war ready to fit them for immediate service in | dred were missing, out of nine hundred enthe field.

gaged. The rebel loss was fearful. Lieut.-Col. Of the officers, many are specially qualified Creighton captured the rebels' colors and two for their positions. Col. Barnes is distinguished prisoners. The following is a list of national for having been in the same class with Jeff. officers known to be killed: Captain Dyer, ComDavis, at West Point, graduating A one, when pany D, of Painesville; Captain Shurtleff, ComJeff. was No. twenty-seven, in a class of thirty-pany C, of Oberlin; Captain Sterling, Company one. Lieut.-Col. Ingraham was in the Massa-I; Adjutant Deforest, of Cleveland; Lieutenant chusetts Fourth, stationed at Fortress Monroe. Charles Warrent; Sergeant-Major King, of Major Hayes is a graduate of Harvard College, Warren. The field-officers are all safe. and quite popular. Adjutant Hodge was an officer of the Massachusetts Fifth, and distin

of Commodore Stringham and Major-General | dy—the person arrested being Samuel J. AnButler. It consisted of the frigates Minnesota derson. He has carried on a very extensive and Wabash, the sloop-of-war Pawnee, gun- correspondence with Vice-President Stephens boats Monticello, Harriet Lane, and Quaker of the Southern Confederacy, and has been City, with numerous transports.-See Aug. 29. in constant communication with the secession For the last -A CAMP of instruction at Scarsdale, West- sympathizers in New York. six weeks, according to his own confession, chester County, N. Y., was opened under command of Brigadier-General E. L. Viele. The he has been contributing editorial articles for The Daily News, Day Book, and Journal of Commerce. An intercepted letter from Washington advised him to go south via Kentucky, as a passport could not be obtained from the Government. Anderson's correspondence gives a great deal of important political information, besides implicating parties well known in New York.-N. Y. Tribune, August 28.

camp,

camp is about seventy acres in extent, situated on an upland which gradually slopes toward the Bronx River, where there is excellent bathing. All regiments and companies recruited, and not imperatively needed at Washington, as fast as they are sworn in, will be sent to this and there subjected to the most thorough drill and discipline. General Viele has adopted stringent and wholesome regulations for the government of his camp. All officers are required to stay in camp, and put up with soldier's fare, instead of dissipating their time in the city. No officer will be allowed to wear the insignia of rank until he is sworn in. All the -JOSEPH HOLT made a Union speech at other rules in use among the regular service, Boston, Mass., to-day, in the course of which for the government of camps, will be enforced he said he nowhere heard the word comproThe name of the new encampmise, which was now only uttered by traitors. ment is “Camp Howe."-N. Y. Commercial, So long as rebels had arms in their hands there August 27.

at Scarsdale.

-THE First regiment U. S. Chasseurs, under the command of Colonel John Cochrane, left New York for the seat of war. This regiment numbers eight hundred and fifty men, and will be armed with the Enfield rifle.

was nothing to compromise. He concluded by saying that it was in vain to toil at the pumps while men were kept on board boring holes in the bottom of the ship.-Boston Post, Aug. 28.

-A CORRESPONDENCE between the President of the United States and Beriah Magoffin, governor of Kentucky, respecting the neutrality of that State during the present crisis, was made public.—(Doc. 13.)

-COLONEL JONES, of the Fourth Alabama regiment, died at Orange Court House, Va., from wounds received in the battle of Bull Run. August 27.-Colonel Hoffman, of the Twentythird New York (Elmira) regiment, with Captain Dinglee's company and one other, started this afternoon to the vicinity of Ball's Cross Roads, for the protection of the Federal pickets in that locality. Near Ball's Cross Roads they encountered about six hundred secessionists, August 28.-A party of National troops unwhen a volley was exchanged. The two Fed-der the command of Capt. Smith, detailed on eral companies retired, in presence of the supe- the 24th ult. to break up a force of secessionrior force, in excellent order. About thirtyists at Wayne Court House, Va., returned to rounds were exchanged, and Carrol, of Camp Pierpont, at Ceredo, having been sucElmira, was killed by a shot from the rebels. cessful in their expedition.-(Doc. 14.) He was a young man, and was very popular -PRESIDENT LINCOLN to-day appointed as with his regiment. Another of the national aides-de-camp to Gen. Wool, Alexander Hamtroops was wounded in the neck, and had a fin-ilton, Jr., and Legrand B. Cannon of New ger shot off. Whether the Confederates suffered any loss is not known. The nationals and the pickets fell back to the camp, about half a mile beyond Arlington.-National Intelligencer, August 29.

