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to her proximity to the rebel forts, was destroy- near Brocks's Gap, on the fifth instant, and re

ed by fire.-Official Reports.

January 12.-A portion of Colonel McCook's cavalry attacked the Eighth and Eleventh Texas rebel regiments, at Mossy Creek, Tenn., and defeated them, killing fourteen and capturing fortyone of them.-CONTRIBUTIONS were made in Georgia to equip a new command for the rebel General John H. Morgan. Among the contributors was Governor Joseph E. Brown, who gave five hundred dollars.-Richmond Whig.

January 13.-THE rebel Congress, having passed a joint resolution of thanks to General Robert E. Lee, and his officers, Adjutant-General Cooper issued an order announcing the fact, with the following preface: "The President, having approved the following joint resolution of Congress, directs its announcement in general orders, expressive of his gratification at the tribute awarded the patriot officers and soldiers to whom it is addressed.

ported to me this morning. He informs me that thirteen of the enemy were killed and twenty wounded, in the skirmish. He also states that there was present under the command of General Fitz-Hugh Lee, three companies of negro troops, cavalry, armed with carbines. They were not engaged in the attack, but stationed with the reserve. The guards, he reports, openly admitted to the prisoners that they were accompanied by negro soldiers, stating, however, that the North had shown the example."

January 14.-Major-General R. B. Vance, made a raid toward Terrisville, Tenn., and captured a train of twenty-three wagons. He was pursued and took one ambulance, loaded with medicines, by Colonel Palmer, who recaptured the wagons, one hundred and fifty saddle-horses and one hundred stand of arms. General Vance and his assistant adjutant-general and inspector-general are among the prisoners captured. — General Grant's Report.-(Doc. 52.)

"For the military laggard, or him, who, in the -A FORCE of about two hundred rebels made pursuits of selfish and inglorious ease, forgets his country's need, no note of approbation is an attack on a party of National cavalry, stationsounded. His infamy is his only security from ed at Three Miles Station, near Bealton, Va., but oblivion. But the heroic devotion of those, who, were repulsed and driven off, after several desin defence of liberty and honor, have perilled all, perate charges, leaving three dead and twelve The National casualties were two while it confers in an approved conscience the wounded. best and highest reward, will also be cherished wounded, one severely.-THE official correspondin perpetual remembrance by a grateful nation. ence between the agents of exchange of prisonLet this assurance stimulate the armies of the ers of war, together with the report of Mr. Ould Confederacy everywhere to greater exertion and was made public.—THE body of a Union soldier more resolute endurance, till, under the guidance was found hanging at Smith Mills, Va., with the of Heaven, the blessings of peace and freedom following words placarded upon it: "Here hangs shall finally crown their efforts. Let all press private Samuel Jones, of the Fifth Ohio regiforward in the road to independence, and for the ment, hung by order of Major-General Pickett, in security of the rights sealed to us in the blood retaliation for private David Bright, of the Sixtyof the first revolution. Honor and glory attend second Georgia regiment, hung December eightour success. Slavery and shame will attend our eenth, by order of Brigadier-General Wild.” defeat."

-THE Richmond Examiner held the following -THE schooner Two Sisters, a tender to the language: "Surely British-protection patriots United States flag-ship San Jacinto, captured, of the Emerald Isle here, have, we are credibly while trying to enter the Suwanee River, the informed, recently shouldered their shillalahs, British schooner William, from Nassau.-GEN- and cut stick for the land of Lincoln. Sundry ERAL BUTLER addressed a characteristic letter to others, too, born this side of the Potomac, have the Perfectionists of the city of Norfolk, Va.- wended their way in the same direction,—all THE following report was made by Colonel James leaving their families behind them to sell rum A. Mulligan, from his headquarters at New-Creek, or make breeches and other garments for the Va. "A soldier of ours, James A. Walker, com- clothing bureau. When mothers and sisters, pany H, Second Maryland regiment, captured in sweethearts and wives, thus intentionally, and the attack upon the train at the Moorfield and by a cunning arrangement, left behind, present Alleghany Junction, on the third instant, by the themselves at the clothing bureau for a job, they enemy under General Fitz-Hugh Lee, escaped when represent, with the most innocent faces imaginVOL. VIIL-DIARY 3

