ascertained. About the same time a part of the 
enemy’s cavalry charged upon a military traiD, 
It consisted of 
Flag Ship Wabasb, Port Royal, .Tone 15, 1863. 
Sir— I have the honor to report to the Depart¬ 
ment, that on the night of the 5th inst. a steamer 
attempted to run out of Charleston. She was 
turned by the Wissahiokon. which vessel pur¬ 
sued her over the bar. firing at her repeatedly. 
The steamer was Bunk. From subsequent in¬ 
formation from two deserters from Charleston, 
whom I send North by the Massachusetts, there 
i« reason to believe ihe vessel was the Isaac 
Smith. I have further to report that on the 
night of the 10th inst, another steamer attempted 
to run the blockade iolo Charleston by the San¬ 
ford channel. She was bred at by several 
vessels, but in the darkness eluded them. On 
the next morning at daylight she was discovered 
at the north end of Folly Island on fire, which, 
however, did not destroy the vessel. She was a 
large side-wheel steamer, and is supposed by 
Com. Turner to be the Havelock; but this is no‘t 
certainly ascertained. 
S. F. Dupont, Rear Admiral. 
General Hunter and Staff arrived at New 
York on the lGtli inst. having been removed 
from the Department of the South, and Brig.- 
Gen. Gilltnore appointed in bis place. 
The Boston Herald has advices that the rebel 
batteries on Morris Island, off Charleston, opened 
fire upon our troops on Folly island, on the 
evening of the 12th. The gunboats Pawnee and 
Com. McDonough replied, and poured in a 
deadly fire from their heavy guns. The fight 
lasted three hours. The rebel shot fell short of 
the mark, while the shot and shells from the gun¬ 
boats and batteries on Folly Island did fearful 
execution in the midst of their opponents. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
LIST OF NEW ADVEK 
and succeeded in its capluie. 
one first-class locomotive and about twenty-three 
care returning from Harper's Ferry to Baltimore, 
after having carried provisions to supply the 
garrison during the day. Fortunately this was 
the last train of a convoy of five, the others hav¬ 
ing just preceded it in safely, and all reached 
Baliimore. Of the captured train were several 
cars loaded with produce that was being rescued 
from danger from the vicinity of Harper'B Ferry; 
also, some fifteen passengers. The train was 
then burned, which consisted of fifteen empty 
horse cars, one fiat car laden with iron, one or 
two laden with flour, and three or four empty 
slock cars. The train w as first attacked at a 
point beyond Catoctin, by a force w hich appeared 
at that place, but succeeded in escaping. On 
reaching the Point of Rocks, however, it was 
again attacked with such a force as obliged it to 
stop. 
A cavalry flgbt occurred at Aldie on the 17th, 
twenty-five miles northwest of Bull Run, be¬ 
tween a division of our cavalry, and five regi¬ 
ments of rebel cavalry and some artillery, under 
Gem Fitzhugb Lee. The fight lasted tour hours, 
and the enemy were driven back five miles, when 
night put an end to further action. The rebels 
lost largely. 
The Philadelphia Inquirer of June 18th, has 
' the following extracts taken from the Baltimore | 
Clipper of the evening previous; 
We learn from the headquarters of General 
Scbenck that information has been received from 
Gen. Tyler that the rebel forces invested Har¬ 
per’s Ferry on the 16th inst., and made an attack, 
attempting to surprise Gen. Tyler’s forces. The 
latter, after resisting, retired to the Maryland 
Heights, and shelled the rebels, compelling them 
to evacuate the Ferry. The rebels then retreated 
to Williamsport, when Gen. Tyler recovered and 
occupied his former position. 
A detachment of rebel mounted infantry en¬ 
tered McConnollsburg, Pa., on the 19th, and 
plundered the stores and drove away all the 
cattle and horses in the town. 
