Arkansas.— The Little Rock Democrat of 
the 21st ult., says that a regiment of rebel cav¬ 
alry under Slemmons, attacked our pickets at 
Pine Bluffs, a few days since, but were repulsed 
with the loss of several killed. While the fight 
was going on, a party from the 7th Wisconsin 
cavalry, under Lieut. Graves, found the deserted 
camp of Sletnmon’s regiment, with all their 
equipage. The rebels w ere pursued 30 miles. 
On the night of the 19th, the 8th Missouri, 
stationed at Brownsville, on the railroad, was 
attacked by the rebels of Shelby’s command. 
The object of the rebels was to destroy the rail¬ 
road, but they failed. Re-enforcements were 
sent to Brownsville, and considerable skirmish¬ 
ing occurred ou the 20th. Shelby has six pieces 
of artillery. 
Information has been received from the cav¬ 
alry expedition recently sent southward from 
Fort Smith, that a rebel force, 800 strong, under 
Col. Welles, was attacked on the 26th ult., and 
all who were not killed were captured, and sent 
as prisoners to Little Rock, and that our loss 
was very slight. 
The Memphis Review, of June 28, says Gen. 
Shelby lately entered Arkansas, from Missouri, 
with 2,500 men, and assumed command of all the 
rebel forces between the White and Mississippi 
Re is enforcing the rebel conscription, 
Gen. Banks has issued an order that all ship¬ 
ments of gold to New Orleans must he deposit¬ 
ed with the Assistant Treasurer, to be delivered 
to the consignees or to merchants only upon 
satisfactory assurances that it will not he used in 
contravent ion of the regulations of the Treasury 
and War Departments. 
The archives of the State of Louisiana were 
recently found buried near Baton Rouge. With 
them important documents, giving names to 
prominent men doing business with the rebels, 
were also discovered. 
Gen. Banks has ordered all sick and wounded 
to be sent north as rapidly ns possible, and 
numbers have, already been forwarded by the 
steamers Merrimae and Catawba. 
Congress requesting the President to appoint a 
day of fasting and prayer. 
The Herald's Washington special says the 
President will call for half a million more men 
immediately after the adjournment of Congress. 
Wit of New Advertisements. 
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SPECIAL NOTICES. 
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ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 9, 1864. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Army in Virginia. 
The Herald's correspondent of June 28tli, 
says the rebels are closely watching Gen. Fos¬ 
ter’s movements, and the indications are that a 
conflict may be brought on at any time. 
A battery fired on our gunboats on the 29th, 
(in the neighborhood of Foster’s command,) but 
it was speedily silenced by a response from the 
vessels. 
The Herald's correspondent from Burmuda 
Hundred the 29th, says the armies are taking 
the last repose before girding up for battle. 
Artillery within the last few hours has been 
placed to bombavd Petersburg more effectually. 
Gen. Smith has advanced his line still nearer 
the doomed city, occupying the works which our 
movements compelled the rebels to vacate. 
He has dropped a shell into Petersburg every 
fifteen minutes during the last three days, and 
the Register gives lugubrious accounts of the 
annoyance which they cause. 
Wilson’s division and Iiautz’s cavalry have 
been on another raid, making a detour by the 
Nottoway, thence across to the Petersburg and 
Weldon and also to the Lynchburg railroad. 
The Washington Republican Extra of July 
3, has the following from Wilson’s recent raid 
on the Danville Railroad:—All the details of 
the expedition have not yet reached us, hut it 
is known that after Gen. Wilson reached Burks- 
ville, where, as we published some days since, 
he hurled destruction upon rebel property of 
every description, tearing up railroads, heating 
and twisting the rails, burning the sleepers, 
destroying the depots and burning rebel gov¬ 
ernment buildings, he pushed on toward Lynch¬ 
burg, and precipitated a force upon that region. 
Returning, and wheD not far from Petersburg, 
he encountered a very large force sent out by 
Lee to cut him off, and if possible to destroy or 
capture his forces. 
Whether by arrangements between Generals 
Wilson and Kautz, we don’t know or pretend to 
say, but the undaunted Kautz determined to 
try the strength of the rebel lines, and did so. 