able, that their male protectors are in General -THE Fifty-second regiment of Illinois volunLee's army, and thus enlist sympathy, and teers, under the command of Colonel J. S. Wilsponge on the Confederacy. To poor females cox, reënlisted for the war, returned to Chicago. every kindness and aid should be extended as -THE blockade-runner Isabel arrived at Havana. long as they and those belonging to them are She ran the blockade at Mobile, and had a cargo true to us; but it is past enduring that able. of four hundred aad eighty bales of cotton, and bodied fellows should go North, and leave as threw overboard one hundred and twenty-four a charge here people whom we are under no bales off Tortugas, in a gale of wind. obligations to support, and who, by false representations, shut out the wives and other female relatives of gallant fellows, who are confronting our ruthless enemies."

-LIEUTENANT GATES, with a party of the Third Arkansas cavalry, made a reconnoissance near Clinton, Ark., and succeeded in capturing twelve prisoners, whom he surprised at Cadson's Cave. THE blockade-runner schooner Union, with a cargo of cotton from the coast of Florida, arrived at Havana. She was chased by the United States gunboat De Soto.

January 15.-The United States schooner Beauregard captured, near Mosquito Inlet, the British schooner Minnie, of and from Nassau.

January 16. General Sturgis's cavalry, in pursuit of General Longstreet, reached Dandridge, Tenn., thirty miles east of Knoxville, and drove the rebel videttes out of the town.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN, in a note to the proprietors of the North-American Review, said: "The number for this month and year was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. Of course, I am not the most impartial judge; yet, with due allowance for this, I venture to hope that the article, entitled 'The President's Policy,' will be of value to the country. I fear, I am not quite worthy of all which is therein kindly said of me personally.

"The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exIn what is there expressed, the actly as it is. writer has not correctly understood me. I have never had a theory that secession could absolve States or people from their obligations. Precisely the contrary is asserted in the inaugural address; and it was because of my belief in the continuance of these obligations, that I was puzzled for a time as to denying the legal rights of those citizens who remained individually innocent of treason or rebellion. But I mean no

more now than to merely call attention to this point."*

"THE utmost nerve," said the Richmond Whig, "the firmest front, the most undaunted courage, will be required during the coming twelve months from all who are charged with the management of affairs in our country, or whose position gives them any influence in forming or guiding public sentiment." "Moral courage," says the Wilmington Journal, "the power to resist the approaches of despondency, and the faculty of communicating this power to others, will need greatly to be called into exercise; for we have reached that point in our revolution which is inevitably reached in all revolutions, when gloom and depression take the place of hope and enthusiasm-when despair is fatal and January 17.—This morning the rebels made despondency is even more to be dreaded than de-a desperate attack upon the Union lines near feat. In such a time we can understand the Dandridge, Tenn. They threw out no skirmishprofound wisdom of the Roman Senate, in giving ers, but pressed down upon the Nationals in thanks to the general who had suffered the greatest disaster that ever overtook the Roman arms, 'because he had not despaired of the Republic.' There is a feeling, however, abroad in the land, that the great crisis of the war-the turning-point in our fate-is fast approaching. Whether a crisis be upon us or not, there can be in the mind of no man, who looks at the map of Georgia, and considers her geographical relations to the rest of the Confederacy, a single doubt that much of our future is involved in the result of the next spring campaign in Upper Georgia."

The sentence referred to by Mr. Lincoln is as follows: "Even so long ago as when Mr. Lincoln, not yet convinced of the danger and magnitude of the crisis, was endeavoring to persuade himself of Union majorities at the South, and to carry on a war that was half peace, in the hope of a peace that would have been all war-while he was still enforcing the fugitive slave law, under some theory that secession, however it might absolve States from their obligations, could not escheat them of bellion had alone, among mortals, the privilege of having their their claims under the Constitution, and that slaveholders in recake and eating it at the same time-the enemies of free government were striving to persuade the people that the war was an abolition crusade. To rebel without reason was proclaimed as one of the rights of man, while it was carefully kept out of sight that to suppress rebellion is the first duty of government."

