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-A BODY of seven hundred rebel guerrilla get rid of Yankee promises to pay! This is one cavalry, under the leadership of Colonel Leroy of the best signs of the times." Cluke, made a thieving expedition into Kentucky. They first went to Winchester, thence to Mount Sterling, Straw Hill, and Hazel Green, robbing and destroying property of every description. A large amount of government property was destroyed at Paris, in order to prevent it from falling into the hands of the rebels. They were pursued by a detachment of National troops, under the command of Colonel B. P. Runkle, but the rebels, though superior in numbers to the Union force, preferred the business of robbing to that of fighting, and continued to retreat from place to place, until they finally got away with a large amount of property, and a great number of horses.

-Ar Richmond, Va., Judge Meredith of the Circuit Court, decided in a habeas corpus case, that every citizen of Maryland, and every foreigner who had enlisted in the rebel army, no matter for how short a period, had acquired a domicile, and therefore was liable to conscription between the ages of eighteen and forty-five.-Richmond Examiner.

-GOVERNOR BROWN, of Georgia, issued an order compelling all the militia officers of that State, except those already tendered and accepted by General Beauregard, "to repair forthwith, without hesitation or delay, to the city of Savannah, and report to General Beauregard, to be organized under his direction into companies, for duty in the defence of that city."

-THE steamer Belle, of Memphis, while lying at Cottonwood Landing, Tenn., was boarded by a party of rebel guerrillas who attempted to capture her, but they were beaten off by the passengers and crew, and the boat escaped. In the fight, one Union man was wounded, and one of the guerrillas was killed.-Philadelphia Inquirer. February 24.- The United States steamer Indianola, under the command of Lieutenant George Brown, was this day captured in the Mississippi River, near Grand Gulf, after an engagement lasting one hour and a half, by the rebel iron-clad steamers Queen of the West and William H. Webb, and the armed steamers Doctor Batey and Grand Duke.-(Doc. 124.)

February 25.-The act for "enrolling and calling out the National forces, and for other purposes," passed the United States House of Representatives by a vote of one hundred and fifteen yeas to fifty-nine nays.-About noon to-day, Stuart's rebel cavalry made an attack on a portion of General Averill's division of cavalry, near Hartwood Church, Va., when a fight ensued, which terminated in the repulse and rout of the rebels with a loss of one captain, a lieutenant and several privates. General Averill pursued them to Kelly's Ford, but they succeeded in crossing the river before he arrived.-Philadelphia Inquirer.

-AN expedition, consisting of a force of Union troops, under the command of General Rose, left Moon Lake on board several steamers, under Lieutenant Commanding Smith, and proceeded up Yazoo Pass.

THE rebels under Cluke, in their raid through Kentucky, were overtaken at Licktown, twelve miles east of Mount Sterling, and dispersed.--The British steamer Peterhoff, was captured off St. Thomas, W. I., by the United States gunboat Vanderbilt, and sent to Key West, Fla., for adjudication.—The bakers in Charleston, S. C., advanced the price of bread to twenty-five cents for a half-pound loaf. Flour sold at sixty-five dollars a barrel.-Charleston Courier.

February 26.-Yesterday, a rebel cavalry -THE steamer Hetty Gilmore, was captured scout, eighty strong, came inside the National and destroyed by the rebels under the command pickets on the Strasburgh road, Va. After a skirof W. C. P. Breckenridge, at Woodbury, Tenn.-mish with infantry pickets, in which two were The Savannah News of this date said: "There wounded on each side, they retired, capturing a seems to be now a great rage for investing in con- cavalry picket of twelve men. This morning, five federate bonds. Every body is buying bonds-hundred of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania and that is, every body who has treasury notes First New-York cavalry sent in pursuit, recapwherewith to buy. How great the contrast! tured, beyond Strasburgh, most of the prisoners Here our people are seeking confederate govern- and horses, and also took a number of prisoners. ment paper. In Lincolndom every body is avoid- The commander of the Union detachment, exing government paper, and paying enormous ceeding his orders, pursued them beyond Woodprices for every article which will enable them to stock. After driving in the rebel pickets, he

stood parleying in the road, without guarding after the first fire, with a loss of three of their against surprise. The enemy returned in force, number killed and forty-eight taken prisoners, charged upon and threw them into confusion, including a commissioned officer. The National killing and capturing two hundred.-See Supple-party had none killed, and only one man wounded.

ment.

