Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-10-30

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GLORIOUS News FROM TEE PoronAc - Rich
mond Examiner of she I'D, contains the following
account OF another brilliant victory achieved by our
arms on the banks Of the Potomac.
Anumbero of reports were circulated of the affair.
but, TO secure the most aatheatic intelligence, and to
put it beyond all popular doubts Of its reliability. we
we've SO fortunate as to obtain q copy of the follow
Ing official dispatch of General Iohnston himself:
HEADQUARTERS CESTREyILE,
October %, 1861. Il
To GENERAL COOPER
Col. Evans reports that he was engaged most of
the day yesterday with twelve regiments and five
batteries of the enemy near the Potomac. They had
crossed under the cover OF artillery fire. He drove
them back with a heavy loss in killed, two hundred
J. E JOHNSTON. 4
Further dispatches received at the War Department
ted 10 = Major-Generalship in the Federal armyNwss
among the killed. Information was also obtained
that AMONG the prisoners taken by Us was Col. Cogs-
The regiments in Col. Evans command were from
Mississippi and Virginia-the three Mississippi Regi-
Featherstone, Burt and Barksdale.
P. S>-The late dispatches received at the War
more complete than the foregoing accounts would
seem to imply. Telegraphic accounts received at the
the loss of the enemy in killed and wounded at about
l,9OA with 500 prisoners taken and f,200 stand of
AILus AuOb06r estimate OF our SUCCESSES Is given
in a news dispatch in the telegraphic column; al.
though the later dispatch to the Department being
eral Jordan, from Manassas is probab bly, to be accep-'
ted as the most definite and reliable accounts of the
resalts Of what is undoubtedly q great and brilliant
victory to our arms.
BATTLE op LBxINGToN.-Ry intelligence received
at Fort Smith, and published in the Herald Of that
place, we have a correct statement of the fruits of
onr victory at Lexington, Mo-. The loss Of the Yam
KEGS was ia killed, $50 wounded. Confederate loss,
AZ killed and 81 wounded. Captured, $500 musket ri
des, 1900 pistols, Is Sharpe's carbines, 5 cannon, 2
tuelve-pound howitzers, 1876 wagons and harness, s13
horses, 378 tents, $55, 900 effects from steamboats,,
$950,OO0 cash obtained from men in battle, also took
Bats prisoners.
. A FIGHT IN TENNEssEE.-A sharp skirmish is re-
9 ported to have taken place recently, at Cellna, jackson
> county, Tenn, near the Kentucky line. between some
I Tennessee troops and Kentucky Unionists. The lat
T ter fled, however, after a brief fight; leaving q large
Z lot of guns and ammunition.
Brigadisr General Holmes, in charge of the Freder-
icksbnrg department, has been promoted to a Major
Generalship. Brigadier General Longstreet has also
been promoted to the rank Of Major General.
! 1t is reported that Harper's Ferry is now in pos
session of the Confederates, the Fedsrals having been
driven of.
The Fredericksbnrg Recorder learns FROM the Chap
Lain of the Twelfth North Carolina Regiment, tina,
when he left Transport ON Saturday last there wal
lying just abreast of thas point, in the stream, s yam
re kee floating battery of very large and diamond
q shaped dimensions. It seemed to be plated with
steel, and altogether, was rather an ugly looking Gus
toner.
a FRoH WESTERN VIRGTNA.-Gen. Lee has fallen
back to Meadow Bluff, Gen. Loring is at Big sewsl
Gen. Floyd at Fayette Courthouse, and Gen. jackson
at Greenbrier.
EH- Col T. M. Parker. of Tarboro', N. c., ha,
NJ been elected Colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment o
Moth Carolina Volunteers, vice Gov. Bell, declined
ca CHEERING FROM OUR CoAsT.-The Fayetteville Oh
u server of last Monday says-We received this morn
Gu ing from a friend who has visited Newbern, Beau
We fort, Macon and Washington, . long and very inter
ca esting letter on the condition and progress Of the d,
20 fences OF that portion of our coast, under the ener
Ell getic and skillful direction of Gen. Hill. The info
ice nation he furnishes it would be improper to publish
but we can assure orr readers that it has cheered U
lie far more than anything we have heard on the subjec
uBunconbe Counaty, (says q Correspondent vote
between seventeen and eighteen hundred-and hi
eleven hundred men in the army! This is truly d
ing wonders. Is there another County in the Sout
ern Confederacy that has sent so large a proportic
Of her brave sons into the field? We very mul
doubt it.
zen. BEAUREGARDS OEFICIAL Accountable
Beanregard's Official report of the battle of Manass
Plains, fought on the 2lst of July, has been receiv,
at the War Department., 1t is quite lengthy with W
luminous accompanying reports Some days W
probably elapse before copies can be obtained for pu
~ication.
the Official advices have been received at the W
Department Of an attack, by Gel. Turner Ashb
~, commanding q small force. on a superior body
~. the enemy, on the Tsth inst, at a place call
Bolivar, contiguous to Harper's Ferry. T.
Federals. numbering, with subsequent %reinforc
ments, from 500 to 1000 men, were sent over
protect the transportation of grain, and Col. As
by, with $50 men, 800 of whom were militia, m
and drove them back with considerable slaught
The action commenced at eight o'clock in t
morning and terminated about eleven. 1t is to
particularly noted as the FIRST in which the v
ginia militia have been enga ged in a hand
hand encounter with the enemy, and the result
fleets the highest credit upon that branch of
servics. Alta charge bayonets, they drove
Hessians before them, down the hill into the !,
lage of Harpsr's Ferry, at which point in
curt pursuit they were checked by a detachment of
tillery, supposed to have been Doubleday's b
terry, stationed ca the Maryland Heights. c
the Ashby now withdrew his troops to a point behi
'ues- the hill. for the purpose of protecting them fir
the shot and she'll, VIII CHI fell thick and /