tors, or of one from each State, be appointed by in lat. 40°, lon. 50° 30', the crews taken off, the the President of the Senate, whose duty it shall ships plundered of their provisions and valuables, be to take, or cause to be taken, in such manner and burned. and form as they shall prescribe, the testimony in relation to such outrages, and after making report at such time as they shall deem proper, the report and the testimony shall be deposited in the Department of Justice; and that the objects of this resolution may be attained, the Committee shall have power to send for persons and papers. -A UNION expedition, consisting of one thousand five hundred troops and seven gunboats, from Hilton Head, S. C., under command of Gen. Brannan, which had concentrated at St. John's River, Fla., attacked and occupied the rebel fortifications on St. John's Bluff, capturing nine guns and a large quantity of munitions, provisions, and camp equipage abandoned by the rebels in their retreat. The gunboats afterward ascended the river to Jacksonville, the rebels retreating at their approach. -A RECONNOITRING expedition, consisting of three regiments of infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, under the command of Acting Brig.-Gen. Spear, left Suffolk, Va., and proceeded to the Blackwater River opposite Franklin, where the rebels were discovered in considerable force. An artillery fight ensued, resulting in the retreat of the rebels with a loss of about thirty killed and sixty wounded. The Nationals then returned to camp.-National Intelligencer, October 7. -FROM his headquarters near Sharpsburgh, Md., General McClellan issued a congratulatory order to the army under his command, for the victories achieved by their bravery at the battles October 4.-The battle of Corinth, Miss., was this day fought between the Union army, under Gen. Rosecrans, and the rebel forces, under Gens. Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell. The engagement resulted in a rout of the rebels. The loss on both sides was very severe, and particularly in officers. Gen. Hackleman fell mortally wounded while leading his brigade to the charge. General Oglesby was severely wounded. Nearly a thousand prisoners, besides the wounded, were left in the hands of the Nationals.—(Doc. 127.) of South-Mountain and Antietam. Fourteen -AT Frankfort, Kentucky, Richard Howes guns, thirty-nine colors, fifteen thousand five was inaugurated rebel Governor of that State. hundred stand of arms, and nearly six thousand Gens. Bragg and Humphrey Marshall were preprisoners taken from the enemy, were, he said, sent at the ceremonies, and made vituperative and evidences of the completeness of their triumph. bitter secession speeches. In the afternoon the —A JOINT resolution was adopted by the Vir-railroad bridge leading out of the city was deginia (rebel) Legislature, providing that no person stroyed, and all the rebel infantry departed for ginia (rebel) Legislature, providing that no person the South, leaving Scott's rebel cavalry in occuwithin that State should be tried or imprisoned for driving therefrom or putting to death, by any pation. -THE Military Exemption Act passed the rebel means, any person, with or without arms, who might be found on that soil aiding or abetting, or Congress, in session at Richmond, Va. It exin any other way giving effect in that State or its empts police for sections of country having dense borders to the "lawless and fiendish proclama- negro population. Secures the liberty of the tion" of President Lincoln to liberate the slaves.-press, by exempting editors and such help as Richmond Dispatch, October 4. they require in their business; exempts employés of transportation and telegraph companies, ministers of the Gospel, physicians, shoemakers, tanners, blacksmiths, wagon-makers, millers, superintendents and employés on Government works, overseers of plantations, and one man to every five hundred head of cattle. The -This morning a fight took place along the banks of the Blackwater River, in the vicinity of Franklin, Va., between three Union gunboats, Commodore Perry, Hunchback, and Whitehead, under the command of Capt. Flusser, and a force of rebel troops nearly nine thousand strong, re-exemption act passed April twenty-first was resulting, after an engagement of six hours' duration, in the killing and wounding of a large number of the rebels, when the gunboats retired with a loss of nineteen killed and wounded. pealed.-Richmond Examiner, October 6. -THE Secretary of War issued an order, publicly reprimanding Capt. George H. Johnston for communicating an official report of a confidential character and for censuring his superior officers. -THE ships Brilliant and Emily Farnham were this day captured by the rebel steamer Alabama, |--General Orders, No. 151. -A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of citizens was held at the Cooper Institute, New-York City, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the loyalists of Alabama, Mississippi, and East-Tennessee. Speeches were made by R. N. Havens, who presided, General W. K. Strong, Colonel R. H. Shannon, and Rev. Mr. Carter, of Ten nessee. -A UNION gunboat ran past the rebel battery at Fort Point, Galveston, Texas, under a heavy fire, and the authorities of the town were notified that four days would be allowed for the removal of the women and children and the surren der of the town. The rebel battery was destroyed and the troops retreated to Virginia Point.