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Wilmington, N. C., March 28.--It seems that the Lincolnites at Newbern, having made themselves at home in Mr. Bennington's office, and free with his property, are now publishing the Progress semi-weekly.
Our pickets have captured some of the Yankee pickets, and have thus obtained a sight of the precious document.
It must be consoling for Mr. Pennington and Mr. Vestal to be coolly informed, by means of the types and paper and other materials justly be
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longing to the former, that the present editor (whose name a friend who saw the affair does not recollect) has totally changed the politics of the paper; that the former editor was a vile secessionist, and other things more numerous than complimentary, whereas the present one was all sorts of a fellow.
The editor announces that as soon as he can get some decent paper from New-York, he will publish the Progress daily; but with what he has now, he must confine himself to a semi-weekly.
It is hard enough to rob a man of his money without cursing the style of the currency.--Wilmington Journal, March 29.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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