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mand of Captain Porter; company A, under Lieu were bound to Baltimore, and were entirely out tenant Nolan; company C, under Lieutenant Leroy Smith; company F, under Captain Thayer, who himself alone escaped, and the greater part of company E, under Captain Ayers. Lieutenant Vigel was also captured with Lieutenant Smith's men. These five companies were under command of Major Mulvey, who was taken with his little boy, twelve years old.-Chicago Tribune.

of water, and would assist me in passing it to the boat. While taking the after-hatch off, I was confronted by the officer of the boat, who presented a pistol at my head, and stated that my vessel was his prize — a prize to the confederate States, and ordered me to leave for New-York. Immediately after, or while transferring my crew, the schooner M. A. Shindler came up, and was hauled to and captured. While transferring the crew of the latter, the schooner Kate Stewart came along, but she having several lady passengers on board, and being an old vessel, was ransand dollars. We were then all transferred on somed on giving bonds in the sum of seven thouboard the Kate Stewart. The pirates then transferred their guns, ammunition, supplies, etc., from the brig Clarence to the bark Tacony, and set fire to the former vessel, as well as to the schooner M. A. Shindler. We were then released, the pirate -THE steamer Calypso was captured off Fry-standing off to the south-east.—MAJOR-GENERAL ing-Pan Shoals, thirty miles south-east of Wil- DARIUS N. COUCH assumed command of the Demington, N. C., by the Union gunboat Florida.partment of the Susquehanna, and established his (Doc. 65.) headquarters at Chambersburgh, Pa.-GOVERNOR

-THE Sixth regiment N. Y. S. V., Wilson's Zouaves, returned to New-York from the seat of war in Louisiana.-PORT HUDSON was thoroughly invested by the Union troops under General Banks.—DARIEN, Ga., was visited and burned by a body of National troops under the command of Colonel Montgomery, of the Second South-Carolina colored volunteers. At the same time the schooner Pet, loaded with a cargo of cotton, was captured.-(Doc. 66.)

-A NEW army corps, denominated the reserve ANDREW G. CURTIN issued a proclamation calling corps, was created in the Department of Cumber-upon the people of Pennsylvania to rally for their land, and placed under the command of Major- defence against the rebels who were approaching General Gordon W. Granger, with its headquar- under General Lee.-GENERAL MICHAEL CORCOters at Triune, to be composed of three divisions, RAN, with twelye thousand men, left Suffolk, Va., commanded by Brigadier-Generals J. D. Morgan, on a reconnoissance to the Blackwater.—THE reR. S. Granger, and A. Baird. ply of President Lincoln to the resolutions adopted by the Democrats at Albany, N. Y., on the sixteenth of May, relative to the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, and the vindication of free speech, was made public.-(Doc. 67.)

-A PARTY of rebel cavalry, numbering about two hundred and fifty, crossed the Potomac River this morning, and attacked a company of the Sixth Michigan cavalry stationed at Seneca, Md. The Nationals being outnumbered, gradually fell back, fighting, to within three miles of Poolesville, when the enemy retired across the river, after burning the camp at Seneca. The Unionists lost four men killed and one wounded. The rebels left a lieutenant and one man dead on the field.

June 12.—The bark Tacony, in latitude 37° 18', longitude 75° 4', was captured by the Clarence, tender to the privateer Florida. Captain Munday gave the following account of the capture:

"On the twelfth of June, at six o'clock A.M., when about forty miles off Cape Virginia, I was spoken by the brig Clarence, of Baltimore, who said she was short of water, and wished for a day's allowance. Of course I hauled to on this appeal to humanity, and their boat, with an officer and six men, immediately came aboard. They told me they were fifty-five days from Rio Janeiro,

-MAJOR-GENERAL DAVID HUNTER was relieved of the command of the Department of the South, and Brigadier-General Quincy A. Gillmore assigned to the same.-GOVERNOR OLIVER P. MORTON issued a proclamation to the people of Indiana, warning all persons against resistance to the Government in any form, or hindering the Federal officers in the enforcement of the enrolment laws of the United States.-A SKIRMISH occurred near Middletown, Va., between the Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry and Eighty-seventh infantry, with one section of artillery, and a body of about four hundred rebel cavalry. Eight of the latter were killed, a number wounded, and thirtyseven, including a captain and two lieutenants, were taken prisoners.-(Doc. 11.)

