into the Southern Confederacy; tore down the | Chesapeake Bay, could be added to Maryland, flag of rebellion, erected the Stars and Stripes, and that portion of the peninsula between the and captured five rebel troops, and bore them Chesapeake and the Atlantic, could be incorpoin triumph to Camp Calvert, with a number rated into the States of Delaware. of good horses and rigging, also some splendid December 2.-THE Memphis Avalanche of this fire-arms, knives, &c.* day, says: "Hang 'em," yes, hang them, every one. Every East Tennesseean found recreant to the will and interest of the State of Tennessee, and known to be actively conniving with its enemies, should be hung and loftily. the citizens of a State have, by an overwhelming majority at the ballot-box, determined on its foreign policy, and by that policy have been

Those composing the little patriotic band, were R. Bird, Speed Faris, Samuel Freeman, J. W. Smith, Clint. Roe, Ples. Jones, Joe Cain, S. C. Cain, Wm. Ellison, Frank and Abel Bryant, G. W. Lyttle, S. Stanfield, Jeremiah Meadors, R. and J. Pemberton, and some others, making between twenty and thirty in number.-Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, Dec. 9.

-A PARTY of Unionists attacked the Confederate pickets at Morristown, East Tennessee, killing a large number of them, and putting the rest to flight.-Memphis Avalanche, Dec. 2.

When

necessitated to arm for the defence of their
homes and firesides, every resident on the soil
of that State who lends or gives aid to the in-
vader, deserves as little mercy as Beelzebub will
give them in his empire. Wherever the cobra-
like head of treason is lifted, it should be strick-
en off, and that quickly, for its poisonous saliva
is as contagious as the airs of Malemma. "Hang
'em, hang 'em," every one.

-SIMON CAMERON, the Secretary of War, in his report, proposed that the limits of Virginia be so altered, as to make her boundaries consist of the Blue Ridge on the east, and Pennsylvania on the north, leaving those on the south and west as at present. Thus Alleghany and Washington counties, of Maryland, would be trans-fired several shots, which were returned from ferred to Virginia, while all that portion of Virginia lying between the Blue Ridge and

The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, Dec. 3, gives the fol lowing account of this affair:

This morning a band of Lincolnites from Kentucky, assisted by a number of tories of Scott County, entered the village of Huntsville, Tenn., and seized the persons of John L. Smith, John Catlin, Calvin Smith, Sterling Smith, Joe Smith, and five others, whose names we could not procure,

and immediately started with them to Kentucky as prisoners of war, at the same time taking about a dozen head of horses. All the gentlemen abducted were quiet, unof fending citizens, belonging to no military organization in

the Confederate service. Their only crime was that they were secessionists. John L. Smith is a clerk, and master of the Chancery Court at Huntsville, at least seventy years of age, and is respected by all who know him in the very

highest degree, and the others abducted are equally es. teemed. The party from whom we derived this information, Mr. William Anderson, was likewise captured by the marauders, but made his escape. He says he could not

ascertain the precise number of the enemy. He saw about forty or fifty, but they represented their number at several hundred. They were piloted in by the somewhat notorious

John II. Smith, who was released by the Confederate Court at Nashville, some time ago, upon his taking the oath of allegiance, and who forfeited his recognizance some days ago in the Confederate Court at this place, upon a charge of counterfeiting; John Baxter, of this city, being his security. He was assisted in this infamous raid by other tory residents of Scott County, among whom was Riley Cecil, another individual who was released by Major Fulkerson, at Jamestown, last summer, upon making the

strongest promises of good behavior toward the Confed

erate States.

-THREE rebel gunboats came up in sight of Fort Holt, near Cairo, Ill., this afternoon and

the fort and the batteries at Bird's Point. A shot from the Point went over the rebel steamers and they turned back down the river. Soon after General Grant followed them, but was unsuccessful in overtaking the fleet.-Cincinnati Gazette, December 3.

