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t Catlett's Station. Bombardment of Galveston. The National gunboat Hatteras sunk by the Alabama on the coast of Texas.—11. General Weitzel destroyed the Confederate gunboat Cotton on the Bayou Teche.—12. Jefferson Davis recommends the Confederate Congress to adopt retaliatory measures against the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation.—13. Peace resolutions introduced into the New Jersey legislature. Several boats carrying wounded Union soldiers destroyed by the Confederates at Harpeth Shoals, on the Cumberland River. Confederate steamer Oreto (afterwards the Florida) runs the blockade at Mobile.— 15. National gunboat Columbia, stranded at. Masonboro Inlet, N. C., burned by the Confederates. Mound City, Ark., burned by National troops.—17. Confederate cruiser Oreto destroyed the brig Estelle. Congress resolved to issue $100,000,000 in United States notes.—20. General Hunter assumes command of the Department of the South.—22. Gen. Fitz-John Porter dismissed from th