The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-24

General Lee Assumes Chief Com.
msnd-Wade Hampson's Cavalry In
South CaFollna-R OF Shef.
mans Movement-Report that XII.
patrick has been Whipped-Ione Of
the southern Press. ..f
PHlLADELpHIA, Feb. ls.-The Bulletin
has the following special dispatch from
Washington Richmond papers Of the
10th announce that Sherman's main COL
umn has reached Kingsville Junction, and
that communication south of Florence on
the Manchester and Florence Railroad and
Florence and Charleston Railroad was in
interrupted. Beauregard is reported on
the north bank of the Oongaree. Kings-
vile is on the north side of the Congaree,
forty-one miles north of Branchville and
twenty-five miles south of East Columbia.
NEW York, Feb. Cove have moth
ing later this morning regarding General
Shermans success,
The Richmond Examiner of the 18th
has some particulars of the reported fight
between fitzpatrick and Wheelers cavalry,
on the 18th inst, at Aiken, on the railroad
leading from Branchville to Augusta, and
about eighteen miles from the latter place.
The Examiner reiterates previous rebel
statements that Fitzpatrick was driven back
distance Of about five miles, and gives
as reason for not continuing the pursuit
the exhaustion of ammunition. 1t is
| claimed that q number of Union soldiers
were captured in the affair.
| The Wing says there was nothing at the
War Department to verify the reported
| defeat of Fitzpatrick. The rebels now rate
| the entire number of Sherman's forces OPP
Grating in the interior of South Carolina
at only 10000.
| The Richmond Wing of the 18th says
all it could learn on enquiry at the War
Department was that Sherman was some
,Uhere, but it was not known where.
The Columbia Guardian of the 10Th
announces the burning of the VILLAGE of
| Allendale.
The Wilmington Carolina intimates
that an important movement is going on,
which is supposed to be evacuation.
The same paper says a considerable
Yankee force landed in the vicinity of
Little river. 1t is supposed to be their
purpose to break the Manchester Railroad.
The Richmond E:raniner says the force
landed at Newberne is greatly exaggerated.
Only few Yankees have landed there.
The Mobile Register says the Southern
people are not whipped, but cowed Their
souls, and not their hands, are disarmed.
Our strength is not gone, but our cour-
| age is oozing out at our fingers ends.
The Columbia g. o. Cdrolinian says
the appointment of Gen. Hampton to the
command of such divisions as those of
Gen. Butler and Young is an earnest of
! success. He is once more at the head of
the men he has SO often led to victory on
Virginia sOil-the men on whom both
the country and himself can depend, and
we may therefore. look for a repetition of
the gallantry which has been bulletined
from every battle in which they have had
place. t"'
Though that Hampton is in the saddle,
the cooperation of Gen. Johnston, who.
although for the present behind the scene,
does not withhold his skill and experience
whenever demanded, together with scores
OF ether facts of an encouraging character,
which should not be published, are events
| that may we'll give our people great joy.
The Lynchburg Republican says the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, it is
thought, will be open for travel to Bristol
by the first of March. Repairs are being
pushed on with unusual energy. Some
idea of the magnitude of the work to be
done may be formed from the statement
that all the bridges, SO or 60 in number,
for distance of 85 miles, have to be re-
built, and much of the track relaid. besides
other repairs to be made of minor conse-
quence.
Gen. VIM. Martin has assumed command,
in place of Gen. Gardner, of the depart
ment of Mississippi and East Louisiana,
with his headquarters at jackson.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The Richmond
E:cdnainsr of the 18th inst. states that
dispatches are received from our official
OF treasury department Of Columbia, to the
effect that Sherman's advance was so near
Columbia that the homeguard and citizens
had turned out to aid in resisting them,
and skirmishing had already commenced
near the city. .. .a
The Yankee papers state that General
Terry is still in the vicinity of Fort Fisher
and waiting for Gen. Hoke.
No official messages we're received from
any part of the South Carolina yesterday
At last accounts the enemy, held Orange
burgh on the Columbia Branch Railroad,
and our forces were falling back towards
Columbia. Our troops abandoned Branch
vile last Sunday night. Wheeler on last
Friday attacked and whipped Fitzpatrick a.
Aikens fifteen miles northeast of Augusta
and drove him back five miles in the d.
rection of Branchville.
The Augusta papers Of last Wednesday
state that at that time Slocum was at
Windsor, ten miles east of Aiken, advanc-
ing on Augusta, his right flank being pro-
tected by the South Edisto and his left by
Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was whipped by
Wheeler. Slocum has with him the 18th
and 10th corps. The 14th and Goth corps