left Warrenton, in the advance on Fredericks- the Federal officer commanding that department, burgh, Virginia. and ascertain if the facts are as stated. If they be so, you will demand the immediate surrender of General McNeil to the confederate authorities, and, if this demand is not complied with, you will inform said commanding officer that you are ordered to execute the first ten United States officers who may be captured and fall into your hands. November 16. The remaining corps of the army of the Potomac, which had been encamped around Warrenton, with the exception of the Fifth corps, and the cavalry under the command of General Pleasanton, followed in the advance on Fredericksburgh.-President Lincoln issued an order respecting the observance of the Sabbath-day in the army and navy.-(Doc. 32.) -THE advance of General Sill's brigade had a skirmish with a party of rebel cavalry on the Murfreesboro road, seven miles from Nashville, Tenn., without any loss. November 18.-A skirmish took place at Rural Hills, Tenn., between a force of Union troops under the command of Colonel Hawkins, and a body of rebel cavalry, resulting in a retreat of the latter, leaving sixteen of their number dead on the field.—(Doc. 46.) November 17. Warrenton, Va., was finally evacuated by the army under General Burnside. -LIEUTENANT-COLONEL John Mix, with a force -The Twenty-third regiment of Connecticut of the Third New-York cavalry, and a part of volunteers, under the command of Colonel Charles Allis's artillery, went from Newbern, N. C., on E. L. Holmes, arrived in New-York, en route for a reconnoissance on the Dover road toward Kinthe seat of war.-The schooner Annie Dees was ston. At Cove Creek they encountered the captured by the gunboat Seneca, while attempt- Tenth regiment of North-Carolina rebel infantry, ing to run the blockade of Charleston, S. C. and a large portion of the Second cavalry belong-AT Gloucester Point, Va., an outpost picking to the same State, who, after a spirited enet-guard, belonging to the One Hundred and gagement, retreated from the field, leaving a Fourth regiment of Pennsylvania, was attacked number of arms, blankets, and other equipments. at about three o'clock this morning by a party of rebel cavalrymen, who succeeded in escaping from the National lines, after killing one of the guard, wounding three, and capturing two others. -Philadelphia Press. -N. Y. Herald. -FALMOUTH, Va., was occupied by the advance column of the army of the Potomac, under the command of General Sumner.-(Doc. 47.) -THE English schooners Ariel and Ann Maria were captured off Little Run, S. C., by the United States gunboat Monticello, under the com mand of Captain Braine. -THE Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in London issued an address, which they earnestly commended to the favorable consideration of their fellow-countrymen, and to the friends of humanity in all lands, with the object of evoking such an expression of sympathy as should encourage the emancipation party in the United States, in their most difficult position, to persevere in their endeavors to obtained rebel Secretary of War, to fill the vacancy ocjustice for the slave. -JEFFERSON DAVIS, at Richmond, Va., issued the following order: Lieutenant-General T. N. Holmes, Commanding November 19. Colonel Dodge, of the NewYork Mounted Rifles, made a descent on a party of rebels at Blackwater, Va., and dispersed them, capturing a number of tents, rifles, and other implements of war.-James A. Seddon was appoint casioned by the resignation of G. W. Randolph. Richmond Enquirer. -A SKIRMISH took place near Wallen's Creek, Ky., between a small force of the Harlem County State Guard and a gang of rebel guerrillas, in which the latter were routed with the loss of all their camp equipage, including horses, guns, swords, etc.-The first General Council of the Episcopal Church of the rebel States met at Augusta, Ga. -THE Fiftieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, under the command of Colonel Messer, You will communicate by flag of truce with left Boston for the seat of war.-The rebel pri vateer Alabama succeeded in escaping from the that town, praying that the town should not be harbor of Martinique.-See Supplement. fired upon, informed them that he was authorized -GENERAL ROSECRANS, from his headquarters to say that so long as no hostile demonstration at Nashville, Tenn., issued general orders defin- was made from the town it would not be shelled. ing the relations between soldiers and citizens.