Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-08-21

somewhat obstructed by the want of mate
rails among other things of felt. We are
gratified to be able to state that Mr.. Wa
terhouse, the skillful superintendent OF the
Bradshaw Mills, in this city has undertaken
the manufacture Of felt, and viii soon be able
to supply all the mills. Mr.. W. will thus
confer an important benefit upon the South
ern public in addition to his valuable services
already in advancing the cause of Southern
manufactures.
We find the above in the Richmond Dis
patch, of yesterday, and very cheerfully give
it a place in our columns. The blockade
caught many paper makers IN the South
without material. The supply of felt, we
hear, was very short, and it is very gratifying
to know that it can now be procured from a
Southern mandatory. Mr.. Waterhouse de-
serves the thanks of the South for his timely
supply of an article sc much needed here.
Petersburg Express.
GENERAL 0RDERs.-Among several Gener-
al Orders lately issued by the Adjutant Gen
eral at Raleigh, are the following -
sWhen a soldier is once enrolled or enlis-
ted, he cannot be discharged unless by order
of the Governor, whilst in the service of the
State, or BY the Confederate Government
after his regiment has been transferred to
that Government"
"InfoFraation has been received that the
Confederate States Government will not
recognize any Regimental Quarter Master,
Commissary or Adjutant, unless they be APP
pointed from the Lieutenants of the Regi-
ment in officers to each Regiment are allow
ed. One Surgeon and one Assistant Sur
geon.
aAH commissions or appointments hereto
fore given by the authorities of this State to
Quartermasters, Commissaries and Adjutants
of Regiments, and to second Assistant Sur
geons, are therefore revoked from and af-
ter the goth inst. And the pay of Chap
lains will be reduced from that date, to the
rate allowed by the Confederate States"
How KERsHAw's REGIMENT WAS MADE
READY.-It is said that when the second
South Carolina Regiment, Col. Kershaw, was
drawn up, waiting for orders to make its en-
try into the fight at the Stone Bridge, our
Brother Meynard;e, its chaplain, came to the
front and asked them that he might once
more pray with them. TO this proposition
they responded cheerfully, and the entire
regiment bowed before the Lord of hosts,
while he led them in prayer, offering an earn
est and touching supplication for their sue
cess and protection. The prayer was an
swered, and they had scarce entered the me-
lee before the fortunes of the day were turned.
s. G. Christian AdUocdte.
LBERAL.-Janes Fl. Wilson, of Tennes-
see, hearing a couple of gentlemen say that
they were on the way to Manassas, to look
after their sons, and intended to devote them
3 selves TO che care of the sick and wounded,
Immediately drew his check for $4,000, and
handed it TO- them, to- devote to the same
! object.
] The Norfolk Day Book of Saturday last
! gives the following:
We learn, from the Peninsula, that a skir-
mish took place over there on Monday last.
Que hundred and twenty of our cavalry were
were out on a reeonnoitering expedition, and
: fell in company of sixty-fve Yankees on
James river, between Smiths and Lees pla-
S ces, above Newport News, when a fight en-
t sued, which resulted in our complete success.
Out of the sixty-ive Yankees engaged, there
: we're only fifteen of them left alive to tell the
tale of slaughter.
1t is is said that a great deal of successful
skirmishing is going on, on the Peninsula,
$ by Gen. Magruder's forces, accounts of which
c did not reach the press.
OLD SCoTT AT CENTREvILLE.--Old Scott
was at Centreville on the morning of the
!" battle of Manassas. We learn this fact from
a gentleman, says the Raleigh Register, who
was recently at Centreville and who was in
formed by the landlord of a tavern in tn,
e place that General Scott was in his house OF
the morning of the battle and remained in i
until a courier arrived bringing inteliigenc
that the Federals had outfanked our army
On receiving this intelligence General Scot
remarked, "then ths day is ours" and i'm
mediately left for Washington. The tiding
carried to Washington by old Scott, n0sbub
e. were the cause Of tbs dispatches sent to New
90 York announcing a~victory for the Yankees.
- SuIcrDE.-We are informed that Mr.. Georg
.. Ray, of this county, aged about ffty-si
years, committed saiside on Saturday morn
ing the Sd inst, by shooting himself in th
n head. He left his home early in the morT
ir ing to go to a th2eshing machine, and pass
ing by his mill, shot himself before comm
he to the road leading to the machine. In tn
meantime his son had gone on horsebac
~ directly to the machine. No suspicion e,
n. listed, and accordingly NO uneasiness wa
felt by the family during the day but whe
be the son returned at night, and reported tina
he his father had not been to the machine, tn
family became alarmed; and it being recol
lected that the report of q gun was heard
the morning, search was made in that direc
ton, and his dead body was found. The p,
NO sition in which it lay, and of his gun and tt
he ramrod, left no doubt as to the manner
n his death. He had discharged the gan b
the use of the ramrod The distress of tt
ter family was ndescribable. The noise of the
as cry was heard two or three miles, great
tly alarming the neighborhood with the fear
he they knew not what-murder or insurrectio
ON and many of the men started with their GU
to the place whence the sound proceede
lrv The cause of the rash act no one is able ev,
of to conjecture. He appeared cheerful as us,
les al when he left home, and none of his fami
ra- suspected anything TO be the matter wi
mt. him, or that his mind was in any way d
md turbed.-Hllsboro' Recorder.
lily ANOTHER SUIcEHE.-Capt. Antonio de Ma
tino, who has been residing in this pla
hig committed suicide ~ sstnrdav last hv !
the oaone 81 Io,aaa,m II
a Italy, and was, we understand, a Captain
the army of Italy, and in the body guard
~ Murat when king Of Naples. He came
YER Jaaoc;Eon L e - - !
- resided in New York for some years, whe
"a he had q wife, who died there eight or t
aIa years ago: During his residence here ]
moral character, as far as we know, has be
unexeeptionable. His mind has been mu
- disturbed for some time, and some mont
ieao ago he attempted to destroy himself.
: was over eighty years of age, and fast gro