The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Eastern North Carolina.

An intelligent lady, whose home is in Caldwell county North Carolina, but who has been absent at the North at school for some years, arrived at Raleigh last Friday. On her route to Raleigh from the North she came through Newbern, at which point she was compelled to remain for nearly three weeks. During her sojourn there troops arrived every week, and her judgment is that there less than 23,000 men at Newbern, con of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. She that Yankee officers with whom she confessed talk quite freely of an advance on Raleigh, and that a Colonel informed her if she would wait a couple of weeks they would send her to Salisbury by flag of truce from Raleigh. While there troops arrived from New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. The Yankee officers asked if she know anything of the finest residences at Raleigh, stating that they should bring their families to occupy them. Gen. Foster and the traitor Stanley were both there the latter looking very sanctimonious. She represents a number of gunboats in the river and the fortifications west of the town as very formidable.