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New York, with a magnificent regimental | men. The regiment is accompanied by Capt. standard. Senator Solomon Foote, of Ver- Ingall's cornet band, of seventeen performers. mont, replied to the presentation in an eloquent They left Fort Snelling on Saturday week, and and patriotic manner on behalf of Colonel were ordered to report at Harrisburg on the Whiting. (Doc. 42.) 26th, but as they reached there on the 25th, after a hurried travel of over 1,800 miles, they -THE Second Wisconsin Regiment, commanded by Col. Coon, arrived in Washington concluded to report at Washington. They are this morning. They number 1,046 men, with a hardy-looking set of men, some of them of a gray uniform. They are stalwart men who enormous size, all of them well disciplined and appear to be able to stand all the vicissitudes equipped, and only one sick man on the list, of active service. They met with cordial greet-trimmed with black, and a black felt hat, acThe uniform consists of plain gray cassimere, ings at Cleveland and other places on the way. -(Doc. 43.)

June 26.-Gen. McClellan, in a despatch to an officer of the Navy in Cincinnati, states that the interview which Gen. Buckner has reported was strictly private and personal; that it was repeatedly solicited, and that he gave no pledge whatever on the part of the authorities at Washington that United States troops should not enter Kentucky. The only result of the interview as he understood it, was, that Confederate troops should be confined to Confederate soil, so far as Kentucky was concerned. -N. Y. Evening Post, June 27.

-THE address of the Sanitary Commission to the citizens of the United States was published.-(Doc. 44.)

-A FLAG was raised upon the flagstaff on North Hill, Needham, Mass. It was run up by Newell Smith, Esq., one of the oldest inhabitants of the town, and saluted by the firing of cannon on a neighboring hill, the " StarSpangled Banner" by Flagg's Band, and the cheers of the spectators. A public meeting

cording to the army regulation.

-CORPORAL HAYES and twelve men belonging to Col. Wallace's regiment of Zouaves, while scouting on Patterson's Creek, twelve miles east of Cumberland, Md., encountered a A party of rebels numbering about forty. sharp engagement ensued. Seventeen of the enemy were killed, and a number wounded. One of Hayes's party was killed, and himself badly wounded.—(Doc. 45.)

-THE Sixteenth Regiment N. Y. S. V. passed through New York en route to the seat of war. Before leaving the city the regiment was presented with a regimental flag by the wife of G. Howland. The dress of the soldiers is of the United States army pattern, and all the officers wear the regulation uniform, with felt hats and plumes. The commander of the regiment, Col. Thomas A. Davies, is a graduate of West Point, and served in the war with MexiThe men are volunteers from the region of country about Albany, and northward as far as Plattsburgh.-(Doc. 46.)

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was organized, and addresses were made by June 27.-John C. Fremont arrived at BosRev. Messrs. Green, Atwood, and Emerson, all ton, Mass., this morning, in the steamer Europa, of Needham, and by Major Wright and Solo- from Liverpool, bringing with him a large asmon Flagg, Esq. An original poem was deliv-sortment of valuable arms for the Government. ered by Benjamin G. Kimball, Esq., and an-Boston Transcript, June 28. ode, written for the occasion, by Hon. E. W. B. Canning, of Stockbridge, was sung by the people to the air of "America."-Boston Transcript, June 28.

-THE First Minnesota Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Colonel Willis A. Gorman, passed through Baltimore on its way to Washington. The full regiment makes an aggregate of 1,046 men all told, but only nine companies were on the march. This is accounted for by the fact that Company A was left at Fort Snelling, and this decreases the command to 910

-At three o'clock this morning George P. Kane, marshal of police of Baltimore, Md., was arrested at his house by order of Gen. Banks, and conveyed to Fort McHenry, where he is held a prisoner.

Gen. Banks issued a proclamation, naming John R. Kenly, of the Maryland regiment, as provost marshal, and superseding the powers of the police commissioners. Kenly is to exercise supreme control over the police department until some known loyal citizen is appointed to act as marshal.

The proclamation gives as the reason for the arrest of Kane, that he is known to be aiding and abetting those in armed rebellion to the Government, and is at the head of an armed force, which he has used to conceal rather than detect acts of treason to the Government.(Doc. 48.)

the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, if a reconciliation by peaceable means should become impossible. The assembly was addressed by Thomas F. Bayard, William G. Whitely, and ex-Governor Temple, and others. -(Doc. 60.)

-THE "Camp Record," a folio newspaper, was issued yesterday from the camp at Hagerstown, Md., by a party of printers belonging to the Wisconsin Regiment. The object announced is to meet a want by supplying a convenient medium of communicating to friends at home all matters pertaining to the little world of the 6th Brigade; but another reason may fairly be supposed, and that is the "irrepressible" impulse in the breasts of four editors and forty compositors, of the Wisconsin Regiment, to keep their hands and pens in practice. When they finish up the war on hand, these American soldiers will return to the desk and the case. The next number will be issued "The day after the editors get to Richmond!"—N. Y. Tribune, June 30.