The army of the Potomac, at last accounts, was 
encamped some distance north of Bull Run, 
watching the movements of Lee’s army, sup- 
Gen. Hooker’s 
For some time past, certain premonitions 
have pointed with unmistakable evidence to the 
fact, that the cloud of war was about, to hover 
over and around the Potomac, and spend its 
fury upon the heads of the unprotected inhabit¬ 
ants. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, sev¬ 
eral weeks since, seemed to ‘'scent the battle 
afar,”—with the wisdom of a seer, he saw trou¬ 
ble brewing in the vicinity of the Rappahan¬ 
nock,—he felt that Maryland, Ohio, Pennsyvania, 
and Western Virginia, were not safe from inva¬ 
sion, and counseled the National Government 
to prepare for any such emergency. The Gov¬ 
ernor tendered the militia of Pennsylvania to be 
made use of to garrison the fortifications around 
Washington, thus enabling the Government to 
send the volunteers into the field. The authori¬ 
ties saw fit not to accept the proposition. A few 
days before the trouble came, experienced Gen¬ 
erals (Brooks and Couch) were sent into Penn¬ 
sylvania to make preparations to head off any 
portion of Lee's army that might, presume to 
make a demonstration north of the Potomac. 
The following Proclamation from the Presi¬ 
dent, calling out the militia, has been issued; 
Whereas, the armed insurrectionary combina¬ 
tions now existing in several States are threat¬ 
ening to make inroads into the States of Marv- 
&f)c Nctos (Honiicnscr 
— The Government 5.20 loan has reached the sum of 
$105,000,000. 
— Billy Wilson's Zonaves return to N. Y. with 250 men 
less than went. 
— The cotton mills of Woonsocket are reducing their 
hours of labor. 
— The Richmond papers report gold at $6 premium 
and silver $5,50. 
— Tlie crops in some parts of Maryland are suffering 
from severe drouth. 
It is reported that Gen. Sickles has returned to the 
army of the Potomac. 
— Eighteen thousand shells per hour have at times been 
hurled into Vicksburg. 
— Tbe hospital soldiers of Aquia Creek have arrived in 
Washington 0,000 strong. 
— Scrip for 240,000 acres for the Agricultural College 
lias been assigned to Michigan. 
— Tbe average attendance upon the public schools of 
Boston during 1852, was 24,644. 
— Twenty-five new regiments are organizing in New 
York. Enlistments are numerous. 
— Henry Winter Das is is nominated by the Union men 
of Baltimore to the next Congress. 
— There is a great revival of religion among the soldiers 
at Camp Convalescent, Washington. 
— The prospect for n large peach crop in New Jersey 
this year is uncommonly promising. 
— The rebels, in their Marysville raid on Sunday week, 
got about $20,000 worth of property. 
— Several tuns of cotton, they say, have been grown the 
past season hy the mormons in Deseret. 
— It is estimated that for every American vessel de¬ 
stroyed by the rebel pirates five are built. 
— It is estimated that tbe wool clip of the country the 
present year will reach 100,000,000 pounds. 
— Members of the 40th Mass, regiment have sent $20,- 
000 by express to Pittsfield for their families. 
— The hoys in the Potomac army sell newspapers for 
10 cents nplccc and bag $10 or $15 a day profit, 
— The number of deaths in Connecticut iit-1882 was 
8541; of marriages, 3701; and of births, 10,808, 
— The Police Commissioners in New Haven have In¬ 
creased the pay of each man of their force $50. 
— Billy Bowlegs signs himself “ King of the Sominoles, 
and Captain Co. F, First Indian Home Guards." 
— A slight thoclt of an earthquake was felt at Rutland, 
and also at Burlington, Yt., one night last week. 
— Hon. John A Bingham, of Ohio, is appointed U. S. 
District Judge for Florida, vice Marvin resigned. 
— Steam carriages, which don't kick up nor run away, 
are beginning to appear in the streets of Boston. 
— Gens. Grant and Pemberton were both Lieutenants 
in the regular army, and were stationed at Detroit. 
— An establishment in Waterbary, Conn., is making 
$100,000 worth of copper coins for the Peruvian Govern¬ 
ment. 
— The corn crop in Alabama and Western Georgia is 
in a flourishing condintion, and promises an abundant 
yield. 
