North Carolina Newspapers

, . . t - ; i "" 1 . " 7 , 1 " V ' .vrf . ! i , , r., - 4 ; . -i "-I .u ? , y,M; , , , : v- tt-tj ,s N5': sii y r t. v!i S-OL1.-X0i.20. HlLmGTOS, ft SATCBDAyi-HOB5Eei:1iPriL;i,M865. Hi PRICE. TEt'iiYit. ,' : " f I-- J -''! '' - -L ' ..- i . -i 1 .. THE IIEJliLD OE THE IMOX. v ilmixctox; 1 1 P APRIL 1. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Tn'f. SAXiTAur' Condition or thk City. Ah (irc cterting tLeaisctres to plice the city i a pro- jijiuiia the district. General Abbott commnnJ. n- ;'io post, add Colonel Kandlett tlia provost l iiTsual, arc 11 yirenubuslj endeayoriog by every Ueass xrhich lie witliin their respective limits , of t - ; tiy to remove ;every cause or occasion of com- on this score. They have already per- Another-Great,-Eaid. Ten Thousand Cavalry lo Invade : ''?yt Alabama. I '9 i Their Destination Snpposed ito.be Corre?pondenco of the Chicnffo Tribune. Nashville, Friday, March 17, liM5. -c The great caTalrj,expedjtioiv:underMajor Gcrral .H. Wikon,Jaaa linully fitarred, and ail cnniiectloh tjetween them and Gen. Th6mas' hendquartera at .Nashidpe is npw severed. 4 Fitteen- thousand-cavalry- and- mounted in fautrj were at Eastorf,-Miss., two, weeks agi, waking till the heavy rains and high water should lftve uhidcd. Of these. 10,000 .left and rertftredgthebing "Fort De Rtissy and the rivers Vi'tettr'-- V.v ' ;U Mataxnocas i eomtpondent of the j 1 1th, 8?isvthe excitement; from the revolutioais Fivosiding. The reported marching of disaffect ed chiefa on MatamQras is false. A , severe norther'l drore nearly 11 the ves sels from th mouth of the Jlio Grande on the 8th.anc bt few havo yet returned The .Prince of Wales,. an. iron steamer, was blown out of the ater, but she may be saved. ' " Another .Bteamer s from Kew Orleans was beached fire milts below Bagdad. Her bull was a. total, loss. Her machinery may bo- re- coverei; utiier, vessels (rames not mentioned) are knovn4o have gone io pieces, , ! Th.qi rebel Gen. 'Slaughter, has prohibited tjie circulation, of our newspapers in Texas. L- FBOU CHARLESTON. 1 ;i The Work of Removing Torpe : does from Iho Channel - f The Old Flag'of Suintcr to be He- , stored to its Place. Tit vt; B LOCK Ade RrxwEi cs. , 2 A lare nxixnlx-r Destroyed by the Gulf; SqnaiU iuu-uuirui(ucpnoi Auuurai Tnafcher. vvu ttiey uiiist be zealously supported bv the Tliere'are many places inter which the , -,-f ci miiiiavy auuibrny cauaoi peer, jvucuens, Ksis, alleyp, coW-sheda, wash-shetls, sfa'oles and . jcr portions of private dwellings lire secure frjm ublic ictr.isionj It behooves the people theu to j their share jf their work. An earnest efifort i the part of ench is all that is necessary. Re- jcnber the streets of Jerusalem were kept clean j every one stvtcpln-j in front ofhis own house. o ... All Fool's Da v. 1;-day is one of those ah iTers.iries taken advuritage of by the lun-loving pbj practical joke.- on their friends. It has. ten considered doubtful in some instances rneiaer uiauy ncuons at oiuer limes comini; V i:hin the scope of judxial punishment are to-day fended with an- penalty. Everybody seems to Uvc full leave and licence to-day to do thin-'s i - . . hhich on other occasions would be 'followed by ;rioua consequences. Ix)ok out for "grapevine" :ors. e siiouiu ut oe surprised to learn iihin the neit twenty -four houj-s the most terri- le reports wlucK the " grapevine" operators ill endeavor to palm off. on their listeners. If u urc deceived, if the "cat has got a long tail," lie it &.U in good part, it is one ot the necessi es of the times. f ' ' i Thfatre. Kknefit ok Mr. Harry Watkins. r-Th e Pioneer Tafriot was presented to a ' very nil house last night on the occasion of Mr. Wat :ns" benefit. The pressure on our columns this T-rning prohibifs4tn extended critique jof the rep- tsentation but to judge from the applaase ,of the tdience the piect is sure of a very successful presentation this evening when it is announced r repetition. As a drama illustrating; a most nportant era in our country's historyit should eseca by all who feel an interest in the great rir for the. preservation of that.country. . t rrn nnd itm tlO'.V (lashin.or- thrrtnfh vlhhnmn .7 15 O with a view to the destruction of the railroads, &c.t in that state and Mississippi, and-to co operate v.ith several othor expeditions by land and Water, which started some time ago,, with Mobile as their objective point. " The first riews we shall hear of them will pro bably be from the "City on the Gulf." Maj.