demonstrate that they are incapable of conduct- | this morning, giving as a reason for the act ing our cause to success.

Their superior statesmanship thus far vindicates their wisdom. We will rally as one man, the people of the Confederate States, one and all, to sustain their policy, because it has proven to be the best, the wisest, and most successful. We will listen to no mere cavil. We will not forget that the leaders of the Revolution of '76 had their rivals, even amid the storms of war. And we will remember that the patriotism of our ancestors sustained their chosen leaders, frowned down discord, and saved the cause.Nashville American, August 24.

--THIS morning James G. Berret, Esq., Mayor of the city of Washington, was arrested at his residence by a portion of the Provostmarshal's Guard, and conveyed northward by the early railroad train. The causes of his arrest are unknown to the public. Several days ago he declined to take the oath prescribed by the act of Congress for members of the Board of Police Commissioners.-Capt. Robert Tansill and Lieut. Thos. S. Wilson of the Marine Corps, who had tendered their resignations, were also arrested and conveyed to Fort Lafayette. Mrs. Phillips, wife of Philip Phillips, Esq., ex-member of Congress from Alabama, and Mrs. Greenhow, widow of the late Robert Greenhow, were arrested on the charge of holding correspondence with the Confederates.-National Intelligencer, August 26.

-LAST evening, while ex-Governor Thomas was addressing a crowd in front of a hotel at Cumberland, Va., some secessionists raised a disturbance which resulted in their being driven home and the destruction of the Alleghanian office, a secession newspaper. This morning the train bound West, which had ex-Governor Thomas aboard, when near Cumberland, came suddenly on several cross-ties thrown across the track, and at the same time a number of armed men were seen rapidly descending a neighboring hill. The engineer increased the speed of the locomotive, and succeeded in throwing the ties off the track with but little damage to the engine. Some Federal scouts then fired into the train, it is supposed by mistake, but without doing any damage. The design of the secessionists was to take ex-Governor Thomas prisoner. (Doc. 5.)

THE True American, the Democratic organ of New Jersey, published at Trenton, suspended

that the National authorities had virtually interdicted the publication of every paper that did not support the Government and Administration.-N. Y. Times, August 25.

-Two attempts were made in Connecticut to raise peace flags-one of which failed, while the other was successful. The first was at Stepney, ten miles north of Bridgeport. According to previous announcement a meeting was to have been organized after the raising of the flag. No sooner was the flag hoisted, however, than the Union men made a rush for it, pulled it down, and tore it into shreds. A Union meeting was then organized, which passed a series of Union resolutions. Soon after the Farmer newspaper office, published in Bridgeport, was demolished, notwithstanding the efforts of prominent citizens to prevent it. The other flag-raising was at New Fairfield, where about four hundred persons were engaged in the enterprise. An attempt was made by about seventy Union men to pull the flag down, and a desperate fight ensued, in which two of the "peace" men were seriously injured.-(Doc. 6.)

-TO-DAY a detachment of Col. Richardson's

Home Guards arrived at Jefferson City, Mo., from an expedition to Jamestown. This place is about twenty-three miles above Jefferson City. The soldiers left on Wednesday on board the steamer Iatan. They took no provisions with them, there being plenty of rebels in the vicinity they intended visiting, and were ordered to quarter themselves on the secessionists. At Sandy Hook they discovered eight mounted rebels on the bank, who, on seeing the steamer coming, fled. Ten men were immediately detached in pursuit of them, and, coming within sight of the rebels, fired. Two of them immediately dismounted and, leaving their horses, escaped into the woods— the horses and two fine double-barrel shot-guns were captured, and a lieutenant's uniform fell also into the hands of the Nationals.

