-Ar Richmond, Va., Judge Meredith of the Circuit Court, decided in a habeas corpus case, that every citizen of Maryland, and every foreigner who had enlisted in the rebel army, no matter for how short a period, had acquired a domicile, and therefore was liable to conscription between the ages of eighteen and forty-five.-Richmond Examiner. -A BODY of seven hundred rebel guerrilla get rid of Yankee promises to pay! This is one cavalry, under the leadership of Colonel Leroy of the best signs of the times." Cluke, made a thieving expedition into Kentucky. They first went to Winchester, thence to Mount Sterling, Straw Hill, and Hazel Green, robbing and destroying property of every description. A large amount of government property was destroyed at Paris, in order to prevent it from falling into the hands of the rebels. They were pursued by a detachment of National troops, under the command of Colonel B. P. Runkle, but the rebels, though superior in numbers to the Union force, preferred the business of robbing to that of fighting, and continued to retreat from place to place, until they finally got away with a large amount of property, and a great number of horses. -GOVERNOR BROWN, of Georgia, issued an order compelling all the militia officers of that State, except those already tendered and accepted by General Beauregard, "to repair forthwith, without hesitation or delay, to the city of Savannah, and report to General Beauregard, to be organized under his direction into companies, for duty in the defence of that city." a -THE steamer Belle, of Memphis, while lying at Cottonwood Landing, Tenn., was boarded by party of rebel guerrillas who attempted to capture her, but they were beaten off by the passengers and crew, and the boat escaped. In the fight, one Union man was wounded, and one of the guerrillas was killed.--Philadelphia Inquirer. February 25.—The act for "enrolling and calling out the National forces, and for other purposes," passed the United States House of Representatives by a vote of one hundred and fifteen yeas to fifty-nine nays.-About noon to-day, Stuart's rebel cavalry made an attack on a portion of General Averill's division of cavalry, near Hartwood Church, Va., when a fight ensued which terminated in the repulse and rout of the rebels with a loss of one captain, a lieutenant and several privates. General Averill pursued them to Kelly's Ford, but they succeeded in crossing the river before he arrived.-Philadelphia Inquirer. -Ax expedition, consisting of a force of Union troops, under the command of General Rose, left Moon Lake on board several steamers, under Lieutenant Commanding Smith, and proceeded up Yazoo Pass. THE rebels under Cluke, in their raid through Kentucky, were overtaken at Licktown, twelve miles east of Mount Sterling, and dispersed.--The British steamer Peterhoff, was captured off St. Thomas, W. I., by the United States gunboat Vanderbilt, and sent to Key West, Fla., for adjudication.-The bakers in Charleston, S. C., advanced the price of bread to twenty-five cents for a half-pound loaf. Flour sold at sixty-five dol February 24.-The United States steamer Indianola, under the command of Lieutenant George Brown, was this day captured in the Mississippi River, near Grand Gulf, after an engagement lasting one hour and a half, by the rebel iron-clad steamers Queen of the West and William H. Webb, and the armed steamers Doc- | lars a barrel.-Charleston Courier. tor Batey and Grand Duke.-(Doc. 124.) wounded on each side, they retired, capturing a cavalry picket of twelve men. This morning, five February 26.-Yesterday, a rebel cavalry -THE steamer Hetty Gilmore, was captured scout, eighty strong, came inside the National and destroyed by the rebels under the command pickets on the Strasburgh road, Va. After a skirof W. C. P. Breckenridge, at Woodbury, Tenn.-mish with infantry pickets, in which two were The Savannah News of this date said: "There seems to be now a great rage for investing in confederate bonds. Every body is buying bonds-hundred of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania and that is, every body who has treasury notes First New-York cavalry sent in pursuit, recap wherewith to buy. How great the contrast! tured, beyond Strasburgh, most of the prisoners Here our people are seeking confederate govern- and horses, and also took a number of prisoners. ment paper. In Lincolndom every body is avoid- The commander of the Union detachment, exing government paper, and paying enormous ceeding his orders, pursued them beyond Woodprices for every article which will enable them to stock. After driving in the rebel pickets, he stood parleying in the road, without guarding after the first fire, with a loss of three of their against surprise. The enemy returned in force, charged upon and threw them into confusion, killing and capturing two hundred.