cal friends of the Governor, who cannot fail to haste. It was undoubtedly their intention to pick be influenced by his honesty. off a man or two; but they were fortunately beyond range, and thus failed in their object.— N. Y. Herald, March 26. -YESTERDAY a National reconnoissance in force was made from Camp Cumberland Ford to Cumberland Gap by infantry, cavalry and artillery. On arriving within one and a half miles of the Gap, an advance guard was thrown out, which came in contact with the rebel pickets and drove them in. A few shots were exchanged without loss. The forces encamped last night, building the fires out of range of the enemy's guns. Considerable snow fell during the night. Shortly after day this morning, firing commenced with skirmishes from the. Unionists, to which the enemy responded from rifle-pits, now and then throwing a shell. The artillery was then brought into the field, some timber cut, and firing began in earnest. During the day the battery, Capt. Wetmore's, fired about one hundred and fifty shots, while the rebels fired some two hundred, very few of that number reaching the position of the Union forces. No one was injured on the National side, nor was it known that any injury was done to the rebels, the distance being so great. Louisville Democrat, March 29. —A UNION meeting was held in Fairfax CourtHouse, Va., this day. Speeches were made by Charles H. Upton, J. C. Underwood, and others. Resolutions were adopted expressing thanks to President Lincoln and Secretary Seward for their sagacity and wisdom in managing our domestic and foreign affairs, and appealing to Gov. Pierpont to order an early election for county officers. -THE Senate of Massachusetts to-day unanimously passed resolutions eulogizing Lieut.-Col. Merritt, Adjutant Stearns, and other lamented men of Massachusetts, who fell at the battle of Newbern. -A SKIRMISH occurred between a detachment of the Sixth Kansas regiment and Quantrell's band, near Independence, Mo. The latter were routed with seven killed. The Unionists lost one killed, and captured eleven prisoners and twenty horses. The rebels killed two of the Unionists, and burned the bridge over the Little Blue River. -A SCOUTING party from the New-York Sixtyfirst regiment, while passing down the railroad from Manassas toward Warrenton, Va., were fired upon by a party of cavalry, supposed to belong to Stuart's regiment. Upon making a demonstration toward the assailants, the rebels fled in great "The Progress has been heretofore one of the most virulent and bitter opposers to the Government in the South, and its former proprietor, not satiated with treason already committed, has filled his cup of bitterness by openly taking up arms against the Union which so long fostered and nourished him." The Progress is edited by George Mills Joy, and is published by E. L. Davenport & Co. March 23.-The battle of Winchester, Va., was fought this day. Yesterday afternoon the rebels, consisting of five hundred of Ashby's cavalry and two guns, drove in the National pickets, and then skirmished with the Michigan cavalry and a portion of the Maryland First. Gen. Shields then brought up his forces and fired rounds of shell, drove them back, and took several prisoners. He was wounded in the arm by the first fire of the enemy. The Nationals slept on their arms at night This morning, at sunrise, Jackson, being reen forced, attacked Gen. Shields near Kearnstown. The enemy's force consisted of five hundred cavalry, five thousand infantry, and nine pieces of artillery, with a reserve of eighteen pieces. The fight was continued until noon, when a charge, made by one regiment of infantry and two of cavalry, on their right, drove them back half a mile, when they got their guns in position again in a dense wood, flanked by infantry, and drove the Union forces back. A short artillery duel ensued, when Gen. Shields ordered Col. Tyler to turn their left flank, which was executed with great loss, the enemy being protected by a stone-ledge. The Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania and Thirteenth Indiana charged their centre and the fight became general, with great massacre on both sides. Col. Murray, of the Eighty-fourth Penn sylvania, was killed. The enemy retired slowly, bringing their guns to bear at every opportunity. The Nationals rushed forward with yells, when a panic occurred among the enemy, and troops fol Gloucester, and Matthews.