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rebels were slowly moving their forces to the | tained instructions from the Secretary of War line of the Potomac, with a view of entering Maryland and encouraging and supporting the revolutionary spirit in that State with an ultimate design on Washington, is now repeated with increased assurance of its truth, and with such evidences as cannot be disregarded.

to accept all companies that offer themselves for three years' service; and announcing that all companies which shall report fully organized within twenty days from the 17th inst. will be received; that orders for the transportation, sustenance, and equipment of troops have already been given; that equipments of the best quality will be furnished in the shortest practicable period, and that arms will be procured as soon as possible.-(Doc. 192.)

With a view of meeting all possible contingencies which may arise in connection with this subject, the Administration issued an order urgently requesting the governors of the several loyal States to forward immediately to Washington all volunteer regiments or parts of regi-ceive forty cents per day and one ration.—(Doc. ments, that are now enrolled within their respective States.

-TO-NIGHT, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, a remarkable phenomenon was visible in the western sky. The moon was surrounded by a halo of red, white and blue, extending a distance of seven or eight degrees. The colors were distinctly marked, presenting a beautiful appearance, and attracted the attention of a large number of citizens of Jersey City. The colors were visible about ten minutes.

-DESPATCHES were received at St. Louis, Mo., to-day, stating that a train conveying troops on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, was fired into by secessionists, near Palmyra, and one soldier killed and several wounded. Gen. Pope immediately sent orders to General Hurlburt to take such force as he deemed necessary to Marion County, and quarter them on the people, and levy a contribution of horses, mules, provisions, and such other things as may be useful to the soldiers, to the amount of ten thousand dollars, on the inhabitants of the county, and five thousand dollars on the citizens of Palmyra, as a penalty for this outrage.—Baltimore American, August 19. -THE Sixteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Powell T. Wyman, left their encampment at North Cambridge for the seat of war. Colonel Powell and a majority of the staff and line officers are graduates of West Point. Quartermaster Livermore is a son of Hon. Isaac Liver

more, of Cambridge, and Gov. Banks (now Gen. Banks) has a brother in the regiment in the person of Capt. Gardner Banks, of Company H.-N. Y. Times, August 19.

---Governor YatEs issued a proclamation to the people of Illinois, stating that he has ob

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August 18.-The privateer Jeff. Davis was wrecked this evening on the St. Augustine (Fla.) bar. The Charleston Mercury gives the following particulars of the loss: On Friday evening, the 16th inst., Captain Coxetter was off St. Augustine, but the wind having increased to half a gale, he could not venture in. He remained outside the bar the whole of Saturday without observing any of Lincoln's fleet. On Sunday morning at half-past six, while trying to cross the bar, the Jeff. Davis struck, and

though every possible exertion was made to relieve her by throwing the heavy guns overboard, yet the noble vessel, after her perilous

ades, became a total wreck. All the small-arms voyage, and the running of innumerable blockand clothing of the crew, with many valuable sundries, were, however, saved. On the arrival of the brave but unfortunate crew in St. Augustine, they were received with a kindness that they never can forget. The town bells rang out a joyous peal of welcome, and the people vied with each other in their courtesies to the shipwrecked ones. Thanks to the noble hospitality of the Floridians, the men soon recovered from their fatigue. They are expected to arrive in Charleston on Wednesday next. The name of the privateer Jeff. Davis had become a terror to the Yankees. The number of her prizes and the amount of merchandise which she captured has no parallel since the days of the Saucy Jack.

-TO-DAY a company of Federal troops took possession of the Northwest Democrat, published at Savannah, Mo. The Democrat boldly carried at the head of its columns the name of Jeff. Davis for President, and of Claib. Jackson for Vice-President.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, August 26.

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—Major-GenERAL JOHN E. WOOL arrived at | belonging to Philadelphia, was killed. One of Fortress Monroe yesterday morning. He was the Confederates was seen to fall from his met at the wharf by Gen. Butler and staff and horse, but his friends succeeded in carrying off Col. Dimmick, who escorted him to the head- his body.-National Intelligencer, August 19. quarters of Gen. Butler. An order was issued for all officers to report at four o'clock in the

afternoon for review and to turn over the command to Gen. Wool. In consequence of a heavy rain, however, the review was postponed until this morning, when Gen. Wool assumed command of the post.-National Intelligencer, August 20.

August 19.-The bill admitting Missouri into the Southern Confederacy, on certain conditions, was passed by the "Confederate" Congress. The conditions are, that Missouri shall duly ratify the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy, through her legally constituted authority, which authority is declared to be the government of Gov. Jackson, who was -F. K. ZOLLICOFFER, the rebel general at lately deposed. President Davis is also auKnoxville, Tennessee, issued an order, express-thorized to muster into the Confederate sering his gratification at the "increasing evi- vice, in Missouri, such troops as may volunteer dences of confidence" in East Tennessee, and to serve in the Southern army. The bill likedeclaring that "no act or word will be toler- wise empowers the President of the Confedated calculated to alarm or irritate those who, erate States, at his discretion, at any time prior though heretofore advocating the National to the admission of said State as a member of Union, now acquiesce in the decision of the the Confederacy, to perfect and proclaim an State and submit to the authorities of the Gov-alliance, offensive and defensive, with the said ernment of the Confederate States."-(Doc. 194.)

-THE Twenty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, under the command of Col. Jefferson C. Davis, Indiana representative in Fort Sumter during its bombardment, passed through Terre Haute, on its way to St. Louis, Mo.N. Y. Evening Post, August 21.

