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177 T" 1 " V J VOL. XLl.L FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 26, 1862. NO. 247.1 -A N : 4 V i TKINTED EVER7 MONDAY, EDWARD J. HALE & SONS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. ! f At 2 OH ptr annum, if paid in advance; $2 50 if paid during the year of subscription; or $3 00 after the year has expired. j -Price for the Semi-Weekly Observer, $3 00 if paid in advance; $3 60 if paid during1 tho year of subscription; or M 00 after the year has gipired. ) I , Advertisements inserted for GO cent per square of 16 lines for the firt, and 30 onU .for ach succeeding publication. , onrnr a t vattoti From and after thii date, no name of a new subscriber will be entered without payment in advance, nor will the paper be sent to such sub scriber for a longer time than is paid for. ' Such, of our old subscribers as desir to take the paper on this system will pleas notify us when making remittances. A : Jan'y 1, 1353. . . 'j'M CO!,. MORGAN. LY TENNESSEE. NARROW E3CAPE FROM CAPTURE. The Knosvillc Rfgif;f-er, of Wednesday, has an interesting' letter from' its army correspondent, giving an account of Col.: Morgan's' expedition from Corinth into Tennessee. We extract: Sparta, Texn., May 8th, 1862. We left Corinth on the 20th of April, and crossed theTennessee river on the 26th and 27th, arrived at Lawreneeburg on the 31st, learned the Federals were in possession of Pulaski, and: on "May day" we had a frolic with them, in which we took 290, and 2i officers, including Gen. Mitch ell's son, killed 18", and lost none. The country had become alarmed, and troops were sent to the Tennessee river to cut us off. We continued on the next morning, and encamped 13 miles from Shelbyville .that night. Marched the 3d and encamped within 0 miles of Murfreesboro' at night. At dawn on the 4th our pickets and the Feder ral pickets had an engagement. We parsed around the place and crossed the Nashville and Murfreesboro' pike to Smyrna, where w tore up the railroad track and cut the telegraph, wire,' at tached a battery and received a dispatch that was being transmitted to Col. S. Mathews, command ing at Nashville, relative to our being in the vi cinity, and the cavalry that had been sent in pur suit of us. Col. Morgan answered it in Col. ,Mathew9 name, and ordered the cavalry to Shel byville, saying that it was about to be attacked by Gen. Price. We arrived at Lebanon at night on the 4th, the men and horses being greatly fa tigued, and considered that we had eluded pursuit for the present. ' j At dawn, on the 5th, our pickets were .driven in; and before cur men could get to horse, the enemy was upon us in overwhelming numbers. Col.' Morgan and Lieut. CoK Wood, (of West Adams's regiment,) after most desperate efforts, succeeded in getting the men collected and the most desperate fighting ensued that is on record, but all of no avail. Our small force of 350 men, though the bravest of the brave, were surrounded by legions, estimated and since known to be 4000 "strong. Col. Morgan charged through them with about 100 men, and took the road leading to Car thage, wLioh is oa the Cumberland river 20 miles distant. Col. Wood and men were driven to the College where they fought until 12 o'clock, re fusing to surrender, although they; were well aware that they were cut off from all passes of es cape, and that artillery would be brought to bear on them in a short time, until their ammunition gave out, and the citizens had begged them to give up, the federals being about to burn the town. Col. Morgan arrived at thb place with 4U men the next day. 1 arrived some four hours later w";'i 31. Our men have been coining in at all ho'ivs since. We have now here something over 100, and are expecting moreJ Gen. Dumorit, Col. Woolford, and a Pennsyl vania Colonel were taken prisoners early in the action1 in town, and as soon as they made known their rank, their swords were restored to them again, by our gallant Colonel M. The fight was kept up the whole distance from Lebanon to Carthage, and a! volley of 50. guns were fired at Col. Morgan a3 he climbed the bank after crossing the river. Col. Morgan and men are in good health and spirits, but greatly fatigaed, and ,it will not be but a short time before the Yankees will hear from us again. From Norfolk. Petersburg, May 20. Gentlemen who left Norfolk last Saturday after noon, reached here Sunday night. Theyrepre sent the city as filled with Lincoln soldiers, buff arrangements had been made which will reduce the number to 3,000, the balance advancing as far as Suffolk, where they will remain until a junction with Burnside can bo effected. "The people of Norfolk keep aloof from the Fed erals, having no intercourse with them whatever. The stores are all closed, and it is a rare sight to see a male citizen on the streets the ladies never. All the flags among the ships, and on the Cus tom House aad Atlantic Hotel, were flying at half-mast Saturday. Some distinguished Lin- colnite had been gathered to the grave, but the circulation of Northern papers was suppressed, and it was impossible to ascertain who the noted dead could be. The Yankee journals, received during the week, confessed to a heavy loss at Williamsburg none estimating the casualties below1 1,000 killed, 2,500 wounded, and 900 prisoners. They contended, however, that it was a great victory for Yankee arms, because we retired and left our dead and wounded on the field. Express. New Orleans. The New Orleans "Picayune," of the 5th, says: We heard of a number of cases of sunstroke yesterday among the verdant stran gers who, uninvited, have recklessly come to