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IWINNOU THURSDAY jRi$ 1 Pay~p, . We are sending out bills of indebted npss to those of ot.r friends whose sub scription to the Tar.WEEKLY NFws ha -expired. If they ivigh the paper contin med, they will not fail to pay up. Al of our expenses are cash, and' we hav to expect the same from our patrons. The Excitement. There was a good deal of excitemen in our quiet village last night, and up t< this writing, 6J a. m., it has not ye quite subsided. Reports said to be brought by a courier fixed the enemy but a short distance from our town. We regard the whole affair as prema ture. We would here admonish all t< be perfectly quiet, and believe nothigi; they hear unless coming from a person in whom 'confidence can be placed-3 man of known integrity. We forbeat giving an account of all we heard, foi we believe, and we have sufficient evi dence for doing so, that there is no eno my near this place. We may be de ceived, but frorp all we can gather, we think we are right' in the opinion ex pressed. ,A Raid of the Enemy. We learn from a gentleman of relia bility that between 3,000 and 4,000 1 Fosters negro troops, on a raid fron Charleston, S. C. attacked our forces a Sumter, S. C, driving them back am entering the place, and burning it, on Sunday afternoon last, pbout 3 o'clock The further destination of Foster's corn inand is 'reported as in the direction o Ckmden, S. C. We suppose tiht his object is to cui off the wagon train running between lllackstoces and Camden. P. S. A courier arrivAd last night a dusk, from Camden, S. C., who statel that the enemy burned nothing in Sum ter out Government storea and the depot The loss to the Government cannot fal short of two millions dollars, as there wa accumulated at Sumter a very larg< am'omuit of stores. The courier further states that the eneny numbered between 2500 anO 3000, and after leaving Sumter they took the road in the direction of Flo rence, S. C. The troops consisted o half whites and half negroes. We hav< an ad..quate force at the proper place t< meet them. .Gunboats on the Cougaree. We learn from a high offcial of thi Confederate States that the enemy hav< -qtarted severql gunboats from Charleston navigating the Congaree river. Our in fcrmnunt states that the boats got as fa up as Fort Motte, S. C. It is our informanfa opinion that th boats are loaded with troops for th purpose of foraging, probably. Our friends need not be the lens alarmed at this intelligence, for web . oive that it is utterly h'epossible for aN: boat to reach Columbia. A gain, sihoulh a -gunboat reach that place, transpori cannot. Therefo~re theisemy can bring no horses, mules or wagons for kaidin purposes. We thinic it .a foolish al tempt. .We learn further that our forces ii --Columb~ia are deemed quite sufficient ti repel the atfack if It should be inade There is dd cause for present alarm. Caught. - A eo-called Qonfederate soldier, asl swesring to the name of STADLING, an representing himself froin;Columbia, - C., stole on Ugoda night last, fror Mrs. 0. Wooingas, living three mile south of Winnsberogwomiules, and mad off with them, but owingt4 th6 eae tionas of ottr wids-awake toun usayhal Mr. S. SxaR', the clals was-overViante and is now safely ensconced is "comifoi able gq'artgs.~ 5? me4: for that ride of the0 ile. Thepfailre alW sagsV thet "ther is ag rur that, ho qemy hay. i, the liigh Bridge on t.e 86nathside 'raO road, near Farmviile." . .We t4 following sets fr the Chao (N. C.) BU , of 1liinstk 4 "Passengers who arrived from Gree boro' yesterday, i4form us that a rep had reached that.placp thet ynqhbu Va., had been evacuated. It is .s posed 6hr forces will f11 badk Mid t General'Lee." "We learn that on the night of the'I a force of the enemy occupied Mannii in Clarendon Diutnot, S. C., ab twenty4bur miles from Kingtree *Ih they had arrived on the 6th froa Go' town. The force was varions)y eetima at from 600 to 3,000." "An officer lately'from Smithfield, formed us yesterday that General Jol ston's army was in good condition and iue epirtis, The only depression amon the people at home. The army as it always haslheen, thoerfil