SOUTHERN NEWS: FAST DAY IN THE CONFEDERACY; A Faint Attempt to Cheer the Southern Heart (3/13/1865)

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 12. From Richmond papers of Friday, March 10, received to-day at the Washington office of the Philadelphia Inquirer, we make the following extracts: THE CAROLINAS. RUMORED UNION DEFEAT NEAR KINSTON. From the Richmond Examiner, March 10. The following official dispatch was received yesterday, announcing a victory to our arms in North Carolina: HEADQUARTERS, ETC., March 9. Hon. Jno. C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War: GENERAL: Gen. BRAGG reports that be attacked the enemy yesterday, four miles in front of Kinston, N.C., and drove him from his position. He disputed the ground obstinately,...