-A SKIRMISH occurred at Thoroughfare Gap between a Union reconnoitring force under General Stahel, and a body of rebel troops, resulting

this day attacked by a band of rebel guerrillas, in the vicinity of Pemiscot Bayou, Missouri, but escaped without much injury. No one was killed, and only one person slightly wounded.-The in the retreat of the latter toward Haymarket. rebel Brigadier-General George B. Anderson, who was wounded at Sharpsburgh, Md., died at Raleigh, North-Carolina.

A caisson containing ammunition was captured, and about one hundred rebel prisoners were taken.-(Doc. 37.)

CONSIDERABLE difficulty was experienced by the officers appointed to complete the enrolment for the draft in Pennsylvania. In the town of Berkley, Luzerne County, the military had to

-A RECONNOISSANCE under the command of General Hancock, left Bolivar Heights early this morning and proceeded toward Charlestown, Va. When a mile and a half from the town, the rebels opened fire upon the Union troops from | be called out, who fired on the insurgents, killing

a battery of five pieces, which was responded to by Clark's and Tompkins's Rhode Island batteries, for about two hours, when the rebels fell back to the hills beyond the town. The rebels' guns were well served, but only a few of their shells exploded. The Nationals had one man killed and eight wounded; the rebels had nine men wounded and taken prisoners, among whom was Captain Smith, of the Richmond artillery. The National troops entered Charlestown and occupied it.

-THE draft commenced in every county of the State of Pennsylvania, except that of Philadelphia, without any undue excitement.

four or five of their number. The draft was also resisted in Carbondale, Scranton, and other towns in the mining districts. The resistants were mostly Irishmen.

October 18.-To-day as a small party of the Forty-third Indiana regiment were doing picketduty in the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, they were attacked by a gang of rebel guerrillas, killing one and taking several of their number pris-.

oners.

-THE British frigate, Racer, by permission of Flag-Officer Green, commanding U. S. blockading squadron off South-Carolina, entered Charleston Harbor, and took away the British Consul. October 17.-A fight took place near Lexing--The Twenty-third Maine and the Fourteenth ton, Kentucky, between a rebel force of about New-Hampshire regiments, left Boston this mornthree thousand cavalry and six pieces of artillery, ing for New-York, en route for the seat of war. under the command of General John Morgan, and three hundred and fifty Union cavalry, under Major Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio cavalry, resulting in a retreat of the Nationals with a loss of four killed, twenty-four wounded, and a large number of prisoners.

A SKIRMISH Occurred in the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky, between a detachment of the Fourth Ohio cavalry, under the command of Captain Robey, and a large force of rebel cavalry under General John H. Morgan, resulting in the capture of the entire National force. The rebels -TO-DAY a band of rebel guerrillas under then dashed into Lexington, capturing the proQuantrel, entered Shawnee, Kansas, and com-vost-guard, and without stopping any length of pletely sacked it, burning thirteen houses and time, moved off in the direction of Versailles, killing three men. Six miles south of the town Kentucky. By this operation General Morgan they overtook two teams laden with goods. They secured about three hundred and fifty horses, killed one of the drivers, dangerously wounded with their equipments, as many prisoners, and the other, and captured the teams and goods.- the arms and accoutrements of the men. He Leavenworth Conservative. paroled the prisoners.

-THE Common Council of Boston, Massachu- -TEN of Porter's rebel guerrillas, Willis Basetts, having voted to raise the bounty to volun-ker, Thomas Humston, Morgan Bixler, John Y. teers to two hundred dollars, drafting in that city McPheeters, Herbert Hudson, John M. Wade, ceased.

-A UNION force under Acting Master Crocker, of the U. S. steamer Kensington, landed at Sabine City, Texas, attacked and routed a party of rebels five miles from the city, and burned their encampment.-(Doo. 7.)

Marion Sair, Captain Thomas A. Snider, Eleazer Lake, and Hiram Smith, held as hostages by order of General McNeil, for the safe return of Andrew Allsman, an aged citizen of Palmyra, Mo., who had been carried off by the guerrillas, were publicly shot this day.-(Doc. 10.)

