looking body of men, and ought to be ashamed of themselves for volunteering their services in the villainy of trying to subjugate a chivalrous

outlaw and common enemy of mankind, and that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging, the under-people."—Colonel Hoskins, commanding military signed hereby offers a reward of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the capture and delivery of the said Benjamin F. Butler, dead or alive, to any proper confederate authority."

January 2.—The battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, Tenn., between the Union army of the Cumberland, under the command of Major-General Rosecrans, and the rebel force under General Bragg, which commenced two days previous, was resumed this morning, and, after a most obstinate and bloody contest, which lasted all day, resulted in the retreat of the rebel forces with great slaughter.-(Docs. 26 and 146.)

post at Lebanon, Ky., made report of his operations before that place, commencing on the twentieth day of December, 1862, at which time he was notified by General Boyle that the rebel forces under General Morgan had again entered Kentucky, and ending on this day, when the pursuit of them was abandoned, by order of General Fry, three miles beyond Columbia, Ky.--(Doc. 52.)

January 3.-Captain William Gwin, of the United States gunboat Benton, died this evening of the wounds he received in the action near Vicksburgh, Miss., on the twenty-seventh of December last.-A volunteer cavalry company, under the command of Captain J. Sewell Reid, arrived at New-York from California, on the way to Massachusetts, in order to join the Second cavalry of that State. They were raised in San Francisco, and represented nearly every loyal State in the Union. -Murfreesboro, Tenn., was evacuated by the rebels.—(Doc. 26.)

-SKIRMISHING continued yesterday around Vicksburgh, and this morning the rebels advanced upon a portion of General Grant's army who were engaged erecting works on the lake near the city, causing them to retreat with a slight loss. General Pemberton, in command of the rebels, sent a despatch to Richmond stating that "the enemy finding all his efforts unavailing to make any inroad upon our position -LAST night a portion of the command of here, has reembarked, leaving a considerable General Washburne's cavalry left camp at Helquantity of intrenching tools and other proper-ena, Ark., and in a terrific storm of wind and ty, and apparently has relinquished his designs upon Vicksburgh."

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S Emancipation Proclamation was officially issued as "General Order No. 1."

rain, proceeded to a point near La Grange, where, at daylight this morning, they dashed upon a camp of rebel cavalry, and succeeded in scattering them through the woods and destroying their camp, besides capturing ten men and two officers, and killing and wounding ten others.- General Gorman's Despatch.

A DETACHMENT of Stuart's rebel cavalry, commanded by Major Herring, made a descent -EARLY this morning Moorefield, Va., was atinto Dumfries, Va., and captured a quantity of tacked by a strong rebel force under the compublic stores and ten sutler's wagons, belonging mand of General Jones, and after a contest with principally to Maine and New-York regiments. the garrison of several hours' duration, they were The movement was accomplished with such ex-beaten off and compelled to retreat, carrying traordinary expedition, that but two drivers only with them, however, sixty-five prisoners with escaped. — At Richmond, Va., brown sugar sold their arms, and six horses.-Wheeling Intelliat one dollar and ten cents per pound, molasses at eight dollars a gallon, and other necessaries of life in proportion.- Richmond Examiner.

gencer.

January 4.—Major-General Hurlbut, commanding District of Tennessee, issued an order at SALUTES in honor of the confirmatory procla- Memphis, warning the resident sympathizers mation of the President of the United States, with guerrillas, that threats having been made declaring freedom to the slaves of rebels, were that the railroads in his command would be ingiven in many portions of the loyal States.-terrupted, he would, for every attempted raid Boston Transcript. upon such roads, send to the South ten families -UNION prisoners captured at Galveston, yes- of the most noted secessionists in Memphis, and terday, arrived at Houston, Texas. In noticing those to be selected from the wealthiest and the event, the Telegraph said: "They are a fine- highest social position.-General Orders No. 10.

at Murfreesboro, Tenn., issued a general order, announcing to the commissioned officers of the rebel army, taken prisoners by the forces under his command, "That, owing to the barbarous measures announced by President Davis, in his recent Proclamation, denying parole to our officers, he will be obliged to treat them in like manner."

