The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-22
Gpening TrIrgraph
THURSDAY. DRUBMBRR qQ, 1864.
LATTsr FROM TEE sourH.

hOO0-SuitviIie salt Works 50 be At
tackled - Posters Position at COo.a
whatShie 90 ChRrleston and gSaynautn
Railroad tn hts Poss session -Snerma au
Hefere Savannah -rne Rebels All tn tht
Hest spirits.
The Enquirer says;-us Exccllcucy JEFr DAVIS
has been confined TO his bed for a week or more
with severe neuralgia Affection We arc giutiHod
20 announce hat nc has so far recovered as 70 re-.
sumo his attention TO publc business On Friday
afternoon he was present az n cabinet meeting aud
on Saturday morning appeared on the streets on his
way 20 his Office in the roasury building
North Carolina LcgisIuturc.
In the Senate, on wednesday, Mr. rUoL's paeco
resO utiors wCro laid the table by O vote OF
twonty-tour 10 twenty and kept there despite
vigorous elor s to rcslrroct them.
ShCrmuu.
The Charleston Mercury of the 18TH says thlt
SHERMAN seems to have abandoned for tle present
direct attack ON Savannah. and appears 90 uo
turning his attention 20 Che educ lon of .h. uu.-
Works
FAN OF Fort Nchu,strr.
In announcing tic fall OF For. McAltstor ~ tho
mouth oil the Ogcchce, that papor confirms Che a.to-
ment that SO was carried by co umu OF SIu.sTN,'
beet troops and says that &c s believed tina. tho
enemy will next make desperate Cl1r. GO glfu uof-
session OF Genesis. % point aloug tho limo 8f the
Charles on aud Savannah Railroad
Federal Raid in North Carolina.
1hc Goldstoro Mgfs J0l1i1' gives the following
account OF recent raid from NoWberu :- Ihc cuauy
Rzcoudcd the sou.h bank n the NeuFo from Ncw-
bern, ana about 10 A. 81 ON SUNDAY ilst whom up
nearly as high as Cowalds Bridge. th1y H,sda lev
shots at cur pcEcts in Eactors Old G5d. having
dnyen our pickot3 in from this point tho enemy
pushed on towards hiustJu, aud rDlchad the moi gh-
torhood OF that place on the same oy1uing.
Our h.uston correspondent under dlto Of tho
14th, says; he cnemY numbered about ono tlousand
and consisted OF portions OF the Northumberland
Nsfg Kf-Lr md rl
sets Infantry, three companies of tho Twelfth
New York Cavalry and one s5clDu Of BEUCE's
New NorK Llght ARTILLERY, all under tho command
OF Lcutonout-Co oncl HuCuCoCN, of tho Unc-hun-
urod-ai d-thirty-socond Sew ork Infantry They
won't within two miles OF Kinstou, whore thoy on
eountercd a portion OF tue Second North Carolina
Cavalry, commanded by Liout-Col BEARD and .ec-
ton o. CUMMINGS Battery, commlnded by Lieut.
Co. JoHN d. STARR. Tho casualties ON our side arc
three mon Of The cavalry captured and one wounded
mono killed. Lieutenant JOHN B. WOOrEg, of
CAPTAIN Toys company captured q Yankee
cayalyman, his horse ana accoutromcnts, aud
brought them in. IA NIGH. have been expected
the Yankees committed the usual cl.ccssas plundor-
ing ana robbug udiscrimina.eiy WW h. WEST
JACOB NIsr, SuAgRACu RANDALL aad Mrs G. C.
HARTsFELD suffered most severely, beng rUbUe cd
OF everything OF value.
From Pctcrsburg-Hcnyy sheIliug on Friday
Lust.
special despatch received at this Office late on
Friday night, says ;-lhero has been steady she'll
ing Of our lines al day by Tho enemy replied TO
by our batteries occasionally Colonel IT, 4 MosELY
formerly OF the Richmond Howitzar5, was 9Siled
during tho shelliug
The Ezpress oCSaturday says Tho oncmy's bat.
teries from Jerusalcm plank road almost around to
the AppomattoN River, opened funous cannonade
upon our lines and, without iHtormisslou kept il up
until nearly dark. Our guns IN somo instances re-
Piled and at times the music OF artillery was quite
exciting. No regret 20 learn that E r. MosELY
commanding a battalion of artillery was in.
uantiy killed by sohd shot from ono
OF the Yankee guns while superntonding the ope.
