April 23.—Lieutenant Cushing, with a party of men belonging to the National gunboat Commodore Barney, with a small howitzer, visited Chuekatuck, Va., where he encountered and defeated forty rebel cavalrymen, killing two, and capturing three of their horses fully equipped. Lieutenant Cushing lost one man killed.—The British schooner St. George was captured off New-Inlet, N. C, by the National steamer Mount Vernon.—The sloop Justina was captured off the Little Bahama Bank, by the gunboat Tioga.
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