— Ned Buntline has been sentenced to two months’ 
imprisonment at Fort Norfolk, Va., for the crime of de¬ 
sertion. 
— The Dwight Mills in Chicopee, Mass., have stopped 
for the present. The company has worked up all its 
cotton, 
— A fngitive slave was hunted in the suburbs of St. 
Louis, the other duy, by a party armed with guns and 
pistols. 
— They have a cheerful horse railroad at Hartford, Ct., 
One terminus is at the State Prison and the other at the 
cemetery. 
— Partial returns from the ports of entry show that the 
customs duties will probably amount this year to about 
$79,000,000. 
— A horse-thief who shot and killed two citizens of 
Kokomo, Ind., was hung by the citizens of that place on 
the 27th ult. 
— The Anson (Me.) Advocate says hail two inches 
square and an inch thick fell in that town during the storm 
Sunday week. 
— The owner of the horse General Butler has offered to 
back him against the world, in three even races for from 
$5,000 to $50,00. 
— CoL I. F. Shepard, formerly of Boston, Mass., is to 
be made Brig -Gen. of a colored brigade in the Depart¬ 
ment of the West. 
— Our pickets about Vicksburg the rebels report to be 
ten miles deep. Our mortars trouble them every two sec¬ 
onds night and day. 
— Aaron Jones, the English prize fighter, who was 
beaten by Tom Sayers, is attached to Beauregard’s stall 
With the rank of Major. 
— Twelve hundred paroled Federal soldiers passed thro’ 
Louisville, Ky., on the 10th inst, to join their regiments 
in Geu. Rosecraus’ army. 
— During the months of January and February last 
51,900,7s9 lbs. of cotton, worth £2,705,635 were shipped 
from the port of Bombay. 
— From Jan. 1 to May 5,1868, the exports of gold from 
California reached $16,921,242, an increase over the same 
period iu 1862 Ol’ $4,628,000. 
_A flock of 40 sheep were sheared in a very workman¬ 
like manner by some thieves one night recently in Waldo, 
Me , and tlie fleeces carried off. 
— There were 982 canal boats cleared at Buffalo, N• 
during the lirst 1C> day s of May, the sum of whose cargoes 
would load 21,604 railroad cars- 
— Laborers’ wages in Idaho Territory are $8 per day. 
8,000 men are working in the Berse River mines, which 
extend over a district of 30 rniies. 
— The oldest newspaper in the world is published in 
Pekin It is printed on a large sheet of silk, and has ap¬ 
peared weekly for over 1000 years. 
_The ship Resolution, in which Capt. Cook left Eng¬ 
land on his second voyage round the world in 1772, is now 
at Demerara waiting a cargo of sugar. 
— Augusta, Me., is one of the largest cities in the world. 
According to the Kennebec Journal it contains 60 square 
miles. Iu some of the wards they kill wild bears. 
Liaybr fall, but lo, the young buds peep I 
Flower* die, but itUl their seed shall bloom I 
From death the quick young life will leap, 
When spring shall come and touch the tomb. 
The splendid shiver of brave blood 
Is thrilling throngh our country now, 
And she who In old times withstood 
The tyrant, lifts again her brow. 
God’s precious charge we sternly keep 
Unto tlie final victory; 
With freedom we will live, or sleep 
With our great dead who set us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old flag flying yet. 
knd. Western Virginia, Feuns.ylYama.and Ohio, 
Squiring immediately an additional military 
force lor the service of the United States: now, 
therefore, 
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States, and Commander of the Army and Navy 
thereof, and of the militia of' the several States, 
do hereby call into the service of the United 
States 100,000 militia from the States following, 
namely:—From the State of Maryland, 10.000: 
Pennsylvania, 60,000; Ohio, 30,000; Western 
Virginia, 10,000; to be mustered into the service 
of the United States forthwith, and to serve for a 
period of six' months from the date of such 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 27, 1863. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Mississippi.— Advices from Vicksburg to 
the 10th inst., have been received. Everything 
was progressing favorably for General Grant. 
Considerable activity prevailed, and no fears 
were entertained that Johnson would be able to 
interfere seriously with the Federal operations. 
