Newbern weekly progress., 1862-11-08

JcC. Zf, ny VIC olockaulllg Heel, alieT
having got aground in Bulls Bay
The captain and crew escaped with
he. mail bags, papers, &c.
The diptheria is prevailing to an
alarming extent, at Richmond, Va.
We are indebted to Capt. Yale and
Engineer Foote, of the steamer East
ern State, for copies of the N. Y. Her.
uld of the LIST, and the Baltimore Amer-
ican of the same ddte.
Maj. Gen. Hugor, of the rebel ar
my, was in Raleigh. on Monday week.
James II. Franklin, Sol. Greoms,
VIM. B. Garrett, j. M. Morris, and r.
L. d. Birchfeld, were all sentenced to
be hung for murder, on the 18th Of
January next, at the last session Of
the Buncomb, IN. c. Superior Court.
The Seminole Indians remaining in
Florida,-about one hundred warriors
have again commenced their mur-
derous onslaughts upon the people in
their vicinity. They have already
murdered fonr families in the most
barbarous style of Indian warfare.
The Town Commissioners of Will
On C.) officially states that
the late prevailing fever has subsidized,
and the city is now quite healthy, and
many of the inhabitants have returned
to their homes.
The bark Milton from New Orleans
to New York, reports that she heard
heavy firing on the Doth off Cape Hen
ry. The reports came from the west
ward, and probably came from York
town.
The Columbus (Ga.,) Times Of the
9th ult., says that Gen. Butler has
landed at Pensacola with 1000 men,
and it was reported that he would ad
vance on the junction Of the Mobile,
Montgomery and Pensacola Railroad.
The notorious guerilla, Sam. High,
Of Hampshire, Va, was killed on the
Both ult., and his band dispersed. lie
belonged to Imboden's Partisan Ran
gers. lie had been engaged for months
N capturing citizens Of Hampshire
county, and sending them as prisoners
within the rebel lines.
We publish to-day full account Of
the terrible disaster on the Raleigh &
CASTOR Railroad that we may be able
to answer the thousand and one ques-
tons that have been asked us in con-
nection with it. 1t will probably re-
lieve many an anxious mind in this
city.
Acting Acting Paymaster r. B.
Rodney, has been ordered to the sloop
Dale.
Acting Assistant Surgeon G. NJ.
Weeks has been ordered to the Bral .
dywine.
Acting Master Lewes, West and
'rhos. D. Carrs, and Acting Assistant
Paymaster A. NJ. Stewart, have been
ordered to the Ladona.
Between three and four hundred
destitute East Tenneseeans arrived at
Lexington, Ky, Oct. 31st, having
made their way hence to join the Un-
ion army. They were to leave the
next day for Cincinnati to be clothed.
1t will be seen by the accompanying
advertisement, which We clip from the
Richmond Esquirer, that the rebel
soldier has to pay, in the event of the
loss of an Enfield rifle, $50, or three
times as much as the Federal soldier
and 50, in reference to other articles
the price is in about the same proper
ton, showing the scarcity OF these ar
ticles of war, in the bogus confedera
cy, and the difficulty they experience
in obtaining them -
Adjutant and Inspector q mernI's Once
Richmond, Oct %, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. Is.
/. Commandments of Posts, when coasultct
by officers OF the Telegraph Companies as tt
the propriety of sending message, will advis
against it
1st. Whea it relates to the movement O