force from Fort Scott, and their leader, Mathias, seditious language against the United States of killed. On his person was found an order from America and the President thereof, treasonable Ben McCulloch for the enrolment of the Qua- complicity with Southern rebels and their paw Indians.-National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. | agents in Liverpool and other parts of Europe. -THE British schooner Revere, of and from It is stated that letters and papers were found Yarmouth, N. S., with a cargo of salt fish, ar- in the baggage and on the person of the acrived at Boston, Mass., in charge of Henry W. cused, justifying the vigorous measures adopted. Wells, master's mate, and a prize crew from the He was sent to Fort Lafayette.-N. Y. Times, United States steamer Cambridge. The Revere September 22. was captured while attempting to run the block- -GEN. ROBERT ANDERSON assumed command ade at Beaufort, N. C.-N. Y. World, Sept. 23. of the State and Federal troops in Kentucky -THE steamer War Eagle returned to Jef and issued a spirited proclamation, calling upon ferson City, Mo., from an expedition on the Kentuckians of all parties to assist in repelling Missouri River this evening. This steamer, to- the invaders of the State. Gov. Magoffin also gether with the steamer Iatan, with the In-issued a proclamation, directing Gen. Thomas diana Twenty-second and Eighteenth regiments L. Crittenden to call out the State troops to reaboard, accompanied the steamers White Cloud sist the invasion of the State, and Gen. C. acand Des Moines, with the Indiana Twenty-sixth, cordingly called out the militia.-(Doc. 56.) as high up the river as Cambridge, where they captured the steamer Sunshine, seized a short time since by Green. They encountered no rebel troops. Union flags were flying at Glasgow. The White Cloud and Des Moines went on up the river to reinforce Lexington. While all four boats were lying up for the night, a short distance below Glasgow, two detachments were sent out to reconnoitre. They encountered each other, each mistaking the other for the enemy, fired, and before their mistake was discovered, four men were killed and several wounded. Among the wounded was Major Gordon Tanner, of the Twenty-second.-(Doc. 55.) -THE Fourth regiment of Vermont Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, left its encampment at Brattleboro for the seat of war. The regiment numbers one thousand and eighty rank and file. Colonel Stoughton is a native of Vermont, and a West Point officer, having graduated from the Military Academy in 1854, and being breveted Second Lieutenant in the Forty-second Infantry, July 1, 1859. Sept. 22. This evening, eight pickets of the Iowa Seventh regiment, out at the Cross Roads, a mile and a half from Eliott's Mills, eight miles above Columbus, Ky., were suddenly approached by fifty or sixty rebel cavalry. The pickets fired, -A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of the when the rebels turned and fled. Two or three citizens of Westchester County, in favor of of their number were seen to fall, but were carmaintaining the integrity of the Union, was ried off on their horses. One of their horses held at Lake Mohican. The Hon. John B. Has-was killed. The accoutrements and pistols fell kin made a most eloquent and stirring speech to into the hands of the Iowa boys, and a riderless the assemblage, and declared his determination horse from among them also fell into their to sink all party differences and to support the hands. Their wounded and dead were carried Government in all honorable acts for a vigor-away. The rebels returned the fire before fleeous prosecution of the war and the preservationing, but did no damage. of the best Government ever vouchsafed to -A SKIRMISH took place near Hunter, Mo., man. Eloquent speeches were also made by Messrs. Depew, Bailey, and Ferris. -EDWARD D. BAKER, United States Senator from Oregon, was appointed a Major-General of Volunteers in the National army. four miles below Norfolk. Three of the National troops and four horses were lost.-N. Y. Tribune, Sept, 24. —General A. S. JOHNSTON, of the Confederate Army, having assumed command at Mem-THIS morning John Bateman, a citizen of phis, Tenn., issued a proclamation relative to Portland, Maine, arrived at New York in cus- the armed occupation of Kentucky.-(Doc. 57.) tody of the deputy marshal. The prisoner Sept. 23.-At Fortress Monroe, Va., Ross stands charged with high treason, with using Winans, one of the Baltimore members of the Legislature, having taken the oath of allegiance, was this morning released.