see the fashions, and enjoy the blazing hot days and deathly damp nights of New Orleans in the summer-time. In one case that of a man who dropped in Magazine street we are informed that death was inst intineous. If the heat affects our Northern visitors so terribly now, i how' will they Btand up under it in the days coming. Burning Cotton. The Vicksburg Whig is glad to learn that the cotton all along the Missis fippi is being burneu. Some nine- thousand bales ha7e been destroyed between Vicksburg and Grand Gulf. J udge Perkins of Louisiana, alone, consiped thirteen hundred bales to the flames. The Whig learns that it is ako being destroyed at every plantation above Vicksburg on the river. Scotch )Yt't. An old Scotch preacher said of a youthful opponent, that he had "a great deal of the young man,' not a little of the old man, very little of the new nan." FAYETTEVILLE. TUUKSDAY EVENING, MAT 22, 1362. Col. McRab's Rkoimrnt. We doubt If history fur nishes an instance of more resolute heroism than that displayed by the 6th North -Carolina regiment at the battle of Williamsburg., Four regiments were ordered to capture a yankee battery which was defended by four regiments. Two of them, the 5th N. C. and the 24th Virginia, nobly made the attempt, which would doubt less have been successful If the other two, the 23d North Carolina and the SSth Virginia, had performed their part of the duty assigned them. It ia said that these had no greater distance to go, nor any other obstacles to overcome, than had those who were twioe almost up to the cannoriB' mouth' and would have captured them but that the enemy removed them. We are not dependent alone on the modest report of the Colonel of the 6th for evidence of the gallantry bf his command, bat have the following testimony of the enemy, in a letter to the N. T. Herald, ia which, however, there ere one or two errors: 1st, the writer says that one was a Mississippi regiment, when it was a Virginia regiment: 2d, jnstead of breaking and flying at a charge, they retreated by Gen. Hill's order, because they were not supported by the other two regi ments: and 3d, the 142 prisoners were wounded and therefore could not get off the field: j , From the correspondence of the N. Y. Herald. SPLENDID ADVANCE OF THE INKMY. Still the fire grew hotter in the woods, and in a few minutes, at a point fully half a mile away from the bat tery, the enemy's men began to file out of the cover and form in the open field. It was a bold, and proved an ex pensive way to handle men. Wheeler opened his guns on the instant, and the swath of'lead that subsequently marked the course of the brigade across the field began at that spot. At the same moment also the skirmishers in the field began their fire. Still the enemy formed across the opening with admirable rapidity and precision, and as coolly as if the fire had been directed else where, and then came on at the double quick step, in three distinct lines, firing as they came. All sounds were lost for a few moments in the short roar of the field pieces, and in the scattered rattle and rapid repetition of the musketry. .Naturally their fire! could do us, under the circumstances, but little harm, and thus we had them at a fair advantage, and ) every nerve was strained to make the most of it. Still they came on. They were dangerously near. Already the skirmishers" to the left had fallen back to their line, and the skir mishers to the right had taken cover behind the rail fence that ran from the house to the woodi; but from thence they blazed away earnestly as ver. Yetthe guns are out there, and they are what those fellows want; and in the next instant the guns are silent. For a moment, in the confusion and the smoke, one might" almost suppose that the enemy had them; but in a mo ment more the guns emerge from the safe side of. the smoke cloud, and away they go across the field to a point near the upper redoubt. There again-they are unlimbered, and .again they play away.: Farther back also, go the skirmishers. And now for a few moments, the rebels had the partial cover of the farm and Out buildings; but they saw they had all their work to do over, and so they came oa again. Once more they are in a fair open field, exposed both to artillery and mus ketry; but this time the distance they have got to go was not sogreat. They move rapidly; there, however, is another dangerous line of infantry; they are near, to us; but we also are near to them. Scarcely a hundred yards were between them and the guns when our skir mish fire became silent; the lines of the Jr lfln isconsin and the Forty-third New York formed up in close order te the right of the battery, the long range or musket barrels came to one level, and one terrible volley tore through the rebel line. In a moment more the same long range of muskets came to another level the order to charge with the bayonet was given, ana away went the two regiments with one g'ad cheer. ; Gallant as our foes undoubtedly were, they couldn't meet that. But rew Brigades mentloued in history, have done better than that brigade did. For a space which was generally estimated at three quarters of a mile they had advanced under the fire of a splendidly served battery, and with a cloud of skirmishers stretched across their front, whose fire was ery destructive; and if after that, they had not the nerve to meet a line of bayonets that came towards them like the spirit of destruction incarnate, it need not to be wondered at. They broke and flea in complete panic. One hundred and forty-five were taken prisoners.; Nearly five hundred were killed and wounded. : , . The obstinacy . of the fight may be inferred from