Graut's sharpshooters are daily employed in 
their avocations, and many rebels, each day. fall 
to rise no more, while the loss to our forces, is 
represented to be very small. The w hole array 
is in good spirits, and look forward to an early 
triumph. Much destitution prevails in the city. 
The St Louis Democrat’s Vicksburg dispatch 
says, thirteen gunboats patrol tbe river between 
nelenaand Young's Point. The gunboat Armora 
destroyed the town of Eunice on the 13;h. 
The town of Si rapport on tbe Atchafalya River 
had been burned by our gunboats, and commis- 
sa;y stores of the rebels destroyed. 
Gen. Dennis, in command at Milliken’s Bend, 
had been largely re-enforced, and started an 
expedition to Richmond, La., to attack McCul- 
luchj who is reported to have near 0,000 troops. 
Kentucky.—C aptain Hare, of (bo Mountain 
Provost Guard,attacked lliue's guerrillas at Wil¬ 
son's Creek, near Boston, on the J3th, killing 
four and capturing five prisoners and 200 horses, 
and a lot of rifles and equipments. The rebels 
fled. There was no loss on the Federal side. 
Two hundred and fifty mounted rebels dashed 
into Maysville on the 17th. They left after steal¬ 
ing tile guard's horses and arms. Gen. Burnside 
reports as follows in reference to this raid: 
HRAPQCARTER8, ClNOl.S.S’ATI, Ohio, June 19. 
Mnjol-Qenerftl HaUecD. (leneml-In-Chief { . 8, 
Army . WuahuujUui:— Gen. Sturgis informs me 
that Col. Do Conroy with parts of ’he loth and 
Uth Kentucky cavalry and 8lk and Mth Michi¬ 
gan cavalry, cut off at Triplet’s Bridge the body 
of rebel cavalry that, made the raid upon Mays¬ 
ville. We killed and wounded many of the 
rebels and took over 100prisoners,including one 
Captain and two Lieutenants, and re-captured all 
the property stolen at Maysville. The rebels are 
broken to pieces and may be destroyed alto¬ 
gether, as our people are hunting tbem'up, 
A. E. Burnside, Maj.-Gen, 
Tennessee.— Bragg has undoubtedly received 
re enforcements of three brigades. lie has some 
20,000 men, and is about to assume the offensive, 
and invade Kentucky. The exempted rebels, 
who have been gathering saltpeter in East Ten¬ 
nessee, have been armed bv Buckner to guard 
his rear and aid in gathering the wheat crop. 
The Union men, in anticipation of Buckner's 
reaping their ripening grain, have turned their 
stock iuto the fields to’ prevent the enemy from 
receiving aid and comfort from their labors. 
Missouri. — But little of importance of a 
military character has transpired in this State 
during the past week. Several regiments 
of enrolled militia had been called into active 
service at St. Louis, and Gen. Blunt had forbid¬ 
den the circulation of the Caucasian, Chicago 
Times. Columtms Crisis, Cincinnati Enquirer 
and New York World iu his department. 
Jnjhana Invaded.—O n the lllih. about 100 of 
the 4th Ky. rebel cavalry crossed the Ohio River 
into Harrison county, for the purpose of making 
a raid into the interior. At Orleans, the rebels 
had a skirmish with the Horae Guard, whom 
they repulsed. Later accounts say that 000 
rebels bad crossed the river in the neighborhood 
of Leavenworth. On the morning of the 22d 
the enemy had reached Paoli. in Orange county. 
The purpose of the raid is supposed to be to 
burn the bridges on the Ohio and Mississippi 
Railroad. The militia and other troops were 
moving to intercept them. 
syivwnia— trie counter movements ot our own 
forces—the marshaling of State militia, conse¬ 
quent upon the proclamations of the President 
and several State Governors—the tears for the 
safely of the National Capital and the Capital of 
Pennsylvania, together with Philadelphia, Balti¬ 
more, Pittsburg, and other important localities 
in close proximity to the seat of war. 