June 13.-The battle of Winchester, Va., between the National forces under General R. H.

Milroy, and the rebel General Ewell, ended this from the rebels established his headquarters at day. (Doc. 11.) Fairfax Court-House.-THE brig Umpire, in lat. 37° 37', long. 69° 57′ was captured and burned by the privateer Tacony.

-GENERAL BANKS, having established his batteries within three hundred yards of the rebel works at Port Hudson, after a vigorous cannonade, summoned General Frank Gardner, in command, to surrender. On his refusal, an assault was made, which ended in the repulse of the Nationals with heavy losses in killed and wounded. (Doc. 13.)

-HAGERSTOWN, Md., was occupied by the rebel troops advancing into Pennsylvania.

June 15.-Great excitement and anxiety existed in Baltimore, Md., on account of the invasion of the State by the rebels.-GENERAL BANKS from his headquarters before Port Hudson, issued the following order:

-CAPTAIN HARE, of the Mounted ProvostGuard, attacked Hine's guerrillas at Wilson's Creek, near Boston, Ky., killing four and capturing five prisoners and twenty-five horses, and a lot of rifles and equipments. The rebels fled. There was no loss on the National side.—THE army of the Potomac commenced its march for the relief of Maryland and Pennsylvania, these States being threatened by a large body of rebels under General Lee.-THE negroes of Pennsylvania were called upon by Governor Curtin to furnish troops for the defence of the Government.-A PARTY of rebel cavalry intercepted the cars at Elizabethtown, Ky., capturing sixty horses and committing other depredations.THE town of Eunice, was destroyed by the National gunboat Marmora. -THE bark Good. Hope, in lat. 22° 49′ south, long. 42° 09' west, was captured and burned by the rebel privateer Georgia.THE schooner Fashion, from Mobile, was captured "off the island of Cuba," by the United States steamer Juniata.-A PUBLIC meet ing was held in Montgomery County, Indiana, at which a resolution was passed, declaring that no enrolment of militia in that county should take place, and a committee was appointed, who waited on the Commissioner and read the reso-mons the bold men of the corps to the organizalution, and notified him that an attempt to enroll would be at his peril.-BERRYVILLE, Va., was evacuated by the Union troops under Colonel Andrew T. McReynolds, it having been ascer-tained that Rodes's division of General Ewell's corps of rebels was advancing upon that place.

The

June 14.-The ship Red Gauntlet was captured by the rebel privateer Florida in lat. 7° 35' north, long. 35° 40'. She was of and from Boston for Hong Kong, with a cargo of ice. Florida put a prize crew on board and kept in company, taking a large amount of provisions and a supply of coal. She was burned on the twenty-sixth in lat. 29° 23', long. 47° 12′.(Doc. 68.)

-MARTINSBURGH, Va., was occupied by the rebel General Rodes, who succeeded in сарturing one hundred and fifty men, several cannon and a quantity of stores. The rebel loss was one killed and two wounded.-THE English steamer Neptune was captured by the National gunboat Lackawanna, in lat. 25° 42′ north, long. 85° 32′ west.-GENERAL HOOKER marched from Falmouth, Va., and without any interruption

"The Commanding General congratulates the troops before Port Hudson upon the steady advance made upon the enemy's works, and is confident of an immediate and triumphant issue of the contest. We are at all points upon the threshold of his fortifications. One more advance, and they are ours. For the last duty that victory imposes, the Commanding General sum

tion of a storming column of a thousand men, to vindicate the flag of the Union and the memory of its defenders who have fallen.

"Let them come forward. Officers who lead the column of victory in this last assault may be assured of a just recognition of their services by promotion; and every officer and soldier who shares its perils and its glory shall receive a medal fit to commemorate the first grand success of the campaign of eighteen hundred and sixty-three for the freedom of the Mississippi. His name shall be placed in General Orders upon the roll of honor. Division commanders will at once report the names of the officers and men who may volunteer for this service, in order that the organization of the column may be completed without delay."