the fact that of one company of rebels in the North Carolina Fifth regiment only five men are left alive. The cap tain of one of the companies, who is here wounded, is a graduate of West Point, and says that during the action the Mississippi and North Carolina regiments stood their ground and fought till they were literally cut to pieces by regiment after regiment of our troops. i i t i " - i ". SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF COL. McRAE. Richmond, May 15th. . Governor: Having just had aa interview with Captains Brookfield and West the latter of whom was wounded and captured, the former broken down with exhaustion and captured, and both of whom have been paroled by the enemy I am able to give an accurate statement of the casualties in the 5th Regiment so far as the officers are concerned. ; Lieut. Col. Badham has been certainly killed. Having lost his horse, he was retreating on foot, and fell in the immediate vicinity of Capt. Brook- field, having been pierced in the forehead by a ball, and died instantly. : His body was interred on the field of battle. The service possessed no more faithful, consci entious officer than Col. Badham. Never having ab sented himself from his post since his connection with the Regiment, be bad surrendered himself to the per formance of the duties of his office with almost singular fidelity. On the field of battle he was calm, self-possessed, and conducted his portion of the operations with entire precision. He died nobly. i i There is every reason to apprehend that Capt. Thos F. Garrett has also died of his wounds. He was last seen with a wound in the centre of his chest, having been carnea into the enemy's redoubt, j I sincerely de piore me loss ot mis valuable omcer. f ossesBed of an acute and inquiring mind, with studious habits, and anxious to excel, he was fast mastering his profession I have no officer upon whose judgment ia military mat ters I could more confidently rely. He fell at the head of his men, leading them on with stolid determination, which was eminently bis quality. Capt. Mulhns is also known to have been killed. He died in the arms of Capt. Brookfield, in the redoubt Of the enemy, sending messages to his friends that he had fallen, as he had desired to fall, like a brave soldier. Lieut. Clarke, commanding Company Gpwhile brave ly cheering on bis company in the advanee, was pierced through the heart and expired instantly. 1st Lieut. Snow and 2d Lieuts. Boswell, and Anderson. Womack, were certainly killed. . Lieuts. Grant and Cuthbert were wounded, and are in the hands of the enemy; as, also, Capt. Lea and Lieut. Hays were wounded in Williams- Burg Lieut. Hays severely throueh the shoulder, and Capt. Lea through both limbs, and Capt. West slightly. inrougn tne arm, and is here on parole. I Capt. H. C. Jones and Lieut. Maloney Moore were both severely wounded, but made their escape, and under the most painful difficulties came off with the itegiment in us march. - I call your attention, Governor, to the account of this fight, from the New York Hefald, as published in the Richmond Whig of to-day. You will there observe the distinguished compliment paid to my Regiment by our enemy a correspondent, ana i minu. you will discover an almost direct admission on his ; part that the attack would hate been successful had our associates come up I ask your attention to. the many coincidences in this and the report I had heretofore furnished your Excel lency. I call your attention to the further fact disclosed that our attack prevented the enemy from assailing Fort Magruder from that side, which was an important event for us. The little band of 150 men left of our regiment are waiting to be reinforced from North Carolina, and 1 hope they have earned some claim upon her attention I have the honor to be, very respectfully, 1). K. McRAE. Stocks North Carolina Borids'are selling in Rich. p'onaatUX Tentessee Bonds at 105. Virginia at 100. Thb Fight nbae Barhamsville. It was stated, and then positively denied at Richmond, that a severe en counter had taken place at Barhamsville, .near West Point, on the Peninsula, two days after the battle at Williamsburg. Recently we have both Confederate and yankee accounts of it. Why it was denied we cannot tell, as it was evidently a Confederate success The Richmond Whig has been favored by one engaged in it with an account, from which we extract premising, that the 6th North Carolina Regiment, Col. Pender's, though not mentioned in this Texan account of the en gagement, was,in (, and has the credit, by one of high position and undoubted qualifications to judge, of having done some of the best fighting in the war. Riley's bat tery, which is incidentally mentioned, ia also from North Carolina,, and is stated to have done much of the work. Gen. Whiting of Mississippi (and not a native of Mas sachusetts as was once said of him,) commanded in person: - . 