5. Skirmish at Athens, Mo. 300 Home Guards, under Col. Moore, defeated a force of 1000 rebels, killing 23 and wounding 50. 10 Federals killed and 10 wounded. 5 wagon loads of supplies and 40 horses were captured by the Guards.
5. Election in Kentucky for members of the Legislature, the returns showing a large Union majority.
6. Adjournment sine die of Special Congress at Washington.
7. The village of Hampton, Va., was burned by rebel forces under Gen. Magruder. They were prevented from burning the bridge by skirmishers of Max Weber’s New York regiment.
7· The privateer York was burned by gunboat Union, which also recaptured the schooner G. V. Baker.
8. Rebel cavalry routed at Lorrettsville, Va., with loss of 1 killed and 5 wounded, by 100 men of 19th N. Y., under Capt. Kennedy.
8. Messrs. Breckinridge and Vallandigham partook of a banquet at the Eutaw House, Baltimore. Mr. Breckinridge, in an attempt to address the people, was prevented by popular clamor.
9. Skirmish at Potosi, Mo. Rebels driven off with loss of 2 killed, 3 wounded.
10. Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Mo. The Federal army under Gen. Lyon, 5,200 men, was defeated by the combined forces of Gens. Price and McCulloch, 20,000. Gen. Lyon was killed. Federal loss, 223 killed, 721 wounded, 292 missing. Rebel loss, (McCulloch’s report,) 265 killed, 800 wounded, 30 missing; Price’s report of Missouri troops, 156 killed, 517 wounded.
12. “Bangor (Me.) Democrat” office destroyed by a mob.