works were erected around the north and west the Mississippi River, and a number of persons sides of the city. The Council appropriated a were killed and wounded. The rebels were large sum of money, and a very large force of finally driven off by the gunboats.-THE corlaborers (mostly contrabands) were impressed respondence between James M. Mason, the rebel into the service. A line of barricades, composed commissioner at London, and Moncure D. Conof tobacco hogsheads and empty sugar and mo-way, was made public. The rebels were driven lasses hogsheads, filled with brick and sand, ont of Cumberland, Md., by the National forces was erected within the city, extending from the high ground on the east to the south-western extremity. "These, if the rebels should come," said a participant, "will be defended by the Union League men, who are being armed by General Schenck, and should a cavalry force manage to dash past the batteries, they would here meet a formidable resistance. The Union men are entirely confident that should the rebels be so rash as to attempt a raid in this direction, they will be able to effectually defeat them."

-THE Aeronautic corps of the army of the Potomac was dispensed with, and the balloons and inflating apparatus were sent to Washington.

-THE fight at Lafourche Crossing, La., was renewed this day, and ended in the defeat of the rebels with a loss of sixty killed, two hundred and forty wounded, and seventy prisoners. The Union loss was eight killed and sixteen wounded.-New-Orleans Era, June 23.

-MAJOR-GENERAL PLEASANTON, with his cavalry, attacked the rebels, under General Stuart, at Middleburgh, Va., and after driving them over eight miles, succeeded in capturing two pieces of artillery, and sixty prisoners, besides killing and wounding over one hundred men.-(Doc. 77.)

-THE ship Byzantium and bark Goodspeed were captured and burned by the rebel privateer Tacony off the coast of Massachusetts.-ON the approach of the rebels toward Shippensburgh, Pa., the proprietor of the Union Hotel in that town blurred his sign over with brown paint. THE steamer Victory was captured off Cuba by the gunboat Santiago de Cuba, and the English schooner Frolic off Crystal Run, Florida, by the gunboat Sagamore.-THIS afternoon a party of the First Maryland cavalry, under Major Cole, dashed into Frederick, Md., driving out the rebels and capturing one. On the retirement of the Nationals, however, the rebels returned and reoccupied the town.

June 22.-Three steamers laden with military stores, and convoyed by two Union gunboats, were fired into by rebels at Cypress Bend, on

under General B. F. Kelley. -THE schooners Marengo and Florence, and the fishing-vessels Elizabeth Ann Thomas, Rufus Choate, and Ripple, were captured by the confederate privateer Tacony.-AT Acquia Creek, Va., the quartermas ter's buildings, left standing by the Union troops on the evacuation of that place, were burned by the rebels.-MR. VALLANDIGHAM, who was banished to the Southern States for a stated period, arrived at Bermuda in the confederate steamer Lady Davis, from Wilmington. It was reported that Mr. Vallandigham was on his way to Canada, and there to await coming events.-Bermuda Royal Gazette, June 23.

-THE case of the seizure of the suspected gunboat Alexandra, at Liverpool, England, was announced in the Court of the Queen's Bench at London, before Chief Baron Pollock.-(See Supplement, Vol. II.)

June 23.-The State of New-York responded nobly to the call for troops to drive the rebels from the soil of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Twenty regiments at this time had been armed, equipped, and supplied with subsistence and transportation, and had gone to Harrisburgh and Baltimore. Sixteen of these regiments moved from New-York, two from Brooklyn, and two from Buffalo. The following is a list of the regi ments that had left: The Seventh, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twenty-second, Twentythird, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-seventh, Fifty-second, Sixty-ninth, Sixth, Seventyfourth, Seventy-first, Sixty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifth, Thirty-second, Fifty-fifth, Fourth artillery, and a consolidated regiment from Staten Island.

-THE Raleigh (N. C.) Standard of this date favored a convention of all the States, to procure peace, either by reconstruction of the Union or by peaceable separation.-REV. R. I. GRAVES, of Hillsboro, N. C., who was committed on the fourth of February last, on the charge of treason to the rebel government, was discharged, through the efforts of W. A. Graham.-THE London Times publishes an elaborate article against the employ. ment of negroes, as soldiers, in the army of the United States.