1 - . ' . : While the main column, with the 4th Texas in front, and Gen. Hord and staff at its head, were marching along the road, the General and staff w.ere fired upon by a party of Yankees, lying in ambush. Nobody was hurt. The General waviDg his hat, the brigade imme diately closed up, and the 4th Texas was formed into line of battle. Riley's Battery, supported by the 18th Georgia Regiment, was then left oa the hill, and the 4:h and let Texas Regiments pursued the march, j Afte paininy the woods, which had to be done by marching through an old field, the skirmishers found the enemy and engaged them in the woods, driving them! back steadily. They came upon any quantity of knapsacks,! haversacks, &o , scattered through the woods, but no thing indicating where the main force of the enemy lay. In the meanwhile, the 1st Texas 'came upon them ia large force, and being fired upon, were immediately ordered to charge.) They did charge them gallantly, and in a few volleys of musketry, sent them tcaiterittg through the woods to their gunboats, in close proximity. Promiscuous firing was kept up for awhile, everywhere a blue jacket offered, which was but for a short time. After the engagement, we found on the field some 250 killed and wouaded Yankees, together with 42 prison ers. Hampton's Legion, which was also on the field, but not engaged,- (our informant thinks,) picked up some 82 more prisoners. . I ' Our loss was ten killed and twenty-one wounded, as appears from the Surgeon's report of casualties. Among the killed were Lieut. Col. Black, of the first Texas, and Capt. Decatur. Our wounded were all brought eff the field by us, as were the enemy's wounded, and all came to Richmond together. j . I .. This little skirmish, which was not enough to give our Texas boys an appetite for breakfast, has been magni fied by McClellan into a battle, and he has reported itat we had a force of 30,000 troops on the fiel4 while he had 20,000. The prisoners taken represent the 95th Pennsylvania, 31st and 34th New York, and 1st Cali fornia as in the engagement, and say that-there were encounter but who were, it seems, afraid to come out. f r . - . 1 : . I - - J . U - -1 1 I i i Firiso on Fort Fisher. We have seen a letter from j an officer at Fort Fisher, Confederate Point, giving the I particulars of a "oannonsding between one of the yankee J blockaders and -4 Fort Fisher. Two yankee gunboats steamed up within 2J miles, and one of them fired 16 shot and shell at a working party, which was. answered by 40 shot from Starr's. Blocker's and Richardson's Artillery. The yankee fire was very accurate. The first shell struck within a few yards, another burst over, head; a parrot shot struck about 5 yards outside the fort: another so near as almost to blind the men with the f and it threw up; another about 3 feet from the Officers' quarters; another, near the hospital; another within 7 yards of the officers' dining room; and still another within a few feet of the mess quarters of Blocker's Heavy Artillery. This killed a chicken, the only blood spilled on our side. An officer who was examining the vessels with a gls, believed that tK cte&ncr was twice struck. before she hauled off. The large gun "Cumber land" shot over her twice once between the' masts Our men collected several bushels of fragments of shells, and one 11 inch shell which did not burst. The men behaved well in this their first encounter. Niwbekn. We see in the Petersburg Express, copied ide from the New York Herald, a letter of Gen. Burns i to the notorious C, H. Foster, refusing to allow him to address a political meeting in Newborn, giTing for reasons, that j "The President of the United States has very wisely appointed a Provisional Governor for this btate, who is a native thereof, and was at one time one of its moat prominent and influential citizens, and represents at this moment tne views ana reelings or a majority or the people of the State of North Carolina. The government will doubtless indicate Us civil policy to Gov. j Stanly, and I cannot eonsent in the meantime, to embarrass either him or tne government Dy initiating myself, or allowing any one else te initiate any civil policy." This appears to confirm the report that Mr. Stanly has been appointed to office by Lincoln, but we shall be surprised and grievously disappoiated if he should ac cept. In the Richmond Enquirer this morning we find the following extract from the N. Y. Herald of the 15th inst: "The Hon. Edward Stanly, a prominent citizen of North Carolina, who was formerly a aiember of Congress from the Newbern district, and was previously Speaker of the N. C. Legislature and Attorney General of that Stale, returned from California on the Champion yes terday, and will soon proceed to occupy the new po sition assigned to him as Provisional Governor of .North Carolina. ! Rbspass. This person gets more justice in Rich mond than in his own State. The Wilmington Journal ... . , . ... j i 3 saia mere was no aouot oi ms treason, ana, naving saia this, it would be inconsistent with the Journal's code 1 of ethics to state that Respass has been "honorably ac quitted. The Richmond Dispatch is more fair. It says: ArmLiitflrv nntip h. inrAratinn nf Isaiah Respass, Mayor of Washington, N. C, in Castle Godwin, on the charge of treason, it is but just to that individual to state that he has been tried before the Military Court-Martial and honorably acquitted. We know nothing about Respass, but we like fair dealing. It is te be hoped that the readers of the Journal have sufficient intelligence to : understand the character of the long rigmarole of falsehoods' which the Journal copies "from the (bogus) Weekly Newbern Progress, 17th inst." It is a tissue of absurd yankee falsehoods on Gov. Clark and the btate Convention, published in such a way as to leave the impression on the minds of ignorant people that there may be truth in them, that impression being strengthened by a denial of a story on another matter which it copies in the same connection from a Boston paper. Col. Clinomak a Briqadier. The Raleigh Stand ard learns that CoL Thos. L. Clinguian has been ap pointed a Brigadier General. Mr. Cliiigman is a man of ability and. mav be well-fitted for the nlace. We hope so, and that opportunity only has been denied him n,h..;t Tt.n,.in. -o. k. Knrth Carolina Colonels who have shown their fitness Cols. Vance and McRae, for insianoe. The