-THE National Council of the Cherokee Indians adjourned this day, having repealed the ordinance of secession passed in 1861. They also passed an act depriving of office in the nation, and disqualifying all who continued disloyal to the Government of the United States; and also an act abolishing slavery.-The yacht Anna was captured in the Suwanee River, Ga., by the National steamer Fort Henry.--New-York Journal of Commerce.

-A VERY large and enthusiastic meeting of the people of Indiana was this day held at Indianapolis, the capital of the State. Loyal and patriotic resolutions were adopted, and speeches were made by Governor Wright, Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, General S. F. Carey, of Ohio, T. Buchanan Read, of Pennsylvania, Charles W. Cathcart, Charles Case, and others.

-A FREIGHT train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, laden with merchandise belonging to private individuals, and a quantity of Government stores, and two hundred and forty mules, were this day captured near Woodburn, Tenn., by a party of rebel guerrillas. After driving off the mules and rifling the cars of their contents, they set fire to and totally destroyed them; they then raised steam upon the locomotive to its fullest height, and started it along the road at the top of its speed, hoping that it would encounter the passenger train coming from Nashville. The locomotive drove along the track through Franklin, and passed other stations at a fearful rate of speed, but the supply of steam was finally exhausted, and the machine came to a full stop, without doing any harm.

February 27.—Jefferson Davis issued a proclamation to the people of the States in rebellion, appointing the twenty-seventh of March as a day of fasting and prayer.-General John Cochrane resigned his command in the United States army of the Potomac, and issued a farewell address to the soldiers of his late brigade.

-A SKIRMISH took place at a point fifteen miles from Newbern, N. C., between a detachment of Mix's New-York cavalry, under the command of Captain Jacobs, and a strong scouting-party of rebel infantry, in which the latter were routed

February 28.-General R. E. Lee, commanding the rebel army in Virginia, issued an order reviewing its operations for the year 1862.—(Doc. 126.)

-THE armed rebel steamer Nashville, while aground under the guns of Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River, Ga., was this day destroyed by the United States gunboat Montauk, under the command of Captain J. L. Worden.— (Doc. 127.)

March 1.-A scouting-party of Union troops, under the command of Adjutant Poole, made a dash into Bloomfield, Mo., early this morning, and killed the rebel recruiting officer, Lieutenant Brazeau, captured the Provost-Marshal, with all his papers, twenty rebel guerrilla prisoners, a number of fire-arms, and a quantity of ammu nition.-Missouri Democrat.

-THE English steamer Queen of the Wave stranded while endeavoring to run into Georgetown, S. C., and soon after was taken possession of by the crew of the United States gunboat Conemaugh.-Fifty men of the First Vermont cavalry, under Captains Wood and Huntoon, were surprised by a party of rebels at Aldie, Va.

-TO-DAY a fight took place in the vicinity of Bradyville, Tenn., between an expeditionary force of Union troops under General Stanley, and a body of rebel guerrillas under Colonel Duke, in which, after a stubborn resistance of twenty minutes, the latter were routed with great loss.— (Doc. 128.)

March 2.-The brigade of regulars from General Rosecrans's division went out on a foraging expedition from Murfreesboro, Tenn., this morning, and encountered the rebels posted in force, about sixteen miles distant on the Salem Pike. The Union forces consisted of one battalion of the Fifteenth infantry, Captain Keteltas; one battalion of the Sixteenth, Captain Crofton; two battalions of the Eighteenth, Captains Douglas and Fetterman; and one battalion of the Nineteenth- the whole under command of Colonel Shepherd, Fifteenth United States infantry. A section of Guenther's battery accompanied the infantry. The expedition moved out from Murfreesboro at seven A.M., and proceeded without inter

view of the rebel forces at Mobile, Ala., took place this day, by Major-Generals Withers and Buckner, and Brigadier-Generals Slaughter and Cummins. After the review, four pieces of artillery captured at Murfreesboro, were presented by General Withers, on behalf of the Alabamians and Tennesseeans in the army of the Tennessee, to the army of Mobile. Each piece was inscribed with the names of Alabamians who fell in that battle.-Mobile Advertiser.

