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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
o reached this city, direct from the North Carolina coast, addresses us a communication, in which he states, that the report of Gen. Gatlin and others as to a large Federal fleet being in Pamlico Sound, with the purpose of making an attack on Roanoke Island, Newbern, and other places in the vicinity, turns out to be entirely unfounded. He further states that this report reached Edenton on Monday night, and such was the credit given to it that Judge Biggs immediately adjourned the Confederate Court in session at that place; but that reliable information has since been received by letter from Roanoke Island, dated Wednesday, 5 o'clock A. M. to the effect that no such fleet is in Pamlico Sound, and that no fears are entertained there of an immediate attack. Reliable information from Hyde county also corroborates this statement. Our correspondent concludes his communication by saying: I think, therefore, it may be confidently asserted, that neither the Burnside expedition