Newbern weekly progress., 1861-10-29

Iz5r.tl ABOUT TIE FIGHT At LEESBURG
The Richmond Examiner of Wednesday ays,
s-HoriaIy:
We are advised that at a late hour last even
5ag the Secretary of War received a dispatch
lam djutant-General Jordan at Manassa,
eieing the details Of a the late engage
guer,t Nv General Evans ferccs with the enemy
-aa taa, Potmac, near Leesbnrg. 1t is stated
that the Eighth Virginia Regiment and Seven
teenth and Eighteenth Mississippi Regiments
were engaged, the Thirteenth Mississippi Rcgi-
Inent being held in reserve. The result was
fetal rout of the enemy. Our troops took 600
prisoners and i 200 stand of arms. The killed
and wounded of the enemy were from one
Thousand to twelve hundred men. The battle
was exclusively an infantry fight no artillery
being employed on our side We are glad to
larn by pryor dispatch, that Major General
Baker, who commanded the eEemy, unprin-
ciplc advanturer and scoundrel, has met his
deserts and been killed in the battle. The
whole affair is a splendid success.
Our anticipation of movement by the enemy
on the Potomac has thus far been fully real
lied, and it is possible We may hear Of
further movements We understand that an
advance of the enemy is anticipated by officials
possessing the best sources of information.
The Richmond Despatch says:
This news comes to us in such authentic
shape that room is left for doubt that Gen
Evans has gair ed brilliant victory. The
killing of Col Baker the Black Republican
Senator from Oregon, and LincolnS mouth
piece in the Senate, is cause for especial con-
graduation. He was an Englshman by birth
and it was this man who said, in the course of
:. long TRADE Of abuse of the South and South
ern men, delivered at the late extra session of
;he Federal Congress, that every foot of South
ern soil should be reconquered; that the stars
aud stripes should wave over every fort and
arsenal, and that if Southern Governors would
not conduct their State affairs according to the
laws of the United States, Governors from Mas
sachusetts and Illinois would be appointed in
their places. 1t seems highly probable, from
present advices, that it was not his destiny to
witness fullhlment of his sweeping pro-
phecy.
GLOOMY FUTURE FOR ESGLAND.-A short cot
ton supply in England is contemplated with
g,oomy forcbodinge The London Chronicle
oithe 10Th ult., SAYS:
The bountiful harvest has saved thousands
from utter want, and it would be impossible
70 over estimate the advantages it will be the
means of comforting on the poorer classes dur
ing the remainder Of this and the greater part
gE next year. But for this we Nigh well
sisFink from contemplating the future For
ct CIR home demand be what it may, it can
not bring trade to the flouriShing positions it
occupied prior to- the outbreak of hostihtios in
America. The many thousands who depend
apon iron and cotton manufactures for their
daily bread must inevitably undergo many
fastlstlips next winter, and unless we can by
gaIae means obtain supplies of cotton. still
greater eilamities will surely overtake us.
e DO not perceive any means by which
this end can be ganed-unless, inded, the Con-
5essefatgs change their determination, and all
isas peditnents TO our commerce be removed. 1t
}s neeqless Tor us to point out the extreme un-
4selhoed OF any such change being made !;
f,slt = lsqpoh 9 slender foundation such as this,
st ve iHust ouild our hopes, OF accept this
szsternatire oi locking forward to a cotton IA
lls, abandoned mills, and starved opera
atseaeTHp VI e learn that D. E. McNair,
Hsbnss.a, late o. S. in company c. oi
shs alll 4 x gnnent of Vols, has been ap.
sal-.a..E Z S. E.5e,it in Co. H Bird N O. State