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rtillery firing yesterday afternoon, the result or nature of which I have not learned. General Sherman has been heard from at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was all right. That is about one sand of them captured, the loss of which makes quite and item. Official intelligence from Sherman. The following is the only official intelligence from Sherman: Washington, District Sherman: Washington, District of Columbia, March 14--11 A. M. Major-General Dix, New York: Dispatches direct from Generals Sherman and Schofield have been received this morning by this Department. General Sherman's disGenerals Sherman and Schofield have been received this morning by this Department. General Sherman's dispatch is dated March 8, at Laurel Hill, North Carolina. He says: "We are all well, and have done finely. Details are, for obvious reasons, omitted. " Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. General Sherman's dispatch is dated March 8, at Laurel Hill, North Carolina. He says: "We are all well, and have done finely. Details are, for obvious reasons, omitted. " Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. [Laurel Hill is in Richmond county, North Carolina, about forty miles from Fayetteville. Richmond is one of the southern border counties of the State.] Commercial panic in New York. A lette
Two days Later. We are indebted to the officers of the Exchange Bureau for United States papers as late as the 17th instant. From Sherman. A dispatch has been received by General Grant from General Sherman, dated at Fayetteville, North Carolina, on last Sunday. General Sherman described his army as in fine health andGeneral Sherman, dated at Fayetteville, North Carolina, on last Sunday. General Sherman described his army as in fine health and spirits, and says he has met with no serious opposition. He says the rebel General Hardee's army still keeps in his front, at a respectful distance. Sheridan. Further intelligence from General Sheridan reports that, on last Monday, a portion of his cavalry was engaged in tearing up the railroad between Richmond and HanovGeneral Sherman described his army as in fine health and spirits, and says he has met with no serious opposition. He says the rebel General Hardee's army still keeps in his front, at a respectful distance. Sheridan. Further intelligence from General Sheridan reports that, on last Monday, a portion of his cavalry was engaged in tearing up the railroad between Richmond and Hanover Junction, while the main body was pushing on towards the White House, on the Pamunkey river, where it was expected that supplies would reach him, to enable him to continue his work. Grant. General Grant has issued an important order, prohibiting all trade under Treasury or other permits with points within the rebel line
; but being reinforced, they soon drove the enemy back. The rest of the day passed off quietly. Everything remains quiet in the neighborhood of Petersburg. We are looking daily to hear of Sheridan moving from Hatcher's run towards the Southside railroad. Advices from City Point represent a vast deal of shipping in the river, with gunboats, iron clads and ships-of-war. The village has been enlarged to a respectable town, abundantly supplied with machine shops, saw-mills, business houses, etc. The wharves are very extensive and the place, in all respects, is so charged as to render it scarcely recognizable by those most familiar with the locality. From North Carolina. Intelligence is said to have been received here that, on the 16th, four divisions of Sherman's army attacked Hardee somewhere not a hundred miles from Fayetteville, and were four times repulsed with great loss and turned from their route. There is no doubt that this account is essentially correct.
that our forces are falling back this way, and he thinks the enemy are following. A portion of Sherman's army was thought to be moving up towards Egypt, with the intention, it was thought, of strikinto their hands. It has been said, by some of the apologists of the Yankee invaders, that when Sherman's forces passed out of South Carolina into the "Old North State" they would reform their evil hthe week before several squads of Yankees were brought to Charlotte as prisoners, captured from Sherman's army in Lancaster district, South Carolina, and Anson county, North Carolina. In one batch ttold that they would be immediately exchanged, remarked that, "If that was known in their army, Sherman would not have enough men to take him to Wilmington"--meaning that the Yankees would surrender t they got all the information they wanted from negroes. But we are told, by persons living in Sherman's line of march, that the Yankees frequently got their information only by punishing and compel