and c( fident.. A party of our cavalry captured Yi kee Gen. Terry's ambulance, a mile a a half trom Goldsboro',-onelay last we end brought it to Gen. Johnston." -Bound A&rise. The Richmond Whig, in a brief a excellent article lately'upon 6ur rece roverses and bhe way to retrieve th< says: "Let our people but spurn the temp tions of ease and luxury, lot them 1 cultivate true munhood and a Sparl defiance of hardships,. and let them I hate the false and treacherpus foe, % has first swindled us and then deceiv us, then outraged us, and who fine would crush, coliquer and enslave and we shall be doubly nerved for a fering, and for reveng'." We.-ay Amen to all thie, ($ays Petersburg EApress.) and if the wo of the.Whig could sink as deep into i hearts and consciences of .the South people as they ought, then indeed wo it be absolutely certain that we wo not only speedily recover- from our li military disasters but win, other a more decisive, sud . glorioqs viqtor which would compel our obstinate a pervese foe, wdre he a hundred tir more dogged and stubborn than lie is, consent to terms of an hon9rable pea Who can reconcile its to himself wh his country is in the throes of a crisis I with her destinieewhilst our brq army is enduring without a murmur sorts of privations, hardships and ex sures-whilst we stand upon the narr r isthmus, on one side of which lie bondage and dogradatiori indiscribal worse than Helotism or Africanism, a 'on the other side liberty and indep dencb and all their blessings and glor -who, we say, can it to hi self in such a state this, to dulge in the enjoy luxuries in any gratification to souls ease and in eut sufferi, which abound all o ? W amidst such scenes are n spread throught who ities of< people, can have the revel in superfluities or in the an ordini comlorts of life ? Who~ does not feel heart buithin him es apheal al appeal is ~eto him .for- .contributi for the ref and sugginavice of tle ar arvi for th deliverance of his coun from the perils which einvirons it? ] -we say,wshb the W, .et ouar.jg peprathe temuptatioens of ase.s luxury-let thera cnltivate true at hoodand Spartai 'defienca 'of hardabi and all will be well. With thus sp blazing in.their bosomsi, they will, un a argiling Providence, achieve their in pendence, and this Confederacy wilU .admitted ere long into the teat fanr I of Nations apa go on proeoririg am ,prosper in its ntew career.. Afl dspe y upon the people. 4ethey will stand * :the army and the Case--if they #511 , opfheair ~duty, the result of the mtigi struggle wilt far more coisois.,te t for any r~I,ea and, slf-denialg ti 1 may voluntarily subject themselves . They will'oe richly repaid for. all th r by the precious, the inestiable blessi od reedomi, based upon the greit pri: glewhieb our forefathers les ue i poelesalegsy, and aithfui an1sae a dlrdrento~towhich can~ alone sesore iastional )Mppigess and pr'osperitj which'we inspire. . 4h e reptk 111 6d of-iropt As ni :-reini6reiodi~bilit4at bhig Drt to Our Itenidaub and Town Council in rg, reggr4 j the etail, of :igvor in thi8 91 Rie2,..#.ery citizen 4nqst, who', eyes,can Aso the. drunkouepss on our h. streets, and niany hawe tear<L that a Ig, nero alaive has beeno grnitted to retail iut spirits under the noinnal of "tobacoo," )re while others retail the article in person. ' The public qfety at aU ime demsd that such things should not be permitted, and especially at this time consta'nt vigi. n ance shodd be exercised. If our Town "' Couricil are not responsible in this mat kn' ter *e would like to know who is. is A CITIZEN. [From the Daily Carolinian. The Fall of Richmond n- [oR SPECIAL CORnESPONDaNOE.] id DANVILLE, VA., April 5, 1865. Richmond and Pewseburg have fallen; but they have gone down in a blaze of gloty, and with a record unstained by one blot of shamo. All that the enemy nd have gained, has been purchased at a int terrible price'in blood, while our own , army, although suffering severely, is-still strong, intact and ready for its future work. a. Of the events of the last five days I out can give you but a cursory view, and an even this is obscured by the yet fresh out smoke of battle. ho Grant conimenced his grand move ment as early as Tuesday, the 28th. It 'ed was not unantioipated. Our only doubt fly was as to the exact point at which lhe. u-, would make his main or deoisive demon. f. stration. He felt our lines at different localties along their entire length. Ihe Hence Gen. Lee 'was compelled so to rds distribote his forces as- to be prepared to , repel the principal assault with the least tpossible delay.