quartered as follows: Fifteen at the house of of the successful operations of his forces in Mrs. McCall, fifteen at the house of Dr. Buchanan, Georgia and Florida.-See Supplement. and fifteen at the house of Mr. Sandy Carter, all on Cherry street, immediately below Church street;" each family to be held responsible for the safe delivery of the confederate soldiers thus assigned, on the penalty of the forfeiture of their property and personal liberty.-General Mitchell's Order.

-THE second attack on Fort McAllister at Genesis Point, Ga., was made this day, resulting in the retirement of the National fleet without any material damage to the rebels, except killing Major John B. Gallie, the commander of the rebel forces. The National iron-clad Montauk, under the command of Commander J. L. Worden, occupied the advance position in the engagement and received sixty-one shots, retiring without a man injured.

-FRANKLIN, Tenn., was this day occupied by the National forces, under the command of Colo

nel Robert Johnson. The rebel General Forrest

and staff narrowly escaped, while one of his captains and two men were captured. The Nationals

-COLONEL STOKES's regiment of loyal Tennessee cavalry and one of Kentucky volunteers, dashed upon a rebel camp at Middleton, Tennessee, and by a brilliant sabre charge succeeded in surprising the enemy and capturing his camp equipage, horses, wagons, stores, and over one hundred prisoners. Among the latter were the noted Major Douglass and all the officers of his battalion.-Colonel Percy Wyndham, with a detachment from the Fifth and First Virginia cavalry, surprised Warrenton, Va., and sent strong patrols to the Rappahannock, at Sulphur Springs and Waterloo.-A debate on the free navigation of the Mississippi River, was held to-day, in the rebel Congress at Richmond.

February 3.-A fight took place at Mingo Swamp, Missouri, between a detachment of Union troops under the command of Major Reeder, and leadership of Dan McGee, resulting in a coma numerous gang of rebel guerrillas under the

lost one man killed.-The Legislature of North-plete rout of the latter. McGee and eight of his men were killed, and twenty wounded.—(Doc. 117.)

Carolina adopted a series of resolutions, vindicating the loyalty of the State to the rebel government, and protesting against any settlement of the struggle which "would not secure the entire independence of the confederate

States of America."-A. D. Boileau was released from Fort McHenry, Md.

-TO-NIGHT an attack was made on Island No. Ten by a large body of rebels, composed of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They had crossed the Obion River and stationed themselves on the Tennessee shore with three six-pounders. A National transport, passing just as they arrived, was fired at and compelled to surrender. Soon after, the gunboat New Era arrived and immediately

-A SUCCESSFUL reconnoissance was this day made to Liberty, Auburn, and Lebanon, Tenn., by a body of National troops under the command of General J. J. Reynolds. They obtained important information concerning the position and operations of the rebel forces; ascertained that the inhabitants of many portions of Tennessee hitherto unvisited by National troops, were loyal to the Union; obtained large material results in the capture of supplies, and in destroying rebel means of support; broke up a rebel camp, dispersing the rebels in all directions; had several skirmishes with guerrillas, routing them on each occasion with great slaughter.

-FORT Donelson, Tennessee, garrisoned by only six hundred of the Eighty-third Illinois, under the command of Colonel Harding, was attacked by a large rebel force under Generals Wheeler and Forrest, and after a desperate contest of five hours' duration, the rebels were repulsed and retreated. (Doc. 118.)

opened fire on the rebels, who, after receiving one hundred shots from the gunboat, made a hasty retreat, leaving the transport, which had been captured, to proceed on her voyage. There were no casualties on the National side.-The Quakers, of New-York, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, memorialized Congress, asking exemption from the draft and the procurement of substitutes, and from the fines, which they deemed a penalty February 4.--Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., imposed for exercising "the right of conscience commanding the cavalry division in the brigade against the shedding of blood.”—Colonel T. W. of General J. W. Davidson, made a descent on Higginson, of the First South-Carolina colored Batesville, Ark., driving the rebels under Marregiment, made a full and explicit official report | maduke out of the town, killing and wounding

many, and capturing some prisoners; among Majesty has viewed with the deepest concern the them, Colonel Adams. Captain Roses, of the Fourth Missouri cavalry, led the charge into the town most gallantly. Such of the rebels as could not crowd into the boats, swam the river. Colonel Waring remounted his men from the country. -General Davidson's Despatch.