ruption to the vicinity of Eagleville. Here it was under the command of Captain Drayton; but, ascertained that a strong body of the rebel cav-after an almost incessant fire of eight hours' dualry were awaiting the National approach. Colonel ration, they failed to reduce it.-(Doc. 129.) Shepherd instantly ordered his force to take the -JOHN MAGINNIS, late editor of the New-Orproper positions, and, with a strong line of skir-leans True Delta, died this day.-A grand remishers thrown to front and flank, advanced steadily and cautiously upon the rebel position. In a few moments the National skirmishers engaged the enemy's outposts, and immediately thereafter the rebels moved quickly to the front and advanced across the front line of the skirmishers. A hot engagement ensued, and lasted for about ten minutes, when the enemy, unable to endure the galling fire of the regulars, broke and fled. They were shortly afterward got into a second line of battle, and, with heavy reën forcements, ventured a movement on the Union right, with the evident intention of assailing them for saying in the presence of officers and civilby flank and rear. This design also failed, and the ians, "I have no confidence in General Hooker. National forces repulsed the assailants a second Burnside was stuck in the mud, and he will be time. They did not again make a stand, but stuck worse;" and also for publicly declaring: made a hurried retreat, even leaving behind their "I want to get out of the service. I don't bedead, of whom there were several. The Union-lieve we will succeed. I am dissatisfied generists took no prisoners, but the enemy's loss in ally. Nobody but McClellan can command this army."-New-York Tribune.

killed and wounded was considerable.-Chicago Times.

— A UNION Club was organized in Boston,

Mass., and Edward Everett was elected to its presidency. A slight cavalry fight took place

near Petersburgh, Tenn., between a party of reb-
els and bushwhackers, and two hundred loyal
Tennesseeans, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Brownlow, in which the rebels were
routed, with twelve killed and twenty wounded.-
Captain Schultze, with a company of Union cav-
alry, surprised Mosby's rebel guerrillas at a point
near Aldie, Va., and succeeded in capturing thirty
of them, without any loss on the National side.
-THIRTY-THREE commissioned officers of the
United States army having been found guilty of
various charges by general Court-Martial, the de-
tails of the several cases being contained in Gen-
eral Orders No. 13, dated February eighteenth,
1863, and the sentence having been approved by
the Commanding General, were this day dismissed
the service. Four guerrillas were captured at the
house of one
Lisle, on the Nashville turnpike,
three miles from Russellville, Ky.-Union meet-
ings were held at Harrodsburgh, Lebanon, and
Taylorsville, Ky.-Louisville Journal.

-FIRST LIEUTENANT GILBERT S. LAWRENCE was dismissed the service of the United States

burned by the rebel privateer Alabama in lati-THE schooner Kingfisher was captured and tude 1° 20', longitude 26° 20'.-The Spanish

sloop Relampago was captured at Charlotte HarJames S. Chambers.-The Southern Union, a bor, Fla., by the National blockading schooner, journal published in Georgia, having proposed to reconstruct the old Union of the States, was reprimanded by the Atlanta Confederacy, which asserted that "there are fewer abolitionists in Massachusetts than reconstructionists in Georgia."

March 4.-The First East-Tennessee cavalry, Colonel Johnson, had a fight with a party of rebels led by Colonel Rogers, at a point on Harpeth River, near Chapel Hill, Tenn.; killed twelve, and captured seventy-two of the rebels, with all their horses and accoutrements. Majors Burkhart and Macy were in command of the National cavalry, all of whom passed through the engagement without injury.-The Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States terminated.-The sloop Ida was captured near Charlotte Harbor, Fla., by the blockading schooner James S. Chambers.-The Second New-Hampshire regiment returned to Concord.

