came in sight of the party immediately fled, and made for itself—a history to be proud of; a hison meeting their comrades, they all joined and tory never to be forgotten; for it is written as came back, and found the colored troops prepared with a pen of fire dipped in ink of blood on the to give them battle. Captain Hitchcock, not memories and in the hearts of all. He besought knowing the strength of his opposers, fell back a them always to prove themselves as loyal in prinshort distance, and the enemy rallied and charged ciple, as valiant in arms, as their record while furiously again. The rebel captain ordered Hitch- under his command would show them to have cock to surrender, firing at the same time his re- been; to "remember the glorious cause you are volver at Corporal John Heron, who dropped un- fighting for, remember the bleaching bones of hurt to his knees, and sent a ball through the mis- your comrades killed on the bloody fields of Doncreant's breast, which proved fatal. Rebel citi-elson, Corinth, Champion Hill, and Vicksburgh, zens state that the opposing force numbered fifty or perished by disease during the past two years men, and acknowledge their loss to be one captain, of hardships and exposure-and swear by these sergeant, and two privates killed, and eight wound-imperishable memories never, while life remains, ed. The Union loss was as follows: to prove recreant to the trust high heaven has Killed-George Diegs, company H; Lewis Tay- confided to your charge." He assured them of lor, company H; Peter Grant, company H; Sam- his continued sympathy and interest in their welluel Moden, company G. Wounded-William Gal-being, no matter how great a distance might seplin, company B; Henry Brown, company H; Mil Beckford, company H; William Hegdon, company H; Zeno Callahan, company H; Duncan Turner, company H; John Bodly, company H. -JOHN C. CRANE, acting quartermaster at Nashville, Tenn., in a note to Andrew Johnson, Governor of that State, says: “The bearer, (colored,) Jane Woodall, is my house-servant. She is a slave, claimed by Christopher Woodall, a resident of Tennessee. It is said that he is disloyal, and on a previous occasion the military authorities prevented him from taking her. "Has Mr. Woodall any right, under the Presi dent's Proclamation, and military law, to take this woman? arate them; and closed by heartily recommending them to their future commander, his own companion in arms, and successor, BrigadierGeneral Leggett. November 14.-The farmers of Warren, Franklin, and Johnson counties, N. C., having refused to pay the rebel tax in kind by delivering the government's tenth to the quartermaster-general, James A. Seddon, the Secretary of War, issued the following letter of instructions to that officer: their tenth at dépôts not more than eight miles "It is true the law requires farmers to deliver from the place of production; but your published order requesting them for the purpose of supplying the immediate wants of the army, to deliver at "It strikes me not, as we have taken posses-than eight miles, and offering to pay for the transthe dépôts named, although at a greater distance sion of rebel property without compensation. Requesting your decision in the premises, I am, able that no good citizen would refuse to comply portation in excess of that distance, is so reasonGovernor, very respectfully, your obedient ser vant." แ THE GOVERNOR'S RESPONSE. "EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Respectfully returned. If the girl referred "Military Governor." with it. "You will, therefore, promulgate an addition to your former order, requiring producers to deliver their quotas at the dépôts nearest to them by a specified day, and notifying them that in case of their refusal or neglect to comply therewith, the Government will provide the necessary transportation at the expense of the delinquents, and collect said expense by an immediate levy on their productions, calculating their value at the rates allowed in cases of impressment. -IN accordance with an order from the War Department, Major-General John A. Logan surrendered his command of the Third division of the Seventeenth army corps. In addressing the officers and soldiers of the different brigades, he "All persons detected in secreting articles subreminded them of the history the division had ject to the tax, or in deceiving as to the quantity "If it becomes necessary to furnish transportation, the necessary teams, teamsters, etc., must be impressed as in ordinary cases. produced by them, should be made to suffer the confiscation of all such property found belonging to them. "The people in the counties named, and in fact nearly all the western counties of that