Startling as the announcements were, so many 
rumors and false reports were allowed to go 
forth to the public, that it WM impossible, for 
several days, to arrive at anything definite. We 
have endeavored to bring into shape such re¬ 
ports as wo consider most reliable, from the mul¬ 
titudinous documents before us. 
Gen. Milroy, at Winchester, Va., was attacked 
by a large force of rebels on Saturday, the 13th. 
The following is a portion of the General’s dis¬ 
patch: 
Hari'kk’s Fi'krv, June 16,1863. 
I am in with the greater paid of ray command. 
The fortifications at Winchester were invested 
by about 15,000 rebels and 20 pieces of artillery 
They curried tbe outer works by storm, at (i 
o’clock on Sunday evening. 1 spiked all my 
guns Sunday evening, and left with the whole ot 
ray command on Monday morning, bringing all 
the horses of my artillery aud wagons, but was 
interrupted by an overwhelming force, with 
.•ii e * * i . x » M .11 Ilf i • 
penuu oi six' monies irom we date nt such mus¬ 
ter Into said service. unleBs sooner discharged, to 
be mustered iu as infantry, artillery and cavalry, 
the proportion of which will be made known 
through the War Department, which Depart¬ 
ment will also designate tho several places of 
rendezvous. 
These militia are to lie organized according to 
the rules and regulations of the volunteer ser¬ 
vice, and such orders as mav hereafter be issued. 
The States aforesaid will "be respectively cred¬ 
ited under ihe enrollment act for tho militia ser¬ 
vice rendered under this proclamation. 
In testimony whereof. I havo hereunto set my 
hand and caused the seal of tho United States to 
be affixed. 
Done at (be City of Washington this 15th day 
of June, iu the year of our Lord 1*63, and of the 
Independence of the United States the eighty- 
seventh. Abraham Lincoln.' 
By the President: 
Wm. H. Sewari>. Sec’y of State. 
Proclamations from the Executives of tbe 
States above named immediately followed, call 
ing upon the militia, and requisitions from the 
Secretary of War were made upon several other 
States for men, to serve while the emergency 
lasted. [Governor Seymour, of New York, 
immediately ordered fifteen regiments of the 
20,000 men called fur, to go to the field of opera¬ 
tions, while the other States called upon responded 
with the same commendable promptness.] 
Five thousand soldiers, unlit for active service 
in the field, but competent to perform other duty, 
have been us signed to the invalid corps, and 
will proceed to Harrisburg. These form the 
nucleus of this organization. 
poseu w numuer 1)0,000 men 
headquarters were at Fairfax. 
Tho Washington Repullicm Extra of the 22d. 
says General Hooker ordered our cavalry and 
artillery to attack Stuart at Aldie Gap the 2J.st. It 
was made at 7 o’clock in the morning. The fight 
opened with great spirit on both sides. From 
and a running fight ensued for several hours, the 
ground being strewn with dead and wounded 
rebels. Federal loss not known. 
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 22d has 
accounts which sot the numbers of the invading 
»uiri i iijuT u uy < in uvvi n uviiuiug, 
artillery, four miles this side of Winchester, on 
the Martins burg road, and after another despe¬ 
rate fight of two hours, I got through. We were 
pursued by a large cavalry force, who picked up 
a number of my weary boys. 
The rebels under Jenkins, nine hundred and 
fifty strong, entered Chambersburg, Pa., on 
Monday evening, the 15th, and left it. on Wed¬ 
nesday afternoon, at one o’clock. They wore 
composed of cavalry and mounted infantry. 
They are also reported to have had two pieces of 
our artillery, captured at Martinsburg. which 
they did not bring into the town. They seem to 
have been drawn as far a9 Chambersburg, in 
their attempts to capture the wagon train which 
escaped from Martinsburg. 
Immediately upon taking possession of the 
town, Jenkins threw out pickets as far as Scot¬ 
land, a distance of five miles from Chambers¬ 
burg, where the railroad bridge, a substantial 
wooden structure, some eighty feet long, was 
destroyed by them. He also established a chain 
of expresses between himself and Gen. Rhodes, 
at Williamsport. Scouting parties of considera¬ 
ble force were sent out in the direction of Ship- 
pen sburg. 
