Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-10-02

aI barOOursviIle, Jefferson county, KY. capturing q
number of arms.
The war storm, in Kentucky. is gathering thick and
fast and viii soon expend its pent up wrath. I
The Confederate government has 100000 blankets
for distribution among the army-a late importation
from abroad. I
The report about the shooting OF 400 federal soldiers
by order of Gen. Mcclellan for their refusal to advance
upon the Confederate troops is believed in high Of |
fetal circles in Richmond, and from that source the
information has been obtained. /
Twenty-Five Refugees from Maryland reached Rich
mond on Friday, including two members of the Leg
islature. Many others are preparing to follow.
A perfect reign of terror prevails in Maryland
Women are violated property destroyed and i'm
prisonment and death is being inflicted.
On the 18th. Secretary Cameron caused the arrest of
the Secession members of the Maryland Legislature,
and sent them to Fort Lafayette.
ANOTHER REalMENr.--The Asheville News of Thurs
day, says another regiment is full, at Camp Patton,
alto near Asheyille, and will elect officers in a few
days. The companies were all raised west of the
Blue Ridge.
Col. Patton, a distinguished citizen of Asheville,
died in that town on the 18th inst, aged about fifty
years.
~ The jackson Mississippians says that on Saturday
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all the troops he could spare to Kentucky. The Govern
or PROMPTLY ordered all the brigades under command
of Gems. West and Alcorn, to rendezvous at Corinth,
to be seat on to-day to join the forces under General
johnson.
Both the Senators of Maryland in the United States
Congress (Messrs. Pearce and Kennedy have been ar
rested and sent to Fort Lafayette.
PRIsoNERs.-We learn that eight persons have been
CAPTURED aS traitors who came over from TIafforeS RI
negotiate for the Yankees. Let them swing.
Many Yankees are everywhere bundling up their
notions and endeavoring to escape before the expira-
ton OF the 40 days, and many friends of the South are
arriving from the North to protect their property from
sequestration.
Mitchell West, a citizen of Buncombe county, was
killed in the battle near Springfield, Missouri. He
belonged to an Arkansas regiment, and his blood was
a part of the price of that brilliant victory.
The sugar crop of this year, it is estimated, will. in
all probability, reach five hundred thousand hogsheads.
This is eighty thousand more than was ever produced
before two hundred and fifty thousand more than the
consumption of the Southern States, and very little
short of the entire consumption of the old Union.
H~ The report that the C. S. Steamer, Sumter had
been wrecked on the Gulf coast, turns out to to be
false. She is in good condition and ready to seize
every Yankee trader that may cross her path.
About 500 yankee prisoners have been sent recently
from Richmond to the forts at Charleston and New
Orleans. But our troops are constantly sending fresh
supplies to Richmond, so that the number there is
nearly as great az ever.
Northern dispatches report some very improbable
stories among them we may mention two-one that
some of the Federal officers are busily engaged in
returning fugitive slaves to their masters; and anoth-
er, that Gen. Fremont has resigned, and that his ac-
ton has been taken in consequence of the restriction
placed upon his proclamation by the letter of the Pres
ident.
The Biblical Recorder states that Rev. N. B. Cobb,
Chaplain of the 4h Regiment N. G. Vols, has resign.
ed. The same paper takes occasion to contradict
by authority, a statement that has been made as to the
d~isloyalty of Baptists about Beaufort. We regret to
notice a disposition sometimes to charge ministers OF
religion with treason to the South, before such charges
are well authenticated. There may be a few black
sheep among this class of citizens, Though we know
of none) but we are sure that as a whole they are en-.
tirely free from such suspicious. A Methodist preach
er told us flew days since that a company has just
been formed in Alexander county, whose captain, first
and second lieutenants were all Baptist preachers.
Richmond telegraphic dispatches under date Sept.
oath, gives the following: A well informed gentle.
man here, recently from New York, gives it as his de.
cided opinion, from facts and communications well
understood in interested circles there, that the Yam
kee proprietors of large interests in Brunswick, Ga.
have induced Lincoln to fit out a large and expensive
expedition, with about 20, O0Omen, to take possession O.
that place and establish a Navy Yard there, and open
the port for shipment of cotton, naval stores and live
oak.
Sagacious men in this city think that there is mucf
reason to believe this, as the Federal Government il
almost wholly controlled by schemers and specula
tors.
A lady who arrived here to-day reports that the Bal
fillmore Exchange, South and Republican have beer
suppressed, and that the Sun will soon be.
The Peabody Institute is fitting up as a prison fo
secession ladies.
The Central train brought down this evening fort,
more Yankee prisoners.
There is nothing of interest from the camps.
The Examiner of this morning estimates that
long Cabinet session was held yesterday on the sub
ject of pushing the war beyond the Confederacy. /
says that the Cabinet are divided, some member
preferring ordering the army into winter quarters
and others in favor of an onward movement.
The Mobile Tribune of the 24th, publishes a lette
from q Tennessee Congress man. dated Murfreeshoy