a large amount of private property. The home

uard endeavored to resist the rebels, but they
were too few in number to do so with effect.

September 7. Harrisburgh, the capital of Penn
sylvania, was the scene of tremendous excite
ment. The streets were thronged all the even
ing with excited citizens ; and the women were
excessively alarmed. The report had been scat
tered that the women and children were to be
sent away on Wednesday ; and preparations were
actually made for departure. It was also rumor
ed that the money and archives of the State had
been packed, ready to be sent away in case of an
mergency.

The arrival of a special train from Hagerstown,
Maryland, added fuel to the excitement. The
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rick, Maryland ; that rebel scouts were in and
about Hagerstown, and that an advance on that
place by the rebels was regarded as imminent.
There was also a report from Chambersburgh
chat a rebel spy had been arrested there, with
maps and plans of the Cumberland valley in his
possession. Men then began earnestly to discuss
means of defence for Harrisburgh. The Thirty-
seventh regiment of Massachusetts volunteers,
under the command of Colonel Oliver Edwards,
left Pittsfield for the seat of war.

A PARTY of rebels under the command of
Captain Bowles, a son of J. B. Bowles, President
of the Bank of Louisville, Ky., made a raid upon
Shepherdsville, Ky., and burned the bridge over
Salt River. A guard of eighty-five of the Fifty-
fourth regiment, stationed at that place, were
compelled to surrender, but were soon after pa
roled. Louisville Democrat, September. 8.

MAJOR-GENERAL POPE, at his own request,
was relieved from the command of the army of
Virginia, and w r as assigned to the command of
the Department of the North-West. The Tenth
regiment of Vermont volunteers, under the com
mand of Colonel A. B. Jewett, passed through
New- York, en route for the seat of war.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., was recaptured by the
National forces under Colonel W. W. Lowe, com
posed of the Seventy-first Ohio, Eleventh Illinois
infantry, and the Fifth Iowa cavalry. (Doc,. 204.)

- GOVERNOR ROBINSON, of Kansas, in view of
the threatening attitude of the Indians on the
western, north-western, and southern borders of
the State, and the numerous bands of rebel guer
rillas liable at any time to invade the State on the
east, issued a proclamation calling upon all able-
bodied citizens not connected with a volunteer
company, to organize immediately in accordance
with the militia law, and report to the Adjutant-
General of the State without delay.

GENERAL GEORGE W. MORGAN sent the fol
lowing, from his headquarters at Cumberland
Gap, to the editors of Kentucky and the neigh
boring States. " Gentlemen : Please to say to
the relatives and friends of the soldiers of this
command that we have good health and good
spirits, and that our condition in every respect is
better than that of the enemy who surround us.
Let our friends do their duty to our country, and
we will try and take care of ourselves."

September 8. - L. C. Turner, Judge Advocate



of the War Department, issued the following in
structions to United States marshals, military
commandants, and their officers in the several
States :

"The quota of volunteers and enrolment of
militia having been completed in the several
States, the necessity for stringent enforcement of
the orders of the War Department in respect to
volunteering and drafting no longer exists. Ar
rests for violation of these orders, and for disloyal
practices, will hereafter be made only upon my
express warrant, or by direction of the military
commander or governor of the State in which
such arrests may be made ; and restrictions upon
travel imposed by those orders are rescinded."

BOYD S STATION, Ky., was taken possession
of by a large force of rebel troops.

A MEETING took place at London, England,
between the American and British Sunday-school
delegates, relative to the civil war in the United
States. The opinion seemed to prevail that the
end of the war would be also the virtual end of
slavery. One or two of the English delegates de
clared that the North, in attempting to preserve
the Union and destroy slavery, had the sympathy
of all Christian men in England. London Neics,
September 9.

A MEETING of several hundred women of
various denominations was held at the Park-street
Church, Boston, at which a circular was adopted
to the women of the United States, suggesting to
them to form circles of prayer throughout the
land, and to pray for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit on the entire nation ; for the President and
his councillors ; for the officers of the army and
navy; for the soldiers and seamen; for their
families ; for ministers of the Gospel, and for the
oppressed of the land ; and agreeing to observe
Monday of every week as a day of special prayer,
assembling at ten A.M. and at three P.M. ; each ser
vice to occupy two hours. The Fortieth regi
ment of Massachusetts volunteers, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph A. Dai-
ton, left the encampment at Boxboro for the seat
of war.

