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ey have captured Canton, Mo., and a quantity of arms. They are also reported to have a Federal force surrounded at Bloomfield, Missouri. The Governor of New York is to issue his proclamation for drafting in a few days. Among those killed in McClellan's camp by the artillery attack was one of the provost guard at the Selden Mansion. The Confederate firing was too high to do much damage. The Northern account of the attack on the Arkansas acknowledges it to have been a dead failure. Lieut. Col. Ellett himself volunteered to run into her with the ram "Queen," with a picked crew. He kept his word, and got his ship torn all to pieces, not having even dinted the iron plating of his antagonist. The failure has caused much bitter recrimination among the Commodores of the fleet. The Bayonet vote in Baltimore. The election for the second branch of the City Council took place in Baltimore on the 1st. There were only 5,000 (! !) votes polled, and of course the Federal had it all the