-—(Doc. 54.) General Order No. 19. November 20.- Colonel Carlin's expedition, which had been patrolling the country between Nashville and Clarksville, Tenn., returned to the former place this evening, having captured fortythree rebels, eighteen horses, twenty mules, and one hundred muskets.-Louisville Journal. Just before daybreak this morning a party of rebel cavalry made a sudden descent upon the National pickets stationed at Bull Run bridge, Va., and captured three of their number.-Both Warrenton and Leesburgh were occupied by rebel cavalry. -COMMANDER FOXHALL A. PARKER, of the steamer Mahaska, in conjunction with a body of land forces under Brigadier-General Naglee, made an expedition into Mathew County, Va., and together destroyed twelve salt-works, with a large quantity of salt, burned five schooners, two sloops, and a number of scows and boats, and captured a lighter and twenty-four large canoes. They also destroyed a vessel on the stocks.-Report of Admiral Lee. -A PARTY of rebels made an attack upon the National forces near Halltown, Va., but were driven back by General Geary, who opened November 21.-General Patrick, Provost-Mar- on them a masked battery of six guns.-The shal-General of the army of the Potomac, this Secretary of War issued an order discharging morning crossed the Rappahannock to Fredericks- from military custody all persons who had been burgh, Va., under a flag of truce, conveying to arrested for discouraging volunteer enlistments, the rebel authorities of that city a letter from opposing the draft, or for otherwise giving aid Major-General Sumner, commanding right grand and comfort to the rebels; also discharging all division of the army, demanding its surrender. persons who had been arrested in the rebel States, -(Doc. 54.) and sent from such States for disloyalty or hos-A SHARP Skirmish took place at Bayou Bon-tility to the Government of the United States, touca, near Fort Pike, La., between a small de- upon giving their parole to do no act of hostility tachment of Union troops commanded by Cap- against the Government, nor render aid to its tain Darling, Thirty-first Massachusetts, and a band of guerrillas, numbering one hundred and fifty, under Captain Evans. The fight lasted about half an hour, and resulted in a rout of the rebels, with a loss to them of four killed and several wounded. The Union force had none killed and but one wounded. -CHARLES A. DAVIS, a chaplain in the army of the United States, was this day expelled from the Methodist Conference of Virginia, by that body in session at Petersburgh.-Salem, Va., was occupied by the rebels. enemies. November 23.-Lieutenant Cushing, in command of the United States steamer Ellis, proceed ed up New-River, N. C., on a reconnoitring ex pedition. At Jacksonville, he captured two schooners, and in returning down the river, succeeded in running his own vessel on a shoal and losing her.—(Doc. 33.) November 24.-General Kelley sent out a party of National scouts from New-Creek, who succeeded in capturing a rebel cavalry picket of twelve men, with horses and accoutrements, within four November 22.—A party of National troops, miles of Winchester, Va. The prisoners reported consisting of details from four companies of the that Stonewall Jackson had left that vicinity with First New-York cavalry, under the command of his command for Richmond, leaving only a regiCaptain Harkins, had a skirmish with a body of ment of cavalry, who were instructed to follow in rebels near Winchester, Va., and succeeded in a few days.-Notice was given to women desiring capturing four men and thirty horses.-Balti-to go to their friends in the rebel States, that their more American. -MAJOR-GENERAL SUMNER, commanding the right grand division of the ariny of the Potomac at Fredericksburgh, Va., in reply to a communication from the Mayor and Common Council of applications would have to be presented in writing, and verified by oath, previous to the sixteenth day of December following.-The schooner Retribution ran the blockade of Wilmington, N. C. General R. H. Milroy, commanding the Cheat Mountain (Va.) division of the Union army, issued an order suppressing the circulation of the Wheeling (Va.) Press within his lines.