calling upon his boys to stay by him, until he was 
shot in the mouth by a musket ball, and borne to 
the rear. Two-thirds of the regiment rallied and 
fought well during the rest of the engagement. We 
maintained our position for several hours, company 
K, of the 1st Maryland Home Brigade, with its 
handful of men, preventing a flank movement on 
the right. But the enemy turning our left flank, we 
were obliged to fall back again for seme di-tanee. 
The eighth company of the Maryland Home Brigade 
then coming to the support, we advanced, re-occupy¬ 
ing the Lookout Again, however, the enemy suc¬ 
ceeded inflarikinguson the lefl,aud we were obliged 
to fall back, firBt to the guns, and afterwards down the 
mountain. 
Our large guns on the Heights commenced shell¬ 
ing the woods in their rear at 10 o'clock, and kept it. 
up until 34 o’clock P. M., (one hour and twenty 
minutes after the order to spike them had been 
given.) They were then dismounted, spiked, and 
otherwise rendered ineffective. 
At 4 o’clock the regiments retreated down the 
mountain in good order, and the Maryland Heights 
were thenceforward lost to us. 
Who gave the order for their evacuation, I am un¬ 
able to say. Certain it is, that even/ soldier was 
ready to stigmatise its author, whoever he may have 
been, as a coward or traitor. And yet it may have 
been best under the circumstances. Had more 
troops been drawn from Bolivar Heights for the de¬ 
fence of the large guns, our position then might have 
been so weakened as to invite an easy and success¬ 
ful attack from the enemy, who had made their 
appearance in that direction in large numbers. 
No sooner had our troops retired to the valley, 
than the rebels occupied the heights above the guns 
and deliberately commenced a musketry fire upon 
the village below, which was returned by our sol¬ 
diers. A shell from one of our batteries posted near 
the bridge, however, caused them to skedaddle in 
quick time. Everybody retired that night, feeling 
that all was lost unless re-enforcements arrived, and 
expected to be awoke on the morrow with the boom¬ 
ing of artillery from the evacuated Heights. 
and delivering over generally. They comprised 
the following: 
12th N V State Militia, from New York... 600 
39th New York .. 630 
111th Vi'«v York—raw troops---1.000 
llfith New York—raw troops_1,000 
jjpith New York—raw troops___ 976 
] 2 «tli New York—raw troops__..1,000 
324 Ohio...... 66° 
OOrh Ohio __ 800 
87th Ohio—three months regiment.. 860 
9th Vermont..........._ 806 
65th Illinois. 840 
1st Maryland Home Brigade. 800 
3d Maryland Home Brigade_ 500 
5lh New York Artillery_ 267 
Graham Battery .........._ 100 
lMh Indiana_ 126 
Phillips' New York Battery_ 120 
PottV Battery..•*. 100 
Rigby’a Battery_ 100 
Officer* connected with Headquarters and Commissary 
Department _____..._ 50 
Scattering Cavalry___ 60 
Sick and wounded in hospitals_ 312 
Total.11,686 
The artillery taken comprised the following: 
Twelve 3-inch rifled guns. 
Six James’. 
Six 24-pound howitzers. 
Four 20-pound Parrott guns. 
Six 12-pound guns. 
Four 12-pound howitzers. 
Two 10-inch Dablgrens. 
ISO-pound Parrott. 
Six G-pound guns, 
and several pieces of ‘‘Fremont’s Guns,” of hut 
little value. Seven of the whole number were 
thoroughly spiked. But few horses were taken, the 
Cavalry having secured most of them. The Com¬ 
missary Department comprised six days’ rations 
for twelve thousand men. This embraces nearly 
all the Government property which was surren¬ 
dered. 
How our Cavalry cut their Way Through. 
—A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 
writing from Greencastle, Pa., under date of Sep¬ 
tember 15th, gives these particulars of the gallant 
dash of our cavalry, who cut their way through the 
enemy’8 lines: 
“Sunday evening Col. Miles, being ignorant of 
carbines to bear on them. On the 24th, Brig -Gen. 
Stahl reached this point with an additional force. 
He has now command of the place, and occupies the 
house of Mrs. Whaley as his head-quarters. 
The following from the Baltimore American's 
letter, dated Camp of the 5th New York Zouaves, 
near Sharpsburg, Sept. 20th: 
The headquarters of McClellan were removed 
yesterday to a point three miles nearer Harpers 
Ferry. This movement may mean something, or 
be merely for convenience. At any rate, it is re¬ 
garded here with some interest 
Harper’s Ferry is now held in large force by our 
troops, and is evidently regarded as an important 
point in position of the army of the Potomac. Of 
other movements of the troops 1 shall say nothing, 
unless I touch on the proper reserve that Ealleck 
has imposed on army correspondents. 
