New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-14
THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTH CAR.
OLISA.

On the authority OF our own correspondent
writing March 10 from Gen. Coxs headquarters
near Kinston, we know that Bragg has met
with repulse instead of victory on the battle
field of which he boosted. The defeat which
the Rebels sustained was on the day following
that on which Bragg claimed victory, and we
are in possession only Of few details in the let
ter of our correspondent of the first days action.
The column from Newbern, under Gen. Cox's
command, had advanced by the 9th of March
to within four miles Of Kinston without oppo-
siton On the 9th the head of that COL
umn was attacked by the united forces
/ of Hill, Hoke, and Bragg, and being
heavily outnumbered, sustained a defeat in
| which we lost two regiments. On the following
day the action was renewed, and the enemy are
strangely, but we suppose truly, reported to
have been reinforced by s. d. Lees corps, from
Hoods army. Their assault was nevertheless
repulsed and they were at the same time at
tackled in flank and routed with loss. A second
assault LEFT them still worse off, and they re-
treated in confusion, leaving their dead and
wounded in our hands. Whether the two regi.
ments taken the day before were recovered we
do not know. 1t may be that Gen. Cox, finding
SO heavy force in front of him, will delay his
movement on Goldsborough, but if Bragg holds
his ground where will he 60 when Sherman has
| taken Raleighi
| The actual position Of Gen. Sherman is still
matter of conjecture to some extent, but there
can Of course be no doubt of the fact, as stated
| by our correspondent, that he is well across the
North Carolina line, and steadily advancing
northward. The Rebels Of course know this
fact, and know something Of Shermans line Of
advance, but they choose to conceal it, because
they can say nothing that does not reveal their
weakness and his strength. The cavalry Skin
nlish between Gems. Fitzpatrick and Hampton
would have been very differently reported if the
latter had met with any good fortune.
-Sherdans dispatch is probably the most
important which that officer ever penned,
for it announces at this critical moment
that north Of the James River there is no
longer any communication, whether by
rail or canal. between Lynchburg and Rich
mond. The railroad is destroyed from
Charlottesville to within twenty miles OF
Lynchburg, including many bridges, some OF
them more than five hundred feet long. The
canal is broken up at intervals west Of Columbia
to Lynchburg, the locks being destroyed, and OF
New.Canton the great guard lock is broken
away, and the mighty current Of the James
itself pours into the narrow bed Of the
canal, and sweeps its banks away in a contin.
uous overflow impossible TO be checked. And 1t
is this canal which Sheridan says has been the
"grest feeder" Of Richmond. West Of the
Rivanna River Sheridan found himsslfin coun.
try abounding in supplies, and be has cleaned it
from one end to the other of mills, factories,
stores, provisions-everything that made it
valuable to the Rebellion. N---
Leo has not 30 much as attempted TO stop
Sheridan's destructive course. Between Grant
who keeps his hold relentlessly on Richmond,
and Sherman whose advance upon the doomed
capital nothing can avert, the Rebel Gensral-in-
Chief has found no leisure To bestow on tho
swift movement Of Sheridan-still less has he
been able to spare troops to resist the
columns which spread devastation through
the valley Of the James. More than ever
before it begins to be apparent how over
whslminsly the Rebel armies are ousnumbered,
aud how helplessE Lee must submit to see