| Richmond, December 16, 1862 |
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| General Beauregard, Charleston, S. C. |
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| The telegraph operator at Goldsborough
reports that the railroad buildings at Mount Olive, a station on the
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, are reported by an engineer sent
on the road to have been burnt and the railroad torn up by the
enemy. The telegraph line direct to Wilmington is certainly cut; of
the rest you must judge. The tone of the dispatch shows alarm and
the news may be an exaggerated report. General Smith, when heard
from, was at Goldsborough.
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| Telegraph General Whiting.
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| J. A. Seddon
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| Secretary of War
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