*4 Orn Onbth Tuesday in question, the one lid my advanced on the South side to with id in one mile of the Boykin Plank Road, ,to threw up entrenchmente and .built a ,d large fort in the vicinity of the Lewis House. During the night, his skiirmish. d ersa ushed forward a few hundred yards I fi*ther. Wednesday, we fought -this ies columirwith varying success, and night to drooped on a drawn battle. At Hatch Ce er's Rin, during th'e afternoon, there was also heavy Aghutin *i w1ich 'the ienemy lost, heavi)y '. urd, Iheavy g skirmishing and 1movoment. of troops. ve ,Friday, the effbrts were lesumed, and all with gre-uler determination. The Aped ?- eral cavalry swept around, our workoi towards the railroads, but were met- by )w Gen. Fitz Lee and repulsed. The Yan a kee infantry, upwards of forty thousand ily strong, were imissed near Burgess' mill, pd and here battle was joined in earnest. Of ites results I know nothing definite save the enemy 'gained no substantial le aatvantag, and suffelled great. We In- captured betvyeen five and six idred in- prisoners. or On salturday and Sun~d4 ' ghtng at was ful--tie shocks o- oqnfliet the most le of the war, and the casual-. 'g ties oi sides mense. Our en iO trenome in many pliides, were held w by a thine only, but thisstood rnobly nur to its po~ throughout Saturday. On he Sunday, however, Grant resumed his old vocation of "Butcher." Finding ry -that he eould- maio little 'or nd impros Uis sion in t|je ordinary .way, he massed, his Ler troops 'several coliumns deep agieinst a na portion of thie line onr the right, and thni driving them relentlessly forward, suc Sceeded at, last, after frightful sacrinice of ry obtaining possessign of'a section Os works. .It was not in the power =0; o any ien, hiowever br~ee' to have id wltho /these desperatenesapits with n-* . grs @ t.pr 'ogret had ,not yet come up, huhbryn from P, another pastof tefield. Mteanivhile nt the' Fednrals wdre ?olling forward and er recoiling like waves-those behind inn e. pelling those before--until a lodgment was eeted the worke mounted, a fia'nk ing position and enfilade fire sicured, and the battle substantially woni. to0u ape and canister mnowe4I the daenemy wn by hmidreds, our rifles told by with unerg 'pregision, and tihe ground twas literl crpetted& with the dead and wounded, kint sheeFphyaioal brute t7 force proved at last peior to oery si thing else, and the. de dmes'were taken. ~ey We kcnow nothips ybt of'the military t4. mioy~entnt.gf teo 'y mn' detail. But evy statement that reachqetus onfrms .the ,aA et yoges paedir ga fou'li likeqxs~ odir oci-Gen. A.,. fih is 6iid to Tiefe been a killed or rpo)tally woun~dd Hie was avy passing through the woods enid. esme upon two lankees, irhaons surreusp he demanded, -tinatead of yieldifi oned to' them droW lhtlarid -shot ihn -the body. Whether he was kil. *. th b ithM i, s in the hat& th n d p, bY still alive.. po. mortally woun. led. a 0e o e lions of thie ay Gen'T . kett issaid to have been. killed. These reports- may all prove ri premature, and -Iecommend that they dc be redeived * with caution Our total th lossb are estimated at from eight to fifi gr .een thousand, of whom.a- condiderable ' portion are. prisbners. That of the ene.: tr y can boldly be guessed at; but officers who were engaged at the front ind saw C ifelhig of the.slaughter, state that it A anmot'be less than from 40 to 50,000. 