ging by individuals are prohibited, and will be severely punished.
A portion of Sherman's army at Wilmington.
A telegram from Fortress Monroe reports the arrival of two steamers there from Fort Fisher, and adds:
They sailed from Smithville on the 1st instant at 11 o'clock A. M., and shortly before they left, the steamer General Meigs arrived from Wilmington, North Carolina, bringing the report, which was generally credited by the army and navy officers stationed at Smithville, thm Fort Fisher, and adds:
They sailed from Smithville on the 1st instant at 11 o'clock A. M., and shortly before they left, the steamer General Meigs arrived from Wilmington, North Carolina, bringing the report, which was generally credited by the army and navy officers stationed at Smithville, that a portion of General Sherman's army had arrived at, and was marching through, Wilmington, North Carolina, from which it is conjectured that a junction with General Schofield has been effected.
ernor's island, New York, on Friday last.
He was buried from Trinity Church.
The Herald says:
He was transferred from Fort Fisher to Governor's island during the last week in January.
He bore his misfortunes with great fortitude, and gained the respect of his captors by his cheerfulness in captivity and illness.
He was forty years of age, five feet ten inches in height, of dark complexion and eyes, his hair of the same hue, being tinged with grey.
His wife is a native of Smithville, North Carolina.
He has a large number of relatives in Connecticut and Maine.
Picket fight on the Potomac.
A dispatch from Washington, dated the 10th, says:
On Thursday night, a party of rebel cavalry, under a nephew of ex-Governor Letcher, attempted to make a crossing at Muddy branch, on the Upper Potomac.
They were met by the pickets of the First New Hampshire cavalry, who drove them back, killing young Letcher and ten of the party.
Guerrillas, under one of the Kincheloes, are
