-IN the Missouri State Convention, Governor munition, over five hundred prisoners, ten thouGamble, Chairman of the Committee on Emancipation, presented the following ordinance from the majority of the committee:

Fourth. That all slaves, removed by the consent of their owners to any seceded State, after the passage of the ordinance of secession, and hereafter brought into this State by their owners, shall thereupon be free.

Fifth. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws to emancipate slaves without the consent of their owners.

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sand stand of arms, destroyed a large amount of
salt, sugar, flour, meal, saltpetre, and one saltpetre
works, and other stores. My command is much
fatigued. We have had but two nights' sleep
since leaving Williamsburgh. The force in East-
Tennessee was larger than I had supposed.
did not attack Loudon Bridge, for reasons that I
will explain. At Mossy Creek I determined to
return. In the mountains I had very great diffi-
culties that were unexpected. I found the gaps,
through which I intended to return, strongly
guarded with artillery and infantry, and block-
aded with fallen timber. A force was also fol-
lowing in our rear. I determined to cross at
Smith's Gap, which I did.”

-CHAMBERSBURGH, Pa., was reoccupied by the rebels, under General Rodes; and the National troops, commanded by General Knipe, retreated to the main body.

Circassian.-THE Fifth regiment of Massachu

-THE rebel, sloop, John Wesley, which had evaded the blockade of St. Mark's, Fla., on the A minority report was also submitted, abro-thirteenth, was captured by the Union steamer gating some clauses of the Constitution as above, declaring slavery abolished on the first of January, 1864, provided they and their issue be apprenticed to their former owners until the fourth of July, 1876; requiring the Legislature to pass laws regulating the relation between said apprentices and their masters, to secure them humane treatment, necessary education, and providing against importation or emigration of any negro or mulatto in the State. No future assessment of slave property shall be collected, nor shall the right to the services of apprentices be subject to taxation. Provisions were also made to submit the ordinance to a vote of the people.

setts volunteers, whose term of service had expired, arrived at Fortress Monroe, from Newbern, N. C., and again volunteered their services to General Dix.—THE Union gunboat Sumter was sunk off Cape Henry.-SEVERAL wagons, with ammunition, forage, and other articles belonging to the National troops, were destroyed by a party from Mosby's rebel cavalry, on the Chantilly road, near Bull Run, Va.-THE sloop Kate, from Nassau, N. P., was captured in Indian River. Fla., by the Union bark, Pursuit.

June 24.-McConnellsburgh, Pa., was occu

pied by the rebel cavalry this evening, after a short resistance by the Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry.-GREAT excitement existed at Harrisburgh, Pa., on the approach of the rebels, who were "slowly advancing on Carlisle ;" many merchants packed up their goods ready for shipment, and martial law was proposed, "to prevent all the able-bodied men from leaving the city." The Mayor issued an order, calling upon the people to stand firm, and prohibiting the sale of all liquors. THE Eleventh New-York artillery left Rochester, for Harrisburgh.

"I arrived here with my command at eleven o'clock this morning. I struck the railroad at Lenoir, destroyed the road up to Knoxville, made demonstrations against Knoxville, so as to have the troops drawn from above, destroyed the track, and started for Strawberry Plains; burnt Slate Creek Bridge, three hundred and twelve feet long, and the Strawberry Plain Bridge, one thousand six hundred feet long, and also Mossy Creek Bridge, three hundred and -SHIPPENSBURGH, Pa., was evacuated by the twenty-five feet long. I captured three pieces National troops, and immediately occupied by of artillery, some two hundred boxes artillery am-rebel cavalry.-Ar Shelbyville, Tenn., the rebels

were defeated by the National troops, under Gen- Helena Road. He made for the Tallahatchie to eral Mitchell.-(Docs. 84 and 112.)

-THE following General Orders were issued from the War Department at Washington:

I. By direction of the President, that part of the Middle Department west of Hancock, including the adjacent counties of Ohio, will constitute the Department of West-Virginia. Brigadier-General B. F. Kelley is placed in command of the Department of West-Virginia.

