svcally ALL ue cuaiges masbuigu, ia members of the stati were in woods where the enemy fought from be- of General Hooker, Major Sterling and Captain hind trees, stone walls and natural rifle-pits. A Fisher, were captured by guerrillas near Fair

casion, under the leadership of Major Smith.Cincinnati Gazette.

-THE Thirty-seventh, Twenty-second, and Eleventh regiments of New-York militia, left New-York for the scene of operations in Pennsylvania.—THE Mechanic Light Infantry left Salem, Mass., for the seat of war.-THE steamer Platte Valley was fired into at Bradford's Landing on the Mississippi, and two persons were killed and a number wounded.-THE English schooner Harriet was captured at Tampa Bay, Florida, by the national gunboat Tahoma; about the same time she destroyed the schooner Mary Jane.—A DETACHMENT of the First Missouri and Fifth Ohio cavalry under Major Henry, of the Fifth Ohio, four hundred strong, while on a reconnoissance, was surrounded near Fernando, Miss., by General Chambers, with two thousand rebels. They were routed and most of them captured or killed. Major Henry was taken prisoner.

large number of the Nationals were dismounted, and they proved themselves to be quite as great adepts in the Indian style of warfare as the enemy. As the latter were driven out of one piece of timber, they would retreat into another, and thus the contest was kept up, from early morning until four o'clock P.M., almost without intermission.

During the early portion of the day the brigade commanded by Colonel Gregg was alone enDuring the day, General Kilpatrick's gaged. command came up, and, at a late hour, the regular cavalry, which had been sent up the Snicker's Gap road, made a sudden dash upon the left flank of the rebels, creating quite a panic. As the regulars passed up the Snicker's Gap pike, a squadron of the First cavalry was placed to guard the bridge across Goose Creek. main column had been gone only a short time, when the guard was attacked by a superior force, and driven away, when the bridge was set on fire. The First Maine, Tenth, Second, and Fourth New-York, Fourth and Sixteenth PennThe sylvania did most of the skirmishing. First Maine made five charges under the most unfavorable circumstances, and added new lau

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-FLETCHER FREEMAN, the National enrolling officer of Sullivan County, Indiana, was shot and instantly killed, while riding along a country road.-CHAMBERSBURGH, Pa., was evacuated by the rebels under Jenkins, who took up his line rels to their fame. The National loss in killed of march to Hagerstown.-A COMPANY of negroes arrived at Harrisburgh, Pa., from Phila- and wounded, yesterday and to-day, will probadelphia, but their services were declined by Gen-bly not exceed fifty, and of the whole number eral Couch, on the ground that no authority had been granted by the War Department for the muster of colored troops into the service of the United States for a less period than three years.— THREE hundred rebel cavalry under the command of Colonel Phillips, made a descent on Plaquemine, La,, and destroyed four steamers and a large quantity of cotton.

June 19.-A committee from the planters of Louisiana, made a formal application to the President of the United States, for reädmission into the Union.—(Doc. 75.)

-GENERAL GREGG, with his cavalry, met the rebel line of skirmishers in a piece of wood a short distance west of Middleburgh, Va., and forced them back about five miles on the road leading to Ashby's Gap, where the enemy had two brigades of infantry. Artillery was used occasionally on both sides, but most of the time the fight was more of an Indian warfare than any thing else. Nearly all the charges made were in woods where the enemy fought from behind trees, stone walls and natural rifle-pits. A

there are not half a dozen wounds of a serious character. On the other hand, at the close of the day, there were thirty of the enemy's dead and wounded at the hospital, a majority of the wounds being of a serious character. Some forty prisoners were captured, including six officers, a lieutenant-colonel, a major, a captain and three lieutenants. When the Tenth New-York entered Middleburgh yesterday, they found five of the missing First Rhode Island troopers locked up in a store, their captors not having an opportunity even to parole or carry them off, so sudden was the charge into the town made.