equipments, revolvers, and papers in with him. The rebels were dressed in Federal uniforms. Hamilton is here with me."-NEWMARKET, Tenn., was occupied by the rebels belonging to the forces under the command of General Longstreet.-THE rebel blockade-runner, A. D. Vance, was run ashore, under the guns of Fort Caswell, in attempting to enter the port of Wilmington, N. C.-THE steamer Laura, blockaderunner, was captured in St. Mark's Bay, Florida, by the United States steamer Stars and Stripes.

full force, seemingly determined to sweep them horse,
from the field. Observing their desperate deter-
mination, General Sturgis ordered Colonel D. M.
McCook, who was in command of a division of
Elliott's cavalry, to charge the enemy on horse.
This order was obeyed most gallantly. The
charge of this division turned the fortunes of the
day, which, up to this time, had been decidedly
against the Nationals. The First Wisconsin,
which bore the brunt of the enemy's attack, lost
sixty in killed and wounded. The Union loss in
all did not exceed one hundred and fifty.-A FIRE
occurred at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill.,
destroying the officers' quarters and quartermas-
ter's stores. Captain Dimon and Lieutenant Ben-
nett, of the Thirty-eighth Illinois cavalry, were
burned to death, and two other lieutenants were
badly injured.—THE bombardment of Charleston,
S. C., by the forces under General Gillmore, was
continued with great fury, several new Parrott
guns having been opened on the city from Bat-
tery Gregg.

January 18.-At Flint Hill, Va., a party of fifteen rebels attacked the National pickets, but were driven off after a brief engagement.-THE rebel conscription law created great consterna

January 19.-This evening a party scouting for Colonel Williams, in command of the military post at Rossville, Ark., returned to camp, having captured in the Magazine Mountains, some fifteen miles east of the post, the county records of Vernon and Cedar Counties, Mo. The books and papers so captured and retained were worth one million dollars to those counties.COLONEL CLAYTON attacked and routed Shelby's rebel force, twenty miles below Pine Bluff, Ark., on the Monticello Railroad. The fight lasted half an hour, when the enemy fled, pursued by Colonel Clayton, with his command, for two hours and a half. The rebels were driven seven miles. Shelby was badly beaten, and the rout was complete.

Shelby's force was estimated at eight hundred. Colonel Clayton marched sixty miles in twentyfour hours, and made fight and gained a victory.

residence of Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, Va.A SALE of confiscated estates took place at Beaufort, S. C.

tion and excitement in the western districts of North-Carolina, and public meetings were held to take into consideration a repudiation of the confederate government and a return to the Union. The Raleigh Standard openly defied the execu--AN unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the tion of the measures proposed, and said, if they prevail, "the people of North-Carolina will take their own affairs into their own hands, and will proceed, in Convention assembled, to vindicate their liberties and privileges."-IN the rebel Senate at Richmond, Va., a resolution was passed approving the action of the government with regard to the outlawry of General Butler, and the

January 20.-Correspondence showing the operations of Southern agents and individuals at the North, in the cotton trade, and making other revelations, were made public.-Major Henry H. COLE and the Maryland cavalry under his command, were officially praised for their gallantry in repelling the assault made upon his camp on Loudon Heights, on the tenth instant, by the rebel partisan, Mosby.-General Halleck's Let

ter.

-A SQUAD of men sent from Charleston, Mo., in pursuit of a band of guerrillas, killed the lead

determination of the rebel authorities to hold no communication with him.-A PARTY of rebel guerrillas made their appearance on the bank of the river opposite Memphis, Tenn., but were driven off by a gunboat, without effecting any damage. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FULLER, of the Third Arkansas cavalry, received the following from the major of his regiment, at Lewisburgh: Captain Hamilton has had a fight with a portion of Wells's command, and killed six, and The remainder escaped to the swamp. Five priswounded as many more. Hamilton lost six, and oners were carried in, charged with harboring but one or two killed; the balance missing. The guerrillas.-THIRTY-TWO guerrillas were captured command opposing him were under Captain near Paris, Ky., and taken to Columbus. Thompson, numbering nearly one hundred. Hamilton killed Thompson, and brought his

er of the band and wounded two or three others.

