Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-11-27
EDITORIAL ITRk.

teuSIdIe governmental most eEceifdNppo1ntLlelt,
and q compliment to one Of North Carka's w~orthiest
sons. Hon. }. T. Benjamin, former!r ttorney Gen
eral, has been made permanent Secret of War
MOVEMENT OF TRooPs.-Col. R. RTance's regi-
ment, which arrived here from the pst some days
ago, has been ordered back. The tables in East
Tennessee have caused the change in : destination
OF this regiment.
0NEEoUs.-Adjutan General Martinas issued or
ders to the Captains of Militia, requirh them to drill
their companies weekly. This win csc great loss
OF time, and consequently reduction oFages to poor
men who are day-laborers, if the captai require their
drills to be performed in the day-time In the coun-
try it can hardly be arranged ~otherwisebut in towns,
three drills might be had at nat, in each
month, and one day drill. This won tighten the
burden, and answer every purpose. Ware disposed
to think the requisition, any how, an Ssrous burden,
not required by any necessity now exsng.
A writer in the Raleigh Register. can upon it's Ed
itor to give the names of the salt exteFnners referred
to in his previous Issues. We units VITA the writer
in calling for the names of all such
In the name of humanity-in the nahe of patriot
ism-in the name of christianity, letheeountry know
at once, the name or names, of thee creatures who,
in these dark days of our young ntion. are so void
of patriotism as to speculate and Stortion upon the
necessities of the poor.
Their names should be publishe, that the public
might keep a strict watch upon thet, and that poster
ity may know who were our enemie in this our strug-
gle for independence.
~ The P. N. at Norval, Harnet county, informs
us that the Age. for the last two moths, is nine days
old when it reaches that P. o.; and dvises US to send
it VIA Haywood, and the subscribss will get their
papers the day after it's date. We ak thakful to Post
masters for any information they mssgiyeu us so as to
insure the most speedy transmissiolDf our papers to
our subscribers but in this case, wenave been pursu-
ing the very course recommended pr two or three
months past. The Age is put in the z O. on Monday,
and is marked VIA Haywood. It outht to reach the
latter place on the next or following day, and the
fault is not with us, if it does not. We would bt
thankful for any information, by which we NIGH
remedy the detention complained of.
A late Washington paper says a gentleman has ar
rived in that city and asked permissisn to carry tn,
sons of the late Stephen A. Douglal minors, int
North Carolina, to prevent the confsetion of larg
estates belonging to them in this State md Mississil
pi. But the government of the o.. S. has concludes
not to grant passes for persons to 60 south, for sue
purposes, as it intends to take such action as wi
render utterly null and void any of the confscation
under the acts of g the rebel usurpers Of the author
ty in the southern States" If the little Douglasse
depend upon the old Ape to save their property, the
will find themselves in the v~ocative, certain.
HATTERAs-THE LATE SToRM.=Ther y Ilesxina
taken from a Washington City paper, which If tu
will not be unacceptable news to the people of 0,
Eastern Counties
Col. Hawkins, commander at Fort HatteIas. arrive
here to-day. He represents that the exposed positic
of the fort renders it almost untenable during SUI
storms as that which recently swept the coast. I
asks that the troops there may be sent back to Fo
tress Monroe. or the works be put in a condition :,
afford safety from the overfows upon such occasion
a portion of the fort and the frame erected for II
protection ofthe troops and stores were washed ava
and a large amount of stores destroyed, and four gel
tries of the Twentieth Indiana regiment were drow
ed in the breakers during the gale. The whole pla
was submerged to such an extent that the troops we
compelled to abandon the fort and retire two mil
up the beach. On Sunday five rebel gunboats ma.
an attack upon the Union troops; but after fri
three shots retired Just as the steamer Belvidere no
in sight. 1t is presumed they thought the steam
was only in advance of the great naval expedition.
HARD LIcKs.-The Raleigh State Journal clos
a long leader against the vile land sharks, with t
following led~ge-hammer blows:
On due reflection, we come to the conclusion tn
are not SPECTATORS. They are EXTORTIoNERs, a.
if the word of God be true, they are as sure to go
hell, as there is a hell, unless they repent and lea
to do justice. But we must drop them. We Ia
them over to the Convention to te dealt with, as I
righteousness of their crimes and the exigencies
u LiLlCo CuldLi lucy nave Lieu dliu Ct
demned at the bar of their country their verdict h
been written in the tears and blood of thousand
and weeping maidens, sOrrowing widows, naked
phans and an indignant cOuntry-aH' on Bonded KIN
are kneeiing at the bar of the Convention, and i
ploring them to pronounce sentence of death on
Infamous, heartless monsters, without benefit
clergy.
DWELLING BURNT.-We learn that the dwelling
which Mr. II. B. Whitaker resided about seven mi
south of this City, was consumed by fire on SaturG
night last. The family it is said narrowly escaped
We learn that it is supposed to have been set on
by some incendiary.
, NORTH CAROLINA PRIsoNERs.-The following |
|, sons from this State, among many other States,
| Gently imprisoned at Fort lafayette, N. Y, as polit
: prisoners, have been removed to Fort Warren, Il
Boston:
Edward Baum, of Currituck county, George
Barnard, of Newbern, W. F. Capehart, of PIymo,
, j. a. Douglass. of Edenton, Robert S. Grissom. j
+ Newton, Sterling H. Newton, VIM. st. George. G
G Van Anringe, of Wilmington, Elijah Libern, CT
!, tuck, George Shackelford, Morehead city.
e The blockade of the Potomac by the Confede
If batteries is being seriously felt at the North. Sue
h said to be the accumulation of freight at Baltimor
e consequence thereof, that it takes two or three W,
to get anything from there to Washington by thu
1tporv r0a..c I;0Lt it'll ~ok - -.