16. Gen. Butler appointed Maj.-Gen. of Volunteers.
18. Arkansas admitted to the Southern Confederacy.
18. Military Department of Virginia organized, embracing E. Virginia, N. Carolina and Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. Butler in command.
18. John Ross, principal Cherokee Chief, in two admirable letters rejects the efforts of the rebels in Arkansas to draw his nation into rebellion.
19. Shots exchanged between U. S. steamers Freeborn and Monticello, and the rebel battery at Sewall’s Point, Va.
19. Eight thousand rebel troops at Harper’s Ferry.
20. Death of Col. Vosburgh, N. Y. 71st, at Washington.
20. Seizure by the Government of principal telegraph offices throughout the free States, and of the accumulated dispatches for twelve months.
20. Ordinance of secession, and ordinance assenting to the Confederate Constitution passed by North Carolina State Convention.
20. Seizure of 1,600 muskets and 4,000 pikes by Federal troops in Baltimore.