-Richmond Dispatch, October 25. —A FIGHT occurred near Bardstown, Ky., between the advance-guard of Gen. Wood's forces, under the command of Major Foster, and the rearguard of the rebel army, under Gen. Polk. The rebels were under cover of the undergrowth, from which they fired two or three volleys into the ranks of the Unionists with such effect that they became panic-stricken and fled back on the main body of the army, which, coming up, threw a few shells among the rebels and scattered them in all directions.-Cincinnati Commercial, Oct. 5. -A COMPANY of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania regiment, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge at Paw Paw, were attacked by a superior rebel force and taken prisoners. At the same time a force of Union cavalry, under the command of Col. McReynolds, captured the encampment of the rebels, with two guns, ten wagons, and sixty horses. October 5.-Colonel Egan, in command of the Fortieth New-York regiment, crossed the Potomac at Nolan's Ferry, on a reconnoitring expedition, and proceeded to Leesburgh, Va., where he captured a rebel wagon-train containing the personal effects and official papers of the rebel Gen. Longstreet, and a quantity of army supplies. Several fine horses, beef-cattle, and a caisson filled with ammunition, were also captured. -GENERAL CRITTENDEN's corps left Bardstown, Ky., in pursuit of the retreating rebel army under General Bragg.-Union troops made a landing at Fort Point, near Galveston, Texas, but did not permanently occupy the island.—Richmond Dispatch, October 25. the National forces under Gens. Ord and Hurlbut, reached the Hatchie River, where they made a stand. The Unionists attacked them, and, after seven hours' hard fighting, the rebels broke and retreated in disorder, leaving their dead and wounded, and losing four hundred prisoners and two batteries. -SCOTT's rebel cavalry, at Frankfort, Ky., cut one span of the bridge leading to South-Frankfort, took all the paper and ink belonging to the State printer, and left for the South.-A Union force, under the command of Col. Bruce, attacked a party of rebels, six miles north of Glasgow, Ky., killing and capturing a few, and taking a number of horses and cattle. -JACKSONVILLE, Fla., was occupied by the Union forces under General Brannan. October 6.-The rebel forces in Kentucky were flying in great haste from town to town, closely followed by the Union army under Gen. Buell Yesterday a reconnoissance in the vicinity of Hardensville disclosed their presence, about twen ty thousand strong; but, this morning, on the arrival of the advance column of the Union army, under Gen. Sill, it was discovered that they had fled in confusion toward Frankfort. General Sill followed them up, and arrived at Frankfort this evening, but only in time to see the last of the rebels flying from the opposite side of the town, in the direction of Lexington. -A NUMBER of the citizens of Blackford County, Ind., collected, with arms in their hands, at Hartford, the county-town, for the purpose of resisting the draft. They destroyed the ballotbox and enrolling papers, and compelled the commissioners and provost-marshal to resign.Cincinnati Commercial, October 8. -THE rebels having succeeded in placing a battery at Cockpit Point, Va., on the Potomac, with a view to restore the blockade of that river, one of the Union fleet of gunboats ran into the Point to-day, and shelled it, entirely destroying the battery.-The Thirteenth regiment of NewHampshire volunteers, under the command of Col. A. F. Stevens, left Concord for the seat of war. -CHARLES SUMNER delivered an elaborate and powerful speech at Boston, Mass., indorsing the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, and advocating the cause of the African race, who, -THE rebel forces under General Price, in full" slave as well as free," must help the National retreat from Corinth, pursued and harassed by Government. At the conclusion of his remarks, George Francis Train, being called for, took the General George W. Morgan, reached Frankfort, platform, and, refusing to yield it, was carried off by the police.-Boston Transcript, October 7. -A RECONNOITRING party of Union troops, consisting of the Sixth United States cavalry, supported by two guns of Robertson's battery, left Bolivar Heights, near Harper's Ferry, and proceeded to Halltown, Va., driving the rebel pickets before them. When near Charlestown, the Union advance came upon a force of rebels, and a short skirmish ensued, resulting in the flight of the latter. Soon afterwards the rebels commenced throwing shells, but the Union forces, having positive orders not to bring on a general engagement, withdrew after having obtained the desired information. -THE One Hundred and Forty-second regiment of New-York volunteers, Col. Roscius W. Judson, left Ogdensburgh for the seat of war.The Eleventh regiment of Rhode Island volunteers, under command of Col. Edwin Metcalf, left Providence for Washington. October 7.