of the power, the prowess, and the resources of the people who have been stigmatized as the 'ruffian rebels of the South.' We went into the war on principle. Let us come out on principle, but not until we have left a mark upon our enemies that will secure for us for all time to come the respect of the world.

"The hundred thousand men we have in the field will not be content to lay down their arms in peace until they have struck a blow that shall quiver through the North; and unless this bo done, the millions they have left behind them will have their 'welcome home' alloyed by the thought that their husbands, sons, and brothers have returned without teaching that lesson of humiliation to an insolent foe, which, next to the Lord's Prayer, has been the uppermost desire in every southern heart.

"In a civil point of view, as rapidly as circumstances will permit, the wheels of government are being geared and the machinery set in motion. The old adage that 'large bodies move slowly,' meets its falsification every hour. The operations of the various departments are in full blast, and from the President down to the errand boy, every man moves as if he was a confederation of steel springs. Nor is this activity confined alone to the government. Artisans and merchants have all the work they can do in supplying the demands upon their several vocations incident to the presence of an army

of needful soldiers.

"Blacksmiths are fabricating bowie knives; machinists are making arms and altering flint to percussion locks; millers are turning out flour; bakers are kneading bread by the ton, while butchers, grocers, and caterers generally are beleaguered day and night to supply the wants of the augmented population. Clothing, shoes, accoutrements, and camp equipage-all find ready sale. The frequent arrivals here of poorly uniformed companies keep the ladies likewise up to their elbows in business."

July 1.-General Banks issued a proclamation announcing the arrest of Charles Howard, William Getchell, John Hincks, and John W. Davis, late members of the police board of Baltimore, and giving his reasons therefor.(Doc. 62.)

-This afternoon Lieutenant Yelverton and eighteen men of the Seventh New York Volunteers, made a reconnoissance from Newport News, Va., up the James River road to within

a mile and a half of Great Bethel. At that point they came upon five of the rebel pickets, who precipitately fled, leaving behind, with other trophies, their hats and coats, which showed that the owners were officers. In the pockets of the latter were several letters just finished, giving a complete account of the late advance of 2,800 men from Yorktown to attack Newport News. One of an amusing character from the pocket of James Steele, bookseller, Richmond, describes the federal troops as a set of baboons, to be speedily driven from the sacred soil of Virginia.-N. Y. Evening Post, July 3.

-EDWARD CLARK, the Governor of Texas, issued a proclamation, in which he said: "It will also be treasonable for any citizen of Texas to pay any debts now owing by him

to a citizen of either of the States or Territories now at war with the Confederate States of America."-National Intelligencer, July 3.

-FIFTY Home Guards under Captain Cook, from De Soto and Hopewell, Mo., proceeded last night by rail to Irondale, where they arrived this morning at 9 o'clock, and marched towards Farmington in search of contraband arms, &c., reported to be in the neighborhood of that place. They passed through Farmington about three miles eastward towards the river, but finding nothing, were returning home, when about six miles west of Farmington, they were attacked by a body of some 250 to 300 well armed and mounted secessionists, who were in ambush. Their fire was returned by the Home Guards, mortally wounding Wm. Hunter, one of the secession leaders. The Home Guards returned to De Soto without the loss of a man or a gun.

The rebels in that section are in possession of artillery, and gathered their clan by the discharge of their cannon, and were rallying all their forces in anticipation of the return of the Home Guards. The brave 300 were concealed in the brush, and fired upon the Home Guards in an open field.—Missouri Democrat, July 3.

-THE marine artillery of the First Rhode Island Regiment left Washington, at night, by rail; destination unknown.-The Third Massachusetts Regiment moved from the encampment within Fortress Monroe, to occupy a position between Hampton and Newmarket Bridge. Col. McChesney's Regiment (N. Y.) took the place of the Third Massachusetts.-N. Y. World, July 3.