-See Supple ment. -THE National Council of the Cherokee Indians adjourned this day, having repealed the ordinance of secession passed in 1861. They also passed an act depriving of office in the nation, and disqualifying all who continued disloyal to the Government of the United States; and also an act abolishing slavery. The yacht Anna was captured in the Suwanee River, Ga., by the National steamer Fort Henry.--New-York Journal of Commerce. -A VERY large and enthusiastic meeting of the people of Indiana was this day held at Indianapolis, the capital of the State. Loyal and patriotic resolutions were adopted, and speeches were made by Governor Wright, Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, General S. F. Carey, of Ohio, T. Buchanan Read, of Pennsylvania, Charles W. Cathcart, Charles Case, and others. number killed and forty-eight taken prisoners, including a commissioned officer. The National party had none killed, and only one man wounded. February 28.-General R. E. Lee, commanding the rebel army in Virginia, issued an order reviewing its operations for the year 1862.-(Doc. 126.) -THE armed rebel steamer Nashville, while aground under the guns of Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River, Ga., was this day destroyed by the United States gunboat Montauk, under the command of Captain J. L. Worden.— (Doc. 127.) March 1.-A scouting-party of Union troops, under the command of Adjutant Poole, made a dash into Bloomfield, Mo., early this morning, and killed the rebel recruiting officer, Lieutenant Brazeau, captured the Provost-Marshal, with all his papers, twenty rebel guerrilla prisoners, a number of fire-arms, and a quantity of ammunition.-Missouri Democrat. -THE English steamer Queen of the Wave stranded while endeavoring to run into Georgetown, S. C., and soon after was taken possession of by the crew of the United States gunboat Conemaugh.-Fifty men of the First Vermont cavalry, under Captains Wood and Huntoon, were surprised by a party of rebels at Aldie, Va. -TO-DAY a fight took place in the vicinity of Bradyville, Tenn., between an expeditionary force of Union troops under General Stanley, and a body of rebel guerrillas under Colonel Duke, in which, after a stubborn resistance of twenty minutes, the latter were routed with great loss.— (Doc. 128.) -A FREIGHT train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, laden with merchandise belonging to private individuals, and a quantity of Government stores, and two hundred and forty mules, were this day captured near Woodburn, Tenn., by a party of rebel guerrillas. After driving off the mules and rifling the cars of their contents, they set fire to and totally destroyed them; they then raised steam upon the locomotive to its fullest height, and started it along the road at the top of its speed, hoping that it would encounter the passenger train coming from Nashville. The locomotive drove along the track through Franklin, and passed other stations at a fearful rate of speed, but the supply of steam was finally exhausted, and the machine came to a full stop, without March 2.-The brigade of regulars from General Rosecrans's division went out on a foraging doing any harm. expedition from Murfreesboro, Tenn., this mornFebruary 27.Jefferson Davis issued a procla-ing, and encountered the rebels posted in force, mation to the people of the States in rebellion, appointing the twenty-seventh of March as a day of fasting and prayer.-General John Cochrane resigned his command in the United States army of the Potomac, and issued a farewell address to the soldiers of his late brigade. -A SKIRMISH took place at a point fifteen miles from Newbern, N. C., between a detachment of Mix's New-York cavalry, under the command of Captain Jacobs, and a strong scouting-party of rebel infantry, in which the latter were routed about sixteen miles distant on the Salem Pike. The Union forces consisted of one battalion of the Fifteenth infantry, Captain Keteltas; one battalion of the Sixteenth, Captain Crofton; two battalions of the Eighteenth, Captains Douglas and Fetterman; and one battalion of the Nineteenth- the whole under command of Colonel Shepherd, Fifteenth United States infantry. A section of Guenther's battery accompanied the infantry. The expedition moved out from Murfreesboro at seven A.M., and proceeded without inter place this day, by Major-Generals Withers and Buckner, and Brigadier-Generals Slaughter and Cummins. After the review, four pieces of artillery captured at Murfreesboro, were presented by General Withers, on behalf of the Alabamians and Tennesseeans in the army of the Tennessee, to the army of Mobile. Each piece was inscribed with the names of Alabamians who fell in that battle.