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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.

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-MAJOR-GENERAL BANKS, from his headquarters at New-Orleans, Louisiana, issued eral orders constituting a Board of Education, and defining their duties and powers.

March 23.-An expedition under the command of General Steele left Little Rock, Ark., and went in pursuit of the rebel General Price.-THE following order was issued by Brigadier General Nathan Kimball on assuming command of troops in the department of Arkansas: "The Commanding General intends to protect, to the fullest extent of his power, all citizens who may be in the country occupied by troops under his command, in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; knowing that in so doing he will assist in accomplishing the primary object of the government he serves.

"He will devote all his energies to the defeat of the enemies of that government; and although, as a soldier, he can feel respect for those openly in arms against it, yet robbers and guerrillas who have taken advantage of the unsettled state of the country to burn dwellings, murder their neighbors, and insult women, are in no respect soldiers, and when taken will not be treated

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-A DARING rebel raid was made into the southern part of Green County to within five or six miles of Springfield, Mo., by a band of rebels numbering from eight to twelve, yesterday. Among the number were Louis Brashears and William Fulbright, (youngest son of Ephraim Fulbright,) both formerly of that county. The citizens collected and drove them out of the county to-day, and in a little fight with them killed Fulbright. In their flight southward the rebels killed Elijah Hunt and one Dotson, both of whom had formerly been in the rebel service.— Missouri Democrat, March 30.

March 24.-Major-Gen. Wm. H. French having been detached from the army of the Potohis farewell order to his command.—GENERAL mac in consequence of its reorganization, issued NEAL Dow delivered an address in Portland, Maine, describing his captivity in the South.THE rebel sloop Josephine was captured by the steamer Sunflower, at Saversota Sound.

-A LARGE force of rebels, under General Forrest, captured Union City, Ky., and after destroying the buildings, carried off the entire force of Nationals prisoners of war.-(Docs. 1 and 127.)

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March 25. Major-Generals Newton and Pleasanton, having been relieved of their commands in the army of the Potomac, issued general orders in accordance therewith.-PADUCAH, Kentucky, was attacked by the rebel forces under General Forrest-(Docs. 1, 127, and 139.)

-THE steamer La Crosse was captured and burned by a party of rebel guerrillas, at a point on the Red River, below Alexandria; her crew was released, but the officers were carried off.

March 26.-President Lincoln issued a proclamation specifying the persons to whom the benefits of the Amnesty Proclamation of December last were intended to apply. He also authorized every commissioned officer in the United States service, either naval or military, to administer the oath of allegiance, and imposed rules for their government, in the premises.(Doc. 113.)

-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."

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—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.

April 1.-The funeral ceremonies of Owen Lovejoy, were held at his late residence near the town of Princeton, Illinois.-THE steamer Maple Leaf, while returning to Jacksonville from Pilatka, struck a rebel torpedo, which exploded, tearing off the steamer's entire bow, the vessel sinking in ten minutes.

Two firemen and two The passengers, sixty in number, were safely landed, but their baggage was all lost, including that of two or three regiments. —THE battle of Fitzhugh's Woods, Ark., was fought this day.*. .*—(Doc. 128.)

deck-hands were drowned.

ment of twenty-five men of the One Hundred and Fifteenth New-York volunteers, commanded by Captain S. P. Smith, of the same regiment. This little party, sent from Pilatka to a point thirtytwo miles from the post, surprised and captured a picket of the enemy, consisting of one sergeant and nine men, with their arms, and thirteen horses, and equipments complete. To bring off the horses, it was necessary to swim them across the St. John's River, and force them for a mile and a half through a swamp previously considered impracticable. The energy, intrepidity, and skill with which this expedition was conducted demands the praise of the commander of this dis

trict, and the imitation of troops hereafter detached on similar expeditions.

"II. The Brigadier General Commanding announces that the Marine Battery, which was so promptly and cheerfully placed on the line of our intrenchments when they were first thrown up in the vicinity of Jacksonville, and at a time when it was much needed, has been ordered on board the sloop-of-war Mahaska. He takes this

-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 Union loss was sixteen killed. Ten killed and wounded of the rebels were left on the field.

April 2.-Captain Schmidt, of company M, Fourteenth New-York cavalry, while scouting near Pensacola, Florida, with thirty of his men, came upon a party of fifty rebels belonging to the Seventh Alabama cavalry, under command of Major Randolph, C. S. A. The Nationals immediately charged them, and after a hand-tohand fight of about ten minutes, defeated them with a loss of from ten to fifteen killed and wounded, eleven prisoners, one lieutenant, two sergeants, and eight men. The loss of the Nationals was First Lieutenant Lengerche and two men slightly wounded.

April 3.-This night a band of forty rebels landed at Cape Lookout, took possession of the lighthouse, put the keeper and his wife in durance, and exploded a keg of powder, which seriously damaged the building. They then retired on the approach of the steamer City of Jersey.

* See Document 8, Volume IX., REBELLION RECORD.

B. Balch, commanding United States naval forces on St. John's River, for his kindness, and to Ensign Augustus E. French, and the petty officers and men under him, for their valuable services, very good conduct, and exhibition of excellent discipline, throughout their intercourse with the troops of this command."