-Norfolk Day-Book, lowed and drove them till dark, capturing three guns, three caissons, muskets, equipments, etc., innumerable, and bivouacked on the field. Gen. -THREE hundred privates and fifty-eight offiWilliams, First brigade, Col. Donnelly, of the cers, the first detachment of prisoners taken at Twenty-eighth New-York, commanding, reën-Pea Ridge, arrived at St. Louis, Mo. forced Gen. Shields's forces. Gen. Banks, who -THIS day Gen. Parke's brigade of Gen. Burnwas on the way to Washington when the battle side's division, took possession of Morehead City, occurred, returned and assumed command. In N. C., finding it evacuated by the inhabitants. the mean time, Gen. Shields's division, commanded Lieut. Flagler, ordnance officer, and a member of by Col. Kimball, pursued the enemy beyond New-Gen. Parke's staff, crossed over to Fort Macon, a ton, shelling them the whole distance. Jackson's distance of two miles across Rogue's Sound, with a men were perfectly demoralized and could not flag of truce, and demanded a surrender. A conbe rallied. They threw overboard the dead and siderable parley took place, in which the folly of the wounded to lighten the wagons. They confessed rebels attempting to hold out was set before them. a loss of eight hundred and sixty-nine killed, The Fort was occupied by some five hundred seceswounded and missing. The National forces lost sion troops, which were in command of Lieut. one hundred and fifteen killed and four hundred Smith. Lieut. Flagler assured them of the amand fifty wounded.-(Doc. 103.) ple means at the disposal of the Nationals to reduce the Fort, and deprecated the sacrifice of life which it would occasion. Lieut. Smith persisting in his refusal to surrender, Gen. Burnside at once commenced the operations of investment.N. Y. Commercial, April 3. -A NATIONAL force was sent to Nicholas Land -THIS morning the schooner Cora, prize to the United States gunboat Pinola, Lieut. Crosby commanding, arrived at Key West, Fla. The Cora was captured on the sixth inst., about one hundred miles south of Apalachicola, from which port she had escaped two days before, and is loaded with two hundred and eight bales of cot-ing, sixty miles south of Savannah, Tenn., which ton. There was a most exciting chase before she was taken. Several shells were fired at her, and not until they burst between her masts did she condescend to heave to. She was commanded by Robert May, an Apalachicola pilot, and was brought here by Acting Master's Mate D. C. Kells, March 24.-At Jacksonville, Fla., a meeting of the United States brig Bohio, who was prize-of the citizens was held, at which resolutions master of the schooner Eugenia Smith, and on his were passed declaring their repugnance to secesway as passenger on board the Pinola to rejoin sion, and inviting the citizens of the State to rehis vessel when the Cora was captured.-Nation- turn to their allegiance to the United States.al Intelligencer. (Doc. 106.) -THE bodies of Col. Slocum, Major Ballou, and Capt. Tower, all of Pawtucket, R. I., recovered from the battle-field near Manassas, were placed on the cars this afternoon for transportation to Rhode Island.-(Doc. 104.) -THE new Cabinet of President Davis was confirmed by the rebel Senate this morning, as follows: seized fifteen hundred pounds of fresh pork and forty-five thousand pounds of cured hams and shoulders. For a long time this had been the mart for the pork business for the rebels.-N. Y. Commercial, March 29. -POSTMASTER-GENERAL BLAIR issued the fol lowing notice to the Postmasters of the United States: The Secretary of War now regulates the transmission of information by telegraph, affecting the conduct of the war, in order to prevent the communication of such information to the rebels. It is also thought necessary by the Secretary to put restrictions on the publication of facts of this character, however derived, and the aid of this department is requested for this purpose. You will, therefore, notify publishers not to publish any fact which has been excluded from the telegraph, and that a disregard of this order will subject the paper to be excluded from the mails. - Ar Cincinnati, Ohio, to-night, Wendell Phillips attempted to lecture. He commenced bore, which were found to be double-shotted. avowing himself an abolitionist and disunionist. The Yankee fell out into the stream, on the apPersons in the galleries then hissed, yelled, and pearance of the enemy, and turned her guns upon threw eggs and stones at him, some hitting him. them, but they retired and kept out of range.