should be discharged, remain in military custody, transferred back to the Mississippi, and every or be remitted to the civil tribunals for trial. The man saved.-(Doc. 69.) examination to be ex parte and summary, and at such times and places as the Commissioners should direct. -CHARLESTOWN, Va., situated on the line of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad, eight miles southwest of Harper's Ferry, was this day occu -MARTIAL law was, by a proclamation of Jef-pied by the National troops. ferson Davis, declared to be extended over the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., and the surrounding country to the distance of ten miles from said cities. The writ of habeas corpus was also declared suspended within those limits.— (Doc. 67.) February 28.-The British ship Labuan, of Hull, England, arrived at New York, in charge of a prize-crew from the United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth. She was captured by the Portsmouth a few miles to the northward of Brecca Chica, a small village near the Rio Grande, and it is supposed that she intended to run the blockade. The vessel is worth £33,000. Her cargo consists of a large quantity of blankets, etc. -COUNTERFEIT five-dollar Treasury notes made their appearance in New-York. They were excellent imitations of the genuine. The letters "U.S.," one within the other, on the shield in the goddess of liberty, being left out. -CAPT. NOLEN, of the Seventh Illinois cavalry, with sixty-four men, while making a reconnoissance of the country west of Charleston, Mo., came across ninety rebel cavalry, commanded by Jeff. Thompson, and after pursuing them a long distance, forced them to make a stand about five miles below Sikeston. Thompson's artillery was planted in the road in such a manner as to command all approaches, and the National forces were compelled to charge in the face of his battery. This they did with great gallantry, and succeeded in capturing four guns and putting the confederates to flight, with a loss of one man, who straggled from the command and was taken prisoner. The rebel loss was not ascertained.-- Cincinnati Gazette, March 4. March 1.-Last evening the seccond battalion of Ohio cavalry arrived at Independence—in the capacity of a patrol guard, and this morning a portion of Col. Parker's rebel force rode into the town and commenced firing upon the sentries and scouts of the Federals, but almost immedi -THIS day was observed throughout the Confederate States, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Jefferson Davis, as a day of "fast-ately retreated, followed by the Ohio boys, who ing, humiliation and prayer." The rebel President appointed the day as a fitting occasion on which to make a grateful acknowledgment of the watchful care of Providence during the existence of the provisional government. -THE rebel steamer Nashville, from Southampton, England, commanded by R. P. Pegram, of the confederate navy, ran the blockade of Beaufort, North-Carolina, and reached the town this morning in safety.-(Doc. 68.) kept up a sharp and spirited firing; but owing to the thick fog, it was comparatively ineffective, the rebels scattering to evade pursuit. One of the Federals was killed-private Hickins, of company L. Five rebel prisoners were taken, one of whom stated that Col. Parker was killed in the pursuit.-Louisville Journal, March 4. -THE Mobile Register says: Since the late reverses to our arms, we notice quite a deplorable disposition to growl and grumble against -THE United States transport steamer Missis- the government of the Confederacy; to charge sippi, having on board Major-General B. F. Butler upon it the responsibility of these disasters, and and fourteen hundred troops, ran aground on to complain generally of the administration of Frying-pan Shoals, off Wilmington, N. C., while affairs. This seems to us all wrong-transparon her way from Boston, Mass., to Ship Island, in ently and absurdly wrong. It evidences no judgthe Gulf of Mexico. Her situation being discov-ment, and is far from speaking well for the posered by Commander O. S. Glisson, U.S. N., he immediately went to her assistance with the steamer Mount Vernon; and after laboring in vain for many hours, during which about three hundred troops were transported to the Mount Vernon, the Mississippi was finally got off at about seven o'clock in the evening. The troops were then session of those stable qualities of fortitude and patient determination which it is believed the Southern race possesses, and which are essential to our success in this war, and to the maintainance of a sustained career of national greatness in the future. If our confidence in the ability and rectitude of our government is so little that |