-THE rebels at Williamsport carried all their stores to the north side of the Potomac River, with the purpose of making that their base of operations for raids into Pennsylvania.-BOONESBORO, Md., was evacuated by the rebels, who carried off a number of horses and some other property.-THE Seventy-fourth and Sixty-fifth regiments of New-York militia, left Buffalo, for Harrisburgh, Pa.-Two members of the staff of General Hooker, Major Sterling and Captain Fisher, were captured by guerrillas near Fair

fax, Va.-HORATIO SEYMOUR, Governor of New- In country and in town we must protect ourYork, issued an order organizing the National selves against raiding parties by means of the Guard of the State.-THE Fifty-sixth and Fifth militia and of volunteer associations for home regiments of New-York militia, left home for defence. Harrisburgh, Pa.-THE ship Conrad, was captured by the privateer Alabama.

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-A DETACHMENT of Jenkins's rebel force on their retreat from Chambersburgh, entered McConnellsburgh, Pa., surprising the citizens and capturing a large number of horses and cattle, besides helping themselves to such provisions and wearing apparel as they could find in the stores. After thoroughly rifling the town, they left, taking the road to Hancock, Maryland.THE brig Isabella Thompson, having on board a cargo of turpentine and cotton, was captured by the Union gunboat United States, commanded by R. W. Mead, Jr.-THE British schooner Glenn, of Yarmouth, N. S., from Matamoras for Nassau, being six hundred miles out of her course, was overhauled by the National steamer Cumbria, and her papers not being satisfactory, a prize crew was put on board, and she was ordered to New-York.

June 20.-The First regiment of New-York cavalry encountered a portion of Jenkins's rebel force near Greencastle, Pa., and after a short skirmish defeated them, capturing twenty prisoners.-EXTRACTS from the World, Express, and Caucasian, published in New-York, the Cincin nati Enquirer and Chicago Times, were suppressed within the limits of the Eighth army corps, by order of General Schenck.-THE fishing-boat L. A. Macomber, of Noank, Ct., while at anchor at a point twenty-two miles south-east

of the South Shoal light, Mass., was boarded by the privateer Tacony, and afterward burned.THE rebel schooner Hattie was captured while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., by the National gunboat Florida.

We learn from the United States papers that it is proposed in Pennsylvania to call out the militia up to sixty years of age, to repel apprehended invasion. Shall we do less to repel actual invasion? If she be ready to make such sacrifices to subjugate us, should we not be willing to make greater sacrifices to defend ourselves? Boys, from twelve to eighteen, are excellent marksmen, and although it might demoralize their principles, injure their characters, and endanger their health, to enlist them regularly in the army and expose them to the hardships of the camp, of long marches, and of indifferent diet, yet they may be drilled more readily than old men, and made efficient soldiers in a sudden emergency to aid in the defence of the city and its environs.-Richmond Sentinel,

June 20.

-THE expedition that left Suffolk, Va., on the eleventh instant, returned to-day. Its leading object was to investigate the strength of, and destroy the three leading strongholds of the rebels on the Blackwater River, all of which were within a distance of twenty-five miles from Suffolk.-THE citizens of Pittsburgh, Pa., held a mass meeting, at which martial law was called for and skulkers denounced. A general suspension of business and the raising of volunteer companies for defence were strenuously advo

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-THE ship Isaac Webb, in lat. 40° 35', long. Tacony, and released on giving bonds for forty 68° 45', was captured by the rebel privateer thousand dollars; the crew and passengers of the brig Umpire, which was captured and destroyed by the Tacony on the sixteenth instant,

in lat. 37°, long. 69° 57', were put on board the Isaac Webb to be carried to New-York.-A. J. BOREMAN was inaugurated as the first Governor of the State of West-Virginia.-THE resistance to the enrolment in Holmes County, Ohio, ended.A SPIRITED engagement took place at Lafourche Crossing, La., this afternoon. Nearly two thousand rebels attacked the National forces who were guarding the bridge and were repulsed.— FREDERICK, Md., was occupied by the rebels under J. E. B. Stuart.

