The national Republican., 1861-07-09
WAR ITEMS,

Major General Mccall has issued an order
directing each of the fifteen regiments of the
reserve volunteer corps of Pennsylvania to be
raised at once to the minimum army standard
of l,046 officers and men. A force of nearly
1000 will thus be added to this already large
and effective corps. ,'s. ..... '.
Twenty.three secessionists from Kanawha
Valley are held prisoners at Camp Chase as
hostages for Union men carried of by the
rebels.
Ten thousand men have been called out in
Arkansas to resist the i',uasioa Of the Federal
troops through Missouri. ~.r.
General Lyon, with two thousand men, left
Bonneville on the Sd for the Southwest.
A dispatch, dated Little Rock, Arkansas, Sd
instant, to the Memphis Appeal, says that the
military board have issued q proclamation call
ing for ten Thousand men to repsl invasion by
the Federal troops through Missouri. Each
company is to arm itself with the usual weapons
equipage, which will be paid for by the State.
Regiments are ordered to organize for imme-
diate service.
The New Orleans Picayune, Of the Sd in-
slant, says the Confederate ship Of war Sum.
ter ran the blockade on Saturday, utting 10
sea. She has crew Of sixty.6ve men and
twenty marines.
A secession dispatch, dated New Orleans, I'd
instant, says" "The enemy have seized the tel
egraphic instruments at Pass L'Outre. The
United States steamer left the bar yesterday"
A collision occurred on the Mobile and Ohio
railroad at Trenton, Tennessee, wherein two
soldiers were killed and twenty-five badly
wounded.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial re.
ports skirmish between Ex-Governor Wise
and his body.guard aud a party of Western Vir-
ginians at Sissonville, village of Kanawha
county. Ex-Governor Wise is reported to have
been mortally wounded and number of his
guard killed. The fact that o skirmish had
occurred there is believed 10 be true, but the
wounding of Wise needs confirmation.
Reliable information from Camp Ironsdale,
Tennessee, says that measles and smallpox are
prevalent among the soldiers. Every train car.
ries from twenty to thirty sick into Nashville,
and seldom train arrives without corpse or
two.
On the 4th, the morning down train from
Louisville was stopped at Richland, Tennessee,
ostensibly to await the up train. The train
was then ordered to Camp lronsdale, and there
file Of soldiers, under Major Howard, sur
rounded the train with loaded arms, and further
on, at Fountain Head, Tennessee, the up train
was met, and both trains, together with the
freight train, were sent back to Nashville.
A dispatch, not very late from Springfield,
Mo-, says: "Governor jackson will be caught
A line of troops from Rolla to Sarcoxie has
been extended, and he is at this time on the
south side of the Usage river, and near to it
probably between Stockton and Nevada. We
are in the midst of our wheat harvest, and it
will now be secured Troops from Arkansas
have not yet entered this State, and believe
will not"
A dispatch from Buckhannon, lin Western
Virginia dated the 7th, says:
Forty-five men belonging to the third Ohio
regiment, whilst on scouting expedition last
night, fell in with an ambuscade of seven hun,
dred secessionists at Middle Fork bridge, twelve
miles east of this place, and were surround
ed. After desperate fight they cut their way
through, having one killed and five wounded.
The loss of the enemy is not fully known, but
live OF their dead were found today.
Col. McCook, with the fourth and seventh
Ohio regiments, and the tenth Indiana regi'
ment under Col. Morris, with Loomis's battery
and Burdsilrs company, took possession Of
Middle Fork bridge early this morning.
General Morris has advanced from Philippa
to within one mile of Laurel Hill, Ex.Con.
gresham Garnett commands the Confederate
force there.
Gen. Mcclellan, with large force, marches
toward Laurel Hill tomorrow morning early,
A battle is anticipated within forty.eight
hours.
The tenth Ohio regiment arrived at Buck,
hannor today.