existing rebellion, or any rebellion, against th



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[JULY 27.



government of the United States, and to return
to their proper allegiance to the United States, on
pain of the forfeitures and seizures as by said
sixth section provided. (Doc. 158.)

Two companies of Union troops, under the
command of Captain Davidson, while guarding
the bridge at Courtland, Ala., were completely
surprised and captured by a force of rebel caval
ry. (Doc. 159.)

A MEETING of Irish citizens and residents of
St. Louis, Mo., was held in that city for the pur
pose of denouncing the conduct of such of their
countrymen as had attempted to avoid the oper
ation of the Governor s proclamation for troops
to serve the State, by appealing to the British
Consul for protection, as cowardly, base, and in
famous.

A SKIRMISH took place near Orange Court-
House, Va., between a reconnoitring party of
Union troops under the command of General Gib
son, and a body of rebels, resulting in the re treat
of the latter with a loss of five men killed, several
wounded and some prisoners. Large meetings
were held at Corning and Ithaca, N. Y., to pro
mote enlistments into the army under the call of
the President for additional troops.

July 26. Madison Court-House, Va., was oc
cupied by the First cavalry of Connecticut, a por
tion of General Sigel s advance, after a slight
skirmish with the rebel cavalry under Robertson,
who were driven out of the town. Prominent
citizens of Hay ward County, Tenn., were captur
ed by the rebel guerrillas for selling cotton. The
Union transport schooner Louisa Reeves, of New-
York, laden with forage for the army of the Po
tomac, was this day captured and burned by a
party of rebel troops, at Coggins s Point, James
River, Va.

A SKIRMISH took place near Patten, Missouri,
between a company of the Tenth battalion of State
militia, under Major Chevreaux, and two hun
dred guerrillas, in which the latter w r ere defeated
and put to flight, with a loss of twenty-five killed
and wounded. The National loss was three
wounded. St. Louis News, July 29.

YESTERDAY the towns of Van Buren, Lysan-
der and Marcellus, N. Y., subscribed four thou
sand five hundred dollars to aid in raising a regi
ment under the call of President Lincoln for more
troops, issued on the first instant, and to-day the
Salt Company of Onondaga, N. Y., subscribed ten
thousand dollars for the same purpose.



A SLIGHT skirmish occurred near Young s
Cross-Roads, at the head of White Oak River,
N. C., between a reconnoitring party of Union
troops, under Colonel Heckman, of the Ninth
New- Jersey regiment, and a body of rebel caval
ry, numbering about two hundred men, which
resulted in the complete defeat of the rebels.

YESTERDAY a skirmish took place near the
Mountain Store, about twenty miles from Hous
ton, Missouri, between a body of Union troops
under the command of Captain Bradway, Third
Missouri cavalry, and a force of rebel guerrillas
under Colonel Coleman, resulting in the retreat
of the latter towards the Big Piney River, where
they were encountered to-day by the same party
of Unionists, and after a sharp fight, were com
pletely routed. In these two skirmishes the
rebels had five men killed and twelve wounded.
The Union party were uninjured. (Doc. 161.)

LARGE and enthusiastic meetings were held
in Philadelphia, Pa., and Wheeling, Va., for the
purpose of promoting enlistments into the army
under the call of President Lincoln for more
troops. In the meeting at Philadelphia, resolu
tions were unanimously adopted recommending
the employment of all the power and means the
Executive could command to put down the rebel
lion ; thanking President Lincoln for the change
in policy in the treatment of the property of reb
els ; pledging the Government their earnest sup
port in resisting any foreign interference, and re
commending every able bodied citizen to unite
himself to some military organization, to be ready
for any emergency. A large amount of money
was subscribed to the bounty fund. In the meet
ing at Wheeling a memorial was adopted, praying
the County Court to make a levy of twenty thou
sand dollars to aid volunteering.

July 27. Two rebel schooners were captured
up the Chipoaks Creek, James River, near Clare-
mont, Va., by a boat expedition under the com
mand of Lieutenant Gibson of the United States
gunboat Yankee, and brought out of the creek
without molestation, although a force of rebel
cavalry was stationed only three quarters of a
mile distant. Official Report.

