PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK, MO, THIS diagram was drawn by Frederick William Reeder, of Company C, First United States Cavalry, who participated in the battle. her gun and crew upon the Resolute, and placing the negroes in charge of two men of the Dana, he went up the creek and captured a large boat capable of carrying 25 or 30 men, but saw nothing of the rebels. time, Gen. Siegel made his attack upon McCul- | creek. Mecting the schooner Dana, he took loch's right, drove the rebels for half a mile from their position and took possession of that extremity of their camp; but his advance was broken by the fire of a full regiment that he had permitted to approach in the belief that it was a reinforcement from Gen. Lyon. Unable to rally Salomon's regiment, he was driven back with the loss of five guns. About noon, the enemy's tents and his whole baggage train were destroyed by fire, supposed to have been his own act. The fight still continued in front, and the last advance of the enemy, made at one The P. M., was driven back by the whole national force in the field. Immediately after, Major Sturgis ordered a movement toward Spring field, and the whole force fell back in good order. McCulloch made no pursuit. national loss was 800 in killed and wounded. Though the rebel loss is not known, it is thought to have been very large, as the national artillery fire was remarkably accurate.-—(Doc. 175.) -THE Spanish Minister announced to the Secretary of State at Washington, that the seven American vessels captured by the pirate Sumter and carried into Cienfuegos, had been discharged by order of the Spanish Government.-Washington Republican, August 11. -TO-DAY Lieutenant Budd, commanding the steamer Resolute, cleared out one of the rebel depots on the Potomac. It has been known for some time that the Herring Creek on the Maryland side, and Machodock Creek opposite on the Virginia side, were the depot for Maryland recruits to the rebel army in Virginia. The Resolute having approached within 300 yards of the shore of the creek, was fired on with musketry. A boat was immediately lowered, and Lieut. Budd with twelve men landed. The rebels fled at their approach and were pursued for a mile, but made their escape. Two muskets and a knapsack which they threw away in flight were picked up. Upon returning to the house abundant evidence that it had been a rebel rendezvous, and papers containing important information, were found. The buildings were destroyed, and ten contrabands found on the premises were brought away. -THE prize schooner Geo. V. Baker, of Galveston, and her confederate crew of four men in irons, were carried under the guns of Fortress Monroe. The schooner was captured by one of the United States blockading fleet off Galveston, Texas, and sent to New York with the United States crew on board. She was captured yesterday off Cape Hatteras by the rebel privateer York, who put four of her own men on board. Meanwhile the York was seen by the United States gunboat Union, who gave chase and beached her and escaped. The Union then burnt the privateer, but not until the crew had recaptured the Baker, and her crew. -ISHAM G. HARRIS issued an order to the clerks of the county courts of Tennessee, requesting them to search the residences of the ward such arms to the military authorities at people for arms of every description, and to forNashville, Memphis, or Knoxville.-(Doc. 175.) -BETWEEN the hours of six and seven this evening eighty mounted men, led by Capt. White and a refugee named Talbot, attacked a smaller number of Home Guards at Potosi, Missouri, and were repulsed with a loss of two killed and three wounded. One man of the Home Guards was killed.-St. Louis Democrat, August 12. -PROF. LA MOUNTAIN made two successful balloon ascensions at Fortress Monroe, having attained an altitude of three thousand feet. He found the encampment of the Confederate forces to be about three miles beyond Newmarket Bridge, Va. There were no traces of the rebels near Hampton. A considerable force is also encamped on the east side of James River, some eight miles above Newport News. The two cannon mounted at Sewall's Point toward Old Point, he thinks, are only large fieldpieces. There are, perhaps, one thousand Confederates at Sewall's Point.-N. Y. Times, August 13. After leaving the creek, Lieut. Budd learned from the negroes that there were 300 of the rebels concentrated at the Hague, about five miles back from the river, and that their ferryboat was about three-quarters of a mile up theels."