A ride from the center of the army of the Foto- 
mac to its right wing, at Williamsport, gives an im¬ 
pressive idea of the immense number of men and 
aggregative of material brought together. For thir¬ 
teen miles the eye never loses sight of camps. At 
Williamsport there has been inactivity on either 
side. Report* continue to picket the Virginia side 
of the river wilb rebels, while our troops do the 
same on this side. As a general thing there has 
been no firing between pickets, by mutual consent 
abandoning this Useless and murderous practice. 
When in Hagerstown, a few days since, I gave a 
list of some distinguished rebels, who recorded their 
names at the Washington House. Among these 
was Dr. McLaughlin, of Bradley Johnson's staff. 
This same individual, a few days since, crossed the 
river and gave himself up. He stated that he was 
utterly tired of the rebel service, and would sooner 
be in Fort McIIenry than with their army in Vir¬ 
ginia. He is a Marylander, and brings news of the 
death ol Albert Carroll, one of the sons of Charles 
Carroll, of Carrollton. 
Early this A. M. a large force of cavalry crossed 
the Potomac at Blackburn’s ford, and moved off 
toward Shepbardsville. They had not returned 
Informal reports from Augusta, show that the 
town was lost on Saturday through the cowardice 
of the Captain of the gunboat, who fired three shots 
and left the town to its fate. 
The forces of Humphrey Marshall and Kirby 
Smith are reported at Cynthiana, Ky., 20,000 strong, 
moving against Covington. 
Gen. Jefferson C. Davie shot Gen. Nelson at the 
Galt, House, Louisville, on the 20th ult., killing him 
almost instantly. There are many conflicting ac¬ 
counts of the shooting. About a week ago, Nelson 
placed Davis in command of the Home Guards of 
Louisville. At night Davis reported to Nelson 
the number of men working on the intrenchmente 
enrolled for service. Nelson cursed him for not 
having more. Davis replied that he was a junior 
officer, and demanded the treatment of a gentleman. 
Nelson, in an insulting manner, ordered him to 
report at Cincinnati, and fold him he would order 
the Provost-Marshal to exclude him from the city. 
The morning of the 29tb, Gov. Morton, of Indiana, 
was standing near the desk at tbe Gall House, when 
Davis approached and requested Morton to witness 
the conversation between himself and Nelson. He 
demanded an apology lor mde treatment received. 
NeRon being a little deaf, asked him to speak 
louder. Davfo again demanded an apology. Nel¬ 
son denounced him as a coward, and slapped him 
on the face. Davie stepped hack, clenched his fist, 
and again demanded an apology. Nelson slapped 
him in the face, and again denounced him as a 
coward. Davis, turning away, procured a pistol 
from a friend, and followed Nelson, who was going 
up stairs, and told the latter to defend himself’ im¬ 
mediately thereon firing. The ball penetrated his 
left breast, and Nelson died in about twenty miuutea 
President Lincoln on Kwancipntion. 
We give this document in fall, as was promised 
in last week’B issue. Its importance should guaran¬ 
tee a close and careful perusal: 
W abbixotox, Sept 22, 1862. 
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
„„ r ,i . , ,, „ . . i. -fturanam i.mcoin, rrestcient 
when I closed this letter. Onr scouts visit Shep- Araerka , and Commander-Chief 
of the Army and Navy 
The Battle on Sunday.—M orning came, but all that was taking place in the direction of Fred- parusrown irequcntly by day, while rebel cavalry thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafier. 
with it no signs of the enemy, except in front Onr 
guns and camps on the mountains remained just as 
we had left them, and yet the silence was ominous 
of no good. One rifled six-pounder, and one twelve- 
pounder Napoleon remained posted at the bridge to 
guard an approach, and to prevent an approach from 
Sandy Hook below. The First Maryland Home 
Brigade took position near the Pontoon Bridge, to 
destroy it,should the enemy attempt to make a cross¬ 
ing, while a portion of the 87th Ohio were so posted 
as to guard the approach from Winchester. Four 
twenty-pound Parrots, three twenty-four howilzers, 
and several twe vo and six-pounders were planted 
in the grave-yard half way up the hill, and behind 
the first line of intrenchmcnts to open on Loudon 
and Maryland Heights. They continued shelling 
them for several hours. The line of battle was 
formed on the breast works behind the Bolivar 
Heights, nearly as it had been the day before. 