Having taken these precautions, Jenkius is¬ 
sued an orker requiring tbe citizens to produce 
all the government arms in their possession by 
10 o'clock Tuesday morning, under threat of 
searching tbe bouses of all those who did not 
produce a musket About 8u0 government mus¬ 
kets were brought, in by the citizens, which were 
broken and burned by the rebels before leaving 
on Wednesday. A store-house was fired by 
them, but the flames were extinguished by the 
citizens. 
On Tuesday morning, about 11 o’clock, a de¬ 
tachment of about forty cavalry, from Carlisle, 
while reconnoitring, met a rebel scouting party 
on the pike, about four rniies this side of Cham¬ 
bersburg, and had a skirmish, in which two ol 
our Carlisle men were captured. Later in the 
day the rebels told our citizens that they expected 
heavy re-enforcements of infantry, and that they 
would be up by !) o’clock on Wednesday morn¬ 
ing. They did not come, and at 1 o’clock Jen¬ 
kins withdrew his force in the direction of Ha¬ 
gerstown. Md. Tho rebels were in great fear 
during the whole time they held the town. They 
seemed impressed with the idea that they held a 
very dangerous position. Indeed, they were 
drawn up in line of battle din ing the whole of 
Tuesday afternoon, momentarily expecting an 
attack. They took with them, when they leit 
Chambersburg, all the negroes whom they had 
found there. 
About. 9 o'clock Wednesday night a body of 
cavalry crossed the Potomac near Point of Rocks. 
Md., and moved upon that place, at which (here 
was no force of defense, except Capt. Means' 
irregular local cavalry. AJ1 these were captured, 
including the Captain himself, without the least 
engagement, so far as we could learn. There 
were betw een twenty and thirty in all. Simul¬ 
taneously, another body of the enemy, mounted, 
crossed the river higher up, and attacked Major 
Cole's cavalry, at Catoctin Station, about seven 
or eight miles east of Harper’s Ferry. A fight 
ensued, but with what results has not yet been 
forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania ut 15,000. 
General Franklin tendered his services to Gov. 
Curtin at Harrisburg on the 22d. 
The Washington Star of the 22d inst., contains 
intelligence that the rebels had destroyed every 
bridge ol' tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 
Harper's Ferry to Cumberland, a distance of 70 
miles. 
This bad been done in the last 36 hours 
Gcu. Kelly came up with the bridge-burners ul 
Cumberland and drove them out of that town. 
[At the time we go to press—Tuesday P. M.— 
many conflicting rumors reach us of rebel plans 
and movements, but no alarm appears to u;ani 
fesi itself among tbe authorities in w hose hands 
repose the directing power.] 
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the N. 
Y. Herald, dated 17th, states:—News from the 
advanced forces of the 4th army corps, is most 
satisfactory. Gen. Wise and his whole force 
have fled from tlie Peninsula, aud sought shelter 
on the other side of the Cbickahominy. Gen. 
Gordon’s division, which was in the advance, 
entered New Court House on the 15th inst The 
enemy made a most hasty retreat to the Chicka- 
hominy. Some skirmishing occurred between 
our advance aud scouts and the rear guard of 
the enemy. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
At the annual, meeting of the Bunker Hill 
Monument Association held at Boston, it was 
stated that of the original members of'the associa¬ 
tion when it was organized, forty years ago, but 
two now survive—Edward Everett and George 
Ticknor. 
When Gov. Curtin issued his call for troops 
for the defense of Pennsylvania, the proprietors 
of the Philadelphia Dial a daily paper, imme¬ 
diately suspended publication, and organized a 
coinpauy. Every man in the office voluntered— 
editors, printers, and all. 
The annual meeting of tho National Teacher's 
Association will be held in the city of Chicago 
commencing on Wednsday, August 5th, 1863, 
and continuing three days. The opening address 
will be delivered by the President, Hon. John 
D. Philbrick. Supt. of Schools of the city of 
Boston. 