State, have ever evinced a disposition to cavil at, and even resist the measures of the Government, and it is quite time that they, and all others similarly disposed, should be dealt by with becoming rigor. Now that our energies are taxed to the utmost to subsist our armies, it will not do to be defrauded of this much-needed tax. If necessary, force must be employed for its collection. Let striking examples be made of a few of the rogues, and I think the rest will respond promptly." -MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD, from the headquarters of the Department of the Missouri, at St. Louis, issued an important order regarding the enlisting of colored troops. mand, in Tennessee and Mississippi be closed, and that no goods of any description be allowed to pass out, nor any thing be brought in, except fire-wood and provisions, by any citizen, without the written order of some general officer, each of which permits, and the reason for granting the same, will be reported to these headquarters, and for the necessity of which each officer granting will be held rigidly responsible. II. All merchants, and others doing business, will be held responsible for knowledge of the residence of the parties to whom they sell, and the sale of merchandise to persons beyond the lines of pickets will be punished with the highest rigor known to the laws of war. III. All persons residing under the protection of the United States, and physically capable of military duty, are liable to perform the same in a country under martial law. Especially in the city of Memphis, where it is known many have November 15.-Conrad Posey, a brigadier- fled to escape liability to military service at home, general in the rebel service, died at Charlottes- this rule will be strictly applied. In pursuance, ville, Va., from a wound received in the fight therefore, to orders to this effect from Majorat Bristoe Station, Va. General Posey was General W. T. Sherman, commanding departformerly colonel of the Forty-eighth Mississippi ment and army of the Tennessee, all officers regiment, belonging to General Featherstone's commanding districts, divisions, and detached brigade, and when the latter was transferred brigades of this corps, will immediately proceed from the army of Virginia to the West, General to impress into the service of the United States Posey was commissioned to succeed him.-THE such able-bodied persons liable to military duty firing on Fort Sumter continued steadily. From as may be required to fill up the existing regi"Thursday morning last until yesterday (Sat-ments and batteries to their maximum. Those urday) at sundown, one thousand five hundred persons so levied upon, if they enlist for three and twenty-three mortar shells and rifled shots years or the war, will be entitled to the full benwere fired at the fort. The Union fire has ceased efits provided by the acts of Congress. If not, to be of any injury to that defence."-Richmond they will receive clothing and rations, and be Enquirer. borne at the foot of each company roll with remarks stating their time of service and the advances made by the Government in clothing; a certificate of which will be given them when discharged from such forced service, the question of -MAJOR-GENERAL S. A. HURLBUT, from his headquarters, Sixteenth army corps, at Memphis, Tenn., issued the following general order: I. The people in the District of West-Tennessee and the northern counties of Mississippi hav-pay or other compensation to be settled by proper ing shown no disposition, and made no attempt authorities hereafter. They will be discharged to protect themselves from marauders and guerwhen no further military necessity appears for rilla bands, but having submitted themselves, their enforced service. without organized resistance, to the domination of these petty tyrants, and combined, in many instances, with the known enemies of the United States to procure from corrupt traders in the city of Memphis and elsewhere, supplies for the use of the public enemy, have proved themselves unworthy of the indulgence shown them by the Government. It is therefore ordered, that the lines of pickets around the several military posts of this com IV. The senior surgeons and inspectors present will constitute a Board of Inspection on the physical capacity of recruits.