About 12 o'clock two companies of the Garibaldi 
Guard and two of the Sixty-fifth Ohio bravely 
crick, gave direction, or liberty rather, to his 
cavalry, consisting of the Twelfth Illinois, Eighth 
New York, four companies of the Third Maryland, 
and a pquadron of the First Rhode Island, in all 
about sixteen hundred, to cut their way out. They 
had been in saddle all day, exposed to the fire of 
rebels, but at 8 o’clock in the evening, piloted by 
a man who knew the locality, they descended Bol¬ 
ivar Heights, crossed the pontoon bridge, took un¬ 
still come there at night, that place being held by 
neither. A number of rebel wounded are there. 
At Sheppardstown Ferry, on Ibis side of the Poto¬ 
mac, there are over 200 wounded rebel prisoners, 
guarded by the 91at Pennsylvania regiment, and 
under care of three rebel surgeons. They have 
everything done for them that is possible, no service 
that is desired being refused by our surgeons or 
officers; but the hospital i* a terrible place. The 
frequented roads and circuitous paths amoDg the men areol'the desperately wounded class, and there 
mountains towards Sharpsburg. The cavalcade 
was two miles long. At Sharpsburg they were 
fired upon by the rebel pickets, who immediately 
fled on the sudden appearance of such a force, 
coming they knew not from whence. 
“Passing Sharpsbnrg they came upon level 
lauds, but avoided the roads, and struck through 
farms and corn fields towards Hagerstown, crossing 
the Hagerstown and Williamsport turnpike about 
three miles out of Williamsport, where the road from 
Mercersburg joins it. It was about 4 o’clock in the 
ascended the Maryland Heights, secured some of morning when the head of the colunm reached the 
their camp equipage, and brought down four of the 
pieces of artillery, which had been left spiked. This 
was a daring deed. On the day before a portion of 
the Garibaidians, who were doing picket duty, 
barely escaped capture, no word having been seut 
them to retreat. Hour after hour passed by, and no 
signs of the enemy appearing on the heights, we 
were beginning to think that they were foiled iu 
their plans, and that the only force we had to con¬ 
tend with was iu front. 
The hope, however, was dispelled when, at ten 
minutes to 2 o'clock they opened a simultaneous fire 
from Maryland, Loudon Heights and Sandy Jlook, 
with howitzers. Our artillery replied with much 
spirit. Capts. McElrath and Graham, of the Fifth 
Artillery, silencing the Loudon batteries. Shot and 
shell flew in every direction, and the soldiers and 
citizens were compelled to seek refuge behind rocks, 
in houses, and elsewhere. The enemy opened two 
more guns on the Shepardstown and a full battery 
on the Charlestown roads. Heavy cannonading was 
thus brought to bear upon us from live different 
points. Yet we held our own manfully until it 
closed toward sunset. About dusk the enemy in 
front opened a musketry fire on our left, which was 
replied to by the Thirty-second Ohio, Ninth Ver¬ 
mont and First Maryland. It continued some time, 
when our forces were obliged to contract their lines, 
the rebels having by this time turned our lefi flank. 
An attempt to storm Rigby’s battery about eight 
o’clock, which did fearful execution, signally failed. 
During the afternoon the 111th, 115th and 39lh New 
York moved down the hill to the outskirts of a piece 
of woods, where they took up position lor the night. 
By some mistake, the 111th fired into one another 
about 9 o’clock, killing several. All became quiet, 
the men sleeping on their arms. During the uight 
the 125th New York fell back to a ravine running at 
right angles with our line of defence, and the 9th 
Vermont changed position, so as to support Rigby’B 
battery. Under cover of the night the enemy 
planted new batteries in every direction. 
The Battle on Monday. — Monday morning 
the rebels opened fire on Bolivar Heights at five 
o’clock, which was replied to until eight, when am¬ 
munition gave out. The batteries were so arranged 
as to enfilade us completely. To hold out longer 
seemed madness. 
A few minutes after eight a council of war was 
held. The brave Col. D’Utassy, for one, voted never 
to surrender, and requested that he might have the 
privilege of cutting his way out White flags were 
run up iu every direction, and a flag of truce was 
sent to inquire on what conditions a surrender 
would be accepted. Gen. A. P. Oilisentback w ord 
that it must be unconditional. Further parleying 
resulted in our obtaining the following liberal con¬ 
ditions, which were accepted: 
Terms of Surrender.—T he officers were to be 
allowed to go out with their side arms and private 
effects; the rank and file with everything save arms 
and equipments. 