II. Major-General W. S. Hancock, U. S. volunteers, is, by direction of the President, assigned to the command of the Second army corps, in place of Major-General D. N. Couch, transferred to another command.

-THE rebel General R. S. Ewell, at Chambersburgh, Pa., issued the following order:

First. The sale of intoxicating liquors to this command, without written permission from a major-general, is strictly prohibited.

Second. Persons having liquor in their possession are required to report the fact to the provostmarshal, or the nearest general officer, stating the amount and kind, that a guard may be placed over it, and the men prevented from getting it. Third. Any violation of Part I. of these Orders, or failure to comply with Part II., will be punished by the immediate confiscation of all liquors in the possession of the offending parties, besides rendering their other property liable to seizure. Fourth. Citizens of the country, through which the army may pass, who are not in the military service, are admonished to abstain from all acts of hostility upon pain of being dealt with in a summary manner. A ready acquiescence to the demands of the military authorities will serve to lessen the rigors of war.

cross, and at the mouth of the Coldwater he killed fifteen or twenty of Chalmers's men, and took forty prisoners. He paroled all the sick at Panola, brought away and destroyed all the army supplies, workshops, mills, tanneries, and depots.

He passed within three miles of Austin and Commerce, destroying an immense amount of forage and subsistence, took from six to eight

hundred horses and mules, and five hundred head of cattle. He sent detachments north and all subsistence, forage, horses, and mules. He north-east, from Panola, to destroy or bring away passed through five counties, travelled two hundred miles, and crossed three streams.

Chalmers had with him Stokes's, Slemmer's, and Blythe's men, nine hundred, with three pieces of artillery. The remainder of his force, nine hundred, fled south, via Charleston, under General George. He destroyed all the ferries at Panola and Coldwater, and lost one man killed and five wounded.

-COLONEL WILDER, with his mounted infantry, had a sharp skirmish at Beech Grove, Tenn., with a body of rebel infantry, and succeeded in with a loss of forty of his own men.-(Doc. 120.) killing and disabling a large number of them,

June 25.-This afternoon, a fight occurred at Liberty Gap, Tenn., between a rebel division under General Cleburn, and the Nationals, commanded by Generals Willich, Wilder, and Carter, resulting in the rout of the rebels, who fled, leaving their dead and wounded in the hands of the Nationals. The loss of the Nationals was forty killed and one hundred wounded.—(Doc. 112.)

a rebel guerrilla party during the evening.—AN expedition under the command of Colonel S. P Spear, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, reached a point within six miles of Richmond, Va., creating a great panic in that place.-(Doc. 35.)

-THE ship Constitution, in sight of the Is-THE army of the Cumberland, excepting land of Trinidad, latitude 20° 31′, longitude 29° the division under General Van Cleve, commenced 16', was captured by the rebel privateer Geora forward movement from Murfreesboro, march-gia.-FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, Va., having been ing by the Shelbyville and Manchester Roads, and evacuated by the National troops, was occupied by skirmishes took place at Guy's, Liberty, and Hanover Gaps, Tenn.-(Docs. 37, 112, and 120.) -COLONEL J. K. MIZENER returned to La Grange, Tenn., from an extensive cavalry expedition south, from the same point, and reported as follows: He broke up the command under General George, at Panola; destroyed the railroad bridge at the Yocokaway, and the trestle-work just beyond, and a portion of the road from there north. He then crossed the Tallahatchie, coming north, and pursued Chalmers beyond Coldwater, on the -THE English steamer Britannia, was cap. VOL. VII-DIARY 2

-AN assault was made on the rebel works at

Vicksburgh, by General McPherson's corps, which ended in the capture of one of the forts.-(Doc. 36.)

tured by the Union gunboat St. Jago de Cuba, at a point one hundred and fifty miles from Abaco, having run the blockade of Charleston, South-Carolina.

June 26.-Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania, issued a proclamation, calling for sixty thousand men to serve for three months, or the period of the rebel invasion.-(Doc. 79.)

the

-BRASHEAR CITY, La., was captured by th rebel forces under Generals Green and Mouton.(Docs. 19, 26, and 80.)

