Miller, having arrived from Nashville with a force of Union troops, attacked and drove out Morgan's rear-guard (the main body of whose force left during the day) killing six and wounding a number.

August 14.-The Grenada (Miss.) Appeal of this day published the following: "In another column, this evening, will be found the order of the Adjutant-General of Rhode Island, calling for a regiment of 'colored persons,' who will constitute a part of the quota' from that State. The 'gentleman of color' has at last turned up

-THE rebel Congress voted their thanks to General Robert E. Lee, and the officers and men under his command, "for their late brilliant vic-by authority,' to the eternal disgrace of the tory, culminating in the signal defeat of the combined forces of the enemy, in the two great

battles of Manassas."

August 13.-A collision occurred off Ragged Point, on the Potomac River, Va., between the

steamers Peabody and West-Point, by which seventy-three lives were lost. The West-Point was en route for Washington with convalescents from the army of General Burnside.-Colonel Guitar overtook Poindexter's guerrillas again at Yellow Creek, Clinton County, Mo., routed and scattered them in utter confusion, taking sixty prisoners.-The French bark Harriet Ralli was released by the government authorities of the United States.

-THE One Hundred and Tenth regiment of New-York Volunteers left their encampment near Elmira, for Washington.-A battle was fought this day near Clarendon, Ark., between the division of Gen. Hovey, consisting of six regiments of infantry and eight regiments of cavalry, and a part of Hindman's force, which had been sent forward from Little Rock to check the advance of the Union army. The battle raged some time with destructive results. The Eleventh Indiana regiment lost seven men killed. The contest ended by the defeat and rout of Hindman's men, and the capture of seven hundred prisoners.— N. Y. Tribune.

-AN expedition consisting of the Twentyfourth Massachusetts, and a marine battery, under the command of General Stevenson, embarked on board the gun-boats Wilson and Ellis, at Newbern, N. C., and proceeded to Swansboro', where they destroyed, on the sixteenth instant, the rebel saltworks. The expedition then turned to camp at Newbern.-(Doc. 181.)

twenty millions of whites who thus acknowledge their inability to conquer seven millions. Whenever this regiment appears on the field let the black flag be raised."

-D. A. MAHONEY, editor of the Dubuque (Iowa) Herald, was arrested by the United States Marshal. Mr. Mahoney was charged with discouraging enlistments.

-THE Thirty-third regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, commanded by Colonel Albert G. Maggi, left Lynnfield for Washington.—A slight skirmish took place near Helena, Arkansas, between a scouting-party of National troops, who were looking after cotton, and a body of rebel guerrillas, resulting in the defeat and retreat of the guerrillas.

-GENERAL POPE, commanding the army of Virginia, issued an order from his headquarters near Cedar Mountain, Va., enjoining on the officers and soldiers of his army to abstain from entering the houses, molesting the persons, or disturbing the property of citizens, under pain of speedy and severe punishment. Whatever provisions, forage, or other articles might be required for the subsistence or use of the troops would be taken possession of, but only under an officer with authority for that purpose.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN gave an audience to a committee of colored men at the Executive Mansion, Washington. They were introduced by Rev. J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration. E. M. Thomas, the chairman of the committee, remarked that they were there by invitation to hear what the Executive had to say to them. The President, after a few preliminary observations, inre-formed them that a sum of money had been appropriated by Congress, and placed at his disposition, for the purpose of aiding colonization of the people, or a portion of the people of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been his inclination, to favor that cause.

-THIS morning at half-past seven A. M., Gen. Pope telegraphed from Cedar Mountain, Va., to Gen. Halleck, at Washington, as follows:-"The enemy has retreated under cover of the night. His rear is now crossing the Rapidan, towards Orange Court-House. Our cavalry and artillery are in pursuit."