One of the horses had a sabre cut across the head, and the rider was known to have been engaged in the battle at Springfield. Meanwhile, the balance of the force were marched to Jamestown. About four miles from Sandy Hook they arrested two of the most noted secessionists in the whole State, George Jones and C. Hickox, besides seven other of lesser

note. From the first-mentioned, who is a wealthy farmer, the troops took ten horses, and plenty of fodder and provisions from all the rebels in the vicinity. They returned with twenty horses and a considerable quantity of provisions and nine prisoners. One of the prisoners, put on a confession, divulged the names of all the men, eighteen in number, who fired the other day with such fatal effect

upon the railroad trains. Jones was the President of the Knights of the Golden Circle. The

property of the Union men was left untouched.

-Dubuque Times, August 27.

-HAMILTON R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri, at Jefferson City, issued a proclamation calling for forty-two thousand troops to aid the Federal Government in expelling the forces of Ben McCulloch from the State.-(Doc. 7.)

-THE Memphis Argus of this day publishes the following proclamation from the Mayor of that city:

"To the Citizens of Memphis: Applications have repeatedly been made to me, as executive officer of the city, for protection against indiscreet parties who are sent out to impress citizens into service against their will on steamboats. Many of these men have been dragged from their beds, wives, and children, but never has there been a man taken who had on a clean shirt. I hereby notify any citizen who may wish a pass within the city of Memphis to call on me, and I will furnish the same, and will see he will be protected. One poor man being shot yesterday by one of these outlaws, as they may be called, causes me to give the above notice.

"JOHN PARK, Mayor."

conveyed to Moyamensing prison in charge of the officers.-N. Y. Commercial, August 26.

-ALL the large craft, schooners, and sloops, and small rowboats and skiffs on the Potomac River, were seized by the Government authorities.-N. Y. Herald, August 27.

-A UNION man named Moore was killed, and another named Neill mortally wounded, this afternoon, by a gang of five secessionists, at

Shotwell Toll-gate, Ky., seven miles from Covington. Both men were stabbed in the back.

A party of Unionists gave pursuit to the mur

derers, who fled toward the Tennessee line.→ N. Y. Times, August 27.

--WM. HALSEY, hailing from Ithaca, N. Y., was waited upon by a party of citizens at his hotel, in Scranton, Pa., and requested to leave town in three hours, or accept the alternative of riding out on a rail. He had given provocation beyond endurance, by endeavoring to induce parties to take the New York Day Book, and by uttering the rankest treason. He left precipitately.-N. Y. Times, August 27.

-WILLIAM B. TAYLOR, the Postmaster of New York, received orders from Washington that no more copies of the Journal of Commerce, the News, the Freeman's Journal, or the Brooklyn Eagle, should be sent through the mails.-N. Y. Times, August 26.

-EGBERT L. VIELE, late Captain of the Engineer corps of the Seventh regiment, received his commission as Brigadier-General in the regular army. General Viele is a graduate of West Point, and served through the Mexican war, but of late years has been engaged in civil life as an engineer.-N. Y. Commercial, Aug. 26.

August 26.-The Eighteenth regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command of Colonel James Barnes, of Springfield, left their camp at Readville, near Dedham, this

August 25.-This evening, Mr. William S. Johnston, a nephew of the rebel general of that name, and grandson of Mrs. Henry Gilpin, of Philadelphia, was arrested in that city as he was about leaving for the South. Mr. John-afternoon for the seat of war. The regiment ston made no resistance whatever, and was numbers eight hundred and seventy men, but taken to the Central station, accompanied by will be recruited to one thousand and forty some friends, among whom was Townsend within a few weeks. They are uniformed in Ward, of Philadelphia. A strict examination the conventional blue and gray of Massachuof his effects was made by the District Attor-setts, armed with Springfield muskets of 1842, ney. In his trunk was found a large number and fully equipped. They have camp equipage, of papers addressed to prominent Southern company wagons and ambulances, and sixty citizens, and a map of the seat of war in Vir- horses, a band of twenty-five pieces enlisted for ginia. His commission, however, was not the war, twenty-five thousand rounds of ball discovered. After his examination, Mr. John-cartridges, and twenty-five thousand rounds of ston bade farewell to his friends, and was buckshot, and, in fact, all the paraphernalia of

war ready to fit them for immediate service in | dred were missing, out of nine hundred enthe field.

one.

gaged. The rebel loss was fearful. Lieut.-Col. Creighton captured the rebels' colors and two prisoners. The following is a list of national officers known to be killed: Captain Dyer, Company D, of Painesville; Captain Shurtleff, Com

I; Adjutant Deforest, of Cleveland; Lieutenant
Charles Warrent; Sergeant-Major King, of
Warren. The field-officers are all safe.