-By order of Major-General Grant, MajorGeneral John A. McClernand was relieved of the command of the Thirteenth army corps, and Major-General E. O. C. Ord was appointed thereto.-A DEBATE was held in the House of Lords on the seizures of British ships by the cruisers of the United States, in which the Mar

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-Ar nine o'clock this morning, on the return

quis of Clanricarde and Earl Russell took part, Miss., numbering four thousand, under the comthe latter defending the action of the American mand of Major-General Walker, were attacked Government. THE Fifteenth regiment of New- and driven from the town by the Union troops York Engineers, under the command of Clinton under Brigadier-General Ellet.—(Doc. 14.) G. Colgate, returned to New-York after having -PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued a proclamation served two years in the army in Virginia.-GEN- announcing that the rebels were threatening ERAL ÉRASMUS D. KEYES, in command of a small Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and calling force of National troops, occupied New-Kent for troops for their defence.-(Doc. 69.) Court-House, within fifteen miles of Richmond, Va., creating considerable excitement in that vicinity. THE Twenty-first regiment of New- of the gunboat Lackawanna toward Mobile, in Jersey volunteers returned to Trenton from the seat of war.—THE United States enrolling officer in Boone County, Indiana, was captured by a party of men and held while the women pelted him with eggs.-GOVERNOR A. G. CURTIN, of Pennsylvania, issued a proclamation calling on all people of the State capable of bearing arms to enrol themselves for the public defence; State records and other public archives were removed from Harrisburgh.-GREENCASTLE, Pa., was occu

company with the steamer Neptune, captured yesterday, the black smoke of a steamer was seen ahead, for which the ship, as well as the Neptune, gave chase. She was not brought to until a shot struck her, which did no injury,

however, and she was captured after having been chased twenty-six miles. She was the rebel steamer Planter, of Mobile, of three hundred and thirteen tons, and left Mobile Bay on the night of June thirteenth for Havana, with a cargo of six hundred and twenty-five bales of

pied by a small body of rebel troops belonging cotton and one hundred and twenty-four barrels

to the forces of General Ewell.

of rosin. During the chase between sixty and

-IN the Missouri State Convention Charles eighty bales of cotton were thrown overboard and D. Drake offered the following:

several barrels of rosin burned.-Captain Mar

June 15.-Governor David Tod, of Ohio, in accordance with the proclamation of President Lincoln, issued an order calling out thirty thousand volunteers for the defence of the border.(Doc. 70.)

Resolved, That it is expedient that an ordi-chand's Report. Lance be passed by the Convention, providing first for the emancipation of all slaves in the State on the first of January next; second, for the perpetual prohibition of slavery in the State after that date; and third, for a system of apprenticeship for slaves so emancipated for such period as may be sufficient to avoid any serious inconvenience to the interest connected with the State labor, and to prepare the emancipated blacks for complete freedom; fourth, for submitting said ordinance to a vote of the people on the first Monday of next August.

June 16.-The troops to operate against the Sioux moved from their rendezvous at Camp Pope, under command of General Sibley.. The force numbered fully three thousand men, all recruited in Minnesota, and more or less accustomed to frontier life. A pontoon train accompanied it; also three hundred wagons and several hun-GREAT excitement existed at Pittsburgh, dred head of beef cattle.-THE Third MassachuPa., on account of the rumored approach of the setts regiment from Newbern, N. C., returned to rebels under General Lee. The merchants and Boston, and were received with enthusiasm.—F. mechanics organized themselves into military H. PIERPONT, Governor of West-Virginia, in view companies for the defence of the city; business of the approach of the rebels, issued a proclamawas suspended, all "the bars, restaurants, and drinking-saloons were closed, and the sale or giving away of liquors stopped."-CHAMBERSBURGH, Pa., was entered by one thousand eight hundred rebel cavalry under General Jenkins, who sacked the town and its vicinity.-(Doc. 33.)

tion, calling upon the commandants of the militia, to convene their regiments and companies to be held in readiness to go to the field at a moment's warning.-GOVERNOR JOEL PARKER, of NewJersey, issued a proclamation, calling upon the citizens of the State to rally for the defence of Pennsylvania.—(Doc. 73.)

