was sent into the field with inferior arms. He | despotism similar to Russia.
says that rifled muskets have been given all the
regiments to which it was possible to supply
them. Some of the commanders, however, have
preferred smooth-bore muskets as decidedly pre-
ferable for close action, and these Col. Devens'
men had.—N. Y. Times, Oct. 30.

-By direction of the President of the United States, a Commission was appointed, consist-prosecution of the war. It is, however, the true ing of David Davis, of Illinois; Joseph Holt, policy of this country not to interfere in the of Kentucky, and Hugh Campbell, of St. strife, although we all wish to see it ended, and Louis, to examine and report upon all unsettled the Americans again resume their position as a claims against the Military Department of the purely peaceable and commercial people.”— London Post, Oct. 30. West, which might have originated prior to the appointment of General Fremont, at which time the order was issued that all money must be disbursed by the regularly appointed agents of the Government.-N. Y. Times, Oct. 28.

Governor Dennison, of Ohio, under this date. The soldiers in his department have been poorly clothed, because they were nearly all of them despatched hastily in answer to pressing calls, and since entering upon their duties they have changed their positions so frequently that supplies have not reached them regularly. Now, however, they are in very good condition. Gen. Rosecrans contradicts the statement that his force have suffered greatly from sickness. The number in hospital have averaged only four per cent. He recommends that supplies of clothing and other necessaries should be accumulated at some depot,so as to be made available when the troops shall go into winter-quarters.

the latter to lie, to evade or dissemble, to fawn, | under his command, in a letter addressed to or play the bully and the braggart; that the despicable traits of avarice, meanness, cant, and vulgarity which enter into the universal idea of a Yankee, were left behind us when we seceded from the Lincoln Government. We are glad to be able to contrast such a gentleman with Charles Francis Adams, the Puritan representative of freedom at the Court of St. James, and he knows little of British character who is disposed to set a slight value upon the advantages derived from the personal character of a representative in this matter. We believe that at no distant day Mr. Mason will have the pleasure of signing a treaty of amity, on behalf of the Confederate States, with one of the oldest and greatest dynasties of Europe, and thus cement those relations of commerce upon which our future so largely depends.

-YESTERDAY forty-five "contrabands" were brought into Fortress Monroe. They came out of the Rappahannock in boats, which were picked up by the tug Rescue. Their story was, that they escaped in order to avoid being sent to Richmond to be sold South. Today forty more contrabands were brought in, who had escaped from Gloucester, opposite Yorktown, where, according to their reports, great destitution exists.—National Intelligencer, November 5.

-CAPT. HUNTER of the Confederate steamer Curlew reports that on this day, when near the inner buoy at Hatteras Inlet, he was fired upon by two or three Union steamers and the fort; that he "sighted a rifled gun at the Harriet Lane and fired, and that the fort and steamers continued to fire at him as rapidly as possible. We fired, he says, six shells and the stern gun at them five times. It is uncertain whether the enemy sustained any injury. The Vandals fired twenty-three shells at us, only one of

which came near.

"Feeling that I had carried out the spirit of my instructions I withdrew and waited within half a mile of the buoy, hoping to draw the steamer outside. When we fired the stern gun, the fort returned the shot. We stood back, fired another shell and took our departure. All hands displayed great enthusiasm, and seemed delighted, when one steamer began moving toward us."-Richmond Examiner, November 4. -GEN. ROSECRANS makes some interesting statements regarding the condition of the troops

-"GENTLEMEN from several counties" in

Kentucky, assembled in Russellville, in that State, to confer "together in reference to the situation of the country, and the steps to be taken to better preserve domestic tranquillity." Nearly all the prominent rebels of the State were present. Resolutions were passed which "bid defiance both to the Federal and State Governments," and recommend the people to organize and arm, and resist every authority but that of the Confederate States.-(Doc. 118.)

-Two advertisements in reference to confis

cation were published in the Washington papers.