Of the officers, many are specially qualified for their positions. Col. Barnes is distinguished for having been in the same class with Jeff. Davis, at West Point, graduating A one, when Jeff. was No. twenty-seven, in a class of thirty-pany C, of Oberlin; Captain Sterling, Company Lieut.-Col. Ingraham was in the Massachusetts Fourth, stationed at Fortress Monroe. Major Hayes is a graduate of Harvard College, and quite popular. Adjutant Hodge was an officer of the Massachusetts Fifth, and distinguished himself at Bull Run, saving the life of Col. Lawrence. Surgeon Smith was educated in Paris, and was connected with Major Cobb's battery. Other officers of the regiment have seen active service. Most of the men are farmers and mechanics, of moderate means, excellent health, and unwavering devotion to the cause of the Union.-N. Y. Times, August 28.

-A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives an extended account of a visit of the privateer "Sumter" to Puerto Cabello, together with a copy of a letter from Raphael Semmes, her commander, to the governor of that place.-(Doc. 9.)

-A BATTLE Occurred at Summersville,* in

Western Virginia, this morning. The Seventh Ohio regiment, Colonel Tyler, was surrounded whilst at breakfast, and attacked on both flanks and in the front simultaneously. The national forces immediately formed for battle and fought bravely, though they saw but little chance of The rebels proving too powerful, Col. Tyler sent forward to the baggage train, which was coming up three miles distant, and turned it back toward Gauley Bridge, which place it reached in safety.

success.

-THE Twenty-fifth regiment of Indiana Volunteers left Evansville for St. Louis, Mo.Louisville Journal, August 28.

-HENRY WILSON, Senator from Massachusetts, was commissioned to organize a regiment of infantry, with a battery of artillery and a company of sharpshooters attached. In his call he asks the loyal young men of Massachu setts, who fully comprehend the magnitude of the contest for the unity and existence of the Republic, and the preservation of Democratic institutions in America, to inscribe their names upon the rolls of his regiment, and to leave their homes and their loved ones, and follow our flag to the field.

-THE War Department issued an important order, prohibiting all communication, verbally or by printing or telegraph, respecting the operations of military movements, either by land or sea, or relating to the troops, camps, arsenals, intrenchments, or military affairs, within any of the military districts, by which information shall be given to the enemy, under the penalty prescribed by the Fifty-seventh Article of War, which is death, or such other punishment as a court-martial shall impose.-(Doc. 11.)

-THE Postmaster-General of the United

States, acting under the proclamation of the President interdicting commercial intercourse with the seceded States, directed the postal agents of the Government to put an end to transmission of letters to the seced States, by the arrest of any express agent or other per

Companies B, C, and I suffered most severely. They particularly were in the hottest of the fight, and finally fought their way, through fearful odds, making great havoc in the enemy's forces. The rebel force consisted of three thousand infantry, four hundred cavalry, and ten guns. The Union forces scattered, after cutting their way through the enemy, but soon formed again and fired, but received no reply or pursuit from the enemy. Not over two hun-mand of the United States naval forces on the Western waters-namely, the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers.-N. Y. Herald, August 27.

Summersville is the county-seat of Nicholas County, the next east of Kanawha County, and is about fifty miles from Charleston, the central position of the Kanawha Valley. It is about twenty five miles from Gauley Bridge, and up the Gauley River.

sons who shall hereafter receive letters to be carried to or from those States.-(Doc. 12.)