Clarendon Guards. At the annual election of tr n. . . . . . officers on Tuesday last. Dr. T. D. Haigh was unani mously and by acclamation re-elected Captain; Duncan McLaurin was re-electel 1st Lieut.; John C. Haigh was elected 2d Lieut, in place of Jesse R. McLean, who has gone into a company of Partisan Rangers; and Hon. J. G. Shepherd was" eleoted Junior 2d Lieut, in place J. 0. Haigh, promoted. ' WAR NEWS. .Capture and Killing of -Yankees at City V.Petersburg, May 20. Quite a'brilliant little affair occurred at City ' Point yesterday af ternoon, by which nine yankee officers and men were taken prisoners, and seven or eight killed. About 3 o'clock a small boat from one of the war vessels lying in the James river approached the wharf at City Point, from which nine men were seen to land and proceed up to the town, while seven or eight remained behind in the boat. Stationed near a,t hand and completely hidden from view was a detachment " of fifteen men .of tLa Fourth Georgia Regiment. The commanding ofSeer of this detachment immediately divided his men into two parties, one of which he despatched to the boat and the other in the direction. of the Yankees who, had approached the town. As soon as our men were seen double quicking to wards them, the Yankees on land) endeavored to make their esoarx hnt were fortnnfttelv o.nt off arid made to surrender. The command to Bur- render was also eiven tp those in the boat, and several times repeated without success. It being vry evident to our men, that they were en djvoring to get away without positively refusing Vy surrender, they raised their rifles and fired. One man was seen to fall overboard, and the bal ance except one, to fall, in the boat, leaving no doubt whatever that but one man of them all, was left to tell the fate of his comrades. -The survivor waa seen to paddle off withiONE hand, and the inference is that the other was too much injured to be used. . We present the names and positions of . the officers captured: Chas. II. Baker, . Chief En gineer, 1st Lieut. J. W. DeFord, : Signal Corps, Levi S. Stockwell, Assistant Paymaster, George D. Slocum, 'Assistant Surgeon, and five seamen of the steam sloop-of-war Massachusetts The officers are young men of fine appearance d intelligent countenances, ine seamen are ordinary looking, and are mostly foreigners. - I Express. - From Corinth. Mobile, May 19. A special dispatch to the Advertiser, dated Corinth, May 18th, says that Captain Avery, ot the Georgia dragoons, successiully penetrated the enemy s hne8 two nights,, since, and discovered the whole Federal army moving from the river upon our position, fortifying as they advanced, and also bringing up siege guns of an immense size. f rom Vicksuurg. MOBILE, Way ly. A spe- c11 dispatch to the Advertiser says that five of ine enemy s neei arnvea in signioi v icKSDurg on yesterday at noon. A boat with a flag of truce was stODDed bv our batteries a mile and a half below. when the ferry-boat went down and returned with a summons to surrender the city. The Mayor replied that the city was unprotected, but that he would never surrender it. Col. Anthony, Mili tary Governor, and Gen. Smith commanding the forts, answered: Missisaippians never surrender I wo additional gun boats arrived later in the afternoon when the fleet moved over this side of the river1 behind the point. All is quiet this morning Wilmington, May 20. We learn that yester day forenoon some ot the blockaders off the main bar commenced firing on a working party of ours on the beach below Fort Caswell, but with what result we have not learned. Nobody hurt as far as heard from. Journal. The River Batteries. Richmond, May 19. fiVerytnmg nas Deen quiet at tne river batteries Tv ,1 i - since I hursdav last. ueu. Johnston s forces have now occupied a line in the vicinity or Kicnmond. so as to cover the batteries from any land attack. W e, ot course, do not enter -into any details of the recent movement ot Gen. Johnston s forces, beyond the general statement that it is supposed to have contributed to tne salety ot the city. F'romthe Valley and Northwest. Hichmond, May 19. There are numerous and conflicting reports as to the status of affairs in the Valley and Northwest, all of which tend to confirm the well founded impression that the time is not re mote when that fair portion of our heritage will be restored to Virginia. The enemy, though in large force, have evi dently felt the blow inflicted at McDowell, and are uneasy and alarmed. Gradually the heavy columns of ranks are falling back before the cau tious advance of Jackson and Ewell Brilliant .Skirmish. A private letter to the Editors of this paper dated Kinston, May 17th, 1862, says: "Our pickets had a skirmish with the enemy, below Trenton, yesterday morning. killing six, wounding several, and taking, three prisoners Desiaes several horses. v e lost tcree killed and a tew wounded; 1 did not Jearn how many." ; : . : A gentleman who arrived here f roin Goldsboro on Saturday, informed ua of thei fact that this skirmish had occurred, and that it was really a very brilliant anair. ; It would appear that a vi- dette of ours, seeing a ederal Cavalry approach apparently not exceeding ten or fifteen in nam I . it . I i- V . J 1 ber, gave the alarm to our main body, which, as our informant heard, did not exceed hlty all told. Immediately a plan was concerted to get around the Yankee squad and thus bag them, but before anv thing could be done towards carrying out this plan, our people suddenly found themselves in presence of the main body of the enemy, of which the tew first seen was out tne advance guard. Nothing daunted, our men charged right down