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I THE DULY TELEGRAPH. THUESDAT MORNING. MARCH 9. 27" Simple announcements of Marriage and Deaths will be Inserted grati. Tor anything beyond Ihir, regular advertising rates will be charged. y Subscribers who fall to receive their papers regu nlarty will please notify us of the fact.' ' 'lis. 137" Our Carrren are not authorised to rfceire sub scriptions to the 3tUgraph. We will have a rpecial Agent for this busiaeaa, or attend to it ia person. ' STf We renew our request to subscribers who do not receive their papers regularly, to inform us promptly of the (act, cs - .. I ... .. r JT- The office of the- Daily Telegraph is in the North Carolina Presbyterian Building. ' CHANGE OF TERMS. The following are 'our present terms of sub scription: " 1 1 Copy I month, j $8 00 1 copy 2 months, '.! 15" 00 1 3 20 00 THE SITUATION. S far as w have any information from the front, the situation is encouraging. We do not think Sherman will march on Fayetteville im mediately, if at all. He will either 1 form a junction with Schofield and march Ncrthward by theco'st route, or he will pause where he now is and recruit the failing strength of his army. As almost every one is expressing an opinion as to the point where the next great battle will be fovght, we. state, as our opinion, that it will be at or near Fayetteville; or Goldsbcro more probably the latter.' j a a: i ii . j a. i r-c- lLeilUUU 13 cjicu uj me iii teres wug correspondent between Gens.; Sherman and Wade Hampton, in another column. It will be Hen that the gallant Hampton wields the pen with as much skill as he does the sabre. 52" Ifc 13 stated iQ one of the Raleigh papers L' at hundreds, perhaps .thousands of bags of government corn, are at one of the depots in that city, exposed to the weather and rotting. Can it be possible ! 3&JTThe South. Carolinian, formerly pub lished at Columbia, is now issued from the office of the Charlotte Bulletin. feT We will be grateful to any cne for copies of the Wilmington Jlerald of-the- Union, or other Yankee papery they may receive. FItOSX WILMINGTON A oorrespoBdent j of th Proaressi, who left Wilmington when the city was evacuated, writes 'that paper as follows, concerning matters in that now delectable place. . " When Wilmington j was evacuated, the houses of many, of the Home Guards were searched but they could not be found, and con sequently a very few r- en liable to military duty were brought "on, with) the exception of those in e regular . service, S.nce the evacuation of Wilmiuaton I have (been tb the Home Guard camp, and if there wre more than 40 men from the whole county (New Hanover) that came out with Col.. Burr, I was mktaen as regards num. hers. Captain Bishop, of the Wilmington Home Guard, came out without a single officer or man tb"ht8 cbmpan v but himself. A larce number of the railroad employees remained, and I Relieve there was only one negro hired to the Wilming ton & Weldon Railroad, that belonged to the Wilmington station,' that came out. A very fw tegroes were brought out; an army officer, who ought to know, did not think there were over 200. It is reported that 400 negroes have already joined or. been put in the Yankee service. Some of the army officers are reported to have deserted and remained in. the place. The rail road steam ferry boat, Harlee, was burned and her old Captain, B. G. Bates, is now in command of the Yankee exchange boat. The pontoon and railroad bridges at Northeast were so imperfectly destroyed that it- is said the Yankees can use them. The last of the Yankee prisoners will be delivered to day and the truca probaply end." . . Mjuob Gxx. Wiloox. This distinguished officer has been spending a few days in Raleigh, on leave of absence. Gen. Wilcox commands one of the most gallant divisions of the army. His career has been one of eminent and distin guished service ; and as a North Carolinian, we feel the more pride in him, because he is a North. Carolinian, and proud to avow it. Two of his brigades are North Carolina' brigades; one. formerly the brigade of Gen. Branch, the. other that of Gen. Scales. ! Both stand high on the roll of honor. " ' Gen. Wilcox is hopeful and sanguine. He bids the people be of good cheer. 'The soldiers will tike care of them Confederate, "f . CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEN. 8HER2XAN AND GEN. HAMPTON. . " Hdq'bs Mil't Div. or tub Mjxs., In the Field, Feb. 24, 18G5. Lieut, Gen'. Wade JIampton, Comd'g Cavalry Forces, C. S. A : Gxnkral: It is officially reported, to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture, and labelled Death to all Foragers. " One instance of a Lieutenant, end seven men near Chesterville,' and another of twenty ' near a ravine, 80 rods from te man road n about three miles from Festerville. 1 have or dered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be. disposed of in like manner. - 4 I .hold about 1,000 prisoners captured 'In various ways, and can stand it as long as you, but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge ; and would suggest th0 vou give notice to the people at large tbsJ yery life taken by them simply results in tho ' j th of Of course you cannot question my ncU S1 as history. The manner of exercising it vanli with circumstances, and if the civil authorities will supply my requisitions, I will fd.rbid all foraging. But I find no civil authorities who can respond to calls for forage or provisions, and therefore must collect directly of the people." 