-General Orders, No. 36. -Ar noon to-day, several hundred mounted guerrillas attacked a Federal supply train of forty-seven wagons, in Texas County, Mo., between Hartsville and Houston, about thirty miles south of Lebanon. The train escort consisted of fifty men of the Third Missouri cavalry. They made a vigorous resistance, had five of their number killed, and about a dozen wounded, and inflicted an equal if not greater loss upon the enemy. The latter succeeded in capturing only twenty of the wagons. The rest were brought off in safety, with their contents, by the escort and the teamsters.-Missouri Democrat. -THE schooner Agnes, and sloop Ellen, from Nassau, N. P., had run into Indian River, Fla., and discharged their cargoes, and when returning in ballast, were captured by a boat expedition from the United States gunboat Sagamore, some eight miles down the river. November 25.-J. W. Shirk, of the gunboat Lexington, had a skirmish with a body of rebels at a plantation on the Mississippi River, twenty miles below Helena, Ark. The gunboat was fired upon by a party of infantry, assisted by a piece of artillery, without damage, however, except to the wood-work of the vessel. Captain Shirk brought his guns to bear on the attacking party, and soon compelled them to retreat, leaving behind several killed and wounded. He afterward landed a party of sailors, who captured and carried off twenty contrabands, and sixteen bales of cotton.-Official Report. -JAMES BUCHANAN, in the National Intelligencer of this day, closed a controversy between General Winfield Scott and himself, on subjects growing out of the rebellion.--The Eighth and Fifty-first regiments of Massachusetts volunteers, under the command of Colonels Coffin and Sprague, embarked from Boston for Newbern, N. C. the rebels at Zuni, on the Blackwater River, Va., resulting in the rout of the rebels, with the wounding of one private on the National side. -HENDERSON, Tenn., was captured by the rebel cavalry, who burned the railroad station at that place, and made prisoners of a company of Union troops.-The rebel guerrilla Burke was killed at Shepherdstown, Md., by a party of the Second Massachusetts regiment, under the command of Captain Cogswell.-Baltimore American. --A PARTY of rebel guerrillas, who were making a raid in Crawford County, Mo., robbing the farmers of their fire-arms, horses, harness, clothing, negroes, etc., were to-day overtaken in the vicinity of Huzza River, Iron County, by a company of volunteers, under the command of Captain N. B. Reeves, and dispersed, with the loss of all their plunder, two of the party being killed.—(Doc. 69.) -A fight took place at Cold Knob Mountain, Va., between the Second Virginia volunteer cavalry, Colonel J. C. Paxton, and a force of rebel troops, in which the latter were routed, November 26. with the loss of over one hundred of their number taken prisoners, with their horses, etc.-(Doc. 49.) -BETWEEN two and three o'clock this morning, by Evan Dorsey, crossed into Maryland and visita gang of twenty or thirty rebel guerrillas, led ed the village of Urbanna, seven miles south-east of Frederick, on the road leading to Washington. They made a descent upon the store of Thomas A. Smith, the Postmaster at Urbanna, and, after robbing the store, made Smith and a young man named Harris, the assistant postmaster, mount two of Smith's horses, with the design of carrying them off as prisoners. Smith, who was a resolute man, watched his opportunity, and gave them the slip in the darkness of the night. The rebels fired three or four shots after him, but missed him. Thinking Harris might also escape, one of the gang shot him through the body, saying: "We'll make short of you, before you try on the same game." They then rode away, leaving him for dead by the roadside.-National Intelligencer. -A SUCCESSFUL reconnoissance was made this -THIS morning at daylight, a body of rebel morning by a detachment of Union troops, under cavalry entered Poolesville, Md., seized the gov- the command of General Geary, from Harper's ernment telegraph operators stationed there, pa- Ferry, along the Shenandoah to the vicinity of roled them, and then permitted them to telegraph Berryville, Va. They captured a number of prito the authorities at Washington an account of soners, destroyed a rebel cloth factory, which what had befallen them.-Colonel Dodge, with cost over one hundred thousand dollars, and obtwo battalions of mounted rifles and one how-tained some valuable information concerning the itzer, had a spirited but short engagement with numbers and position of the rebel forces. |