18. Surprise of 800 Union Home Guards under Capt. Cook, at Camp Cole, Mo., by rebels from Warsaw. 25 killed, 52 wounded, 23 prisoners: 45 of the enemy killed or wounded.
18. Thirty-five rebels, with arms and ammunition, captured at Liberty, Mo., by U.S. regulars from Kansas City.
18. Railway bridge over New Creek, Va., burned by rebels from Romney.
20. Senator Lane, of Kansas, appointed brigadier-general.
20. Gen. McClellan took command of the Federal army in Western Virginia.
20. Cornelius Vanderbilt offered all the steamships of the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company, for the service of the Government.
21. East Tennessee Union Convention held at Greenville.
22. The exequator of Mr. Trappman, Prussian Consul at Charleston, revoked by the President, for complicity with the rebels.
23. Balloon observations by Prof. Lowe, at Falls Church, Va.
23. Forty-eight locomotives, and a large quantity of other railway property of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, destroyed by rebels at Martinsburgh, Va.