-IN the Missouri State Convention, Governor munition, over five hundred prisoners, ten thouGamble, Chairman of the Committee on Emancipation, presented the following ordinance from the majority of the committee:

First. That the first and second clauses of the Twenty-sixth Section of the Third Article of the Constitution be abrogated.

Second. That slavery, or involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, shall cease to exist in Missouri on the fourth of July, 1876; and that all the slaves within this State on that day be hereby declared free.

Third. That all slaves hereafter brought into the State, not now belonging to citizens of the State, shall thereupon be free.

Fourth. That all slaves, removed by the consent of their owners to any seceded State, after the passage of the ordinance of secession, and hereafter brought into this State by their owners, shall thereupon be free.

Fifth. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws to emancipate slaves without the consent of their owners.

sand stand of arms, destroyed a large amount of salt, sugar, flour, meal, saltpetre, and one saltpetre works, and other stores: My command is much fatigued. We have had but two nights' sleep since leaving Williamsburgh. The force in EastTennessee was larger than I had supposed. I did not attack Loudon Bridge, for reasons that I will explain. At Mossy Creek I determined to return. In the mountains I had very great difficulties that were unexpected. I found the gaps, through which I intended to return, strongly guarded with artillery and infantry, and blockaded with fallen timber. A force was also following in our rear. I determined to cross at Smith's Gap, which I did."

-CHAMBERSBURGH, Pa., was reoccupied by the rebels, under General Rodes; and the National troops, commanded by General Knipe, retreated to the main body.

-THE rebel sloop, John Wesley, which had evaded the blockade of St. Mark's, Fla., on the A minority report was also submitted, abro-thirteenth, was captured by the Union steamer gating some clauses of the Constitution as above, declaring slavery abolished on the first of January, 1864, provided they and their issue be apprenticed to their former owners until the fourth of July, 1876; requiring the Legislature to pass laws regulating the relation between said apprentices and their masters, to secure them humane treatment, necessary education, and providing against importation or emigration of any negro or mulatto in the State. No future assessment of slave property shall be collected, nor shall the right to the services of apprentices be subject to taxation. Provisions were also made to submit the ordinance to a vote of the people.

-COLONEL S. H. SAUNDERS returned to Boston, Kentucky, from the expedition sent by General Burnside, into East-Tennessee, and reported as follows:

Circassian.-THE Fifth regiment of Massachu setts volunteers, whose term of service had expired, arrived at Fortress Monroe, from Newbern, N. C., and again volunteered their services to General Dix. THE Union gunboat Sumter was sunk off Cape Henry.-SEVERAL wagons, with ammunition, forage, and other articles belonging to the National troops, were destroyed by a party from Mosby's rebel cavalry, on the Chantilly road, near Bull Run, Va.-THE sloop Kate, from Nassau, N. P., was captured in Indian River, Fla., by the Union bark, Pursuit.

June 24.-McConnellsburgh, Pa., was occupied by the rebel cavalry this evening, after a short resistance by the Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry. GREAT excitement existed at Harrisburgh, Pa., on the approach of the rebels, who were "slowly advancing on Carlisle ;" many merchants packed up their goods ready for shipment, and martial law was proposed, "to prevent all the able-bodied men from leaving the city." The Mayor issued an order, calling upon the people to stand firm, and prohibiting the sale of all liquors.-THE Eleventh New-York artillery left Rochester, for Harrisburgh.

"I arrived here with my command at eleven o'clock this morning. I struck the railroad at Lenoir, destroyed the road up to Knoxville, made demonstrations against Knoxville, so as to have the troops drawn from above, destroyed the track, and started for Strawberry Plains; burnt Slate Creek Bridge, three hundred and twelve feet long, and the Strawberry Plain Bridge, one thousand six hundred feet long, and also Mossy Creek Bridge, three hundred and -SHIPPENSBURGH, Pa., was evacuated by the twenty-five feet long. I captured three pieces National troops, and immediately occupied by of artillery, some two hundred boxes artillery am- | rebel cavalry.-AT Shelbyville, Tenn., the rebels

were defeated by the National troops, under Gen- Helena Road. He made for the Tallahatchie to eral Mitchell.-(Docs. 84 and 112.)

