Newbern weekly progress., 1862-09-20
THE INVASION OF MARYLAND.



Burnside in Posscssion.-A skirmiSh near.
Mount Airy.
Special Correspondence Of tie Inquirer.
ELMcoTr's MILLS, September 18th
am compelled to write from this point, being
the nearest place from which can have mal
communication with Philadelphia Two days
trampng through the country has given me some
information with regard to the movements of our
forces and other matters of interest.
left Baltimore for this place on Thursday
morning. ii being the furthest point on the Balt'
more and Ohio Railroad 10 which passenger trains
ran.
ALL QUIET.
All is quiet here and 10 one is app,ehensivc of
any advance of the Rebels upon this point al
though two days ago their pickets were said to
be only fifteen miles distant.
THE GARRIsoN.
The Twelfth New Jersey regiment, under the
command of Col Robert C. johnson, is dol
garrison and picket duty at this poiut and ids
great favor in the sight Of the citizens They
have fine band and almost every evening clio
qnrnt and patriotic music is discouraed, while
the resid mt, assemble and lister.
But the goal lay beyond, and il mast be reach
ed. There was only one way OF attaining it,
an1 that was by march which yopr correspon
dent forthwith commenced, and in due time reach
ed Eleysvie, n small station on the Baltimore
and Ohio Rriroad Here the Fourteenth New
jersey, under the command of Col VIM S Tracy,
were stationed, and detachment from the First
Mary land for picket aud guard duty.
SCOUTS. .
After passing tho Union pickc's-- which was
done with some MS h tho only difficulty now to
be feared was the danger Of being picked up by
one of the scouts Of either armies, 10 which case
it might 60 hard With civilian caught beyond
the lines, as he might be tried and executed as a
spy. But happily, none of these saw me, al
though from behind n tree saw a couple Of blue
jacketed troopers spurring rapidly toward the
Union lines.
1nE PEOPLE EXCITED.
The inhabitants in this part of the country are
in II Wild state Of excitement, fearing every mo.
ment that descent would be made upon them
by the Rebels, and that they would be carried of
and forced to join the ranks Of tho Rebel army
Much of the information Was very contradictory,
and not to be relied upon, but | learned pretty
conclusvely that the Rebel scouts had been seen
at Marrolsville, twenty eight miles from Balt.
more snd thirteen from Ellicott's Mills. on Wed.
nesday night. The pickes were then at New
Market, and the great body of the Rebel army
on the mmch towards hagerstcwn, leaving but
suIall number in Frederick
- MOUNT AlnY.
The next morning, after stopping for the night
at farm house owned and occupied by a good
Union man, your correspondent again set out on
his journey, This is pleasant little place, stu.
Rted among the hills, and owes It's growth cntrc.
ly to the railroad
HHAT THE rEoPLE SAY.
As general rule, the inhabitants were quit,
communicative, aud readily gave whatever ntor
nation they could as to the whereabouts of the
ferces There / learned that Burnside's division
WIS at Ridgeville, two miles south of Mount
Airy, and advancing towards Frederick and that
the Union pickets had been extended beyond
New Market.
a sKIRNsH.
| Quite severe skrmish took place IN tie neigh.
| boriood Of Mount Airy, on Thursday morning,
in which body of rebels fifteen hundred strong
with cav airy aiId artillery, met and drove back
an equal force of Union soldiers. The rebels did
not retain possession Of the ground very long,
but rctreated, having learned, no doubt, that it
would be unsafe to remain any longer. l could
rot apcertain the name Of the cOT,m"nders 1t
| is ported that about ten Union soldiers were
killed aud ahumber wounded.
| CONFiDGNCE IN OUR GENERALS.
The people have nil the utmost confidence in
the Generals commanding the Union fvrces here.
No one doubts the ability Of the hero Of North
Carolina aud the veteran soldiers of the army, to
bag aud destroy the whole rebel force.
HOW THE REBELS ERuAvEp.
Every one agrees in saying that the rebel sol
diers behaved remarkably we'll. When any one
of them would meet a lady, she was sauted with
| a present arms,' or the cap was doifed with a
good morning, madam" AT one place re5e
brigade encamped between peach orchard aud
corn-fed aud such was the rigid discipline en-.
forced by their ohicers, that not peach or sin
! ale ear Of corn was taken.
RIDICULOUS REPORTS.
Some Of the Secession inhabitants have been
making themselves very busy in circulating the
report that tho Union army was pressing al the
! able bodied men that it met rio the service
This caused great alarm among the loyal resi-
dents, ms they scarcely knew whether to believe
! il or not,
ARREST OF SrPPUSED SPY
! Quite an excitement was created in the usua
quiet village of Eleysvie, and amung the SOL
| diers there, by the arrest Of suspicious person.
supposed to be spy, said "spy" being no other
than your special correspondent, who was taken
to the Colonel under guard and the case fully in
vos,i gated, but he was satisfied that all was
right aud the correspondent was therefore, sent
On his way.
ELLICoTTs MILLS AGAIN.
This place we reached again, last night, after
an absence Of some thirty.six hours, and from
here send my letter.
| TRAIN FOR FREDERICK.
A train with supplies for General Burnside's
army, went up to Frederick at an early hour this
morning. Passenger trains will commence run
ming in few days
THE LATEST.
just hear from trasty source, thgt number
of the rebels are marching for the Potomac with
the intention of re.crossing, and that Sigel is in
pursuit.
FROM KENTUCKY AND OHIO.