-Ar Galveston, Texas, the rebel General J. -GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters B. Magruder issued the following proclamation: "Whereas, the undersigned has succeeded in capturing and destroying a part of the enemy's fleet, and in driving the remainder out of the harbor of Galveston and beyond the neighboring waters, and, the blockade having been thus effectually raised, he therefore proclaims to all concerned, that the harbor of Galveston is open for trade to all friendly nations, and their merchants are invited to resume their usual commercial intercourse with this port."-Official Proclamation.

-THE expedition under the command of General Samuel P. Carter, reached Manchester, Ky., on its return from East-Tennessee.--A meeting was held at Beaufort, N. C., at which resolutions were adopted, denouncing the course of Governor Stanly, in his administration in that State.

January 7.-The Richmond Examiner of this date, in discussing the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, says, that it is the "most startling political crime, the most stupid

January 5.-Captain John H. McNeill of Imboden's rangers, made a descent upon the National troops in Hardy County, Va., and succeeded in killing one, and in capturing thirty-three men, sixty-one horses, with accoutrements, besides several revolvers and other articles of value. This was accomplished after the rebel forces un-political blunder, yet known in American hisder General Jones had retired from Moorefield. Richmond Dispatch.

-By direction of the President of the United States, the troops in the Department of the Gulf were constituted the Nineteenth army corps, to date from December fourteenth, 1862, and MajorGeneral N. P. Banks was assigned to the command.—The English sloop Avenger, while trying to run the blockade at Jupiter Inlet, Fla., was captured by the gunboat Sagamore.-Captain W. B. Cushing with the schooner Home, made an expedition up Little River, N. C., surprised and captured a rebel fort, destroyed all its defences and stores, and retired without any casualty.-Official Report.

-BRIG.-GEN. R. H. MILROY, commanding the National forces at Winchester, Va., issued a notice to the citizens of that place, of his intention to maintain and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.-The rebel pickets, stationed eighteen miles below Kinston, N. C., were driven in by the advance of General Foster's forces.—An emancipation jubilee was held at Cooper Institute, in New-York City.-Jefferson Davis returned to Richmond from his tour

in the South-west.

January 6.-The British iron steamer Antona, laden with Enfield rifles, a battery of brass fieldpieces, powder, medicines, boots, tea, etc., from Liverpool vid Havana, was captured off Mobile, by the United States steamer Pocahontas, while attempting to run the blockade.-(Doc. 97.)

tory," that "servile insurrection is the real, sole purpose of the Proclamation," that it "shuts the door of retreat and repentance on the weak and timid," and that the "Southern people have now Four hundred and fifty women and children left only to choose between victory and death." Washington, D. C., for Richmond, Va., and other A reconnoissance from Winchester to Woodstock, parts of the South, under official permission.Va., was made this day by a party of the First New-York cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Von Schickfuss. — Philadelphia Inquirer.

January 8.-A fight took place at Springfield, Mo., between the Union forces under BrigadierGeneral Brown, and a numerically superior force of rebels under General Marmaduke, resulting, after a contest of more than ten hours' duration, in a retreat of the latter. The loss was nearly equal on both sides.—(Doc. 98.)

Union troops, under the command of Major Wm. -YESTERDAY a large reconnoitring force of P. Hall, embarked at Yorktown, Va., on board the fleet of gunboats and transports, under the command of Captain F. A. Parker, and arrived at West-Point, at the junction of the Pamunkey and Mattapony Rivers, early this morning. Thence they proceeded to Lanesville, where they captured a wagon-train, consisting of contraband goods, en route for Richmond, consisting of gutta-percha, block-tin, paints, medicines, she-lac, and ordnance stores. Leaving a strong picket-guard at Lanesville, they next proceeded to Indian Town,

upon their respective grounds, by fire, or any other means at his command--General R. B. Mitchell's Special Order.

