-NINE Union pickets were fired upon and lication of the Journal newspaper had to be suskilled by rebel guerrillas at a point on the Mis-pended, as almost all the hands necessary to carry sissippi opposite Helena, Ark.—A supply train of on the work were sick with the fever. seven wagons laden with forage and commissary -PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued an order estabstores for the use of the reconnoitring force un-lishing a Provisional Court for the State of Louder General Stahel, was captured by a body of isiana, and appointing Charles A. Peabody, of rebel cavalry at Haymarket, and taken to War-New-York, to be a Provisional Judge to hold the renton, Va. A lieutenant and twenty-six Union court.-(Doc. 11.)

soldiers were also made prisoners.

-A body of seven hundred rebel cavalry came upon a party of thirty-two Union cavalry under command of Lieutenant Baldwin, at Haymarket, Va., capturing all but nine of them, who made their escape after a severe chase.-(Doc. 37.)

October 19.-The United States gunboat Ellis, of the Newbern, N. C., blockading squadron, Lieutenant W. D. Cushing, commander, captured the British schooner Adelaide, of Halifax, N. S., in New Topsail Inlet, twelve miles from Wilmington, while attempting to run the blockade with a cargo of cotton and turpentine. The vessel being

aground, with her cargo, was destroyed.

-THE steamer Catahoula, plying between Helena, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., was this day fired into by a band of rebel guerrillas, at a point a few miles below the latter city. No one was killed, and only one man wounded.-A party of Morgan's rebel cavalry this day attacked and destroyed a train of fifty-one loaded wagons and thirty-one empty ones, at Bardstown, Ky., paroling the teamsters and driving off the horses and mules.-Louisville Journal.

-MAJOR WOODSON, of the Tenth cavalry, Missouri State militia, attacked a band of rebel guerrillas on Auxvois River, dispersed them, killing and wounding several, capturing arms, aminunition, blankets, and horses.-The Twenty-seventh regiment Maine volunteers, left Portland this morning for the seat of war.

-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES STUART, with a portion of the Tenth Illinois cavalry, attacked two hundred rebel cavalry near Marshfield, Mo., this day, completely routing and disorganizing them, and capturing twenty-seven prisoners.The plantations in the vicinity of President's Island, on the Mississippi, were burned to-day in retaliation for an attack upon the steamer Catahoula by the rebels.

October 21. A reconnoissance was this day made by a strong force of Union troops, under the command of General Geary, into Loudon County, Va. Several skirmishes took place with parties of the rebels, resulting in their retreat, leaving in the hands of the Unionists seventy-five prisoners, including a number of officers, and about thirty horses.

-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SACKETT, Ninth New- -PRESIDENT LINCOLN addressed a letter to York cavalry, commanding a reconnoitring party Major-General Grant, Governor Johnson, and all sent out to patrol the country between Centreville having military, naval, and civil authority under and Leesburgh, Va., made a report narrating the the United States within the State of Tennessee, operations of the expedition. During the recon-recommending Thomas R. Smith, a citizen of Tennoissance he captured and paroled sixty or seventy nessee, who went to that State, seeking to have soldiers.-A body of rebel cavalry under the lead such of its people as desired to have peace again of Colonel Jeffries, entered and occupied Com-upon the old terms under the Constitution, to merce, Tenn.-(Doc. 9.) manifest such desire by electing members to the October 20.-A skirmish took place on the Cum- Congress of the United States, State officers, and berland River, a few miles from Nashville, Tenn., a Senator of the United States. The President between a considerable force of rebel cavalry un-wished the parties addressed to aid Mr. Smith, der General Forrest, and a body of Union troops and all others seeking for this object, as much as under the command of Colonel Miller, in which possible.-A Union meeting was held in Beauthe rebels were driven across the river with some fort, N. C. Patriotic speeches were made, and loss. A number of prisoners, including a colo-resolutions indorsing President Lincoln's pronel, were taken. clamation liberating the slaves of rebels, were passed.