on the enemy some two hundred strong or more, and put them to flight, making three prisoners, killing and wounding a good many and eettine some horses. We lost one man killed while 60me few -got wounded, but not seriously We understand that Gen. Holmes is very much gratified by the gallantry ot our men. . Wilmington Journal, Win. A report of the skirmish in the State Journal says that the .company engaged with the enemy .was Capt. Turner's Orange. ' f The Journal of the 20th savs: : "It would seem that there were Ixco Cavalry skirmishes below Kinston last week. One, on Thursday morning near Fortescue's house, on the Trent Road, four miles from Trenton, was among the nre.ttiest affairs of the war. Our force of 55 cavalry, under Lieutenants Rogers and Graham of the 2nd cavalry, engaged the advanced guard of the enemy, putting them to flight, and causing a stamneda of the whole force, which consisted nt cmr nnrrmanipa nf ravalrv. tWO resimeuta Ui infantrv. and one batterv of artillery. The fight- ine was with sabres and hand to. nana. e losi J ' . . . . . - 1 TIT . t-i I one tilled and two prisoners, one of whom is badly I - ... f ! . J wounded. The Yankee loss is tour privates and a Lieutpnant of Cavalry, prisoners, and eight or ten wounded, including a Major of cavalry. An other skirmish on the opposite, side of Trent River, near Pollocksville, on Friday, resulted in of the repulse of the Yankees, leaving in our hands three prisonra. , Not a scratch on our lide." ' : LATEST WAR NEWS.j Capture tf the Enemy in Gilts County. Lynchbcro, May 20. Intelligence has been received here of a very successful affair in Giles county. A large force of the enemy, supposed to be about five thousand, was caught between the forces of Generals Heth and Marshall, near the Narrows of New River.l The enemy, seeing their predicament, broke and fled without making a fight. some of them took to the woods and others to the river, throwing away everything that could impede their pro grepg. Between fifteen hundred arfd two thousand of them were captured. It is said that four splendid mountain howitzers, imported by the enemy from Bel gium, were a part of the booty secured by our troops. xuis indulgence was brought by passengers on tne Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and ia believed to be true. I Lattr. We learn from offioers who came bv the train last night that lv800 prisoners were captured. They surrendered all their arms and property, and were pa roled. Virginian. . , i - i . Brilliant Affair in Wetttrn Virginia Lynchburg, May 20. We have further authentic intellieence of the fight in Giles county on Saturday last. The Yankees were driven from their position with a loss of forty three killed and a large number wounded. On Monday evening our forces again attacked the enemy, complete ly routing him killing 95 and capturing 125. uur troops were in hot pursuit of the enemy when the courier who brought the information to Dublin, left the army. Our loss ia both fights wa9 only four killed and twenty-three wounded. The enemy, i is i-rca, will Le dispersed or cip!urd. The enemy's dead in both fights were left on the field. Richmond, Va., May 21.! the following official dis patch was received yesterday: , . " Nw River, May 19, via Dublin May 20. By the co-operation of Gen. Marshall, Cox has been. driven from this section of the country, losing many prisoners, his entire camp garrison equipage, baggage, &c. Signed, H. HETH,. Brig. GeuComd'g. From Corinth. Corinth May 19. Skirmishing con tinues along the front, with no general result. The following order was issued to-day: ' Corinth, May 19. General orders for the infor mation of this army. - 1 The. following general orders of Major Gen. Butler, commanding at f New Orleans, will be read at dress parade: f ' i "Headq's Dep't e-F thi Gclf, ' ' "New Orleans, May 15. "As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from women calling themselves the ladies of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter, if any female shall by word, gesture, or movemeut. insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town, playing her avecation.- "By command of 'Major-General Butlxr." Men of the South! shall our mothers, wives, daughters and sisters be thus outraged by the ruffianly soldiers of the North, to whom is given the right to treat at their pleasure the ladies of the South as common harlots! Arouse, friends, and drive back from our soil the infa mous invaders of our homes, and the disturbers of our family ties. G. T. BeAUREQARD, Gen'l Comd'g. From the Southwett. Mobile, May 20. A special dispatch to the Advertiser, dated yesterday, says: There was heavy skirmishing Saturdayevening, on the Purdy road, between; a portion of Gen; Smith's command and the Federals,: under Gen. 'Sherman. Our loss was six killed and eighteen wounded. The enemy's loss is not known, but is supposed to be heavy. The enemy is busy entrenching on. our right, on the Mon terey road, t wo and a half miles from Corinth. It is said that the enemy is erecting mortar batteries. Gen. Mitchell's column, from Huntsville, is reported to be this side of Florence, marching to Pittsburg. ' It is reported that the enemy's cavalry are within nine miles of Pocahontas, pn the Memphis and Charles ton railroad. . Federal prisoners say that the enemy dread our fall ing back more than they do a battle, as they cannot stand the climate further South. They expect to starve ub out by a long siege, and thus compel us to surrender. There was a skirmish at 1 o'clock this morning. A number of rederi killed and wounded. Also, a skirmish this afternoon on Bridge Crek, a mile and a half lrom our