10 THE SCENE IN RIoHMOND ' On the reception of the news, beggars th %l description. While preparations for t u evacuation had .been in progress sev ?ral weeks, the suddenness of the move- ll nent took every one by surprise. The nu President was at.Church ; officials were M resting, in ,copiarative quiet, waiting G hel despatches' of Gen. Lee; citizens w wvere confident *and hopeful. No one inticipated disaster. When, however, w .he truth was foreshadowed, such hurry. all ng to and fro, such gathering of goods, be lisposition of effects, and endeavors to th eave.the city, as took place, has no par. A i1el during the war. The 'streets were L Ahronged by an excited 'populace. The f lepartments were alive. with swarms of TI )fficials packing and removing the pub- to .ic records.. The torch was freely 'ap- jo lied by. order of the governinvint to all at( ipecies of public property. In some in- in itances the patriotic owners set fire lb of .heir own pbenises. ,Libby's Erison, It obacco. warehouses and flour 'mills, m whole acres of "Virginia weed," coi nissary stores and buildings, the Laba- to ;or.y and Arsenal, in brief everything tli lhat couldpfford susienance to the Yan th <ee army, or incite pillage was given to vi lie flames. During Sunday nilit many cli )f the stores were broken open -and rdb- as led of their contents; and others were a hrown.open to the poor and needy. l Before sunrise flanes and smoke were .oiling above and around the sacrificial ev ile in every direction, and I recalled in unid the bursting booms, the rush' and 80 ,oar of conflagration, the movement of th rains, and a thousand other incidents'of ri he hour, the siege of S'ebastopol in the r 3rim-a. Our Malakoff had fallen, our ioble fleet of gunboats were either sunk or t )lown up as on that meniorable occasioni, Cl md our nen might have been seen, fir with the lurid !ight of their burning ar apital glimmering on their- facei ro- I reating slowly' from the place., T ake e tall, in all, it w4s one of t'e nost.fear. - i4 aights I. have ever ountemolated. o magination can scarqely fill the pictuye. q On Moday, up to th'e hour of My , leparture, the excitement still continued so nd the %york of destruction progressed- h< Vhe sqperb .railroid bridge across the of rames wai - burned, and other sinJi ar th tructorea above and below it, Litle a ailroad rolling stock, if any, remained, mi lke last train left on IMonday morning. A At wha',hour. the enemy entered I j a -not now informed. But as their M Lvaice was within seven - miles, I pre- jh uOle a. column mnst have marched np ti luring the day, An offlicer wh'oescaed da kom Richmond in a canoe says that bu vhen he lefty' a, Yankee fflicer was ad. b: Iressing'a crowd ftotn the Washington al aonument. So far as wehae adyiees, they show P good spirits still prevailing in the army at md a genaeral determination not to suc- at mmnb to the tem~porary .difficulties by ik ~hichi they have been enshro'uded-- br People are generstly beginginpg to regard ma he event as necessary to our fip atsuccess ki We hope for the best. (OvrAXx ' T THE BATTLE .or PETERl8nUf.--An ~fller who-left RIchmobnd at nine'.o'clookA m Mqhday mornng-last; intfo~susthiat it the timahe. JeA1.the pity.wae in iimes rom Cary to Csanal streets. The f shooeoe, warehotase and other~ entrepots p a be~red *, J No mob or vbolence oraniy kind' had >ocurred up to the period when be loft, 10 that the reports of a destructive mob re )n Sunday night are eintrde.' The en. of yscavalry entered the city'- as 4he A rain moved off that-he' carme out in.ti r'he story of the rpob therefore we hope a -entirely. O rroneotis. -Tis officer lescribes the ,Ighiting on Saturday 'as h terriffie beyond dsription. 'Top enemy $ rorced column after ' oolue ~ on our sworks, lapping or lings oAt eextreine t ht.- The yc'ame nine ehlumns -deep. gt lines Iltered end were broken by $ ~h obstinacy'of our defences;' but, the re Iinth broke over odr force., like a whE so mind. le s1kye the, destructibron he ra menmy was., lnmmense. Our los&-w ci think, consistedmhly in tlie pr' nors hei taken by the enemy. All the siloners fl '&we cajtered werqedunJ rhaying c een prepared, adcording to Yikee tao- ide Reos, for tipdreadful o'rdeaL On Mon- e lay Sherida attacked Fita s and was in tandsomeglv ranulam.