Columbia Phoenix

COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, March 28, 1865.

Reported Successes.

The Charlotte Carolinian, of the 23d, reports a third success of Gen. Johnston, and this time a decided victory over Sherman. He is said, on Monday, the 29th, to have attacked the enemy in front and flank, and, after a bloody battle, to have driven him from the field, capturing several thousand prisoners, with seventy-two pieces of artillery. The Yankees are stated to be completely demoralized and in full flight. Sherman is described as double-quicking, in seven-leagued boots, seeking a new base somewhat nearer to the coast. His ammunition is also said to be exhausted. Reports to the same effect are also brought in by recent wayfarers, who gather them from bulletin boards and from other mouths. Among other reports is one to the effect that Johnston has despatched to Salisbury, N. C., to have preparations made for the safe-keeping of 5,000 prisoners. We shall look with hope to the confirmation of these rumors. They may be true or not. But it has been observed, as curious, that, in all periods, great events have been thus anticipated, in thousands of cases, by foreshadowing instincts in the popular mind. The faculty of the Seer becomes quickened and made general, as it were, in those strong and exciting periods which kindle the souls of men into a keener consciousness, and lift them into a clearer atmosphere; while the vision becomes of wonderfully extended range over-coming the heights of the impassable, over-strewing the bulwarks of the impossible, and leaping, though for a moment only, something of the prescience of the infinite! Let us hope, if we do not fully believe—assured, at all events, that if ever our sons should be nerved to superhuman—nay, angelic—effort in the cause of their afflicted race, country and kindred, it must be now—now, while their beloved ones sit among their ruined homes, in mourning over the wrecks of a thousand hopes and blessings!