Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-04
FROM WAsHINaToN-

fe WAsHHeTOE, March 8
The following is from the Richmond
| Wh.g of the Ist:
FROM THE SOUTH SIDE.-The Express
OF yesterday states that the advance which
was threatened two or three days since has
been checked, if not defeated by the super
abundant rains, and for the present may
/ possibly be abandoned; but the public
may not be surprised to hear of the COM
/ mencement of battle at any moment.
The enemy has not withdrawn any portion
Of the forces he has moved TO his left but
holds them in readiness for an advance at
the earliest possible moment.
It is believed that the enemy intends q
hesvy flank movement some distance furth-
er down than the scene of his late opera
tons. We are glad to believe that our
noble army is prepared to meet the enemy
now as it ever has been, and give battle as
Of old-never having known and deter
mined never to know defeat.
A large number Of Yankee deserters
came in at different points, claiming the
privilege granted them under general or
der No. 65.
A special dispatch to the Columbia Ez.
d11iIaeT, dated Marianne, Florida, Febru-
sry lILh, informs that journal that Capt.
Dickinson had captured eighty-hye prison-
ers, including one colonel, three captains,
and one lieutenant; also ten wagons, sixty
horses, one ambulance, and a quantity of
arms, &c.
The enemy lost in killed five, including
their sdjutsnt, and four wounded, inclu-
ding their colonel
Not one Of Dickinson's company was
lost.
General B. ]. Hill having been suthor-
lied to raise brigade of mounted men in
North Alabama, will make his hesdqusr-
ters alternately at Rome, Georgia, and
Gsdsdeh, Alabama.
Beauregsrd authorized General Hill to
proclaim an amnesty and pardon to all
men improperly absent from their COM
msnds, who may join his brigade.
In military point of view everything is |
quiet in the Trans Mississippi region.
The rivers are higher now than they
hsve been for years, but no apprehension |
is felt of 8 land invasion by the enemy.
Blockade running between Galveston
and the West Indies is carried on very sue
perhaps rivsling in this respect |
The ports Of Wilmington and Charleston.
Quite number of steamers have run in
and out of Galveston during the past fort
night.
The Government stores in Texas and at
are full of clothing and other
1ecessaries.
The expedition fitting out at New Or
cans is believed to be intended for Gal
7eston and not Mobile.
Tha army of the Trans Mississippi is in
EXCELLENT spirits and condition. The troops
ire well supplied with food, clothing and
munitions OF war.
The message of Governor Hahn, of Louis
ans, urges the placing of 100000 negroes
n the army as pioneers, wsgoners, ETC.
The message meets with universal sppro-
,stion in Louisiana.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Ap-
veal, writing from Grenada, Mississippi,
ays :-Affairs on the border are in terri
lie condition, tie country being filed
With jsyhswkers and robbers, principally
leserters, whose deeds rival with the fs-
nous days of Dick Turpin, and such
eign of terror has been inaugurated that
rsvel is almost completely broken in some
,ortions of the country.
From North Mississippi, a Tupulo letter
FINISHES the following: General Forrest
old lady here, few days ago, that he
Fould be let alone to hold the bag in this
ection, and that it would be pretty big
sg.
Colonel Patterson, commanding brig
de in Colonel Roddy's division, has been
ctively engaged in breaking up stills in
along the Mississippi line. Many
srmers in Northeast Mississippi carry
heir grain across the line to be distilled
nto whisky, thus evading the law prohib-
ting its manufacture.
Many poor soldierS families are suffer-
ng for bread.