One, at the instance of the President of the United States, commands the Marshal to attach certain real and personal property of William Shields, and to give notice to all persons having any thing to say why the same should not be condemned to the use of the United States, to appear before the District Attorney on the 28th of November next.

The second advertisement, published by order of the court, is in accordance with the first, and sets forth that Wm. Shields, formerly of Washington, some months ago removed, with his family, to Richmond, where he has been residing ever since, and where he has been and is now engaged in the insurrection and resistance to the laws of the United States of America, now existing in said States, and in secret correspondence with the enemies of said United States residing in the city of Washington and elsewhere, transmitting to them money and other valuables, and receiving the same from them in return, which has been applied in part to aid and abet and promote the said insurrection and resistance to the laws.

-THE great Southern Expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe, the Wabash leading, and the Cahawba bringing up the rear. The line of vessels, comprising nearly fifty, made a magnificent appearance.-N. Y. Tribune, October 31.

-A GREAT Union demonstration was made

-THE schooner Elite, which left Savannah with a cargo of naval stores, bound for Havana, and was stranded off Warsaw beach while going out, was visited by three launches, from a U. S. steamer, with about one hundred and fifty men and one howitzer or mortar, to take possession of or burn the wreck. Captain Anderson, in command of the forces on Warsaw Island, immediately sent out a considerable force from the intrenchments, ordering them through the

by a concourse of the citizens of Baltimore, Maryland, at the Front street theatre. The principal feature of the occasion was an address by Francis Thomas, formerly governor of Mary-woods to a point opposite the wreck, and withland. (Doc. 115.)

in musket-shot of the boats, when the latter should reach their destination. The party lay in ambush until the launches got within reach, when they sallied out upon the beach and opened fire upon them. The salutation was returned with shells, and the firing was kept up for some time. When the boats commenced firing shell, Captain Anderson turned the guns of the fort upon them and kept up the fire until dark came on, though they were too far round the point of the island for the shots to be directed with accuracy.-Savannah Republican, November 1.

-CITATIONS issued from the Court of Admiralty of the Confederate States, South Carolina, distinctly call upon all persons in general, except citizens of the United States, "who claim any interest in the brigs Betsy Ames and Granada, to show cause, if any they have, why the said vessels should not be condemned as lawful prizes of war."-(Doc. 116.)

October 30.-At Worcester, England, the Conservative Association celebrated its anniversary by a dinner at the Shire Hall. About six hundred persons attended, the hall and anteroom being crowded to inconvenience. The chair was taken by Sir E. A. H. Lechmere. "The House of Lords" having been proposed by Captain Candler, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot responded. The House of Lords, he said, was an institution highly valued, and, if he might be allowed to say so, deservedly esteemed by the nation. It had often been said by noisy democrats and clamorous republicans, that the House of Lords was of no use. Reference had been made by previous speakers to the unhappy contention that was going on on the other side of the Atlantic. (Hear.) In America they saw democracy on its trial, and they saw how it failed. (Hear.) He was afraid the result would show that the separation of the two great sections of that country was inevitable, and those who lived long enough would, in his opinion, see an aristocracy established in America. He would not say an aristocracy of dukes and earls, but an aristocracy of some sort or other, so great was the necessity of having a middle state between democracy and despotism. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the present Government, he said they had kept themselves in power by advocating one set of principles and practising another. Lord Palmerston had been connected with every party that had been in office in his time, and he likened him to a successful political Blondin(laughter) who from his political tight rope looked down from the giddiest heights, only car-ligencer, at Washington, gives a circumstantial -A LETTER, published in the National Inteling to keep himself where he was.-London Times, November 1.

-THE Fifty-first New York regiment, Colonel Ferrero, left New York City for Washington.-N. Y. Times, Oct. 31.

-JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE has published a manifesto to the people of Kentucky. It is dated at Bowling Green, and he says it is written at the first moment since his expulsion from home that he could place his feet on the soil of Kentucky. In it he resigns his seat as a member of the Senate of the United States, saying, "I exchange, with proud satisfaction, a term of six years in the United States Senate for the musket of a soldier." The address is very long. He says, "there is no longer a Senate of the United States within the meaning and spirit of the Constitution "_" the United States no longer exists-the Union is dissolved."— (Doc. 117.)

account of the cruise of the U. S. ship Powhattan in pursuit of the privateer Sumter, and a minute description of that vessel. Her crew is, the letter states, made up of men of all nations, the greater part being Portuguese,

Spaniards, and English, and the writer expresses the opinion that she will finally turn pirate against all commerce.-(Doc. 119.)

October 31.—A skirmish occurred at Morgantown on Green River, Ky., between a Union force under Colonel McHenry and a party of rebels belonging to Buckner's camp, in which

the latter were driven across the river with some loss.-The camp occupied by the Indiana regiments, on the farm of Jesse D. Bright at Jeffersonville, is called Camp Jo Wright, in honor of ex-Governor Wright.-Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 8.

privates were indeed a sorrowful-looking set, but seemed in quite good humor; and many of them carried along on their shoulders their chairs, chess boards, and other similar conveniences, which they had extemporized during their stay at Castle Pinckney.-Charleston Mercury, Nov. 2.

-THE Tenth regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Charles H. Russell, passed through New York.

-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MORSE, with four hundred cavalry, surprised a rebel camp, eight hundred strong, near Renick, Randolph County, Mo., and drove out the rebels in complete rout.

-SOME Scouts from the Second Kentucky regiment, under Captain Wheeler, reported to Gen. Rosecrans, the rebels in considerable force on the west side of New River, some few miles above Gauley Bridge, in Virginia.

-THE Twenty-fifth regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers left Camp Lincoln, at Worces--(Doc. 123.) ter, for the seat of war. The regiment is commanded by Colonel Edwin Upton, of Fitchburg, and numbers one thousand and thirty men, well equipped, and armed with the Enfield rifle.-All the rebel prisoners in Fort Lafayette, New York harbor, were removed to Fort Warren, near Boston.

November 1.-Lieutenant-General Winfield

Scott, in a letter to the Secretary of War, dated October 31, having requested that his name might “be placed on the list of Army Officers retired from active service,” a special Cabinet Council was convened, and decided that Gen. Scott's request, in view of his advanced age and infirmities, could not be refused; and his name was accordingly so placed, "without reduction in his current pay, subsistence, or allowances." Major-General George B. McClellan was thereupon appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States, to succeed Gen. Scott, and assumed the position in a general order, in which he expresses his regret "that the weight of many years, and the effect of increasing infirmities, contracted and intensified in his country's service, should just now remove from our head the great soldier of our nation." -(Doc. 122.)

-COLONEL MULLIGAN, made prisoner by the rebels at the capture of Lexington, was exchanged.-St. Louis Democrat, Nov. 3.

-THE Federal prisoners at Charleston were removed from Castle Pinckney. Along the whole line of march, the streets were thronged with a motley crowd of people, juveniles, and darkies. Great eagerness was expressed to see the officers, especially Colonel Corcoran, late of the New York Sixty-ninth regiment. The

Shortly after Captain Wheeler's return, two batteries were opened upon the National troops in the vicinity of Gauley Bridge from the hills on the opposite side of the river-one directly opposite the bridge, and the other two miles lower down, at the falls of the Kanawha, opposite a large brick house in which commissary's supplies were stored. These batteries played away nearly all day, the commissary's quarters affording them a fine mark; but so bad was their firing, they did not strike the building once! In almost every instance their balls and shell fell short. The upper battery, after wasting a good deal of ammunition, succeeded in driving the Eleventh Ohio from their camp on the hillside opposite, and in sinking a flat-boat, which served the army as a ferry. This was the extent of the damage done. Not a man was killed, and the flat-boat was raised again the same evening, and made to do good service that night.

