The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1862-04-10
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1 !. sees'ss'osssNau Wno HnS recently returned
from the vicinity Of Newber J, N. c., ii..
forms usthat the Yankees havo complste
ffpassessionof the town, and are helping
themselves freely to everything thew do.
sire. Gen. Burnside has appropriated the
lSpaiatial residence Of the Bank oi Com.
rnerce.as his headquarters. Gen. Fos.
ter has taken possession ef another hand.
sone ,d@elling, and Gen. Reno occupies
the Bank ofNewbern. ~
f1hepiekeis OF the Yandals arc thickly
stationed in every direction, f0rnine OF. ten
miles out. but our scouts and pickets are SO
familiar with the country, that not a day
passes without sealing the fate of Yam.
kee. - -,
The villains are pillnging the people for
miles aronnd. stealing every article of value
upon which they can put their thievish
hands. One day-lsst week thes went TO
the bouse of.a widow lady, residing some
seven or eight miles from Newbern, and
so'zed splendid piano, placed it into a
wagon and drove off. \ faithful old dsr
kie on the plantation, knowing the locality
OF some Of the Confederate pickets. slipped
away and made known the movements OF
the thieves. Our men laid in ambush, on
the side of the road, and as the wagon ap
preached, rushed out and demanded sur
render. The Yankees immediately rot
out, aud intimated Willingness to suc.
cumb. One of them, however, attempted 10
nn, but was halted by welldirected shot
from one of our men The explosion of
the gun frightened the mules hitched 10
the wagon, and they started off at full speed,
taking the wagon and piano safely into
Newbern.
On Friday last three hundred Federals
landed from "a, rgun-boats at Washington.
y e., and headed by band of music
,narchcd through the town, playing Hail
Columbia, and waving the stars and stripes
at lively rate. The few people vho had
remained in the place since the tall OF
Newbern, received them with marked
GOODNESS. Their music and their banners
wholly failed 10 arouse any of that Union
feeling which Marble Nash TAYLOR collect
ed several thousand dolllrs in New York
to SET free, so they left without disturbing
either persons or property.
The people, we hear, are burning their
cotton aud ,urpentine in all directions. For
miles and milcs, our informant states, ito.
ncnse columns of dense, black smoke. are
ascending to the heavens and darkening the
skies.
Capt. Sutton, who was taken prisoner at
Hatteras. and suffered long confinement
al Fort Warren, gathered all his cott n
into pile, surrounded it entirely with all
The turpentine hc possessed. and then, with
kis own hand applied the torch
Reccn; advIces from the scene of bat.
tie, confirm the TACT, that some Of the hard
est .ight,pis wss done at Newbern, which
has uccuted during the war
tol. Nance's regiment. also Col. Avery's.
Col Campbe!ls, aud uar:icul4rly Eh,:.
tcrdt Battery, Tough, witli>tiger-lik re
~, piling ~ the Yankee dead Wbitfori s
Batlcry it Is said, paycd npon an entire
brig de - 1t adrnuced. ana every shot,
sweeped through and through the lines,
as many as fifty falling ut time 1t is
stateJ that Burnside bias offered q reward
OF ; 800 for tho securement Of Captain
Whtlord's person.
The Meth dist Church, both h, tells, one
of the banks, and 4 large academy. arc all
used as hospitals. Hundreds and hrn
dreds OF the Nandals have been pat under
ground already. aud hundreds more vet
hneer IN e.ctrsn.is, with 80 prospect Of re-
covcTy.- Petersburg Express.