Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-11-30
WAR NEWS.


All yet remains quiet in Virginia Sheridan, at
last accounts, was still in the Valley. The armies
IN Virginia are doubtless preparing 70 90 into win
ter quarters.
Attempted Escape Of Prisoners.
me Yankee prisoners, numbering Z or S,000
mace an attempt to escape from prison at Salisbury
on the 25th, Friday. They seized the arms of some
1I 'he gnsro and Killed ore man ny bayonet thrust
Inc lnsu!recr!en however was soon qleed Forty
l. or fifty Prisoners We're killed in the melee The
; guilty ones have been ferreted out.
/. From Georgia
/: We CLEAN from Southern and Northern sources
/ the following items OF nevss The Augusta mai ,rs
Of the 26th. Saturday, have teen received The
!, Chronicle contains no definite news of Sherman's
"hei eaoeus In the issue of Friday it says there
s is not military man in Augusta that cen loca,e the
, main body of the Yankees. 1t also says that Gen
Gerals Wayne and Wheeler have formed junction at
j Oconee bridge, which il hravely defended and up
TO Friday hot a Yankee bad crossed the Oconee
In fact the enemy hau left that point and gone, it
vas uelleVed, to join the main body. Reinforce.
ments are said to be constantly arriving in Angus
j ia; and Gen. Braxton Bragg has left Wilmington
with troops for that poiut
The Chronicle Il Sentinel of Saturday says that
ut IS the opinion up the railroad that Shermans ar.
Fmy is between the Ocopre and Ocmugee rivers
moving south towards the seacoast. We fear Macon
has been capsured and piaged
received Augusta
from Hoods army. 1t wax in fine condition. and
under marching orders for Nashville. The latter
| we much doubt
From Richmond extracts from Northern journals
We condeEse the FLOWING:
Gen. Barry, Sherman's Chief of Artillery, arrived
in Ruifsloe, N. Y, on the 18th, seriously ILL., He
lett Sherman at Kinston, Ca, on the 18th with all
The infantry, cavalry, &C., he wanted. The men
bad received eight months pay, and an outfit es-
psaliy adapted to hard and rapid winter cam
paign and the morale of the troops was unequalled
lTen Sherman said he would carry his army trium-
phan,!y through.
Latest from the North.
Northern papers have been received in Richmond
to the a4,h.
telegram form Washington, 3d. says that it
has been nearly two weeks since direct information
has been received from Sherman. At least a month
ago DC fully Informed the authorities at Washington
/ Of his plans.
New Orleans papers of the 18th says that Candy
: is recovering.
| Washington telegram, 2Sd, says there is infor-
Nation from CITY Point that but short time will
elapse teiore the Dutch Gap Canal is clened
Buihrld,e has taken summary action in the case
of 1t Gov. Jacob OF Kentucky, and has decreed his
Punishment beyond the Federal lines.
! Gold 2231
!. European advices to the 10th received
: Under the influence of the details Ct the capture
of the Florida the English journals Indignantly de-
nounce the affair, The Times says the act was
most flagrantly lawless and presumes the American
government and its citizens i'll hasten to repudate
it. The Morning Post thinks tbs Federal govern
ment will dsavow the act, but has misgivings about
1T, and thinks the outrage can't be permitted to pass
urnotced by other powers, ard that all maritime
powers should enter protest against it. The Her.
ald believes even such this will force European
.Iaons to interfere American difficulties for their
>own security. The Duly News and Star, Yankee
rgans are silent in regard to the SUBJECT. The
latest English journals publish an official correspon.
dence from Brazil denonncng the seizure, and hopes
the American government will repudiate it.
On Monday, the 2lst, Breckenridge was within
six miles Of Cumberland Gap where there was heavy
skiTinshing with his army during the entire day.
burbridge has moved from Lexington with strong
force to prevent breckenridge from entering Ken
lucky The schooner Sybile Of Nassau was captur-
;. ed in Gulf stream with three hundred bales of
cotton. She claimed to be from Matamoras. A
company of over one hundred men composed of
rebel desertcrs who had been acting as scouts in
Union service were recently captured sixty miles
northeast of Baltimore, all but twenty one imme.
!iately shot or hung Prof. Silliman, of Yale Col
ege, died at New Haven on the 26th
Scouts report Hoods army marching on Pulaski,
and expected ultimately to seize Cumberland Gap