-Ax important arrest was made in New York at the instance of Superintendent Kenne

York, each with the rank of Major, and William Jay, of Bedford, N. Y., with the rank of Captain. These appointments were made at Gen. Wool's request, and the official notification. from the War Department instructs the aids to immediately report to him in person.-N. Y. Tribune, August 29.

the plan. Captain Harris has also a company of mounted rangers, with double-barrel shotguns, for home defence. If every county will imitate the example of Old Hancock we would have 15,000 drilled troops in the field at the

at any point on a brief warning. Will not the editors throughout the State urge this thing on the people?"

-THE funeral ceremonies and military display in honor of Gen. Lyon took place at St. Louis, Mo., to-day. The procession which escorted the remains to the railroad depot consisted of Gen. Fremont's body-guard, under Gen. Zagoni, Capt. Tillman's company of cav-command of the Governor, ready to operate at alry; a section of Capt. Carlin's battery; the First regiment of Missouri Volunteers, Col. Blair; Gen. Fremont and staff; a number of army and volunteer officers; city officials; prominent citizens; and the Third regiment of United States Reserve Corps, Col. McNeil, all under command of Brigadier-General Siegel. The streets through which the procession passed were thronged with spectators, and the flags throughout the city were draped in mourning. -Louisville Journal, August 29.

-THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel gives the following reasons to the Confederate States for organizing a coast defence:

"1. Because there are many places where the enemy might commit raids and do us damage before we could organize and drive them off. Beaufort District, opposite to Savannah, has several fine ports and inlets, navigable for large vessels, wholly unprotected. (See United States Coast Survey.) This district has five black to one white inhabitant. Several inlets on our coast, which our enemies know like a book, from surveys in their possession, are equally unprotected.

"2. In two months more they will not fear our climate. By that time they might be ready to make a sudden descent and find us unprepared.

"3. A small force might eject them if ready to go at once; when, if we have to wait, a much larger one will become necessary.

"4. By organizing and drilling infantry and guerillas at home, there will be no need to call upon the President for troops, and a feint from the enemy would not injure our Virginia operations.

"There are many who are so situated that they cannot enlist for the war who would will ingly organize to go for a few months, if necessary, to defend the coast. We carnestly hope that the Governor will soon have companies organized for this purpose all over the State. Captain Cain has a company drilling for this purpose in this county, and we understand that Gov. Brown has accepted them as State troops to defend the coast, and is much pleased with

-THE Nineteenth regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Col. Edward W. Hincks, of Lynn, left Boston for New York, on the way to the seat of war. The regiment has been in quarters for four weeks at Camp Schouler, Lynnfield. They are fully equipped and are armed with Enfield rifles. They have with them seventeen baggage wagons, seven ambulances and hospital wagons, and one hundred horses. formerly Lieut.-Col. of the Eighth Massachusetts Militia regiment, that held the Annapolis Railroad with the New York Seventh; and Lieut.-Col. Deveraux was Captain of the Salem Zouaves, who, with the Massachusetts sappers and miners, brought out the Constitution from the Annapolis navy yard. The Tiger Zouaves are a part of this regiment.

Col. Hincks was

-GOVERNOR DENNISON, of Ohio, issued a proclamation to the citizens of that State, calling upon them to rally to the defence of the Union, in accordance with the late call of the Executive at Washington.-(Doc. 15.)