— The hissing was kept up some time. Finally he Washington Star, March 28. made himself heard, and proceeded until something again objectionable was said, and again eggs were thrown, hitting him. He persevered, and a third time was heard and a third time stoned and egged. The crowd now moved down stairs, crying “Put him out," "Tar and feather him," and giving groans for the "nigger, Wendell Phillips." They proceeded down the middle aisle toward the stage, and were met by Phillips's friends. Here a fight ensued amidst the greatest confusion, ladies screaming and crying, jumping on chairs, and falling in all directions. During the fight Phillips was taken off the stage by his friends. Cincinnati Commercial. -IN the United States Senate the joint resolution in favor of affording pecuniary aid for the emancipation of slaves was taken up, and opposed by Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, offered a substitute, declaring slavery to be exclusively within the jurisdiction of the people of the several States, yet that when any State determines to emancipate its slaves the Federal Government should pay a reasonable price for the slaves and the cost of colonizing them. The subject was then laid aside, and the bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia was taken up. The question was taken on Mr. Davis's amendment, to colonize the slaves, and resulted in a tie vote. The Vice-President voted in the negative, and the amendment was rejected. A debate on the merits of the bill then ensued, which was continued until the adjournment. March 25.--Washington, North-Carolina, wa visited by the United States steamer Louisiana under the command of Lieut. A. Murray, who reported "that underlying an apparent acquiescence of the people of the town and neighborhood in permitting the building of gunboats and the construction of batteries to repel the approach of the Federal forces, was a deep-rooted affection for the old Union."-(Doc. 107.) -Two hundred and thirty rebel prisoners, captured at the battle of Winchester, Va., arrived at Baltimore, Md., this afternoon, and were provided with quarters in the north wing of the new city jail. They are all Virginians, with the exception of five or six Baltimoreans, who left before the war broke out. One of the prisoners, on reaching the quarters, threw up his hat and exclaimed: "Thank God, I am in the United States once more!" Others congratulated themselves at the prospect of getting something good to eat, which they admitted they had not had for some time.-N. Y. Times, March 26. THIS day the National gunboats Seminole, Wyandotte, and Norwich, under the command of Capt. Gillis, senior officer, proceeded up Wilmington River, Ga., and upon arriving within a mile of the Skidaway batteries, dispersed the rebel cavalry stationed there by shell, and then destroyed the batteries. The rebel force fled, leaving everyGillis landed and hoisted the American flag on the thing behind them, even their dinners. Captain ramparts. Another flag was hoisted over the --AN engagement occurred between the gun-rebel headquarters by Acting-Master Steele. The boats Tyler and Lexington and a masked battery in the vicinity of Eastport, Tenn. The gunboats fired fifty shots. The Tyler's smoke-stack was struck once. The effect on the enemy's works was not ascertained.-N. Y. Commercial, March 29. rebel batteries were entirely destroyed, but the dwellings were spared. The dwellings were afterwards burned by the rebels. The batteries mounted ten guns, and were well built. — (Doc. 108). -THIS morning two boats' crews from the -Gov. JOHNSON directed a letter to the offiUnited States steamer Yankee landed at Ship-cials of Nashville, Tenn., requiring them to take ping Point, Va., to remove the guns left by the the oath of allegiance, but the Common Council, rebels, but while so engaged a body of rebel cav-by a vote of sixteen to one, refused to do so. alry, said to be the Dumfries cavalry, numbering The sixteen declined on the score that it was one thousand five hundred men, made their ap-never contemplated that that they should take pearance on the hill, and the men pulled off, after such oath. The one who voted ay, said he would securing two guns, one a nine-inch Dahlgren and subscribe to the oath, but immediately resign.