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enjamin, under the "Confederate" seal. This paper, from the Confederate Secretary of State, the witness said he received from the Secretary of State on the 4th instant, and he affixed his signature to it in his presence. The witness also stated that Mr. Davis expressed surprise at the result of the Burley case. The Yankee cotton fleet. The United States steamers Flag and Wayanda, which sailed from Port Royal on the 8th instant as part convoy to twenty-four vessels, laden with General Sherman's captured Savannah cotton, arrived at New York on the 14th. The Kewanee, another of the convoying steamers, arrived at Newport, Rhode Island. But neither of these steamers brought with them any of the cotton-laden craft, the latter being parted with by the Flag in a gale on the day of sailing off Charleston, and by the Kewanee and Wayanda on the 10th instant. The Kewanee and Wayanda experienced a severe gale on Sunday morning last off Barnegat, and suffered some damage.--When they l
The news. The fall of Columbia — Sherman's movements. As stated by us on Saturday, on the authority of a dispatch from General Beauregard to the President. Sherman marched into and took possession of Columbia last Friday morning, our troopsarlotte, North Carolina, several days before the advent of Sherman. Some of them, whose homes are here, have arrived in thisfurniture. These household articles now swell the list of Sherman's trophies. We expressed the opinion on Saturday that Sherman's next step from Columbia would be in the direction of Florence, South Carolina, the junction of the Wilmington and h a chance. The last Columbia papers received estimate Sherman's force at fifty-five thousand men. They also state that SSherman enforces strict discipline and punishes with the utmost severity any of his troops who are guilty of outrages upon citntelligence was received at the War Office last night that Sherman was, on yesterday morning, advancing towards, and was near