-THE rebel General Breckinridge addressed a note to Colonel H. E. Paine, commanding United

States forces at Baton Rouge, La., complaining all along the banks of the river for a distance of
that the Union troops in that vicinity had wan- twenty miles, but she sustained no injury, and
tonly burned many private houses; had taken or but one person was wounded.
destroyed much private property without compen-
sation; had seized and carried away into impri-
sonment, upon false and frivolous pretexts, many
unarmed citizens, and that negro slaves were being
armed and organized to be employed against them.
He informed him that such acts were regarded as
in violation of the usages of civilized warfare; and
that, in future, upon any departure from those
"he would raise the black flag, and neither
usages
give nor ask quarter."-See Supplement.

August 15.-The Thirty-fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, under the command of Colonel George D. Wells, left Worcester for the seat of war.-A squad of cavalry from Washington, D. C., went into St. Mary's County, Md., and encountered near Leonardstown Capt. William Clark, of the Thirty-seventh Virginia regiment, with a number of recruits, travelling in a wagon on their way to join the rebels. When they were observed the cavalry abandoned the teams and broke for the woods, but the National

cavalry pursued them, and several shots were exchanged. Nine of them, including one officer, were taken and carried to the city and sent to the Old Capitol prison.

-A SHARP fight took place at Merriwether's Ferry, on the Obion River, Tenn., between a body of Union troops under the command of Col. T. W. Harris, and a force of rebel guerrillas, under Captain Binfield, resulting in a rout of the rebels, who lost twenty men killed and nine taken prisoners. (Doc. 182.)

August 16.-An enthusiastic war meeting was this day held at Lake Mahopac, N. Y.-The One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers arrived at Washington, D. C. -Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, Lieutenant-Col. Brown, and Major Rogers, reached Fortress Monroe, having been exchanged at Richmond, Va. Great joy was manifested at the release of Col. Corcoran and his fellow-soldiers.

-HOPKINSVILLE, Ky., was this day captured by a force of rebel guerrilla cavalry, under the command of Colonel A. R. Johnson. A quantity of ammunition and a number of rifles fell into their hands. Colonel Johnson issued a notice to the inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, informing them that he occupied the town and had taken the arms, etc., as a confederate soldier; and that if any Southern man or his property should be molested on account of his visit, he would retaliate on the Union men of the place.

-A COMPANY of rebel cavalry dashed across the Rapidan River, Va., near Crooked Run, and captured Lieutenant Black, and five men of the Union army encamped in the vicinity.

-AN expedition consisting of the Union gunboats Benton, Mound City and General Bragg, under command of Captain Phelps; the rams Switzerland, Monarch, Lioness and Sampson, under command of Colonel Ellet, and transports Rockett and McDowell, with the Fifty-seventh

Ohio, the Thirty-third Indiana, fifty cavalrymen,

and two pieces of artillery on board, under com-
mand of Colonel Wood of the Fifty-seventh Ohio,
left Helena, Arkansas, this day and proceeded
down the Mississippi. On the eighteenth, when
near the mouth of the Yazoo River, at Millikins's

Bend, they captured the rebel steamer Fairplay,
laden with an entire equipment of arms, accoutre-
ments and ammunition for an army of six thou-
sand men. At Haines's Bluff they captured four
pieces of artillery, and a large quantity of ammu-
nition. At Richmond, La., they destroyed the
railway dépôt, together with its contents, a large
quantity of sugar, commissary stores, ammuni-
tion, etc., and engaged a force of rebels whom
they put to flight. On the twenty-fifth instant
the expedition returned to Helena, without losing
a man.-(Doc. 183.)

