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 Combahce 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,) Hill, La., between a portion of General A. J. 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."

"That in the judgment of this General Assembly, the said act is an alarming assault upon the liberty of the people, without any existing necessity to excuse it, and beyond the power of any possible necessity to justify it; and our Senators and Representatives in Congress are earnestly urged to take the first possible opportunity to have it blotted from the record of our laws."

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.

March 21.-A battle occurred at Henderson's

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 Captain Kness's company of the Seventy-sixth, which fired several deadly volleys into the boats, and drove them off. No casualties occurred on the Union side in either affair.-THE steamer Chesapeake, surrendered by the British authorities, arrived at Portland, Maine.

-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 They also unanimously adopted a resolution of the Nationals. -THE rebel schooner Wild expressive of confidence in the President, and Pigeon was captured by the Hendrick Hudson.

March 22.-Major-General Lew. Wallace as- the Second corps, and Major-General Sedgwick sumed command of the Middle Department, the Sixth. Eighth army corps, headquarters at Baltimore, Md., and issued orders in accordance therewith.THE Supreme Court of Georgia to-day unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of the confederate anti-substitute law.-A HEAVY SNOWstorm prevailed in Richmond, Va., and vicinity, the average depth being about one foot.

-By order of the Commander-in-Chief, the corps of the Army of the Potomac were reduced to three, namely, the Second, Fifth, and Sixth corps. The First and Third were temporarily -GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters reorganized and distributed among the Second, at St. Louis, Mo., issued the following special Fifth, and Sixth. Major-General G. K. Warren orders: "The attention of the General Commandwas assigned to the command of the Fifth corps, ing has been called to various articles of an inGeneral W. S. Hancock continued to command cendiary, disloyal, and traitorous character, in a

newspaper entitled the Metropolitan Record, guard of seventeen National soldiers on the train without ecclesiastical sanction, called a 'Cath- surrendered without firing a gun.

olic family newspaper,' published in New-York March twenty-sixth, 1864. The articles on 'Conscription,' the 'Raid upon Richmond,' 'Clouds in the West,' and the Address of the Legislature of Virginia,' contain enough to satisfy the General Commanding that the reasonable freedom, nor even license, of the press, suffice for the traitorous utterances of those articles. They are a libel on the Catholics, who as a body are loyal and national; no man having a drop of Catholic charity or patriotism in his heart could have written them, expressing, as they do, hatred for the nation's efforts to resist its own dissolution, and friendship for those who are trying to destroy the great free government under which so many have found an asylum from oppression in other lands.

"The Provost-Marshal General will cause to be seized all numbers of the Metropolitan Record containing those articles; and venders of them, if found guilty of having sold or distributed them, knowing their traitorous contents, will be punished.

"To protect the innocent from imposition, the circulation of this paper is prohibited in this department until further orders."

-AN official announcement from Washington was made, that Illinois was twelve thousand four hundred and thirty-six "ahead of all quotas under the calls of President Lincoln for more troops."

March 27.-Colonel John M. Hughes, commanding the Twenty-fifth Tennessee rebel regiment, made application to Colonel Stokes, in command of the National forces at Sparta, Tenn., for the purpose of taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, and surrendering his command.

March 28.-A riot occurred at Charleston, Illinois, in which several persons were killed and wounded.-(Doc. 136.)

-THE election, ordered by Major-General Banks, for delegates to the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana, was held, and resulted in the success of the Free State party.

March 29.-An expedition under Colonel Clayton, from Pine Bluff, made a descent upon a party of rebels who had been committing depredations in the neighborhood of Little Rock, Ark., and captured a large number of them.— THE following order was issued by J. P. Sanderson, Provost-Marshal General of the department of the Missouri, from his headquarters at St. Louis: "The sale, distribution, or circulation of such books as 'Pollard's Southern History of the War,' 'Confederate Official Reports,' Life of Stonewall Jackson,' 'Adventures of Morgan and his Men,' and all other publications based upon rebel views and representations, being forbidden by the General Commanding, will be suppressed by Provost-Marshals, by seizing the same, and arresting the parties who knowingly sell, dispose, or circulate the same."

—A BATTLE took place this day at Cane River, La., between a portion of the National forces under General Banks, engaged on the expedition up the Red River, and the rebels commanded by General Dick Taylor.-(Doc. 131.)

THE United States steamer Commodore Barney, with fifty-six picked men from the Minnesota, all in charge of Captain J. M. Williams, left Fortress Monroe, Va., yesterday afternoon, proceeded up the Chuckatuck Creek, and landed the men in small boats at the head of the creek. They then took a guide to the headquarters of Lieutenant Roy, where they arrived at four surrounded the houses, and captured two sero'clock this morning, when they immediately

geants and eighteen privates, with their smallarms, without firing a shot.

Masters Pierson and Wilder had charge of the Minnesota's boats. The capture was important, as the officers taken prisoners were in the rebel signal service.

