ss 6-pdr cannon (mounted,) 5; brass 12-pdr howitzer, (not mounted,) 1; brass (mounted) mountain howitzer, 3; iron 12-pdr cannon, (mounted,) 8; iron 6-pdr cannon, (mounted,) 26; iron 4-pdr cannon, (mounted,) 13; iron 6-pdr cannon, (without limbers,) 5; iron 4-pdr rifled cannon, (without limbers,) 1; iron 6-pdr cannon, (not mounted,) 12; iron 4-pdr rifled cannon, (not mounted,) 4; Williams guns, 10; caissons, 6-pdr, 6;muskets, altered percussion, in good order, 1,735; muskets, Springfield, 300; Reed's rifles, (cavalry,) 400; rifles, 220; rifles, Austria, 200; rifles, Mississippian, 20; carbines, (cavalry,) 103; sabres, (cavalry,) 225; muskets being repaired, 4,000; muskets without bayonets, 1,110. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Chas. Dimmock, Brev. Brig. Gen., Chief of Ordnance of Va.
The message and accompanying documents were, on motion of Mr. Buford, laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.
The Militia bill was then taken up and discussed until a
ing Confederate raid — capture of a New York steamer — she is Run off.
They are having a terrible excitement in New York.
The steamer Chesapeake, Capt. Willetts, which left New York Saturday evening for Portland, Me., was captured twenty miles North of Cape Cod Monday morning, about 1 o'clock, by Confederates in disguise, who had taken passage on her. She is a splendid steamer of 460 tons burthen, and carries two guns.
She is very fast, and is the same vessel that chased and captured Lt. Reed, of the Tacony, who had captured the revenue cutter Cushing.
A telegram from St. Johns, N. B., says:
The steamer Chesapeake, Capt. Willetts, from New York for Portland, Me., was taken possession of on Sunday morning last, between 1 and 2 o'clk, by sixteen rebel passengers.
The second engineer of the steamer was shot dead and his body thrown overboard.
The first engineer was shot in the chin, but was retained on board.
The first mate was badly wounded in the groin.
Eleven or twelv
F G Gibson, Fluvanna, two fingers amputated and in leg very badly; Hagan, Essex, badly in leg; M Marshall, Vicksburg, Miss, badly in knee; P W Woodill, New Orleans, slightly in leg.
company C.--wounded Capt a G bill, severely in head; Lieut S S Shrivar, Whealing, Va., slightly in arm; Serg't J a Stuart Augusta; slightly in leg; Serg't L E H F Wise, Norfolk, slightly in arm; W Jones, Bedford, badly bruised; J L Merritt, Brunswick, badly in abdomen; G H Randolph, Fauquier, badly in head; C H Reed, Richmond, slightly in head; C D Walker, Richmond badly in shoulder; Jas Wheelwright, Westmoreland, badly in breast
company D.--killed; Serg't W H Cabell, Richmond; J K Jones, King William; C Crockett, Wytheville.
Wounded: Corp'l J nick, Norfolk, slightly in head; Corp'l J R Triplett, Steam and, slightly in arm; S D Moorman, Campbell, badly in arm; Ed Berkeley, London, slightly in head; W Dillard, Amherst, badly in head; G L Garnett, Essex, slightly in leg; Irwin Dickinson, Prince Edward.