It was not till the day had far advanced that the National artillery could be brought to bear upon the rebel batteries. The rifled guns were all at the various camps up New River; but when they were once placed in position, it was not long until both the rebel batteries were silenced. A train of wagons, on its way from Ganley Bridge to the encampments above, was fired upon the same day, when five or six miles up the river, by rebel infantry, and two of the Nationals were wounded. Three companies from General Benham's camp, at Hawk's Nest,

came to their relief, and soon drove the enemy | could thank you better if I thought that I deback of the hills.—Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 5. served it, but I do not feel that I do. Nothing -An important proclamation relating to the that I have yet accomplished would warrant coming election in Maryland, was issued by this high compliment. It is for the future to General Dix. It having been understood that determine whether I shall realize the expectapersons formerly residing in the State, but who tions and hopes that have been centred in me. had recently been bearing arms against the I trust and feel that the day is not far distant United States Government, had returned with when I shall return to the place dearest of all the intention of taking part in the election, with others to me, there to spend the balance of my life among the people from whom I have rethe purpose of carrying out treasonable designs, General Dix ordered the United States Marshal ceived this beautiful gift. The war cannot last of Maryland and the Provost-Marshal of Balti- long. It may be desperate. I ask in the future, more to arrest all such persons; and he further forbearance, patience, and confidence. With directed the election judges throughout the these we can accomplish all; and while I know State to detain all such persons who might pre-hearts' blood, Pennsylvania will not play the that, in the great drama which may have our sent themselves at the polls, until they could be taken into custody by the proper authorities.(Doc. 124.)

-SINCE the Twentieth and Twenty-first regiments have been in camp near Griffin, Pike County, Georgia, the measles and typhoid fever have broke out among them. There are now over two hundred on the sick list and several have died. Two large buildings have been set apart as hospitals, and the sick receive the daily attentions of the benevolent ladies of Griffin. Griffin Union, Nov. 1.

-GENERAL FREMONT signed, at Springfield, Mo., an agreement entered into with two commissioners, on the part of the rebel General Price, "to facilitate the future exchange of prisoners of war," and which provides, “that all persons heretofore arrested for the mere expression of political opinions, may be released from confinement on parole; also, that in future the war be confined exclusively to the armies in the field." -(Doc. 125.)

November 2.-The British brig Ariel arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., in charge of a prize crew. She was from Liverpool, bound to Charleston, with a cargo of salt. She was captured off Frying Pan Shoals, while trying to run the blockade of Charleston, by the gunboat Gemsbok.-Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 4.

-GENERAL MCCLELLAN was presented with a sword by the city councils of Philadelphia to-day, at his residence in Washington. In responding to the presentation address General McClellan said:

I ask you, sir, to give my warmest and deep thanks to the honorable body you represent for this entirely unmerited compliment. I

least, I trust that, on the other hand, she will play the highest and noblest part.

I again thank you, and ask you to convey to the councils my most sincere thanks for the sword. Say to them that it will be my ambition to deserve it hereafter. I know I do not

now.

-THE Twenty-seventh Massachusetts regi

ment, under the command of Colonel H. C. Lee, left Springfield at two o'clock to-day for Hudson, where they took the steamer Connecticut for New York, at seven o'clock in the evening.-Springfield Republican, Nov. 4.

-THE British steamer Bermuda, with a cargo of eighteen hundred bales of cotton, ran the blockade from Savannah, Ga. About eight o'clock she weighed anchor, proceeded down the stream, and finding all things favorable, made a clear and triumphant exit over the bar. She cleared for Havre.-Savannah Republican, Nov. 4.

-THE Charleston (S. C.) Mercury, of this date, says: The trial of our privateersmen for piracy, in New York and Philadelphia, our readers have noticed, among other intelligence published. It is a subject that must stir the States. In the deficiency of a navy proper, gall of every earnest man in the Confederate these gallant men, commissioned by our Government our militia of the have sea, forth gone to punish our enemy to the extent of their abil ity. It has been our only naval resource, and accords with the laws and customs of nations. It is a right which the United States freely exercised in the last war against Great Britain, and within a few years peremptorily refused to waive by treaty stipulation. But now, because