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-THIS day General Blenker, learning that party of rebel cavalry were foraging a few miles in front of his position at Hunter's Chapel, Va., despatched a squadron of horsemen to drive them off. They met, and a brief engagement ensued before the rebels put spurs to their horses and ran off, having three or four killed and wounded, and leaving two prisoners. The Nationals lost one man killed. The names of the prisoners are Alexander Maxwell, of Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia, and Wm. H. Dennis, of Salem, in the same county. The latter's horse was taken with him. They were both members of Company H, Sixth regiment of Wise (Va.) Dragoons, Col. Field commanding. They had been sent to forage from their camp, two miles from Centreville.- Washington Star, Dec. 3.

-A SHARP engagement between the U. S. gunboats Hetzel, Seymour, White Head, Shawshene, and the rebel steamer Patrick Henry, took place about five miles above Newport

In the House Mr. Maynard was, after some discussion, sworn in as a member from the sec-in our own country. ond district of Tennessee. The question as to the right of Mr. Segar, of Va., to a seat was referred. Mr. Eliot offered a series of resolutions in favor of emancipating the slaves in the rebel districts. A motion to lay them on the table was lost by a vote of fifty-six to seventy, and the further consideration of them was postponed until the next Tuesday. Messrs. Campbell and Stevens also offered resolutions of similar import. Mr. Roscoe A. Conklin submitted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of War for information in

Upon learning this, General Porter in person, with a force of four regiments of infantry and two companies of cavalry, started to the rescue of Captain Bell's party, and met them a short distance beyond Fall's Church, on their return.

place. The Federals charged upon the rebels, | an orderly, with the intelligence that the squaddrove them from the streets, and followed them ron had met the enemy in considerable forcesome distance out of town. They were per- said to be five hundred cavalry and two hunfectly cleaned out and fled. Many of the rebels dred infantry-and that our men had engaged were killed and wounded, but the number was them and suffered much. not ascertained. Major Bowen had possession of the town, and sent to Rolla, Mo., for a surgeon and a reinforcement of fifty men. Capt. Dodd, of the rebel force, was badly wounded and taken prisoner. He said Turner had one hundred and thirty men under his command. Among the dead on the Federal side was James Ayres, of Company A, commanded by Captain Stevens. The following were wounded: William Cartwright, Wilson Randolph, John Hooper, | and Samuel Matlock, of Company A.-St. Louis Democrat.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN's Message and the accompanying documents were transmitted to Congress to-day. The Message is clear and explicit in its statements, practical in its suggestions, and eminently conservative in its treatment of the exciting subjects which depend upon the political questions connected with the rebellion. The President urges no scheme of general emancipation or of arming the slaves, "In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection," says the President, "I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle. I have, therefore, in every case, thought it proper to keep the integrity of the Union prominent as the primary object of the contest on our part, leaving all questions which are not of vital military im

Captain Bell reports that they proceeded a short distance beyond Vienna, when they encountered the rebel cavalry that General Wadsworth designed to cut off. The party were defiling through a tract of woods only wide enough for the column to march by twos.

The first indication of the presence of the enemy was the opening of a galling fire upon the rear of his column, just entering the wood, by a body of infantry concealed in a house near but on emerging from the wood, they were met at hand. Captain Bell ordered his men forward, by two or three hundred of the rebel cavalry, who opened upon them with carbine and pistol. Many of the horses in Captain Bell's party, not being practised to the discharge of arms, became unmanageable.

The National troops were at once thrown into confusion; but each man, fighting on his own account, discharged his piece at the enemy, emptying several saddies. Two of the rebel horses were brought in. Lieutenant John W. Ford and Sergeant Smith, of Company F, were taken prisoners. Sergeant Parker, of Company M, was seriously injured by the fall of 's horse. He was brought back to camp.

When the Nationals returned to camp, fortyportance to the more deliberate action of the Legislature." This declaration is eminently satis-five men were missing. The number killed and factory to the country.

-THE Western Virginia Convention in session at Wheeling to-day, changed the name of the new State from Kanawha to Western Virginia.

-THIS morning, Gen. Fitz John Porter sent out a small scouting party to make a reconnoissance in the vicinity of Vienna, Va. It consisted of a squadron of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, composing Companies F and M, under command of Captain Bell, numbering one hundred and twenty men. The first information received from Captain Bell, was the arrival at Gen. Porter's head-quarters this afternoon of

wounded is not known.