— the other a long thirty-two-pounder, both smooth- Nashville Patriot. March 26. Gen. Curtis, in command of the nouncing the present Administration and avowArmy of the South-west, this day issued the fol-ing himself against the manner in which the war lowing emancipation order: Charles Morton, Ham- was conducted. At this the crowd began to hiss ilton Kennedy, and Alexander Lewis, colored men, him, and storm him with rotten eggs. The laformerly slaves, employed in the rebel service, and dies in the audience got frightened at these protaken as contraband of war, are hereby confiscat-ceedings, and the excitement of the crowd rose to ed, and, not being needed for the public service, are permitted to pass the pickets of this command northward, without let or hindrance, and are forever emancipated from the service of masters who allowed them to aid in their efforts to break up the Government and the laws of our country.National Intelligencer, April 3. fever - heat, and there were angry cries of "Kill him," "Tar and feather him," etc. The Mayor of the city was present, and tried to stop the excitement, but did not succeed in doing so. Finally the gentleman withdrew and was taken away from the hall by his friends. - N. Y. Commercial, March 28. -A SPIRITED Skirmish took place at the town -THE Petersburgh Express of this date, says of Warrensburgh, Mo., between Quantrell's that wood has become as scarce in that city as guerrilla followers and a detachment of Col. Phil-good coffee, and appeals to the farmers and raillips's Missouri regiment, under the command of roads to relieve the distress. Brooms are proMajor Emery Foster. Quantrell unexpectedly nounced a luxury, and the growing of broom-corn approached the town with two hundred men, and is earnestly recommended. So scarce has leather made a furious attack on the Union troops, who become, that hickory splits are recommended as a were only sixty in number. The latter made a substitute in harnesses. In view of the scarcity gallant defence, and having the protection of a of lead, merchants and others having old teathick plank fence around their position, they suc- chests, are recommended to bring them out for ceeded, after an obstinate conflict, in repulsing the lead they contain. "There is also," says the the guerrillas, and driving them beyond the limits Express, "a large quantity of lead on the various of the town. In the action Major Emery Foster, iron railings about the city, which the owners in command, and Capt. Foster, his brother, were could spare." wounded, one private was killed, one mortally wounded, since dead, and nine non-commissioned officers and privates were wounded. The rebels sustained a loss of nine men killed and seventeen wounded, and twenty of them lost their horses, which fell into the hands of Foster's men.-Chicago Journal, March 29. -Tuis night a band of from five to eight hundred rebels attacked four companies of State militia, at Humonsville, Polk County, Mo. They were completely defeated, with a loss of fifteen killed and a large number wounded. The National loss was none killed, but a number wounded. Among the latter were Captains Stockton and Cosgrove, severely. -A SLIGHT Skirmish took place this evening, at McMinnville, Tenn., between a party of Ohio cavalry under the command of Capt. Hastings, and a body of rebels under Capts. McHenry and Bledsloe, in which the latter were compelled to retreat.-(Doc. 109.) -THE Board of Provost-Marshals of New-Orleans, consisting of N. Trefaguier, H. M. Spofford, Cyprien Dufour, H. D. Ogden, Victor Burthe, and Pierre Soule, by special order prohibited "the traffic in gold and silver against the notes of the confederate States of America," and also declared that all traffic in paper currency, tending to create distrust in the public mind, or otherwise to produce embarrassment, should be held as acts of hostility against the government, and would be dealt with summarily.-New-Orleans Delta, April 4. -ASHBY's cavalry, with a battery of four guns, appeared near Strasburgh, Va., and threw several shells into the Union camp, killing one man and wounding another. His position was such as prevented his being cut off. The Union guns, however, soon routed the enemy-Gen. Banks reconnoitred all positions within five miles of his camp, returning after dark.-Baltimore Ameri can, March 29. March 27. At Burlington, N. J., Rev. Sam- -THE National troops from General Hooker's uel Aaron, a Baptist preacher, of Mount Holly, command are removing the guns from the abanattempted to deliver an Abolition lecture, this doned rebel batteries on the Lower Potomac, the evening. He commenced his remarks by de-gunboats Yankee and Wyandank being actively About twelve o'clock, the action became gen employed in this service. Large numbers of A plan of action was determined upon-to meet negroes from the Virginia side are pouring into the enemy in front, and flank them at the same Gen. Hooker's camp since the rebels left that time. line of defence.