Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-07-28
Latest News from the North

Latest News from the North
The Richmond papers have received New
York papers up to the 10th inst, from which
extensive quotations are given. We CLEAN
the following items therefrom:
Adispatch dated Cincinnati July IS, saws
a M came into Boyd's, on the Kentucky
Central railroad, this morning, and report;
that the town ofCynthia, &c miles from here.
surrendered at five o'clock Yesterday to thu
rebels after a half hours fight. He saws he
saw Morgan and shook hands with him
Morgan's force numbers about 2 500.
A soldier who also came into Boyd's saws
that Morgan's men fired two rounds after the
surrender of the town, and that Capt. An
thongs company from Newport are all kill.
ed or made prisoners.
The excitement at Newport and Covington
is very high, and increasing. The citizens
are organizing rapidly for the defence of New.
port, and the provost marshal arrests all sym.
pathizers to day.
Dispatches to the Governor of Indiana. OF
the 18th, say that Henderson, Ky, and New.
burg, Ind, have been taken by the Rebels.
AT the latter place $50 sick soldiers were
taken prisoners. The Rebels also took $50
stand of arms.
A special dispatch from Lexington. Ky. to
the Cincinnati Gazette, states that Morgan en-.
camped close to Versailles, KY, on Monday
evening last. His men had taken possession
of q large number. of valuable horses belong
fng-U~ Porrons in~sAat e;5aberHeed.~-A ~
other band OF guerrillas, two hundred in
number, were within six miles of Lexington
on Tuesday morning, and the trains which
left the latter city for Frankfort, during the
afternoon of the same day, were compelled to
return In consequence of the railway track
being torn up at Midway, and of preparations
having been made to blow up the bridge in
the vicinity on the arrival of the train.
CoRINTH, July 17.-General Halleck has
given up the command of the army of the
Southwest. He has issued q general order
compllmenting the troops for their gallantry
and good conduct.
The New York Post says: General Halleck
goes to Washington to assume command of
all the troops in Virginia, not as an active
commander in the field, but as the consult
ing general of the President. The President
admits that it is fully time that one mind
should direct all the loyal forces in Virginia.
and that the 4" amy of the Petomac'' and.
the I" army of Virginia" should act in con-
cert. To enable this to be done, it is assert.
ed that General Halleck will be out in CONF
mand, with the understanding that he will
remain in Washington.
A Yankee correspondent from Corinth
writes as follows.
During the last forty-eight hours no further
act of hostility by the Confederates has been
reported at headquarters but it is. neverthe.
less, evident that trouble from some direction
is still looked for, and measures taken ac-
co%rdlngly. The forces guarding the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad east and west
of this place are being strengthened and work
on the entertainments S outheast of the town
is being pushed with large fatigue parties.
1t seems to be certain that the Confederates
are now in considerable strength fin front Of
our out posts, both on the Mobile and Ohio
and Mississippi Central railroad. Whether
they mean to take the offensive or act mere.
ly on the defensive, remains to be seen.
General Buell. is understood to have report
ed to General Halleck that Confederate troops
were pouring into Chattanooga from all parts
of the South, A whole division from General
Bragg's army is believed to have come IN
lately to that place, ola the Tennessee and
Atlantic railroad. The body represented
some days since to be moving about to the
southeast of Tuseumbia is also supposed
to have gone in the same direction. That
the enemy will make vigorous efforts to hold
Chattanooga is not to be wondered at. That
point is the Key to North Carolina as well as
Georgia, and with its fall those two States
will be open to Federal invasion.
It's possession would enable a Federal army
to get into the rear of the Confederate army
at Richmond, cut off its communication with
Bragg's forces, and deprive it of its supplies
from the cotton States. Again, the loss Of
Chattan ooga would involve the abandonment
of Rome, where, it is well known, the Con-
federates have established and operated for
some time q large arinory and foundry for
ordnan ce of every description. All these
considerations render it certain that the army
of the Ohio will meet with stout resistance.
That IL will be able to overcome it speedily, |
do not doubt. As the advance of the diyis.
ion detached from here passed through Hunts
Vile over a week since, stirring news from the
vicinity of Chattanooga may soon be expec-
ted.