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Fight in North Carolina. Goldsboro', N. C., April 18.
--Maj. Nethercutt commanding about 120 men of the 8th North Carolina battalion, engaged and fought a large force of Abolitionists at Sand Ridge, 16 miles this side of Newbern, yesterday morning.
The fight lasted one hour and twenty minutes. Our loss is two killed and four wounded. The latter have arrived in town.
Maj. Nethercutt having retired behind the breastworks, was reinforced, and again advanced upon the enemy, forcing him to fall back in turn.
The Yankee force is estimated at 2,000.--Their loss is unknown but must have been considerable.
Bushwhackers Sung.
--For many months past the mountains along the border of East Tennessee and North Carolina, in the counties of Johnson and Ashe, have been infested by a band of Bushwhackers, led and controlled by one Jesse Price and his sons, who have committed many acts, both of murder and robbery.
This man Price lived upon Big Rye Cove ridge, Ashe county, N. C. The Abingdon Virginian says:
The militia of that county having been called out for his detection and apprehenson, he had kept close about home on the lookout for a week or two Whilst thus watching in the direction of Jefferson a company from Grayson, Va., came in upon him from the rear last week and nabbed him and four of his sons.
They were taken to Jefferson, and on Friday last the old man and three of his sons — Hiram, James and Moses — were hung, without judge or jury, or benefit of clergy.
The fourth son in consideration of his youth, and the promise that he would discover the hiding places of others of