-THE following General Orders were issued from the War Department at Washington:

I. By direction of the President, that part of the Middle Department west of Hancock, including the adjacent counties of Ohio, will constitute the Department of West-Virginia. Brigadier-General B. F. Kelley is placed in command of the Department of West-Virginia.

II. Major-General W. S. Hancock, U. S. volunteers, is, by direction of the President, assigned to the command of the Second army corps, in place of Major-General D. N. Couch, transferred to another command.

cross, and at the mouth of the Coldwater he killed fifteen or twenty of Chalmers's men, and took forty prisoners. He paroled all the sick at Panola, brought away and destroyed all the army supplies, workshops, mills, tanneries, and depots.

He passed within three miles of Austin and forage and subsistence, took from six to eight Commerce, destroying an immense amount of

hundred horses and mules, and five hundred head of cattle. He sent detachments north and all subsistence, forage, horses, and mules. He north-east, from Panola, to destroy or bring away passed through five counties, travelled two hundred miles, and crossed three streams.

Chalmers had with him Stokes's, Slemmer's,

-THE rebel General R. S. Ewell, at Chambers-and Blythe's men, nine hundred, with three burgh, Pa., issued the following order:

First. The sale of intoxicating liquors to this command, without written permission from a major-general, is strictly prohibited.

Second. Persons having liquor in their possession are required to report the fact to the provostmarshal, or the nearest general officer, stating the amount and kind, that a guard may be placed over it, and the men prevented from getting it. Third. Any violation of Part I. of these Orders, or failure to comply with Part II., will be punished by the immediate confiscation of all liquors in the possession of the offending parties, besides rendering their other property liable to seizure. Fourth. Citizens of the country, through which the army may pass, who are not in the military service, are admonished to abstain from all acts of hostility upon pain of being dealt with in a summary manner. A ready acquiescence to the demands of the military authorities will serve to lessen the rigors of war.

pieces of artillery. The remainder of his force, nine hundred, fled south, via Charleston, under General George. He destroyed all the ferries at Panola and Coldwater, and lost one man killed and five wounded.

-COLONEL WILDER, with his mounted infantry, had a sharp skirmish at Beech Grove, Tenn., with a body of rebel infantry, and succeeded in killing and disabling a large number of them, with a loss of forty of his own men.-(Doc. 120.)

June 25.-This afternoon, a fight occurred at Liberty Gap, Tenn., between a rebel division under General Cleburn, and the Nationals, commanded by Generals Willich, Wilder, and Carter, resulting in the rout of the rebels, who fled, leaving their dead and wounded in the hands of the Nationals. The loss of the Nationals was

forty killed and one hundred wounded.—(Doc. 112.)

expedition under the command of Colonel S. P. Spear, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry,

-THE ship Constitution, in sight of the Is-THE army of the Cumberland, excepting land of Trinidad, latitude 20° 31', longitude 29° the division under General Van Cleve, commenced 16', was captured by the rebel privateer Geora forward movement from Murfreesboro, march-gia.-FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, Va., having been ing by the Shelbyville and Manchester Roads, and evacuated by the National troops, was occupied by skirmishes took place at Guy's, Liberty, and a rebel guerrilla party during the evening.-AN Hanover Gaps, Tenn.-(Docs. 37, 112, and 120.) -COLONEL J. K. MIZENER returned to La Grange, Tenn., from an extensive cavalry expedition south, from the same point, and reported as follows: He broke up the command under General George, at Panola; destroyed the railroad bridge at the Yocokaway, and the trestle-work just beyond, and a portion of the road from there north.

He then crossed the Tallahatchie, coming north, and pursued Chalmers beyond Coldwater, on the VOL. VII.-DIARY 2

reached a point within six miles of Richmond, Va., creating a great panic in that place-(Doc. 35.)

-AN assault was made on the rebel works at Vicksburgh, by General McPherson's corps, which ended in the capture of one of the forts.-(Doc. 36.)