-NINE Union pickets were fired upon and lication of the Journal newspaper had to be suskilled by rebel guerrillas at a point on the Mis-pended, as almost all the hands necessary to carry sissippi opposite Helena, Ark.—A supply train of on the work were sick with the fever. seven wagons laden with forage and commissary -PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued an order estabstores for the use of the reconnoitring force un-lishing a Provisional Court for the State of Louder General Stahel, was captured by a body of isiana, and appointing Charles A. Peabody, of rebel cavalry at Haymarket, and taken to War-New-York, to be a Provisional Judge to hold the renton, Va. A lieutenant and twenty-six Union court.-(Doc. 11.) soldiers were also made prisoners.

-A body of seven hundred rebel cavalry came upon a party of thirty-two Union cavalry under command of Lieutenant Baldwin, at Haymarket, Va., capturing all but nine of them, who made their escape after a severe chase.—(Doc. 37.)

October 19.-The United States gunboat Ellis, of the Newbern, N. C., blockading squadron, Lieutenant W. D. Cushing, commander, captured the British schooner Adelaide, of Halifax, N. S., in New Topsail Inlet, twelve miles from Wilmington, while attempting to run the blockade with a cargo of cotton and turpentine. The vessel being aground, with her cargo, was destroyed.

-THE steamer Catahoula, plying between Helena, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., was this day fired into by a band of rebel guerrillas, at a point a few miles below the latter city. No one was killed, and only one man wounded.-A party of Morgan's rebel cavalry this day attacked and destroyed a train of fifty-one loaded wagons and thirty-one empty ones, at Bardstown, Ky., paroling the teamsters and driving off the horses and mules-Louisville Journal.

-MAJOR WOODSON, of the Tenth cavalry, Missouri State militia, attacked a band of rebel guerrillas on Auxvois River, dispersed them, killing and wounding several, capturing arms, aminunition, blankets, and horses.-The Twenty-seventh regiment Maine volunteers, left Portland this morning for the seat of war.

-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES STUART, with a portion of the Tenth Illinois cavalry, attacked two hundred rebel cavalry near Marshfield, Mo., this day, completely routing and disorganizing them, and capturing twenty-seven prisoners.— The plantations in the vicinity of President's Island, on the Mississippi, were burned to-day in retaliation for an attack upon the steamer Catahoula by the rebels.

October 21.-A reconnoissance was this day made by a strong force of Union troops, under the command of General Geary, into Loudon County, Va. Several skirmishes took place with parties of the rebels, resulting in their retreat, leaving in the hands of the Unionists seventy-five prisoners, including a number of officers, and about thirty horses.

-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SACKETT, Ninth New- - PRESIDENT LINCOLN addressed a letter to York cavalry, commanding a reconnoitring party Major-General Grant, Governor Johnson, and all sent out to patrol the country between Centreville having military, naval, and civil authority under and Leesburgh, Va., made a report narrating the the United States within the State of Tennessee, operations of the expedition. During the recon- recommending Thomas R. Smith, a citizen of Tennoissance he captured and paroled sixty or seventy nessee, who went to that State, seeking to have soldiers.-A body of rebel cavalry under the lead such of its people as desired to have peace again of Colonel Jeffries, entered and occupied Com-upon the old terms under the Constitution, to merce, Tenn.—(Doc. 9.) manifest such desire by electing members to the October 20.-A skirmish took place on the Cum- Congress of the United States, State officers, and berland River, a few miles from Nashville, Tenn., a Senator of the United States. The President between a considerable force of rebel cavalry un-wished the parties addressed to aid Mr. Smith, der General Forrest, and a body of Union troops and all others seeking for this object, as much as under the command of Colonel Miller, in which possible.-A Union meeting was held in Beauthe rebels were driven across the river with some loss. A number of prisoners, including a colonel, were taken.

-FIVE hundred cases of yellow fever were reported in Wilmington, N. C. The mortality was very great, thirty or forty dying daily. The pub

fort, N. C. Patriotic speeches were made, and resolutions indorsing President Lincoln's proclamation liberating the slaves of rebels, were passed.