-Commodore Stringham was relieved by Captain Goldsborough.Baltimore American, Sept. 24. -THIS night a successful effort to burn the barn and haystacks around Munson's Hill, Va., was made by Major Frank Lemon and Lieut. Chas. Dimond, of the California regiment. At the forge of some blacksmiths they made some fifty or more conical slugs, and with these and a Sharp's rifle they started for the line of our pickets, built a fire, and commenced heating shot. One of them with a cloth would drop the shot into the muzzle of the rifle, and the Major, being the best shot, blazed away. At the second shot the hay-ricks were in a blaze. In two more shots the barn caught. Out rushed the rebels, and made for the hill. -LIEUTENANT WILSON, with a squad of the Fourth Cavalry, proceeded to Unity, a small place in the northern part of Anne Arundel County, Md., and seized a quantity of sabres, pistols, and muskets, in possession of secessionists in the neighborhood. They were a portion of the arms given to a volunteer company raised at the time of the John Brown raid. -Five Hundred of the Fourth Ohio, with one piece of artillery; and Ringgold's cavalry, seventy-five in number, under Colonel Cantwell; and four hundred of the Eighth Ohio, under Colonel Parke, make an advance from New Creek toward Romney, Va. They drove the rebels, seven hundred strong, out of Mechanicsburg Gap, and advancing stormed the town, causing the enemy, whose force numbered fourteen hundred infantry and cavalry, to retreat to the mountains with a loss of about thirty-five killed and a large number wounded. The National loss was three killed and ten wounded. -AT St. Louis, Mo., Charles G. Ramsay, the proprietor of the Evening News, was arrested this afternoon by order of the Provost-marshal, and taken to head-quarters for examination. His offence is publishing an editorial article today, entitled "The Fall of Lexington," reflecting in bitter terms on the campaign of the military authorities in the department of the West. His paper has been suppressed, and all the manuscript found in the office was seized, and the building is now in possession of a provost guard. (Doc. 58.) September 24.-Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, the heir of Louis Philippe, (the eldest son of his eldest son,) and Robert d'Orleans, Duc de Chartres, the brother of Louis Philippe d'Orleans, were duly commissioned as captains of volunteers in the service of the United States, and attached to Major-General McClellan's staff as aids. These young princes made it a condition of their service that they should receive no pecuniary compensation. -GENERAL PRENTISS, U. S. A., assumed command of the National forces at St. Joseph, Mo. No man in the whole Western army could have been sent there who is more acceptable to the people north of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; and, under his command, the Union troops, whether Federal or State, are willing to do battle.—National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. -A PORTION of Colonel Geary's force had an action to-day with five hundred rebels on the Virginia side of the Potomac, near Point of Rocks. They were sheltered on a high point on the Catochin Mountain, and in houses at the base. They were driven away by the rifles and battery of Colonel Geary, and the houses burnt. Several of the enemy were killed and wounded. None of the Federal troops were hurt.-N. Y. Times, Sept. 26. -THE Fifth regiment of Vermont Volun teers, under the command of Col. H. A. Smalley, passed through Jersey City, N. J., on their way to the seat of war. sand and seventy men.-Idem, Sept. 25. It numbers one thou -THIS night a party of about fifty mounted rebels rode into Warsaw, Ky., and broke into a building in which there were stored some arms belonging to the State, and carried them off. Six or seven Union men came up just as they were leaving, and were fired upon. The Union men returned the fire, killing one of the rebels One of the and wounding several others. Union men was wounded in the arm. Union men had taken the locks off the guns that were stolen, intending to keep them off until they had organized their company.