-THANKSGIVING was celebrated in Texas, "for the successes that had attended the con

federate arms." The ram Fulton, on the way to Vicksburgh, was fired into by a rebel battery at Cypress Bend, and disabled. One negro on board was killed, and another, so frightened that he jumped overboard and was drowned. Before the rebels could capture the ram, the steamers Rattler and Wilson came up and dispersed them.

-THE National troops had a brief skirmish with a small body of rebels, five miles from Lake Providence, in which they lost several men, and over thirty of the rebels were killed, wounded, and captured. More than ninety horses were taken.-The examination of Rev. R. J. Graves took place at Hillsboro, N. C., before Judge M. E. Manly, at the conclusion of which he was bound over to appear at the rebel court at Richmond, Va., to stand his trial on a charge of treason.-Raleigh Progress.

February 5.-Captain Wm. K. Ranney, of the Fortieth regiment of Missouri militia, while on a scouting expedition on Bear Creek, Johnson Co., Mo., encountered a party of rebel guerrillas. "On seeing them he put spurs to his horse and commanded his men to follow, which they did with a will, and coming up with the enemy, routed them on the double-quick, the fleeing rebels leaving seven dead on the field. Pursuing the rebels about seven miles, night came on, and the weather being extremely cold, he gave up the chase. Captain Ranney and all of his men escaped unharmed.”—Lieutenant-Colonel Brown's Report.

desolating warfare which still rages in those regions; and she has witnessed with heartfelt grief the severe distress and suffering which that war has inflicted upon a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, but which have been borne by them with noble fortitude and with exemplary resignation. It is some consolation to be led to hope that this suffering and this distress are rather diminishing than increasing, and that some re vival of employment is beginning to take place in the manufacturing districts."

-A SMALL detachment of National cavalry was attacked at Wigginton's Mills, near Stafford Store, Va. At the first fire, Dixon, the scout who was wounded a few days previous in a skirmish with a party of South-Carolinians, was again wounded seriously. The rebels were finally dispersed, and several of the neighboring farmers were arrested. -New-York Times.

army,

-CAPTAIN ROBERT MAUPIN, of the rebel was captured in the vicinity of Columbia, Mo., by a party of National troops under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Russell, of the Sixty-First Missouri regiment.—Missouri Statesman.

February 6.-A detachment from companies H and F, of the Fifth New-York cavalry, under the command of Captain Penfield, made a raid into Middleburgh, Va., and at Aldie captured eight of the First Virginia rebel cavalry, and the post-master at Little Washington. They were en route to a ball given to them by the citizens of that place, and were fully armed and equipped.—— The rebel Colonel Cushman, the celebrated "cotton-burner," was arrested at his residence, near Ripley, Tenn., and taken to Columbus.-Cincinnati Gazette.

-A PARTY of the Twelfth Virginia rebel cavalry, attacked the mail-coach between Martinsburgh and Winchester, Va., this afternoon, and captured the driver and occupants of the coach, Brigadier-General Cluseret's assistant adjutant-THE British Parliament was opened and general and aid-de-camp among the number. the Queen's speech was read, in which she said: The aid managed to escape, and reported the af"Her Majesty's relations with foreign Powers fair to General Milroy, who immediately ordered continue to be friendly and satisfactory. Her out two companies of the First New-York cavalry Majesty has abstained from taking any step with to cut off their retreat. Companies A and K, a view to induce a cessation of the conflict between commanded by Captain Jones, and Lieutenant the contending parties in the North American Laverty respectively, were sent out. Captain States, because it has not yet seemed to Her Jones left Lieutenants Laverty and Watkins with Majesty that any such overtures could be at- a smal! party at Millwood, thirteen miles from tended with a probability of success. Her Winchester, while he and Lieutenant Boyd went