A murmur of disapprobation ran along the whole 
line when it became known that we had surrendered. 
Capt. McGrath burst into tears, exclaiming. “ Boys? 
we have got no country now.” Other officers ex¬ 
hibited a corresponding degree of grief, while the 
soldiers were decidedly demonstrative in their man¬ 
ifestations of rage. Yet, what could be done? 
Rebel batteries were opened on us from seven dii- 
ferent directions, and there was no hope of re-en¬ 
forcements reaching ns. 
The Force Surrendered.— As soon as Jack- 
son returned from the village, our entire force was 
mustered on Bolivar preparatory to stacking arms 
turnpike. They heard a rumbling of approaching 
wagons. The column was halted, and in the dark¬ 
ness they waited for what might appear. Soon the 
advance of one division of Longstreet’s ammunition 
train came Iu sight. It was stopped, and the drivers 
and guards asked to surrender. 1 1 , was done quietly, 
and the wagon turned up the Mercersburg road. 
Finding out. what the prize iu their bands consisted 
of, the other wagons, one hundred in all, with 73 
is scarcely one but has lost an arm or leg. 
We shall see active operations resumed before 
long. Our advance is four or five miles out, and a 
rebel force composed of ten brigades of Louisiana 
and North Carolina troops are in our immediate 
front, and show a disposition to contest our further 
advance. 
A spirited cavalry and artillery skirmish took 
place this forenoon, iu which our men did well, and 
drove the rebels some distance. 
There are reports that the rebels are fortifying 
both Winchester and Martinsburgh, but they are 
not generally credited in military circles. A sud¬ 
den rebel dash on Cumberland is regarded as more 
probable, and measures have been taken to check¬ 
mate any such move. 
Movements in llic Weal. 
Mrssourti.—Early last week, Capt. Johnson, with 
seventy-five ofthe enrolled militia from RollaCo., 
attacked 70 guerrillasunder McDonald at Frederick, 
heretofore, tbe war will he prosecuted for the object of prac¬ 
tically restoring the constitutional relation between the Uni¬ 
ted States and the people thereof, in which Suites that, relation 
is or may he suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose 
upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the 
adoption of a practical measure, tendering pecuniary aid to 
the free acoeptauee or rejection of all the Slave States, to 
called, the people whereof may not then be iu rebellion 
against the United Slates, and which States may then have 
voluntarily adopted, or thercafier may voluntarily adopt, the 
immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their 
respective limits ; and that the effort to coloni/e persons of 
African descent, with their consent, upon the continent, or 
elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Gov¬ 
ernment existing there, will be continued. 
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 
1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or any desig 
nated part of a State, the people whereof shall then he iu 
rebellion against the United States, shall ho then, thencefor 
ward and forever free, and the Executive Government of the 
United Slates, including the military and naval authority 
thereof, will recognize nud maintain the freedom of such per- 
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SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Valuable Improvements—Mason k Hamlin's Harmoninma 
®l)c Ncros (Houiicnser. 
— The latest accounts of Garibaldi's health are rather 
worse. 
— The cholera has been raging for some time past in the 
Mauritius. 
— The crops throughout France are now stated to be a fair 
average yield. 
— The Hon. Owen Lovejoy has been re-nominated for Con- 
gress in Illinois. 
— There i9 a field of twenty acres of broom com in Contra- 
Costa county, California. 
— The increase on Erie Canal tolls over last year already 
exceeds a million dollars. 
— Hospital accommodations in Washington for 20,000 pa. 
tients are now completed. 
— The Victoria (Australia) Telegraph Company have fifty 
offices and 1,516 miles of wire 
— The Rev. Thomas Starr King is rendering good servieeto 
the Union cause on the Tacific. 
— Christopher Becicwith, living in Huron county, Ohio, has 
eleven sons in the Union army. 
— Paris letters continue to speak of military preparations 
by France for any contingency. 
— The report in the N. Y. Times of the wounding of Maj.. 
Gen. Fitz John Porter is incorrect 
— The slave trade on the coast of Africa has nearly ceased 
since the treaty with Great Britain. 
— Gen. Rosecrans has been appointed Major General, ac¬ 
cording to the Cincinnati Commercial. 