March 31.-Colonel Powell Clayton, from his headquarters at Pine Bluffs, Ark., despatched the following to General Halleck, at Washington: "The expedition to Mount Elba and Long View has just returned. We destroyed the pontoon-bridge at Long View, pursued a train of thirty-five wagons loaded with confederate -Two rebel spies were captured in the navy-equipments, ammunition, some stores, etc., and yard at Mound City, Arkansas, this morning. captured three hundred and twenty prisoners; As express train, which left Louisville, Ky., this engaged in battle, yesterday morning, General morning, for Lebanon, was captured by a body Dockney's division of about one thousand two of guerrillas, and two of the cars were burned. A hundred men, from Monticello; routed and pur

sued him ten miles, with a loss on his side of ---GENERAL J. P. HATCH, commanding the disover one hundred killed and wounded. We cap-trict of Florida, issued the following order from tured a large quantity of small-arms, two stand his headquarters at Jacksonville: "The Brigaof colors, many negroes, and have three hundred dier-General Commanding desires to make known horses and mules. Our loss will not exceed to his command the successful accomplishment fifteen in killed, wounded, and missing. We of a daring and difficult expedition, by a detachbrought in several hundred contrabands. The expedition was a complete success."-LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, accompanied by General Meade, left Washington for Fortress Monroe.

-A PARTY of rebels made an attack on Brooks's plantation, (which was being worked on a Government lease,) near Snydersville, on the Yazoo River, and destroyed all the valuable buildings and machinery. The First Massachusetts cavalry, (colored,) six hundred strong, drove the rebels off, after an hour's fight. The enemy numbered nearly one thousand five hundred. Opportunity to return his thanks to Captain G.

The Eleventh and Twelfth corps were consoli-horses or mules into the Union lines will be paid dated and called the First army corps. Major- their full value." General J. Hooker was assigned to command.

Major-General Gordon Granger was relieved from the command of the Fourth army corps, and Major-General O. O. Howard was assigned in his stead.

Major-General Schofield was assigned to the command of the Twenty-third army corps.

April 5.-The government powder-mills, belonging to the rebels, at Raleigh, North-Carolina, exploded this day, and killed several persons.

April 6.-Brigadier-General Guitar, from his headquarters at Macon, Missouri, issued general orders relinquishing his command of the district of North-Missouri, to Brigadier-General C. B. Fisk.

Major-General Slocum would report to MajorGeneral Sherman, commanding the division of -REUBEN PATRICK, captain of a company of the Mississippi, and Major-General Stoneman secret service employed by order of Governor would report to Major-General Schofield, com- Bramlette, by Colonel G. W. Gallup, commandmanding the department of the Ohio, for assigning the district of Eastern Kentucky, with fif

ment.

Major-General Granger would report by letter to the Adjutant-General of the army. Captain Horace Porter, United States ordnance department, was announced as an aid-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Grant, with rank of Lieu

tenant-Colonel.-General Orders.

teen men of company I, Fourteenth Kentucky, and four of his own company, surprised Captain Bradshaw, with eighty men of Hodge's brigade, on Quicksand Creek. He drove them in all directions, they leaving all their horses, arms, and camp equipage in Patrick's possession, who selected thirty of the best horses, and, with three prisoners, made quick time for camp, where he arrived, having left ten dead rebels, and seven mortally wounded on the ground. The captured arms were destroyed by burning them. This is the same Patrick who stole Humphrey Marshall's artillery out of his camp at Shelbyville, last spring.

-CAPTAIN PHELPS, of gunboat Number Twenty-six, captured a rebel mail-carrier near Crockett's Bluff, Ark., with five thousand letters from Richmond and other points, and sixty thousand percussion-caps for General Price's army. The letters contained official communications from Shreveport, and a considerable sum of Federal -AN election was held in Maryland, to determoney. THE Metropolitan Fair, for the benefitmine whether a convention should be called for of the Sanitary Commission, was inaugurated at New-York City, with imposing ceremonies.New-York Papers.

-T. A. HENDERSON, Provost-Marshal of the district of Florida, issued the following circular from his headquarters at Jacksonville:

"All refugees from the rebel lines, and deserters from the rebel armies, and all persons desiring to become such, are hereby informed that they will not, under any circumstances, be compelled to serve in the United States army against the rebels. This assurance is fully given in General Orders Number Sixty-four, of date February eighteenth, 1864, from the War Department.

the purpose of amending the Constitution of the State. The question was carried by a large majority.-THE schooner Julia A. Hodges was captured off Matagorda Bay, Texas, by the National vessel Estrella.

April 7.-The rebels made a dash within the National picket-lines at Port Hudson, La., and a brisk skirmish ensued, without important results to either side. A detachment of the One Hundied and Eighteenth Illinois mounted infantry, and a section of Barnes's battery, Twenty-first New-York, with one gun, had been out mending the line of telegraph to Baton Rouge, and on their return were attacked by a superior force of rebel "All such refugees and deserters, who are hon- cavalry and driven in. Simultaneously an atest in their intentions of for ever deserting the tack was made on the pickets by an equally large rebel cause, will be allowed every opportunity of force, and the detachment on the telegraph road engaging in their usual avocations; or, if they was cut off and flanked. The cavalry came in by desire employment from the United States, will, wood roads, but the piece of artillery was spiked as far as expedient, be employed on the govern- and left, and afterward carried off by the enemy. ment works, receiving proper compensation for In the several skirmishes the Nationals lost one their services. killed, four wounded, and six prisoners. They "All refugees or deserters who may bring took two prisoners, one of them an officer. Gen