-HENRY FRY and Jacob M. Hemslier were

hung at Greenville, Tennessee, for bridge-burning.-Henry C. Burnett, Representative from Kentucky, was, upon the motion of Mr. Dunn of Indiana, expelled from the Congress of the United States for active participation in the rebellion.

December 4.-The Maryland Legislature organized to-day by electing Mr. Berry Speaker of the House, and Mr. Goldsborough President of the Senate. The Governor's Message was transmitted. It is eminently loyal and patriotic. He says he has convened the Legislature in special session, in order that they may at once

perform clearly the express will of the people, | black flag shall be unfurled on every field-that by taking such steps as will seem most effec- extermination and death shall be proclaimed tive to vindicate the honor and loyalty of the against the hellish miscreants who persist in polState, by undoing, as far as possible, and reme- luting our soil with their crimes. We will stop dying the evils of the legislation of their prede- the effusion of blood, we will arrest the horrors cessors. He urges measures for the payment of war, by terrific slaughter of the foe, by examof the State's portion of the national tax for ples of overwhelming and unsparing vengeance. the expenses of the war. He says the rebel- When Oliver Cromwell massacred the garrison lion must be put down, no matter at what cost. of Drogheda, suffering not a man to escape, he The State must bear her share, and he hopes justified it on the ground that his object was it will be done with no niggard hand. He urges to bring the war to a close-to stop the effusion a loan for the purpose; also, that it is due to of blood-and that it was, therefore, a merciful the pride of the House that immediate provision act on his part. The South can afford no longer be inade for raising and equipping Maryland's to trifle-she must strike the most fearful blows quota of volunteers for the war. He also re---the war-cry of extermination must be raised." commends legislation for the summary punishment of persons in Maryland, who shall be convicted of aiding or abetting in any manner those who are in arms against the Government.

-A BILL was presented in the Tennessee Legislature, requesting the Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, Chancellors, and Justices of the Peace, not to hold their courts, during the continuance of the war, for the trial of cases wherein debts and money were involved.-Louisville Journal, Dec. 12.

-THE "Confederate" Congress passed yesterday, unanimously, and President Davis signed to-day, the following:

Be it Resolved by the Congress of the Confed

-A SPIRITED Skirmish took place to-night near Anandale on the Little River Turnpike, Va. It having been ascertained that a number of rebel cavalry were in the habit of coming out toward the pickets in that locality, and driving in or capturing them, last night Colonel Taylor, with twenty-five or thirty men from the Third New Jersey regiment, went out tow-erate States, That the thanks of the people of ard Anandale, where the rebels were said to appear occasionally, coming down the road at full gallop. They tied a piece of telegraph wire across the road, just high enough to trip the horses and throw them with their riders, and then placed themselves in ambush beside the road. About half-past eleven forty or fifty of the rebel cavalry approached, galloping down the road.

The head horseman tripped and fell, and the others rushing on, several tumbled over in the confusion, in the mean time swearing and shouting. The Nationals poured a volley into them, unhorsing several, killing six or seven, and capturing three, one of whom was a lieutenant. The rebels managed to get some of their killed and wounded away. One private on the National side was mortally wounded and died soon after. The captured rebel lieutenant was shot in the leg and made fight with his sword when the National soldiers went to pick him up. A bayonet prick, however, quieted him. Philadelphia Inquirer.

-THE Memphis Avalanche says: "We unhesitatingly say that the cause of justice and the cause of humanity itself, demands that the

the Confederate States are eminently due, and are hereby tendered, to Major-General Sterling Price and the Missouri Army under his command, for the gallant conduct they have displayed throughout their service in the present war, especially for the skill, fortitude, and courage, by which they gained the brilliant achievement at Lexington, Mo., resulting, on the 20th day of September last, in the reduction of that town, and the surrender of the entire Federal army there employed.-Idem.

-IN the Senate, at Washington, a resolution expelling John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, an officer in the rebel army, was offered, but objected to by Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, on the ground that as Breckinridge had already resigned he could not be expelled. The resolution was adopted by a vote of yeas thirty-six, nays