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- WINNSBORc 1UESD)AY MOHNINU, MAiC11 23,1845. ArQ TIIR SUBSCRIBERS OF THE DAILY NRW2. The march of tho Yankeo airmy. through thja section of country mvring destroyed all mail colnmunjies,ion m ith other points,'we fimvo bn compelled to suspetd tei publicaton. of the DAILY N.:ws, and until-daily iil facilities are again established, t0o Dmw .Nyws will not he published. As sorn, however, put ini dAy comlnuica tion -with other points, the N-ws will -be re .sinned., Iii the meantime, knowing the anx. iety of the reading public to learn the latest intelligence from our -armies and elsewhere, we are publishing a tri-week. I ly paper for the purpose of affording ai o1p)ort ill ity to .those who desire it, to proclre the la Lost news. As Tu,: DAu.Y Ni.:'s, Tir-: Till WvI:I-:KI. Nwavs a0 Tinl, il Coiio.:In, are separate awl distiict pub. lieations, we have a word to s:y to those friends who have subscrild for Tii.: Duixy N.:ws;. Under u isting circun stances it cannot be expected that we will supl)y our tri-weekly issue in place of thle DIuY N.:ws, at lI/*ly teni, viz: 12 for three month. hence, we have been-compelled, in self-defence, to charge A1.0 per copy for the Tit-Wr1:riT.y Niws, in order, as we have no mail out. let, to make expenses. To the stulscilers of the DWimv N-:ws, however, we offir thi.q arrange. m1t1011. Wo w%.ill sipply Ti Tar-Wnji. - n N-:ws to.them at its terunx, uld tile money they have paid for the Duir.y Nwsrimis out; or they can purchase frAi our carriers, or at 'our ofice, our tri-weekly iuisn, at $1.00 per copy, and leava their sibseriptions to t.he D.um.y stan(Id as i', is, whenl. a.4 sooU as the paper is again resmned, thoy wiIl receive it for the full imie for which' tly have paid---'v nalii, 11!1e mJoni1,s. To any des . *irintom e tlis arrange, mut, by calling at our office, w will make the tralisfr of 111,ir slbscription from the DAmv :o the Ti-WEIKLY. This is ;b1ohut. as fir un a11rrgeent aS We (oulH pombjly% offer, anld we think -0111 patrous will apireciate the effort we are making to supph tlem with news, and sympathize with us in the AiMenity in -which an unmereiless foe has thr6win us, as well as the great .(rawbjack they have ill ailed up1on our efforts to snecess fully establih a paper in Wiinnsboro. . -- -*01. * -0- . W1. . . A R IJST , RSQ. . iiany frienads of v. B. C.'u2.isi.:. Esq., inl this town of his birth illd dislriot of his by).hood -anltd early 1-:ociations anid tr1uini tig, will b. pleased to learn, on the best :111thority, tiat he is tolerably well and1 Uproving iln health, 2nd a; cheerful and( I'J hpfuil in~ opinion) and~ senlt imIents as could( be0 $lesired Or E: pected. He., perhlajps for som1e timlIe, may1i be0 a 'foating mem2lber"' of thme pre.-. but we hope not an idle membeh)r or r0 ereset 2. tive (of thue gralt estate Of' journialidm, which is but beginnling'to receive its just appreciationl in this war. RUMORS AND)SlHXSAT)NX REP'ORTS. At nol time since~ 'the war- opened hlave the conisiderations indueing and rn joining pruident reserIve and"~ diserotion, -as to editorial utterance, beenunmre. u1 gently em'1phati~c than~ at present. Thie utmost care and1 atten1tion should he devoted to sifting ouit rumors and to pre vent tile enidorsement and1. publ ication of' falso r(porlts-aid many repo~rts nb.~ stanitially true may be of' a character and' tendency rcegnirinmg only promp lt -conmunication to the nerarest Magis' trate or officer, but not publicaltion.; Without inten~ding~ any dictation or instruct, wo beg all friends amie reader:s, atnd especially a 1 editors and1~ cat erers for the *press, &6 'hink well of' this matter. and inu doub1tf'd cases to give *the benefit of' the doubt not to notoriety or eensation but to prudence abd.,pa-I triioticIiscretionl. Te~ Rielm onDeat4JM of' the 18t4h n'. astat"h nitm'to o rousin Rchmod ges bavel on SH ERMAN'S XIA RCJH.. A covrespondent writing from 'Lan. caster C. 1, S. C., to tho Charlotte Bulletin, opf the march of ,SIIEMAN through t)at 'District gives an. interestV ing accomit of tho dovastittion caused by the vandals. As usnal, stores were