The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-02-10
WAR NEWS.

Nothing later concerning the recent conference
at Fortress Monroe between President Lincoln
and Secretary Seward and the Southern deputa-
ton, has transpired.
The correspondents of New York, Philadelphia
and Washington papers, which, whilst accor-
dant as to the main facts, differ as 10 results II
is positively stated by some journals that the con-
ference re suited in an entire failure, whilst 9th
ers assert that basis for future negotiations has
been laid down. In the absence of an authorita-
tive official announcement the public are left to
draw their own inference.
Letters received at Washington from Nassau,
January leth state that eight blockade-runners
were there taking in cargoes-arms, clothing and
medicincs-for Wilmington. Eight vessels left
between the 18th and 10th for Wilmington
One vessel took four one-hundred FOUNDER Arm
strong guns. Two and half mlliop pounds of
bacon and thirty thousand Enfield rifles were at
Nassau TO run the blockade.
A Richmond paper of last Saturday received
in Washington, contains despatch from Charles
ton, dated on Thursday, announcing that por-
tion of Gen. Sherman's troops are moving on
Branchvlle, S. c., and have already possession
of McBride's Bridge. and that skirmishing in
front of Braxtons Bridge was going on. An
other column of Union cavalry were moving rap
idly on the Augusta road to some point unknown
to the enemy. A despatch from Adams Run.
Charleston, says that the Union troops came up
in barges 10 Youpgs' Island and drove in the rebel
pckets and retired the next morning. Three
steamers, they state, were Of White Point threa.
thing to land.
Five of the feet Of vessels on which Collector
Draper is loading the cotton captured nj Savan-
nah by Gen. Sherman arrived at Port Royal, S.
C.. on the 28th ult. There are twelve more YES
sells the feet, and when all had arrived at Port
Royal they would sail for New York under con-
voy of several revenue cutters.
Deserters who came into the Union lines and
reached Memphis, Tenn report that Gen. Hoods
army, now commanded by Dick Taylor, had
gone into winter quarters at Tupello, Miss
Other unofficial accounts say that the army late
ly under Hood was being reorganized at Tuscum-
Ola, AapaHla.
General Kelley reports to Governor Foreman,
of West Virginia, that cavalry scout OF Gen.
Sheridan last Sunday defeated a force commaI-
ded by Major Harry Gilmor at Moorfeld, and
captured him and about twenty of his officers
and men.
A dispatch from Cairo says that information
brought by the arrival of a steamer from New
Orleans confirms the reported evacuation of Mo-
bile, Alabama. Refugees state that the evacua-
ton commenced Gu the 10th of January, and
that the guns ard ordnance stores were sent to
Selma. The garrison of Mobile, it is stated, was
small, and composed of militia, and it was the
impression in Mobile that no defence of the city
had been intended.
The Army of the Potomac is once more in mo-
ton. At an early hour on Sunday morning the
Fifth Corps, preceded by Gregg's cavalry, started
out on the road 10 Ream's Station. About noon
they reached Rowanty creek, over which they
constructed bridge, and then sent valry force
to make a connection with the Second Corps, two
divisions of which had advanced on the Vaughn
road to make demonstration in that direction