Grave charges.
--The following offenders against the laws of the Confederacy were sent to Castle Thunder yesterday. A Court-Martial on their cases has been held, but the result of its deliberations has not been made known:Hiram Thacker, member of Company C, 21st North Carolina regiment, charged with shooting at private citizens. The scene of Thacken's operations was in Guilford county, N. C., and the only excuse offered in extenuation of the offence was partial derangement of mind; but the fact that the prisoner has been forwarded from the State in which the crime was committed for confinement here, is of itself sufficient to cause the belief that the Court by which he was tried gave no credence to the defence set up by his friends.
Riley Cagle, Company D, 16th North Carolina regiment, charged with murder. The sentence will probably be forwarded in a few days.
C F Smith, G W A Mames, and J J Hudgins, all members of Company D, 16th Ga cavalry, were committed on the charge of highway robbery. The specific charge alleged against these men is taking by force and violence from loyal citizens of the Confederacy three horses, saddles, and bridles, with which they have for some time traveled in different portions of the Old North State, and thereby eluded military service. [The horses and saddles are in charge of Capt. Ellison, A. Q M., Statesville, N. C., where those claiming them can make application.]