Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-09-22
The News of the Week.

TAe news to be fOuAd in our columns this week, 10
sf the most gratifying and important character.
old /" StOnewAl'' after . sharp but brief conflict
has taken Harper's Ferry, capturing some 5000 priso-
nsrs and about 1890 negroes.
Gen. Loring has. driven the yankees from the Vir-
einia Salt works, and Is furnishing wagons thatbring
Ain forage with salt at IS cents per bushel.
-0en. Priee-is reported to have overt, KEEP the flying
foresfof Rsssnezans and fousht a pitched battle with
them, the enemy sustaining great damage. No par
ticulars received. Gen. r. has also had a brush with
Armstrong at Inka, Miss, in which he drove them
ont Of town and took 200 prisoners.
Bragg is pr sssing upoH Nashville, Tenn. and hav-
ing cut OF Buslls contemplated means of evacuation,
Il 10 supposed he viii have to surrender or be starved.
Adispateh rscsived in this city on Thursday last,
eAys that a severe ngAt 10 reported to have taken
place In Maryland on Sunday previous, between Nc
Clell ans fsrses and Gen. d. Fl. Hill. The dispatch
states tina t " Gen. d. II. Hill was attacked by McClel-
aA with GIG ht Thousand men, that the fight continued
all day with heavy losses on both sides. On Monday
Gsa. Hill was reinforced by Gen. Longstrset, and the
battle was renewed and the enemy driven back three
milss." If the report ofa battle be true, and there rs no
reason 70 doubt it, Mcclellan must have attacked Cen.
Hin with $4,000, instead Of eight, az the dispatch
rssds-for It 10 well known that he had . force of some
10 or 20 thousand men, and under old 7" Bethel" this
force was sufisient to have vanquishsd two or three
times their numbers of Mcclellan oft-defeated forces.
We shall probably hear something more definite be-
fore geing 10 press. We fear our North Carolina
troops have again Suffered severely, as Gen. D.. Fl.
Hirs corps was composed chiefly il not entirely Of
North Carolina regiments. Gen. Garland of Virginia
was killed in the Sunday Tight, and his body has reach
Cd Richmond.
We have glorious tidings from Gen. Loring, in Wss-
tern Virginia. He seemed slow to move, but having
started, he 10 swsepingevery thin. before him. Early
In the month, Ger. Jenkins, attached to Loring's GEM
nand, captured Buchanan, Upahsr G. H., and took
oVVV stand of arms and immense stores. He then
TOOK Weston, then a Yankee regiment at Rome C. H.,
thence he drove the enemy from Ravenswood, and
then crossed over into Ohio, marching about 20 miles
Kanawha-
Gen. Loring reached Fayetts Court House with his
main army, and attacked the enemy in his fortifca-
lions nercely. During the night, the enemy escaped.
On the 14th inst, he drove the enemy after two severe
aghts from Cotto n Hun and Gauley, taking their trains
and stsres and 100 barrels Of salt. On the 18th, he at.
tasked him att harlestown, which the enemy evacu-
ated alter Destroying q part of the town. The enc
ny's loss was heavy, and at last accounts was In full.
retreat.
Frsm Kentucky the news is cheering. Thousands
OF kentuckians have espoused the Southern cause
Lexington. + Frankfort and other towns are in our pes
session. and it il supposed that ere this Gen. Kirby
smith has attacked the enemy at Covington. He has
requested Of the government &c, 1000 stand of arms 70,
the Kentackians. f