Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-20
LATEST NEWS.

y, roorement of importance has occurred on the
80. hoIow Kinston, since the falling back oil our
INV briefly announced in oar last issue
TL, o,et which for so long time brooded over
l.. lines Of the RappahannOck has at last been
hroken On the nth instant, an the afternoon the
onon,v y 900 strong, under Gen. Stoneman' sue
dol in crossing the river at Kelly's Ford A Sc
s,ro skirmish ensued in which Gen FItz Hugh
49, h-;,r.de and Pelhams horse artillery, number
49, ohout > 900, drove them back with heavy loss
IT, oscaped to the north bank Of the river. Our
r;r not exceed ESQ killed and wounded. Ma
-, peIbam. of Alabama, and Pullen, of Virginia,
-. .monp the former The engagement occurred
=, Jamison's Woods, within six miles OF CntPePPer
Courthouse.
nserters daily arriving from Hookers army, re-
ro.t the old story that me army is demorahzed ana
si,k Of the war; Our army on the contrary, is rep
roSsnted to be in a splendid condition.
hattie Lear Tullahoma is now considered lmml-
nent
The severe repulses sustained by the enemy In
choir assaults on Port Hudson and Fort Pemberton,
hove nut it seems, temporary quietus upon Their
movements on the Mississippi. A feet of gunboats
accompanied by empty transports, is said to have
.srended the Yazoo pillagng expedition
The status is unchanged at Charleston, but the
ling deferred attack is-daly expected.
letter to the Editor from Lake City, Fla, states
bot the Federals landed in force at Jacksonville
tho 10Th Inst accompanied by several hundred ne
yOes.
The news from the United States is unimpOrtant,
consisting mainly ofunreliabe rumors Of apocryphai
Union victories. The n. Y. Herald, for instance,
has DISPATCHES from Memphis, reporting fight on
Yazoo river, III which the Yankees are said to have
c,ptured seven thousand prisoners and eight Con-
falerate transports
Rnnors were rife in Cairo on the 18th that Forts
D,neIson and Henry had been captured by rebels,
hut the reports were not credited. Col Richardson
and 400 guerriIas were surrounded and captured at
Coyincton, Tennessee, on the 9Th inst
The sanctity of Blighan Young serag!lo, at Salt
lake CITY, has been invaded The hoary old sin
uer had been arrested under the polygamy act oil
Congress, and held to bail in the sum Of 1000.
Gold in New York on the 18th was active az!
Auctuafing between I53 and 16l. The steamship
AustraLasian has arrived rsm Liverpool with dates
TO the LIST inst Stewards dispatch rejecting the
French proposal for mediation provokes criticism in
the London journals. The Times says it is quite
consistent with all Seward has previously written
upon the subject Tire Post, Palmerston's organ,
declares that emanating this document does from
the Sera cabinet, it is truly incredible that that
body should have sunk so low as to endorse as Its
own, in the face of the world, much arrant false
hood and absurd nonsense.
The Morning Star considers the document unan
swerabe.
The London correspondent of the Manchester Guar
dian says the Confederate loan has been all freely
taken on the continent, and that England will have
no more of it than comes from foreign market
The Polish instruction was exciting great atten
ton in the cabinets Of the leading powers. The
Russians were defeated by the Poles after an en-
gagemcut which lasted FIVE hours at MaagoSsee
The town vas reduced to ruins In Liverpool, or
2Sth, the cotton market was quiet but steady
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