-n4?a, Cmtfd . rqns tle 4u6% )1a.. Chroniole & Sea.. firo > rkansas. u g t, Arkansas river seems,' t j -ilow than ever before. )n diges a ttered all along tho rer, and hardly a' boat passes, up or wn, without being the recipient of. ose leaden favors wldoh are 'never atefullyreceived.. Thefollowingfron ate # Louis paner will. show . the nible of e'ainboktiken: On Monday morning the stearliera iippewa, Annie Jacobs, Lotus and LI Hine left for Fort Smith, e4 route a.uile ck. No aceitl occurred, d no bushwhackers were visible"un Tuesday at half paqt- que, wifen as D Chippewa was "making a bend" ill a river, just above McLean's' bottbm, ino eighty miles below Fort Smith, a was Bred at by a force of.greybacks, rnbering about 1600, under the com md of Col. Books, acting Brigadier meral; they had a four gun battery, ich. was partially concealed by brush. After the firat volley, the Chippewa, iich was badly injured swung around d drifted upon a saird bar near tiw nk; the boat was then boarded by a rebels to whom she was surrerdereft. detachment of about fifty men, and a eutenant belonging to the 50th Indi. a infantry, were also <made prisoners. io steamer was then fired and burned the water's edge'; she- will prove a 'al loss. The Chippewa was a small irn wheeler, with a cargo aboard, hav. s on her up river tiip,. carried a load Government stores -tos Fort Smith. was told she belonged, to the Govern. mat. The Annie Jacobs bein some nine or i miles in the rear of the .Chippewa, a firing was not. heard, and not until e sight of.the burnin'g boat came to aw, were any ideas entertained 'of the >se proximity of the nebels.' 'As soon the Jacobs bame within range, a mur rous fire of 'artillery and musketry is opened on her. . Eleven shot. mt'completely through the -boat and plodied mide. The tiller ropes hav' ; been cut, she drifed doivn'the river rme distance and went aground. If a rebels could succeed in crossing the rer she will also become a prey. The Lotus and Ad Hine now had the vilege of running.tho blockade. These '6 boats were some distance behind the tippewa and Jabobs, and heard no ing, and approacled inl blissful ignor. ce the. be'nd. Thb imoke ofthe-Chip. wa was visible some t.uee before 'the pe bf action was reached, but by the tie the wreck calie in sight the battery ened. 'he fire. was principally directed it the )tiis, she being the arger-boat. One 1i shot passed thrcugh the wheel. mes, about eight inehes from tho head the pilot, who na doubt, hinking xt discretion was the better part-of lot, abandoned his post, and for a few >ments the boat was herown master. t this critical state- of affairs Capt. quith-, together with the engineers, artin and Burdge, went.to the rear of a boat, and by main strength turned a. rudder by hand, and passed out of .nger. But for this gallant act the ,at, would have becomea prize, aA the shwhackers crovded around the bank, t ready to -"dip th" the moment she auhed. But in thitsthey were disap 'imted, hind the Lotus glided down 'eamn amid the yells of rage. How the 'eve named gentleman escaped injury a problem niosolv'ed, 'neairly a hundred .lle having struce the bea't in their im ad'ate vicinity. Six persons were lied and eleven wounded on the Lotus. to lowe: deck was crowded with refu es, mostly women and children. The d Hineswas uninjured. I am indebted. the coi.rteous and gentlamanly clerk the Lotus, Mr. William H. Massay the above. Tips design of the rebels in this section' to stopdmavigdtiona to Fort ibithm, and they can 'prevent proviulons and Itores na reaphing that place, it must in time starved out. Fort Sroith,' if' in the be) hands, would make a grand base L erations, both' 'against- Nor ea, a'kaasas andSouthert Missou' ' Tie mored 'evacuation of g'o h soige meks ago1 caused1 ipet here. ie order of ab pie saig . to ye come 'ealCanby, but e order' 'conatrmvanded by theu ' -eside 'o probablr was aware of e' 'rtance of. holding Iie posti ?as LOW 0oUKrTY To n .Larr PRO'rva ?Jt-R4umerous acoonnts inch uis, lothf fromn public andi private oroes, of the unhecked and usbridled ages of Foster's negro troops-through-. 4Charlebton) District. These deisona vbeen alit as fgu as Pinefihli, thirty-9 eorfortyv miles from the ety, and te orrible outrages and dore tions. Indeed theoy arq etiaotI~g~ heir cines ofpjhisg, Arson, rap.4egoro-pt , &o-. &ojin) every part o h cL.---dgefldk Advengi