie were burned by guerrillas, at the mouth of Duck Creek, fifty miles above Fort Henry, Tenn. The Skylark was heavily laden with government stores. She got aground and an officer unloaded a portion of her stores when he was attacked by thirty rebels. The crew, being unarmed, were com August 17.-The office of the Constitutional Gazetteer, a newspaper published at Marysville, Kansas, was demolished this morning at an early hour by a party of National soldiers belonging to the company of Captain Bowen.-The One Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers arrived at Washington, D. C. -Ar New-York, Archbishop Hughes deliver-pelled to surrender. The guerrillas, after removed a most important and patriotic sermon in St. Patrick's Cathedral. After reciting his course of action in Europe, he called upon the whole North to come out in its strength, for "volunteering to continue and for a draft to be made." He said that if three hundred thousand men were not enough, to call out another three hundred thousand. "The people should insist on being drafted, and so bring this unnatural strife to a close" by strength of might alone. ing the furniture and silver ware, set fire to both the boats. The crews were released on parole. August 18.-The following orders were issued from the War Department at Washington: "Hereafter no appointments of Majors-General or Brigadiers-General will be given except to officers of the regular army, for meritorious and distinguished services during the war, or to volunteer officers who, by some successful achievement in the field, shall have displayed the military abilities required for the duties of a general officer. - THE rebel Colonel John H. Morgan, issued a proclamation from Hartsville, Tenn., in which he said that in consequence of the Federal Government causing his friends to pay for property destroyed by him, he would thenceforth put the law of retaliation in full force, and act upon it with vigor. For every dollar exacted from his Southern fellow-citizens, he would have two from men of known Union sentiments, and would make their persons and property responsible for the payment. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., garrisoned by a small number of Union troops, under command of Col. Mason, was this day surrendered to Col. Woodward and a superior force of rebel guerrilla troops, without firing a shot.—(Doc. 186.) August 19. The steamer Swallow was burned by the rebels, at a point on the Mississippi River, twenty-five miles below Memphis, Tenn.-A skirmish took place near Rienzi, Miss. "No appointment to such grades will be issued by the War Department till an examination is made to ascertain if there are any charges or evidence against the character, conduct or fitness of THE following order was issued from the the appointee, and if there should be any such War Department at Washington: The Department of the Ohio, hereby created, will be composed of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky, East of the Tennessee River, and including Cumberland Gap, and the troops operating in its vicinity. Major-General H. G. Wright is assigned to the command of the Department of Ohio. A LARGE and enthusiastic war meeting was held in Brooklyn, N. Y. A series of patriotic resolutions were adopted, and speeches made by Generals Crooke, Walbridge, Sickles and Spinola, Admiral Paulding, Rev. Dr. Cox, and others. —A FORCE of Union cavalry from New-Madrid, Mo., under the command of Captain Frank Moore, while on an expedition to Charleston, attacked a rebel camp on White Oak Ridge, near Hickman, killing four and taking nineteen of the rebels prisoners, including three captains. They also captured twenty-seven horses and about one hundred stand of arms. Captain Moore and one private were wounded. THE Board of Supervisors of Rensselaer County, N. Y., assembled at Troy, appropriated seventy-five thousand dollars as bounty money, to be paid to volunteers enlisting into the army un der the call of the President. -THE Sioux Indians destroyed the United States Agencies at Yellow Medicine and Red Wood, and partially destroyed New-Ulm, Minn., killing and brutally mutilating more than a hundred persons, men, women, and children. my soldiers from the woods, you will be hung when you are caught, and your houses and property will be destroyed." -TO-DAY the Union army, under Gen. Pope, reached the Rappahannock River, in its retreat from the Rapidan, closely followed by the rebel army, under Gen. Lee. At Brandy Station the two armies came within sight of each other, and the rear-guard of the Nationals, supposing the advance of the rebels to be a mere skirmishing party, turned for the purpose of driving them back; but on charging upon them, they discovered their error, for after receiving two or three volleys, which thinned their ranks considerably, they retreated to the bridge at the station, closely pur sued by the rebels. Here the Unionists were supported by two batteries of artillery, which opened fire on the rebels with great effect, compelling them to fall back under cover of the adjacent woods. (Doc. 104.) -A FIGHT took place at Edgefield Junction, Tenn., between a small number of the Fiftieth Indiana volunteers and a superior force of rebel guerrilla cavalry belonging to Col. John H. Mor gan's command, resulting in a retreat of the latter, with a loss of seven men killed and twenty wounded. -A FIGHT took place near Union Mills, Mo., between a force of National troops, under the com mand of Major Price, and a party of rebel guerril las. The Nationals did not discover the reb els until they were fired upon from an ambush; but, notwithstanding this disadvantage, they charged upon them and put them to flight, capturing sixteen horses, a number of guns and swords, and a quantity of lead and powder. Four of the rebels were taken prisoners and one killed. Four of the Union party were killed and August 20.—British subjects who had declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States, being apprehensive that they might be drafted into the militia, Secretary Seward informed them, through the British Charge d'Af fairs at Washington, that none but citizens were liable to military duty in the United States.-three wounded.-St. Louis Democrat, August 23. Secretary Seward's Letter. -E. KIRBY SMITH, the rebel General, from his headquarters in East-Tennessee, issued the following address to the citizens of Knox County, and the adjacent counties in Kentucky: "Finding that you have been deceived by the misrepresentations of our enemies, and have been induced by them not only to leave your homes, but also to resort to the cowardly practice of bushwhacking, I now promise you that, if you return quietly to your homes and lead orderly lives, you will not be disturbed, but will be protected in your rights. August 21.-Jeff Davis issued an order from Richmond, directing that Major-Gen. Hunter and Brig.-Gen. Phelps should no longer be held and treated as public enemies of the rebel States, but as outlaws; and that in the event of the capture of either of them, or that of any other commissioned officer of the United States employed in drilling, organizing, or instructing slaves, with a view to their armed service in the war, he should not be regarded as a prisoner of war, but held in close confinement for execution as a felon, at such time and place as Jeff Davis might order. -TO-DAY the Union army, under Gen. Pope, "If, on the contrary, you persist in firing upon and the rebel army, under Gen. Lee, faced each |