Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-31
The Situation-The News.

There is every indication now that the campaign
Ill speedily open in the Southwest The enemy
Lra evacuated Pensacola, retaining possession only
# the navy yard, Forts Barrancas and Hyacinth.
Tho bnlk Of his force at that point has been sent to
..,,r,ben Banks, who since his late repulse at
hudson has summoned all the troops within
= .,,ob 70 aid in another and more formidable
A.. .o reduce that stubborn barrier to his "on to
T-..,.,b,rr" The situation at Vicksburg remains
,hoDcsd Grants army still occupies the penin-
',,, 1 o,noste the town. absorbed in grand scheme
- I;rternal mprovement-deepen;ns and widening
,r;b MEX and spade, an artificial channel for the
r..,ar of Waters. On the 25th inst, two gunboats
.n3.,rored 10 pass down the river; one was sunk
,os;te our batteries, and the other, seriously dis
.ti.5 WAS towed away to prevent her capture by
,,boats Grant will doubtless remain mac
',,;I the fate of the Yszoo river expedition is
s,rr decided. This expedition is quite formidable,
o,rss.;nr of twelve or fifteen thousand troops and
,.r ~ twelve cunboats. Ii was fitted out with the
r,og, of cutting off from VickShurg supplies from
,bo roar and destroying our defcnccs on the Yazoo
.,i ts tributaries The latest intelligence is quite
r-.rryirc indicating as it does failure OF the
s,beme. Beaten back by our batteries at the mouth
u five Taahatchie IS stated in our last issue, this
Federal hotilla has sustained, it seems, another
severe repulse Dispatches vary somewhat con-
cerpnr the locality One states that the battery the
Yankees eDdeayored to pass stands at the junction OF
Deem Creek with Sunfower river thirty miles above
its junction with the Yazoo; while another speaks
of the enemy being foed in " his attempt to enter
SunAower river" However this may De, three OF
their cupbOats were destroyed and several. barG2f
captured
Tn Virginia the situation remains unchanged.
From Tennessee we learn that the enemy are still
in possession of Mu-freesboro'. Rosencrans was
moving heavy force our left flank IN the dlrec-
ton of Columbia, with the purpose apparently OF
efecting a junction with Grant, and causing our
army to fall back on Bridgeport. We have no It'd
ines of any counter movement on our part but
presume our Generals are wide awake. The enemy
have 5000 infantry stationed at Gala tin to guard
the Louisville Road-were laying waste the coun-
try north of the Cumberland and had destroyed
the railroad and tarnpike bridges over Stones river
between MurfreeShOro and Nashville. In Florioa
fight is imminent near jacksonville The Yankees
had advanced towards the interior, burning houses
and tearing up the railroad, but were fred on by
our troops and retreated to the town, which they
still occupy. The quiet that reigns along our
Atlantic border may be broken at any moment
Conjecture as to its duration is idle At Savannah
two captains and six priUates of the 4Sth n. Y.
Regiment were captured on the 25th inst.
The Richmond Erpnainer thus speaks of Charles
ton; "The military authorities are alive to the
crisis and the movements there nave been directed
Kth great activity and vigor. Until the proper
tine lac people must not know what preparations
have been going on for the enemy, and must be
satisfied to know that all is well and everything as
favourable as could be desired"
We can say to our readers that we believe that
they may cherish their best hopes of the result al
Charleston, and that they may look for exciting
news from that quarter at any moment
Later from the West.
Dispatches to the Progress state that Gen. For
rest captured eight hundred prisoners and seventeen
loaded wagons at Brentwood, on the 25th inst HI
also burned the railroad bridge and destroyed {
large quantity of eommissary stores. The rumol
that Gen. Humphrey Marshall had captured the en-
tire command Of Gen. Samuel Carter of East Ten
nessee notoriety, has not been confirmed. Morgan
late fight lasted six hours. He had driven the enc
my two miles, when they were heavily reinforced
and held their position. Our loss in officers wa
heavy.
From the North.
Mai. Gen. Sumner is dead Burnside has gont
West to succeed Gen. Wright, with authority t.
have headquarters atSt Louis. Gold declined t.
145, closing 1889. Exchange 16O.
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