Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-14
Yesterday Evenings Edition.
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YoRK, March 1

NEW YORK, March 13.
Another skirmish between Shermsn's
cavalry and that under the rebel Wade
Hampton, on the Sd inst, at point not
named, is reported in Richmond papers.
! The rebel Colonel Aiken was killed and
Hampton's Adjutsnt wounded, but these
are all the particulars Of the affair fur
nished.
The Richmond Examiner is informed by
rebel officer from South Carolina, that
| Sherman has completely devastated the
portion of that State through which he
passed. This officer ssys that he has not
spared house in his track.
General Emery, of the 18th corps, has
succeeded General Hancock as commander
of the Middle Department. comprising the
| lower part of the Shenandoah Valley and
other territory in that region, during the
| continuance of General Sheridan's mere
active operations.
The greater part Of the rebel troops in
the Shenandoah Valley have been concen-
trated in the vicinity Of Lynchburg, which
place, some accounts represent, they were
still busily engaged in strengthening at q
very recent date, probably with design of
afording Lee another good to point to fall
back to when Richmond and Petersburg
shall become untenable.
Large supplies of food for needy resi-
dents, furnished by the Shenandoah Relief
Association have arrived in the Shenan-
doAh Valley.
Richmond journals of last Friday an
nounced that the removal of gold belonging
to the banks of that city had alresdy COM
menced, and in the strongest language the
Legislature and people are called upon to
stop this exodus of precious metal on
the ground that if removed it will nearly
all get into the hands Of the Yankees and
that upon its retention depends the very
safety of rebel capital itself.
The Richmond editors are very angry
over the recent seizure, st fredericksburg,
Virginia, by the National troops, of some
two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco,
which had been sent thither from Peters
burg. They say there was understood to
be an agreement on both sides that the TO-
baceo should 90 safely through their lines
and that they should receive bacon in re-
turn for it, and consider its capture a Yam
kee trick with which General Singleton, of
Illinois, who has been In Richmond for
some time past is suspected of having had
something 10 do.
The Richmond EzGmussr, of the 10th,
says; The latest sdVices from Lynchburg
show that that place is all safe.
The same paper complains of the injus-
tice done to soldiers by Withholding their
pay, and says that this is the chief cause
of their desertiOn.
On the 9Th between 500 and 500 sick and
wounded Yankees were taken from Rich
mond hospitals and sent forward for ex-
change. On the 10th nine hundred well
prisoners, all that remained in Richmond
prisons, were to be forwarded.
Tie Heralds Baton Rouge correspon-
dent of the Sd says General Bailey had
gone on 8 raid in the interior, the result
of which has not yet transpired.
The exchange Of prisoners at the mouth
| Of the River is still continued.
General Mclean has relieved General
Ullmanl in command st Morganzia.
The HerGIFs Washington special says
the War Department attaches very little
Importance to Bragg's reported success in
North Carolina, as the force captured
must have been only construction party,
accompanied by a small force as guard.
They were reopening the Atlanta and
North Carohna IAilrosd.