Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-25
CHI &tan6arb.:
RALEIGH: FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1889
LATEST NEWS.

No movement of importance has occurred on the
lines below Kinston, since the falling back of our
army. briefly announced in our last ISSUE
The quiet which for so.long time brooded over
the lines of the Rappahannock has at last been
broken. On the !7tb instant in the afternoon, the
enemy $4,000 strong. under Gen. stopeman, sue
ceeded in crossing the river at Kelly's Ford "A Sc
we're skirmish ensued, in which Gen ,F'tz hugh
Lees brigade and Pelham's horse artillery, number
ing about 1000, drove them back with heavy loss
Thew escaped to the north bank of the river. Our
hss willnot exceed $50 killed and wounded. Ma
iors Pelham, Of Alabama, and Pulen, OF Virginia,
were among the former. The engagement occurred
at Jamison's Woods, within six miles Of Culpspper
Deser.ers daily arriving from lJB.ers army, re-
peat the old story that The army is demorazed and
sick of the war. Our army, on the contrary, sTep-
resented to be in splendid condition.
A battle Lear Tullahoma is now considered immi-
nent
The severe repulses sustained by the enemy in
thep assaults on Port Hudson and Fort Pemberton,
have put it seems, temporary quietus upon ther
movements on. the Mississippi A feet Of gunboats
accompanied by empty transports is said to have
assembled the Yazoo on pillaging expedition
The status is unchanged at Charleston, but the
long deferred attack is daily expected.
A letter to the Editor from Lake City, Fla, states
that the Federals landed in force at Jacksonville on
the 10th inst. accompanied by several hundred me-
groes
Tt,. news from the United States is unimportant,
consisting mainly of unreliable rumofs OF apocryphai
eeuion rissories. The n Y. Herald, for instance
has dispatches, from Memphis, reporting fight on
Yazoo river. in which the Yankees said to have
captured seven thousand prisoners and eight Con-
federate transports.
Rumors were rife in Cairo on the 18th that Forts
Donelson and Henry had been captured by rebels
bnt the .reports were not credited. COL Richardson
and 400 guerrillas were surrounded and captured a
.Ooyington, Tennessee, on the 9th inst.
The sanctity of Brigham Youngs seraglio, at Salt
Lake City, has been invaded. The hoary old SIN
ner had been arrested under the polygamy act oi
Congress, and held to bail in the sum Of s., 600:
Gold in New York on the 18th was active and
fuctuating between 153 and 16l. The steamship
Australasian has arrived from Liverpool with dates
to the 1st inst. 'Sewards dispatch rejecting the
French proposal for mediation provokes criticism ir
the London journals. The Times says it is quite
consistent with all Seward has previously writer
:, upon the subject The Post, Pslmerstons organ
declares that emanating as this document does from
the Federal cabinet, it is truly incredible that tha
body should have sunk SO low as to endorse as it
own, in the face of the world much arrant false
hood and absurd nonsense.
The Norning Star considers the document unan
-swerable. -
The Ldoaon correspondent Of the Machester Qua,
dian says the Confederate loan has been all freel
taken on the continent, and that England will bav
no more of it than comes from foreign market
The Polish insufrection was exciting great atteu
ton in the cabinets Of the leading powers. Th
Russians were defeated by the Poles after an en-
gagemeut which lasted five hours, at Mallagossee
The town was reduced to ruins. In Liverpool, o.
2Sth, the cotton market was quiet but steady
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