He charged, at the head of his division, and 
swept through the rebel columns as a whirl¬ 
wind sweeps through a field of wheat. The 
dash was successful. "Wilson could not advance 
with his artillery and trains, and was forced 
back. 
Kautz came up and reported the facts, and 
with re-enforcements returned and made a di¬ 
version to save Wilson’s main force. At the 
same lime the 6th Corps and 1st brigade of the 
2d Corps were ordered forward to divert the 
enemy in another direction 
A year or two since the farmers of certain 
districts in England declared war upon the 
feathered throng, because of depredations com¬ 
mitted by them upon the gTain. Now the grubs 
and the caterpillars and the other ereepingthings 
are devastating by myriads the fields from which 
the birds were banished, and it is a matter of 
gratification to us to learn that the thick-headed 
clod poles who banished them have thus come 
to grief. 
The reported death of the rebel General 
Bishop Leonidas Polk is continued by the rebel 
papers. He was killed by one of Sherman’s 
sharpshooters, near Marietta, Georgia. He 
was educated at West Point at the expense of 
the nation—hut afterwards entered the ministry, 
rose to the prelacy, and when the rebellion broke 
out he kicked off his robes, and joined the con¬ 
spirators in their unhallowed purpose to over¬ 
throw the Union. 
Tiie Constitutional Convention in session at 
Annapolis. Md., passed, by a vote of 35 ayes to 57 
nays, the following article of the Bill of Rights: 
“Hereafter, in this State, there shall be nei¬ 
ther slavery nor involuntary servitude except 
in punishmeut of crime, whereof the party 
shall have been duly convicted, and all persons 
held to service or labor as slaves, are hereby de¬ 
clared free.” 
Persons arrived from Colerado report meet¬ 
ing 10,000 immigrants, including men, women 
and children, between Denver City and the 
Missouri frontier. The chances of making a 
living there are very poor, as the mining elairns 
are all token, and there was a surplus of labor 
on t he 1st of Slay. 
Thk Syracuse Standard says:— A couple of 
our citizens have lately sold their interest in 
the oil regions, consisting of a well and appur- 
tcuances, and right of grounds eight rods square 
®l)c News douiicnser 
— Garibaldi is going back to England in the autumn. 
— Mrs. Lincoln calls the Cabinet “ The Happy Fam¬ 
ily.” 
— A little girl died in Norwich recently from eating 
almonds. 
— The government is about to build an array hospital 
at IJtica, N. Y. 
— Grisi Is going to sing again in London, not in opera 
but in concerts. 
— Erysipelas is the enemy of the Pope, and gont of 
Lord Palmerston. 
— The Lake Survey has been resumed, with head¬ 
quarters at Detroit. 
— Gen. Kilpatric is now at Newburg. ne walks by 
the aid of crntches. 
— Detroit is going to have a U. 8. General Hospital 
which will cost $50,000. 
— Mr. James Augustus St. John is engaged upon a 
life of Sir Waiter Raleigh. 
— The Tom Thumb Troupe was robbed of $1,297 at 
Whitehall, N. Y., recently. 
— Agassiz and Longfellow will spend a part of the- 
summer together at Nahant. 
— Chief-Justice Hornblower, of New Jersey, died on 
Saturday week aged 88 years. 
— A mong those goiug to Saratoga for the summer are 
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant. 
— Land has recently brought at Ilminster, Somerset, 
five thousand dollars per acre. 
— George Augustus Sala has come back from Mexico 
where he was taken for a spy. 
A machine in Bridgeport, Conn., makes a pair of 
lady’s shoes in fifteen minutes. 
—12,000 white refugees from the South have passed 
through Cairo since June 1,1863. 
— Ten thousand meals per day were cooked in the 
kitchen of the Philadelphia Fair 
— New York ha? lost two Generals and 13 Colonels 
thus far in the Virginia campaign. 
— Excavations have been commenced for the founda¬ 
tion of a fine opera house in Chicago. 
— Another large fire has occurred in Aspinwall, one- 
third of the place having been destroyed. 
