12. Skirmish of Gen. Kelly’s pickets near Romney, Va., losing 2 killed and several wounded. 12 rebels taken prisoners.
13. Rebel Gen. Zollicoffer retreated from Cumberland Ford to Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
14. The privateer schooner Neva, from China, was seized at San Francisco, Cal., by Capt. Pease, of U. S. cutter Mary.
14. Lieut. J. H. Rigby, with 20 men of the Gist Artillery, on an expedition from Salisbury, Md., to Wilmington and Newcastle, Md., seized 3 brass 6-pounders and 100 muskets, in possession of secessionists in those places.
14. The Gov. of Florida, by proclamation, forbade the enlistment of citizens of that State to serve in any other portion of the Confederacy.
14. $30,000 had been raised by Southern people for the widow of “the martyr Jackson,” who killed Col. Ellsworth, at Alexandria, Va.
14. Gen. Benham, in pursuit of the army of Gen. Floyd, in W. Va., overtook the rear guard near McCoy’s Mills, and defeated it, killing 15 rebels, among them Col. Croghan. Floyd, in his retreat, destroyed 200 of his tents, and lost 10 wagon loads of ammunition and arms.
14. Fast day was observed in the rebel States.
14. Steamship Champion arrived at New York from Aspinwall, bringing Gen. Sumner and several companies of regular soldiers from San Francisco, having under arrest ex-Senators Gwin and Brent, and C. Benham, late Attorney General of California, charged with complicity with the rebels.
16. A party of 57 of the N. Y. 30th, attached to Gen. Keyes’ brigade on the Potomac, while out foraging west of Upton’s Hill, Va., were betrayed and surrounded by 200 rebel cavalry, and one-half their number, with the teams and wagons, captured.