— John L. Kicardo, the famous English advocate of free 
trade, died a short time since in London. 
— The Independent estimates that there are $200,600,000 
lying idle in tire hanks of New York city. 
— Four bales of cotton from Queensland, the first shipped 
from that colony, are cm their way to England. 
— Counterfeit Confederate notes to the amount of $100,000 
are said to lie In circulation iu Atlanta, On., alone. 
— Shakspeare’s birthday was this year celebrated with 
great re la/ at the Ballarat gold diggings, in Australia. 
Fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty-eight per¬ 
sons visited the International Exhibition on the 2d ult. 
— Gen. Prince, and several other officers of Gen. Pope’s 
army, recently captured by tbe rebels, have been released. 
— Thomas Ewing, .lr. Chief Justice of tire 8upreme Court 
of Kansas, has resigned his judgeship and gone to the field. 
— The Richmond Examiner complains that the people 
exhibit an unwillingness to invest iu Confederate securities. 
— Out of a loyal population of not more than 160,000, 
Western Virginia has furnished over 16,000 volunteers for the 
war. 
— The Sioux City Register states that Secession Commis¬ 
sioners among the Indians are responsible for their insurrec¬ 
tion. 
— The boiling down of cattle has commenced again in 
sous, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or ‘Australia, in consequence of the superabundance of animal 
any of them iD any efforts they may make for their actual food. 
freedom. , nr-.._.,—, .,.._. m_ . 
men, were also quietly laken and turned northward, altering them in all directions. They left one 
the sertesh drivorH hnlrh’nir the ruins minr/Wl W, mi.. i _, .1. , , 
the secesh drivers holding the reins, guarded by our 
own brave cavalry. Tbe train passed two miles 
west of Hagerstown, struck into the Greencastle 
road, and arrived here about 10 o’clock. Thus 
Longstreet lost his ammunition. Thus the entiie 
rebel army was thrown into a panic. 
“ Imagine the consternation of the enemy to hear 
of several thousand Yankee cavalry at Sharpsburg 
on the rear, cutting off their retreat, with General 
Burnside’s command thundering in front. Imagine 
them asking. ‘Where did they come from? What 
is behind us?’ Answering, with excited fears. ‘The 
Quakers are out in I’ennsylvania; the great, army 
which we have heard of gathering at Greencastle 
and Chambersburg has swept down to cut off our 
retreat.’ What other solution could they give? It 
would not occur to them that it was Miles’ cavalry, 
(or they supposed he was hermetically sealed, with 
no avenue for escape. No wonder they became 
panic stricken, and fled, casting aside guns, blankets, 
everything that was a hindrance to the flight” 
Re-occupation of Harper’s Ferry.— Harper's 
Ferry has been re-occupied by our troops without a 
battle, the rebels having abandoned it. 
The Army of Virginia. 
Little of stirring interest has occurred in this 
department of the Army, since last issue of the 
Rural, if we except what seems to have been a 
general reconnoissance along our entire line. 
A reconnoiteriug party, under command of Major 
I. M. Deeuos, of the 1st Maryland Cavalry, who is 
on Gen. Higel’s staff, and comprising two companies 
of the 9th N. Y. Cavalry, was pushed beyond Chan¬ 
tilly. Thirty-nine stragglers were taken prisoners 
and paroled. No pickets of the enemy were to be 
seen. A quantity of rebel knapsacks and camp 
equippage, and a large silk rebel flag, which bore 
evidence ol having seen service, and of having be¬ 
longed to the Beauregard rifles, was also captured. 
Col. R. B. Price, 2d Pennsylvania Cavalry, com¬ 
manding a brigade of cavalry ami two pieces of 
artillery, started the 22d, upon a reconnoissance 
from our front as far as Ashby’s Gap, which he found 
guarded by the Cth Virginia Cavalry, under Lieut.- 
Colouel Green, He discovered the pickets of that 
regiment, which he drove back to Ashby’s Gap, six¬ 
teen miles. This Gap is situated where Loudon, 
Fauquier and Clark Counties connect. There we 
engaged the enemy killing twelve, that fell into his 
hands, and wounding among others who were car- 
tied off by their comrades. We lost one only. 
Captain Perkins, of the 1st Vermont Cavalrv. a 
dead and three wounded. 
The day following, Cupt. Johnson, with 118 men, 
surprised a camp of 150 strong under Major Snider, 
and after a short fight the enemy fled. Snider was 
killed and (iiteen of his men were wounded. All 
their camp equipage—guns, blankets, and other 
property—was taken. On the same day, Lieut. Dil- 
Iod, with part of hia company, came up with the 
band, and again routed them, taking seven prison¬ 
ers and eleven horses. 