broken open and pillaged; the negroes, according to the correspotident, doing ,as much i1 that line as-,the Yankees. Three citizens were killed by the ene my in cold blood. One of them, Mr. 1H-11In A.AMS, who resided near Lan. caster, was -made a prisoner, and because he could not walk fast enough to suit their purposes, they shot him. Mr. Aum:, BEI, a very worthy man, was found dead in the woods where he was trying to conceal himself from the foe, with every ovidence of having been drowned or throttled. Mr. C. . B. NOTIInOP, a prominent lawyer of that place, burned his own gin house on the approach of the enemy. They then set firo to his idwelling, burning it with all of its conttents ; and a fe'w days after warlds Mr. Noni:runor was found deead ini his fiehl near' by. No hoosu within the village. with the ex ception oftle.jail. were burnel. A fier el main body left. a squad came in with order:, it is said, to firo the plhce; but before they could put their dosigis il execution, a body of V heel er s cav.arv drove thomn awjy. The printing oflice of the Lianenster /cdyes was partially destroyed-ie press bro. ken and thme type aid fixtures scattered and delmohishd. The corresponlent says, however, that the danmage to the omee can be measurably repaired, and that the paper vill short ly he piublislied. - From the Soutih Can/n ain we umake Ohe following synopsis iii regard to th enemy at Cheraw. S. C. There werc twenlty-six store-housesi- burnued, allm*) threq or four destroyed by the explosioni of powder. All offices and 'places of business were.brokon open and robbed, The balk was coiverted ilto a jA)Spiti. mnd tihe Presbyterian Church into a bylll roinm on Sitnday night. The town wa, occipied Iy the )tik 170ith and 20th COrp) of Shermain' army. T.wr w,-re only four hr'llings burned inl the town. TheI' umial a mmount of pllindering was done. 8SU1I 1'S FORl L A'"S A R. . Tle Charlotte B,0T11. coltain an acemunt of Ieeting hell at Tron Sta tion, Lincoln County, N. C., for. the.pir. pose of raising suppues foi- Gen. LI-:.'s army. .Tihe following conmtributions were TIn corn. 87 biliils, when t, 10 hlulIebl., flour 1800O lolun I. meal 1.51) ponttis and 5 bushlwb, acoll, :>05 pomldS, imolasses 331 galli'on. - Well done for the people of [ronl Sta' GE. SiE:RfAN.'s FOJ&CE. We clip) thei following from a corres pondenmce written to the~ &uth& Carolin ian, f'rom .Columnbiat. TLhe writer says8, Iin referenC c t the force of' Gen,. Smt :n. MA AN, that the data is got frorm tihe cure, le'ssness of ta drunksn (.heneril, w hich CPopy the fellow; heft behind: "No iedpices ove'Cr twenty pounders. A rgteof fielu piee, niniety-six. ''Corps Conmmander. --14thi corps, Jefl. D)avis; 15th corps. Logan; 17th corps, Blair: 20th 'cor~s, Williams; righL wingj., Howard : hlet wing, Shoemui. "20thi corps-I10,000 strongq. si'. foni, gnun batteries in smtall field-pieces. "14th corps-9,000 strong;. six four gun batteries.. *.l-1th corps--13,000 strong ; six four gun batteries. "17th corps--10,0001 strong ; six four gun bumttorio. "Eahe~ regiiment averages 2630 men; 'ach bl-iade 800 men ;cacht diyisiop~ 3, 000'mo~n; each corps 12,000.Th whvlole army 42,00,0. The corresponmd~ent further goes on and gives the following atst.ounding intal ligence : Aller the troop's hmad enterdid tho towvn and' staoked -arms, threo rockets weto *tipown upi ther first whidte, th6 s' ad bhat'the 'thiid old. E'r m the firii ofthe la orode a - 'UR LJ 14R-ANflEJ, BY ORDERl~ LF'T VM4NDING OlNItgAL T IRTep1WfrHuq 1NmT~J and Nvith this furlough connuenced scetes as lirbitrous as have overy dis graced the aunals of niodern hietory, whether in Spain, or Poland, or among the wild tribes of our own contibent. PROVISIOYS. We rejoice- to see a call for a meeting ofcitizenscof Kershaw district to con sider and devise means for the supply of, families left, in destitution, and for a prompt and equable diltribution of pro visioii nud resources left to us. There is in the. country enough to rrevent any general or continued pres sure of famine -many who have lost nuich, or all, in luxuries and superflu. ties, have, still supplies in necessariqs, and 'inay havo so fai escaped any near qvils of the war. This is the time to try and prove gord citizensnip, and to show out the true colors of all. Tie examples and experiepco of those who had adopted the plan of hoarding aid hiding provisions or materials of constant use and demand, have not en eoitraged other to adopt that poli. . 