-THE National Intelligencer of this day gives the following on the mode in which the minor affairs of the South are managed: The lamentations which journals sympathizing with the secession cause express over the loss of "public and private liberty," would perhaps carry some weight if their sincerity were believed to be equal to their unction, or if any recognition was made of the relation which such losses bear as the natural effects of the causes set in motion by the revolutionists. The vehement denouncers of "Federal usurpations," which, in whatever degree they may exist, are but the inevitable incidents of a state of things precipitated by the secession movement, these journals, with a hypocrisy only equalled by their effrontery, continue to reserve all their virtuous indignation for the secondary, rather than the primary movers in these great transactions-for those who are acting on the defensive in the preservation of the National author

ity, rather than those who were the first to | States life-boats, together with large quantities invoke the precedents of tyranny for its over- of ammunition and munitions of war. throw. As a sample of the maxims which pass current in the seceded States, without incurring a breath of censure from these sturdy defenders of the Constitution and of public liberty, we make the following selection from a Southern journal:

The Charleston Mercury announces the passage of the following resolutions by a vigilance committee of that city:

Resolved, That this committee considers it highly inexpedient and impolitic for persons resident at the South to visit the free States of the Federal Government and return to our midst, and especially do we condemn visits of the same person.

Resolved, therefore, That in future any resident of Charleston and its vicinity who shall go to any of the Northern States, unless with previous knowledge and consent of the committee, shall not be permitted to return to our community under pain of such disabilities or punishment as the law may decree.

There is an inlet across the sand bar at Hatteras, made by the sea within a few years, near which there have been erected two forts of earth and sand and other materials, and mounting a considerable number of guns. These forts were shelled by the National rifled cannon at a range of two-and-a-half miles. Into one of them there were thrown twenty-eight shells in eight minutes. One of the works surrendered, which was taken possession of and its guns directed against the other, which also soon surrendered. Their whole force was captured, and eight hundred of the Federal troops were left to garrison the forts and keep possession of them. At first Capt. Barron proposed to surrender if permitted to do so with the honors of war. This Gen. Butler refused, and demanded a surrender, at discretion, which was yielded, and the enemy marched out prisoners of war.—(Doc. 8.)

-THE New Jersey Fifth regiment of Volunteers, fully equipped and numbering nearly a full complement of men, with wagons and horses, left Trenton this afternoon at three o'clock, and arrived safely in Philadelphia, en route for the seat of war.-N. Y. Herald, August 30.

-A MONSTER meeting of the friends of the Sixty-ninth regiment, took place in New York in aid of a fund for the widows and orphans of those who have died in the ranks. Upward of fifty thousand people were present, and Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher delivered a stirring address.

Such are the institutes of public opinion as now enforced in "the last home of constitutional liberty," and it is from men who have no word of reproof for the authors of such usurpations that we are doomed to hear daily homilies on the rigorous proceedings of the National Government. These proceedings would indeed be most abnormal in a time of public peace, and it is quite possible that innocent parties may in some cases suffer from the unjust suspicions engendered in a day of great civil defection and official treachery. But it does not become the apologists of the men who have directly -A SKIRMISH took place at Lexington, Mo., superinduced the public and private calamities between four thousand five hundred secessionwhich afflict the whole nation, to assume theists and fou hundred and thirty Home Guards championship of those who are the victims of ▲ wrong which they seek to palliate and pro

tect.

August 29.-The joint expedition, commanded by General B. F. Butler and Commodore S. H. Stringham, after two days' cannonading, succeeded in capturing Forts Clark and Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., with the garrison of the latter fort. Thirty pieces of cannon, one thousand stand of arms, and a quantity of provisions, fell into possession of the National forces. Also three prize vessels -one a brig, laden with coffee and provisions, another laden with cotton, and two United

and United States troops, in the intrenchments around Lexington. The attack was made by the secessionists, who were repulsed with a loss of sixty killed in the battle, and three of their pickets. None of the Federal force was killed. During the engagement, Arcana Hall, occupied by the Masons, and a private residence opposite to the court house, owned by R. Aull, Esq., of St. Louis, and occupied by T. Crittenden, Esq., (temporarily absent in Kentucky,) were shelled and burned. The impression was that the former contained powder designed for the use of the Confederates. Another attack was threatened.—(Doc. 16.)

