Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-03-07

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ylox crossed bis troops below them fiat boat,
attacked them in the rear and routed them, taking
Two guns and 800 prisoners
On the 2lst Cox pushed to the Brunswick River
Opposite Wilmington, where the bridges were on
fire and on his arrival the rebels began burning
the cotton and rosn in the city, and left it that
night.
VI Our captures, including Fort Anderson, amount
t5 shout 700 prisoners and 80 guns
lCitizens state that the rebels burned 1000 bales
Of cotton and $1,000 barrels of rosin.
tfe city
Eferry followed Hoke northward
C. G. COMSTOCK,
Lieut.. Col, A. D. @. & Brew Brig Gen.
The papers received contain nothing from Sher-
mSn. The following paragraph is from the Tribune:
Hhe Richmond papers which have hitherto fur
nshed US with accounts Of Gen Sherman's advance
arp eompulsorily silent, and We know nothing of
his position later than a reported movement on
MEnnsborough ON the 18th or 10TH
Roger A. Pryor had an interview with Lincoln
Ha is to be exchanged.
correspondent with army of Potomac writes
to fhe Tribune of the Oath ult as follows:
This evening report came in from the front Of
the Ninth corps that the enemy showed some signs
OF feaving that point of their line, and moving to
thtFgight They have begunR movement to tie
uIsy l1U-7i al SttacA SalIoa our ieft,ph
a AoVement towards North Carolina
From deserters who came in TO day, it is learned
thai part Of Hilps corps-the 3d-iS under orders
to march"
There are many rumors North of the evacuation
Of Richmond
A letter in the New York Herald of the same
date as the above saws:
Il is sur.nised by many that the increased actiyi
ty the part of the rebels for the past few days is
to cover some important movement. Reliable in
formation has been received 50 many times of the
evacuation OF Petersburg that very skeptical
on that point, but that some movement is on foot
there is hardly room for doubt We learn from
various sources that large part Of the rebel army
have been under marching orders for a number of
days, and that portion have already left to rein
force Beauregard Gen Lee will be compelled to
make move of some kind very soon, or he will
find himself without an army.
DeSertionS continue to increase instead of decreas
ing, and the class Of men now coming in supe
rior in intelligence and dress to any l have pre-
vously seen. Not less than one hundred have
been reported at the headquarters of the Provost
Marshal during the last twenty four hours. 0theSe
large proportion bring IN their srms and equip
ments, for which they paid liberal price in
greehbacks. Many of the cavalry bring in horses
also; To day fifty seven Of the chivalrous of
South Carolina came over in a body. They style
themselves "peace commissioners" and say that
as JSK Davis was unsuccessful in establishing peace
for them, they have come over to try it for them
selves. Each and all coatrm the story that to
cry one wnJ enters oar lines there ten wIo de-
sert 10 the rear. At this rate, without fighting
other battle, the rebel army would be- dissolved in
two months.
letter from Memphis says:
There rebel troops at CorInth and only .
few at Tupelo. At Verona there are two reg-
mentS and part of third. These are the 7th
and 10th Tennessee regiments and body of cav
airy. Lees corps and Chelthan' : corps have been
scattered and sent to Georgia, South Carolina and
Virginia. Col Jesse Forrest has again returned to
the vicinity Of Verona picking up conscrpts.
There are rutaors in Memphis of the intended
evacuation of Mobile IL is on the coast, and
is th. only city noY Jeff similarly situated, except
GafSeSton, in Texas.
The New York Tribune of late date has the
following specuis,ions in relation the fall of Will
migton:
The few troops left in the town have gone to Join
the gathering forces of Beauregard in front of Gen.
Sherman. But it would be a mistake to suppose
any considerable number is thus released Since
the capture of Fort Fisher by Gen. Terry, the
render Of Wilmington has been foreseen necessity
to the rebels and It will be found that Gen. Scho-
field gamers only the empty husks of what
once fruitful town. The military stores and the
cotton have been removed or burned, and the ship
ping destroyed. We do not believe that the rebels
held on to the town day longer than was necessary
to enable them to complete their arrangements for
giving it up.
But that does not impair the military significance
ofthe surrender. Savannah, Charleston, Whining
ton have fallen in quick succession, and the policy
of abandoning the coast line, which has long been
debated among the rebels a question OF expedi
ency, Is now accepted as necessity. Theirs is not
commonly an lndecisve purpose, nor do they shrink
from going to the end Of business upon which they
once enter; hence infer that Richmond is soon
to follow the example of Wilmington and that Lee,
-b,Nl,o H., * 49, in Of
North Carolina, has made up his mind to defend in
future nothing but the interior portion of that ter
ritory which the rebellion claims as its own. 1t is
already intmated that Petersburg is to be given up
at once. The policy ot concentration did not in
volye the surrender Of the coast line but the policy
of fighting to the bitter end and of maintaining
army in the field after the capital and the political
hopes Of the Conlederacy are gone, does
Meantime, the Richmond papers which have hith-
erto furnished US with accounts of Gen ShermanS
advance cOmpulsorily silent, and We klOw moth
ing of his position later than reported movement
on Winnsboro' on the 18th or 18th.
The Herald of the 27sh February thus speaks of
Sherman's movements:
Twelve days ago part of General Sherman's force
was evidently near Charlotte, N. O., as that town
was under martial law and filled with iugitiVeS
from South Carolina driven up by Shermans ad-
vance through the Palmetto State. Part of bS force
was also lnear Camden This IS TIC El0si definite
intelligence we have of his whereabouts as the re-
bel press has suddenly ceased to report his move
ments. But there is not the remotest probability
that he has yet encountered any obstacle to his pro-
gress. II Beauregard could not hold chville,
or t.y to hold Columbia he cannot hold the line of
the Catawba or the Yadkn; and Sherman is, doubt
less, before this, east Of those streams He may
be at Fayetteville, or better STILL be boldly push
ing on for Raleigh. 1t seems obvious that he will
6x upon some point near the centre of North Caro-
lima from whence to open line to Wilmington, and
at which he may form JUNCTION with Schodeld.
The constitutional amendment sbolishing slavery
was adopted by the Louisiana Legislature on the
18th inst, in the Senate by vote Of eighteen in
favor to only one against it and in the House of
Representatives unanimously The amendment
has now been ratified by eighteen States.
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