Major Hunt reports scattering Cunningham’s 
band near Sturgeon, iu a skirmish, and one man was 
wounded on our side and none killed. 
Maj. Anderson, commanding a detachment of tbe 
10th militia, recently had a skirmish with guerrillas 
in Monroe county, routing their forces and captur¬ 
ing the notorious guerrilla chief, Elliot Mags, and 
thirteen of his party, together with some horses, 
arms, and camp equipage. 
J. W. Henniffee, lately of Poindexter’s band, was 
captured in a street fight, having entered Cass Co., 
in disguise, and being recognized by persons 
present. 
Gen. Merrill is informed by authority deemed 
creditable, that. Porter himself crossed the river on 
the night of the 21st, from the lower part of Cala- 
way. Previous information indicates he has gone 
in that direction, arid has some force with him, but 
how much is not known. 
Gen. Ilalleck has received the following dispatch: 
St. Lons. Sept. 28—3 P. M. 
To If. W. Ilalleck. General-in-Chief;—Go neral 
Merrill reports that Col. Gurtuu, of the Missouri 
State militia, has captured Maj. Wells, Capts. Emory 
and Robinson, and Lieut Morrison, with several 
privates and important correspondence ofthe rebels. 
Also, that on the 25th inst, with a deiuchment of the 
9 th Missouri Sluie mitilia, he routed a party of some 
fifty guerrillas, taking five prisoners and a quantity 
of army horses, Ac. B. R. Curtis, Maj. Gen. 
Three hundred and sixty-three disloyalists of Car¬ 
rol county, Mo., have recently been assessed $10,000 
t>y the Board of Commissioners, appointed under 
General Order No. 3, fur killing and wounding 
loyal soldiers and citizens, and taking property be¬ 
longing to said person b; sums levied rarfge from 
$1,000 to $2,000 on each person assessed. If the 
amount is not paid wilkin ten days after notice, 
their property will be seized and sold. 
Kentucky.— The Augusta (Ky.) correspondent 
of the Cincinnati Gazette, says:—This place was 
attacked by 640 mounted rebels with two cannon, 
under the command of a brother of the guerrilla 
John Morgan. The Union forces under Col. Brad- 
Tbut the Executive will, on the first day of January afore- 
suiJ, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, 
if any. in which the people thereof respectively shall then be 
in rebellion against the United States, an.1 tlio (Act that any 
State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith 
represented in the Congress of the United States by members 
chosen thereto, at elections wherein a majority of the quali 
bed voters of sncli States shall have participated, shall, in 
the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed 
conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof 
are nut then in rebellion against the United States. 
That, attention is hereby called to an act of Congress, enti 
tied an act to make an additional act of war, approved March 
13th, 1862, and which act is in the words and figures follow 
lug: 
JJr it enacted by the Senate and Bouse, of Jiepresentaiives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled. 'That 
hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an additional 
Article of war for tbe government of the anny of the United 
States, and shall he obeyed nud observed an such article All 
officers or persona in the military or naval service of the Uni 
ted Stales, arc prohibited from* employing any of the forces 
under their respective commands foi the purpose of returning 
tngUIvch from service or labor who may have escaped from 
any person to whom such sen Ice or labor is claimed to be 
due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court 
martial of violating tills article, bhatl be dismissed from the 
service. 
Suction 2. And be it further enacted , That this act shall 
lake effect from nud alter its passage. 
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of an act entitled “An 
act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, 
to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other pur¬ 
poses,’'approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the 
words and figures following: 
Suction 9. And he. it further enacted. That all slaves of per¬ 
sons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the 
Government of the United Slates, or who shall in ally wav 
give aid and comfort thereto, escaping from such persons uuii 
luking refuge within the lines of the urmv, and all slaves cap 
— A Turin journal says that Colonel Charras, who was 
Minister of War under tbe French Republic, is in Garibaldi's 
camp. 
— In Minnesota, tbe bill extending tbe elective franchise to 
soldiers, passed the Senate on Thursday week, by a vote of 
13 to 4. 
— Capt W. D. Porter has been made a Commodore, for 
destroying the ram Arkansas, capturing Natchez, and other 
naval exploits. 
— All the prisoners in the penitentiary of the District of 
Columbia are to be temporarily removed to the old county 
jail at Albany. 
