DIARY. OCTOBER 10, 1862. Fourteenth Illinois, and Robert Timmins, of the TO-DAY a force of Union troops, under command Thirty-fifth Indiana, who were captured in the batof Lieutenant-Colonel John Boyle, of the Ninth tles of Shiloh and Corinth, this day made their esKentucky cavalry, entered Harrodsburgh, Ken- cape from Macon, Georgia. After travelling for tucky, completely surprising and taking prisoners seventeen nights, and enduring many hardships, one thousand six hundred rebel troops, composed they finally reached the Union gunboat Westof infantry, artillery, and cavalry, being the rear-ern World, then blockading Doboy Sound, Ga., guard of General Bragg's army.-Governor Harris, and were taken on board. of Tennessee, issued an order requiring the enrolment of all persons between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five, announcing that thirty days would be allowed for volunteering. -A FIGHT took place on the Upper Missouri River, about a hundred and fifty miles below Fort Berthold, between a party of miners, who were descending the river in a Mackinaw boat, and a large number of the Yancton Sioux tribe of Indians. The firing was kept up on both sides from nine o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon, when the Indians gave up the chase, a good many of their number having been killed or wounded. Only one of the miners was wounded-Sioux City Register, November 1. October 11.-A sharp fight took place a few miles from Helena, Arkansas, between a detachment of the Fourth Iowa cavalry, under the command of Major Rector, and a superior force of Texan Rangers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Giddings, resulting in a rout of the latter, nine of their number, including Lieutenant-Colonel Giddings, being captured. The Unionists had three men killed and nine wounded.— Cincinnati Gazette. -THE ship Manchester, from New-York to Liverpool, laden with grain and cotton, was captured by the rebel steamer Alabama, in lat. 41° 25', lon. 55° 50′, when her officers and crew were taken off, with such stores as were wanted, and she was burned.-The One Hundred and Fif -GENERAL J. E. B. STUART'S rebel cavalry entered Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania, and de-tieth regiment New-York volunteers, under comstroyed over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of government stores and private property.-(Doc. 1.) mand of Colonel John H. Ketcham, left Poughkeepsie this day for Washington. -A FORCE of three hundred Union cavalry, -A PARTY of about one hundred rebel guerril- under the command of Colonel McReynolds, las entered Hawesville, Indiana, and for a time made a descent on the rebel Colonel Imboden's held possession of the town, but were finally driv- camp, at Cacapon Bridge, about seventeen miles en out by the Cannelton Home Guard.- Governor from Winchester, Virginia, and captured a major, Letcher, of Virginia, issued a proclamation put-lieutenant, twenty-five privates, a large number of ting in force an act of the Rebel Legislature of horses and mules, one thousand blankets, a quanOctober first, prohibiting the removal of salt from the limits of the State of Virginia, and making provisions regulating its sale to people within the State.-(Doc. 3.) -HENRY FAIRBACK, of Colonel Bissell's Engineer regiment, of the West; Albert Bacon, of the tity of ammunition, brass cannon, wagons, firearms, clothing, and Colonel Imboden's private papers.—Cumberland (Md.) Union. -THE rebel gunboat Palmetto State, built at Charleston, mainly through the efforts and offerings of the women of South-Carolina, was formally named and dedicated. Colonel Richard Yeadon delivered an oration on the occasion. -THE Seventh regiment Maine volunteers, one hundred and sixty-one in number, under command of Colonel Mason, left Washington this day, by order of General Halleck, on its way home to recruit its decimated ranks. -THE schooner Elmira Cornelius, while trying to run the blockade at Bull's Bay, S. C., was this day captured by the United States steamer Restless. Her captain ran her ashore, but she was got off by the assistance of the United States steam er Flag. -RUMORS of peace began to be mooted. The Richmond Enquirer of this date says: "There are prospects of an early peace, which conclusion is founded on the results of the battles in Virginia and Maryland, and the campaign now progressing. The battle of Antietam was, to the Federal forces, the most terrible defeat of the war." -THE United States gunboat Maratanza, Commander Scott, while lying off Cape Fear River, North-Carolina, was fired into by a rebel battery of two Armstrong guns, which the rebels had constructed on the beach during the night. The second shell struck the ship and exploded, killing two and wounding five. After which, the Maratanza immediately got under weigh and stood out to sea.-Com. Scott's Despatch. -YESTERDAY a body of Union cavalry captured fifty wagons laden with ammunition, on the road between Camp Dick Robinson and Danville, Kentucky, and to-day a portion of General Dumont's forces captured at Versailles, Kentucky, a train of wagons, two pieces of artillery, and three hundred and fifty rebels, without a fight. -THE preamble and resolution, submitted to the rebel House of Representatives by Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, concerning the retaliatory measures to be adopted against the Government of the United States, passed the House by a vote of thirty-five yeas to twenty-two nays.-(Doc. 35.) -THE Schooner Revere (British, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) was this day captured off Cape Fear, North-Carolina, by the United States gunboats Maratanza and Monticello. Her cargo consisted of military stores. October 12. This day, the rebel General Stuart's cavalry, which had passed around the Union army of General McClellan, made good its escape across the Potomac at White's Ford, near the mouth of the Monocacy River. During the day, General Pleasanton; with five hundred cav. alry, harassed the rebel rear, and engaged them in a sharp skirmish, but with no material loss on either side.-(Doc. 5.) -CONSIDERABLE excitement was created in Gainsville, Texas, by the discovery of a secret organization of Unionists, whose object was said to be that of killing the secessionists, after which, they were to remove to Missouri, taking with them whatever property they could carry, and burn the remainder. The militia were called out, and arrested twenty-nine persons supposed to belong to the organization, two of whom were immediately hanged.