The Union army under General Schofield, left Pea Ridge, Ark., last evening, in pursuit of th

rebels retreating through that State. One portion of the Union army under General Schofield, taking the road toward Huntsville, and the other under General Blunt going toward Maysville, on the boundary line between Arkansas and the Indian Nation.-(Doc. 12.)

A SKIRMISH took place at Woodville, Tenn., between the Second Illinois cavalry, under the command of Major John J. Mudd, and a party of rebel guerrillas under Haywood, resulting in a complete rout of the latter, leaving in the hands of the Unionists forty of their number as prisoners, a wagon-load of arms, a large number of saddles,

and about one hundred horses and mules.

A fight occurred at Fort Cobb, in the Indian Territory, between a body of loyal Indians belonging to six different tribes, numbering about seven hundred, and a force of rebel Indians, of the Tongkawa tribe, under Colonel Leper, resulting in the defeat of the rebels with great slaughter. Colonel Leper, who was a white man, was killed.-Leavenworth Conservative.

October 22.-General Blunt with a division of Union troops this day attacked a force of rebels five thousand strong at Old Fort Wayne, near Maysville, Ark., and after an hour's sharp fighting completely routed them and captured all their artillery, a large number of horses, and a portion of their transports and garrison equipage, the rebels retreating toward Fort Smith.-General Schofield with a Union force this day drove the rebels under General Hindman, through Huntsville, Ark., to a point beyond the Boston Mountain.-(Doc. 12.)

and after a warm engagement and considerable loss, the expedition was compelled to abandon its object and return to the boats.-(Doc. 13.)

-A SHARP fight took place near Van Buren, Ark., between a force of Union cavalry under the command of Major B. F. Lazear, and a body of rebel guerrilla cavalry, numbering four hundred and fifty men, under Boone, resultingin a complete rout of the latter, with considerable loss.

-THE Twenty-fourth Texas Rangers to-day captured a train of thirty wagons, of the Fifth and Ninth Illinois cavalry, near Helena, Ark.,' and took several prisoners.-The Fourteenth regiment of Vermont volunteers, under the command of Colonel W. S. Nichols, passed through Springfield, Mass., en route for the seat of war.— Springfield Republican.

A SKIRMISH took place between the Union and rebel pickets in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., terminating in a retreat of the Unionists to their intrenchments at Nashville, with some loss.-The British brig Robert Bruce, of Bristol, England, Captain Muir, was this day captured off Shallotte Inlet, N. C., by the United States gunboat Penobscot, while attempting to run the blockade.-Two squadrons of the Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, under the command of Captain Duncan, made a reconnoissance to-day in the vicinity of Hedgesville, Va. Captain Duncan drove the rebel pickets into the town, and then charged the main body, routing them and taking nineteen prisoners, including three offi

cers.

October 23.-The British schooner Francis, of Nassau, N. P., was captured in the vicinity of Indian River, Florida, by the United States gunboat Sagamore. The rebel authorities at Rich

ing the protection of foreign governments, would not be allowed to go North on the flag of truce boats.

YESTERDAY an expedition of troops, gunboats, and transports, under command of General J. M. Brannan, left Hilton Head, S. C., by way of the Coosahatchie and Pocotaligo Rivers, to destroy the bridges and tear up the track of the Charles-mond were notified that aliens, or persons claimton and Savannah Railroad. One wing of the expedition under command of Colonel W. B. Barton, to-day marched upon the village of Coosahatchie, attacked a passing train, killing and wounding several, afterward tore up the railroad track, cut the telegraph wires, and marched upon the bridge, but was prevented from burning the bridge at this point by the presence of a superior rebel force. The other wing of the expedition, under command of General Brannan, landed at Mackay's Point, marched ten miles inland to Pocataligo bridge, skirmishing with and routing the rebels as they advanced. At the bridge a superior force was encountered well intrenched, and several wounded.—(Doc. 38.)

-A FIGHT took place near Waverly, Tenn., between a reconnoitring party of Union troops, consisting of about two hundred of the Eightythird Illinois infantry, supported by one piece of artillery, under the command of Major Blott, and a large force of rebel guerrillas, which resulted, after an hour's duration, in a complete rout of the latter, with a loss of about forty of their number killed and wounded, and thirty taken prisoners. The Unionists had one killed,