April 4.-The gunboat Scioto, under the command of Lieutenant Commander George H. PerTwo hours and a half previous to the capture, kins, captured the rebel schooner Mary Sorley. the Mary Sorley was seen coming out of Galveston, Texas, in a gale. The Scioto gave chase, and after running south by west about twentyfive miles, made the capture beyond signal distance of any of the blockading vessels. All the official papers were found on board.—Captain Marchand's Report.

-By direction of the President of the United States, the following changes and assignments were made in army corps commands:

Major-General P. H. Sheridan was assigned to the command of the cavalry corps of the army of the Potomac.

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 0. 0. 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 Lieutenant-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 cap tured 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

night.

eral Ullman's division marched several miles out- ing them, the party conveyed the wounded the side, but on the approach of the infantry the reb-long distance to the river, and taking the steamer els left without hazarding a fight. The rebel Darling, returned to quarters at New-Madrid toforce was the Wirt Adains's cavalry from up the river, numbering nearly a thousand. They were well mounted and equipped.— THE rebel schooner Spunky was captured by the National schooner Beauregard, off Cape Canaveral.

-By a general order, issued this day from the headquarters of the army of the Potomac, all civilians, sutlers, and their employés, were ordered to the rear by the sixteenth. Members of the Sanitary or Christian Commissions, and registered news correspondents only, were allowed to remain. All property for which there was no transportation, also was ordered to the rear, and the authority of corps commanders to grant furloughs was revoked, and none to be granted save in extreme cases, or in case of reenlisted veterans.

The

April 8.—Last night, a scouting-party of one hundred men of the Second Missouri volunteers, from New-Madrid, was surprised in camp and in bed by guerrillas, at a point sixteen miles northwest of Osceola, in Arkansas. A member of the attacked band gives the following detailed account of the expedition and surprise. He says: "The rebels demanded a surrender, firing on our men in their beds, before they could get up, and as they sprang up, the assailants fired a dreadful volley from double-barreled shot-guns. Lieutenant Phillips, springing up, and calling to his men to rally, discharged one shot with revolver, and was struck in the left temple by a ball, and killed instantly. Major Rabb called to the men to rally, but they were so tightly pressed for the moment, that they fell back to a house at which was company K. The combat-a ants were so close, that it was dangerous to our own men for those at the house to fire. The firing on our part was thus much curtailed for the moment. But all was soon over; the rebels have fallen back, and taken covering in the darkness of the night. But they were not all as fortunate as they might have wished; for at the close of the fray, some of them were heard to call out: 'Don't leave us, for we are wounded.' The fact of finding some arms on the ground, twenty or thirty feet off, where Lieutenant Phillips lay, proved that some of them had got their rights, (Federal lead.) In a few minutes after the fray, Sergeant Reese was ordered to take eight men and carry the wounded to the house, which was done immediately. Here is Twenty-eighth Iowa) were ordered into line, and the list of the unfortunate-Lieutenant Phillips, killed: Lieutenant Orr, severely wounded; Sergeant Handy, killed; Sergeant Millhouse, severely wounded; Sergeant Claypool, slightly, in arm; William Julian, slightly; Thomas Jump, slightly, in leg; Joseph W. Davis, slightly; Milton R. Hardie, mortally, (has since died;) Able Benny, slightly, in leg; William Chasteen, mortally, (has since died in hospital.) Total-four killed, seven wounded, all of company I, Second Missouri."

Ky., at one o'clock A.M., this day, stole seven
-A PARTY of guerrillas entered Shelbyville,
horses, and broke open the Branch Bank of Ash-
land; but before they could rifle it of its con-
tents, they became alarmed at the proximity of
the Twelfth Ohio cavalry, and decamped.
rest of them were arrested, and confined in Tay-
lorsville jail.-Tuis evening, the National cavalry, .
under the command of General Grierson, made
descent upon a bridge over Wolf River, Tenn.,
which had just been completed by the rebel
General Forrest, and succeeded in capturing and
destroying it, with a loss of eight killed and
wounded, and the capture of two rebel prisoners.

The dead were necessarily left, and after bury

-THE battle of Sabine Cross-Roads, La., took place this day. A participant in the fight gives the following account of it: "On the morning of the eighth of April, the regiment broke up camp at Pleasant Hill, and with the Twenty-fourth Iowa, Fifty-sixth Ohio, Forty-sixth Indiana, and Twenty-ninth Wisconsin, which composed the Third division, moved in the direction of Mansfield. After marching ten miles, the division halted and went into camp, as was supposed, for the night. At half-past two o'clock P.M., we (the

forward with the division, to support General Lee's cavalry and the Fourth division of the Thirteenth army corps, then engaging the enemy. A rapid march of an hour brought us to the scene of action. The Twenty-eighth Iowa was formed on the extreme left, supported by four companies of the Twenty-fourth Iowa, and advanced into an open field to meet the enemy. Here the regiment (the Twenty-eighth) halted, and was ordered to fire. After a spirited contest of about fifteen minutes, being exposed to a ter

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