THIS afternoon two companies of the Third
Indiana cavalry, under command of Major Chap
man, went to Poolesville, Md., which they found
in possession of a rebel cavalry regiment, who
had planted on a hill to the right of the town one
field-piece, which was opened on the Nationals
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nut made a charge through the town. The ene
my were then forming a line of battle near their
gun. In a few moments reinforcements came
up, consisting of two pieces of artillery and
several companies of the Eighth Illinois cavalry,
who, after a few shots, succeeded in silencing the
enemy s piece, when another charge was made
by Major Chapman s command, and the rebels
broke and ran, leaving seven dead on the field.
The National loss was one man killed, Sergeant
David A. Fallis, of company B, and eight men
wounded, Lieutenants Ladue and Davis, of- com
pany B, and six men of company A. Washing
ton Star, September 9.

THE water stations at Benson and Bagdad,
Ky., on the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad,
were destroyed and the road at the latter place
torn up by a party of rebels. Louisville Jour
nal.

A FIGHT took place at a point on the right
bank of the Mississippi River, twenty-five miles
above New-Orleans, La., between the Twenty-
first regiment of Indiana volunteers, and five
hundred mounted Texan Rangers, resulting in
the dispersion of the latter, and the capture of a
greater part of their horses. (Doc. 205.)

COLONEL BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, having been
appointed by Gen. Lee, Provost-Marshal of Fred
erick, Md., on his entrance into that city, issued
a proclamation addressed to the people of Mary
land, in which he told them that after sixteen
months of oppression, more galling than the Aus
trian tyranny, the victorious army of the South
brought freedom to their doors ; that its standard
waved from the Potomac to Mason and Dixon s
line ; that the men of Maryland had then the op
portunity of working out their own redemption ;
and he called upon them to do their part, and to
rise at once. He asked them to remember the
cells of Fort McIIenry, the dungeons of Forts
La Fayette and Warren ; the insults to their
wives and daughters ; the arrests, the midnight
searches of their houses, and to rise at once in
arms and strike for liberty and rights.

GENERAL LEE, commanding the rebel army
in Virginia, issued a proclamation from his head
quarters at Frederick, Maryland, addressed to
the people of that State, in which he informed
them that the people of the confederate States
had long watched with the deepest sympathy the
wrongs and outrages that had been inflicted upon
them by the Government of the United States ;



that, believing they possessed a spirit too lofty to
submit to such a Government, the people of the
South had long wished to aid them in throwing
off the foreign yoke, to enable them again to enjoy
the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore the
independence and sovereignty of their State. In
obedience to this wish the Southern army had
come among them, and was prepared to assist
them with the power of its arms in regaining
the rights of which they had been so unjustly
despoiled. This was the mission of the Southern
army. No restraint upon their free will was in
tended, no intimidation would be allowed, at least
within the limits of his army. But it was for
the people of Maryland to decide their own des
tiny, freely and without constraint. The army
would respect their choice, whatever it might be ;
and while the Southern people would rejoice to
welcome them to their natural position among
them, the} would do so only when they came of
their own free will.

GOVERNOR BRADFORD, of Maryland, in view
of the fact that the rebel army under General Lee
had entered the State and menaced the city of
Baltimore and other places with a hostile attack,
issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens to
enroll themselves at once in volunteer military
organizations ; that no possible power at command
might be overlooked in preparing to meet every
emergency. Arms and accoutrements would be
distributed to all military organizations, whether
infantry or cavalry.

TiiE excitement among the people of Penn
sylvania, consequent upon the invasion of the
neighboring State of Maryland by the rebel army
under General Lee, threatening an advance upon
their own State, was most intense. Yesterday
the citizens of Lancaster County held a great
meeting, at which they appointed a committee of
safety, who, to-day, issued an address appealing
to the inhabitants of every township and borough
in the county to organize committees of safety ;
to make out lists of all able-bodied men capable
of bearing arms; to organize them into compa
nies, and drill them daily ; to put in order and
have ready for immediate service every rifle and
shot-gun ; to provide themselves with ammuni
tion ; to form squads of cavalry in every district ;
to arrest every man who uttered a traitorous
sentiment against the Government, and to watch
every suspicious character whom they might find
prowling about their neighborhoods.