A RECONNOITRING expedition, consisting of
the United States gunboats Paul Jones, Unadilla,
Huron and Madgie, left Savannah bay and pro
ceeded up the Ogeechee River, Ga., until they
arrived near Fort James, the strength of which
they discovered by bombarding it for about two



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hours, when they returned to their former an
chorage. -A number of young ladies of New-Al*
bany, Indiana, proposed to act as clerks and
salesmen for the young men of that place who
would enlist, and give them half their salaries
while they are absent, and surrender their posi
tions to them on their return.

RICHMOND, Ky., was visited by a band of
guerrillas, under John Morgan, who plundered
the stores, houses, and stables of the Union men
of the place. Richmond Messenger, August 1.

July 28. General Grant ordered Gen. Sher
man to take possession of all unoccupied dwell
ings, stores, and manufactories, in Memphis,
Tenn., and also to collect the rents of such pro
perty for the United States Government, where
the owners were rebels absent from the place.
Union meetings were held at Burlington, Vt.,
and Baltimore, Md. At the latter Gov. Bradford
presided, and delivered a speech, advocating the
cause of the Government and the Constitution.
Resolutions were adopted expressing patriotic de
votion to the Union, invoking the young men of
the State to tender their services to the Govern
ment to fill up Maryland s quota ; approving the
policy of the confiscation of the property of the
leaders of the rebellion, and declaring the slaves
of every rebel free from all obligations to obey
those who refuse to obey the laws.

IN reply to a letter written by Mr. Seward
to the American Minister at London, Earl Russell
sent a despatch to the British Minister at Wash,
ington, in which he said :

" From the moment that intelligence first
reached this country, that nine States and sev
eral millions of inhabitants of the great American
Union had seceded, and had made war on the
Government of President Lincoln, down to the
present time, her Majesty s Government have
pursued a friendly, open, and consistent course.
They have been neutral between the two parties
to a civil war.

" Neither the loss of raw material of manufac
ture, so necessary to a great portion of our people,
nor insults constantly heaped upon the British
name in speeches and newspapers, nor a rigor,
beyond the usual practice of nations, with which
the Queen s subjects, attempting to break loose
from the blockade of the Southern ports, have
been treated have induced her Majesty s gov
ernment to swerve an inch from an impartial
neutrality.



"At this moment they have nothing more at
heart than to see that consummation which the
President speaks of in his answer to the Govern
ors of eighteen States, namely, * the bringing of
this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a
speedy and satisfactory conclusion. "

A FIGHT took place near Bayou Barnard,
Cherokee Nation, between a force of Union
troops, under the command of Col. Phillips, and
a body of rebels under Col. Taylor, resulting in
the utter rout of the latter with great loss. The
rebels had one hundred and twenty-five men
killed, including Colonel Taylor. (Doc. 162.)

GREAT excitement pervaded the town of Par-
kersburgh, Va., caused by the report that a band
of guerrillas was about to attack the town. The
report was without foundation, but the citizens
were so terrified that they tore up the flooring o
the bridge across the Little Kanawha, and planted
a cannon at their end of it. The City Council,
held a meeting and appointed a committee to go
out with a flag of truce, and prevail upon the ma
rauders not to burn the town. The money in the,
bank was removed to Marietta, Ohio. Numbers
of persons fled from the town, and crossed OYec
into Ohio.

THE office of the St. Croix Herald, in St.
Stephens, N. R r was again visited by a mob, and
the work of destruction this time is nearly com
plete. Most of the type was knocked into " pi,"
the press injured, and much of the material was
scattered outside, and thrown into the river. The
Herald is about the only newspaper in New-
Brunswick that has advocated the Union cause.
Boston Journal, July 30.

COLONEL GUITAR, of the Ninth Missouri regi
men^ reenforced by Lieut. -Col. Shaffer and Major
Clopper, of Merrill s Horse, and Major Caldwell,
of the Third Iowa cavalry, six hundred and fifty
strong, were attacked at Moore s Mills, seven
miles east of Fulton, Mo., this day, by the rebels
Porter and Cobb, nine hundred strong, and after
fighting till after four o clock P.M., the rebels were
completely routed, with a loss of from seventy-
five to one hundred killed and wounded, and one
taken prisoner. Colonel Guitar reports a loss of
forty-five killed and wounded. He captured
guns, ammunition, baggage, etc., in profusion.
The officers and men behaved splendidly. Col.
Guitar resumed the pursuit, and followed them
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[JULY 30.



JEREMIAH HOY, one of the band of rebel
guerrillas commanded by Quantrel, was shot at
Fort Leavenworth for murder and treason.
Leavenworth Conservative, July 29.