-(Doc. 176.) -THE Western Virginia State Convention, in a series of resolutions, declared itself "unalterably opposed to any compromise with the reb -THE Helena (Arkansas) Shield, of this day, | to the county authorities of Marion County, Mo., contains the following:-From the IIon. C. W. requiring the delivery by them of a stated Adams of this county, who arrived at home a amount of rations to his troops every day, and few days since from the northern part of this threatening, if the order was not promptly State, we learn that on last Monday week thir- obeyed, to billet the regiment upon the city of teen hundred Indian warriors-Southern allies Palmyra.-(Doc. 177.) -crossed the Arkansas River near Fort Smith, en route for McCulloch's camp. These Indians are armed with rifle, butcher knife, and tomahawk, and had their faces painted, one half red, and the other black. We also learn that a regiment of mounted Texans likewise crossed the Arkansas at or near Fort Smith, for the same destination. August 11.-The Hagerstown Herald of today says: The Union men of the border counties in Virginia continue to seek refuge in Maryland from the frightful tyranny which the rebels are practising in that State. Within the last week upward of fifty have crossed the river from Berkeley and Morgan counties, leaving behind them their families and homes, to avoid being pressed into the service. One of the number brought with him the following notice, which he took from a blacksmith's shop in Morgan County: August 12.-Charles J. Faulkner, late U. S. Minister to France, was arrested in Washington by the Provost Marshal. The order for his ar rest was issued from the War Department. A heavy detachment of infantry accompanied the Marshal to guard against any disturbance that the arrest might prompt. Mr. Faulkner acknowledged the authority, and signified his readiness to accompany the officer. He was taken to the jail, where the other prisoners of war are confined. Mr. Faulkner occupies a lower floor of the jail, and has a ward adjoining that of Dr. Fleming, of Virginia, who is also a prisoner and a man of wealth and influence. When first arrested, he was somewhat excited, but he shortly recovered himself, and during the afternoon conversed freely with one of the officers on the condition of France. When asked how the rebellion was regarded there, he answered, "France, sir, deeply regrets it." He All the militia belonging to the Eighty-ninth also stated that he had his passes all ready, and Regiment V. M., are ordered to meet at Oak- intended to leave for his home in Virginia toland, on Monday next, as early as they can, in day. In his conversation he carefully avoids order to march to head-quarters, Winchester, expressing any opinion as to the political conforthwith-and I would make a friendly re-dition of the country. The charges upon which quest of those men that failed to go before, for the arrest is based, are his successful efforts to them to turn out now like truc-hearted Virgin- procure arms in Europe for the use of the rebians, and what they have done will be looked els, and the fact that he was going home to asover, but if they do not regard this call they sume command of a regiment of rebels who had will work their own ruin.-They can never be elected him colonel.-N. Y. Times, August 13. citizens of Virginia, and their property will be confiscated. The General will send a troop of horse to Morgan as soon as we leave, and all those men that fail to do their duty will be hunted up, and what the consequence will be I am unable to say. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Col. 89th Regiment V. M. July 24, 1861. This is the condition of affairs to which the citizens of Maryland are invited by their legis lators and the sympathizers with secession. -EARLY this morning, Gen. Siegel, in command of the force lately under Gen. Lyon at Wilson's Creek, fell back to Springfield in good order, and subsequently to Rolla, Mo.-N. Y. Times, August 15. -GENERAL HURLBURT, in command of the national forces at Palmyra, Mo., issued an order -ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in accordance with a resolution of Con gress, issued a proclamation, appointing a day of public fasting and prayer, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of the country, His blessings on the national arms, and a speedy restoration of peace.