-A PART of General Lee's army is already in the valley of Virginia, and a part probably in Maryland. The rest will probably follow on. At all events, Richmond is about to be uncovered of the defence afforded by the proximity of his troops. They will be removed to some more distant point, whence they cannot be brought instantly and readily to our assistance, if assistance we should need. This summer's campaign cannot be conducted efficiently, if large numbers of our regular troops are detailed to guard and June 21.-At Baltimore, Md., as a matter of protect our cities, and other assailable points. | precaution against rebel demonstrations, earth

works were erected around the north and west the Mississippi River, and a number of persons sides of the city. The Council appropriated a were killed and wounded. The rebels were large sum of money, and a very large force of finally driven off by the gunboats.-THE corlaborers (mostly contrabands) were impressed respondence between James M. Mason, the rebel into the service. A line of barricades, composed commissioner at London, and Moncure D. Conof tobacco hogsheads and empty sugar and mo- way, was made public.—The rebels were driven lasses hogsheads, filled with brick and sand, ont of Cumberland, Md., by the National forces was erected within the city, extending from the under General B. F. Kelley. - THE schooners high ground on the east to the south-western ex- Marengo and Florence, and the fishing-vessels tremity. These, if the rebels should come," Elizabeth Ann Thomas, Rufus Choate, and Ripsaid a participant, "will be defended by the ple, were captured by the confederate privateer Union League men, who are being armed by Tacony.-Ar Acquia Creek, Va., the quartermasGeneral Schenck, and should a cavalry force ter's buildings, left standing by the Union troops manage to dash past the batteries, they would on the evacuation of that place, were burned by here meet a formidable resistance. The Union the rebels.-MR. VALLANDIGHAM, who was banmen are entirely confident that should the rebels be so rash as to attempt a raid in this direction, they will be able to effectually defeat them."

-THE Aeronautic corps of the army of the Potomac was dispensed with, and the balloons and inflating apparatus were sent to Washington.

-THE fight at Lafourche Crossing, La., was renewed this day, and ended in the defeat of the rebels with a loss of sixty killed, two hundred and forty wounded, and seventy prisoners. The Union loss was eight killed and sixteen wounded.-New-Orleans Era, June 23.

—Major-GenERAL PLEASANTON, with his cav

alry, attacked the rebels, under General Stuart, at Middleburgh, Va., and after driving them over eight miles, succeeded in capturing two pieces of artillery, and sixty prisoners, besides killing and wounding over one hundred men.—(Doc. 77.)

-THE ship Byzantium and bark Goodspeed were captured and burned by the rebel privateer Tacony off the coast of Massachusetts.-ON the approach of the rebels toward Shippensburgh, Pa, the proprietor of the Union Hotel in that town blurred his sign over with brown paint. THE steamer Victory was captured off Cuba by the gunboat Santiago de Cuba, and the English schooner Frolic off Crystal Run, Florida, by the gunboat Sagamore.-THIS afternoon a party of the First Maryland cavalry, under Major Cole,

dashed into Frederick, Md., driving out the rebels and capturing one. On the retirement of the Nationals, however, the rebels returned and reoccupied the town.

June 22.—Three steamers laden with military stores, and convoyed by two Union gunboats, were fired into by rebels at Cypress Bend, on

ished to the Southern States for a stated period, arrived at Bermuda in the confederate steamer Lady Davis, from Wilmington. It was reported that Mr. Vallandigham was on his way to Canada, and there to await coming events.-Bermuda Royal Gazette, June 23.

-THE case of the seizure of the suspected gunboat Alexandra, at Liverpool, England, was announced in the Court of the Queen's Bench at London, before Chief Baron Pollock.-(See Supplement, Vol. II.)

June 23.-The State of New-York responded nobly to the call for troops to drive the rebels from the soil of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Twenty regiments at this time had been armed, equipped, and supplied with subsistence and transportation, and had gone to Harrisburgh and Baltimore. Sixteen of these regiments moved from New-York, two from Brooklyn, and two from Buffalo. The following is a list of the regi ments that had left: The Seventh, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twenty-second, Twentythird, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-seventh, Fifty-second, Sixty-ninth, Sixth, Seventyfourth, Seventy-first, Sixty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifth, Thirty-second, Fifty-fifth, Fourth artillery, and a consolidated regiment from Staten Island.

favored a convention of all the States, to procure -THE Raleigh (N. C.) Standard of this date peace, either by reconstruction of the Union or

by peaceable separation.-REV. R. I. GRAVES, of

Hillsboro, N. C., who was committed on the fourth of February last, on the charge of treason to the rebel government, was discharged, through the efforts of W. A. Graham.-THE London Times publishes an elaborate article against the employ. ment of negroes, as soldiers, in the army of the United States.