raiions OF battery Of his command, lust TO tho
right OF the Baxter road, His head was entirely
severed from his body, and ne fel to the ground a
corpse. Colonel MosELY was from buckingham
county, ana entered the service Lieutenant of the
Richmond Howitzers by his gallant action on
various fields lie won his promotion TO the rank OF
Lieutenant-C oionel Iiis death is deeply Iamented
On our centre and right, yesterday tho Yankees
kept decenty quiet. They have made no demon
straton nor shown any activity since their retreat
from Dellfed, and their repulse on IIatcher's Run
There Is no place they can move on WITH success
That VIII affect the status OF our army and cause,
and The only people who have any reason for dread
from the great Yankee army under GRANT arc
non-combatants who live near his lines whose pro-
perty and whose persons exposed to his ruthless
bands OF raiders and robbers.
General Burbridge's Raid in Southwestern
Virginia.
The Lynehburg VTgipiaR OF Saturday says:-
The latest information from the raiders that they
entered WytheVille yesterday at noon, our forces
retiring before them
Issupposed hat they are moving on New River
bridge thirty -iour miles OF that point We will
Lot express an opinion TO what may be the result
OF their main movement further east but they NAV
encounter forces sufficient to check them. Their
force is varously estimated at from three to FIVE
md l,v.ro ,ttsI I,,.,s
glad to learn that but engine was destroyed on
the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Two trains
supposed to have been lost, ran TO the sale works
IL 10 apprehended that tine salt work arr to be nt
lacked or are IN danger OF being captured tits sup
poted that the enemy dld not consider themselves
strong enough d attack the san woris Brg
BRIDGE, having mad one taste OF that place IS wiling
70 give it the 20 b. this time We think that ho I5
running last into trouble III venturug down the
railroad as lar as H. seems inclined 10 10
VAUGHN VIII have time % b1ng un mis- force in
the rear oi tho raiders and utoIcopt their retreat
but as raiders always escape we slIll not a. low
time
Ilere is railroad bridge just at Marion, ana
bic uidPe3, and VIII doubtless DO DESTROYED There
are also large non WORKS Marion
The same paper Oh the pgeyQus day, when the
movements Of thr lalCers were not so well defined
said N Ieieenc 10 aiiYlle;-lhe loss the yorks
thoulu ihal misfortune occur, would ceuuulY b3
severe biow, but LOT a iuinOus one PhBliN-l.ke
they eoHld be resuscliaiel .rOu tler ashes in
time 10 SIT 90 wOrK agun. UHdi then paOule ,volld
have 10 husband their supplies OF salt and diminish
their consumption, which could Do easily done
But sc agan express the LOpe that tha ue1s,sIfy
VII not occur, and the works T be saved Shlud
they ulli however let no ono oYeraslinate tte ds.
nsteri tOT energy aud determination Won a soon
make good the loss. On Saturday at two oolOcl, iu
the afternoon, the onomy had arrived nt Dublin De-
pot, IA Pulaski county and have doubtless snco
proceeded 10 Now l.Yer Tor VIC purpose OF burning
the brdgcs cIEht miles u stln~
The Wig says:-An Ohicia despatch received ON
Saturday H. -ht at the War Department stat.i th4l
bun BRIDGES i0rCc, ready auuluQ 3CI ls yy.lblD "A
lew noes Ot " thedlo, hau pruuenIly retired by
the IOad over winch tley had adyan 'ed lar.r
desIatcn say % That General VAUGHN with cln.sa,.
liable force, is ln close pIOXm W 10 lh, re.lsaIlr
TaidfTs
The Rebel Position NJ Coosawatshis
Tho ChaIl lesion Mercury Of the 10th has inforna
ton that the enemy still mold the position at Coosa.
Watehie, about three-qulrters Of a mile from lie
thafestOn and savannah railroad track. HIS bat
tories continue 70 shell every passing uain. With
TINS exception all Is quiet between Charleston aud
hardeeYille the present terminus Of the road
The Railroad Bridge over the Savannah
River.
The Railroad bridge over the Savannah river has
not Teen burned as was reported The structure
burned was long and important trestle work on
tle Georgia side OF the Savannah river.
Ihe Courier OF the same date says; as 10 the fact
OF extent Oi the destruction OF the railroad BRIDGE
ana tTestling over and near the Savannah river
accounts are various and contradictory The she'll
lls OF the railroad al certain points on the passing
oi cars, Is continued, 30 far without notable re-