Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-08-14
ARMY ITEMS.

HopRIpLE.-lt Is stated upoh SoS
tv that the Lincolnites buried many OF their
soldiers aliUs. whom they found on the Dat
ee,d at Manassas hopelessly wounded, rather
,han fake them to their hospitals The
m,s, ;nhpman and unciyilized savages upon
earth would not have treaties their uhlOi'un-
ate comrades thus.
co1,pr MARrIAL-A General Court Mar
,;al Is in session at Richmond, for the ;rai OF
nersoos charged with offences against mill
t,rv authority. Col. Wigfall OF Texas, Presi-
6sot and Col Spalding of Riehmend, Judge
Advocate.
Tba FEEDER a, troops have vacated Newport
News after burning and destroying every
thing they had prepared there ir their OWE
accommodations.
Gen. McClelland is said to said to be IN
vested with full powers as Commander
IN Chief. as well as Gen Scott, and b SAID
to be busly prepasing to retrieve the tall
On fortunes Of the Dortherr army, in the next
engagement. NORTHERN papeys say he winn
make his attack before about the lst OF Sep
tember. peybaps be will not be the attack
ing party mex time
Regarding the movements CT cur army on
; the peninsuky and elsewhere, the
papers say they have information which 1t Is
" not deemed prudent 80 publish
Gen. wise's Brigade is al WhFte Sulphur
! Springs, apd eonsortsbg quartered in that.
pleasant locality
Nothing of interest," has transP5red IN the
q neighoorhood Of Ahzanasia,
Il. TuE Army WE HAVE BsAEEN-PeoH the
general order Of Gen Mcdowell We obtain a
a full list of the forces IS whselh his army Of
invasion was composed 1t included fifty
eft six regiments of infantry St whies the names
on are given; seven batteries Of astiAegy one
a regiment and four companies Of cavalry at
of taehed TO the regular line os army two bat
;on talions of infantry. TO these RuTabeys IS to
Ell: be added immense stats Of the field officers,
es, the corps of Typographical engineers'detached
Tvs. SQUADS, the train hands, drivers, etc. So
es . not less than s~ixty-fve TO seventy thousand
les men, all told, must have composed the grand
al army, utterly routed at Manassas.
lph We have seen a gentleman from Baltimore
apt. recently, who was informed by one Of the
lie officers of the Louisiana, that Butler mes the
boat at the wharf containing the tidings from
urn the great Manassa disaster on the melnora
eigh BILE 21st. He says, Butler actually chuckled
sent over the news, and remarked to a friend
standing near, "that the North had now
.rian learned that there was more than one Great
says Bethel that it was a very easy matter for
from those craven hearted quill drivers of tn,
--
adler Times. Tribune and Herald, to sit in then
loted sanctums and abuse Generals in the service
rres- for every calamity which befeli the North
MUS, ern arms but that there was a wide differ
crate ence between doing and talking" 1t wa
rable doubtless great satisfaction to Picayune t
lie is know that he is not the only defeated Van
i and kee General in the present war.-Sos says tn
hfuE THE Loss OF THE ENENY.-While tn
IN of Northern papers are counting their dead a
Ulcers the battle of Manassas by hundreds, thei
alton. bodies are being buried by thousands. Tn
ort of loss of the enemy was terrible. 4 CORE,
he Sd pendent of the Baltimore Exchange, writiu.
v Two from Alexandria, on Monday last, says:
ion of The statement of the Associated Press i
regard to the intelligence brought from Ma
nassas station by Mr.. Birch, is totally differ
5lment ent from the statements made in this cit
Rev. Yesterday by that gentleman He state
H. A. f eJ : TO- -" II ~ -, rHe !. ne 81, u Co t
on the Federal dead, and that the force of the Pro
vost Marshal, 500 in number, had been en-
July, SoT3nnata men and Luz sS a oat :. a. y 1n5Sg u u
$50 D0rk. This but confirms the statement Of
2 shot reliaole gentleman who reached here {
b Mar ihursuay last ana stated mat up to tn
Sam. ried =
r On
Of Da- are aware that tbare i > Gappt TIL 80.
~oatter- er-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, in the COME
crate service. The citizens of Franklinto
n. c., complain of the bad conduct Of tn
~ Lieutenant at that place while on his wav
'ctor o. Raleigh III charge Of some Northern pr
oners. The proceedings of a public meet
are published in the journal, from which
"i'el learn that when the Rev. Mr.. MAYNARD a
Mr.. j. b. Winston. OF Franklinton enre,
Regi- the car at that place, for the purpose,
ans suppose, OF seeing the prisoners, Lieut. To
ordertn them oil. In response to a rema
"oWe OF Rev. Mr. Maynard that he was very d
s, ovt and did not hear the order at first or
n pris- weuld have gotten off the platform, Tc
d that stepped up to him, and after a few wo
lied or Whan toldhu ~. m"ynaru IN ehe Ia
uld not was a Minister of the CosneI 81 :.
liz cDSPCi dt1 q L
Is were Southern man, Todd said he did not bell
1T and did not care a damn, and otherw
behaved badly. The resolutions passed
the citizens of FraRklaton say that ii,
Fish Todds conduct was Outrageous. profane
sticc is cowardly, and the fact tIathe is a brotI
- tho in-law of Abe Lincoln ~justifies them in
!" - garding him with Suspicion. A copy
'ays his ordered to be forwarded to the Secrear
by the War and all Southern newspapers were
quested to publish.
on the From some unaccoantable cause the ]
and at coin dynasty kept the genius of Gen. "
IN an, from bursting out in the present war
- ' least up to this date. The mystery has
Ut ohe yet been revealed With the Cabinet =
Ounded. been all cry and nc wool
,iment We find the abo5 re in an exchange
understand that Gen. Wool has entered II
, says active dlty at Old Point, and that Picay
he of ac- Butter has gone back 10 his law ofic,
dense Massachusetts, as suggested some time $
became by the New York Times.
r severe Later adyices say Butler has returne,
was H Fortress Monroe and that H.. Ill l.