-Gcn, IX S. Stanley commands the Fourth Aiy Corps, now on its way to Knoxville to participate in the Western Virginia carupaigu. It. is estimated atfrora.lo,OGQ to .18,000: ' feix thousand cavalry, under Gen. Stoneman or Genv Gi'-lcm, have left Knoxvijle, arid are already pointing through the mountains for Virginia. The Fourth Divicion of th e Twenty-third Corps, consisting mainly of Kentucky and Tennessee and North Camlina troops, garrison Knoxvi.hv land is. quartered in that vicinity. Brig.-Qen; Davis lilison cGininands m East Tennessee headquarters in Knoxville. ; Geu. Gilltm apprehends no serious opposition on th: J side of the Salt Springs in Virginyi. Mobile Again Reported Evacuated. Cairo, Friday, Marcn 24. . A report was received from Memphis, from A Soldiers' IFome. The agent of the sanitary maii-sion ia Wilmington, Mr. Foster, not satis ii with the god work which ho is already doing ecus extcnrtiBethe field of his benevn1pna hxr ing a Soldiers' Home after the manner of ailar institutions in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Juisville, Nasaville and other cities contis-uous the operations of the army. He is now seeking uilding suitable for the purpose. I t Town TiME.-pMany complaints reach us of the egularity.in .town time. A bell is rung on the uket house at certain hours, but those who ive regulated their time-piecea by it complain ot ucreliability. It seems to us that the matter easy of adjustment and we trust the proper au! jmies will gite it their attention. ' Holly Springs, that Mobile was evacuated, ad the city, with an immense quantity of war im plements, was in our possession. .t'' IlEBEL RIIPORTS. From. the Kichmond Dispatch, March 22.1 Iiecent advices from Tennessee are fo the effect that Giilem . has bee Thoma's, with cavalry, a t Kn preparatory, it 13 thought, for a move into Southwestern Virginia. Thomas has garrisoned Tunnel Uill and Chattanooga with three regi ments at each place. Three small regiments of negroes, Dutch and Irish are at ,Urid?eport, and two regiments at Stevenson The garrisons arc very small from Stevenson, to Hunrsville. The rest of Thomas army is at HuntsviJle. Decatur and Fastport. llosecrans has" five brigades in Middle Tennessee, icouring the. country for supplies and recruits. The "rebel" soldiers, they cntch have the choice of joining the yan- kees or being shot. Stoke's brigade is the most conspicuous in the-work. .. 1 - reports to the Navy Dcna foUowingtapturesVloss or destruction deblock ad, ruacers in the Second Division of the West Gulf ,Squadron for the last month, ending Feb. 2? I8.:,.- . . ' . " ' . j' . Febrtiarjr2. Tho UniW States gunboat Pa nola, Lieutenant commanding Erien, captured schooner Ben VViHi?, with a cargo of one hun dred and seventy-six bales of cotton, under En glish colors, -in latitude 28.15 north, longitude west. . Jlan out of Matamoras January jlth. . r February 7th Boats of the United . States steamo Bienville and Princess Royal cut out of Galveston the schooner Pet, 25G bales of cotton,' witn a crew'ol eleven persons ; and the schooner AnU'a Sophia, 220 bales of cotton and a. crew of nine souls. 