-Houston News. October 13.-A successful reconnoissance was this day made by a force of Union troops under the command of General Stahel, in the vicinity of Paris, Snicker's Gap, and Leesburgh, Virginia. More than one hundred prisoners were taken and paroled; important information was obtained, and the command returned to its headquarters at Centreville, without losing a man.-New-York Times, October 16. -THE Sixth regiment Missouri State militia, under command of Colonel Catherwood, returned to camp at Sedalia, Missouri, after a successful scouting expedition, in which they broke up and dispersed several bands of rebel guerrillas, killing about fifty of their number. They took prisoner Colonel William H. McCoun, of the rebel army. -THE expedition to Jacksonville, Florida, this day returned to Hilton Head, South-Carolina, when General J. M. Brannan made a report to the Secretary of the Navy, announcing the complete success of the expedition-the capture of the rebel fortification at St. John's Bluff, with guns and ammunition, and a rebel steamer.— (Doc. 6.) -THE rebel Congress in session at Richmond passed an act authorizing Jefferson Davis to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in certain cases. The rebel House of Representatives passed a bill making it a death-penalty for Union soldiers to have in their possession, or for endeavoring to pass counterfeit rebel Treasury notes. The rebel Congress adjourned sine die. -THE ship Tonawanda, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, captured by the rebel steamer Alabama on the ninth, was to-day released and again set sail on her voyage, there being no manner of providing for the considerable number of women and children captured on board of her. October 14. The London propeller, Oua- rebel troops under the command of Colonels Anderson, Johnson, and Martin, captured the steamer Hazel Dell at Caseyville, Kentucky. chita, was this day captured in the Gulf Stream, opposite Frying Pan Shoals, by the United States gunboat Memphis, Commander Watmaugh. —A SKIRMISH Occurred at Stanford, Kentucky, between the advance forces of the Union army under General Buell, and the rear-guard of the rebel army under General Bragg, resulting in the retreat of the rebels, fourteen of whom were taken prisoners, a number of horses and guns captured, and a lieutenant-colonel killed.-Stanford was occupied by Union forces. October 15.-Governor Vance, of North-Caroina, issued an appeal to the people of that State, mn which he said, that, "after the most strenuous exertions on the part of its officers, the State finds it impossible to clothe and shoe our soldiers without again appealing to that overflowing fountain of generosity-the private contributions of our people," and asking that all possible con⚫tributions be made. "A great lot of blankets, also, might yet be spared from private use, and thousands could be made from the carpets on our parlor floors.”—(Doc. 8.) -THE bark Lamplighter, of Boston, Captain Harding, from New-York to Gibraltar, was this day captured in latitude 41° 30', longitude 59° 17', by the rebel privateer Alabama, and burned. -THE Right Reverend John H. Hopkins, Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, addressed a letter to the House of Bishops, assembled in General Convention at New-York, protesting against the political aspect of the Pastoral Letter adopted by that body.-See Supplement. -THE Bridgeport (Second Connecticut) battery, one hundred and sixty-five men, under the command of Captain John W. Sterling, arrived at New-York en route for the seat of war. Of the one hundred and sixty-five men comprised in this corps, one hundred and thirty-seven are from amongst the most active business men of Bridgeport.- General McClellan made a preliminary report of the military operations under his charge since the evacuation of Harrison's Landing, Va. (Doc. 2.) -DRAFTING in Boston commenced to-day, under the supervision of Judge Russell, Commissioner, aided by Sheriff Clark, and Dr. N. W. Shurtleff, who was blindfolded and drew the names from a box.-At Baltimore, Maryland, the draft was also made, only forty men being required to fill the quota of that city.-A force of -AN expedition of armed boats from the blockading fleet at Apalachicola, Florida, proceeded up the Apalachicola River, and, after a sharp contest with a rebel force, drove them back and captured a schooner laden with cotton preparatory to running the blockade. Upon returning, the expedition was fired upon by a party of rebels at Apalachicola, when the town was shelled and set on fire. (Doc. 36.) -A SKIRMISH took place in the vicinity of Carsville, Virginia, between a company of the Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Williams, and a force of rebels in ambush, resulting in the killing and wounding of several of the Nationals.-Acting Master Frederick Crocker, of the United States steamer Kensington, made an expedition from Sabine Pass, Texas, up the river, and destroyed the large railroad bridge at Taylor's Bayou, put to flight a body of rebels, and burned their encampment and two rebel schooners.-(Doc. 7.) October 16.-The One Hundred and Seventieth regiment New-York volunteers, being the second of the Irish Legion, left Staten Island, New-York, en route for the seat of war.-Governor Curtin, War Department to permit drafted militia to beof Pennsylvania, was to-day authorized by the come volunteers by changing their term of service from nine months to three years. -THE steamer Emilie was boarded by a gang of guerrillas at Portland, Mo., and plundered of all her stores. The passengers were also robbed of their clothing and valuables.-The United States steam sloop-of-war Ticonderoga, was this day successfully launched from the Navy-Yard, Brooklyn, New-York. -A RECONNOISSANCE by part of the army of the Potomac was made from Harper's Ferry this morning. General Humphrey's division, supported by that of General Porter, crossed the Potomac River at Blackford's Ford and advanced on Shepherdstown. He was met by a strong force of the rebels, who opened a heavy fire upon him; and as General Humphrey had no artillery, and the object of the reconnoissance having been accomplished, he withdrew his forces across the river. THE steamer John H. Dickey, plying between St. Louis, Mo., and Memphis, Tennessee, was |