1 have no doubt this i3 the occasion of much misbehaviour cn the part of our men, but I cannot permit an enemy to judge or punish with wholesale murder. Personally I regret the bitter feelings engen dered by this war ; but they were to be expect ed, and 1 simply allege that those who struck the first blow, and made war inevitable, ought not in fairness to reproach u for the natural consequences. I merely assert our war right to forage, and my resolve to protect my foragers, to the extent of lite for life. I am. with respect, Your obedient servant, Signed W. T. SmitMAw, 'Maj. Gen.-U.S. A. Official : Jno-M. Otey, , l- . , A. A. Gen'h I j Head Quarters ijt tiie Field, ) February 27, 18G5. 'M"j. Gen. W. T. Sherman, JJ. S. Army ? Grass al : Your communication of the 24th Inst., reached me to-day.. In it you state that it has been efficially reported that your foraging parties were " murdered " after capture, and you go on to say that you had "ordered a similar number of prisoners in cur hands to be disposed of in like manner. " That is to say, you have ordered a number .of Confederate soldiers to be " murdered. " You" characterize your order in proper terms, for the public voice even in your own country, where it seldom dares to express itself in vindi cation of truth, honor or justice, will surely agree with you in pronouncing you guilty, of murder, if your order is carried out. Before dismissing this portion of your letter, I beg to assure you that for every soldier of mine "murdered"' by you, I shall have executed at once two of yours, giving, in all cases, prefer ence to any officers who may be in ny hand. In reference to the statement you make regarding the death of your foragers, I have only o say that I know nothing of it ; that no orders given by. xnc, authorize the killing of prisoners after capture, and that I do not believe that my men killed any of yours except under circum stances in which it was perfectly legitimate and proper they should kill them. It is a part of tho system of the thieves whom you designate as your foragers, to fire the dwelKngs of those citizens whom they have robbed- To check this" inhuman system, which i justly rxecrated by every "civilized nation, 1 jhave directed my men to shoot down a!l of your men who are caught burning houses. This order shall remain in forde, as long as you disgrace theljrofession of-armsbr allowing your-era to 4 destroy private dwellings. You say that 'I cannot, of course, question your right to forage on the country. "It is a right as old asiistory. " I do not, sir, question this right. But there is a right older even than this, and one more inahenable the right that every man has to defend his home, t&nd to protect those who are dependent upon him. And from my heart 1 wish that every old man and boy in my country, who can fire a gun, would shoot down, as he would a wild beast, the men who are desolating their laiid' burning their houses, and im ulting their women You are particular in defining and claiming " war rights. " May 1 ask if you 'enumerate among them the right to fire upon a defenceless city without notice ; to burn that city to the ground alter it had be$n surrendered by the au thorities, who claimed, though in vain, that pro. tection which is always accorded in civilized warfare to non-combatants ; to fire the dwellings houses of citizensj "after robbing them, and to perpetrate even darker crimes than these crimes too black to be mentioned. You have permitted, if you have not ordered, tie commission of these offences agin3t human ity ar.d the rules of war. You fired into the city of Columbia without a word of warning. After its surrender by the Mayor, who demand ed protection to private property, you hid the whole city in ashes, leaving amid the ruins thousands of old men and helpless women and children, who are likelr to ceruh of starvation and exposure. Your line of mach can be traced by the lurid light of, burning houses, and in more than cne household there is an agony" Jar more bitter than that of deatl The Indian scalped his. victim' regardless of sex or age, but with all his barbarity, he always respected the persons of his female captives. Your soldiers, more savage than the Indian,' in sult those whose natural protectors are ablent. lu conclusion, I have only to request that whenever you have any of my men uditppsed of," or " murdered, for the trms appear to be synonymous with you, you will let me hear of it, in order that I may know what action to take in the matter. In the meantime I shall hold fiftysix of your men as hostages for those whom you have ordered to be executed. r I am yours, &c, Signed Wii)K niupTOK, Lieut. GenT. Official : Jno. M. Otey, ' A. A. Gen'h MISCELLANEOUS. forage on ths-country. .3 iaa.WAr right as; AAjD. P. Nicholson, formerly a' Senator, in Congress, has just been released from the Tennessee penitentiary, and ordered to be tried for conspiracy against the" Government. Gen. Grant, in a private letter to Mr. Wash' burn, of the House of Representatives, speaks very hopefully of Sherman's movements, and expresses the opinion that a few more days of successful operations will place tho rebels in a position from which there will be no escape. Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire, was arrested and taken to the station house last week for fast driving in the street. President Lrncoln has ordered Rger A. PryoT to report immediately to Gen. Grant, at City Poinc, for excharge. Alexander Dumas will be the guest of .Geo. Bancroft in New York. General D. C. Bup.11 has written and pubHshed a reply to General Sherman's defence of General Grant. Mechanical DuTt Schiller j used te ay, thst he found the great' happiuesi of life, after all, to consist in the discharge of some mechani cal duty. ; MniD and Bodt. Old Sir Jai. Herring was remonstrated with for rot rising earlier" I can mcko up my mind to it "said he, "but cannot make up my body." . ' . Curiosity. Curioiity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the threat cf a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking. Fuller. Tub Strawberry. Dr. Butler 5aid of straw berries:. Doubtless God could have m:.de a better berry, but doubtless God never did. V Mrs. Isabelle Ritchi relict of .Thomas Ritchie, died iu Richmond on the oOth ultimo, bhe had reached the advanced age ot seventy .six years. ; ThoVe who, befriend penius when it is'strug filing for disticctich befriend lh world, and their nams should be held in. remembrance. Buy what thou bast no need of and. ero long thou shalt sell the necessaries. TRum. When a man has no deshrn but to speak plain truth, he may aj a great deal .in a very narrow compass. Steele. There is something inspiring in- the strong, earnest, vehement tones, which are ber g echoed and re echoed irf every roail that rrrivjes from" the army of Gen. L?e. Fulf of hope, confident of success, defiant as in the first hour of the struggle, these veterans cf half an hundred fields sleeping in the treDches and undergoing hourly hardships cf which v know nothing, are teaching the people e(.tho country to stand firm, and proving themselves really the main stay cf our moral as well as physical greatntps. When a people have such defenders whn tho ".men, -&fc the frcnt-' embody tho braia-atuL brawn of .a rreat contest like this, it behooves the nation if it be not jxmibla to keep psce with their spirit, to follow, at least, in their wake.' Were these eoldiers at home, we should find among them generosity, patriotism, sympathy for the poor and a fellow feeling permeating the communities of which they form a part ; and why will not our countrymen exhibit the same noble qualities 'of mind and heart on this great crisis 1 Suffering stalks abroad. His gaunt fingers clutch already at the throats of our wives end little ones. Hunger pinches our noble women, while hundreds ot the old men the fathers of our soldier boys have had swept away their all.' The duty of those who have beea spared is manifest.. Be just, be generous; reduce your prices, receive not what you can get,- but whatls fair ; not what will pay, but what will satisfy a hospitable country-loving sympathetic soul. Let us all pull together, and if we can only start the spirit in motion, like brothers united in a sacred cause, we can fight on to the end, and in bearing each others burdens suffer more lightly from our own. Bulletin. . It Is gratifying to know that the meat crop of Alabama, and that part of Mississippi not occupied by the enemy, is very large this season We think, from inquiry, that the yield is double this year what it was the last, and in some coun ties in this State, planters have been selling their surplus of green pork at a dollar a pound. Selma KebeU Telegrapliic. REPORTS OF. TUE PRESS ASSOCIATION Richmond, March 6. Northern papers of the 4th, including the evening, edition cf the Ameri ea,have been received. The latter contains a telegraphic report descriptive of the procession in Washington at the inr ngnration of Lincoln and his inaugural address ; the latter occupying about one third of a column. Lincoln S3ys there is no occasion for an extended address. He will not venture any prediction in regard lo the future. - Four years ago, all thoughts- were anxiously directed to the impending war. All declared ir, all sought to avoid it ; both parties deprecated war, but one would make war rather than jet the nation survive the other would accept war rather than let the nation perish, ancJ war came. The slavery interest was somehow (Don't that sound like Avt) the cause of ths war. To atrengthen and-4rpetiially extend; the. ?n f arrcf ar t o Ka VAf fnm flu -tvHivAvn& would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than restrict its territorial emigration. Neither party expected a war of . the magnitude or duration it. has already attained ; neither anticipated that the cause cf the conflict might cease wilb, or even before the conflict should cease. Esch looked for triumphant results. We for.dly hope and pray (old Abo praying !) that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if Ocd wills that it continue until retribution has been. visited upen the slave-holders, it mut ben ssd judgment of God, but a true and righteous ore. Let us s'rive to finish the work "we are entered upon, ai d. do all. that w can to achieve a just peace among and with all nations. ' . i I Mobile, Feb. 28. TwentY two ntearrers !nd Mississippi river transports are in the lower bay. A large number cf .troops are reported to have landed on Dauphin Island nnfl at Pensacol3, indicating an early attack cn Mobile i Richmond, March 7. In the Senate the report from the coraraifeo of ccnferet.c on the trx bill' was concurred in yeas 12, rayS. The House bill for tho employment of negro troops ws.i t&ken up. ! Hunter addressed the Senate at lergth in opposition to the bill, but said he should va: for it accord'na: to the instructions . of the Va. Legislature. Graham also ?pcke in eppition to the bill. Semmcs strorgly cppOd the measure, j, Orr a!s- opposed U e bill. After a speech by: Burnett in aver of lh bill, the S-rcte took a recess until 7 1-2 o'clock. In the House Gen. Hood's report of operations in Tentcsseci was presented. The report of the ccmmittce o corferencai on the tax bill agie.d to impes' a tx of 8 per cent, on aU property not f xemptU1 and an additional tax'icf one per ccn. to pay soldiers and current expenses cf the Govern-, ment ; to (be. paid half in Treasury rotes or.d 1 aTf ii certificates of indebtedne?s. The report of the conference committee cn te f X"mpti n bill sama as the II mse bill. After tie transaction of other important business the Hou?e adjurred. 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