-THE English steamer Britannia, was cap.

tured by the Union gunboat St. Jago de Cuba, closed by order of Major-General Schenck.-MANat a point one hundred and fifty miles from CHESTER, Tenn., was entered and occupied by Abaco, having run the blockade of Charleston, the Union forces under General J. J. ReySouth-Carolina.

nolds.-SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., was occupied by June 26.-Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of General Granger.-JOEL PARKER, Governor of Pennsylvania, issued a proclamation, calling for New-Jersey, on the reception of a message from sixty thousand men to serve for three months, Governor Curtin, informing him of the second or the period of the rebel invasion.-(Doc. 79.) entrance of the rebels into Pennsylvania, renewed his call upon the citizens of the State to -BRASHEAR CITY, La., was captured by the hold themselves in readiness for immediate serrebel forces under Generals Green and Mouton-vice.-YORK, Pa., was occupied by the rebels (Docs. 19, 26, and 80.)

-THE Twenty-first regiment of New-York militia, under the command of Colonel Nugent, left Poughkeepsie for Baltimore, Md.-THE Fifth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers returned to Boston, and were welcomed by an imposing and enthusiastic demonstration.--MCCONNELLSBURGH, Pa., was evacuated by the rebels under General Stuart.-REAR-ADMIRAL A. H. FOOTE died at New-York City.-By direction of President Lincoln, Major-General N. J. T. Dana was assigned to the organization and command of the militia and volunteer forces and defences of Philadelphia, Pa.--FREDERICK, Md., was occupied by the National cavalry.

June 27.-A squadron of Scott's Nine Hundred cavalry, under Major Remington, on their way to Centreville, Va., this morning, encountered, near Fairfax, the Sixth Virginia cavalry, and dashed at them with the sabre. The Major inade two charges, and drove the rebels for three miles into a wood, and there encountered a superior force, that checked him with the fire of carbines. The fight, from the beginning to the end, was fierce. Major Remington, after having had his horse shot twice, cut his way out and made his escape with eighteen men. Eighty were reported missing. Among them were Captain Dagwell, Captain Campbell, and Lieutenant Hazleton. The companies were B and C.

under General Gordon.-(Doc. 81.)

-THE schooner Varnum H. Hill was captured by the rebel privateer Florida, in latitude 30° north, longitude 48° 50′, but was released on a bond, on condition her master would take to Bermuda, the prisoners captured by the privateer, from the ships lately destroyed by her.— A SKIRMISH Occurred on the Walnut Bottom road, at a point five miles from Carlisle, near the Stone Farm, between a detail of Pennsylvania militia under Captain Murray, and a party of rebels, in which ten of the militia were captured and one wounded.-THE rebel schooner Archer, a tender to the privateer Tacony, entered the harbor of Portland, Me., and captured the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing.-(Doc. 21.)

June 28.-A skirmish occurred at Oyster Point, about four miles from Harrisburgh, Pa., between the rebels and the Seventy-first regiment of NewYork militia and E. Spencer Miller's Philadelphia battery, resulting in the retreat of the Union troops to the intrenchments around Harrisburgh. -THE manufacturers of Morristown, Pa., resolved

to close their works until the rebels were driven

from the State, and raised ten thousand dollarg to pay the wages of all who volunteer during their absence.-MECHANICSBURGH, Pa., was given up to the rebels this morning. On their arrival they pulled down the National flag, which was flying in the square, and raised the rebel colors in its stead.

-CARLISLE, Pa., was abandoned by the Union forces, and soon after occupied by the rebels advancing on Gettysburgh.-A LARGE number of -THE ship City of Bath was captured by the rebel cavalry under command of Fitz-Hugh Lee, rebel pirate Georgia in latitude 20° 30' south, made a dash into Annandale, Va., capturing sev-longitude 29° 30′ west, off the Island of Trinidad. eral suters who were in the vicinity, and burning a number of hospital stores and sutlers'

-MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE GORDON MEADE assumed command of the army of the Potomac.-A FIGHT took place between a regiment of Penn

wagons. -THE Maryland Club-house at Baltimore, hav-sylvanians, under the command of Colonel Frick, ing "degenerated into a resort for those who are disaffected toward the Government, and hostile to its legally constituted authorities," was

and a force of rebels who were advancing or Wrightsville, opposite Columbia, Pa. After a sharp contest, Colonel Frick was obliged to retire