A few days since Pemberton shoved 500 ne¬ 
groes through his lines. Grant selected the 
stoutest and best from among the number to be 
used to advantage, either with muskets or spades 
in their hands, and sent the remainder back for 
the rebels to feed, with a polite request to the 
rebel General that he should not try that game 
any more. 
One of the army correspondents of the N. Y. 
Herald say? that during the march on Monday at 
least one thousand cases of coup de soliel oeenr- 
ed among tbe soldiers, one hundred of which 
proved fatal. The tract of country where the 
Army of the Potomac is now operating, is unus¬ 
ually dry. and tlie army is suffering terribly for 
want of water. 
An English Admiral has demanded of the Jap¬ 
anese government a large indemnify and the 
surrender of the murderers of Mr. Richardson, 
failing which, France and England will declare 
war against Japan. There was at last advices, 
thirteen British war ships and the French Admi¬ 
ral's flag ship at Kanagawa. The Japanese had 
nearly all left there, and all the merchant vessels 
had been detained to take on board foreign resi¬ 
dents in case of war. 
The result of the Chicago Canal Convention, 
which was very harmonious, was the passage of 
resolutions favoring the construction and enlare- 
ment of the Canals between the Mississippi and 
the Atlantic with canals duly connecting the 
Lakes, as of great military and commercial im¬ 
portance, and the appointment of a Committee 
of one from each of the loyal States to prepare a 
memorial to the President and Congress present¬ 
ing the views of the Convention, and urging the 
passage of laws to cany them into effect 
Department of the South. 
The l. S. Transport Entilie arrived at 
Fortress Monroe on the 19th, from Newborn, 
N. C., with news to the 17th, as follows: 
A rebel Colonel on the river fortifications 
reports the Union forces in the possession of a 
belt of country 300 miles long by 150 wide. With 
inland seas and rivers filled with Union gunboats, 
reaching through North Carolina and Virginia, 
which prevents fortifications being constructed, 
the permanent secession of North Carolina and 
Virginia canuot be expected. 
The Unionists in Fast Tennessee and West 
North Carolina have organized powerful forces, 
and been joined by thousandsof deserters and con¬ 
scripts from tlie rebel anuy to whom protection is 
guaranteed, for the purpose of holding the moun¬ 
tain region against the rebel government Rebel 
citizens have petitioned Gov. Vance for protec¬ 
tion against this organization. Vance replied 
that he had no troops to send—that they must 
protect themselves. Twenty thousand insur¬ 
gents have openly offered to join the Union 
troops as soon as the military post is established 
at Raleigh. 
Blutfiton, S. C., had been destroyed by a force 
of 1,000 men from Gen. Hunter’s command, in 
connection with a naval force sent by Admiral 
Dupont. The rebel troops made several charges 
on our forces, but they were driven back by the 
shell and sclirnpnel of the Cora. McDonough. 
Blulfton being entirely destroyed, the soldiers 
re-embarked without casualties and returned to 
Ililton Head. The Admiral says that the expe¬ 
dition was a complete success, owing to the 
hearty co-operation of both branches of the ser¬ 
vice. The whole town was burned, the church 
only being spared. 
The following report was received by the 
Navy Department on the 21st inst: 
Department of the Gulf. 
But little lias transpired in this Department 
since our last issue, that lias come lo hand. 
The I Vorld's New Orleans letter of the 7th, 
states that a small body of Grierson's cavalry, 
which was sent to reoonnoitor in the vicinity of 
Clinton, came upon some 1200 of ike rebel cav¬ 
alry. It is reported that Capt. Davis and 30 men 
wore killed, 40 taken prisoners, and 60 horses 
captured by the rebels. The rest escaped and 
returned to our army. It is feared that the rebel 
cavalry would follow and make a raid on Baton 
Rouge, where our stores and army supplies are, 
and a small force has been sent there to protect 
Ihe place. 
The latest accounts from Tort Hudson repre¬ 
sent that active operations were in progress. 
The enemy’s works were being assailed with shot 
and shell, in a continuous shower, doing great 
damage to buildings and killing rebel soldiers. 