-General Orders No. 157. -LAST evening a party of rebel cavalry crossed the Rapidan in front of Kilpatrick's line, at Morton's Ford, Va., attacked the pickets, capturing some six or eight of them, and retreated across the river again. This morning the affair was reported to Gen eral Custer, who was temporarily in command -GENERAL AVERILL arrived at New-Creek, of the division, when he immediately ordered a Va. At or near Covington he encountered and regiment of cavalry and Pennington's battery dispersed a portion of Imboden's command on of three-inch rifled guns down to the rear, their way to reenforce Echols, and captured and drove them back from the ford, notwith- twenty-five prisoners in the skirmish. standing they had brass twelve-pounders. This was done in the midst of a heavy rain-storm. No serious casualties were reported to MajorGeneral Pleasanton. -THE cavalry belonging to the Union forces under the command of Brigadier-General J. C. Sullivan, sent out from Harper's Ferry, Va., returned this day, having been up the Valley to near New-Market, fighting Gilmore's and White's commands at Mount Jackson, bringing in twenty-seven prisoners, two commissioned officers, ninety head of cattle, three four-horse teams, besides thirty tents and all the horses and equipage of the prisoners; the party was under the command of Colonel Bayard, of the Thirty-first Penn November 16.-General Burnside retreating on the advance of Longstreet, evacuated Lenoir, Tenn., but fought a battle at Campbell's Station. The fight lasted for some hours. The Federal troops retreated to the protection of their batteries, which opened upon the rebels with effect, and checked their advance. They fell back to the river; a second battle was fought in the after-sylvania cavalry. noon, which continued until nightfall, Burnside remaining in possession of the ground. Loss of the rebels estimated at one thousand killed and wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, Twentieth Michigan, was killed.-Doc. 19. November 17.-Nearly a hundred prisoners captured by General Averill in his engagement with the rebels in Pocahontas County, Va., arrived at Wheeling this morning, and were committed to the Athenæum. There was scarcely a whole suit of clothes in the party, and many of them were without shoes. Judging from the fact that a fall of snow was lately announced in the vicinity of where the fight took place, these shoeless rebels must have suffered terribly from the cold. He destroyed a number of tents and a quantity of salt. The men helped themselves to a wagon-load of tobacco, weighing about five hundred pounds. The Union loss was two men killed, three wounded and three missing.-General Sullivan's Despatch. -CORPUS CHRISTI and Aranzas Pass, Texas, were captured by the National forces under the command of Major-General Banks. Yesterday afternoon at about three o'clock, the gunboat Monongahela, with a fleet of nine vessels, transports, etc., arrived at the bar and commenced landing troops through the surf on the south point of Mustang Island. This morning at sunrise, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Maine regi -THE schooner Joseph L. Gerity, on a voy-ments, Thirty-fourth Iowa, Eighth Indiana, and age from Matamoras to New-York, with a cargo of cotton and six passengers, was seized by the latter, who overcame the captain and crew; and after keeping them in confinement eight days, set them adrift at sea in a small boat, in which they eventually landed on the coast of Sisal. After the crew and captain were put in the boat the captors hoisted the rebel flag and fired a salute with pistols, declaring that they would carry vessel and cargo into Honduras and sell them. November 18.-The firing on Fort Sumter from the National batteries continued. A rebel mortar battery on Sullivan's Island shelled Gregg and the Cummings Point defences all day. GENERAL LONGSTREET made an attack upon the Union outposts, on the Kingston road, near Knoxville, Tenn., and compelled General Sanders, in command of the forces there, to fall back to the town.-Doc. 19. company F, First Missouri artillery, with a part of the Twentieth Iowa volunteers, were ashore and in column en route up the beach toward Aranzas Pass. About eleven o'clock the Monongahela opened her two hundred-pound Parrott on the enemy's battery, which was planted behind the sand-hills so as to completely cover the channel and southern point of St. Joseph's Island. In the mean time the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Maine, the two advance regiments, succeeded in getting in the rear of the works within two miles, without being discovered. The armed transport McClellan, Captain Gray, drawing less water than the Monongahela, worked up close on to the battery, soon making it untenable. They abandoned the battery, sought shelter from the sand-hills, until their flag of truce was discovered, when they were permitted to surrender without terms. Their battery con sisted of three twenty-four-pounders and one ualties were one man wounded and five horses eight-inch sea-howitzer. The force of the garri-shot.