Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-11-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

The family of Andy johnson, of Tenn, has been permit
ted 90 him at Nashville Tenn. and it is said they
cupy the etger mansion formerly occupied by Ex Gov
A. V. Brown.
The papers have given out that "secret expedition
had been undertaken by select band of forces at Ho
y Springs Miss, which is said to Re an important enter.
prise. Sufficient time has elapsed for the expedition to
have turned up somewhere but we have heard nothing
from it,
There has been suspension Of Persons passing to and
from Lincons dominons to the Confederacy for some ue
owing to the fact that persons from the North required
to take the oath of allegiance before obtaining passports
OF such persons should be permitted
South.
The Confederate Government has recently granted Let
tiers of Marque and Reprsa certain officers of spen.
did vessel to sail from Confederate port.
destructive fire at Augusta Ga, the 4th inst. de-
stroycd Stovas stables and warehouse with 5000 bales
Of cutton produce &c. the loss estimated SOo0
An accident occurred the Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad the 4h inst killing Ii soldiers and woundng
about 5o-occasioned BY the breaking of an axle
dispatch rum Holly Springs the 5h. states that it
is reported the enemy advancing upon that place. and
was at Lagrange, Tenn.
The enemy, it is believed will make strenuous efforts
open The Mississippi b. the capture of Vcksburg.
The explosion of cartridge factory jackson, Mss,
the 5th inst. killed less than 80 boys, girls and
young ladies' who eng gcd in the factory 1t is said
not ESCAPED.
Northern state that the Confederate steamer
Alabama (29o has been capturing Yankee vessels
and that she is off in the track of the California
steamers.
English accounts state that Sir G. C. Lewis the British
Secretary Of War; had made Speech in which be said
that the in America would before long
but the independence of the Southern States could not
decided un, the North exhaustednd could carry
the luuger. There is but little comfort in that
Napoleon it said has determined to await the LIST of
Januury and the publication Of Lncolns Proclamation,
before taking steps for recognition:
Forgeres to the amount of sl4OO the State Treas
ury Of Virginia charged upon a young man by the
name of E. Hunter Taiaerro First Doorkeeper the Vr-
gnia Legislature.
Glenn G. Wright Esq, Of Fayetteville, has been ap-
pointed to position in the staff of Gen. Bev Robertson
who succeeded the lamcnted Gen. Ashby of the Conede
Cavalry. Mr. W. belonged to the company of RAN
gers raised in Cumberland
The lying letter attributed to Stewards nephew, which
has gone the rounds in of the papers,
we expected, forgery-hence we did not publish it.
SHALL Pox.-Six cases in all, and one death, have &C.
curredat Rocky Mount Only one case has occurred at
Tarborough.
Hon. D. W. Voorhees, has been triumphantly reelected
Congress in Indiana, the formidable oppo-
ston
Horato Seymour the Democratic candidate for Cover.
nor in New York recently said speech, "New England
has given Arnold, whilst Virginia has given US
Washington"
The bockaders chased brig with English colors on the
4th inst and her ashore of Masonboro Sound She
was fired into aud destroyed. She loaded with salt
| Her crew escaped.
Gen. Beauregard observe advises all the comba-
citizens of Charleston who do leave the city
at once with their slaves and movable property.
The st. Louis Republican announces that Gen. Edwin
Price, Of Gen. Sterling Price, has resigned his position
in the Confederate Army account of profound
of the injustice and wrong done by the Confederate
thorities at Richmond to his father" The Richmond
Why remarks who will not regret that there should be
SO guOd a reason for so bad d step?"
The papers give raost encouraging account of the
gious state Of the army Every regiment should have
good Chaplain, who should perform the duties of Chaplain
and Coporteur.