-THE Board of Police of Baltimore, Md., published a protest against the arrest of Marshal Kane, declaring the act of General Banks "an arbitrary exercise of military power, not warranted by any provision of the Constitution or laws of the United States," and Mayor Brown approved the protest. Moreover, the Board declared that, while the Board, yielding to the force of circumstances, would do nothing to increase the present excitement, or obstruct the execution of such measures as MajorGeneral Banks might deem proper to take on his own responsibility for the preservation of the peace of the city and public order, they could not, consistently with their views of official duty and of the obligations to their oaths of office, recognize the right of any of the officers and men of the police force, as such, to -THE Fifth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, receive orders and directions from any other commanded by Colonel Mark H. Dunnell, of authority than from the Board; and that, in Portland, passed through New York on its the opinion of the Board, the forcible suspen-way to the seat of war. It was received by sion of their functions suspends at the same time the active operations of the Police law, and puts the officers and men off of duty for the present, leaving them subject, however, to the rules and regulations of the service as to their personal conduct and deportment, and to the orders which the Board might see fit hereafter to issue, when the illegal suspension of their functions should be removed."-Baltimore American, June 28.

-THE following proclamation was received to-day at Washington:

a committee of several hundred of the Sons

of Maine resident in New York, and was escorted by them through Battery Place and Broadway to the front of the City Hall, where the presentation of a banner took place. The banner is a regimental ensign, regulation size, of blue silk, bordered with heavy, yellow fringe, and supported by a lancewood staff, surmounted by a gilt spear. The arms of the State of Maine and of the United States, combined in a shield, appear on both sides. The motto of the State of Maine, "Dirigo," and the numerical title of the regiment, appear above the shield, and the following inscription appears below: "Freedom and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." The ceremonies commenced with a prayer. The presentation speech was read by J. T. Williams. The regiment contains 1,046 men, who are fully armed and equipped. Their uniform is gray throughout, with drab felt hats, regulation pattern. The officers are also uniformed in gray, with regulation hats. The arms consist of the -Ar Dover, Delaware, a meeting was held Springfield musket and common bayonet.at which resolutions were adopted advocating | (Doc. 49.)

HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC,

Manassas Junction, June 25, 1861. On and after Sunday, the 30th instant, no person whatsoever, with or without passports, (except from the War Department,) will be permitted to enter the lines occupied by the Army of the Potomac with intention to pass thence or thereafter into the United States or the lines of the enemy.

Brig. Gen. Beauregard.

THOS. JORDAN, A. A. Adj't Gen.

VOL. II.-DIARY 3

June 28.-The steamer Pawnee arrived at the Navy Yard at Washington this morning, bringing the dead body of Capt. JAMES H. WARD, of the steamer Freeborn, who was killed in an engagement yesterday, while attempting to cover a landing at Matthias Point, on the Potomac River.

The Freeborn was off the Point reconnoitring, when Capt. Ward discovered indications of a movement for the erection of a battery at that Point by the rebel soldiers encamped near there. On Wednesday night he sent up to the Pawnee at Acquia creek for Capt. Owens to send him a reinforcement of two boats' crews to assist in effecting a landing. Two small cutters' crews were sent down to the Freeborn, under Lieut. Chaplain, and with them a boat's crew from the Freeborn, numbering from thirty to forty men in all. Lieut. Chaplain the next morning effected a landing, and succeeded in driving in the rebel pickets. Finding preparations for the erection of a rebel battery there, it was determined to throw up breastworks and mount guns thereon to give the enemy a warm reception should they attack the crews. Accordingly the men were set to work, under cover of the Freeborn's guns, at throwing up a sandbag breastwork, and succeeded in working four hours and a half, and got their works completed about five in the evening. They then went to the boats to go on board for guns to mount on the work, when, just as they were embarking, they were surprised by the rebels, estimated at from one thousand to fifteen hundred strong, who poured in a heavy and continuous fire of musketry upon them from the bushes near by. Under cover of the guns of the Freeborn the crews precipitately made for the steamer, leaving a few of the men on shore, the guns of the Freeborn meanwhile opening with activity and precision apparently upon the enemy, who were concealed by the underbrush. Some ten shell were thrown among them, with what effect could not be seen, owing to their position.