lines. Several Federals were killed. No loss on our side. Forrest's cavalry, Kennedy's Louisiana and. Benton's Mississippi regiments displayed great gal lantry., ' Daring Exploit of CoL Morgan Capture of a Federal Paymaster: Augusta, May 20. Tho" Atlanta Confed eracy, of this morning, says that after the affair at Sparta, Col. Morgan went into Kentucky till be struck the railroad above Bowling Green, burnt two trains and depot, took the Federal Paymaster, with $30,000, add captured one hundred Federals, whom he paroled and sent to Louisville. Col. Morgan has since been ia Chattanooga. More Yankee Prisoner.' V! e hear that on Sunday last our 1st N. C. Cavalry sent out a scouting party from Kinston, and captured 75 of the enemy. Further par ticulars have not yet come to hand There are reports of some further doings of the sort yesterday. Goldsboro' Tribune, 20th intt. WASHINGTON ITEMS. f Washington, May 14. Fears begin to.be expressed that Gen. Halleck may have to wage an unequal contest at Corinth, and that Gen. McClellan must fight a des perate battle at Richmond; yet the radicals insist that the war is at an end. At one moment thry are depressed by fears, and at another wild with schemes to confiscate property in States which have not yet been recovered. Washington, May 14. The Army bill, which passed the House to-day, appropriates $421,000,000 for the year ending with June 18ti3. Besides this $208,000, 000 have been voted during the present session for the current army expenses and denciences for the present fiscal year. Neu York Herald. The despondent tone of the following dispatch, re cently sent by Gen. McClellan to the War Department in Washington, is significant enough: Bivouac in Front of Williamsburg, ' i May 6 10, p. m. J lion. E. M. Staunton, Secretary of War: After arranging for movements up iork River, I was urgently sent for here. I find Gen. Jo Johnston in front of me in strong foroe. probably greater a good deal, than my own. ; , Gen. Hancock has taken two redoubts and repulsed Early's brigade by a' real charge with the biyonet, tak ing one Colonel and one hundred and fifty prisoners, and killing at least two Colonels and many privates. His conduct was brilliant in the extreme. I do not know our exact loss, but fear thn.t Gen. Hooker has lost considerably on our left. -J- I learn from the prisoners taken that the rebels in tend disputing every step to Richmond. Tshall run the risk of at least holding them in check here, while I resume the original plan. My entire force is undoubtedly considerably inferior to that of the rebels, which will fight well, but I will do all 1 can with the force at my disposal. Grorge B. McClellan, Maj. Gen. ComJ'g. Yankee Victories. It is said that the people of the North are systematically deceived by their papers as o the results of battles and skirmishes. Now and then truth leaks out. me N x.iieraia says, "Two more such victories as those of Donelson and Shiloh will leave us without an army in the Southwest. " The same paper called loudly recently for the official list of the killed and wounded at Shiloh, to which the Express replied, "That there is no paper published in the North of sufficient volume to contain them." Where upon, the Tribune cries out against all such "talking out in school" as detrimental to the cause, and half insinuates that the Herald and Express are in the in terest of the Confederate Government, and given to bandying naughty words between each other to the diS' credit of the abolitionists.. Beauregard and Pri-e. The magnanimity of Gen Beanrepnrd. we hpar. Drjmnted him to tender to Gen Pricp m v inn in tha cominsr battle at Corinth wfiich he would indicate. Gen. Price replied to .this mttgniinimous tender from the Commander-in-Chiei that, if left to himself, le would take the position of "danger," whereupon be was assigned the front posi tion, where he will lead off in the figbt. IMPORTANT FROM: EUROPE, i Halifax, May 14. The Ni agara, whioh left Liver poo; the 3d, and Queenstown 4th, arrived this evening. Vague rumors' of threatened intervention in America' continue in circulation, and the dullness and decline in cotton is attributed to them. .The Paris correspondent of the London News, writing on the 1st, says: It is positively stated to-day in offi cial circles that the French and English Ministers at Washington have received identical instructions to at tempt a moral intervention, exclusive of any idea of forci ble intervention, in the hope of putting an end to the civil war. " The Paris correspondent of the "Independence Beige" reiterates his statement relative to the contemplated in tervention. He says the news which he sent respect ing the project of intervention by France and England, for re-establishment(?) in the most absolute manner, and I have reason to believe the project will vt ry soon be made known officially to the public s It is said that certain conditions will be imposed on the 8ouLh, having . for its object gradual emancipation. A meeting attended by about' six thousand people was held at Aston-under-Lyne to consider the crisis in the cotton districts. A motion calling on the govern ment" to recognize the Confederate States, and adopt Mr. Cobden's proposed alteration in maritime law was proposed. An amendment was offered calling on the : governments of America, England and France to crush out the rebellion, but on a division the original motion was carried by a considerable majority. The Invasion of Mexico. The London "Tines" says: Our povernment ha gradually withdrawn even its oil- , ginally small stake in the iiyiitary part of the ::! r prise in Mexico, and we have now little beyond a moval