-Dubuque Times, Sept. 26. The -THE Louisville Journal of this day has the following:-Last Saturday night (21st) lock No. 3, on Green River, was blown up by order of Gen. S. B. Buckner, commander of the Confederate forces at Bowling Green, Ky. We are informed that the other two locks have also | unteers, under the command of Colonel W. L. been destroyed. General Buckner's order for Brown, left Baltimore for Fortress Monroe.the destruction of lock No. 1 has fallen into our Baltimore American, Sept. 25. hands. It was intrusted to a spy named James Burnham, who was arrested at the ferry across Mud River, and, making an excuse to step aside for a few moments, he tore the letter in pieces, but his captors put the fragments together and read the following: BOWLING GREES, Sept. 19, 1861. MR. GEO. W. TRIPLETT-My Dear Sir: Your letter is received. Lock No. 1 must be destroyed. I rely upon our friends at Owensboro' to do it: not an hour must be lost. The destruction is a great deal to me in crippling our adversary. Assemble our friends without delay in sufficient force to accomplish the object. One of the best ways is to open all the gates but one, and to dig down behind the wall at both gates, to put one or two kegs of powder behind the wall, to apply a slow match, and blow the wall into the lock. If possible, it should be done in such a way as to leave a strong current through the lock, which will empty the dam. Provide every thing in advance; do not fail; it is worth an effort. S. B. BUCKNER. The Union men, on learning Gen. Buckner's intention from this letter, attempted to guard the locks, and rallied five or six hundred men for the purpose; but, ascertaining the approach of a greatly superior force of cavalry, they retreated, and the work of destruction was done. For this deed, Gen. S. B. Buckner, sooner or later, will have to render a terrible account. The locks and dams of Green River were a portion, and a large one, of the pride and wealth of Kentucky. We all remember at what cost of money and labor they were constructed. They were one of the most important and valuable internal improvements ever made in Kentucky. They opened a river market for the whole of the immense population of the Green River section. But as a mere military manœuvre they are ruthlessly swept away, remorselessly annihilated in a night by a renegade Kentuckian, who brings an army for the conquest of his native State. Railroad bridges, railroad tracks, locks and dams, river packets, public and private property of all descriptions, are recklessly sacrificed by the invaders in the pursuit of their accursed purposes. -AT St. Louis the injunction suppressing the Evening News was removed, and C. G. Ramsay, proprietor, and D. M. Grissom were released; assurances having been given that they would not publish statements about military matters as facts without first learning their truth, and that they would not publish any thing injurious to the interests of the National Government. The News has always been a strong Union paper.-Ohio Statesman, Sept. 26. -TO-DAY, while the Second Michigan regiment were performing picket duty at Bailey's Cross Roads, in Virginia, a flag of truce was brought in by two Colonels and a Major, belonging to the rebel army at Munson's Hill, asking a suspension of hostilities between pickets, which was acceded to by the commander of the National forces.-N. Y. Times, Sept. 26. -THE Ninth regiment of Maine Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Rutherford Rich, of Portland, left Augusta for the seat of war. The regiment numbers one thousand one hundred men, hailing from Calais, Canton, Hilton, Cornish, and Aroostook Counties-all parts of the State being represented. They consist of mechanics and laborers, and though comprising a number of Germans and Irish, are mainly native-born. Physically, they will bear comparison with any regiment in the field. They have the regulation uniform, of excellent material, commissariat wagons, and camp equipage.-N. Y. Times, September 26. September 25.-At Trenton, New Jersey, the Grand Jury came into the United States Court, and made a lengthy presentment "that complaints have been made before this Grand Inquest concerning certain newspapers published in this State, and copies of the following papers issued during the last few months have been submitted, and carefully examined, namely: The Newark Evening Journal, The Warren Journal, The Hunterdon Democrat, The New Brunswick Times, and The Plainfield Gazette; that during the most critical period, while the capital of the nation has been besieged by armed insurgents, while eleven States in actual rebellion have been striving, by invasion and treachery, to plunge other States still remaining loyal -THE Twentieth regiment of Indiana Vol- into open opposition to the National Govern ment, these newspapers have