Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-04-01
The Situa,ion-The News.

Our latest advices indicate no material change in
the relative positions of the opposing armies and
"masterly inactivity" unbroken, except by trivial
skirnshes, still broods over the lines. The Fede-
"a, army on the Rappahannock is mud-boun again,
the recent snow storm and the Succeeding thaw
having rendered the roads impossible. tits now
thought, and not without reason, that the seeming
activity in the enemy's camp-the beating of drums
and firing of rockets are intended to deceive our
leaders, as they have not been accompanied by any
substantial change of position, and are apparently
causeless. HIS army, in its present position, pro-
tects Washington and the Potomac and Hooker, in
view of the ruinous defeats sustained by his prede
cessors IN command. will, perhaps, content himself
as long as he can appease the mpatence of the "On
to Richmond" party, with keeping our army inac-
tive though vigiant From the Fredericksburg
correspondence of the Richmond Examiner, we learn
there is strong reason to believe that Stonemans
force went to Kelly's Ford with no original inten-
ton of crossing but for the purpose merely Of cap
turing party of Stuarts cavalry, who, Hooker had
learned, were to cross the river at that point.
Tn Tennessee, the falling back of Rosencrans upon
Nashville has greatly altered the aspect OF tt'rs,
and conjecture is completely at to the proba
BILE effect of this movement on the issue Of the ap-
preaching campaign. 1t is generally supposed that
the retreat was ordered by Rosencrans with the
view of eAecting junction with Grant to ard IN
the reduction of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and
in completing the conquest of the Mississippi Valley
Morgan had fight at Anderson, Tenn, on the
18th inst, IN which he was compelled to fall back
before overwhelming numbers.
The Yazoo Pass expedition is reported to have
been checked by arebe battery at the mouth of the
Tallahatchie. The Yankee feet consisted of the
Chillcotke. De Kal6, five small gunboats and eigh-
teen transports. The Chilyicothe during the fight,
which lasted all day, was seriously damaged having
received sixty-fou- shots. O6c shot from our bat
tery killed four and wounded fourteen of the enemy
At last accounts, the fleet was three miles above
| the battery.
1t is TO be hoped that Gen. Price, recently as
signed to the command Of Western Louisiana and
Arkansas, will inaugurate at once vigorous often
sive campaign for Missouri and that portion of Ar
kansas within the Federal lines have become the
theatre of unheard Of atrocities
Charleston and Savannah are still menaced.. Dis
patches to the New York Herald, from Hilton
Head, state that the negro brigade now marching
into Florida have taken several important points
with many prisoners-that they had captured large
quantities of munitions and supplies and were still
driving the enemy before them.
The 5Oth reg't N. G. T., (Col. j. A. Washington,
had skirmsh with the enemy on Monday last al
Deep Gully, nine miles from Eewbern. The enc
my fed leaving two or three killed on the field
| No loss on our side.
In the Confederate Congress on the Gath inst,
the Senate passed the impressment bill. which had
previously passed the House, and the House had
passed the Senate bilHestablshing Court Of Claims.