-THIS afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a body of three hundred rebel cavalry came down to the landing of the Ferry opposite Sandy Hook, Md., when two companies of Gordon's Second Massachusetts Regiment fired and the rebels retreated. It is known that two were killed and five wounded. The Confederates are still hovering on the outskirts of Harper's Ferry, watching the movements of the Federal troops.-National Intelligencer, August 21.

-THE First Wisconsin Regiment returned to Milwaukee, from the seat of war, and was welcomed with the greatest enthusiasm. A collation was served and patriotic speeches were made by M. H. Carpenter, and Judge A. D. Smith.-Daily Wisconsin, August 19.

-A SCOUTING party, composed of the Lincoln Cavalry, under Lieut. Gibson, while to-day in the neighborhood of Pohick Church, some twelve miles from Alexandria, Va., encountered a company of secession cavalry. A slight skirmish ensued, during which private Irwin,

government, limited to the period of the existing war between the Confederacy and the United States; the said treaty or alliance to be in force from the date thereof, and until the same shall be disaffirmed or rejected by this Congress.-National Intelligencer, September 5.

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-THE Republican, published at Savannah, Ga., has the following, in reference to the defences of that city: In response to numerous inquiries propounded through the press of the interior, we would simply say that within a week from to-day no Federal fleet will be able to enter a harbor or inlet, or effect a landing of troops on the coast of Georgia. Month after month elapsed and the State, with all the boasting of its chief executive officer, and with over a million in his hands for the purpose, did absolutely nothing for our protection. The Confederate authorities, to whom the matter has been turned over, have recently been industriously at work, and the fortifications along the coast are nearly completed."

-E. W. HINMAN, of New York, respectfully submitted the following proposition to President Lincoln:-" Whereas the commercial and mercantile interests of our country are being destroyed, it is proposed by numerous masters and owners of vessels, which may be deemed acceptable on the part of the Government of the United States, to aid and assist in capturing any steamer or other craft which may be found

This regulation, however, is not to take effect in regard to persons coming from abroad until a reasonable time shall have elapsed for it to become known in the country from which they may proceed.

on the ocean, sailing under the Confederate or | Consul. rebellion flag of the seceded States, or which may be found acting under a privateer commission issued by the Government under Jef- | ferson Davis as its President. Therefore the undersigned, in behalf of Captain George Walen -AT Philadelphia, Pa., Pierce Butler was and others, would respectfully make application arrested this afternoon by the United States to your Excellency, as President of the United marshal at the order of the Secretary of War States, to issue an order to the undersigned to and taken to New York. The arrest was capture and take such vessels for a bounty to caused by intercepted letters from him giving be paid by the Government, under such stipu-information to the Confederates.-National lations and conditions as may be deemed ad- Intelligencer, August 21. visable, with a view to protect our commerce and mercantile interests of such of our citizens as may be considered loyal and patriotic, in behalf of the Government of the United States, who are desirous of the maintenance of the Constitution, the Union, and the laws of our country."

-IN Haverhill, Mass., this evening, Ambrose L. Kimball, editor of the Essex County Democrat, was forcibly taken from his house by an excited mob, and, refusing information, was covered with a coat of tar and feathers, and ridden on a rail through the town. Subsequently, under threats of violence, Mr. K. promised to keep his pen dry in aid of rebellion, and was liberated. The town au

-TO-DAY two hundred and forty fugitives from East Tennessee, men driven from their homes, were fed in the Seminary yard in Dan-thorities and many good citizens unsuccessville, Ky. Some of them were elderly men and some young, and all had been compelled to abandon their families, and were ill-clad, almost barefoot, weary, and hungry. The whole of the two hundred and forty fugitives enlisted in the United States service at Camp Dick Robinson, in Kentucky.-Louisville Journal.

-THE office of the Sentinel at Easton, Pa., was destroyed by a crowd of Unionists.-Phila. Press, August 20.

-THE town of Commerce, Mo., forty miles from Cairo, Ill., which was taken by a battery planted by the secessionists, was retaken by five hundred troops sent down from Cape Girardeau by order of Gen. Fremont. The

rebels made no stand with their battery on the approach of the National troops. Their number was about one hundred and fifty infantry and one hundred and fifty cavalry.-Boston Transcript, August 21.

-THIS day the Department of State, at Washington, gave notice that "no person will be allowed to go abroad from a port of the United States without a passport either from this Department or countersigned by the Secretary of State; nor will any person be allowed to land in the United States without a passport from a Minister or Consul of the United States, or, if a foreigner, from his own Government, countersigned by such Minister or

fully attempted to quell the mob. Mr. Kimball, after suffering the abuse and indignity of the mob for a long time, made the following affirmation on his knees: "I am sorry that I have published what I have, and I promise that I will never again write or publish articles against the North and in favor of secession, so help me God." After this he was conducted to his home.-N. Y. Herald, August 21.

-A BATTLE took place to-night at Charleston, Mo., between the National forces, about two hundred and fifty strong, consisting of the mand of Col. Dougherty, accompanied by Lieut.Twenty-second Illinois Regiment, under comCol. Ransom, of the Eleventh Illinois Regiment. The rebel force was estimated at six to seven hundred men, and commanded by Col. Hunter, was victorious, completely routing the rebels, of Jeff. Thompson's army. The National force killing forty and taking seventeen prisoners. The National loss was one killed, viz.: Wm. P. Sharp, of Company A. Among the wounded were Col. Dougherty, slightly; Lieut.-Col. Ransom, shot in the shoulder, not serious; Capt. Johnson, Company A, shot in the leg; George A. Perry, slightly wounded in the arm. Capt. Noleman, with fifty mounted men, left Bird's Point at about six o'clock this evening for Charleston, to join the forces under Col. Dougherty, but failed to form a junction with them. They met a party of rebels about one

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