January 21.-The advance of the cavalry belonging to the National forces, in their retreat

Offensive

from Strawberry Plains, Tenn., reached Sevier-position and strength of our forces. ville. Skirmishing was kept up all day between operations on the part of Longstreet would inthe National troops on one side of the Holston sure the defeat and dispersion of his army, River, and the enemy on the other. The latter though all Lee's forces were with him. Upon had a battery on College Hill, near Strawberry Plains, from which he played on the Nationals, while crossing the river. Comparatively little damage was done, the Union loss being not over a half-dozen wounded.—THE shelling of Charleston from Fort Putnam continued night and day, at intervals of ten minutes. One gun alone has fired over one thousand one hundred rounds, at

this subject we speak from a thorough knowledge of the situation; and dared we publish the facts, the public would feel as much assured on that point as we do.

"General Grant left for the front night before last, and will be ready to personally superintend operations when commenced."

---A SMALL detachment of National cavalry bean elevation of forty degrees.-ON account of the longing to the forces in pursuit of General Longscarcity of grain in the department of the Ohio, street, made a dash into Cocke County, Tenn., and the factitious value given to it by the manu- capturing twenty-seven wagons loaded with bacon facture of whiskey, the distillation of that com- and flour, and eighty-five prisoners. They remodity was forbidden by Major-General Foster.ported that Longstreet was stripping the country REAR-ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, accompanied by his of provisions and compelling Union families to staff, arrived at New-Orleans.

January 22.-Skirmishing took place at Armstrong's Ferry, a point six miles above Knoxville, Tenn.-CAPTAIN GEORGE P. EDGAR was ordered to the headquarters of Major-General Butler to investigate into the condition of the poor of Norfolk, Va., and to organize a system for

their relief.

leave.—A VERY exciting debate occurred in the rebel Congress upon the act to increase the efficiency of the rebel army, by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities.

-RESTRICTIONS upon trade with Missouri and Kentucky, with some exceptions, were annulled and abrogated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

-GENERAL WIRT ADAMS, in command of a party of rebel cavalry, entered Gelsertown, near Natchez, Miss., and captured thirty-five prisoners, sixty wagons and teams, a lot of cotton going to Natchez, and about eighty negroes.Richmond Enquirer.

January 23.-The Nashville Union of this date contained the following: "Indications that the next battle will occur in the vicinity of Knoxville accumulate. We yesterday conversed with several well-informed parties-two of them EastTennessee refugees-and all the witnesses concur in the statement that every train from NorthJanuary 24.—A cavalry detachment from Fort Virginia comes loaded with troops from Lee's Smith made successful scout into Polk County, army; and that these legions are immediately | Arkansas. They passed through Caddo Gap added to the force now under Longstreet. It is and found the notorious Captain Williamson, even believed by many that Lee himself, feeling the absolute necessity for the reoccupation of East-Tennessee, will leave his old command-or what will remain of it-and take charge of the campaign in the region of Knoxville. He and Jeff. Davis argue this way: If Tennessee is not repossessed, Richmond must be abandoned; if in reinforcing Longstreet's army the capital is lost, it must be regained, provided the assault on Grant is successful; and there is a chance that Meade, like some of his predecessors, may re-two miles. main inactive, with but a small force confronting January 25.-A body of rebels six hundred him, and in that event Knoxville may be retaken and Richmond saved.

with forty men, posted within log houses. The advance, under Lieutenant Williams, charged into the village and attacked the rebels, killing Williamson and five of his men, wounding two, and taking two lieutenants and twenty-five men prisoners.

The Union loss was one killed; Lieutenant Williams and a private were slightly wounded. All the arms in the place were destroyed. The distance travelled was one hundred and seventy

strong, attacked the National garrison of about one hundred, at Athens, Alabama, but were re"We only hope the rebels will make an early pulsed and routed after a fight of two hours. attack on Foster's command. Nothing would be The Union loss was twenty; rebel loss more more gratifying to those who understand the dis-severe.-Gen. Rawlins's Despatch.

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