—(Doc. 178.) -AT one o'clock this afternoon, the office of the Democrat, a secession sheet published at Bangor, Me., was visited by a large number of people. During an alarm of fire, a crowd entered the office, cleared it of every thing it contained, and burned the contents in the street. Mr. Emery, the editor of the paper, escaped un harmed. A man who made some demonstra- | day rejoices over the contemplated expulsion of tions in opposition to the acts of the mob, was badly used, but was finally rescued and put in jail. -JUDGE CATRON, of the United States Supreme Court, was expelled from Nashville, Tenn., by a Vigilance Committee, for his refusal to resign his office under the United States Government.-Baltimore American, August 14. -GEN. WOOL was ordered to the command of the Southeastern District of Virginia, headquarters at Fortress Monroe.-The Eleventh Regiment of New York Volunteers (First Fire Zouaves) left Washington for New York.-Troy Times, August 13. -TWENTY-TWO released prisoners of war arrived at Fortress Monroe from Norfolk, Va., under a flag of truce. They comprise the following persons:-Surgeons, Edward T. Taylor, First New Jersey; Jacob A. Stewart, First Minnesota; Eugene Peugnet, Seventy-first New York; Foster Swift, Eighth New York; S. C. Thunkins, Fourth Maine; B. F. Buckstone, Fifth Maine; Wm. H. Allen, Second Maine; Jas. M. Lewis, Second Wisconsin; Gustavus Winston, New York Eighth; Chas. DeGraw, do.; Nor val, Seventy-ninth New York. These surgeons remained at Sudley Church and the stone building after the battle, attending the wounded, and were taken prisoners. They remained, some at Bull Run and others at Manassas Junction, attending upon the wounded for two weeks after the battle, and then were sent to Richmond. Finally they were released on parole and sent within the national lines, via Norfolk. They have been courteously and kindly treated by the military authorities of the "Confederate" States, and give the most unqualified denial to all stories of the killing or ill-treatment of the wounded. Mrs. Curtis, of New York, who went out a day or two after the battle and was taken prisoner, is also released.-(Doc. 179.) all citizens of the United States "from the Confederated States." The law, it states, is, and the fact is confirmed from other sources, that all owning citizenship to the Federal Government are to be banished from the Confederated States. The Delta says: "We cannot afford to tolerate enemies in our midst, because, forsooth, they may have the discretion to keep silent and to bear no arms in their hands. The man of Massachusetts, or the man of Kentucky, living, and perhaps thriving in our midst, has no business at this time to be to exist that he is not also cordially with us." among us, if he allows a reasonable suspicion -A SEVERE Skirmish took place a few miles from Grafton, Va., on the Fairmount and Webster road. Information having been received that a regularly organized body of rebels, living in the county, were lodged within a few miles of Webster, General Kelly sent Captain Dayton, of Company A, Fourth Virginia Regiment, with fifty men, from Webster to disarm them. After scouting nearly twenty-four hours he came suddenly on them, and after an hour's severe fighting, succeeded in killing twenty-one and putting the others to flight, without loss to his command. The rebels numbered 200, and were composed of the worst characters of the county, led on by Zack Cochrane, sheriff under Gov. Letcher.-Ohio Statesman, August 16. -THE banks of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston agreed to take fifty millions of the Govthe Treasury notes. ernment loan, they to be the sole recipients of Davis were chosen a committee by the Boston William Gray, Franklin Haven, and J. Amory bank directors to confer with the committees of the New York and Philadelphia banks in regard to the Government loan. The meeting adopted the following instructions to the Com mittee: "That the Committee be authorized to say to the gentlemen of the Committees from the New York and Philadelphia banks, that, in the judgment of the gentlemen here assembled, the banks and bankers of Boston and of the State of Massachusetts and its people are prepared, ready, willing, and determined to do all in their power, in view of their duty to themselves, their trusts and their country, to aid it in suppressing the present rebellion by furnishAugust 13.-The New Orleans Delta of to- ing men and money to the utmost extent of -BEN. MCCULLOCH, in a general order, congratulated "the army under his command" upon the victory at Wilson's Creek, and hoped that "the laurels they had gained" would "not be tarnished by a single outrage." He also is sued a proclamation to the people of Missouri, calling upon them to act either for the North or the South.