1 Both vessels were ruady to run the blockade. Sent to New Orleaus in charge of a Fxe Wetiikr AcAiN-.Xhe clerk of the ither has vouchsafed w . vt5uv o v AX leather. Yesterday was in most agreeable --ast to its predecssor. A R 31: OF THE POTOMAC. vtU of tUe President to General Grant. Fokt MoKRO. Miirrri rhs Eicellency Abraham Lincoln, President tbe t'nited States, accompanied by Mrs. Lin. nana a lew government officials, arrived re this morning from Washington on the des 'ch steamer ftiver Queen, and after a brief proceeded up James river to City Point; e President and party will visit Gen. Grant's quarters, and tben proceed to view the va- US Portions of. ouf linAA in fmnt nf Rirhmnnd i Pctersburp-. . The COnjrresisional rv.artr pmWrarinrp a nnmKr o ; x -J ' wQ ..Mu.wT- eminent senators and renresentativea. and prominent merchants and noliticians. Po sailed hence on the steamer Fulton some , days go on a pleasure trip to Charleston Savannah, returned to-day and proceeded the steamer City oFHadsou to AVashington." j TpE. Tom' Hood says nothing spoils a holi-Jhke-a Sunday coat "and a new pair of boots. c wine sitteasy, youT, garment! must fat extmple.j ' ; FKOl WASHINGTON t WAsnixGTox, March 2-i, 1B65. MIDDLE DEPARTMENT. Mnjor General Crook having been exchanged, has resumed hi3 command. Gen. Sheridan being absent, Gen. Crook assumes temporary command of the Middle Department. Gerv Kelly, who was captured with Gen. Crook, has not yet been exchanged. Gen. Stevenson continues in the command formerly held by Utn. Kelly. - ; - ? RICHMOND. , The mostsubsfantial evidence of the design of the rebels to evacuate Richixond is found in the fact that on the late Sheridan raid, the files 4 of the Richmond - Whig and all the surplus ma terial of taat office vs captured at fccottsvitle, on the. James river, where it had been tWrown off to lighten a canal boat. i MOVEMENTS OF GEN. BUTLER. ; iGen. Butler and ? wife arrived here to-day, though rumor "may impart-1 this visit official significance, rest assured it has nothing rof that character. The General is there "at; his own pleasure, and will remain a week or ten days. The Government has not ordered him hither. THE PRESIDENTS EXCURSION. Persons bere who are nervously anxious that the Government should debase itself in order to secure assent of a fetr leading rebels to terms of peace, are endeavoring to come at the Presi dent's visit to City Point with some new plan or conference for ending the war by negotiation. If is hardly neeessary to assure the puolic that there is not the sligfitest foundation for Such reports.; ; - . LARGE ARRIVAL OF REBEL DESERTERS. The largest squad of rebel deserters that have yet readied here at any one time, arrived, yester day evening from .City Point This squad num bered two hundred and fifteen, including one officer. Lieut. J. J.'PillHian, of the Fiftieth Ga. regimentJ 1 They all came within the lines of the army of the James, many bringing their mus kets, for which they received a liberal price in money. Orleans in charge of a prize crew. . j February lfkh. United States gunboat Pe nobscot, Lieutenant. commander Ben harp, cap tured schooner aJlatiMa with assorted cargo of rope, bagging.-;&c:, under English colors. She ran ouf of .Mafcjraora, and was said to be bound to Havana. She was eff Cabello wben discov ered, (and was firtl at -several times before hea ving to. '4"i-.-?,j-,:ij-.:-j .. February 16th. UniiecH S tates" gunboat Pe nobscot chased on shore and. finally burnt the schooner May Agnes, with an assorted cargo. February 17th.Jlebeisjoonet'Iuisajw4th en rernforced ""iDy't n assorted cargo, chased onshore and. burnt oxville, Tennessee, I by the United States guitboatf Penobscot. xeoruary lath. A rebel schooner was cut out of Cabello by. the United States gunboat Panola, and upon grounding in the pas near a fort, was set on fire and destroyed. ; . February lOth.Thc United States earner ueriruae capiarea me Dng rjcho with a cargo of coffee, rice, rope, &c.. under Mexican colors. from Vera Cruz; pretending to be bound toNeW; Orleans but was found oif Galveston, bent te New Orleans for adjudication. . ! l The steamers AVill-o'-the-Wi?p and Acadia wero run in shore, 'shelled and destroyed. But a portion of their cargoes,i