-FIVE hundred cases of yellow fever were reported in Wilmington, N. C. The mortality was very great, thirty or forty dying daily. The pub

The Union army under General Schofield, left Pea Ridge, Ark., last evening, in pursuit of th

rebels retreating through that State. One portion and after a warm engagement and considerable of the Union army under General Schofield, tak-loss, the expedition was compelled to abandon its ing the road toward Huntsville, and the other object and return to the boats.-(Doc. 13.) under General Blunt going toward Maysville, on the boundary line between Arkansas and the Indian Nation.-(Doc. 12.)

- A SKIRMISH took place at Woodville, Tenn., between the Second Illinois cavalry, under the command of Major John J. Mudd, and a party of rebel guerrillas under Haywood, resulting in a complete rout of the latter, leaving in the hands of the Unionists forty of their number as prisoners, a wagon-load of arms, a large number of saddles, and about one hundred horses and mules.

- A fight occurred at Fort Cobb, in the Indian Territory, between a body of loyal Indians belonging to six different tribes, numbering about seven hundred, and a force of rebel Indians, of the Tongkawa tribe, under Colonel Leper, resulting in the defeat of the rebels with great slaughColonel Leper, who was a white man, was killed.-Leavenworth Conservative.

ter.

October 22.-General Blunt with a division of Union troops this day attacked a force of rebels five thousand strong at Old Fort Wayne, near Maysville, Ark., and after an hour's sharp fighting completely routed them and captured all their artillery, a large number of horses, and a portion of their transports and garrison equipage, the rebels retreating toward Fort Smith. -General Schofield with a Union force this day drove the rebels under General Hindman, through Huntsville, Ark., to a point beyond the Boston Mountain.-(Doc. 12.)

-A SHARP fight took place near Van Buren, Ark., between a force of Union cavalry under the command of Major B. F. Lazear, and a body of rebel guerrilla cavalry, numbering four hundred and fifty men, under Boone, resultingin a complete rout of the latter, with considerable loss.

-THE Twenty-fourth Texas Rangers to-day captured a train of thirty wagons, of the Fifth and Ninth Illinois cavalry, near Helena, Ark., and took several prisoners.-The Fourteenth regiment of Vermont volunteers, under the command of Colonel W. S. Nichols, passed through Springfield, Mass., en route for the seat of war.Springfield Republican.

A SKIRMISH took place between the Union and rebel pickets in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., terminating in a retreat of the Unionists to their intrenchments at Nashville, with some loss.-The British brig Robert Bruce, of Bristol, England, Captain Muir, was this day captured off Shallotte Inlet, N. C., by the United States gunboat Penobscot, while attempting to run the blockade.-Two squadrons of the Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, under the command of Captain Duncan, made a reconnoissance to-day in the vicinity of Hedgesville, Va. Captain Duncan drove the rebel pickets into the town, and then charged the main body, routing them and taking nineteen prisoners, including three offi

cer's.

October 23.-The British schooner Francis, of Nassau, N. P., was captured in the vicinity of Indian River, Florida, by the United States gunboat Sagamore. The rebel authorities at Rich

ing the protection of foreign governments, would not be allowed to go North on the flag of truce boats.

YESTERDAY an expedition of troops, gunboats, and transports, under command of General J. M. Brannan, left Hilton Head, S. C., by way of the Coosahatchie and Pocotaligo Rivers, to destroy the bridges and tear up the track of the Charles-mond were notified that aliens, or persons claimton and Savannah Railroad. One wing of the expedition under command of Colonel W. B. Barton, to-day marched upon the village of Coosahatchie, attacked a passing train, killing and wounding several, afterward tore up the railroad track, cut the telegraph wires, and marched upon the bridge, but, was prevented from burning the bridge at this point by the presence of a superior rebel force. The other wing of the expedition, under command of General Brannan, landed at Mackay's Point, marched ten miles inland to Pocataligo bridge, skirmishing with and routing the rebels as they advanced. At the bridge a superior force was encountered well intrenched, and several wounded.-(Doc. 38.)

-A FIGHT took place near Waverly, Tenn., between a reconnoitring party of Union troops, consisting of about two hundred of the Eightythird Illinois infantry, supported by one piece of artillery, under the command of Major Blott, and a large force of rebel guerrillas, which resulted, after an hour's duration, in a complete rout of the latter, with a loss of about forty of their number killed and wounded, and thirty taken prisoners. The Unionists had one killed,