— Hon Gerrit Smith offers, to subscribe $50,000 tow¬ 
ard a railroad from Oswego to Rochester. 
— In the regular army McClellan is the senior Major- 
General, Hal leek second, and Butler third. 
A machine in Bangor, Me., opens the furrow,cuts, 
drops and covers potatoes at the same time. 
Madame c hnrlotte Vartan and Mr. Hoffmann have 
been lately giving concerts in St. Paul Minn. 
— The scull race between Josh Ward and Hammill 
is announced to come off at Pittsburg, Penn. 
Dancing is going out of rashion among the young 
ladies in the upper ranks of society in France. 
— There are large numbers of women in Washington 
seeking in vain for hnsbands and 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON, 
The Conference Committee of the two Houses 
of Congress on the Tax Bill, made their report 
the past week. The bill has finally passed and 
become a law. 
Both Houses passed bills amending the En¬ 
rollment Law; but as both bills were differ¬ 
ent in important particulars, no agreement was 
arrived at. A Washington cori espondent of 
the 30th ol‘June, says:—The effect of the action 
of the Senate, last night, was to ignore the House 
hill, further to regulate and provide for the en¬ 
rolling and calling out of the national forces, and 
to substitute a hill similar to that recently passed 
by the Senate, with the addition that the draft 
is not to be less than one, nor more than three 
years. 
The commutation clause, in the enrollment 
act, is repealed, and provision is made for im¬ 
posing a special tax of five per cent, on incomes 
to meet the expenses of bounties. 
Another correspondent of July 1, says that 
most of to-day has been spent upon the Enroll¬ 
ment Bill. After amending and re-amending a 
substitute, the House rejected both that and the 
Senate bill, and asked a Committee of Con¬ 
ference. A Committee on the part, ot the House 
rivers. 
and devastating the country’. 
Leavenworth papers state that Gen. Cooper’s 
rebel force recently sunk a steamboat loaded 
with Government stores in the Arkansas river, 
twenty-five miles above Fort Smith. The rebels 
had a battery of three guns, and Gen. Cooper 
with a large force occupied his old position oil 
the Arkansas river. 
Missouri.—S t. Louis advices of June 29, say 
that in consequence of the disturbed condition 
of the State, occasioned by prowling bands of 
guerrillas and bushwhackers, Gen. Rosecrans 
has ordered one or two companies of the en¬ 
rolled militia to be raised from each county for 
the protection of their respective localities. 
The. forces to be armed, equipped, and put into 
service at once. 
Tennessee. —A train on the Memphis and 
Charleston railroad was attacked by guerrillas 
near Colliersville, on the 23d. Two soldiers 
were killed. A citizen was also killed, and 
two wounded. Six soldiers who jumped from 
the train were captured and taken to the woods. 
One of them, who escaped, says that his com¬ 
panions were murdered by the guerrillas. 
The steamer McComb’s was fired into on the 
24th ult., by guerrillas, near Sbawneetown, and 
the captain of the boat was seriously wounded. 
General Meredith nas assumed command of the 
post at Cairo. General Cheatham is assigned 
The movement 
was a grand success. The rebels were badly 
whipped, and Gen. Wilson and his forces, who 
had held their ground, were relieved from their 
critical position, and came in in triumph, cov¬ 
ered with the Imperishable laurels they had 
won iu their great and hazardous expedition. 
The rebels were not only badly damaged in 
having their communication cut and their sup¬ 
plies destroyed, but they lost heavily in killed 
and wouoded. 
Gen. Wilson’s losses were considerable; but 
the work he accomplished has been of the very 
greatest importance. 
Capt. Whittaker, of Gen. Wilson’s staff, with 
40 men, was sent with dispatches to Genera] 
Meade, and had to cut his way through the 
rebels, losing 25 men. 
The Secretary of War has reports, which say 
that Wilson destroyed 60 miles of railroads. Wil¬ 
son’s loss is estimated at from 750 to 1,000 men. 
His other losses were a small wagon train used 
to carry ammunition, his ambulance train and 
twelve cannon, llis artillery and train horses 
were generally brought off. 
