-THE Seventh Illinois cavalry attacked a force ing away all the government stores and property. of rebel troops encamped near Summerville, This movement was made in anticipation of an Miss., and captured twenty-eight of their num- attack upon Corinth by the rebels, who were reber, including a captain and two lieutenants, with ported to be advancing in two heavy columns their horses, arms, etc. upon that place, respectively from the south and east.-Missouri Democrat.

November 27.-Colonel Kirk, commanding the Fifth brigade of General Sill's division, made a November 28.-The battle of Cane Hill, Ark., reconnoissance from Nashville toward La Vergne, was fought by the Union forces under General Tenn., with two companies of the Third Indi- Blunt, and the rebel troops under the command of ana cavalry, and that portion of his brigade General Marmaduke, which resulted in a retreat not on picket-duty. He came upon the rebel of the latter with considerable loss.-(Doc. 34.) outposts of cavalry three quarters of a mile be-THIS morning, while doing picket-duty near ⚫yond Scrougesville. The rebels fired a few rounds Hartwood Church, about fifteen miles from Faland fled, until they fell in with their other out-mouth, Va., the first and third squadrons of the posts on the right and left of the road, when they Third Pennsylvania cavalry, belonging to General made a stand at a church three fourths of a mile Averill's brigade, were suddenly attacked by a beyond. Here they discharged several rounds at numerically superior force of rebel cavalry, and the Union advance, slightly wounding Lieutenant-after a brief resistance, in which four of the Colonel Hurd, of the Thirtieth Indiana, who was Unionists were killed and nine wounded, were bravely leading his men. This regiment, under finally taken prisoners. lead of Colonel Dodge, quickly drove the guerrillas from their position, who retreated until they reached their artillery, which was planted on a hill. They fired a few rounds and continued retreating. The National troops chased them some two miles beyond La Vergne, when the rebels fled so fast, that they soon became invisible. Several of the rebels were killed and wounded, a number of them being seen to fall. They were carried off by their friends. The Nationals had ten privates wounded; none killed. A guerrilla, who was captured, stated that General Wheeler, who was in command, was wounded. Nashville Union, November 29.

-A UNION Cavalry force, two thousand five hundred strong, under the command of BrigadierGeneral C. C. Washburne, left Helena, Ark., this afternoon, on an expedition into the State of Mississippi. (Doc. 61.)

-AN important reconnoissance was this day made by a large Union force under the command of General Stahel, to Upperville, Paris, Ashby's Gap, Snickersville, Berryville, etc.--(Doc. 50.)

-AN expedition consisting of five thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, under the command of General A. P. Hovey, yesterday left Helena, Ark., and to-day arrived at Delta, Miss., for the purpose of cutting the road and telegraph wires, on the Tennessee and Mississippi railroads, and creating a panic in the rebel forces under General Price. Bridges on both roads were destroyed, together with two locomotives and thirty or forty freight-cars.-The cavalry under General Washburne had several skirmishes with General Price's rear-guard, the main body of whose army being in full retreat to the Big Black River, driving them and capturing about fifty prisoners. The expedition was considered to be very suecessful.-New-Albany Ledger.

-POLITICAL prisoners were released from Fort Warren, Mass.-At Louisville, Ky., General Boyle issued the following order: "All commanding November 29.-The steamer Star was captured officers serving in this district are ordered not to and burned by guerrillas at a point about two permit any negroes or slaves to enter the camps, miles below Plaquemine, La. This morning the and all officers and privates are forbidden to in- Star went up as high as Plaquemine; she soon terfere or intermeddle with the slaves in any left, and came down about a mile, when she landway."-The schooner Mary E. Mangum, while en-ed and took in forty-five hogsheads of sugar; tering the port of Roseau, Dominica, was fired after which she crossed over to the left bank, at into by the rebel steamer Alabama, without dam- a wood-pile about another mile lower down, to age. This morning the United States forces con- take in wood. She had not got more than a cord sisting of the Ninth Illinois and part of the Four- when she was surprised by a gang of guerrillas, teenth Missouri regiments, under the command who took possession of her and moved her to the of Colonel Mersey, evacuated Rienzi, Miss., carry-opposite side of the river, and after rolling out

