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Liberty in the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone."

-Two men belonging to the Thirty-second Missouri infantry, Archibald Towner, of company B, and Thomas Norris, of company D, while beyond their picket-lines, in Mo., were taken prisoners by a party of guerrillas, who took them to the top of a mountain near by and tied them to a tree, where they were kept until about sundown, when they were shot, robbed of every thing valuable, and thrown from the summit of the mountain down a precipice sixty feet. Norris miraculously escaped death, which he feigned while being handled by the murderers, and succeeded in reaching camp very much exhausted. He implicated many of the citizens who received their daily rations from the Government, and several in that vicinity

were arrested for trial.

The body of Towner was found by the men of his regiment, while out in search of the guerrillas, and carried into camp.-Captain John T. Campbell's Report.

March 14.-Major-General John Pope, from his headquarters, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, issued an official notice to emigrants by the way of the Missouri River and across the upper plains to the Idaho mines, warning them of the dangers of that route from hostile Indians, and recommending them to communicate with General Sully before attempting to pass that way.— A COMMISSION Consisting of Captain George P. Edgar, A. D. C., Captain George I. Carney, A. Q. M., and M. Dudley Bean, of Norfolk, were appointed by Major-General Butler, for the purpose of caring for and supplying the needs of the poor white people in Norfolk, Elizabeth City, and Princess Anne counties, Va., who were a charge upon the United States, and employing such as were willing to work and were without employment, etc. -SKIRMISHING occurred at Cheek's Cross-Roads, Tennessee, between Colonel Garrard's National cavalry and Colonel Giltner's rebel troops. The rebels were repulsed.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued an order calling for two hundred thousand men, in order to supply the force required to be drafted for the navy, and to provide an adequate reserve force for all contingencies, in addition to the five hundred thousand men called for February first.-(Doc. 111.)

March 15.-Owing to the disturbance of the popular mind produced by the enrolment of slaves for the army in Kentucky, Governor Bramlette issued an address to the people of that State, suggesting moderation, and calling upon them "to uphold and maintain the Government as constituted, and obey and enforce its just demands, as the only hope of perpetuating free institutions."-FORT DE RUSSY, on the Red River, below Alexandria, La., was captured this day by the combined military and naval forces of the United States, under General A. J. Smith and Admiral D. D. Porter.(Docs. 96 and 131.)

March 16.-A party of guerrillas belonging to Roddy's command made an attack upon the Chattanooga Railroad, at a point between Tullahoma and Estelle Springs, and, after robbing the passengers and committing other outrages, fled on the approach of another train loaded with soldiers.

Among other atrocious acts was the following: There were four colored boys on the train acting in the capacity of brakemen, and two black men who were officers' servants. These six poor creatures were placed in a row, and a squad of about forty of the robbers, under a Captain Scott, of Tennessee, discharged their revolvers at them, actually shooting the poor fellows all to pieces.-AN engagement took place at a point two miles east of Fort Pillow, Tenn., between a body of Nationals and about one thousand rebels, who were routed with a loss of fifty killed and wounded.

-CAPTAINS SAWYER AND FLYNN, who had been held at Libby Prison, under sentence of death, in retaliation for the execution of two rebel spies, hung in Kentucky by General Burnside, were released. They were exchanged for General W. F. Lee and Captain Winder, who were held by the United States as personal hostages for their safety.

-THE advance of General A. J. Smith's forces, cooperating with General Banks's, and under the command of Brigadier-General John A. Mower, reached Alexandria, La., accompanied by Admiral David D. Porter and his fleet of gunboats. -(Doc. 131.)

March 17.-Colonel William Stokes, in command of the Fifth Tennessee cavalry, surprised a party of rebel guerrillas under Champ Ferguson, at a point near Manchester, Tenn., and after a severe fight routed them, compelling them to

leave behind twenty-one in killed and wound- Reid, ("Agate,") wrote as follows concerning ed. This morning, at a little before three the Emancipation Proclamation: "A recent alo'clock, an attempt was made on Seabrook lusion to the fact that Mr. Secretary Chase's Island by a large force of rebels, who came pen supplied the concluding sentence of the down the Chickhassee River in boats. They Emancipation Proclamation, has been received approached in two large flats, filled with men, with a surprise that indicates a less general evidently sent forward to reconnoitre, with a knowledge on the subject than might have been numerous reserve force further back, to co- expected. operate in case any points were found to be ex- "When the final draft of the Proclamation posed. One of the boats came down to the was presented by the President to the Cabinet, mouth of Skull Creek, where they attacked a it closed with the paragraph stating that the picket-boat containing a corporal and four men slaves if liberated would be received into the of the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania. They first armed service of the United States. Mr. Chase fired three shots and then a whole volley, and objected to the appearance of a document of succeeded in capturing the boat and those in it, such momentous importance without one word after a severe hand-to-hand fight. Whether beyond the dry phrases necessary to convey its there were any casualties could not be ascer- meaning; and finally proposed that there be tained. Further on, meeting an unexpected re-added to the President's draft the following sensistance, they retreated. tence:

-LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT formally assumed the command of the armies of the United States to-day. The following was his order on the subject:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 17, 1861.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 12.