'Even as a matter of mnoney and apart from all considerations of virtue and duty aid pat-iotisim, it is better now to defer or postrone the claim- of man non, but. to 11i.str)bute anid conimutinicate fIs each is permitted by iaeans and 'pportum. ties. 'fullH, n]w. BRUmR."l ve iopy the anne:<ed extract from the epr rhtlv columnns of the Salisiburg W akhawn. and re-c-ho thle sentiment e-xprem. d tierein. We have seen the "elepla. it" and know that Bro. BR N El is cori-rat in what lie says: BA D CA uc-riIAs. --TIire are siotne mnin hie Conifedernev that ivouldhave LlIe polmd believe that the exeerable Yanikev are hi iost hiimnaine of all tIe inlabit lts of this earl h, or inhat ever breat i tie friie airof Iiaven ; that, i portion of our comitry tLu-ug which ithey pIs on their way of r'Ibberv and phinde are comparat ively unmolested -IIw ll isturbed . ther!% never interfere with zu - private propirty or comtuit th1e leat. hace ope1miien.E ryhn is let i.thev find it. In Shot, they are tialantnights on missions of mercy, protefg mnocenea :110 dispenising ils icbr~ihoiutt tie lai. "i a tIw (ays1 p> we receiveo a tiltrn from aino- bilheproof about Charlot 1, Stilt inl" tli?. Sherimanm whilv in Cohimiila fur-. nished a giarl for lii protect ion of the Cit.hloli3 Colvent ; and that, lie was treating citizens with much leieniicy. But t.ho Con vent. wsk*as burnt, douht!ess by ordl XfSierimm. We alive had 'iquil enough of this sort of j-rgon. I -t.. III people not, ho deceived. Menl who'it tmpt tIus to se duice them into initffreonce, ire iiieneic. They avtit the people to look .upjon the OmV P$ IL great bi'elactor. Bit no intelligent ian who has kept posted upon tho barbarous policy of the enemy towar.I our people ean bit prevailed upon to b.l ieve th' lhe itautnent of thw Yanket isypiat hizers and taorie. wvry mn should01) to a deafs ear tho themI. Sheri mn ish a plic~l enyl ;ii th or i onoug forjc us. i feii uis liow m5 onrSatle poliy butm his miniaosnare woubr notL permit hi t e~ie su10 h outi ti.' anI tiiject s e irfmoin as huet ii exmeable. Ssht e of tan h i i'nn (arte our hirart shouihld expect, or deuroe any thiing at, their hand.. WVe see it stat ed that a reliale cii zen of Angusta reports that Mayor Mac. -beth,. of Charleton, sayS the Firench Consuml assured hinm he had advices fronm the hMnperor Napoleon t~o the effect that h~e w'l aissert the iindependcee of the Confederacy on the 4th of March, arnd if nOcearuy, supp)ort the deOclaraitioni with~ arrr'ed interventiop.' Fren h vssels are redd~uezvouing at conveni~nt. points on the Atlantic coast ahnd the Gulf of Mexkico. We learn thtit E~ x-overnor B~onhami bias been appointed Brigadier.General, nid placedl an ,comniand of nil 'of the South Carolina ,Aiegular Troips.-Green, ile (~ 6. C)i-Potriot. . out "tieul" hotel 1 urner's have boon rrest,ed inrggy York. The Lyke IErl THE BA TTL OF A VERASZ'OO. A moro gallant stati4 has not beelt made during the war than tlto4 maintained by a handful of oir army-at Averasboro, N. C., on-Thursday,' the 16thof March. Since the ovacuatiou of Charleston, Gen. Hardee has been huirrying forward to ef'ect ajunction with the remainder of the troops under Generals Johnston and Beauregard, nl sinco the 1st of March, the enety have been close upoin his rear. More or less of skirmisihing has attervled his progress since leaving Cheraw, and able generalship alone enabled him to avoid a battle inl which the superior numbers of the Federals would give Sherman every advantage. On Wednesday last, however, the bad coudition ofthe roads, the proximity of the eneyiv, thoir evident intention to force a fight, and other circumstances, combined to induce Gen. Hardee to make a stand. Hisi army was then about four miles from Averasboro, in the vicinity of, wvhat is knov) as Smith's farm. Col. Rltett