The rebels, under command of Gen. Ewell, in 
large force, attacked Gen. Sigel at Martinsburg, 
on the 3d. After fighting four or five hours, 
Gen. Sigel, (ascertaining that the enemy had & 
greatly’ superior force to his own.) determined to 
evacuate the place. He fell back to Harper’s 
Ferry, and bolds a strong position on Maryland 
Heights. There are reports of other fights in 
that vicinity, but we have no particulars further 
than that the Federate held their ground. Great 
excitement exists at Frederick and Hagerstown. 
sons in the army. 
— John Morgan surrendered to Gen. llotwon in Ohio, 
and Gen. Hobson surrendered to John Morgan in Ken¬ 
tucky. 
— The rebel prisoners say that if Gens. Grant and 
Sherman ever get to heaven, it will be by a flank move¬ 
ment 
— The new Trinity Church at Bridgeport, Ct, a 
handsome stone edifice costing $20,000, is nearly com¬ 
pleted. 
— The consumption of oysters in the city of Paris 
during a year is estimated at one hundred and thirty 
millions. 
— Miss Jean Ingelow, the talented English poetess, 
has sent one hundred dollars to the Philadelphia Sani¬ 
tary Fair. 
— Secretary Chase says the expenses of the gov¬ 
ernment for the year just closing will foot np about 
$900,000,000. 
— The papers confirming the appointment of Bishop 
McCloskcy as Archbishop of New York have been re¬ 
ceived from Rome. 
'I he Illinois delegates to the Baltimore Convention 
presented Rev. Dr Breckinridge with a beautiful silver 
pitcher, worth $150. 
From January ] to May 19,1863, the exports of gold 
from California were $18,096,706; for the same time 
this year, $2*1.429,906. 
— A man has offered the Philadelphia Common Coun¬ 
cil $ 10 per post for the exclusive privilege of advertis¬ 
ing on the lamp posts. 
— An Irish grievance petition with *100,000 signatures 
has been presented to the House of Commons by the 
Lord Mayor of Dublin. 
— A little girl In Paris is said to have been poisoned 
to death in bed by the carbonic aeid gas emitted from 
May Utilea iu her room. 
— Robert J Walker is reported to be suffering from 
the effects of an amateur balloon excursion taken in 
London in October last. 
— Gen. J ndah has been relieved from the coni maid 
of his divisiou for alleged mismanagement during the 
recent batllia* at Rceuca. 
— A cargo of four thousand shovels and a lot of siege 
guns were Bhipped from Washington a few days since, 
consigned to Gen. Grant. 
— Marseilles has suddenly become a great cotton 
market from the increased cultivation of cotton in 
Egypt, Turkey and Italy. 
— Maj. W. W. Lelnnd, who has paid $200,000 for the 
Union Hall, Saratoga, was on the staff of Gen. Grant 
in his western campaign* 
— An inquisitive clerk in t he Dead Letter Cilice found 
that out of 6,854 letters written by females, only 875 
were without postscripts. 
. — Ilanover and the friends of Dartmouth College, N* 
H , are trying to get the new Agricultural College at¬ 
tached to that institution. 
— A late Richmond paper states that 97,000 different 
prisoners have been confined in Libby Prison since the 
commencement of the war. 
— Miss Major Pauline Cushmnn, the noted Union 
scout and spy, has been offered $1,000 a week to play 
in the Wushington Theatre. 
— Chicago has contributed about $4,000 in money and 
several thousand dollars’ worth of various articles to 
the Pittsburg Sanitary Fair. 
represent them in the service. Such practical 
patriotism is worthy of special commendation 
and encouragement. Provost Marshals, and all 
oi Iris acting under this Bureau, are ordered to 
furnish all the facilities in their power to enlist, 
and muster promptly the acceptable representa¬ 
tive recruits presented, in accordance with the 
desigu herein set forth. 
The mime of I he person whom the recruit 
represents will be noted on the Enlistment and 
Descriptive Roll of the recruit, and will be car¬ 
ried forward from those papers to the other 
ollieial records which form ids. military history. 
Suitably prepared certificate* of this personal 
representation hi the service will be forwarded 
from this office, to be tilled out and issued by 
Provost Marshals to the persons who put in 
representative recruits. 