-Lexington, Ky., was evacuated by the rebels under the command of E. Kirby Smith, they retreating toward Cumberland Gap.-The monitor Nahant was successfully launched from Harrison Loring's yard, in South-Boston, Mass., at eleven A.M. to-day.—The Twelfth regiment of Vermont volunteers left Brattleboro for Washington City. -A SKIRMISH took place in the vicinity of Sibley's Landing, Mo., between a detachment of the Fifth Missouri cavalry and the combined rebel forces of Colonels Quantrel and Childs, resulting in a rout of the latter with considerable loss. Among the prisoners taken was the rebel Colonel Childs.-Missouri Democrat, October 9. -GENERAL MCCLELLAN this day issued an order to the army of the Potomac, calling attention to the President's proclamation of Emancipation, and pointing out the fact that the execution of the Federal laws is confided to the civil authorities, and that armed forces are raised and maintained simply to sustain those authorities. Ky.-The bark Wave and brig Dunkirk were captured and destroyed by the rebel privateer Alabama, in latitude 40° 23', longitude 54° 25'. -THE rebel steamer General Rusk, or Blanche, which had run the blockade with a cargo of cotton, was this day driven ashore near Havana Light, by the United States steamer Montgomery, when she was burned by her crew. October 8.-The battle of Chaplin Hills, or Perryville, Ky., was this day fought between the Union army under General Buell, and the rebel forces under General Bragg, resulting, after an engagement of several hours' duration, in the retreat of the rebels across Chaplin River. The loss on both sides was very severe. The Union Generals Jackson and Terrell were killed in this battle.(Doc. 128.) -SEVENTEEN National Government wagons, a number of sutlers' wagons, and about five hundred and fifty men of Gen. Sill's advance column, under the command of Major Bradford, were this day captured in the vicinity of Frankfort, Ky., by the rebel forces under Gen. E. Kirby Smith.— A force of seventeen Union cavalrymen to-day dashed into Middleburgh, Loudon County, Va., and captured several wagons loaded with bacon belonging to the rebels. October 9.-The time allowed by Commander Renshaw, of the Union fleet at Galveston, Texas, for the surrender of that city having expired, the Commander proceeded to the city with a portion of the fleet, took possession, and hoisted the Union flag upon the Custom-House, without opposition, the rebels having previously abandoned the city.-Galveston Union, October 10. -A FIGHT took place in the vicinity of Lawrenceburgh, Ky., between a Union force of three thousand men, under the command of Col. E. A. Parrott, First Ohio volunteers, and the rebel forces under Gen. E. Kirby Smith, resulting, after an engagement of five hours, in the retreat of the latter with considerable loss. The Nationals had six men killed and eight wounded.-(Doc. 216.) -A FIGHT Occurred this day at La Vergne, -THIS morning a small body of Gen. Sigel's Tenn., between a Union force of two thousand five cavalry captured in Aldie, Va., over forty rebel hundred men, under the command of General prisoners, several loads of bacon, and an ambuPalmer, and a rebel force under Gen. Anderson, lance. The prisoners were paroled.-The Ericsresulting in the complete rout of the rebels, and son iron-clad battery, Montauk, was launched the capture of a large number of prisoners, camp from the Continental Works at Greenpoint, L. I. equipage, munitions, and provisons.--(Doc. 215.) -THE advance of the National forces under -IN West-Virginia the rebels enforced the conscription act wherever they had the power. -THE Union gunboat Darlington, which left Jacksonville, Fla., on the sixth, on an expedition up St. John's River, returned this day, bringing the rebel steamer Governor Milton, which it had captured two hundred miles up the river. In the Kanawha Valley every able-bodied man The rebels had one man killed, Lieut. Mears. that could be found was seized and carried to the-An expedition consisting of about one thourebel camp. Wheeling Intelligencer. sand five hundred cavalry, supported by a battery of artillery, under the command of Colonel Davies, left camp at Upton's Hill, Va., on the sixth instant, for the purpose of capturing or destroying five or six locomotives on the Orange and Alexandria Railway at Rappahannock Station. It was discovered that the locomotives had been removed to the other side of the Rappahannock River, and the expedition returned to-day to Centreville. -A SLIGHT Skirmish took place near Aldie, Va., between a small party of Union troops and a numerically superior force of rebels, resulting in the retreat of the Nationals without loss. |