Captain Ward behaved with great coolness, standing by the guns and directing the fire. When his gunner received a wound in the thigh, which disabled him, he immediately took his place, and was sighting the gun when he received a Minie musket ball, which killed him almost instantly.

their retreat swam out to the Freeborn-one of the men carrying on his back a wounded comrade named Bess, who had four musket balls shot into him. John Williams, coxswain of the third cutter, received a flesh wound in the leg while waving the Stars and Stripes, which he carried in his hand the whole time, behaving most gallantly under the hottest fire. The American ensign, which he never ceased to wave, was pierced with nineteen musket balls. Only three men of the boats were wounded, and the only life lost was that of the gallant Ward, who, the moment the enemy was discovered, blew the signal for the crews to come aboard, and instantly opened on the foe with his heavy guns.

While the crews were engaged on the breastworks, a slave, belonging to Dr. Hooe, approached the shore with a white flag on a pole, and getting aboard the Freeborn, informed Capt. Ward that the enemy were in the underbrush near by, one thousand strong. Still the work was continued, and made ready, as the event turned, for the rebels to occupy with guns.-(Doc. 55.)

-A GEORGIA Regiment arrived in Richmond, Va., without arms, the Governor of Georgia refusing to allow more arms to be taken from the State.-Richmond Examiner, June 29.

-EIGHT Companies of rebel infantry and cavalry went from Knoxville, Tenn., to Cumberland and Wheeler's Gap, to guard those places and prevent the federal troops from passing through Kentucky to the aid of the Union men in East Tennessee. They were encountered by the Union men in the mountains. -Louisville Journal, July 2.

-THE Thirtieth Regiment N. Y. S. V. from Albany, under the command of Colonel Edward Frisbie; the Thirty-second N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel Matheson, and Colonel E. D. Baker's California Regiment, left New York for the seat of war.-The latter for Fortress Monroe.-(Doc. 50.)

-THE Charleston (S. C.) Courier, of to-day, prints the following from a private letter received from Manassas Junction:

"Our force is less than has been supposed. Two days ago it consisted of only about 7,000, and so also are all our forces at other points smaller than is supposed. Johnson, when he The men left on the shore by the boats in evacuated Harper's Ferry, had not more than

-THE First Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers left Trenton this morning for Washington in twenty-one cars, at 8 o'clock. The Second and Third Regiments left this afternoon by way of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The tents and other equipage which Quartermaster-General Perine had, under the direction of Governor Olden, and at the request of the War Department, supplied them, went with each regiment.-N. Y. World, June 29.

7,000 effective men. Two thousand joined him | ties of Warren, Essex, Washington, and Saraabout that time, and in one way and another, toga. They belong to the class of hardy and he has now a force of about 10,000 men. It industrious woodsmen, and intelligently underwas a military necessity, and he is the man to stand the questions which underlie the present make the most of it. These facts account for contest.-N. Y. Tribune, June 30. the retreating and apparent indisposition to meet the foe. Their invasion of Virginia, and our inability to repel them, have been the result of the strange notion that we are engaged in a five years' war, and of the consequent policy of rejecting, six weeks ago, at Montgomery, over 100,000 troops offered for twelve months. The scheme of requiring them for three years or the war, has produced great delay in the organization of the Southern army, and we are still very deficient, although now there is a willingness to accept on terms previously rejected. Our reliance, at present, is solely in the superior morale and desperate valor of our soldiers, and in the ability and judgment of our generals. Our cause has been greatly impeded and imperilled by this idea of a five years' war, which nothing but the effect of this backwardness can produce.”

June 29.-Colonel Allen of the First Regiment N. Y. S. V., was arrested at Fortress Monroe for court martial, by order of General Butler. The Eleventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Colonel George Clark, Jr., left Boston for the seat of war. The regiment, previous to their starting, were encamped at Camp Cameron. They were enlisted in April last, and sworn into the United States service about three weeks ago. They number 950 men, and are all armed with new smooth-bore Springfield mus

haps, has exceeded the Eleventh. Their camping arrangements are complete, and they will enter upon their duties with no less than twenty-five baggage wagons, and eighty horses. So

-PETITIONS for compromise, addressed to the President of the United States, which had been secretly circulated throughout the city of New York, were seized at the office of Fred-kets. In point of equipage, no regiment, pererick A. Guion. Mr. Guion issued an earnest remonstrance against the seizure.-(Doc. 51.) -COLONELS MAGRUDER and HARDEE were appointed Brigadier-Generals in the Confederate army.—The Nashville (Tenn.) City Council ap-complete, indeed, are their arrangements that propriated $750,000 for a residence for the President of the Southern Confederacy, as an inducement to remove the capital there.-The State Treasurer of Georgia gave notice that on account of the war with the Anti-Slavery States, the interest on the coupons and bonds of that State payable in New York, must be redeemed at Savannah.-An advertisement announces the reopening of the Confederate loan

at several places in Georgia. It says that only $11,000,000 of the $15,000,000 have been subscribed for.-Nashville Union, June 28.

