Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1861-09-17
MOVEMENTS OF GEN. ROSENCRANZ-A
VARIETY OF REPORTS FROM WASHING

ION.
The s,,lloired aps are from the Wash
inotnn Star of Weln, s,lay evening last:
ssI hs m ing t Govern. ,tr c. v.d telegram
f. ON r. encranz embracing Information that he
was trpn with a considerable portion OF his CO m
nand half. way between !'uIitown and FIatwo' ds
O.. h.s WY to attack Wise AMI Fly d, or either o.
them v ln NIGH: be in the vicinity OF Summer
vile or Gauiey ri ge. He started from Ciarks
burg (his healqmters) III on this cxl edition, lea
wing ample force to prottc the Cheat Noun
tain pas in Lees front.
Bv his tim, he has doubtless Joined General
Cox and the TINS in, 'sa-i Union force Is pro
badly up with the enemy, if he att has rot ex'
ecuted another of Wise tavollte aud famous
tho oug br ~ movements (to the rear.)
Yesterday afternoon, between 6 and o'clock
Beaureoard threw considerable force within
three fourths of mile of General McCiel!en's 5
pickets in front of the Chain Bridge. The long
roll was beaten, and every preparation was made
to meet the enemy, not only by our troops Ill the
immediate vicinity, but b. all ON both sides OF
the river
Up to noon to day we have not heard whether
the force thus advanced in that particular quar-
ter remained there or retired. The movement
evidently. however. part OF i5eauregard
plan for general advance to immediate proXlm-
ity to lines.
The city has been full this forenoon ofa story
to the eff ct that this morning between and
NJ Munsons Hill was taken possession otby
a body of our troops alter a severe fight with ar
tiery. in w lich the enemy were routed with
Tfeat slaughter.
Not cannon report was heard here
in any of the forts the river last night, at
any hour: nor had the Government in this city
heard of any engagement there per telegraph to-
day. up to 2 z. NJ
So we need hardly say that Munson's Hill had
not been taken by General Mcclellan up to that
hour How soon he may choose to take 1T we
know not.
The Navy Department to day received official
information from points III the Gulf, dated on
the 18th ult from which it is evident that three
or four of vessels of war have reliable lntor
nation of I he position ofprivateer Sumter, and
have probably by this time closed down up
on her, as they then preparing to do (trom
differeut points, Immediately
The Navy Department have information that
the prizes taken from the dsunionists IN the WI
ters of Flo. ida sand that immediate region, are
being rapidly sunk (flied with stone) in the ell
frances to various small harbors of that State upon
the Gulf side; thus blocking up their navlga-
ton The scheme of thus rendering them unit
to harbof privateess, &C. works admirably there,
s it will work on the coast of North Carolina
The star also reports the arrival of another prize
| the schooner Admittance, of Baltimore, laden
with tobacco-captured below Port Tobacco
! creek, by the steamer Yankee.
| The following order from Gen. Scott appears IN
| the paper
! The Generaln Chief is happy to announce
that the Treasury Department, to meet future
ayments to the troops, is about to supply, of :
! sides coin heretofore, Treasury notes IN
! fves, tens and twentes, good as gold at all
| banks and Governments offices throughout the
| United States, and most convenient for transmits
sion by mail from officers and men to their fam
lilies at home Good husbands, fathers, sons, and
| brothers, serving under the Stars and Stripes
will thus soon have the ready and safe means of
relieving an immense amount of suffering which
could not be reached with coin
Abiding to the condition of things at Matthias
Point, the Star makes the following character
| istc statement:
tbs undoubtedly true that the enemy is not
now in any considerable force at Matthias Point,
and that there is scarcity of powder and an alb
solute dearth of lead among them there-their
missiles to be fred from their small arms being
of whatever they contrivc them. except lead, of
which they have absolutely none.
The Federal papers say that there is but one
| drawback to the reports of the naval demonstra-
tion upon Hatteras Inlet, and that is. the depar-
ture of several privateer steamers from the inlet
few hours before the arrival of the feet at that
| point.
PooLEsvTLLE. Sept 9 2-Intelligence from the
Virginia shore is to the ee ct that from opposite
! the White House Ford, near the mputh of the
S4neca river down to Arlington Heights, the
Confederates have heavy piekets, and are daily
expecting reinforeements to enable them to sz'