July 29. Major-General Pope, accompanied by
his staff, left Washington for the headquarters of
his army in the field. Before his departure he
ordered that passes to the lines of his forces
should not be granted to others than those hav
ing official business there. John Johnson, an
alleged rebel officer from New-Orleans, was ar
rested at Roxbury, Mass., and committed to pri
son. The English brig Napier was captured by
the United States steamer Mystic, while endeav
oring to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C.

-A SKIRMISH took place at Mount Stirling,
Ky., between a number of the citizens of that
place and a force of about two hundred and forty
rebel guerrillas, resulting in a complete rout of
the latter, with a loss of about seventy-five of
their number in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
(Doc. 164.)

A FIGHT occurred near Bellinger s Mills, Mo.,
between a force of Union troops, under the com
mand of Captain Whybank, and a body of rebel
guerrillas, under Major Tenley, resulting in the
defeat of the rebels, with a loss of ten killed and
a number wounded. The Unionists also cap
tured a number of guns, horses, etc. (Doc. 161.)

GENERAL POPE and his staff arrived at War-
renton, Va., at noon, creating great consternation
among the secessionists, nearly all of whom had
taken the rebel oath of allegiance, and insisted
that Gen. Pope dared not carry out the intentions
declared in his proclamations. Col. Lloyd, of
the Sixth Ohio cavalry, in pursuance of General
Pope s order, arrested all the male inhabitants of
Luray, Va., and lodged them in the court-house
preparatory to administering the oath of alle
giance.

THE rebel batteries at Genesis Point, on the
Ogeechee River, Georgia, were shelled by the Na
tional gunboats. Savannah Republican, July 30.

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., was this day captured
by a band of rebel guerrillas, under Col. Gano.
The town was defended by the home guard, but
thev were overpowered by superior force. Sev-
al of their number were killed and one wounded.
- -Large meetings were held at Bath, N. Y., and
Rutland, Vt., for the purpose of promoting en
listments into the army, under the call of Presi
dent Lincoln for three hundred thousand addi



tional troops. At Bath two thousand dollars
were raised to aid volunteering.

A DETACHMENT of Union cavalry, under the
command of Captain Dollin, attacked a force of
rebels, numbering about eighty, near Browns
ville, Tenn., and captured forty of them. The
rebels were afterwards reenforced, and recaptured
twenty-nine men and fourteen horses. The Na
tional loss was four killed and six wounded ; the
rebel loss was about the same.

July 30. The rebel Colonel, John II. Morgan,
reported to Major-General E. Kirby Smith, com
manding department of East-Tennessee, the re
sult of his expedition into Kentuckj -. He left
Knoxville, Tenn., on the fourth, with about nine
hundred men, and returned to Livingston, in the
same State, on the twenty-eighth instant, with
nearly twelve hundred men, having been absent
twenty-four days, during which time he travelled
over a thousand miles, captured seventeen towns,
destroyed the Government supplies and arms in
them, dispersed about fifteen hundred home
guards, and paroled nearly twelve hundred regu
lar troops. He lost in killed, wounded, and miss
ing, of the number that he cariied into Kentucky,
about ninety. (See Supplement.)

THE bells contributed to the rel~el govern
ment, by the churches, planters, and others, to
be cast into cannon, and seized by Gen. Butler
at New-Orleans, were sold at auction in Boston,
Massachusetts.

THE Bishop of Oxford, England, addressed
a letter to the archdeacons in his diocese, direct
ing them to instruct their clergy as follows :

" You are earnestl}* desired to make your sup
plications to Almighty God, who is the author of
peace and lover of concord, that he will promote
peace among our brethren in America, and inspire
their hearts with Christian unity and fellowship."

JOHN R. LEE, Acting Master of the United
States steamer E. B. Hale, with a party from that
vessel ascended Todd Creek, Ga., and destroyed
a salt manufactory in successful operation on the
plantation of II. II. Floyd.

