Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-15
OLEXE1AND SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY IS 1869

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services were voluntary, Was killed, n
other officers were killed, sbove the rsul
Of lieuteneht Our total loss in killed enl
vouaded IS less than 200, and the numbe
Of killed is less than 90. i75.l
Sunday afternoon 9 feet Of Is eunboat
started for Elizabeth City. The place va
shelled, and having been evacuated and paE
italy burned by the rebel troops, was OOcn
ped, ..-- .,.--- -
The seAbird, which was the aag ship o
Com. Lynch, Was run down and boarded
but the gallant Commodore escaped by
sW1mn lug to the shore.
The news from Elisabeth City was received
at Roanoke Island on Monday evening.
Gen. Wise was at Nag's Head, and sue.
ceeded in escaping to Norfolk.
4ha rehels msao no fight after baing driven
from their fenuenohments, which ives done
| by the HaWkinb EouaFes and the 2isf Mas
saehusetts regiment. Young Wise resisted
the stornipg parties till be was wouhded
and carried of, when bis command retired
with the others TO the upper part of the
island, where they laid down their arms.
Elizabeth OityTwas ab0pt half destroyed
by the rebel soldiers. The people sent OF 4
dePutation to Com. Goldsborough asking hfui
TO send force to assist in eEtinguishiug the
flames.
Rdenton was taken possession of on We'd.
nesday by Com. GsldsbOrough, no opposition
being offered. Tr-, I
Norfolk and Richmond papers attribute the
lossOf Roanoke Island to the bludering inef,
6oieney Of the navy.
Ehsy .sall persistin-saying thatl 900 fed.
erals were killed. They also charged some
Roanoke Island farmer with deserting and
piloling the Yankees to the only point they
could eject Anding, the landi0g being
hanked on all sides By an extensive marsh.
Dispatches from Memphis 10 Norfolk ad-
init the Federal flag was cheered on the
Tennessee river By the people, and assert
that the Federsls neither seized nor destroy.
ed any private property-not even cotton.
Gov. Letcher issued an order for the for
nation Of the home guards for the defense
OF Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond.
Bishop Ames and Hon. Hamilton Fish re-
turn to Baltimore, the rebels refusing to re.
eeive them.
The Richmond Dispatch says: Our Tenn
essee exchanges give US gloomy prospects for
the future in that part OF the Confederacy.-
several leading journals intimate plainly that
tteTe Is really threaening state Of affairs
in East Tehnsssss, growing out Of the idola-
trous love OF many Of those people TO the old
Onion. frr.t'r -l-ser 5.-4
Tne correspondent of the Memphis Ava
lanche writes that the condition OF the ibteI
rior counties is not improved by the lapse Of
time. The people apprehend an immediate
advance Of the northern army, and traitors
20 the South eTince their joy in every villsgs
and neighborhood. 30 II
The Unionists are making demonstrations |
IN many OF the northern oouuties, and even |
IN Memphis there were exhibitions Of Joy |
on the arrival of the news from Beach Grove. |
Armed bands ef JObDson's aad Msy- |
nard followers are pFOsling about ip ell |
directions thrSugh the mountains. In the
remote counties many have bsen shot al
night in their own houses, who adhered I'd
he fortunes Of the South.