about thirty hogsheads of sugar, set her on ing to the Fourth North-Carolina confederate fire. Captain McKiege and the engineer, William troops.-George P. Kane, late Marshal of BaltiDewey, were detained as prisoners, but the rest more, Md., issued an address to his fellow-citizens of the crew were given their liberty.-New-Or- of the State of Maryland, setting forth a statement relative to his incarceration at Fort Warren, Mass. leans Delta, December 2. -The schooner Levi Rowe, while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., was captured by the steamer Mount Vernon.—The bark Parker Cook was captured and destroyed, in the Mona Passage, by the rebel steamer Alabama.

-A SKIRMISH OCcurred between a scouting-party from Captain Mear's Maryland Home Guard, stationed at Berlin, and a body of Bob White's rebel cavalry, in which the latter were put to flight with a loss of two men.-General Curtis, at St. Louis, Mo., reported to the War Department at Washington, that a cavalry expedition, under Major Torry, to the forks of the Mingo and St. Franeis Rivers, had captured Colonel Phelan and ten read. Among the recommendations offered for men of the rebel army.

The

December 1.-Both Houses of the Congress of the United States met at Washington. message of President Lincoln was received and

adoption in the message, were the following resolution and articles emendatory to the Constitution of the United States:

-THE Savannah Republican says that "the people of Charleston, S. C., have pulled up their lead pipes and contributed sixty thousand pounds Resolved, By the Senate and House of Repreto the government, and that the government will sentatives of the United States of America in Conissue receipts for all lead pipes and other fix-gress assembled, two thirds of both houses contures, and binds itself to replace them at the end curring, that the following articles be proposed to of the war."-The advance column of the Union the Legislatures or Conventions of the several army under General Grant, passed through Holly States, as amendments to the Constitution of the Springs, Miss., this morning.—(Doc. 55.) United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures or Conventions, to be valid as part or parts of the said Constitution, namely:

November 30.—A skirmish took place near Abbeville, Miss., between a reconnoitring force of Union troops under the command of Colonel Lee, and a strong body of rebels, resulting in a retreat of the latter to their fortifications at Abbeville, with some loss. Not a man of the Union party was injured.

hav

-AN expedition to Yellville, Ark., by the First Iowa, Tenth Illinois, and Second Wisconsin regiments, under command of Colonel Dudley Wickersham, returned to General Herron's camp, ing been successful in destroying portions of the rebel saltpetre-works, arsenal, and store-houses, with about five hundred shot-guns and rifles.General Curtis's Despatch.

ARTICLE. Every State wherein slavery now exists, which shall abolish the same therein at any time or times before the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, shall receive compensation from the United States as follows, to wit:

The President of the United States shall de

for

liver to every such State, bonds of the United
States, bearing interest at the rate of
each slave shown to have been therein, by the
eighth census of the United States; said bonds
to be delivered to such State by instalments, or
in one parcel at the completion of the abolishment,
according as the same shall have been gradual
or at one time within such State; and interest
shall begin to run upon any such bond only from
the proper time of its delivery as aforesaid, and
afterward. Any State having received bonds as
aforesaid, and afterward introducing or tolerating
slavery therein, shall refund to the United States
the bonds so received, or the value thereof, and
all interest paid thereon.

—A RUMOR was prevalent in Washington, that a proposition for an armistice of thirty days was made by the rebel government, and that General Robert E. Lee was in that place negotiating the terms.-The Forty-seventh regiment of Massachusetts troops, under the command of Colonel Marsh, left Boston for the seat of war.-An expedition to Hyde County, N. C., under the command of Major Garrard of the Third New-York ARTICLE. All slaves who shall have enjoyed cavalry, returned to Newbern, having thoroughly destroyed all the bridges in that vicinity, besides actual freedom, by the chances of the war at any capturing Colonel Carter, of the Thirteenth North- time, before the end of the rebellion, shall be forCarolina volunteers, and a rebel sergeant belong-ever free; but all owners of such, who shall not

have been disloyal, shall be compensated for them at the same rates as is provided for States adopting abolishment of slavery-but in such a way that no slave shall be twice accounted for.