March 3.-Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River, Ga., was this day bombarded by a -A SKIRMISH took place at Skeet, N. C., befleet of iron-clad monitors and mortar-schooners, tween a scouting detachment of National troops

under the command of Captain Richardson, of tion's liberty. Every acre of cotton planted is a the Third New-York cavalry, and a party of rebel comfort to our enemies and a nail in the coffin of guerrillas, in which the latter were routed and confederate independence."-At New-Orleans a dispersed. The Union party then advanced to meeting was held to discuss the propriety of esSwan Quarter, where they encountered a su-tablishing a provisional State government in Louperior body of rebels, but after a sharp fight of isiana.-New-Orleans Era. twenty minutes, they completely routed them, killing and wounding twenty-eight of their number. In this skirmish the Unionists had three

- This day the expedition, under Colonel Phelps, which left Belle Plain, Va., in steamers men killed and fifteen wounded.—Newbern Prog- returned to headquarters. The troops visited on Tuesday for Northumberland County, Va.,

ress.

Heathsville, which they found deserted by the

THE office of the Volksblatt, a German anti-rebels. Then, throwing out large foraging parwar Democratic paper, published at Belleville, Mo., was visited by some persons unknown and

thrown into disorder.

ties from that base into Lancaster County and in other directions, they succeeded in capturing one thousand bushels of corn, fifty horses and mules, March 5.-A fight occurred at Thompson's Sta- a large number of beef cattle and quite an amount tion, a few miles south of Franklin, Tenn., be- of medical stores. Two post-offices and several tween a considerable body of Union troops un-stores were visited, and two important rebel der the command of Colonel John Coburn, and a mails captured. The cavalry also seized a large large rebel force under General Van Dorn, result- number of horses and mules. Some prisoners ing, after a desperate conflict of four hours' du- were also taken, among them Colonel Claybrook, ration, in the rout or capture of the whole Union a prominent rebel officer, and two clerks of the force. (Doc. 130.) departments at Richmond, with a quantity of correspondence for citizens of Baltimore, and of ficial papers addressed to parties in London, to the care of Baring Brothers.-New-York Tribune.

-THE editorial office of the Crisis at Columbus, Ohio, was visited by a body of soldiers who destroyed every thing they could find in it. Gold sold in Richmond, Va., at three hundred per cent advance. The rebels at Vicksburgh during the day threw shells occasionally at the National forces engaged in digging the canal opposite that place, doing no damage.

March 8.-Early this morning, Captain John S. Mosby, commanding a company of rebel guerrilla cavalry, made a dash into Fairfax Court-House, Va., and captured Brigadier-General Stoughton, and over thirty other officers and privates, March 6.-The ship Star of Peace was captur-together with their arms, equipments, and fiftyed and burned by the rebel privateer Florida, un-eight horses.-(Doc. 131.) der the command of Captain J. N. Maffit.-General Hunter in command of the Department of the South, from his headquarters at Port Royal, S. C., issued an order drafting for garrison duty all the able-bodied negroes in his department, not otherwise employed in the service of the National government.—General Orders, No. 17.

-THE sloop Enterprise, having run out of Mosquito Inlet, was captured off Hillsborough, Fla., by the gunboat Sagamore.—The Forty-third regiment of Massachusetts, under the command of Colonel Holbrook, surrounded and captured a company of rebel cavalry, with all their officers, on the Trent road, some distance from New

March 7.-Major-General Schenck, command-bern, N. C. ing the Middle Department of the army of the United States, issued an order at Baltimore, Md., prohibiting the sale of secession music in his department, and commanding the publishers of the same to send to his office any such music as they had on hand at that time.

-THE Mobile Register published the following: "Let every man, woman, and child at home, with a yard square of ground, scratch it and put in corn. Every grain carefully intrusted to the fruitful earth is a mite of contribution to the na

March 9.-A small rebel force was this day captured six miles below Port Hudson, together with the signal book containing the signals used in the rebel army.-A large number of vagrant negroes were arrested in New-Orleans, La.

-THE schooner Lightning, from Nassau, N. P., laden with dry goods, sugar and coffee, was this day captured by the United States steamer Bienville, thirty miles south of Hilton Head, S. C.

-THE British iron-screw steamer Douro, of

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