-— Gen. White is in Washington under arrest, to await an 
investigation of the circumstances attending tbe surrender of 
Harper’s Ferry. 
— Tbe Militia Enrollment in Indiana haB been completed. 
The returns show : — militia, 209,216; volunteers, 100,277; 
exempts, 32,869. 
— Capt. John Pereival, well known to the readers of naval 
history, died at his residence, in the vicinity of Boston, on 
Wednesday week. 
— On Monday, Lieut. Ludlow, Aid de Camp to Gen. Dix, 
effected an exchange of 10,000 rank and file and 300 officers, 
at Harrison’s Landing. 
— England exported over fifteen million gallons of beer 
last j ear, to say nothing of tbe vast quantity manufactured 
for home consumption. 
— Dr. J. II. B. McClellan, brother of tbe General, is 
among the volunteer surgeons who have repaired to the battle 
field from Philadclphia. 
— Several of the most prominent of French diplomatists 
had been summoned to meet in Paris, it was supposed to dis¬ 
cuss the Roman question. 
— Residents near the ford over the Potomac, at which the 
rebels crossed, say that 300 or 400 of them got out of their 
detachment of which regiment distinguished itself ford, numbering 120 men, took refuge in houses and 
fit Irul (F . «m A vm •* r* ♦ V. _. >. : — T 2 . . 1 AVI _ -1 
in the affair. Among the prisoners are Lieut -Col. 
Green, the rebel commandant, and two rebel Lieu¬ 
tenants. who were duly brought into head-quarters. 
Centrevillk. Va., Sept. 25th. —The advance, 
division of General Sigel’s corps, under command 
of Colonel Van Giba, 14th N. Y. V.. De Kalb Regi¬ 
ment,, reached this place, on Tuesday, the 23d inst., 
via Fairfax Court House. No euetny was found on 
the road to interpose any obstacle to the progress of 
the troops or to their taking possession of the forti¬ 
fications upon their arrival, except a few scattering 
horses, who fled before our scouts could bring their 
I . _ _ , be forever free of their servitude, and not again held ns slaves 
let, from the lower part of Cala- 6 k<ition to And be U further entpUd. l'lmt no slave eecap- 
formation indicates he has cone '’’K lllto “ny 3t»te, Territory, or the District of Columbia. 
, . .. ... .. , from uny Ot the States, shall be delivered up, or in any wav 
HO nUS some force with him, but impeded nr hindered of bis liberty, except for crime or some 
nown. offense against tbe law*, unless the person claiming said fugi- 
• ja /• i. • , tive slmlt first make oath that the person to whom the labor 
s received the lollowing dispatch: or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful 
St Loins Rent or o p owner, and has not been in arm* against the United Statei in 
st. loots, Sept. *8-3 P. M. tho present rebellion, nor in any way given aid or comfort 
'CO/.*. General-in-Ohuf :—General thereto ; and no person ctigae. d II, the military or naval eer- 
at Col. Gurtuu, of the Missouri viee of tile United Slates shall, under any pretense whatever, 
iptnml Maj Wells, Cants. Emery f ss H rae to . <leeido <m ll ‘. e validity of the claim of any person 
I Lieut Morrison with >1 to the service or labor oi any other person, or surrender up 
* ' un ison, W lln Stveial any such person to Uie claimant, on pain of being dismissed 
font correspondence Of the rebels, from the service. ■ 1 oemg dismissed 
dh ids!., with a deiuchment of the , ... . , , , 
militia, he routed a party of some 1 do licrcb >' c " J0,n U J 30U 1111(1 ah persons engaged 
iug five prisoners and a quantity ,tic nrilitary a "d naval service of the United States to 
B. It. Curtis, Maj. Gen. Observe, obey and enforce within their respective spheres of 
nd sixty-fhreedisloyalists of Car- ^ ^ ttC ( t . u,ld Bmions rwi ^ 1 ‘ u,d tho E - cuthe 
... J Will in due time recommend that all Citizens of the United 
V e iccen ^ y >een assessed $10,000 states who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the 
joininissioners, appointed under rebellion, shall, upon tbe restoration of tbe constitutional 
0 . 3, for killing and wounding relation between the United States and their respective States 
Citizens, and taking property be- nn d people, if the relation shall have been suspended or dis 
irsoiiBj sums levied rarfge from lurbc< h he compensated for all losses by acts of the United 
n each person assessed. If ibe 8u ' t<B ' ittoludi,1 = thu loss of slavc8 - 
d within fen dajs after notice In witness whereof I have hereunto set my band, and caused 
be Seized and sold. tJie SCftl of 1,1 e United Suites to be affixed. Done at the 
[l. S.] city of Washington, this 22d day of September, in the 
e Augusta (Ky.) correspondent Jear of ou, ‘ L,,rd 1862 > “ nd of the independence of the 
Gazette , says:-This place was United States the eighty-seventh. 
