Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-23
Afralr. In North carolina

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Affairs In North Carolina.
Yhere is naturally good deal of iety in
Massachusetts to get reliable news from North
Carolina. We have many regiments there,
two of them from this city and the towns near
it. The mails from Newbern do not arrive,
and we hear that a great number of letters
from the soldiers with Gen. Foster have been
detained at fort Monroe and are now waiting
there until the embargo shall be removed
We hope they may not be neglected and lost.
This Withholding of the mails is doubtless in
tended to conceal for the present G n. Eos
ter's preparations for some important expedi-
ton, probably against Wilmington. Our in
tellgence from that quarter lately, has come
from the rebels. Here are some of the late
reports and speculations of rebel newspa-
pers =
From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. Il.
The latest information which reaches us
from the coast Of North Carolina dispels every
doubt that the enemy is concentrating in heavy
force, with view to strike blow at the main
line of railway connecting Richmond with the
far south. 1t is stated that their forces at
Newbern and Morehead City, on the coast,
number from $4,000 to 70. 1000, and that they
are evidently preparing for forward move
ment 1t is also represented that powerful
fleet is now in rendezvous at Morehead CITY,
with view to an early naval attack upon
Wilmington. 1t is believed that simutane-
GUS movement will be made upon Weldon or
some other supposed accessible point on the
great southern railway The North Carolina
YnFlTa
only for Wilmington and the country east of
Raleigh, but even for the safety of the capital
itself.
From the Petersburg Express Jan IS
The news from eastern North Carolina is
pretty much the same that has been laid be-
fore our readers for the last two or three days,
and gives assurance that the enemy is prepa1-
ing for an attack on Wilmington, and per-
haps Goldsboro. The force at New5epn is ra-
Tiously eStinated-Some persons placing ii as
high as $4,000. and others as low as 50 900.
There are two iron clads in Beaufort-one
the Passaic, leaking badly, with two feet of
water in her at last accounts. On Wednesday
last there were about 10, 600 federal troops at
Moorehead City, and more were expected. A
negro who went off with the Yankees when
they made their raid on Klnston, has returned
to that point from Newbern. He represents
things in a horrible condition for the negro at
Newbern, and begs his master to take him to
the mountains, as he does not desire to fall
into the hands of the Yankees again.
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
From the Raleigh Progress, Jan. H.
Th9re was nothing from below yesterday in
addition to the facts already known. The
force at NeW6e,'n q fer days ago lcaS not more
than 10000 to $4,000 men, with few reg-
ments at Morehead City-in all not more than
$4,000 men-and we hardly think that many
The telegram started from here, going the
rounds, to the effect that there were $4,000
men at Newbern, or on the coast, has no
foundation in fact. Our advices from the
coast are up to the 9TH or 9Th inst, and at
that time the force, as we have stated was
between 10000 and $4,000. How it is now
we are not advised, but we are certain that no
movement had been commenced by the enc
my up to Monday last.
1t appears now to be true that the rebels in
North Carolina have been reinforced from
Lees army in Virginia. The statement is
that "Anderson's corps, amounting to 10000
men, has been sent to North Carolina, from
Lees army, with the intention of crushing
Gen. Foster" This reinforcement went by
way of Goldsboro and will be used wherever
they are wanted, which may be at Goldsboro',
Kinston, or Wilmington, A dispatch in the
Richmond papers Of the 18th states that the
fighting in North Carolina began week ago
This dispatch, which came here yesterday by
way of fort Monroe, is as follows =
''KINsToN, N. c., Jan. l6.-The enemy
drove in our pickets, yesterday, eighteen
miles below this place He is supposed to be
in very strong force, and advancing. They
buildinu hri1 al,
Is doubtless a teint to cover federal move
ment on Wilmington or Weldon. Also, the
Yankee gunboats attacked cort Caswell, near
Wilmington, yesterday, but without any re-
suit"
Letters from Norfolk, Va, dated January
18th and 10th, and received in New York,
say
''From Newbern | learn to-day that Foster
has abandoned his projected expedition for
the present What may be in the future | am
not authorized to say"
"Private advices from Richmond leave no
doubt but the rebels are making the most
formidable preparations to meet General Eos
ter at Goldsboro', Wilmington, or any other
threatened point in North Carolina. 1t is
confidently spoken of in secession circles, that
the rebels are fully advised In relation to Gen
Fosters movements, his plans and the force
at his command, and that he will meet with an
unexpected and most determined resistance at
all points"
There is some uncertainty and mystery in
regard to the real purpose of the demonstra-
lions from Newborn. Are they feints to cover
something else! Will the real blow be struck
Al charleston under the lead of naval force
Of winch nothing has been said in the news
papersF Doubtful, although some of our CO.
temporaries think SO. The New York Cam
mercial says =
"We are waiting to hear from fleet of a 20
iron-clads, with twice that number of pnnhna,s
which are soon to pour inf they have ,O nat
already done so-a fen d'enfer from their
fifteen and eleven inch guns. Secession svm.
pathizers need not begin to crow yet"
tMr. Chase has asked to be allowed to re-
sign and leave the cabinet. He has followed
republican fashions, and made himself very
rich since he went to Washington"