been, up to a very | vice—and one prisoner, who mistook the Narecent period, persistently denouncing and libel- tional pickets for his own. He represents himling those to whom the great duty of National self as an aid of Gen. Stuart. The Union troops defence is necessarily intrusted; in thwarting of the expedition consisted of the New York their efforts for self-preservation, and fomenting Seventy-ninth, Third Vt., Nineteenth Indiana, rebellion by discouraging and opposing the only and a portion of a Wisconsin regiment, with means by which it can be put down. While eighty regular cavalry, Griffin's West Point they cherish a due regard for freedom of speech battery, and a section, two guns, of Mott's New they feel it their duty to repudiate and de- York battery. nounce the conduct of these journals; that while the Press may freely criticize public men and measures in the peaceful contests of party, yet in a war for the life of a nation, the Press, as well as individuals, should uphold the existing Government or be treated as its enemies. They consider their duty fully discharged in reference to these newspapers by this presentment, leaving them to the wholesome action of public opinion. They recommend all loyal citizens, all public officers, all municipal corporations, vigorously to withhold all patronage from such newspapers as do not hereafter give their unqualified support to the National Government." -SMITHLAND, Kentucky, was occupied by the National troops to-day.-Stocking-knitting associations were organized by the ladies of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. -THIS day General William F. Smith, with a force of several thousand men from the camps in the vicinity of the Chain Bridge, on the Potomac, proceeded to Lewinsville, Va., for the purpose of reconnoitring and obtaining forage. Upon arriving at that place his troops were permitted to rest from about half-past nine o'clock A. M., till three o'clock P. M., when there came in sight a large force of Confederate troops, consisting of four or five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery. They came from Fall's Church, and in a few minutes opened a fire of shot and shell upon the National troops, without, however, doing any other harm than slightly wounding one man. Their fire was returned by the batteries of Captains Griffin and Mott, who had thrown only twenty-six shot and shell when the secessionists deemed it prudent to retire from the field. Their loss is not known. The object of the expedition having been accomplished, Gen. Smith, at about five o'clock, returned to his camp. He brought with him ninety-two loads of hay and corn, twenty sheep and twenty beef cattlethe sheep and cattle being the property of Quartermaster Means, of the Confederate ser -THIS afternoon Lieut.-Col. Letcher, with a detachment of Col. Woodward's regiment, captured James B. Clay, with sixteen of his men, while on his way to join Zollicoffer. They were taken to Camp Dick Robinson. John C. Breckinridge was with their party in Cincinnati, Ohio, but escaped.-National Intelligencer, Sept. 28. —Lieutenant MCCREA, with the steamers J. Bell and Seminole, made an attack on a rebel battery at Freestone Point, on the Potomac River.-(Doc. 59.) -AN action took place at Chapmanville, Va., between a force of National troops under Colonel D. A. Enyart of the First Kentucky Volunteers and a party of rebels. The latter were completely routed and lost sixty killed and seventy taken prisoners. The rebels in escaping were intercepted by Colonel Piatt of the German Ohio regiment, who surprised them and killed forty beside capturing a large num ber of prisoners.-(Doc. 591.) -A SKIRMISH occurred near Osceola, Mo., between a part of National troops of General Lane's army, and a body of rebels, the former losing one killed and four slightly wounded, and the rebels having ten killed.-(Doc. 60.) September 26.-Capt. Stewart's cavalry, numbering seventy-five men, to-day encountered forty rebel cavalry at Lucas Bend, Ky., whom they pursued into Jeff. Thompson's camp at Belmont. Four rebels were killed, five capThe remainder tured, and many wounded. escaped to the woods. The Federal troops captured all the guns and pistols they could bring away with them. No Federal troops were injured. -THE Thirty-fifth regiment of Ohio Volunteers took possession of Cynthiana, Kentucky. -AT Louisville, Ky., W. G. Querton, formerly one of the editors and proprietors of the Courier, was arrested for aiding the Southern rebellion.