The news from
Eastern North-Carolina is pretty much the same that has been laid before our readers for the last two or three days and gives assurance that the enemy is preparing for an attack on
Wellington, and perhaps
Goldsboro'. The force at Newborn is variously estimated; some persons placing it as high as 75,000, and others as low as 35,000.
There are two iron-clads in Beaufort harbor--one, the
Passaic, looking badly, with two feet of water in her at last accounts.
On Wednesday last there were about 10,000 Federal troops at Moorhead City, and more were expected.
A negro who went off with the
Yankees when they made their raid on Riddleton has returned to that point from
Newbern.
He represents things in a most horrible condition for the negro at
Newbern, and begs his master to take him to the mountains as he does not desire to fell into the hands of the
Yankees again.