The Portland daily press., 1865-01-17
Escape of Ne,gspapor Correspondents.

i y,s1oal y sssgsgS. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. L
80 A special dispatch to the Tribune, dated
Nashville, Jan. 16, says Albert d. Richardson
of the New York Tribune, with VIM. f. Davis,
correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette, and
clerk Of the Ohio Senate, arrived here to-day.
& They escaped from the rebel penitentiary at
Salisbury, n, c., on the night of Dec. 18th,
lin company with James 81. Brown, also Of
the New York Tribune. They came $40
miles by circular route through mountains
before reaching our lines fifteen miles from
Knoxville. For !he first fifteen miles they, were
assisted by negroes, and afterwards by union
men, from whom they received the most de-
voted kindness, their good friends secreting
them in the woods. and in barns, and some
times in their houses by day, and plotting
them through secluded pathways by night,
along the entire route at the peril of their
hves.s They found snow a foot deep on the
mountains, and suffered much from hunger
and from cold in regions where they dared
not build fires.
A hundred miles from Knoxville they join
ed a party of Union refugees, who were on
their way to the Union lines under the guild
ance of mountain pilots, but next night at
Kelly's Gap, they were surrounded by the
rebels and compelled to separate into two
parties. The horsemen were piloted in dark
ness from therebel camp. by a young lady, and
Ll6y TOu0 ny IOrCe4 ludTCucS Vi SuCu SoV6Illy
as to kill many of their horses.
Mr.. Brown with other footmen under an
excellent pilot, took to the mountain paths
and reached our lines on Saturday, III az
| EaThe Richmond authorities refused all propos-
1 itions for their exchange, declaring that they
should hold them during the war as hostages,
|, and for retaliation. a0laa'mmo9 " salal ssiaga
They left 1000 prisoners in Salisbury suf-
) fering the greatest barbarities from the rebels.
They state that there is the most earnest
! loyalty to the government still prevailing in
the rebel lines throughout Western North
| Carolina and East Tennessee, and that the
people, many of whom have had their sons
| and brothers murdered, and their houses rob-
bed and burned by the rebels, are looking and
praying for the advance ofsour armies. Hun
dreds Of citizens are lying out in the woods in
almost every county, waiting to enlist in the
Union service.
Asrirat of Paroled Prisoners attack on
i Fort Fisher Reaetced-lMr. Blair in Rich
sI 4a0nd.
IL ss,.s !, ,s,a. BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.
The American has the following:
~ Annapolis, Jan. II. flag of truce boat
New York, from Aikens Landing, James
River, with paroled soldiers and citizens, ar.
rived here this morning. The attack on Fort
Fisher had been renewed iasoieg Q ssyo 81
i The Richmond Examiner says there is q
rumor that a. Yankee land force have com
q menced an attack against the fort, but the Wal
Department has notreceived any intelligence
4 It. The Yankees will not take Fort Fisher
i sa The Richmond Enquirer Of Saturday says
4 several members of the Confederate Congress
and of the Legislature waited on Mr.. Rlail
4 at his rooms yesterday, and at once resolved
themselves into Committee on the Whole OIL
the state of the Union.