-(Doc. 180.) VOL. II.-DIARY 5 their ability, now, henceforth and forever."N. Y. Evening Post, August 14. tion of the United States Reserve Corps in St. Louis, to comprise five regiments of infantry, with a reserve of two companies to each two squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries of light artillery, the troops to be required to enlist for war, subject to the same regulations and re the -GENERAL POPE, at St. Louis, Mo., issued a general order, establishing regulations for the navigation of the Missouri River.-(Doc. 181.) August 14.-Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, Va., issued a proclamation, notifying all resi-ceive the same pay as volunteer regiments.—N. Y. World, August 15. dents of the "Confederate" States, who do not acknowledge the authority of the same, to leave the "Confederacy" in forty days from the date of the proclamation.—(Doc. 182.) -ROBERT MUIR, of Charleston, S. C., and cousin of the British consul at New Orleans, was arrested on board the steamer Africa at New York, just as she was leaving, as bearer of despatches from Jeff. Davis to the British Government. Several papers, showing he was such a person, were found on him.-National Intelligencer, August 16. -COL. FARNHAM, of the N. Y. Fire Zouaves, died this evening at Washington of wounds received in the battle of Bull Run.-Idem. -THE First Fire Zouaves (Eleventh N. Y. V.) arrived in New York City, and were discharged on furlough. Previous to the discharge they were addressed in front of the City Hall by Gen. Prosper M. Wetmore.-N. Y. Evening Post, August 15. —A MUTINY broke out in the camp of the New York Seventy-ninth Regiment near Washington. Among their alleged grievances are, that it is proposed to attach them to the Sickles Brigade to which they object, and that they were promised a furlough in order to see to the comfort of their families, to reorganize, and to elect officers to fill existing vacancies; and as it appeared likely that this furlough would not be -PROCLAMATION of martial law, as follows, given, they refused to obey orders. A detach was made in St. Louis, Missouri: HEAD-QUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, I hereby declare and establish martial law in the city and county of St. Louis. Major J. McKinstry, United States Army, is appointed provost-marshal. All orders and regulations issued by him will be respected and obeyed accordingly. (Signed) J. C. FREMONT, Major-General Commanding. Provost-marshal McKinstry thereupon issued a proclamation calling upon all good citizens to obey the rules it has been deemed necessary to establish, in order to insure and preserve the public peace, accompanied with the assurance that the civil law will remain in force, and the military authority only be used when civil law proves inadequate to maintain the public safety; and that any violation of the order will be followed by prompt punishment, regardless of persons or positions.-(Doc. 183.) ment of regular soldiers was sent to their camp, to act as circumstances might require. The result was the arrest of forty or fifty who took a more active part in the insubordination. These were taken into Washington City about eight o'clock P. M., and confined as prisoners, whilst the remainder of the regiment were marched to the Navy Yard under a strong guard of cavalry. -(Doc. 184.) -THE First Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers, numbering nearly eight hundred muskets, passed through Baltimore, Md., this morning, on their return home after three months' service in the cause of the General Government. They have been operating in the region of country near Harper's Ferry, Va.-Baltimore American, August 14. -BISHOP WHITTINGHAM of Maryland issued a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of his diocese, with reference to the approaching fastday.-(Doc. 185.) -THE question of retaliation and the exchange of prisoners is agitated in the Southern States. New Orleans papers of to-day contain an elaborate article on the subject.-(Doc. 186.) -THIS afternoon at St. Louis, Provost-marshal McKinstry suppressed the publication of the War Bulletin and the Missourian, two newspapers which had been "shamelessly devoted to the publication of transparently false statements respecting military movements in August 15.-At Arlington, Va., sixty nonMissouri."-St. Louis Democrat, August 15. commissioned officers and privates of the Sec-GENERAL FREMONT ordered a re-organiza-ond Maine Regiment of Volunteers, having |