-GENERAL BANKS at Fort McHenry issued a proclamation nullifying the protest and acts of the late police board of Baltimore.-(Doc. 52.) -THE Twenty-second Regiment N. Y. S. V., left Albany, N. Y., for the seat of war. The regiment is commanded by Colonel Walter Phelps, and is composed of men from the coun

they will be dependent on the Government for nothing except food and ammunition.-N. Y. News, June 30.

-THE steamer St. Nicholas was captured in the Potomac River, by a party of secessionists. The steamer left Baltimore, having on board about fifty passengers.

Among those who

went aboard previous to her departure, was a very respectable "French lady," who was heavily veiled, and, pleading indisposition, she was immediately shown to her state-room, where she was kindly cared for by the females on board. There were also a party of about twenty-five men dressed in the garb of mechanics, carrying with them carpenters, tinners, blacksmiths', and other tools. When near Point Lookout, the "French lady" appeared on deck, not in crinoline, but in the person of a stalwart man, who was immediately surrounded by the

-A SKIRMISH took place at Bowners, twelve miles from Cheat River bridge, between portions of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Ohio, the First Virginia regiments, and a company of rebel cavalry. The former were sent to protect the polls, and the latter, mistaking their number, attacked them, and were routed with the the loss of several men, among them the lieutenant of the company. Several horses were captured. The only loss on the Federal side is N. O. Smith, of the Fifteenth Regiment.-Louisville Journal, July 1.

-THE Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, stationed at Washington, left that place for Edward's Ferry. Lieutenant Hamilton H. Dutton, of Mississippi, having tendered his resignation, was dismissed from the navy of the United States.

party of mechanics above alluded to. Captain Kirwan of the steamer, demanded an explanation, when the "lady-man" informed him that he designed confiscating the steamer and going on a privateering expedition. Finding himself overpowered, Capt. Kirwan was compelled to submit, and the boat was handed over to the man and his crew, who took possession, and proceeded to run the steamer to a point known as "The Cone," on the Virginia shore. Upon landing at that place, the steamer was boarded by a body of about 1,000 Virginia troops, when the passengers were all landed, and allowed to go on their way. About one hundred and fifty of the troops were then placed on board the steamer, Captain Kirwan and fourteen of the crew being retained as prisoners. Leaving the shore the steamer was run down as far as the mouth of the Rappahannock River, where the An imposing ceremony took place this afnew Captain" hailed three large brigs which ternoon at Washington, in the President's were lying off a few miles from Fredericks- grounds on the front of the White House towburg. These vessels were immediately board-ard Virginia. The New York 12th Regiment ed, and not having a sufficient force on board to offer any resistance they were all then quietly delivered over to the party as prizes. The prizes, one of which was laden with coffee, a second with ice, and the third with coal, were run into Fredericksburg, Virginia, and delivered into the possession of the Virginians, the steamer being kept at that port, together with her captain and crew.-Baltimore American, July 2.

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-AN elaborate article respecting the constitutional power of the President of the United States to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, was published. It was prepared by Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in response to the opinion of Chief Justice Taney, of the Supreme Court of the United States.-(Doc. 58.)

-THE Fifteenth Regiment N. Y. S. V., under the command of Colonel John McLeod Murphy, left Willet's Point, N. Y., for Washington.

Two regiments, one of Alabamians and the other of Mississippians, reached Harper's Ferry, Va., this morning, and destroyed the balance of the trestle work of the railroad bridge. They then went over to the Maryland shore, seizing all the boats they could lay their hands on, either breaking them up or taking them over the river. All the Union men of Harper's Ferry were driven out by them.-N. Y. Herald, June 30.

of Militia, with Company G United States Infantry, formed a hollow square, enclosing the fountain and a pavilion, under which were the President and Mrs. Lincoln, surrounded by the members of the Cabinet and other distinguished gentlemen. The Rev. Dr. Pyne offered a fervent prayer for the Union, law and good Government, the well-being of the nation and of its appointed rulers, and the peace which comes

with the restoration of order.

While the Marine Band was playing, the President hauled up the flag, which was slightly torn in the process. Simultaneously, cannon roared and shouts went up from the throng of civilians and lines of soldiers.

The soldiers having gone through with a leaf of the manual, cheers for the flag and the President were given heartily. Gen. Scott, with his staff and other officers, were on a portico adjoining.-N. Y. Tribune, June 30.

-DURING last night there was a skirmish between the New Jersey Zouaves and the rebels outside of Fall's Church, Va. Two of the rebels were killed, and one of the Zouaves was wounded. The dead bodies were brought to Washington this morning.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, June 29.

June 30.—The Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts, numbering one thousand men, under the command of Colonel Cass, arrived at Washington.-National Intelligencer, July 1.

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