-THE Twenty-first regiment of New-York militia, under the command of Colonel Nugent, left Poughkeepsie for Baltimore, Md.-THE Fifth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers returned to Boston, and were welcomed by an imposing and enthusiastic demonstration. -MCCONNELLS

BURGH, Pa., was evacuated by the rebels under

General Stuart.-REAR-ADMIRAL A. H. FOOTE died at New-York City.-By direction of President Lincoln, Major-General N. J. T. Dana was assigned to the organization and command of the

closed by order of Major-General Schenck.—MANCHESTER, Tenn., was entered and occupied by the Union forces under General J. J. Reynolds.-SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., was occupied by General Granger.-JOEL PARKER, Governor of New-Jersey, on the reception of a message from Governor Curtin, informing him of the second entrance of the rebels into Pennsylvania, renewed his call upon the citizens of the State to hold themselves in readiness for immediate service.-YORK, Pa., was occupied by the rebels under General Gordon.-(Doc. 81.)

-THE schooner Varnum H. Hill was captured by the rebel privateer Florida, in latitude 30° north, longitude 48° 50', but was released on a bond, on condition her master would take to Bermuda, the prisoners captured by the privateer, from the ships lately destroyed by her.— A SKIRMISH Occurred on the Walnut Bottom road, at a point five miles from Carlisle, near the Stone Farm, between a detail of Pennsylvania militia under Captain Murray, and a party of

militia and volunteer forces and defences of Phila-rebels, in which ten of the militia were captured delphia, Pa.-FREDERICK, Md., was occupied by the National cavalry.

and one wounded.—THE rebel schooner Archer, a tender to the privateer Tacony, entered the harbor of Portland, Me., and captured the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing.-(Doc. 21.)

June 28.-A skirmish occurred at Oyster Point, about four miles from Harrisburgh, Pa., between the rebels and the Seventy-first regiment of NewYork militia and E. Spencer Miller's Philadelphia battery, resulting in the retreat of the Union troops to the intrenchments around Harrisburgh. -THE manufacturers of Morristown, Pa., resolved

to close their works until the rebels were driven

June 27.-A squadron of Scott's Nine Hundred cavalry, under Major Remington, on their way to Centreville, Va., this morning, encountered, near Fairfax, the Sixth Virginia cavalry, and dashed at them with the sabre. The Major made two charges, and drove the rebels for three miles into a wood, and there encountered a superior force, that checked him with the fire of carbines. The fight, from the beginning to the end, was fierce. Major Remington, after having had his horse shot twice, cut his way out and made his escape with eighteen men. Eighty were reported missing. Among them were Captain Dagwell, Captain Campbell, and Lieutenant Hazleton. The companies were B and C. —CARLISLE, Pa., was abandoned by the Union forces, and soon after occupied by the rebels advancing on Gettysburgh.-A LARGE number of -THE ship City of Bath was captured by the rebel cavalry under command of Fitz-Hugh Lee, rebel pirate Georgia in latitude 20° 30′ south, made a dash into Annandale, Va., capturing sev-longitude 29° 30' west, off the Island of Trinidad. eral sutlers who were in the vicinity, and burning a number of hospital stores and sutlers'

wagons.

from the State, and raised ten thousand dollars to pay the wages of all who volunteer during their absence.-MECHANICSBURGH, Pa., was given up to the rebels this morning. On their arrival they pulled down the National flag, which was

lying in the square, and raised the rebel colors

in its stead.

-MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE GORDON MEADE assumed command of the army of the Potomac.A FIGHT took place between a regiment of Penn-THE Maryland Club-house at Baltimore, hav-sylvanians, under the command of Colonel Frick, ing "degenerated into a resort for those who are disaffected toward the Government, and hostile to its legally constituted authorities," was

and a force of rebels who were advancing on Wrightsville, opposite Columbia, Pa. After a sharp contest, Colonel Frick was obliged to retire