March 22.—This morning, at ten o’clock, a scouting-party of fifty men, belonging to the Fifth Missouri cavalry, encountered Quantrel’s guerrillas near Blue Spring, Mo. A short skirmish ensued, after which the National cavalry retreated with a loss of nine killed, five missing and several wounded. The rebel casualties were not ascertained.—The steamer Granite City was captured off Eleuthera, Bahamas, by the United States gunboat Tioga.—Mount Sterling, Ky., garrisoned by a detachment of National troops, under the command of Captain Radcliff, was this day captured by a small body of rebel cavalry, under Colonel Cluke.—(Doc. 143.)
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