-New-York Herald, March 27. —A RECONNOISSANCE was made from Newport News, Va., as far as Big Bethel, where the rebels were discovered to be posted to the number of onet housand five hundred. Upon the approach of the National troops, they vacated the place without showing fight, and Big Bethel was occupied by the Union soldiers.-(Doc. 110.) eral, the Nationals doing wonders. The battery under Capt. Ritter, and also the howitzer-battery under Lieut. Claflin, dispersed the Texans with terrible effect. The fight lasted until four o'clock, when flags of truce were interchanged, to bury the dead and care for the wounded The enemy had about two thousand men and one six-pounder. The Nationals had one thousand three hundred -Two squadrons of the First New-Jersey cav- men and one six and one twelve pounder and alry, under command of Col. Wyndham, sur- four howitzers. The enemy lost their entire rounded a party of rebel Texas Rangers near train (sixty-four wagons and provisions) and two Dumfries, Va., twelve miles below the Occoquan. hundred and thirty mules; about one hundred A few shots were fired on both sides without in- and fifty killed, two hundred wounded, and jury, except that one of the Nationals was slight-ninety-three taken prisoners, among whom are ly wounded in the wrist. Ten prisoners were thirteen officers. Some of the latter held comtaken and carried to Washington. The National missions in the volunteer corps of the Territory. troops captured a number of wagons loaded with wheat, but owing to the want of horses, were enabled to bring off only four of them. Capt. Cook was wounded. His heaviest injury was sustained by his horse falling down and bruising his ankle. Lieut. Marshall, of Cook's company, shot himself while trying to break one of the Texan guns lying in the field after the battle. Lieut. Chambers was wounded severely, and afterward died. Lieut. Baker and Lieut. P. McGrath, were also killed. Denver News, Ex --THE Petersburgh, Va., Gazette of this date, complains that Gen. Burnside occupies "the palatial residence of the President of the Bank of Commerce;" that Gen. Foster "has taken possession of another handsome dwelling," while Gen. Reno "occupies the Bank of Newbern." | tra, April 9. It is charged that the Unionists are "plundering the country for miles around." March 28.-This day Morgan's rebel cavalry captured a train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Col. Curran Pope, of Kentucky, was taken prisoner, with a few other Union officers. The locomotive was run into a ditch and the cars destroyed. - COL. KENNETT's cavalry, accompanied by seventy-five mounted men from Loomis's battery, returned to Murfreesboro', Tenn., from an expedition through the country for many miles south and southeast of that place. During the expedition they penetrated as far as Shelbyville and Talahome. Between these places they fell in with about three hundred of Wood's rebel cav alry, who, as soon as they saw the troops, charged boldly down through a piece of woods toward them. No sooner did Col. Kennett's men perceive the enemy coming, thinking them in good earnest, they drew out in battle array, and ad -A FIGHT took place this day at Apache Cañon, eighty miles from Union and twenty miles from Santa Fé, New-Mexico, between the Nationals under Major Chivington, Capts. Lewis and Wynkoop, and a party of Texans. Three battalions advanced to the cañon when the pick-vanced rapidly to meet them. But before they ets reported no enemy in sight. The command then advanced, when shots were fired at them by the Texans, who were in ambush, and succeeded in killing four privates. The Unionists under Slough, rushed on them, killing twenty or thirty Texans, wounding many of them, and taking seven prisoners, four officers, and three privates. Major Chivington's command went ahead -A DETACHMENT of the First Illinois cavalry, and surprised the Texan pickets, taking sixty- under Capt. Thompson, overtook a guerrilla band seven prisoners and sixty-four provision-wagons. | under Colonel Parker, about ten miles west of got within gunshot, the hearts of the rebels failed them; quickly as they could, they checked the career of their horses, turned tail and fled from the field, leaving behind them seven dead and several wounded and taken prisoners. Not a person was injured on the National side.-- Cincinnati Gazette, April 5. |