-THE Richmond (Va.) Examiner of this date, speaking editorially of the approaching session of —THE United States gunboat Pocahontas, one the rebel Congress, among other things, said: of the blockading squadron off Charleston, pro- "It will be for Congress to repair, as it best can, ceeded up the Black River, S. C., on a reconnoi- the mischief done the public service by a weak tring expedition, and in search of a rebel steamer and impracticable executive; to look at the reducreported to be in the river. When about twenty- tion of our forces in the field; the decay of milifive miles up, it was discovered that the rebels tary discipline; the demoralization of our armies, had sunk the vessel. In returning, the Poca- and the jeopardy to which our cause has been hontas was fired into by bands of rebel guerrillas | put by a long course of trifling conduct, childish

THE One Hundred and Twenty-fifth and the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh regiments of Pennsylvania arrived at Washington, D. C. -THE National pickets were fired on at Rom

-THE evacuation of Harrison's Landing, on the James River, Va., by the army of the Poto-ney Road, Va., and one man mortally wounded. mac, which commenced on the eleventh instant, was this day completed.-(Doc. 184.)

A force sent in pursuit overtook a party of bushwhackers near North River Mills, attacked them, and killed the notorious guerrilla, Bob Edwards. The rest escaped to the mountains. · Colone Michael Corcoran, of the Sixty-ninth New-York militia, was appointed a Brigadier-General in the volunteer service of the United States.

-A FIGHT took place near Lone Jack, Mo., between a force of about eight hundred Missouri State militia, under the command of Major Foster, and a body of rebel guerrillas under Colonel Coffee, numbering between three and four thousand men, resulting, after an engagement of four hours, - THE Congress of the rebel States reässemin the defeat of the Nationals with a loss of sixty bled at Richmond, Va., when Jeff Davis delivermen killed and one hundred wounded and miss-ed his annual message, addressed "to the Senate ing. The rebel loss was one hundred and ten and House of Representatives of the confederate killed and wounded.-(Doc. 185.) States."-See Supplement.

August 17.-The office of the Constitutional Gazetteer, a newspaper published at Marysville, Kansas, was demolished this morning at an early hour by a party of National soldiers belonging to the company of Captain Bowen.-The One Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers arrived at Washington, D. C.

-THE steamers Skylark and Sallie were burned by guerrillas, at the mouth of Duck Creek, fifty miles above Fort Henry, Tenn. The Skylark was heavily laden with government stores. She got aground and an officer unloaded a portion of her stores when he was attacked by thirty rebels. The crew, being unarmed, were comto surrender. The guerrillas, after removing the furniture and silver ware, set fire to both the boats. The crews were released on parole. - THE rebel Colonel John H. Morgan, issued a proclamation from Hartsville, Tenn., in which he said that in consequence of the Federal Government causing his friends to pay for property destroyed by him, he would thenceforth put the law of retaliation in full force, and act upon it with vigor. For every dollar exacted from his Southern fellow-citizens, he would have two from men of known Union sentiments, and would make their persons and property responsible for the payment.

—AT New-York, Archbishop Hughes deliver-pelled
ed a most important and patriotic sermon in St.
Patrick's Cathedral. After reciting his course of
action in Europe, he called upon the whole North
to come out in its strength, for "volunteering to
continue and for a draft to be made." He said
that if three hundred thousand men were not
enough, to call out another three hundred thou-
sand. "The people should insist on being draft-
ed, and so bring this unnatural strife to a close"
by strength of might alone.

August 18.-The following orders were issued
from the War Department at Washington: "Here-
after no appointments of Majors-General or Bri-
gadiers-General will be given except to officers of
the regular army, for meritorious and distinguish-
ed services during the war, or to volunteer offi-
cers who, by some successful achievement in the
field, shall have displayed the military abilities
required for the duties of a general officer.

"No appointment to such grades will be issued by the War Department till an examination is made to ascertain if there are any charges or evidence against the character, conduct or fitness of the appointee, and if there should be any such

- CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., garrisoned by a small number of Union troops, under command of Col. Mason, was this day surrendered to Col. Woodward and a superior force of rebel guerrilla troops, without firing a shot.-(Doc. 186.)

August 19.-The steamer Swallow was burned by the rebels, at a point on the Mississippi River, twenty-five miles below Memphis, Tenn.—A skirmish took place near Rienzi, Miss.

THE following order was issued from the War Department at Washington:

The Department of the Ohio, hereby created, will be composed of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky, East of the Tennessee River, and including Cumberland Gap, and the troops operating in its vicinity. Major-General H. G. Wright is assigned to the command of the Department of Ohio.