with his brigade of South Carolina legulars (conw isting oftle Ist Artillery, 1st Infantry, and Lucas' battaion of Heavy Artillery. but acting as infantry, and a Portion of tie Beaufort acnd de Gardeatux Light Artillery) coustituted the rear guard. Skirmishing an(l sharp-shootiug coi menced about noni, and our troops at once set to work jt throwing up isuitch elight entrenchments as the means at hand permitted. A few rails here, logs there, and a bunch of limbs iprinkled wit 'dirt was all that could be had to an swer the temporary purpose. On th; day no tdetermined advance was made b the enonv. Oiu% army, however lst one of it:; bravest and most prom. ising officers. Col. Rhett, commai n ding, the rear gaisrd.' Impelled by thai. restlesi energy which characterized him witile in comimnad of Fort Smmnter, a'.1 a1 desire to know porsonally the Con dition of afiirgin his front, he made' a personal reco:notssantce beyond oir picket lines, and near those of the foe. Thlis feariess oxposiure may have provok el a fatal spot, or led to his 'captm:te. He never retuirned, and the word '"is13 Sing," now written pgainsthinai, X I ii name,, calls upl the most painult iipprehenion'ls0I. Daylight, on Thursday, rovealed the enemy11v in poition, anl evidntily about to give battle. Our own troops were also in line behind their wvorks-if they may *be dignifiiel by such :a naine-anud with - eithu: iasm awai"ted tihe onitet. Opposite our igitd front was a larg fiehl ; opposite ot r T lt t a dente udor growth of smtal pinsi limited tht vievw. Col. Buter. of the 1st infantry, was in Co111mn:11.1 of the brgad"ttie, aid Lieut. Col. D t revilly comnItded that regimnit. Skirmishing connune iat an early hour ab.ng the entire line, aml anhonut sevenl o'clock Lite tenimy attacked our Ieft in furce. The nwn imet it, splendid] ly. Disciplined like the regulars of the oit ari anutd for more, than a var and a- 1h ii ly and nigitly Inder the fite of the P'edmral artillery on Sotter ind onl Sulhtvant's attld Jalmies' Ismitdt, tihey hadl be)Co111 ill i. dangir antd hardsip; u)ml tlio was their oll olversaries on tho open aiel n oun for whichI they .aid longed , without cesiIg The manner in which I hey availed themselves of this, 1hw tirst oporunity to prove their eclat, ti stilled their earliest purposo. Theo Federals might as well have itrtck a -(dil i wll. .~ Idml ordereid to fall l nek, the men~ stoodl in their places, receivmg and rotuning tlho battle firn-,.with chteekd iuinched. Twao divisiins of Slocumr's corpsk KipaLtrick's - caary, and superior nonbiters' of artilttry were in thot tront, presingt wit h alli the ir might, hut oura line s rceman~ tt Intact. I:Taree of our JIghtt I2-powlher gunts ailled to the ef fe(1 tienes of our defeneio. O nc of t 1ho9e beloningt to Iani(tl Gardt ux's battery, the entemyf ter; biut inl a sht. time thte lah~tter brontziht up a battory, tand withbin five hm.ired yhard opnd upon this sin gle twe. wh t <tescribe.1 ts as a pertfec. t141 h ll trm of lire.'' Ho[(rses and men~t wet down before t ho tornado uintil hilt (n of eachl remnain-edh, and the gun win thietn abanditonmed to its laite. Failing to prtodhue nny e~fect oin the left, ,thue ttack was trlansferred to the right fla nk. H~erJa-e had no ilefl nceu, and oy aOin of theo pauceit y of inilJrQ, could onmeet the rapiill comubinations ott the ienmy wvthhia lino of skirmnishes Icons1i.dingl of four com~ipaies(. F'or time thme~so he'd ant entire'bngta< eheek, but11 thn -latter 6bn.ly el d~ broke throtugh, and forced us; fall baek. Sim~ultaoconsly the F<, 1. at teeked our right front, anid us, be. tweetn the tnapgular fire, Iame no. cessary to abandopm th~o fi. fne.' ljn 8 doitng, man~y of~ our 'wd ed full intO th'e hands of thye ~d ' It was -neaotii btwo o'clock, p.;m.. Felgb~i t beIl at'ie our fogces oanig dtid lin, nniN mnet a~briasifin Moale ofn-AbtI .rh1. rtee fight was again obstanately.rene'wod and eontested; but the enemy. sweeping around our right flank, compelled, in the course of the afternoon, an. abandonment of the second line and a retreat to the third. - 'lho Federals had boon worried and exhaunsted, had lost edvily in