Newbern weekly progress., 1862-11-01

and The behavior of our new troops in
the late battles proves it. Indeed their
very ignorance of war and military
movements was in their favor, just as
man who is unacquainted with the
art Of fencing, will confuse and sphinx"
an adept before he knows it. "Damn
your raw regiments" said rebel pris-
oncr, "they didn't know when they
were fanked."
The banks at Charleston have six or
seven million dollars Of counterfeit
Confederate notes on Hand, which they
received as good. There are said to
be from S70,OOt0oo to $SO,00o,OOO of
such trash in circulation in the Con.
foderacy. The Treasury Department
at Richmond sent about quarter of
million OF dollars of this counterfeit
money to Charleston to pay troops
with. The banks in all the Confeder-
acy are offering large rewards for the
detection of the counterfeters. All
the necessaries Of life are at starvation
prices in Charleston. Prices of -four
$45 per barrel; tea IS a pound; su-
gar 81 so per pound; side bacon Is
ceiits; ham 81; bar Of soap $3.50;
candles 25 cts. apiece.
The origin of the name $780," which
the rebel steam pirate Alabama first
bore, came from the fact that the ship
was bought by subscription made by
200 British Merchants from that hon
orable class of whom Burke. said the
couhting-house was their temple, the
ledger their Bible, and gold their God.
= Since the Union authority has been
restored at Frankfort, Kentucky, mat
ters have resumed their wonted quiet,
and business has been re-cstablished.
The next sitting of the Legislature will
probably be in the Capitol.
The receipts Of the Erie Railroad
for tho year ending Sept. 3Oth, were
seven millionsst7en hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, an increase of two
millions one hundred thousand dollars
over the year before.
Gen. Ffentiss is anxious that he and
his companions in captivity should
have q separate command, with the
privilege Of subsisting on the enemy.
Having had an interior view of seces-
sion, they can, he thinks, treat it sue
eessfuAy and iudiciously. lie is anx-
i6us ID reciprocate few of the favors
shown him by the chiyalry, and prom
ises to be heard from soon after he
takes the field.
Mr.. Lossing writes that Capt. Maun-
sell White the Louisiana planter who
has agreed to pay his negroes for their
labor, was captain in yackson's army,
in defence of New Orleans, in 1915,
and has since become one Of the wealth
lest as he IS one of the worthiest plan
tcrs in Louisiana. His magnificent
estate Of "Deer Range" is in the par
ish of Plaquemine. 81 aV informed"
adds Mr.. LOSING, "that he set his face
against the rebellion at the beginning,
and has steadily kept that position"
The editor of the st. Louis Repu6H-
can, in acknowledging the receipt of
i loaf Of cake and basket of wine from
newly married couple, says the event
was very interesting one to him, and
no doubt it was to the donors.
Church, the artist, painted a picture
Of Niagara Falls, a few days since, in
five hours, for which he received $500,
dxclusiEsof copy right. He has also
sold his celebrated picture Of the Falls
for large sum.
Some time ago, while at a review, a
lhurderons slot was fired at the late
Marshal Castellane, from n regiment
Of Voltigeurs. He heard the whistiing
of the BAL near Ills head, and on tax
ing off his cap found that ii had lodged
in it. Without saying word to his
staff, he galloped up to the front Of the
regiment from which the shot proceed
ed, and cried out that il he knew the
unlucky dog who was such bad shot,
he would certainly give him q week in
the guard house. Then turning to his
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