Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-27
The Latest News.
From Virginia..


IA Legislature on the 18th inst declaring that the
appointment of Gen. Lee to the command of all the
armies of the Confederate States would promote
their efficiency and inspire increased confidence in
the nna success OF our cause President Davis after
expressing great Confidence in Gen. Lees charac
ter and ability, says that that officer has always ex-
pressed his inability to assume command of other
armies, unless relieved of the immediate command
OF that now opposed to Grant. The President says,
IN conclusion that he will deem it promotve of the
public interest to make Gen. Lee Commander in
Chlef, whenever it can be done without withdraw
| ing MIN from the direct command of the army Of
Northern Virginia
| A Richmond telegram of the oath inst says.
Frank Blair is still here endeavoring to init late
negotiations for peace. Gen. Singleton started for
compelled to return.
Inc Uaspdtch of the 23d inst says:
NO event OF Importance has occurred on the
| IN front OF Richmond and Petersburg. Grant
issued an address to the Armies of the Potomac
James congratuating them upon the success
cue land ana naval expedition against Fort Fishs
From Savannah.
| The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel says n 1,
number OF refugees have arrived from Sayann
| from whom 1t learns that Sherman has taken n
slaves from their masters Those who wish to leave
| do So Those who wish to remain do so. Those
VINO leave are taken in hand by the military
authorities and put to hard work, cutting wood or
| digging upon the fortifc fcations
General Sherman continues his moderate trent
ment towards the inhabitants. The rights of the
citizens are respected
General Sherman has told prominent citizens of
Savannah that he does not wish to march his army
INTO any part of Georgia again. and that he will not
90 SO unless compelled by circumstances. He says
thAt ne regrets that he was compelled to march
through Georgia that when Atlanta was captured
1t was not his intention to advance further into the
State.
One corps of Shermsn's army has been sent to
Hilton Head in transports. Large bodies of troops
nave moved from Savannah into Carolina within
the past few days.
1t is thought that Sherman contemplates moving
to Branchville and thence to Columbia. He is said
to regret advancing into South Carolina as he fears
that he will be unable to control his troops
number of citizens have taken the oath of al.
iegance which is only required of those going into
business
But few people have, as yet, arrived from the
North. Quite u number of the residents have left
for New York
From Charleston.
On the 22nd inst, there were ten monitors in
side the bar. The enemy are said to be building q
railroad from Port Royal Ferry to Pocotalipo and
McPhersonvie. The Railroad between Saltketchie
bridge and POcotaligo has been destroyed The
enemy In lorce occupy HardeeVille.
Congressional,
In the House on the 24th the majority report of
the committee on elections was rejected for want
Of two votes in its favor. This report justified the
arrest OF Mr. Foote and declared that his conduct
deserved the censure Of the House. The minority
| report expelng Mr. Foote, was then adopted.
The Senate was in secret session on the Curren-
| cy bill.
The act just passed by Congress in relation to a
nj. ip. of tha
Vides that there shall be appointed by the President
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate
an officer who shall be known and designated as
General in Chief" who shall be the ranking Gen
eral of the army, and rs such shall have command
; of the armies of the Confederate States.
The Joint resolution of tie two Houses in rela-
lation to Gen. johnson, is as follows:
] ResolUed (the House of Representatives concur
ring) That if the President shall assign Gen. Jos.
E. Johnston to the command of the army of Ten
nessee, it will be hailed with Joy by the army and
| will receive the approval OF the country.
We are glad to see that in the discussion in the
/ Senate on the army consolidation bill, Mr.. Graham
| took ground against the Generals appointing the
| subordinate officers He said "he though the will
of Congress- and not of Generals, should prevail"
But the bill sent to the Senate from the Honse
| will no doubt pass.
From the United States.
Northern papers of the goth states that Wall
| street was excited on the 19th by the report Of
Blair'g return to Richmond, with q programme
| from Lincoln in favor of appointing Commis-
sioners to meet at City Point Every body who
| had anything to sell was selling at sacrifice,
! in many cases, under the conviction that the war
was about oveT. In day or two, says the writer,
they will probably have occasion to bemoan their
credulity.
uold opened on the goth at 1884,
A telegram from Louisville, Kentucky, dated the
| 18th, says:
! Rebel deserters, who came into Knoxville on the
! l2tn instant state that General Vaughan, with
seven hundred men, all he had left was at Bristol
on the 4th instant General Breckenridge, with his
! command, had gone to the Valley of Virginia, and
| it was thought would not return. The most per-
! feet quiet now exists throughout East Tennessee.
| Stanton telegraphed TO President Lincoln, from
Fort Monroe, on the 17th inst, that General Sher-
! man renewed the movement of his forces from
| Savannah last week. The Fifteenth and Seven
teenth corps went in transports to Beaufort on
Saturday the 14th. The Seventeenth corps, under
Major General Blair, crossed Port Royal ferry, and,
with a portion of General Fosters command, NOV
| ed on PocotalIgo General Howard commanding
that wing of the army, reported, on Sunday, the
| 18th that the enemy abandoned his strong works
[ in our front on Saturday night General Blairs
! corps now occupies q strong position across the
railroad covering allapproaches eastward to Pocoa-
| ligo.
A telegram, dated from Nashville, the 18th says
General Thomas F. Meagher arrived here last
night from Chattanooga, with several thousand vet
| eran troops of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth army
corps, organized as the Provisional Corps of Ten
nessee, en- route to ioin General Sherman at Savan
nah ola New York, where he may be expected in
four or five days.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, has escaped from Sa
| 1,h nd in Ann