A LARGE and enthusiastic war meeting was held in Brooklyn, N. Y. A series of patriotic resolutions were adopted, and speeches made by Generals Crooke, Walbridge, Sickles and Spinola, Admiral Paulding, Rev. Dr. Cox, and others. —A FORCE of Union cavalry from New-Madrid, Mo., under the command of Captain Frank Moore, while on an expedition to Charleston, attacked a rebel camp on White Oak Ridge, near Hickman,

killing four and taking nineteen of the rebels prisoners, including three captains. They also captured twenty-seven horses and about one hundred stand of arms. Captain Moore and one private were wounded.

THE Board of Supervisors of Rensselaer

County, N. Y., assembled at Troy, appropriated seventy-five thousand dollars as bounty money, to be paid to volunteers enlisting into the army under the call of the President.

my soldiers from the woods, you will be hung when you are caught, and your houses and property will be destroyed."

-TO-DAY the Union army, under Gen. Pope, reached the Rappahannock River, in its retreat from the Rapidan, closely followed by the rebel army, under Gen. Lee. At Brandy Station the two armies came within sight of each other, and the rear-guard of the Nationals, supposing the advance of the rebels to be a mere skirmishing party, turned for the purpose of driving them back; but on charging upon them, they discovered their which thinned their ranks considerably, they reerror, for after receiving two or three volleys, treated to the bridge at the station, closely pursued by the rebels. Here the Unionists were opened fire on the rebels with great effect, comsupported by two batteries of artillery, which pelling them to fall back under cover of the adjacent woods.-(Doc. 104.)

-A FIGHT took place at Edgefield Junction, Tenn., between a small number of the Fiftieth guerrilla cavalry belonging to Col. John H. Mor Indiana volunteers and a superior force of rebel

gan's command, resulting in a retreat of the latter, with a loss of seven men killed and twenty wounded.

between a force of National troops, under the com -A FIGHT took place near Union Mills, Mo., mand of Major Price, and a party of rebel guerril

-THE Sioux Indians destroyed the United States Agencies at Yellow Medicine and Red Wood, and partially destroyed New-Ulm, Minn., killing and brutally mutilating more than a hun-las. dred persons, men, women, and children.

August 20.—British subjects who had declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States, being apprehensive that they might be drafted into the militia, Secretary Seward informed them, through the British Charge d'Af fairs at Washington, that none but citizens were liable to military duty in the United States.Secretary Seward's Letter.

-E. KIRBY SMITH, the rebel General, from his headquarters in East-Tennessee, issued the following address to the citizens of Knox County, and the adjacent counties in Kentucky:

The Nationals did not discover the rebels until they were fired upon from an ambush; but, notwithstanding this disadvantage, they charged upon them and put them to flight, capturing sixteen horses, a number of guns and swords, and a quantity of lead and powder. Four of the rebels were taken prisoners and one killed. Four of the Union party were killed and three wounded.-St. Louis Democrat, August 23.

August 21.-Jeff Davis issued an order from Richmond, directing that Major-Gen. Hunter and Brig.-Gen. Phelps should no longer be held and treated as public enemies of the rebel States, but as outlaws; and that in the event of the capture of either of them, or that of any other commissioned officer of the United States employed in drilling, organizing, or instructing slaves, with a view to their armed service in the war, he should not be regarded as a prisoner of war, but held in close confinement for execution as a felon, at such time and place as Jeff Davis might order. -TO-DAY the Union army, under Gen. Pope, "If, on the contrary, you persist in firing upon and the rebel army, under Gen. Lee, faced each

"Finding that you have been deceived by the misrepresentations of our enemies, and have been induced by them not only to leave your homes, but also to resort to the cowardly practice of bushwhacking, I now promise you that, if return quietly to your homes and lead orderly lives, you will not be disturbed, but will be protected in your rights.

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