participation in the matter. We shall get such redress for the past and guarantees for the future as are found to be obtainable, and we want nothing more. . It is stated that further rinforcements of French troops and war material are to be sent to Mexico. The Latest Markets. Liverpool, May 3, 1862. The sales of cotton to-day have been 5,000 bales, including 1,000 to speculators and exporters. The market closed quiet at unchanged quotations. i . ' , Havre Market. The sales of cotton for the week were ( 6,000 bales. Orleans, tres ordinaire, 1660 bas. 169f. The market is less firm and easier. The total stock in port is 56,000 bales. Be of Good Cheer. The Richmond Enquirer says, . "We verily believe that we have now arrested the enemy at all points, and that to us the future ia full of hope. We believe that the next few weeks will witness grand things. Halleck and McClellan have both ap pealed to their government for reinforcetuentsj-bnt ap- '1 pealed in vain. They have not them to send. The North has exhausted its reserves. Our work is thus before us, and we are able to do it! Courage, then, people and soldiers of the Confederate States! Tax on Liquors. The Sheiiff of this county has re- r ' quested us to call the-attention of all distillers of spirit Ojafs liquors and all sellers of liquors made out of the State, to the Ordinances Imposing taxes, which require those taxes te he paid with the other-taxes, under the penalty of fine and imprisonment for failure. " False Report. We supposed that we had reliable authority for the account we gave on Monday of the finding of the body of Mr. Wardell, at Confederate Point. But letters received from that place make no mention of it, and we presume therefore that the story is false! - "Banner Counties." The Richmond Whig pub lishes a list of eight Virginia counties and one city, (out of about ICO,) which have, according to the report, of the Adjutant General of that State, furnished volun teers exceeding ten per cent, of their total white popu lation. We think that out .of the bb counties in North Carolina, not many more than eight could 'be found which have furnished less than ten per cent, of their white population. . ' " Salt. The Virginia papers regularly quote North Carolina made Salt in their prices current, When cot ton and woolen goods, lealher, &c, are forbidden to be carried out of the State, is it not surprising that we al low the most important article of all to be carried to a State which has Salt works of its own? , No Cotton. Lincoln has by proclamation thrown open to foreign nations the ports of New Orleans, Port' Royl, 8. C. and Beaufort, N. C., evidently hoping thereby to allay their anxiety to get cotton. But the Southern people will take good care indeed have al ready taken jjood cure that no cotton shall go through those ports. All that was convenient to them has been consigned to the flames." . . Factious and Impious. The Richmond Examiner is so bitterly hostile to the President that It complains of hid setting apart days. of Prayer to God for our country. ! That the people do not sympathize with the Examiner is manifest from the increasing respect paid to those recommendations. And we doubt not that most people will feel shocked at the attempt to ridicule the appeals to Almighty favor by such language as this: Never has any one year seen so many of these af fairs. It is hoped that the latest is the last. The country has had quite enough of them." Capl. J. W. Graham's Company. This company left the depot at this pluce n Friday morning List for camp Mangum, near Raleigh. Ou fcaturdny, we are miorui- edj the election ef its officers was held, with the follow ing result, viz: John W. Graham, Captain, U. S. Ray, 1st Lieut., Felix Wilson, 2d Lieut., it V. uranam, oa Lieutenant. IlilUborough Recorder. . The New Orleans Crescent has been suppressed, be cause of Mr. J. O Niion, one of the editors, being iu the Confederate army as Lieutenant-Colonel of Scott's cavalry. ... Tlie Yankees in Eastern N.. C. Last week, Mr. James K. Hatton, ot Washington, N. C, was arrested in hia own house, torn from hia wife ana cnnuren nea line a uog anu mrubi into a jail. A gentleman named Stanly was also tied and carried off to jail, together with his son. A gentleman in Hyde county has also been impris oned for refusing to take tho Lincoln oath. A guard of soldiers has been placed over the house of Mr. James It. Grist, who is thus a prisoner in his own house. It is said that Mr. Vv m. Unst is in jail, but this is only 'a report. Of the waste and destruction of property of the stoppage of labor, of the insubordination encouraged by the enemy, it is unnecessary to speak, as it would ho impossible to convey any adequate idea of the real state of things. We have heard of a lon, list of these outrapes exceeding all previous belief, and will refer to them again. - ,Vilmnglon Journal, 20th. W understand that the officers of comranw? composing the regin ent of heavy artillery recent Ixj nroon hv (ien. ITCUCU, LlWtl'Uta 1 t week to the- election of field and thnt Major William Lamb was elected Colonel, Ct. Jno. A Richardson, Lieutenant Colonel, z.:. Capt. John D. Taylor, Major. ; . . Wilmington Journal. - f - .,.. ,. i' , . "I' 7 .... - jcnsacoiu i ujmhuh u ina -iUA.' ts. Richmond, May 19. Intelligence has l u n re ceived here of the occupatioi of I'er.sacola by t'..o enemy. The stars and stripes haveln hr--i 1, and a force of 1509 Yanke-t s now ;' rn-.:r.- t!, town, lhe destruction by the Conh the public property in the place, tvUIl tl tion of the custom-houe. which was n:t complete. Exami-ntr. esc i:
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