A BAND of guerrillas under the lead of Joe
Thompson, (many of whom had taken the oath
and given bond,) entered Paris, Ky., cut down
the flag-pole, took the Sheriff and the clerks of
the Circuit and County Courts prisoners, forced
the keys of the jail from the jailer, set at liberty
a man who was indicted for murder in the first
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commitment and all the money which he had col
lected for taxes, but he having disposed of it,
they got none. They took the two clerks to the
jail, in a room of which was the Clerk s office,
and forced the Clerk of the Circuit Court to de
liver such indictments as Joe Thompson wanted.
They took from some of the stores such goods
as suited them, amounting to hundreds of dol
lars, pressed a wagon, and then loaded it and
drove it off, forced the people to deliver their
money, furnish them supper, etc. About night
some four hundred joined them, also taking sup
per. After dark they left, taking off one prisoner.
They were followed by a part} r of the Ninth
Pennsylvania cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel
James, who overtook them, killing twenty-seven
and capturing thirty-nine, thirty of whom were
wounded. Louisville Journal.

AN attempt to capture the steam-tug Achilles,
lying off Harrison s Landing, on the James River,
Va., was made by a party of rebels from the
south side of the river, but they were driven off.

July 31. The Secretary of War issued an
order revoking all furloughs and leaves of ab
sence from the army, except those given by the
War Department, on Monday, the eleventh day
of August, and ordering all officers capable of
service to join their regiments forthwith, under
penalty of dismissal from the service or court-
martial. On Monday, the eighteenth August,
each regiment and corps would be mustered, the
absentees would be marked, and if not appearing
within forty-eight hours would be dismissed from
the service or treated as deserters.

SEVERAL vessels belonging to the mortar-
fleet, under the command of Commodore Porter,
arrived at Fortress Monroe, Va., having left the
south-west pass of the Mississippi on the seven
teenth of the month. The rebel steamer Mem
phis was captured by the United States gunboat
Magnolia, she having run the blockade of Charles
ton, S. C., on the night of the twenty-seventh.
Simeon Draper, of New-York, was appointed
by the War Department a Special Commissioner
to superintend the execution of the order respect
ing officers and privates absent from the army of
United States.

LARGE and enthusiastic meetings were held
in Milwaukee, Wis., Bergen, N. J., and Cincin
nati, 0., to promote enlistments into the army
under the call of President Lincoln, for additional
troops Patriotic speeches were made and reso



lutions adopted, sustaining the Government in a
more vigorous prosecution of the war, recom
mending the confiscation of the property of trai
tors everywhere, expressing unalterable opposi
tion to compromise with rebels or traitors, and
that they would sustain the Government in re*
sisting hostile foreign intervention.

August 1. At about one o clock this moining
the rebels opened fire from their batteries sta
tioned at Coggin s Point, opposite Harrison s
Landing, Va., upon the Union army under Gen.
McClellan and the gunboat fleet on the James
River. After a brisk fire from the fleet, and land
batteries, of nearly two hours duration, the rebel
batteries were completely silenced. The rebels
lost one killed and nine wounded. Doc. 165.

JAMES D. FESSENDEN, Colonel Commanding
the First regiment of South-Carolina volunteers,
atDrayton s, S. C., issued the following regimental
order :

" The Colonel Commanding takes pleasure in
announcing that free papers will soon be issued
to those faithful soldiers who have steadfastly
stood by their colors and performed with willing
ness and alacrity the duties of a soldier. They
have shown by their prompt and willing obe
dience to the orders of their officers, and by their
fidelity in the discharge of the various duties of
camp, that they deserve to be free ; and the Col
onel Commanding hopes that their conduct here
after will justify the exercise of the authority
which has made them free men."*

A PARTY of rebels, under the guerrilla Dunn,
attacked Canton, Mo., to-day, and shot a man
named William Craig, in order to get possession
of some rifles stored in his warehouse. They
then took possession of the rifles, and plundered
all the stores in the place.

JOHN H. WINDER, the rebel General, issued
the following from his headquarters at Richmond,
Va. : " The obtaining of substitutes through the
medium of agents is strictly forbidden. When
such agents are employed, the principal, the sub
stitute, and the agent will be impressed into the

* The following is a copy of one of the " free papers " issued
to the colored soldiers :

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, )
PORT ROYAL, S. C., August 1, 1862. j

The bearer, Prince Rivers, a sergeant in First regiment South-
Carolina volunteers, lately claimed as a slave, having been em
ployed in hostility to the United States, is hereby, agreeably to
the law of the sixth of August, 1S61, declared KEEK FOR BVKB-
His wife and children are also free. D. HUNTER,

Major-Genet 1 Commanding.



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military service, and the money paid for the sub
stitute, and as a reward to the agent, will be con
fiscated to the government. The oftender will
also be subjected to such other punishment as
may be imposed by a court-martial."