-Mobile Advertiser. ruption to the vicinity of Eagleville. Here it was under the command of Captain Drayton; but, ascertained that a strong body of the rebel cav-after an almost incessant fire of eight hours' dualry were awaiting the National approach. Colonel ration, they failed to reduce it.-(Doc. 129.) Shepherd instantly ordered his force to take the -JOHN MAGINNIS, late editor of the New-Orproper positions, and, with a strong line of skir-leans True Delta, died this day.-A grand remishers thrown to front and flank, advanced view of the rebel forces at Mobile, Ala., took steadily and cautiously upon the rebel position. In a few moments the National skirmishers engaged the enemy's outposts, and immediately thereafter the rebels moved quickly to the front and advanced across the front line of the skirmishers. A hot engagement ensued, and lasted for about ten minutes, when the enemy, unable to endure the galling fire of the regulars, broke and fled. They were shortly afterward got into a second line of battle, and, with heavy reën forcements, ventured a movement on the Union right, with the evident intention of assailing them for saying in the presence of officers and civilby flank and rear. This design also failed, and the ians, "I have no confidence in General Hooker. National forces repulsed the assailants a second Burnside was stuck in the mud, and he will be time. They did not again make a stand, but stuck worse;" and also for publicly declaring: made a hurried retreat, even leaving behind their "I want to get out of the service. I don't bedead, of whom there were several. The Union-lieve we will succeed. I am dissatisfied generists took no prisoners, but the enemy loss in ally. Nobody but McClellan can command this killed and wounded was considerable.—Chicago army."-New-York Tribune. Times. - A UNION Club was organized in Boston, Mass., and Edward Everett was elected to its presidency.—A slight cavalry fight took place near Petersburgh, Tenn., between a party of rebels and bushwhackers, and two hundred loyal Tennesseeans, under the command of LieutenantColonel Brownlow, in which the rebels were routed, with twelve killed and twenty wounded.Captain Schultze, with a company of Union cavalry, surprised Mosby's rebel guerrillas at a point near Aldie, Va., and succeeded in capturing thirty of them, without any loss on the National side. THIRTY-THREE commissioned officers of the United States army having been found guilty of various charges by general Court-Martial, the details of the several cases being contained in General Orders No. 13, dated February eighteenth, 1863, and the sentence having been approved by the Commanding General, were this day dismissed the service. Four guerrillas were captured at the house of one - Lisle, on the Nashville turnpike, three miles from Russellville, Ky.-Union meetings were held at Harrodsburgh, Lebanon, and Taylorsville, Ky.-Louisville Journal. March 3.-Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River, Ga., was this day bombarded by a -FIRST LIEUTENANT GILBERT S. LAWRENCE was dismissed the service of the United States -THE schooner Kingfisher was captured and burned by the rebel privateer Alabama in latitude 1° 20', longitude 26° 20′.-The Spanish sloop Relampago was captured at Charlotte HarJames S. Chambers.-The Southern Union, a bor, Fla., by the National blockading schooner, journal published in Georgia, having proposed to reconstruct the old Union of the States, was reprimanded by the Atlanta Confederacy, which asserted that "there are fewer abolitionists in Massachusetts than reconstructionists in Georgia." March 4.-The First East-Tennessee cavalry, Colonel Johnson, had a fight with a party of rebels led by Colonel Rogers, at a point on Harpeth River, near Chapel Hill, Tenn.; killed twelve, and captured seventy-two of the rebels, with all their horses and accoutrements. Majors Burkhart and Macy were in command of the National cavalry, all of whom passed through the engagement without injury.