.James B. Fry, P. M. G. 
A Washington dispatch of July 2, says that 
the Conference Committee on the Enrollment 
Bill hud agreed, and would soon make their 
report to Congress. Commutation is abolished, 
and recruiting allowed in certain rebel States 
which are named iu the bill. Fifty days is the 
time for volunteering before a draft. 
The N. Y. Commercial's correspondent says a 
line of steamers for the transportation of pas¬ 
sengers and the army mails, has been organized, 
leaving New York at 10 A. M., and arriving at 
Bermuda Hundred at 5 P. M. next day. He 
says fifteen or twenty steamers are to run be¬ 
tween New York and City Point to cany sick 
and wounded soldiers. 
The Tribune's Washington special of July 2, 
says: — The follow ing is a correct statement of 
the public debt, as appears from the books of 
the Treasurer’s returns and requisitions in the 
Treasury 1'epnrtment on the 2*stb day of June, 
It-vi.—Debt, interest payable in coin, $860,471,- 
788.43. Debt, interest payable iu currency, 
$392,328,665.20. Debt ou which interest has 
ceased, $870,170.09. Debt bearing no interest, 
$486,860,065.79. Total. $1,740,036,689.53. 
The annual interest on the outstanding debt 
on June 28, payable in gold, was $52,024,8-13.54. 
Interest payable in currency, $21,682,315.68,— 
making the total annual interest ou the whole 
debt $73,770,159.22. 
The amount of fractional currency outstand¬ 
ing was $22,210,403.10, and the unpaid requisi¬ 
tions amounted to $502,620. The amount in the 
Treasury was $11,765,986.40. 
A joint resolution has passed both Houses of 
Movements in the West and South-WeBt, 
North-West Georgia. — Advices from 
Chattanooga of June 25, say that yesterday at 
five o’clock, A. M., a fiag of truce was sent into 
Lafayette in the name of Gen. Pillow, demand- 
ng the immediate surrender of the town, and 
threatening to burn it if the demand was not 
complied with. 
The rebels were 3,000 strong, and had com¬ 
pletely surrounded the town; and on the refusal 
of Coi. Watkins —who had only 400 men—to 
surrender, the rebels advanced from all direc¬ 
tions. At 9 o’clock they occupied three-fourths 
of the town, when Col. Croxton, of the 4th 
Ky., came up and captured about 70 of them. 
General Pillow left 100 dead and wounded on 
the field. 
Tue following telegram dated July 3 <j ; at 
Marietta, has been received at Washington 
from General Sherman, giving the successful 
result of the flanking operations in progress for 
some days backThe movement on our right 
c-ansed the enemy to evacuate. We occupied 
Kenesavv at daylight* and Marietta at 8.20 A. M. 
Thomas is moving down t he main road toward 
the Chattahoochlt-, and MePfierson toward 
the mouth of the Nickajaek,on the.Sandtown road. 
Our cavalry is ou the extreme flanks. Whether 
the enemy will halt this side of the Chattahoo- 
chie or not will soon be known. 
Department of the South. 
The steamer Fulton, from Port Royal, lias 
arrived. All quiet at Hilton Head. The l'al- 
metto Herald states that Secession vi lie, near 
Charleston, was vigorously shelled by our forces 
last week. It is reported that another rebel 
ram was launched at Charleston. 
Five rebel Generals and forty-five rebel field 
officers arrived on the 29th ult.. and were imedi- 
ately sent to the front under fire of rebel batter¬ 
ies in retaliation for Union officers being simi¬ 
larly placed in Charleston, 
It was reported at* lliltou Head on the 29th, 
that Admiral Dablgren bad received information 
that the pirate Alabama with three other pirates, 
was soon expected off that coast. 
The monitor Nahant,, gunboats Flambeau, 
Winona, Pawnee, and Saratoga hav e joined the 
Heel off Charleston. Our batteries continue 
shelling Charleston. 
Four rebel rams arc now in Charleston har¬ 
bor, and two more nearly completed. The frig¬ 
ate New Hampshire had arrived at Port Royal. 
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