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throughout York and Adams County, Pennsyl
vania, as well as at Harrisburgh and throughout
the Susquehanna region and the Cleveland Val
ley. The farmers sent their women and children,
as well as their cattle, away, and armed for the
defence of their homes against cavalry raids.

At Wilkesbarre all places of business were
closed. All the church and court-house bells
rang for the people to assemble for drill, at
which time nearly all the able-bodied men in
the town, amounting to some hundreds, as
sembled in the public square, formed into com
panies, marched to the river bank and drilled.
Men over sixty years of age fell into the ranks.
Wilkeslarre Record.

THIS afternoon, in latitude 28, longitude
94 10 , the United States steamer Connecticut
captured the English schooner Kambler. She
had run the blockade at Sabine Pass, Texas,
and was bound to Havana heavily laden with
cotton. Among the papers found on board was
a memorandum in writing, directing the cap
tain of the Kambler to sell the cotton at Havana,
and with the proceeds of the sale to purchase
powder, medicines, army shoes and other contra
band articles, and without delay to return to Sa
bine Pass.

COLONEL BURRIS, sent in pursuit of the guer
rillas under Quantrel, after their attack upon
Olathe, Mo., overtook them five miles north of
Pleasant Hill, Mo., and after a short skirmish
compelled them to retreat, leaving in the hands
of the Nationals all their transportation and sub
sistence, one thousand rounds of ammunition, one
hundred horses, five wagons, a number of tents
and other camp equipage, and a large quantity
of dry goods, and other articles stolen from the
citizens of Olathe. Official Report.

MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS, in compliance with
an order issued on the seventh instant from the
headquarters of Major-General McClellan, assum
ed command of the defences of the capital during
the absence of the General Commanding from
Washington. Col. T. L. Kane, of the Pennsyl
vania Bucktail Rifles, was appointed a Brigadier-
General for gallant and meritorious conduct in
the field.

This morning, the Third Indiana and the
Eighth Illinois cavalry, the entire force under
command of Col. Farnsworth, of the latter troop,
left Poolesville, Md., and proceeded toward
Barnesville. Upon approaching Monocacy Church,



the cavalry discovered the rebel videttes guarding
the cross-roads. Col. Farnsworth distributed his
force, sending companies A and B, of the Third
Indiana, on the road leading toward Nolansville,
and other companies in other directions. Com
panies A and B, under command of Major Chap
man, pursued the rebel videttes for some distance
on the road to Nolansville, and succeeded in
taking the regimental flag of the Twelfth Virginia
cavalry, and eight prisoners. During the flight,
the rebels lost three men killed. The companies
then joined their squadron, and the entire force
pushed forward into the town of Barnesville. Be
fore reaching the town, however, they met with
another small force of rebel cavalry, and after a
few shots had been exchanged, the rebels fled,
leaving seven more of their men prisoners. The
rebels also sustained an additional loss of five
men killed. In the whole affair, the Nationals
had none killed, and only one man wounded.

To-night, the Eighth Illinois and the Third In
diana occupy the town. JV. Y. Times, Sept. 12.

MIDDLETOWN, Md., was occupied by the
rebels this morning, about two hundred taking
formal possession and declaring martial law. In
anticipation of such an event, many of the Union
residents, whose names had been forwarded by
their secession neighbors to Frederick, left last
evening and early this morning, thus escaping the
draft the rebels enforced from the enrolled lists
taken from the National officer.

GREAT excitement existed in Baltimore, Md.,
in consequence of the apprehended approach of
the rebel army under General Lee. The authori
ties made the most ample preparations to inter
cept any movement in the direction of their city ;
and should the rebels succeed in entering it, to
receive them in a manner different from that ex
pected by them.

COLONEL SHINGLES with a force of rebel cav
alry, and three pieces of artillery, made an attack
on Williamsburgh, Va., this morning. After hav
ing captured the National pickets, they marched
into town, taking the troops by surprise. An en
gagement ensued, which lasted about thirty min
utes. The National force consisted of the Fifth
Pennsylvania cavalry, Colonel Campbell, who was
taken prisoner, together with five captains, four
lieutenants, and a few privates. The rebel com
mander, Colonel Shingles, and eight of his offi
cers and men were killed.