-The Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States terminated.-The sloop Ida was captured near Charlotte Harbor, Fla., by the blockading schooner James S. Chambers.-The Second New-Hampshire regiment returned to Concord. -A SKIRMISH took place at Skeet, N. C., befleet of iron-clad monitors and mortar-schooners, tween a scouting detachment of National troops under the command of Captain Richardson, of tion's liberty. Every acre of cotton planted is a men killed and fifteen wounded.—Newbern Prog ress. THE office of the Volksblatt, a German antiwar Democratic paper, published at Belleville, Mo., was visited by some persons unknown and thrown into disorder. - THIS day the expedition, under Colonel Phelps, which left Belle Plain, Va., in steamers returned to headquarters. The troops visited on Tuesday for Northumberland County, Va., Heathsville, which they found deserted by the rebels. Then, throwing out large foraging parties from that base into Lancaster County and in other directions, they succeeded in capturing one thousand bushels of corn, fifty horses and mules, a large number of beef cattle and quite an amount of medical stores. Two post-offices and several March 5.-A fight occurred at Thompson's Station, a few miles south of Franklin, Tenn., between a considerable body of Union troops un-stores were visited, and two important rebel der the command of Colonel John Coburn, and a mails captured. The cavalry also seized a large large rebel force under General Van Dorn, result- number of horses and mules. Some prisoners ing, after a desperate conflict of four hours' du- were also taken, among them Colonel Claybrook, ration, in the rout or capture of the whole Union a prominent rebel officer, and two clerks of the force.-(Doc. 130.) departments at Richmond, with a quantity of -THE editorial office of the Crisis at Colum-correspondence for citizens of Baltimore, and ofbus, Ohio, was visited by a body of soldiers who ficial papers addressed to parties in London, to destroyed every thing they could find in it.—the care of Baring Brothers.-New-York Tribune. Gold sold in Richmond, Va., at three hundred per March 8.-Early this morning, Captain John S. cent advance. The rebels at Vicksburgh during the day threw shells occasionally at the National forces engaged in digging the canal opposite that place, doing no damage. Mosby, commanding a company of rebel guerrilla cavalry, made a dash into Fairfax Court-House, Va., and captured Brigadier-General Stoughton, and over thirty other officers and privates, together with their arms, equipments, and fifty March 6.-The ship Star of Peace was captured and burned by the rebel privateer Florida, un-eight horses.—(Doc. 131.) der the command of Captain J. N. Maffit.-General Hunter in command of the Department of the South, from his headquarters at Port Royal, S. C., issued an order drafting for garrison duty all the able-bodied negroes in his department, not otherwise employed in the service of the National government.-General Orders, No. 17. -THE sloop Enterprise, having run out of Mosquito Inlet, was captured off Hillsborough, Fla., by the gunboat Sagamore.-The Forty-third regiment of Massachusetts, under the command of Colonel Holbrook, surrounded and captured a company of rebel cavalry, with all their officers, on the Trent road, some distance from New March 7.-Major-General Schenck, command-bern, N. C. ing the Middle Department of the army of the United States, issued an order at Baltimore, Md., prohibiting the sale of secession music in his department, and commanding the publishers of the same to send to his office any such music as they had on hand at that time. -THE Mobile Register published the following: "Let every man, woman, and child at home, with a yard square of ground, scratch it and put in corn. Every grain carefully intrusted to the fruitful earth is a mite of contribution to the na March 9.-A small rebel force was this day captured six miles below Port Hudson, together with the signal book containing the signals used in the rebel army.-A large number of vagrant negroes were arrested in New-Orleans, La. -THE Schooner Lightning, from Nassau, N. P., laden with dry goods, sugar and coffee, was this day captured by the United States steamer Bienville, thirty miles south of Hilton Head, S. C. -THE British iron-screw steamer Douro, of Liverpool, laden with cotton, turpentine, and to- by the First South-Carolina colored regiment, bacco, from Wilmington, N. C., was this day under the command of Colonel T. W. Higginson, captured in latitude 33° 41′ N., longitude 77° | and a portion of the Second South-Carolina col2' W., by the United States gunboat Quaker ored regiment, under Colonel Montgomery. The people were in great fear of an indiscriminate City. but the massacre; behaved with proprinegroes ety, and no one was harmed.