bound in, saved by the rebels. . ' Steamers Granite City, AVr'en, and Lark,: grounded and shelletl .under th protection of rebel batteries, finally discharged and run in. . . : ' New York, Mrch 25. The e learner Baltic, from Hilton Hnulnn Ka - a witlicu. j - f On theiTth instant the surveying steamer Bibb, while sounding jthech-innel off battery B, struct a torpe'dd. which cxplod. but -shA m1 (tamed ho maiefial damage, and no onu was- in- juiyu. vuuu a numocr 01 torpedoes have bc?n raided, and the search 13 progressing. The work of sounding cuti the chinnel and fixin tlie lights is ali progressing rapidly. . "Secretary Welles, and Assistant t,r i, LLuiui.iiiicu uy .iiajcr General Andcffoii. are expeeted to-visit Charleston antf raise aain iSumter's old flag on the enmrnr furfh .inni- j versary othe surrender of the fort to the rcbr !?. ' j Captain John Renoke: of General 'Mult;inV j Irish brigade, .arrived; at Hilton Hcid :. th 17th, having escaped from imnrisnnimtsii-.' ?r. left. Columbia ten days after Sherman's 'nnnv I left tliat place i and wai five times re captured, but finally escaped j Annexation Revived The riiMisa of Ilon. ltob't JT. Walker itHcl iit abject -Prom incut CanailiuDt Fay or in;; the Project of 11nr atioii to the lisitcd tato-..u Confederal ioei 0!? the Ifroviaccfc--Iniportaiit le elopinrnts, . . ; J?roui the Alontreal QiZd-.te, March 22. ,; ,1 THE .NEW ANNjJXATION SCUEMK. A statemeut appeared in tlw's j jurnal some tluie Mnc&Vnhotf));iug. the presence in this citn a t' a f, ''(Ural commissioner cngaqsd in sounding the viticx i Canadians tglaiite to union with the United j States, aud empowered to assit an anr.exatioti I movement witb federal uiuuey to the eSiem cf : $100,000,000. ; This statement Mas denied nn-.l t ridiculed by4 the Glole, although its proprietor, j as a member of the ministry, wa -rrtn4lv aware from otliertouiceS of information, of ' h j entire truthf ulness, aud the niiiohiniition of tbo j commissioner had been thcsulject of grav'S. 7 ibate Tn the executive council. Tlte nei-sou re ferred to was tho Hon. R.. J. Walker, who held cdfice under the administrfttion of President Pi rce and Bucliauau j; and during the reiirii cf I Lincohi has been eniployed abroad in a conti- : flfntial I position as adviser to the Ameriui I ministers to London and 'Pari!rond has by his j shrewdness, ctivify and talent for intrigue suc- fceeded in keebing up between them ancUtKo j governments to, which they were accredit ed better understanding than would liave lesilted from their own efforts, arid in extricating the?o jministers from be inost serious difficulties- wi'h i which their mission wcre embarrasved. From the Southwest Cairo, Friday, March 24, 1865. Six hundrod and ninety ibale of cotUn have passed for St- Louis. . : , 1 New Orleans dates to the 19th bave beea. re ceived. . The Rebel Kcgio Soldiers. From the Richmond Whig, March 22. The "law of tho lancl"; provides for the organ ization and equipment of negro troops; and pre liminary measures have been taken in this city for. the execution of the kw. Whatever is to he done should b done expeditioiisly and well. With as little delay .ns possible the Official regu lations for recruiting and organizing the negroes should be "promulgated. A board of officers specially charged with the supervision-, of the organization of this service should be appointed at once. . Parties.. who intend to organize com panies, battalions or' regiments are awaiting jhe announcemcni of the regulations under which they' can proceed by authority to carry out their purposes. The negroes, too, are generally wait ing for some better understanding of the scheme J oetore eniisnng. To-secure the success of the proposed enrol ment, it will be necessary to deal plainly and fairly with the negroes from the start.1 The act of congress and ny state legislation bearing cn the subject, should be explained to them, and ample asaraTa gi vgn of the .fulfilment of any promises