-CAPTAIN FOOTE was ordered to the com

—A naval and military expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe, under the joint command

of Commodore Stringham and Major-General | dy-the person arrested being Samuel J. AnButler. It consisted of the frigates Minnesota derson. He has carried on a very extensive and Wabash, the sloop-of-war Pawnee, gun-correspondence with Vice-President Stephens boats Monticello, Harriet Lane, and Quaker of the Southern Confederacy, and has been City, with numerous transports.-See Aug. 29. in constant communication with the secession For the last —A CAMP of instruction at Scarsdale, West- sympathizers in New York. six weeks, according to his own confession, chester County, N. Y., was opened under command of Brigadier-General E. L. Viele. The he has been contributing editorial articles for The Daily News, Day Book, and Journal of camp is about seventy acres in extent, situated on an upland which gradually slopes toward Commerce. An intercepted letter from Washthe Bronx River, where there is excellent bath- ington advised him to go south via Kentucky, as a passport could not be obtained from the ing. All regiments and companies recruited, Government. Anderson's correspondence gives and not imperatively needed at Washington, as fast as they are sworn in, will be sent to this a great deal of important political information, besides implicating parties well known in New camp, and there subjected to the most thorough York.-N. Y. Tribune, August 28. drill and discipline. General Viele has adopted -THE First regiment U. S. Chasseurs, under stringent and wholesome regulations for the government of his camp. All officers are re-the command of Colonel John Cochrane, left This regiquired to stay in camp, and put up with soldier's New York for the seat of war. fare, instead of dissipating their time in the ment numbers eight hundred and fifty men, and city. No officer will be allowed to wear the will be armed with the Enfield rifle. insignia of rank until he is sworn in. All the other rules in use among the regular service, for the government of camps, will be enforced at Scarsdale. The name of the new encampment is "Camp Howe."-N. Y. Commercial, August 27.

-COLONEL JONES, of the Fourth Alabama regiment, died at Orange Court House, Va., from wounds received in the battle of Bull Run.

-JOSEPH HOLT made a Union speech at Boston, Mass., to-day, in the course of which he said he nowhere heard the word compromise, which was now only uttered by traitors. So long as rebels had arms in their hands there was nothing to compromise. He concluded by saying that it was in vain to toil at the pumps while men were kept on board boring holes in the bottom of the ship.-Boston Post, Aug. 28.

-A CORRESPONDENCE between the President of the United States and Beriah Magoffin, governor of Kentucky, respecting the neutrality of that State during the present crisis, was made public.-(Doc. 13.)

August 27.-Colonel Hoffman, of the Twentythird New York (Elmira) regiment, with Captain Dinglee's company and one other, started this afternoon to the vicinity of Ball's Cross Roads, for the protection of the Federal pickets in that locality. Near Ball's Cross Roads they August 28.-A party of National troops unencountered about six hundred secessionists, when a volley was exchanged. The two Fed-der the command of Capt. Smith, detailed on the 24th ult. to break up a force of secessioneral companies retired, in presence of the superior force, in excellent order. About thirty ists at Wayne Court House, Va., returned to rounds were exchanged, and Carrol, of Camp Pierpont, at Ceredo, having been suoElmira, was killed by a shot from the rebels. cessful in their expedition.-(Doc. 14.) He was a young man, and was very popular with his regiment. Another of the national troops was wounded in the neck, and had a finger shot off. Whether the Confederates suffered any loss is not known. The nationals and the pickets fell back to the camp, about half a mile beyond Arlington.-National Intelligencer, August 29.

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN to-day appointed as aides-de-camp to Gen. Wool, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., and Legrand B. Cannon of New York, each with the rank of Major, and William Jay, of Bedford, N. Y., with the rank of Captain. These appointments were made at Gen. Wool's request, and the official notification from the War Department instructs the aids to -AN important arrest was made in New immediately report to him in person.-N. Y. York at the instance of Superintendent Kenne-Tribune, August 29.