„ kill ... , ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 
uunted rebels with two cannon, „ . 
“ ) By order of the President: 
i o a brothei of the guerrilla u sewabd, Secretary of State. 
e Union forces under Col. Brad- _ 
0 men, took refuge in houses and 
, killing and wounding 90 of the Collision.-A collision took place on the Cum- 
be killed were three captains, berland Valle y Railroad ’ near Ua'' rl8bur & on the 
inger brother of John Morgan 25tb ult ’ _a train with troo P s ( the 2otb Ponnsylva- 
ly wounded was Lieub-Coloncl ™a Militia) running into a stationary train. Sev- 
eo. D. Prentice, of the Louisville cral carB were smasbed to splinters, ten or more 
>]n -wert, so evasnerfitod thtor men were killed : ^ more than thirty wounded. 
fired from windows, killing and wounding 90 of the 
rebels. Among the killed were three captains, 
one of them a younger brother of John Morgan. 
Among the mortally wounded was Lieut.-Colonel 
Prentice, a son of Geo. D. Prentice, of the Louisville 
Journal. Tbe rebels were so exasperated at their 
loss that they set fire to the houses in the place, and 
two squares of the town were burned. Our loss 
was 9 killed and 15 wounded. Tbe balance of our 
forces were taken prisoners. Subsequently a Union 
force from Maysville intercepted and attacked the 
rebels when they fled in a perfect panic. 
The Union Loss.— Itis understood that the Union 
losses, in killed, wounded, and missing, during the 
battleH in Maryland, are estimated at the War office 
as not exceeding sixteen thousand. Some regiments 
were almost entirely cut up. 
— Dr. George B. ljoandy, of Boston, died a few days ago 
by hemorrhage caused by drawing a tooth. It is supposed 
that an artery was severed. 
— Gen. MiteheU lias arrived at Port Royal and made a 
speech, in which lie calls himself a “very restless man,” who 
“don't know bow to be stiff.” 
— Peaches arc plenty everywhere. Tho Leavenworth 
(Kansas) market ia Hooded with them, and they bring only 
thirty-five cents per bushel there. 
— A largely attended Union meeting was held in New 
Orleans on the 18tli. at which Col. Jack Hamilton, of Texas, 
made a speech of the right stripe. 
— Count de Gasparin, formerly Minister of the Interior 
under Louis Ftiihppe, died recently at Orange, (Vaueluse,) 
Fiance, iu the 63d year of his age. 
— Large quantities of chrome have been shipped to Eng¬ 
land from New Zealand. Plumbago is likely to be added to 
the list of exports from that colony. 
_It is reported that three of the finest steamers on the 
Clyde—the Irons, the Giraffe, and the Clydesdale—have been 
sold to the Confederate Government. 
— Harvey E.'Brown lias been discharged from the Director¬ 
ship of the Hospital on Bellevue Island, for neglect of sick 
and wounded soldiers under his charge. 
— Iowa is the first. State to fill her quota under the caff for 
600,000. She lias every man in the field by voluntary enlist¬ 
ment, and aff for three years or the war. 
— AntJetani Creek, near which the great buttle of Wednes¬ 
day week was fought, is a tributary of the Potomac, running 
through Washington county, Maryland. 
— Win. H, Banks, a promising young man of 25 years, 
brother of Maj-Gen. Banks, died on Tuesday week at the 
water-cure establishment in New Jersey 
— Iu Connecticut drafted men are allowed to choose what 
companies liiey will go in, with the consent of the captain, 
but have no part in the choice of officers. 
— A company of Florence Nightingales lias been formed in 
Dcarhorn, Mich., of 100 young women, pledged to search out 
families of volunteers nad supply their wants. 
— Among tbe Americans in Paris early last month was 
Mr, Townsend Harris, late Diplomatic Agent of tho United 
States in Japau, on his way home to the United States. 
— By a recent arrival from Europe, the Commissioners of 
the Central Park, New York, have received a veritable gon¬ 
dola. It was purchased by Mr. John A. C. Gray, in Venice. 