-GOVERNOR CURTIN, of Pennsylvania, made

-THE army of the Potomac, on its march to intercept the rebels in Pennsylvania, reached Bull Run, Va.-THE rebel forces at Richmond, the following appeal:

To the People of Philadelphia:

For nearly a week past it has been publicly known that the rebels in force were about to enter Pennsylvania. On the twelfth instant an urgent call was made on the people to raise a departmental army corps for the defence of the State. Yesterday, under the proclamation of the President, the militia were called out. Today, a new and pressing exhortation has been given to furnish men to repel the invasion.

or, at any rate, at Carlisle, and every woman in the place seemed anxious to leave for safer regions., Trunks were piled up at the depots six feet in height, for nearly a square, and hundreds if not thousands of people eagerly waited the hour of the departure of the various trains.

"In the mean while, the State Capitol had been completely denuded of every thing of value, from the portraits of the governors to the books in the library. The books, papers, paintings,

Philadelphia has not responded-meanwhile and other valuables were packed in freight-cars,

the enemy is six miles this side of Chambersburgh, and advancing rapidly.

Our capital is threatened, and we may be disgraced by its fall, while the men who should be driving the outlaws from our soil are quibbling about the possible term of service for six months.

It never was intended to keep them beyond the continuance of the emergency. You all know this by what happened when the militia were called out last autumn. You then trusted your Government and were not deceived. Trust it again now. I will accept men without reference to the six months' term. If you do not wish to bear the ignominy of shirking from the defence of your State, come forward at once. Close your places of business and apply your hearts to the work. Come in such organizations as you can form. General Couch has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Ruff to superintend your organizations.

Report to him immediately.

and made ready for instant departure in case of decided signs of danger to the city.

"Measures were taken yesterday to rouse the people to the danger at hand, and during to-day about one thousand persons were earnestly at work on the other side of the Susquehanna, throwing up a bastioned redoubt, for the protection of Harrisburgh. The work was kept up all day, and far into the evening, and late to-night we saw files of laborers returning from their unwonted toil.

"There were but few regular soldiers in town to-day, the principal display being made by three companies of invalids from the military hospitals at York. They arrived during the afternoon, and when drawn up on Third street, they looked as if there was considerable fight in them yet.

"During the entire afternoon, Market street was occupied with army wagons from Milroy's division, which rumbled across the old bridge, and from thence past the railroad depot and out to a -BRIGADIER-GENERAL FREDERICK S. WASH- camp ground on the other side of the canal. BURN, of the Iowa Ninth infantry, died at his These wagons were mostly drawn by four home in Waterloo. Captain Washburn was horses, though there were some mule-teams wounded at Vicksburgh, on the twenty-second of among them. Dust was the prevailing feature May, and just before he left for home was pro- of the vehicles, from the ears of the horses to moted from Captain to rank of Brigadier-General. the hat-rims of the teamsters. -THE rebels under General Lee, in the invasion of Pennsylvania, reached Scotland, a few miles east of Chambersburgh. At Harrisburgh

the excitement was intense. A correspondent at that place, describing the scene, says:

"It is difficult to convey an exact idea of the

Some of the

wagons were filled with hay and some with tents, while from many peeped the black faces, grinning mouths and white teeth of contrabands, large and small, of both sexes. For several hours this wagon-train completely filled Market street, giving the spectators a far better

than they could get in any other way."

state of affairs here to-night, not only on account idea of the dust, turmoil, and fatigue of war of the confusion existing, but in consequence of the danger of trenching on-what may be contra- -JEFFERSON DAVIS, at Richmond, Va., called band ground. During the morning a perfect upon the States of the "Confederacy" to furnish panic prevailed, extending to all classes of troops for home defence, in order to replace people, and resulting in the grandest demand for those, who were then, under the command of railroad tickets ever witnessed in this city. The General Lee, invading the North.-LITTLESTOWN, enemy were supposed to be just over the river, | eleven miles from Gettysburgh, Pa., was occupied

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by rebel cavalry.-REBEL salt-works, in Princess armed steamer, the whole band was captured.Ann County, Va., were destroyed by Major Murray, having under his command one hundred men, belonging to the One Hundred and Fortyeighth regiment of New-York volunteers. (Doc. 72.)

