Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-07-14

to the Tribune dated Grenada, July s, saws,
the Federals are terrifying Memphis.-They
are digging intrenchments and rifepits four
miles in rear of the city.
A portion of Sherman's division has moved
fron Grand Junction to Moscow, forty miles
from Memphis where they are making en-
t~renchments.
A dispatch dated Cairo 1st, says Gen Hind
man is back at st. Charles with five thousand
men. |
Col. Fitz, of the Yankee army, has aban-
doned his position, after spiking his guns.
Curtis Yankee is reported as in a bad
situation. His supplies could not reach him.,
ano ne had been living on half rations for
ten days. He will have to cut his way out
or be captured.
Inc last accounts we have received, report
the Federals again retreating from Holly
Springs.
FROM New ORLEANs.-The Mobile Adver-
user has news from Orleans papers of the 7th
instant, containing several more of Buffers
orders. Order No. 152 consigns John W.
Andrews to hard labor, at Ship Island. for two
years, tor exhibiting a cross said to be made
out OF the bones of Yankee soldiers. No.
! 152 also consigns F. Keller to Ship Island, at
hard labor, for two years, for exhibiting a
skeleton in his window, labelled "Chicka-
hominy," intending it to represent Yankee
soldiers in that battle. No. 80 consigns
Mrs. Phillips, wife of Philip Phillips, at Ship
Island, within proper bounds, till further or
d~erssfor laughing in her balcony while a Yan-
kee funeral was passing.
The Delta says We are in possession of
Mobile papers of the Cd instant, containing a
series of kilograms from Richmond and 9TH
or points. The substance of these despatch
es Is, that Mcclellan has been defeated. We
I reproduce these kilograms, because various of
= them are In the hands Of spectators, impo,
Il sing upon the public, but we do not bslieve
: them. II they are trle, all that can be gain
ed by a repulse of the Union army is to pro-
= long the struggle"
The Picayune copies from the Delta, with
e this heading We have received the follow
ing note from General Butler :"
q Editors Picdy une: Gentfemen-There
g IS in the city, and you have had in your
office, an extra which sets right all news
from Richmond down to July I'd. Whydesire
to publish false intelligence, as the " reliable
: man. lies of June Both. Publish anything
J but the Richmond dispatches, and you may
publish them if you will publish this note"
TIE Mobile Tribune says the following is
reliable: On the fourth of July, at New Or
Is leans, a boat load of British tars, from the
II British man of-war Rinaldo, while approach
n ing the levee, burst out singing some of our
Is patriotic war songs, among them the Bonnie
Blue Flag" Butler sent word to the captain
l. of the vessel he did not permit such demon
% STATIONS. The captain replied he did, and
IN he was responsible. The same night a ball
y was given aboard the vessel, and among the
decorations was a Confederate flag.
ed The defeat of Mcclellan in Virginia is re
) = | lIlotaOtlu nn~foccol L- fo-- 49,
l. of Northern papers. The Cincinnati Com
rs mercial and Express fear this defeat will pre-.
III clpitate European intervention, and advises
Is, that preparation be made to resist any dicta-
gu ton from France or Engl and. On the fifth
day of the battle, McClellan's French Staff
Officers left him and proceeded home on the
Tn first boat. They will doubtless carry relia-
ch BILE news to their country. 1t is reported
Al that another Federal gunboat has been sunk
TO by our batteries on White river.
Our VICTORY AT CHARLESTON ON THE 18TH
DIS ULT.-The Northern accounts of the battle
on James Island show that our gallant troops
We themselves scarcely realized the fullness O
If. their victory. Various letters from the Is
tu- land published in the New York papers ad.
Ter nit a disastrous defeat. One letter says tn,
h. loss is between 500 and $50. Another say
CIV 500; and still another sums it up as $780,
he And another that the steamer Ben Bedfor(
,ur had arrived at Hilton Head with from 400 t,
he 500 wounded on board. This shows that tn
us yankee loss was far greater than 565, for our
M men buried 251, and we took 1870 prisoners
: Surprising the boat had but 400 wounded
that would make ISL killed, wounded an
prisoners. And this does not allow for tn
res, yankee dead carried off by themselves, an
lrg the wounded too much hurt to be removed
use So that we think it cannot be doubted tina
ng the yankee loss was at least 1000. They Sci
la dom confess to ~one-half their loss.
They say that one regiment, the Sth Mich
IN gan, lost Is commissioned officers. The
attack, they say, was a complete SURPRISE
ex' They had five regiments engaged, commar
les ded by Gen. Benham, (who has been arreste
OF for disobeying orders in making the attacl
lima and he and his staff have arrived in Ne
ny: York. The letters complain of want oftran
tur- ports, tents, necessaries, &c, and, as usua
the pretend that we had a much larger force tina
envy themselves.
/ of
We A CAVALRY DAsH.-The following extra
tity from a letter dated Tupelo, Miss, June %
ms, is from the Mobile Register:
alu-
heir Our cavalry made a dash into the Yank
lou. lines last night on the Memphis and Charlie
suc- ton Railroad, near Iuka, and destroyed 3O(
four bales of cotton which the yankees had st
1. a len. They also captured a lar &c mail, fro
!, Of which much valuable information has be
Hill CLEANED, the nature Of W hich am not allo
-bev ed to communicate
atsu - The following North Carolinial
not who have been confined for some time
in Fort Columbus, Governors Island, N.