ARTICLE. Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.

--WILLIAM W. LUNT, lately a private belonging to the Ninth regiment of Maine volunteers, was executed at Hilton Head, S. C., for desertion.The National cavalry, belonging to the army of General Grant, under the command of Colonel Lee, took possession of the rebel forts on the Tallahatchie River. By a sudden descent, early in the morning, Colonel Lee captured a battery of six guns, with the horses attached thereto, on the north side of the river.-A slight skirmish took place in the vicinity of Horse Creek, Dade County, Mo., between a detachment of the Fourth Missouri and cavalry, under the command of Major Kelly, a small band of guerrillas, in which the rebels

December 2.-Abbeville, Miss., was evacuated by the rebels, and occupied by the National cavalry belonging to the army of General Grant.-A fight took place near Franklin, Va., between a force of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Spear, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, and a body of rebel cavalry, supported by artillery, resulting in a complete rout of the rebels, with considerable loss.-(Doc. 57.)

-LIEUTENANT HOFFMAN of the First New-Jer

Sey cavalry, and six of his men, were surprised while on picket-duty, at a point three miles from Dumfries, Va. In their unsuccessful resistance, private Thomas Buffin was seriously wounded.General Averill sent a reconnoisance from Brooks's Station, up the Rappahannock River, which succeeded in capturing a number of rebel pickets, and obtaining valuable information.-At three o'clock

this morning parts of two companies of the Eighth

Pennsylvania cavalry, numbering sixty men, under the command of Captain Wilson, were attacked

were routed, leaving five of their number in the at King George Court-House, Va., by a large body

Union

of rebels, who succeeded in getting between their hands of the Unionists.-Springfield Missourian. station and the main body of the National cav—A DETACHMENT of the Third Virginia National alry, and thus compelled them to retreat with cavalry, under the command of Captain S. B. some loss.-A portion of the expedition under the Cruger, entered Warrenton, Va., to-day, after command of Major-General Banks, sailed from routing the rebel cavalry, and capturing one pris-New-York.-Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, in oner, nine horses, and a wagon, without any an elaborate letter to the National Intelligencer, loss.-T. R. Cressy, Chaplain Minnesota Se- refuted the charges, made by a New-Orleans jourcond regiment, made a report of the operations of nal, reflecting on his conduct as Commissioner of the regiment, from the first of August to this the United States, in that city.—Major-Generał date.—(Doc. 56.) Halleck made a report of the operations of the armies of the Union, from the twenty-third day of July, when, in compliance with the President's order, he assumed command as General-in-Chief, to this date.—(Doc. 58.)

-THE British schooner George, from Nassau, N. P., laden with coffee, salt, etc., was captured off Indian River, Florida, by the United States gunboat Sagamore, Lieutenant Commanding Earle English.-Official confirmation of the hostile plans of "Little Crow," and a portion of the northern Indians, was this day received by W. P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the United States.-St. Paul Press, January 1, 1863.

-A UNION boat expedition, under the command of Acting Master Gordon, proceeded up Bell River, La., and captured an armed rebel launch, mounting a twelve-pounder brass howitzer. This morning, Gen. Slocum, with a body of National troops, had a skirmish with the rebel cavalry, under White, Henderson, and Baylor, near Charlestown, Va., and succeeded in routing them. This evening he again attacked them at Berryville, killing five and wounding eighteen.General Slocum's Report.

COLONEL J. M. GLOVER, commandant at Rolla, Mo., having intelligence that several hundred rebels were in camp on Current River, at the head waters, on the thirtieth ultimo, proceeded with one hundred and thirty men to attack them. His force were parts of companies A and B of the Third Missouri cavalry, and part of company H, Ninth Missouri cavalry. This morning he found a light force of the enemy in the gorges of the Ozarks and routed them, killing four, capturing two, and taking four horses. The detachment marched two hundred miles in seven days, and not a man of it was harmed. No considerable body of the rebels could be found, and the force returned to Rolla.-General Curtis's Despatch.

large body of rebels. After a charge from the Union troops, the rebels were routed, leaving three hundred of their number, and fifty horses in the hands of the Unionists.

