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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1865.

SHERMAN'S successful, if not victorious career,
has at length received a check, and instead of
marching at the head of his army to effect a junc-
tion with GRANT, his interview with that general
has only been effected by means of a personal
voyage by sea. RALEIGH, the capital of North
Carolina, has not, as the Federals fondly hoped,
proved a second Columbia, and the opposition which
ought to have met SHERMAN in Georgia has at last
encountered him in North Carolina. JOHNSTONE
has proved a formidable opponent, and so vigorous
• and determined was his attitude that SHERMAN
abandoned his intended _advance. The battle of
Bentonville, of which we have heard by the last
mail, is admitted by both sides to have been furious,
and the losses of Federals and Confederates were
alike heavy. It seems that on the day following the
engagement severe skirmishing was kept up, and
that SHERMAN finally decided that it was useless to
attempt to proceed further in that direction. He,
therefore, proceeded to Goldsborough to join SCHO-
FIELD, leaving JOHNSTONE to intrench himself at
Smithfield. We find an amusing example of the
skill with which the Northern leaders make the
worse appear the better cause, in the substance of
SHERMAN'S address to his army after what may be
called a retrograde movement. He informed them
• they had a won a victory after a gloriously success..
ful campaign, and that it should Test to enjoy the
products of a rich and magnificent country before
again embarking on fresh dangers. The fact of the
matter is, that the first strong and well-organised
resistance which SHERMAN has encountered has
sufficed to turn him from his path ; and if the Con-
federates had had promptitude and energy enough
to have faced him before they might have earlier
arrested his progress. SHERMAN'S expedition to
City Point, to which he went via Newbern, was
for the purpose of joining a conference of war be-
tween LINCOLN, GRANT, MEADE, SHERIDAN, and ORD.
The result of this conference is not known, but it is
probable that some line of action must have been de-
termined on since the whole of the principal leaders
of the war were thus present. SHER3IAN returned
to his head-quarters at Goldsborough the next day.
and it is asserted that a movement of GRANT'S army
commenced immediately afterwards. The PRESI-
DENT'S visit to City Point has revived the peace
rumours, and it has been reported in the North that
LEE, being convinced of his inability to hold Rich-
mond, had renewed the request for a military peace
conference. It scarcely needed an official denial to
contradict this statement. LEE'S intentions do not
seem at present to be very pacific, for the most im-
portant pert of the military news brought by the
Africa is the account of an attack upon the Federal
lines on the 25th. GRANT'S version of the story is
that early in the morning of that day the Confede-
rates attacked the extreme right of his army, and
succeeded in capturing Fort Steadman, and two
Union works, besides taking General APLAUGH -
LIN and many other prisoners. Afterwards
the Federals were reinforced, and drove
back the Confederates to their own lines with the
loss of 3,000 men, the Federal loss being 1,000.
LEE'S object was thought to have been to seize the
military railway from City Point, an achievement 1