where they found two wagons loaded with meal, farms, and all property susceptible of destruction awaiting ferriage to White House, and destined for Richmond. After destroying these, with the telegraph, and seizing the mail, they crossed the Pamunkey to White House, where they destroy- -COLONEL LUDLOW, of General Dix's staff, reed by fire the ferry-boat, two sloops laden with turned from City Point, Va., to Fortress Monroe, grain, two barges, four pontoon-boats, the steamer having accomplished an exchange of prisoners, Lottie Maynard, a store-house, containing over by which twenty thousand men were restored one thousand bushels of wheat, a large quantity to active service in the National army.-The army of commissary stores, etc. The torch was next of the Cumberland, under the command of Majorapplied to the railroad depot, containing a large General Rosecrans, was divided into three army amount of freight for Richmond, the tank, the corps, to be known as the Fourteenth, commandrolling stock, signal station, sutlers' buildings, ed by Major-General Thomas, Twentieth, comand stores. The force remained until the demo. manded by Major-General A. McD. McCook, and lition was complete, when, the object of the re- the Twenty-first, under the command of Majorconnoissance having been accomplished, they re- General T. L. Crittenden.-General Orders, No. 9. turned to Yorktown, having sustained no loss -THE lower branch of the Legislature of Inwhatever during the expedition.-Official Report. diana, adopted a series of resolutions, condemn-CAPTAIN MOORE, of the Twentieth Illinois ing the arrests made by order of the National cavalry, this morning at sunrise, made a sudden War Department as "acts of tyranny and flagdescent upon the camp of Lieutenant-Colonel rant violations of the rights of the people." Dawson's rebel command, near Ripley, Tenn., January 10.-A skirmish took place at Catand dispersed the occupants, killing eight, woundlett's Station, Va., between a party of National ing twenty, and capturing forty-six prisoners, among whom were one major, two captains, and cavalry, under the command of Colonel Schimone lieutenant. He also seized twenty horses, melfennig and Hampton's rebel cavalry.—Govand one wagon-load of arms. Dawson's party had ernor Letcher, of Virginia, in response to a rebeen engaged for many weeks burning all the cot-quisition of Jefferson Davis, issued a proclamation ton that could be found in that part of the country. Captain Moore did not lose a man, and had only three wounded.- Wolverine Citizen.

-THE English sloop Julia was captured near Jupiter Inlet, Fla. General Mansfield Lovell was dismissed from the service of the rebels for incapacity. The steamer Mussulman was burned by guerrillas at Bradley's Landing, ten miles above Memphis, Tenn.-General Pemberton, in command of the rebel forces at Vicksburgh, issued an order expressing his high appreciation of their recent gallant defence" of that position.The rebel steamer Tropic, formerly the Huntress, of Charleston, S. C., while attempting to run the blockade, was destroyed by fire. Her passengers were saved by the boats of the National gunboat Quaker City.

calling out the militia of the counties bordering on the North-Carolina line, to aid in repelling any attempt at invasion by the National forces.Orison Glines was riden on a rail at Stoneham, Mass., for having deserted from the National

army.

January 11.-The United States steamer Hatteras, under the command of Lieutenant R. G. Blake, was sunk off the coast of Texas, by the rebel steamer Alabama, after an engagement of twenty minutes.--(Doc. 100.)

-THE steamer Grampus No. 2, lying at the mouth of Wolf River, Tenn., was surprised and captured by thirteen rebels, taken five miles above Memphis, and there stripped and burned.The Virginia Legislature passed a resolution, directing the Special Committee appointed to conJanuary 9.-In consequence of the destruction sider the resolution touching the legal tender of of a locomotive and construction train, upon the confederate notes, to inquire into the expediency Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, this day, by of "punishing by suitable penalties, any citizen Richard McCann and Thomas Kilkird, leading a of the commonwealth who shall refuse to receive gang of outlaws, Col. R. S. Moore, of the Eighty- the Treasury notes of the confederate States, in fich Illinois volunteers, was ordered to proceed discharge of any debt or obligation for the paywith his regiment to the houses of the above-ment of money."-Richmond Inquirer. named persons, and to destroy their houses, barns, -FORT HINDMAN, Post Arkansas, was this day