-THE rebel General Hindman, before making his attack on the National forces in Arkansas, issued an address to his soldiers, in which he told them what to do, and what not to do in battle.-(Doc. 60.)

December 3.-Major A. P. Henry, with a party of National troops, belonging to the Ninety-first Indiana infantry and Fifteenth Kentucky cavalry, entered and took possession of Princeton, Ky., at eight o'clock this morning, capturing a numDecember 5.-A fight took place near Coffeeber of guerrillas and other persons inimical to ville, Miss., between a force of Union cavalry, the Government of the United States. The numbering about two thousand, under the comschooners Emma Tuttle, Brilliant, and J. P. Bo-mands of Colonels Dickey and Lee, and a body of ker were captured while attempting to run the blockade; the first two at New-Inlet, and the last at Deep Inlet, N. C.

-A SERIES of skirmishes occurred near Oxford, Miss., between a brigade of Union troops under the command of Colonel Hatch, and a considerable force of the rebels, resulting in the capture by the Unionists of ninety-two prisoners, and the killing and wounding of twenty of their number.-Cincinnati Commercial.

December 4.—A sharp fight occurred between six United States gunboats lying off Port Royal, on the Rappahannock River, Va., and the rebel batteries behind the town. The firing was very rapid, and lasted about two hours, completely riddling some of the houses, when the rebels ceased firing, and the gunboats dropped down the river one and a half miles. Some of the rebel shot struck very near the boats, but no damage was done them.

-THE North-Carolina House of Commons unanimously passed a series of resolutions, expressive of their confidence in the patriotism and uprightness of Jefferson Davis, and his ability to sustain the government of the rebels; also heartily approving the policy for the conduct of the war set forth by Governor Vance, and finally declaring that the "separation was final, and that

North-Carolina would never consent to reünion at any time or upon any terms."-A skirmish took place near Tuscumbia, Ala., in which the rebels were compelled to abandon their camps, after losing a large number of horses, and seventy taken prisoners.-Winchester, Va., surrendered to a reconnoitring force of Union troops under the command of General Geary.—(Doc. 59.)

-A SHARP fight took place at Watervalley, Miss., between two brigades of Union troops, commanded by Colonels Hatch and Lee, and a

rebel infantry about five thousand strong, resulting, after a contest of about two hours' duration, in a retreat of the Unionists with a loss of about one hundred men killed, wounded, and missing. (Doc. 63.)

-TO-DAY the Thirtieth Iowa and Twenty-ninth Wisconsin regiments arrived at Helena, Ark., and after pitching their tents, were attacked by a body of three hundred rebels, whom they repulsed, killing eight and capturing thirty.-General Winfield Scott, through the columns of the National Intelligencer, replied to the letter of James Buchanan.

December 6.-General A. P. Hovey, from the headquarters of his expedition, issued an order to the officers and soldiers under his command, thanking them for their cheerfulness and bravery during the expedition to Mississippi. In concluding, he said: "Brigadier-General Washburne's energy and skill deserve particular mention."

-THE rebel schooners Southern Merchant and Naniope, laden with sugar and molasses, were this day captured in Chicot Pass, on the Mississippi, by United States gunboat Diana, under the command of Acting Master Goodwin.-General Viele, Military Governor of Norfolk, Va., issued ber of Congress for the Norfolk district of Vira proclamation and a writ of election for a memginia.-Major-General Dix, commanding Department of Virginia, issued an address from his headquarters at Fortress Monroe to the inhabitants of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight Counties, informing them that smuggling goods across the line to the rebels was prohibited; that every person detected in the attempt would be put at hard labor in Fort Norfolk, and the property seized and sold for the benefit of the poor. Also, that in order they should resume their place in the Union, with the full en