Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-16
BY Telegraph.
For Later DIapg4ohes see Sd PaRo.

| Richmond Still Talked About
Sherman's Operations-From the
Potomac Army.
NV HoRK, Feb. l5.-It is now said the
rebel General Hindmau has gone to the
city OF Mexico, expecting to obtain com
mand IN MaximiliAn's army, having Iost
his faith in Jaf.DAEis' Coufederacy. 1t is
! also stated that several other rebel officers
have lately arrived at Matamoras.
Capt. Kennedy, charged with being one
OF the rebels who attempted to burn this
city, is now being tried before the same
military court which convicted BeAll.
The Worlds Washington correspondent
reiterates former statement that the reb
els would soon eVaouate Richmond and
the Atlantic coast, and fall back 10 the
mountainous interior. He now says Lee
and BeaUregard will command two grand
armies, and that preparations are making
for an overwhelming attack on Sherman.
The HorldS Hilton Head correspondent
Of the 9Th says: Reliable information has
been received here that Sherman's army
is rapidly marching on the line OF the
EdIsto river, and portion of his troops
are beyond :he Georgia and Soath Carolina
railroad, where they have erected defencss
preparatory to 9 future march.
The enemy have disappeared rapidly be.
fore the advance of our troops, and have
manifested purpose to eVacuste nearly all
OF their strougholds and retreat further
South.
This purpose has been the result of
Sherman's tactics. That their retreat will
be slowly bat surely followed up, sdmits
OF no question. Our troops are known to
extend over distance of 40 miles, and for
several days past they have been occupied
naakRnufnfF al ha .afI Il,
meet with the Gulf aud Northern States
The object would seem to be to isolate
BrsnchVille. Augusta and Charleston from
all possible aid or reinforcements, in order
to capture the garrison of each city. This
important work will doubtless be compile.
ted when this letter reaches you.
Some OF oar troops are north Of Charles.
ton, which is cut off from reinforcements.
The corps are moving simultaneously on
the line of the EdisGO, and the toWus they
have passed through have been deserted
by numbers OF their Inhabitants, who have
forced the able bodied negroes to leave
with them, 10 order that they may no: aid
our army. Hamburg, Aiken aud Orange
burg, in the rear of BranchviIle, are re-.
ported to have been captured. ~
NEW YoRK, Feb. 6.-A special to the
Herald, says:
Richmond papers conceds that Gen. Sher
man has hAnked Branchvills, both above
and below, and Hardee's forces have eVac-
uated that place. They also state that a
Union column bad reached oraugsburg, on
the Columbia road, and all RAILROAD COM
municstiou with Charleston is cut of, ex-
cePt by the road Wilmington, N. O.,
which will soon be-cut at Wilmington
| By these operations the railroad commu.
ulcation between Virginia and the South is
entirely cut of, aud rebel authority over
the Southern States can no longer be en-.
forced.
Private adVices from Richmond repre-.
sent matters there as IN bad way for the
rebels, and the difficulty Of supplying the
| people and the army, even with half "a.
tions, is daily becoming almost insur-
mountabler aud the evacuation of Richr
uond is daily becoming more imminent
and probable.
A later dispatch dated midnight, Feb.
| 14th, says:
The Richmond papers of to-day have
dispatches saying that q portion of Shsr.
mans forces are bQsily engaged iu the de-
stTuotion of the railroads in South Carolina
and that another column is threatening
Charleston. They do not confirm the re-
ported evacuation of that place, but it is
evident from the tenor of their advices and
editorials, that they do not anticipate any
resistance being made to Shermau's ad-
vance. They also state that a large Yankee
force haslandsdst SmithIand, on the North
Carolina coast, and have brought locomo-
tiVes with them, evidently intending to use
the railroads to facilitate their military op-
erations after they shall have captured
Wilmington.
The Army of the Potomac holds its new.
ly acquired ground on Hatcher's Run on
which very strong earthworks are now
erected.
There are rumors that the enemy is min
ing one of the Union forts in front of Pc
tersburg.
Major Gen. Wright returned to the army
on Sunday last, and resumed command OF
the 9Th corps, from which he had been abb
sent since'the early part Of January.
'DeSertious of rebels to Geo. Grants lines
continue numerous,