ganized condition of the State Government rendering it both proper and necessary that he should assume the administrative powers of the State. The lines of the army of occupation were declared to extend from Leavenworth, by way of the posts of Jefferson City, Rolla, and Ironton, to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River; and all persons who might be taken, with arms in their hands, within those lines should be tried by court-martial, and if found guilty of disloyalty to the Government, should be shot. General Fremont, in accordance with the law passed by Congress, declared that the property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri, who should take up arms against the United States, or be directly proven to have taken active part with their enemies in the field, should be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, shall be declared free men. This procla

-THIS evening a "peace meeting" which | throughout the State of Missouri; the disorwas to have been held at Newtown, L. I., was "indefinitely postponed," and in its place a spirited Union demonstration came off. Delegations from Jamaica, Flushing, Williamsburg, and the surrounding districts came in, until there was a very large concourse assembled, when a meeting was organized, the Hon. John D. Townsend in the chair. The proceedings were opened by a patriotic address by Richard Busteed, followed by Daniel Northup, of Brooklyn, and resolutions indorsing the Administration in the prosecution of the war, were passed. An effigy of Jeff. Davis was produced and hung on a tree; afterward it was cut down and placed in a large coffin, bearing the inscription, "Newtown Secession, died August 29th, 1861." The "remains were taken possession of by the Williamsburg delegation, who brought it home with them, and threw it in the river at the foot of Grand street. The proceedings, though not very orderly, were extremely en-mation included in its provisions all persons thusiastic and patriotic.

-INTELLIGENCE was received at Washington, from Independence, Mo., that the United States troops, seven hundred and fifty in number, who surrendered to three hundred Texan Rangers, eighteen miles from Fort Fillmore, had been released on parole, the Texans retaining their arms and the horses belonging to the Mounted Rifles.

Gen. Wm. Pelham, formerly Surveyor-General of New Mexico, and Col. Clements, were arrested at Santa Fé, and confined in the guardhouse, by order of Col. Canby, of the Department of New Mexico. They were suspected of giving improper information to the Texas troops of Fort Bliss, below El Paso. Col. Clements took the oath of allegiance, and was discharged. Gen. Pelham refused to take the oath, and is still confined in the guard-house. Col. Canby, by proclamation, had suspended the writ of habeas corpus in New Mexico. Fort Stanton had been abandoned by the United States forces, and the fort afterward fired by order of Col. Canby.-National Intelligencer, September 2.

-AT Middletown, New Jersey, a party of peace men attempted to hold a meeting, but were prevented by the presence of a large body of Unionists.-N. Y. Herald, August 30.

August 30.-General Fremont, at St. Louis, issued a proclamation declaring martial law

proven to have destroyed railroad-tracks, bridges, etc., and all persons engaged in treasonable correspondence, or in any way giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy. It also promised immunity to all who would immediately return to their allegiance to the Government. The object of the proclamation was to place in the hands of the military authorities the power to give instantaneous effect to existing laws, and not to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the country, where the law could be administered by the civil officers in the usual manner.

Following the declaration of martial law in Missouri by General Fremont, Provost-marshal McKinstry issued an order forbidding any person passing beyond the limits of St. Louis without a special permit from his office; and railroad, steamboat, ferry, and other agents were prohibited from selling tickets to any one not holding a proper pass.--(Doc. 18.)

-THIS afternoon, at Baltimore, Md., the dwelling of Edward Phillips, in Sterling street near Mott, formerly a pelican police officer under Colonel Kane, was searched, and the following articles, contraband of war, were discovered secreted between the floor and ceiling of the second story of his house, viz.: Two carbines, one Minié musket, three Colt's revolvers, engraved on the butts "City Police," thirty rounds of cartridges, and several espan