-LARGE and spirited meetings were held in son consisted of one company of regular artil- all the wards in Boston, Mass., last night, to enlery and two companies of drafted Texan militia, courage volunteering. Committees were appointin all, about one hundred and fifty men. ed, and the work was pursued with energy. A similar movement was made in cities and towns throughout the State.-AT GETTYSburgh, Pa., the national cemetery, for the burial of the Union soldiers who fell in the battles fought at that place in July, 1863, was consecrated. -A COMBINED expedition, consisting of the gunboat Morse, commanded by Captain Charles A. Babcock, and four hundred and fifty men from the One Hundred and Forty-eighth regiment of New-York volunteers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Guion, left Yorktown, Va., on Monday, November sixteenth, in search of a party of the rebel " Marine Brigade," reported to be on their way from Richmond to Mob Jack Bay, to commit depredations on the North ern commerce. November 19.-General Hampton and General Thomas L. Rosser returned to Fredericksburgh, Va., from a most successful expedition into Culpeper County. On Tuesday night last they crossed the Rapidan with detachments from Rosser's, Gordon's, and Young's brigades, all under the immediate command of General Rosser, for the purpose of ascertaining the position of the enemy on the other side. After marching all night over a desperate road, they succeeded, about daylight on Wednesday morning, in locating the pickets of the enemy. That being accomplished, General Rosser immediately ordered a charge, which was executed by his brigade in the most gallant style, driving the advance back upon the main body, which was encamped a short distance in the rear. Here the enemy had formed a line of defence; The Morse landed the regiment the same evenbut, in defiance of a heavy fire poured into his ing at the head-waters of East River, which at command, General Rosser pressed forward, and once marched across the county to Matthews soon drove the entire force (the Eighteenth PennCourt-House, where information was obtained sylvania cavalry) through their encampment, and that the "Marines" had left the place but a few pursued them some miles beyond, in the direc- hours previously. Passing the night there, early tion of Stevensburgh. the next morning the march was continued northThe result of this gallant exploit was the cap-ward as far as Shuffletown, on the Piankatank ture of sixty prisoners, among them an adjutant and one lieutenant, two flags, one hundred horses and mules, a number of tents, all the wagons, baggage, etc., of the encampment. The enemy fled through the woods in every direction, many of them without having completed their toilet for the day. Having located the enemy, (the original object of the expedition,) and obtained other valuable information, the command was withdrawn, by the way of Germanna Ford, to the other side of the river, where the prisoners and other captures had been previously forwarded.-named Webb, and fifteen men. The marines Richmond Enquirer. River. No traces of the rebels being discovered, the regiment turned about and scoured the country down to the mouth of the Piankatank, encamping that night at Cricket Hill. The next morning, the eighteenth, crossing in small boats to Gwynne's Island, the men were deployed across it, and the cover beaten as they advanced. About noon, near the lower end of the island, their labor was rewarded by the discovery of the entire party for which they were in search, consisting of an acting master in the rebel navy, were hidden in the reeds and bushes of swamp, and offered little resistance. Each man was armed with a carbine, cutlass, and pistol of English manufacture. They had with them a twelvepounder breech-loading brass howitzer, which, however, they had previously concealed in the woods. A sloop, with which they intended to commit depredations on passing vessels, was discovered up a creek, and burned. —A DETACHMENT, composed of companies G, H, I, and K, of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Illinois infantry, with a portion of the Second Illinois cavalry, under the command of Captain Franklin B. Moore, pursued Faulkner's rebel partisans to a point on Obion River, four miles from Union City, Tennessee, where, in attempting to cross the river, the rebels were fired on, and eleven of their number killed. The Nationals captured They were expecting to capture a large vessel, fifty-three prisoners, a wagon-load of small-arms, and eventually to attack one of the mail-boats thirty-three horses, and four mules. Their cas-plying between Fortress Monroe and Baltimore, |