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V. Gillespie, commanding, captured the schooner
Defiance, of Nassau, N. P.

September 10. Frederick, Md., was this day
evacuated by the rebel army under General Lee.

(Doc. 202.)

THE Seventh regiment of Rhode Island vol
unteers, under the command of Colonel Zenas C.
Bliss, left Providence, for the seat of war in Vir
ginia. The Sixth regiment of Massachusetts
militia, under the command of Colonel Albert S.
Follansbee, passed through New- York, on their
way to Washington.

DAY before yesterday Colonel Grierson, with
three hundred and seventy men, came up with
the enemy beyond Cold water, near Cochran s
Cross-Roads, Miss. They were a portion of
Jackson s and Pierson s cavalry and a number of
infantry, amounting to about one thousand men.
They were posted and commenced the attack,
but were driven two and a half miles through
heavy timber. In the affair four of the rebels
were killed and seventy or eighty wounded.

At night Colonel Grierson camped between the
cross-road and Hernando, remaining Wednesday
in the latter place, and this morning he moved
in the direction of Coldwater, and came upon the
enemy s pickets at Coldwater Bridge, behind
which they lay in force. They fired the bridge,
but moved off, and the bridge was so far saved
that, after some repairs, the Union forces crossed,
the enemy retiring as they advanced, and Grier
son entered Senatobia, where he burned the rail
road depot and its contents.

A PUBLIC meeting was held in Susquehanna,
Pa., and in accordance with the orders of the
Governor of the State, a company was formed for
immediate service. Over ninety men signed the
roll and held themselves in readiness to march at
an hour s notice. The draft in Pennsylvania,
was postponed until the twentieth of September.

A SEVERE fight took place at Fayette, Va.,
between a force of rebels five thousand strong,
under General Loring, and the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-seventh Ohio, under the command of Col.
Siber, numbering about one thousand two hun
dred men, resulting in a defeat of the Unionists,
with a loss of over one hundred killed and
wounded. (Doc. 206.)

THE excitement in Cincinnati, 0., consequent
on the near approach of the rebel army under
General E. Kirby Smith, still continued. Martia



aw was enforced. The military authorities were
actively employed in fortifying and preparing the
city for a vigorous defence. Over one thousand
squirrel-hunters from the neighboring counties
came in and volunteered their services.

A FORCE of Union cavalry, supported by two
pieces of artillery, under the command of Captain
Saunders, acting Colonel of the Sixth United
States cavalry, left Barnesville, Md., on a recon
noitring expedition to Sugar-Loaf Mountain.
When half-way up the mountain, the Unionists
ncountered a force of rebel infantry supported
by artillery, and a skirmish ensued in which the
Unionists were defeated and compelled to retire.
At night they returned to Barnesville.

/September 11. This morning a force of rebel
cavalry entered Hagerstown, Md. They immedi
ately seized twelve hundred barrels of flour, and
commenced tearing up the railroad in the vicinity
of the depot. The United States Marshal, the
sheriff, and other officials left the town as soon
as the rebels entered, canning with them the
public records and other valuables in their differ
ent offices. Hundreds of private citizens also
left the place.

IN consequence of the reported approach of
the rebel army under General Lee, the greatest
excitement existed in Pennsylvania, and especial
ly in the cities of Philadelphia and Harrisburgh.
In the latter city, the Governor of the State issued
a proclamation, calling for fifty thousand men,
" for immediate service to repel the now immi
nent danger from invasion by the enemies of the
country." He also telegraphed to the Mayor of
Philadelphia to send him twenty thousand men.
The latter immediately issued an address to the
citizens, in which he embodied the Governor s
despatch, and called upon all able-bodied men to
assemble next morning at the precinct-houses of
the election districts, in readiness to obey the
summons to immediate service.

THE New-Hampshire Eleventh regiment left
Concord to-day, en route for the seat of war. A
Union meeting was held at Beaufort, N. C., at
which an address was made by C. H. Foster, of
North-Carolina. The meeting was largely at
tended, and resolutions of a highly patriotic
character were adopted. A party of rebels made
a descent on the National pickets at Ridgeville,
Va., and carried off three of them and several of
the Union men of the place. Captain Fiery ral
lied a small force, and, pursuing the rebels,
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number of horses. Wheeling Intelligencer, Sep
tember 13.