killed and vounded], and the b d'fout presen ted at the third line,'wit its flanks pro tectel by swanips, coml lied them to desist from further operat s. The battle there ceased. No further\ attemipt was mande to press otr cohlmns, and our march to concentrate hai sifnce been 'uinilhpelled. The losses of tho enemy, reported by their prisoners, of whom a fiw were taken, are from 13,500 to 3,800. Our own will not exceed five hundred. Daily Carrliit. THE AATTLE NEAR AVRRASHORO. This turns out to have been an affair of fMuch more magnitude and'import ance than was at first supposed. We have not been able to obtain any entirely re liable acqount of it, but will give such information as we thirk probably the nearest to correctness. We have conversed with several womled and other soldiers engaged in tie fight, and theynil agree that it was a desp'erate one. Most of them - think our eitire loss was about 1,000, whilo they say that (of the enemy imust have been 4,000 or 5,000. A gentleman just from Veldon on Saturday last, informs ns tiat he saw an official dispatch front General Johnston whiu placed ourloss at 350. and the supposed losso f the ene my at 5,000. .T1 foUlowing is what we think prol). ably approachinig a truo aciout, 4.hongh ainong so many rumors we cannot voel .for the ab.solIte truth of any It seeniui that tihe fighlt, collilli need about nlowsn onl W esay the 15th,, and continued lriskly until night. Con sideraleskirmishing was carried on all night, and Thursday morning the battle .co)mmlenced furiously, . and raged the whole day. Gen. Hardee, with about. a half a corps, was entrenched betweena la3ick crek and Cape Fear river, at no grat. listance fro:na the conitence of these tio.etreans., but. at a point higher mit tkia thak at which the enemy crossed the foner si ream. IHere he was at tack ed by two.corps of S-hernan's veteran!,, anl our worL were cbarged thiree .sev eral times, anl each chaarge was r:aul sed with .immmnaa silaughter. \W1o do not nmiler-tanl t1e positiona of General Blragg, bit we vre' iiforned timt. his troolp were driven back, whichi :iade it, no. . .r I ardee to fail boek to pro venlt. bein- ag f1uilaed ' I had- t-o anan d"1n two guns, the horses be4longing to tLikm ieing sill, or nearly all, killed, so that le wOti unable to bring them ofi. [Progress. A F~wrtTr1 . N aoo. --We learn Ilat on Tisala Iast, some sti:cr#,lin,, Oavalrymlell wenat to the honive of Mr. Hfainy Britt, an oll and highly respecta. ble c-it ian of this county, and asked for fRod, with- which they .were supplied, 11and tley then annale off; butt seeing a negro boy. beloaging to Mr. B plough ing a very fi(. horse in a field yaear by, two of the() numberi poorly mounted, ang'ed b-hind, then rode up to tha, boy anda1l ordeared him to u'nga 'ear ho horse, as - they had come for him. The boy cotM pliedl, but managed to get hiohl dfa stout stwitema while ungearaing, andl as h'ea threw bacek theo gear he suddenly sprang with his~ breast across the horse's back, at thea satme instanit plying his swatch, and aaway' lhe w(nt, recoviering an upright p)osit ion as lhe fled. Tihe cavalry men gave cha:;e, but withI their sorry- n gs it'*wa; nao ause. I~nehaing thle fentce horse an n1laegro~ leap)e 1it anud soont wwea ont of sighat of thea paarsnors. The naegr did not retuira utiil Pridlay nighat. 1 Io says lhe thtoughat the- two maen were Yankees nad he h;ua no idelof o letting tither hiamself or horse fall ihto their latids if hen conid help it, and he0 stayedl away thre ays 1! in Nflr to provenit 'a capture by a too rly re *nrn. .I~e is a sharowdl a faithful serveant.-- Rrzady P rog ' W~1Arr Fount tAtas -rO haVr. Dox sCi * , 't'l3 M65.-Theo Jaokson papers o t~o la8th mat., cont a in tres~ of th' rebel den. For rest, inlihops; raelntag~ th~e resutlt * tinhng durin Th jast y~nr. y/6tay bIa thw y battles, Wi~led -thd ciaptired 0~ 0 ofthme eomny, cap'tured 2,000 heo44 anal anIes, 0'i pieces of - t-tillery,M tr'nnarpbt-t.;. 20 *bargesa, 30 0dgens, 5tiblancos, ),05 ntand'of.'s ,4 bloaikhotisfs, (des1I~.re(, road, 6 loepotivwa ait 100 ur anbuntingkt&4 *5O dpQ of tpt Ly. eco ~ lh.' he 'i troop. bh .vgth