Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-03-15

TIE SITUArIoN.-The prospect brightens. Un-
der the skilful Management of Joseph E. Johnston,
the campaign is beginning to assume shape and
plan and detniteness. The excitement created by
the thousand rumors that swept over the land car
rying gloom and dependency to the hearts of our
people, has settled into determination to await
with GOODNESS and patience the dispositions Of the
able officer who has lately been restored to active
duty, and whose sagacious mind now controls, to .
great extent, tho dsstinies of North Carolina and
the Oonledsracy.
The people are becoming more confdent, more
hopeful. They feel that there is q man at the helm
one whose GOODNESS and sagacity are sufficient
guarantees, that the ship will be guided, with =
firm and steady hand, over the breakers, and past
the reefs. He is . man OF mind-one who thinks;
and one who knows the requirements of the emer-
gency. He has before him the grandest opportuni.
ty ever offered for distinction on this continent
He has been placed in his present position by the
almost unanimous voice of his countrymsn, As the
man best qualified 10 vanquish the pride Of tho
Yankee nAtion-Gen. W. T. Sherman. We believe
: he will do it. We deplorsd his removal from the
command of the army of Tennessee; we advocated
his restoration to active duty, as commander Of the
forces now operating against Sherman. In our ad-
vocacy of his claims We have been sustained by the
voice of the army and people, and that voice will
sustain him in the discharge Of the high duties he
has been called on to perform. Gen. Johnston is
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opinion that Sherman can and will be checked, and
what better authority would we hsveI
We repeat the prospect brightens. We do not
feel at liberty to give for this assertion,
but at the time We write. there are unmistAkeabe
evidences of cheering change in the military sua-
ton. The movements of troops and other indicia
of this change of course cannot be given. 1t is all
important that we should keep our own counsel
lest the enemy in Wilmington gain information of
CREST importance to them. We think the time will
soon arrive when all the details can be properly
given to the public. 1t will be gratifying to know
even this much which is the conviction of those
better qualified to judge than we-that tho march
of Sherman through North Carolina will not be 30
rapid as it was through the States of Georgia and
South Carolina. fayetteville Telegraph.
The Telegraph of the 10th, probably the last that
will be received, makes it exit in good humored
style. 1t says:
1--WE do not know but that We may be compelled
to suspend the publication Of the Telegraph before
next wear. /! all the accounts of excited couriers
be correct, there must be 500, 900 Yankees within
two hundred yards Of Fayetteville today. They
have guns that can throw two-ounce shells over
three hundred yards, the city is in easy range.
As soon as 400 600 of these dear fellows enter the
city from the South, we propose to retire by the
road leading North. Some of them don't like US,
and rather than have difficulty, We shall fall back.
We beg that some of our friends will remember us
very kindly to sir. Sherman, if he should come this
WaY, and inform him that the speedest way of end.
ing this war is to hang the last man OF his command
and make his way back to his family. If he don't
like this proposition, he can trade his army of for
. dog and hang the dog"