MAYSVILLE, Ky., was occupied by the rebel
forces under Brig. -Gen. R. M. Gano, of General
E. Kirby Smith s division of the rebel army.
May smile Eagle, September 13.

IN compliance with orders from the Secretar} 1 "
of War, Gen. Schofield ordered the Provost-Mar
shal-General for the district of Missouri to pro
ceed without delay to carry into effect the confis
cation act, so far as the provisions of said act
were subject to be carried into effect by the mili
tary authorities of the United States in the dis
trict. The property liable to confiscation in the
district was estimated at fifty millions.

WESTMINSTER, Md., was taken possession of
by five hundred rebel cavalry, under the com
mand of Col. Rosser. They came dashing into
the town at a rapid rate, and immediately pro
ceeded to place pickets around the town, to pre
vent the citizens from leaving. A gentleman
named Crothers, in endeavoring to make his es
cape, w r as fired upon and killed. The rebels
seized the post-office and the depot ; ascertaining
that there was a locomotive and two passenger
and four freight-cars a short distance from the
town, they also despatched a force and brought
them in. Upon being established in the town, the
rebels proceeded to lay hands upon all the boots,
shoes, and clothing that they could find in the
stores, for which they tendered in payment con
federate money. Secession sympathizers suffered
in common with the Union residents, the rebels
stating that they had been deceived relative to
the secession feeling in Maryland. Baltimore
Clipper, September 13.

NEW-MARKET, Md., was occupied by the
National forces.

THE Union forces stationed at Gauley, Va,,
under the command of Colonel Lightburn, having
been threatened by an overwhelming rebel force
in front, flank, and rear, were compelled to evacu
ate that place, after destroying all the Govern
ment stores they were unable to carry away.

TO-DAY the rebel army under Gen. E. Kirby
Smith had reached Latonia Springs, Ky., within
seven miles of Cincinnati, Ohio, and skirmishing
between the rebel and Union pickets commenced
on the banks of the West-Licking River, in the
Yicinity of that city. At night the rebels began
to throw up breastworks in front of Fort Wallace.
The Union forces in Cincinnati were being largely



reenforced from all parts of the State, and also
from Gen. Grant s arnvy, several regiments of
which having arrived there to day. Considerable
excitement existed in the city, although it was
considered perfectly safe.

BLOOMFIELD, Mo., was captured by a largo
body of rebel guerrillas, after a fight of two hours.
The town was defended by fifteen hundred State
rnilitia, who, being outnumbered, retired. The
Twentieth regiment of Connecticut, commanded
by Col. Samuel Ross, left New-Haven for Wash
ington.

THE Union army under Gen. Bucll was on
the march to the support of Nashville, Tenn.,
which was menaced by the rebel army under
General Bragg, and eight thousand men from the
army of General Rosecrans, under command of
General Jefferson C. Davis, arrived there to-day
for the purpose of reenforcing General Buell.

September 12. To-day one hundred and eleven
rebel prisoners were sent from Fortress Monroe
to Aiken s Landing, Va., for exchange.

Tins morning the rebel army under Gen. E,
Kirby Smith in full retreat from their position
before Cincinnati, Ohio, were pursued by a por
tion of the Union forces under Gen. Wallace, as
far as Florence, Ky. In view of the invasion of
Pennsylvania by the rebel army under General
Lee, the City Council of Philadelphia appropriated
five hundred thousand dollars for the defence of
the city and State, and gave the Mayor of the
city full power to act as he might see fit. The
jublic archives, bonds, and treasure of the State
of Pennsylvania and cities of Harrisburgh and
Philadelphia were sent to New- York for safe
seeping. Many of the capitalists of the State also
sent their bonds and treasure.

A FIGHT took place on the southern bank of
31k River, near Charleston, Va., between a Union
brce under Col. Lightburn and a large body of
rebels, which lasted all day, both parties bivouack-
ng on the field. The Union forces shelled and
mrned Charleston.

CAPT. HARRY GILMEK, of Stuart s rebel cav-
Iry, with seven other rebel sympathizers, while
being "feted by their friends," were arrested at
he house of Dr. T. L. Williamson, seven miles
distant from Baltimore, Md., on the Hookerstown
road, and carried to Fort Mcllenry. The Twen-
y-first Connecticut, and Eleventh New-Hamp
shire regiments, under the command of Cols. A