-The turnpike bridge over Green river, near Mumfordville, was burned by rebels | oats, and seventy-five barrels of fish; all of -J. B. Archer, Captain of the steamboat Com- which was stored in the commissary's depot at mercial, was arrested, but bailed in ten thou- | Alexandria.-National Intelligencer, Oct. 1. sand dollars. The boat was also seized, but released on security being given to surrender her on demand to the Federal Government.Louisville Journal, September 28. -THE Twenty-first regiment of Ohio Volunteers, left Findlay for Camp Dennison.-Ohio Statesman, October 2. -IN accordance with the recommendation of the President of the United States, published August 12th, this day was observed as a day of fasting and prayer. -AT Cumberland, Md., a Union meeting was held. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Bradford and Maffit. The "wickedness of the rebellion was portrayed in its true colors; and the deceitfulness of secession under the hypocritical guise of a 'peace party,' was fully exposed."— Cumberland Civilian, October 3. -THE Fourth regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Thomas J. Whipple, passed through Jersey City, N. J., en route to Washington. The regiment is well provided with all the necessaries peculiar to the movable soldier, and has twenty It pital, and ninety-five horses, which are provided entirely for accommodation and comfort. numbers one thousand men, who are armed with the Enfield rifle. September 27.-To-day Major-General Dix and staff, Brig.-General Duryea and Major Bel-two baggage-wagons, one ambulance, one hosger proceeded to the Relay House, Md., for the purpose of reviewing and presenting the Fourth Wisconsin regiment, Col. Paine, with a stand of colors. The regiment was drawn up in line and presented a truly martial appearance. When Colonel Whipple is well known as having the presentation was about to take place, the bravely borne himself in the Mexican war. He divisions on each flank of the battalion were is from the same State as the volunteers he wheeled to the left and right, forming a three- now commands. On the 9th of April, 1847, sided square. The color guard was marched he was made a First Lieutenant of the Ninth forward from the line, the colors then brought infantry, and in the following month he was forward, when Gen. Dix addressed the regiment placed on the staff of his regiment as Adjutant. in the most patriotic and impassioned language. He was appointed Volunteer Aide-de-camp to Col. Paine replied in the same lofty sentiments Brigadier-General Lane, and distinguished himand with burning eloquence, which sponta-self in the battle of Atlixco. He resigned from neously drew from his regiment acclamations the service on the 23d of February, 1848; but of eternal fidelity to the emblem of our counnow he is again found ready to take the field. try's glory-after which the colors took their place in line.-Baltimore American, Sept. 28. September 28.-A foraging expedition from Gen. Franklin's division was sent out in considerable force from their encampment. They went eight miles from Alexandria to Edsall's Hill, on the Orange and Alexandria railroad. The pickets of the rebels retired to Springfield station, a mile and a half beyond Edsall's Hill. The detachments which went out for forage, had a fine view of the country, but saw no signs of the enemy having had defences of any kind. The foraging party was quite successful in obtaining large quantities of hay, corn, and oats, which they removed to camp. There was no molestation from the enemy. A company visited the Mount Vernon estate of John A. Washington, and brought away about eight hundred bushels of wheat, near five hundred bushels of VOL. III.-DIARY 5 -MUNSON'S HILL, Va., was evacuated by the rebels this morning. About ten o'clock the pickets reported to General Richardson that the rebel pickets had been drawn in, and subsequent observation confirmed the report. Information of this fact was telegraphed this afternoon to General McClellan, who at once crossed the ferry at Georgetown with his Staff, and rode to Bailey's Cross Roads. They then followed the course of the railroad to Upton House and Hill. They saw only half a dozen horsemen on Munson's Hill. General Wadsworth moved to the right and front with a body of skirmishers, and Captain Colburn, of General McClellan's Staff, skirmished to the left, without encountering any of the enemy. General Richardson then moved forward with a body of troops toward the hill, the rebel horsemen retiring as they approached. They entered the work with |