The Richmond palladium., 1865-03-23


and caused the seal OF the United States TO be affixed
Done AZ tie City of Washington this l7th day Of
March IN the ear al our Lord, 1853, and OF the In
dependence of tie United States of America the s9th
Signed ABRAHAM LINCOLN
W. II. SExARD, Sec'y of State.
From North Carolina. !;
Reported Occupation Of (:oldsboro by Sher- /.
nan-His junction with Schofeld
wAsHIsGroS. March 2I-Passengers who arrived !
10 day from City Point say: news from sherman |
reached there Sunday through TIVE scouts wh.. |
left last week. He had occupied Goldshoro withous
having connected with Schof-ld.
sHEKMAS's ENTIRE SUCCESS
NEwBERx, \. c., March Is 10 A M-Parsies who
arrived here from Cen Shernan's army say that &c
shall be able 20 Join hands with him morrow
tine course as fearessly and unconcerned giant
among Pignes, and the enemy so de lnorzha-i
and panic stricken that it is deubtful whether they
viii make stand or not.
LETTER sEoM GEN. SHERMAN.
WAsHrsGToS, March 2l.-General Sh errnan wrote
several days ago from Fayetteville TREND that he
had received his supplies from the Cae Fear River
and at the time of writing ready move again.
He had followed with slight exceptioI's, the path
laid out before he left Savannah He that ne
has ordered the arsenal at Fayetteville to b. blown up
as he hardly thought the Ciovernnent wo aid need an
arsenal in future in either of the Carob john
ston's entire army at Goilsboro. Its
believed he has not more than forty 81 ousand men,
DEATHS AT SALISBURY, NORTH CAR oLISA.
partial list Of the Union prisoners who died Salsi
bury N. G., between Dec. Is and early in February,
while the whole number of inmates of the prison
averaged less than 5000
Leutenant Knox, chief signal officer just from the
front, says that reports were brought from Colds
boro stating that the eney had evac uated the place
and were moving towards Virginia.
THE DEFENsEs OF KISsToN-
The Tribune has letter from Xii lgston North
Carolina, of the l6th, which SAYS: The defenses
which the rebels abandoned of Jery powerful
description, and could have been he Id by Bragg's
command for an indefinite time had there been
other enemy to threaten them than Ger era Scho field
NEw Y DIRK, March 10.-A letter from
Texas says, two thousand negroes cap
tured at Berwick's Bay were mostly
taken to Houston, and sold at auction by
Col Snyder, he knowing t,,ey had been
legally emancipated by the United
States, and were only liable to be treated
as prisoners of war
Adyices from the Army Of the Potomac in
dicate an early movement there. but which side
is expected to assume the offensive is not GER
tain. The rebels were very active, rching,
countermarchng and massing, seemingly for
the purpose Of mystfying. Reports from Rich
mond represent that every man and boy capa-
BILE Of hsnGling gun is in the trenches. Ru-
mers o. the probable evacuation Of Rich mond
and Petersburg reiterated, but these are ap-
parently no more reliable than reports we have
heretofore had on the same subject.
GS-The high wind on the 18th, tore up and badly
damaged the timed roofing of the State House and
Evanss oil mill, at Indianapolis. Several other build
iugs were blown down. The estimated damage to the
the State House, is $3.50.
rerThe eleven Regiments, under tae last call, on
Indiana, have been raised. The last one ls2d. COL
Grswold left for the front at P. NJ. on the 18th
Recruiting for the five regiments. in addition to
the eleven, is progressing satisfactorily.
rss- The recent freshets in the East, have done
great damage millions Of property have been de-
stroyed Entire streets in Rochester, y. Y, were
overfowed-bridges swept away, and great damage
done the n. York Central and Genesee Valley Rail-
roads. and the Canal At Pitsburc, the Mononsaiela
rose to 35 feet At Syracuse the Ouondago and 9TH
er creeks higher than ever before known-three
hundred dwellings more or less flooded. The
salt works the Reservation said TO have suffered
severely The loss city and county is estimated
half . million dollars
ns- The Arctic Mills at Providence, r. l.. de-
stroyed by fire the night of the Eth The mill was
stone-fve stories high-3l2 feet long 200 spin
dies, and employed 400 hands. The loss is $4,000
insured for s225, goo net loss sIo50oo.
A dangerous counterfeit of the five dollar
notes of the Lafayette branch Of the Bank Of
the State Of Indisna is in circulation. The Wig
nette is darker than the original, and somewhat
blurred. The portraits are inferior. Although
readily detected by good judges. it is danger
Gus counterfeit, and the public are cautioned
against it. The note may be filed with the
names of other branches.
~ ~
Office on money orders sent from various
parts of the country average ct the pres
ent time 81, 500 day.
The Penobscot Indians now number
266 males and 234 females. More than
one fifth of their voting population have
| gone to the war.
| The Union prisoners confined at Flor
enee were sent to Salisbury on the az
proach of Sherman. On the way maH
| escaped and reached our lines at New
bern under guidance of negroes and
loyal whites. Arrangements have ben
made to exchange ten thousand prisones
at Washington, and they are now beig
forwarded.
The very latest reports from Moth
| Carolina represent the people as beng
almost unanimously of the opinion tat
the Confederacy is gone mp. The idesof
resisting Sherman Is secuted at as absrd
and the general disposition seems tcbe
to make virtue of necessity and sutnit
TO the DEGREES of war
A YoUNa lady in Brooklyn is malng
large number Of young men UNHAPPY.
She is employed by the Provost Ma'nal
to draw the names from the draft wsel
0Lieut. John Dougs,, % Ind Calry,
one of the recently paro..d prisoners ofrar,
has honorak.y been mustered out Of thser-
vice.
NOTHING was so much dreaded iour
schoolboy days as to be punish by
sitting between two girls. All, theorce
of education! In after years we len to
: submit to such things without shding
3 tear.
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