—(Doc. 132.) -THE sloop Peter, of Savannah, Ga., while attempting to run the blockade at Indian River Inlet, Fla., was this day captured by the gunboat Gem of the Sea.-General Granger came up with the rebels at Rutherford's Creek, Tenn., and captured several of their number. -TO-DAY a skirmish took place near Bolivar, Tenn., between a detachment of National troops and a band of guerrillas, in which the latter were routed and eighteen of their number captured. -JAMES LOUIS PETIGRU died at Charleston, S. C., in the seventy-fourth year of his age. Mr. Petigru was an avowed and active opponent of the nullification movement of 1830-32, a consistent and .persistent Whig through successive Democratic administrations, and a bold, open, and loyal Union man in the critical winter of 1860-61. He sacrificed popularity without losing esteem. He was for many years the leader of the South-Carolina bar, and one of the latest acts of his life was a masterly argument made by him before the rebel States District Court, against the confiscation and sequestration laws passed by the rebel Congress at Richmond. Although living amongst the most bitter and vindictive people of the rebel population, Mr. Petigru died a lover of his country, and loyal to the government of the United States. -COLONEL C. C. DODGE returned to Norfolk, Va., after making a successful reconnoissance to Southfield, Chuckatuck, and Blackwater Bridge. At the latter place he had a fight with a party of rebels, but at the expiration of twenty minutes, they hastily withdrew. In this affair, several rebel prisoners were captured with their horses and arms. A DETACHMENT of National troops under the command of Colonel Chickering, left Baton Rouge, La., for the purpose of reconnoitring the surrounding country and burning the bridges on the Comite River. They destroyed Bogler, the Strickland, and the Roberts bridges over that river, dispersed a large force of rebel guerrillas, and returned to camp without losing a man. -PRESIDENT LINCOLN issued a proclamation, ordering all soldiers, whether enlisted or drafted, who were absent from their regiments without leave, to return to their respective regiments before the first day of April, on pain of being arrested as deserters, and punished as the law provided.—(Doc. 133.) -A DETACHMENT of National troops, consisting of the Sixth and Seventh regiments of Illinois cavalry, under the command of Colonel Grierson, attacked a body of rebel guerrillas, numbering four hundred men, under Colonel Richardson, encamped near Covington, Tenn., killing twentyfive, capturing a large number, and utterly routing and dispersing the rest. The camp and its contents were destroyed. March 11.-In the rebel Congress, in session at Richmond, Va., Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana, offered the following peace preamble and resolution: "Whereas, The present administration of the United States, by its reckless disregard of all constitutional restraints, by its persistent efforts to subvert the institutions of these States, and the ferocious war which it is waging for that purpose, has more than realized the worst apprehensions of our people, and fully justified their wisdom and foresight in averting, by timely separation from the Union, the calamities which a longer continuance in it would have rendered inevitable; and "Whereas, A portion of the people of the United States have recently manifested their disapproval of the war, of the objects for which and the manner -TO-NIGHT, a second “Quaker gunboat," or sham monitor, constructed of logs, with pork barrels for funnels, was sent adrift by the National fleet above Vicksburgh, for the purpose of draw-in which it is conducted, and their desire for its ing the fire of the rebel batteries. It showed that the rebels were always on the alert, for, although the night was very dark, ninety-four shots were fired at the mock vessel as she passed along the various batteries. speedy termination, and several foreign Powers, notably the government of France, have expressed a similar desire; "Now, therefore the Congress of the confederate States, deeply impressed with the conviction March 10.-Jacksonville, Florida, was captured that it is their duty to leave no means untried to |