Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-02
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Late News from the -Sonth

-. WAShlAdEOhi mafcn 1.-The Richmond
dispatch says Gen. Joe Johnston on
tnursday evening last assumed command
OF the army heretofore commanded bv
Gen. Beauregard.
The Richmond Wing has the following:
Charlotte, Feb. 24.-We are indebted ia
the enterprise of the Southern Express for
Augusta papers to the Goth, but no impor.
tsnt military movements are reported.
Capt. Dickinson captured several officers
and considerable number of enlisted men
during the recent Yankee raid into Flor
ida. Gen. Forrest has been in command
Of all the cavalry in the district of Missis.
sippt east of Louisiana and west of Ten.
nessee. His first General Order proposes
reorganization of the cavalry, with the
restoration of their perfect discipline. He
threatens to exterminste all Confederate
stragglers, robbers and deserters.
Gen. Thomas troops are being mounted
for supposed march through Alabama.
WAsH1NeToN, March I've have re-
eeived Richmond dates of Monday, Feb.
9Th. The Examiner says:
ln the absence of official information of
military affairs in the Csrolinas, we take
nothing from other sources Of intelligence,
and omit the usual references to our file Of
Southern exchanges. We do so at the re.
Outstanding that the other city journals
have been put under obligations of reticence
to the extent indicated above. The public
will no doubt be properly patient in this
interval of silence, and not take it as dis.
couraging, for we are assured that there
are good reasons for it which look to an
early official announcement of favorable
results.
RGenerals Crook and Kelley, whose cap
tufe was noticed in these columns on
Saturday, arrived in this city on that day,
and were furnished with apartments at the
Libby. Mr.. Russell, member of Congress
frem the Wheeling district, visited General
Kelly yesterday.
From the best information received here,
1t appears probable that considerable
confRgration occurred in the western Dor.
ton of Columbia, after its evacuation, oc.
casioued it is supposed by cotton becoming
ignlted in the streets. 1t is reported that
the fire extended from Main street to the
Charlotte depot, nearly three fourths of a
mile. The Information is positive as to the
occurrence of the fire, but doubt is enter
tanned as to its magnitude. Some of the
refugees are preparing to return.
Charlotte, Feb. 25.-There is no add.
tional news from the front; etill it is cup.
posed the enemy are making their way to
-. The news from Columbia cor.
roborates the reported kind treatment of
the inhabitants. The Ursuline Convent
WAS protected by a guard. No public
property was allowed to be burned in the
city. Sherman's headquarters are at
Nickerson's hotel. The alarm in Charlotte
has subsidized. The weather is bad and the
roads are heavy, interfering with rapid
military movements.
The Richmond Dispatch of February
oath contains the following:
Grant has again been massing his troops
on Hatcher's Run, on our extreme right.
ten miles south west of Petersburg, and il
is thought that another attempt by his
columns to gain the Southside railroad
was prevented by the rain on Saturday.
We think there can be little doubt that he
will make this attempt as soon as the
state of the weather will permit In their
present condition, the movement of artil.
lery is out of the question. Grant has
enough of the gambler in his character for
the disastrous failure of his last advance
towards the railroad to make him more
impatient to renew the attempt. At pre-.
sent the extreme left, which may properly
be considered the advance of the Yankee
army, occupies position on the left or
north side of Hatcher's Run, between nine
and ten miles south west of Petersburg, and
about i've miles in a direct line from the
Southside Railroad. The usual number
of Sunday rumors were in circulation YES.
terday, the most agreeable of which,
though we regret to say not the most aun
thentic, was that Sherman had been killed,
and his army routed and driven into the
jungles of South Carolina.
The Richmond Examiner of the 9th, in
an editorial speaking of the message that
JEFF. Davis recently addressed to the rebel
Congress, in which he said if the campaign
against Richmond had resulted in success
instead of failure, and if we had been
compelled to evaouate Richmond as well as
Atlanta, the confederacy would have re.
NAMED as defiant as ever, and says let not
this fatal error be, harbored until it takes
effect upon the Imagination. The effect Of
the evacuation of Richmond would be the
loss of all the prospects and authority to-
ward the confederate government, the dis
indignation of the army and the abandon.
ment of the scheme of an independent
Southern Confederacy. The withdrawal
of the army from Richmond would 30 mar.
row the area of the confederacy as greatly
to reduce our military strength. AS our
army would dwindle in numbers, it would
move more rapidly westward. and before
reaching the Mississippi would have de-
generated into a'mere body-guard of few
officials. From the hour of giving up the
seat Of government, our cause would sink
into q mere rebellion in the estimation of
the foreign powers, who would cease to
assert to US the rights of belligerents;
while the enemy would be free to treat our
officers and soldiers as traitors. Every
rebel would fight these forever with a hall
ter about his neck.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 9th says
the rebel Congressman have become so
frightened that they are fleeing from Rich
mOnd and that body is without a quorum.
The Enquirer of the same date, in speak.
ing OF the rebel Congress fleeing from.the
capital on the approach of Sherman, SAYS
"Duripg the last four weeks wild sppre.
tensions of danger has disturbed the minds
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