Newbern weekly progress., 1862-10-11
THE NEWS.

eno PAOsehI et"tiOuafy. mo move
ments Of Importance are reported be.
yond an advance of a brigade from
Harper's Ferry to Leesburg, Thurs
day, where they drove ont body Of
rebel cavalry. Gen. Pleasanton, is
securing the country as far as Cumber
land, but no sign of the rebels. is to be
found there. All the indications arc
that the enemy are now retreatins
TIM n:.zhs,,srd. their artillerv be
"s 'eht on IN advance.
The President, Secretary Chase md
q number of other distinguished per-
sons, visited General McClellan's
headquarters, by special train, on last
Wednesday. Upon the arrival of tbe
party at Monocacy Junction a crowd
assembled and vociferously demanded
aspeech from Mr.. Lincoln. He re.
sponded to the call by congratulating
the people nPon their recent happy
escape from rebel despotism, and as.
cured them that they should not soon
again have their fertile soil trodden
nor their property devastated by the
rebel lordes of the South.
The address to the President by the
Governors of the loyal States who as.
sembled recently at Altoona, will be
found in our columns to-day. Itis
signed by twelve Governors, and
pledges them to q cordial support
ot the President in the prosecution
ct the war for the restoration of tbe
Union. They recommend that a re.
serve army OF 100000 men for one
years service should be called forth.
They endorse the emancipation pro.
clamation of Mr.. Lincoln, and nav
full tribute to the valor of the arnv
in the field.
Governor Morgan has Issued, under
Gate OF Oct. I'd, an important general
order, authorising the recruiting off
nine months men until the order for
drafting is issued. Those recruits will
be formed into companies, only TO be
used to fill up regiments in the field.
New York has raised twenty thousand
three years volunteers over her quota
under the first call for three hundred
thousand men, and volunteers for nine
months ;, will now be accepted to fill up
the second call.
Our news from the West is not of
great moment to-day. The number
of rebels said to bo menaciny fine
Southern border Of Missouri is report,
ed at 10000 men. 1t is evident from
the rumors afloat in Louisville that
good deal of skirmishirg is going on
.nropghouf the State of Kentucky. A
little affair is reported at Floyd's Fork
with 20O0 rebels on Wednesday night {
in which the enemy were repulsed.- t
Heavy firing was heard on the same f
day on the Bardstown turnpike, where S
another small fight took place with c
like result. The rebels have evacuated |
shelbyyille, and Gen. Morgan, with r
his whole Union force, had reached !
the Ohio river, opposite Portsmouth. S
General Mcclellan, with his staff, "
paid a visit TO Bolivar and Sandy I
Hook on Monday. General Pleasan. b
ton, with his cavalry, has made anotb- w
sr dash across tie Potomac at Shep Ii
"' "'u''own, when he cane into contact H.
with body of rebels, and drove them
back to Martinsburg, shelling them
them ont from that place with his ar.
flllery. A large force of rebels are va va
y'hg between Winchester and Mar. de
insbnrg. eS
by advices from Louisville we learn wi wi
hat General Buell., who was tsmpora. a l'
lily depri> ed of lis command, and ro
ieneral Thomas appointed in his place, vi WI
vas Immediately reinstated at the re, djp
nest of General Thomas himself, and Gr, III,
II the Major Generals in the army of he'
'hlo. General Morgan is advancing no. mo-
ap'dfy towards the Ohio, to reinforce hrl
'eneral Buell, qu'
We give some Interesting news from un
'ew Orleans to-day, among which is his his
n account of q great rush of the in b@ac @
abltants to fake the oath of allccjance hin
ORDER to escape the operations of the but ut
Xtll section OF the Contiscation oct His
hie.l} in accordance with the presi. ,"s ,,sr