Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-11-29
WAR NEWS.

" nv NEWS De
All yet remains c:iet in Virginia. Sheridan. nt
last accounts, wSs still in the Valley, The armies
10 virginia are doubtless preparing to 90 into win
ter quarters.
~, Attempted Escape of Prisoners.
Inc 1HTkec prisoners, numbering 7 or 6 600
made an attempt TO escape from prison at saIsburv
on the 18th, Friday. They seiz.d The arms of some
Oh the gusl and killed man by bayonet thrust
Ire insuire:tion, however, was soon quelled Forty
OF nifty prsnnefs were killed in the melee. The
guilty ones have been ferreted out
From Georgia
We CLEAN from Southern and Northern sources
tie .iCIIowing i,ems OF news. The Augusta papers
OF tue 18th, Saturday, have teen received. The
ChTon'r:s contains no definite news of Sberman's
whsTea6ou,S In the issue of Friday it says there
IS not military man in Augusta that can locate The
main body Of the Yankees. 1t also saws that Gen.
erals Wayne and Wheeler have formed junction at
Oconee bridge, Wh ch is hraveiy defended, and up
to Friday not a Y: nkee bad crossed the Oeonee
In fact The enemy hau left that point and gone il
was believed, to join the main body Reinforce
ments are said to be constantly arriving in Angus
ia; and Gen. BraxtOn Bragg has left Wilmington
with troops for that point
The Chronicle &c Sentinel Of Saturday saws that
1t is the opinion up the railroad that Shermans ar
my Is between the OcOnee and Ocmulgee rivers
moving south towards the seacoast We fear Macon
has been captured and pillaged
Intelligence had also been received in Augusta
trcm Hoods army. 1t was in fine condition. and
under marching orders for Nashville The latter
we much doubt.
From Richmond extracts from Northern journals
We condense the f lowing:
Gen Barry, ,Sherman's Chief of Artillery, arrived
IN Buifaloe, n Y, on the 18th, seriously ill. he
lett Shermap at Kinston, Ga on the 18th, with all
the intartTy, cavalry, &C., he wanted Tho men
had recel' Cd eight months pay, and an outfit es-
pecIally adapted to hard and rapid winter cam.
pagn, and the morale Of the troops was uneoualed,
Gen. Sherman said he would carry his army trinm
phanty through.
Latest from the North.
Northern papers have been received in Richmond
to the 24ih.
Telegram form Washington, 22d, says that It
has been neaIly two weeks since direct information
has been received from Sherman At least month
ago he fully informed the authorities at Washington
Of mis- plans
New Orleans papers of the 18th says that Canby
is recovering.
Washington telegram, 23d, SAYS there is infor-
nation frpuu City Point that but short time will
elaPSe before the Dutch Gap Canal is, d.
Burbridge has taken summary action Ill the case
Of 1t Gov. Jacob OF Kentucky, and has dscreed his
Punishment beyond the Federal lines
Gold 223f
European advices tn the 10th received
Under the influence of the details of the capture
of the Florida the English journals Indignantly de-
nounce the affair. The Times says the act was
most hagrantly lawless and presumcs the American
government and its citizens i'll hasten to repudiate
it. The Morning Post thinks tho Federal govern
| ment will dsavOw tho act, but has misgivings about
it. and thinks the outrage can't be permitted to pass
upnOt:ced by other powers, and that all maritime
powers should enter protest against it The Her.
ald believes such as this will force European
nations to interfere American difficulties for their
| own security. The Daily Ne,cs and Star, Yankee
organs, silent in regard to the subject. The
latest English journals publish an official correspon-
dence from Brazil denouncing the seizure, and hopes
/ the American government will repudate it.
| On Monday, the 2lst, Breckenridge was within
SIX miles of Cumberland Gap where there was heavy
skirmisbng With his army during the entire day.
Burbridge has moved from Lexington with strong
force to prevent Breckenridge from entering Ken
lucky. The schooner Sy5ite Of Nassau was captur-
ed in Gulf stream with over three hundred bales of
cotton. She claimed to be from Matamoras.
| company of over one hundred men composed of
rebel deserters who had been acting as scouts in
Union service, were recently captured sixty miles
northeast of Baltimore, all but twenty-one imme-
dately shot or hung Prof. Silliman, of Yale Col
ege, died at New Haven on the 26th.
Scouts report Hoods army insrching on Pulaski,
| and expected ultimately to seize Cumberland Gap