-GOVERNOR A. W. BRADFORD, of Maryland, issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of Baltimore and people of Maryland to rally to defend their soil from invasion.

As there was no organized militia force in the State, he announced that he would fall back upon the recent enrolment for the draft; but he hoped there is patriotism sufficient among the people to raise the force needed from voluntary enlistments.

—A FIGHT occurred in Fleming County, Ky., between the Fifteenth regiment of Michigan volunteers and a superior force of the rebels, which resulted in the repulse of the latter with a heavy loss. The National casualties were fifteen killed and thirty wounded.

-A UNION mass meeting was held at Concord, N. H., probably not less than twenty thousand people being present. A procession composed of military and civic organizations and the citizens of the State generally, with numerous bands of music, marched through the principal streets to State House Square, where the meeting organized by choosing Ira Perley, President, with twenty Vice-Presidents. A series of resolutions were adopted, pledging support to the Government in putting down the rebellion. The fourth resolve was as follows:

"That the men of the loyal States, who, by word or deed, directly or indirectly, under what

ever pretence or disguise, discourage the recruit

ing and maintaining of our army and navy, or in any other way lend their aid to schemes calculated to embarrass the Government in this crisis of the national life, ally themselves with the rebellion and are traitors at heart." -YESTERDAY, in latitude twelve degrees. Eloquent addresses were made by Major-Gennorth, longitude thirty degrees, the rebel priva-eral Butler, Montgomery Blair, General Hamilteer Florida captured the ship B. F. Hoxie, of Mystic, Ct., from Mazatlan for Falmouth, England, with a cargo of logwood, silver bars and thirty tons of silver ore; the bars were valued at five hundred thousand dollars, and the ore at á similar amount. The bars were conveyed on board the Florida, and the ore was sunk in the ship to-day.

--HARPER'S FERRY, Va., was invested by the rebels, while the National troops held Maryland Heights in large force.-THE Councils of Baltimore, Md., appropriated four hundred thousand dollars for bounties.--COLONEL DE COURCEY, with parts of the Tenth and Fourteenth Kentucky, and Seventh and Ninth Michigan cavalry, cut off at Triplett's Bridge, Ky., the body of rebel cavalry that made the attack on Maysville, and after a severe fight routed them, killing and wounding a large number and taking over one hundred prisoners, including one captain and two lieutenants.--(Doc. 16.)

June 17.-A body of rebels crossed the Ohio River and advanced on Corydon, Paoli, and Orleans, Indiana. At the latter place they were met by the Paoli home guards, who dispersed and drove them back to the Ohio River, where, being prevented recrossing by the presence of an

ton, Ira Perley and others.

-THE Seventh, Eighth, and Seventy-first regiments of New-York State militia, left New-York for the seat of war in Maryland and Pennsylvania.-ROBERT TOOMBS delivered a speech at Sparta, Ga., on "The state of the country.". GENERAL BLUNT issued an order forbidding the circulation of the Caucasian, Chicago Times, Columbus Crisis, Cincinnati Enquirer and NewYork World in his department.-A FIGHT took place at Aldie, Va., between the National cavalry under General Gregg, and the rebels under General J. E. B. Stuart.-(Doc. 74.)

-A BODY of rebel cavalry crossed the Potomac near the Point of Rocks, and moved upon

that place, at which there was no force of defence, except Captain Means's irregular local cavalry. All these were captured, including the Captain himself.

Simultaneously another body of the enemy, mounted, crossed the river higher up, and attacked Major Coles's cavalry at Catoctin Station, about seven or eight miles east of Harper's Ferry.

About the same time a part of the enemy's cavalry charged upon a military train, and succeeded in its capture. It consisted of one first

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