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'Constitution' the words, upon military necessity;' and in that form the Proclamation went to the world, and history.

"The President originally resolved upon the policy of issuing this Proclamation in the summer of 1862. As he has expressed it himself, every thing was going wrong; we seemed to have put forth about our utmost efforts, and he really didn't know what more to do, unless he did this. Accordingly, he prepared the preliminary Proclamation, nearly in the form in

which it subsequently appeared, called the Cabinet together, and read it to them.

"Mr. Montgomery Blair was startled. 'If you issue that proclamation, Mr. President,' he exclaimed, 'you will lose every one of the fall elections.'

March 18.-Colonel Stokes's Fifth Tennes"Mr. Seward, on the other hand, said: 'I see cavalry again overtook Champ Ferguson approve of it, Mr. President, just as it stands. and his guerrillas on a little stream called CalfI approve of it in principle, and I approve the killer River, near where it empties into Cancy policy of issuing it. I only object to the time. Fork, Tenn., and there killed eight of them.

-THE behavior of the rebel brigade under General Pettigrew, at the battle of Gettysburgh, was vindicated in this day's Richmond Enquirer. March 19.-The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, at Washington, Mr. Whitelaw |

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view, and it was withheld till the fall, when it thanks to the confederate armies for reënlisting was issued almost precisely as originally pre- for the war.-Mobile Papers.

pared. The one to which Mr. Chase supplied the concluding sentence was the final Proclamation, issued on the subsequent first of January."

March 20.-The expedition, composed of the steamers Columbine and Sumter, that left Pilatka, Florida, for Lake George, to capture the rebel steamer Hattie Brock, returned to the former place, having been successful.

-THE Legislature of Georgia in both branches to-day adopted Linton Stephens's peace resolu- -THIS morning, while off Elbow Light, in lattions, earnestly "recommending that our gov-itude twenty-six degrees thirty-three minutes ernment, immediately after every signal success north, longitude seventy-six degrees twentyof our arms, when none can impute its action to five minutes west, the United States steamer alarm instead of a sincere desire for peace, shall Tioga overhauled and captured the sloop Swalmake to the government of our enemy an official low, from the Combahee River, South-Carolina, offer of peace, on the basis of the great principle bound to Nassau, N. P. One hundred and eighty declared by our common fathers in 1776, accom- bales of cotton, eighty barrels of resin, and panied by the distinct expression of a willing- twenty-five boxes of tobacco were found on ness, on our part, to follow that principle to its board the prize.-THE rebel steamer Florida was true logical consequences, by agreeing that any captured by the National gunboat Honeysuckle. Border State whose preference for our association may be doubted, (doubts having been expressed as to the wishes of the Border States,) shall settle the question for herself, by a convention to be elected for that purpose, after the withdrawal of all military forces on both sides from her limits."

They also adopted his resolution declaring that "the recent act of Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in cases of arrests, ordered by the President, Secretary of War, or general officer commanding the Trans-Mississippi military department, is an attempt to maintain the military in the usurpation of the constitutional judicial functions of issuing warrants, and to give validity to unconstitutional seizures of the persons of the people; and the said act, by its express terms, confines its operation to the upholding of the class of unconstitutional seizures, the whole suspension attempted to be authorized by it, and the whole act itself, are utterly void."

March 21.-A battle occurred at Henderson's

Hill, La., between a portion of General A. J. Smith's forces, under the command of General John A. Mower, and the rebels under General Richard Taylor, resulting in the defeat and rout of the latter, with a loss of five guns with caissons, four hundred horses, and about two hundred and fifty men, in killed, wounded, and missing. In a skirmish previous to the battle, Colonel H. B. Sargent, of General Banks's staff, was wounded severely.—(Docs. 96 and 131.)

—LAST NIGHT a body of rebels made an attack on the Union pickets, near Jenkins's Island, South-Carolina, but were repulsed at every point by the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania regiment, Colonel Campbell, doing duty at that point. The rebels approached in eight large flatboats, and came in force, evidently with a view of cutting off the pickets. Another attempt to gain a foothold on the island this night was baffled by Cap"That in the judgment of this General Assem-tain Kness's company of the Seventy-sixth, bly, the said act is an alarming assault upon the which fired several deadly volleys into the boats, liberty of the people, without any existing neces- and drove them off. No casualties occurred on sity to excuse it, and beyond the power of the Union side in either affair.-THE steamer possible necessity to justify it; and our Senators Chesapeake, surrendered by the British authorand Representatives in Congress are earnestly ities, arrived at Portland, Maine. urged to take the first possible opportunity to have it blotted from the record of our laws."

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Both houses also adopted a resolution turning over to the confederate government all persons between the ages of seventeen and eighteen, and forty-five and fifty years.

They also unanimously adopted a resolution expressive of confidence in the President, and

-THE rebel steamer Clifton, formerly the United States gunboat of that name, while attempting to run the blockade at Sabine Pass, with over a thousand bales of cotton, got aground on the bar. She remained immovable, and was burned to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Nationals. -THE rebel schooner Wild Pigeon was captured by the Hendrick Hudson.

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