THIS evening the Yankees infesting the
waters of James River, landed at " Haycock s,"
the elegant residence of Mrs. Dr. Wm. Cole, and
set fire to the dwelling and all the outhouses,
which were completely destroyed. Mrs. Cole
and her children were absent at the house of a
neighbor, but her comfortable home, and all the
furniture it contained, has fallen a prey to Yan
kee madness and malignity. The dwelling at
Maycocks was one of the handsomest specimens
of cottage architecture on James River, nearly
new, and cost some fifteen thousand dollars.
Richmond Enquirer, August 5.

Six hundred Union troops crossed the James
River at Harrison s Landing, and destroyed all
the houses at that point. After accomplishing
their object they returned to the Landing with
out losing a man. The oath of allegiance to
the United States was this day administered to
the employes in the Government Navy- Yard, at
Brooklyn, N. Y. A few of the men refused to
subscribe the oath, and were dismissed from the
service.

A FIGHT took place at Newark, Mo., between
a company of the State militia, under the com
mand of Captain Lair, and a superior force of
rebel guerrillas, under Colonel Porter. The fight
lasted about two hours, the Nationals taking re
fuge in the houses, from whence they killed a
large number of their enemies, but the rebels
threatened to burn them out, and they surren
dered. The rebels captured about one hundred
guns, a large number of horses, a quantity of
commissary stores, a number of tents, and eight
or ten thousand rounds of cartridges. (Doc. 166.)

A SERIES of skirmishes occurred along the
Rapidan River, in the vicinity of Orange Court-
House, Va., between a reconnoitring party of
National troops under the command of General
Bayard, and a force of rebels, resulting in the re
treat of the latter.

YESTERDAY Jeff Davis sent a letter to Gen
eral Lee, of the rebel army, inclosing an order
dated this day, which recapitulated, first, the
order of President Lincoln, issued on the twenty-
second July, wherein the commanders of the
armies of the United States were directed to seize



and use any property within the rebel States
which might be necessary or convenient for their
several commands ; second, the order issued by
General Pope on the twenty-third July, direct
ing commanders of army corps, divisions, bri
gades, and detached commands, to arrest all
rebels within their lines, and such as would no*
take the oath of allegiance to the United States
to be sent South, and those having violated the
oath to be shot, and their property seized and
applied to the public use ; and third, the order
issued on the thirteenth July, by General Steiri-
wehr, directing five prominent citizens of Page
County, Va., to be held as hostages, and to sufler
death in the event of any of his command being
shot by bushwhackers. On account of these
orders it was declared in that now issued by Jeff
Davis that Generals Pope and Steinwehr were
not to be considered as soldiers, and therefore
not entitled, in case they should be captured, to
the benefit of parole of prisoners of war, but that
they, or any commissioned officer serving under
them taken captive, should be held in close con
finement so long as the above orders of the
United States should continue in force. The
order further declared that in the event of any
rebels being executed by virtue or under the pre
text of the above orders, whether with or with
out trial, or under the pretence of being spies or
hostages ,; or any ot%er pntei*Qe, it should be the
duty of me Grenerarcommanding the rebel forces
to hang an equal number of the Union commis
sioned officers who might happen to be prisoners
of war in his hands.

August 2. A woman named Belle Boyd, who
had been acting as a rebel spy and mail-carrier to
Richmond, from points \vithin the lines of the
Union army of the Potomac, was captured near
Warrenton, Va., and sent to the old Capitol pris
on at Washington. Gen. Butler transmitted to
the Secretary of War copies of a correspondence
between himself and Gen. Phelps, in relation to
the military employment of the negroes of Louis
iana.

THIS morning at daylight a band of one hun
dred and twenty-five rebels attacked seventy-five
National troops at Ozark, Mo. The commander
of the troops, Capt. Birch, having been apprised
of the meditated attack, abandoned his camp and
withdrew into the brush. Soon afterward the
rebel commander called on him to surrender, but
received a volley of musket-balls for a reply.
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arms, their muster-rolls, and correspondence.
(Doc. 167.)

THE bark Harriet Ralli, the first French ves
sel captured since the commencement of the re
bellion, arrived at New- York, from New-Orleans,
\vhere she was seized by Gen. Butler a short time
after the city was occupied by the National forces.
Large war meetings were held at Lancaster,
Pa., and Pittsfield, Mass. At the latter a bounty
of ten thousand two hundred dollars was voted.