on still further. The Captain's party had scarcely Southern States, informing them that the Namoved away, when the rebels made their appear- tional fleets having been dispersed at Galveston, ance at Millwood, with all they had captured. and Sabine Pass, Texas, those ports were open to Lieutenant Laverty immediately ordered a charge, the trade of the merchants of their several naand dashed upon them, when the rebels broke tions.-Eli Thayer, at the Cooper Institute at and ran, though fighting desperately as they fled. New-York, delivered an address advocating the They were chased seven miles. The expedition colonization of Florida with loyal colonists from resulted in the recapture of all which the rebels had the North. taken, and the killing of one of them, and taking February 8.-Colonel W. R. Penick, from his prisoner of another. The escape of the remainder headquarters at Independence, Mo., sent a deof the rebels was owing to its being night. Lieu-tachment of fifty men from the Fifth cavalry of tenant Laverty was the only one injured, on the Missouri volunteers, under the command of LieuNational side. tenant D. A. Colvin, in pursuit of a guerrilla camp, which he ascertained existed in the vicinity. His scout came up with the enemy at two o'clock this afternoon, when a running fight commenced, which lasted about thirty minutes, and resulted in the rout of the guerrillas, with eight killed, two wounded, and all their arms captured. To test the fighting qualities of the negro, Colonel Penick sent a contraband with the party at his own request. The negro was severely wounded in the shoulder, but expressed "his willingness to again fight the bushwhackers as soon as he should recover.”—Colonel Penick's Report.

February 7.-This morning a deserter from the rebel army came to the National headquarters at Yorktown, Va., and stated that there were some twenty-five more of the rebels nine miles from Williamsburgh that wanted to give them selves up, but were afraid to come into the lines for fear of being fired upon. LieutenantColonel Lewis, in command of the Fifth Pennsylvania, sent a squadron of his cavalry after them. When the main body of the squadron had reached the spot where the men were said to be waiting, they were fired upon by guerrillas in ambush, and twenty saddles were emptied the first volley. At the same time a body of rebel cavalry was seen charging down the road at some distance off. What remained of the Union cavalry, immediately started to receive them. They had just got under good speed, when they came in contact with telegraph wires that the guerrillas had suspended across the road and tied to the trees on each side, throwing horses and riders to the ground and tumbling them in a heap together, cutting and bruising both man and horse terribly. One captain and one lieutenant were taken prisoners, one captain was mortally wounded, and one lieutenant was killed. Thirty-five of the men were missing, and were either killed or taken prisoners.

-THE guerrilla leader, Captain Dawson, and several of his men, were this day captured by a detachment of Union troops, under the command of Colonel Wood, Twenty-second Ohio volunteers, in the vicinity of Dyersburgh, Tenn.-Chicago Tribune.

-THE expedition under Generals Davis and Morgan, sent from Nashville, Tenn., in pursuit of Forrest and Wheeler's rebel force, who were retreating to the West, returned this evening. Seven miles east of Charlotte, thirty rebel prisoners were captured, among whom were Colonel Carroll, and Major Rembrant, of Forrest's staff.Lebanon, Tenn., was entered and occupied by the National forces, who succeeded in capturing six hundred rebels, most of them belonging to the command of General Morgan.-The work of cutting the canal at Vicksburgh continued rapidly, a large force being engaged upon it night and day.-Rear-Admiral Porter reported the capture of three rebel transport steamers on the Red River, Ark., by the Queen of the West, under the command of Colonel Ellet.-The circulation of the Chicago Times newspaper was prohibited in the command of General Hurlbut, by a general order issued at Memphis, Tenn.

February 9.-A cavalry skirmish occurred near Summerville, Va., between a detachment of Union cavalry belonging to Major Knox's command, and a scouting-party of rebels, in which the latter were compelled to retreat, with the

-THE steamers T. D. Wagner, Leopard, and Ruby, all from Nassau, N. P., with "large and valuable cargoes," ran the blockade and arrived at Charleston, S. C., at an early hour this morn-loss of several of their number killed and wounding.-J. P. Benjamin, the rebel Secretary of State, ed. The National party were uninjured.--Phiaddressed a circular to the foreign consuls in the ladelphia Inquirer.