whic.inay be used as an inducement for them! to ci.list. -Tho nature of the service which ihey wiil be expected to perform, the re lations which they will bear to the white troops, and the necessity devolving upon thrift df aiding iu the rrrcservation of-their 'own- race from ex tinction, should be expounded m thecearest Mr. Walker's ostensible object in Canada wr.s to confer with eonfcacrute gentlemeu here o: :thc subject of peace and recoustruction - Ji i s real I mission was to ascertain the temper and dipo jsition of the Canadian 'people respecting union fwith the states ttlee what could be done o 'impede or defeat confederation, and make suM juse of the liberal means at his disposal as. would strengthen the annexation party m Canada aud prepare the way lor a determined attempt t.i detach this province from the British empire ly forcd or fraud. M r J.nere arc signs aireiuy mat Air. waiiccr diplomatic eflbrts were nojt without result?. I'be old annexat:on organ. here, which had commu jnlpatei to the government its willingness to up jport confederation and become one of It's recog. tnized mouthpieces, has suddenly gone over v ;th"e other sidv and Scarcely conceals tho rol jwhich it iutends to play in the new attempt :to dismember the empire. Irt London, Ham jilton, Kingston aqd other places, journal are making utterances in a similar sense, which, justify the conviption of a common, concerted policy, ind indicate tha;t this polic3' U to under-jmine-the loyalty of the people und induce them to regard favorably a change of position which will free them from some dangers and rolieva them from some disadvantages. ' H er.ee tho persistent lies that Great Britain is, unable to defend .Canada"; that her government, JegiuU jture, and press have declared their inabilitly ai' , junwillingness to do so, and that even in ah im ipcrial quarrel the defence of the province mut uepenu on ianacian treasure aud Dleou., it k hardly necesiary for us to s ate that thoe f Jse jhoods have, no more reliable origin than the'jji- manner.! oet mis oe oone, acd an army ot yention of the willing traifors who utter them ; negro troops wia soon he raised.' j jthat thoy are ,ha.-ed on no broader founda'icn ijlhan.the .unwiJlinghess of 'the imperial govoro- meut to rccommiid to Parliament any txpec- jdifure?10r the permanent defence of Canaiki j long as the Provincial Legislature reliised Ij jtake the steps which were deemed neresry by From the Richmond Dispatch, March 22. fT A visit to the rendezvous for colored troops, under the supervision of ; Maj'ors Turner and Pegrara,! yesterday afternoon, showed a healthy progresjh of the cause, and demonstrated the entre feasibility of .the scheme. pudding known as numberJof colored seemed as happy as larks,! and expressed their I ida might not adopt thej suggestion of a wealthy determinHtion to fight the yankee?. By the di- j pnd influential nierchaitt of Montr" a!, vho c; , rectiou of Maior? Turner and Pesram. these it time ot t't c ''-Trent affair buKlilr nrnncwil troops bae been placed under the drilling $n that arena of i-owardly treasfri and titiufv managemen manifest so 13 . T r.t j !: in ine mrsre ine junpenai muuary aucnorn es ior mat pur- Smithfs factory , we fouhd a i mpose, and so long as it remained ,douVJul w'utth v.olunteers, each of whom ? pr, in c-ae of war with the federal "States. Can. t ot Xiieut. Virgmius lioissieux, arid I he Mercnatt hxcbarfire, to fall a mib-ic meet- far, great proficiency in the art ? in to declare the nictrahty of Cariau in the 1 of arms.) As soon as proper conflict suprK)?ed to-be, imminenL But. wbn (military manua equipmerits.can be obtained, it is the purpose of f the imperhl gove: n'nent siatedirt3 unwillisi. ived. " j the cnhmanJing officers to order a. public fa- f ness-'to srsit't in the defjific-r of CUna-.ia uniesa The rebels wero in large force at Alexandria, radc of the troop oa the cjit ! 'uarc. (Continuii oai r i t.l ' . 1 h if i 4 i i CJ9