Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-12-08
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force It Newb RI will quietly withdraw to
operate simultaneously at Weldon.
FRKDERIcKSsuRG.-The Examiner learns
from an intelligent observer recently visiting,
Fredericksb re, that the heights on the op-
poSite bank of The river are crowned with
the enemy's batteries, and t e.hlack muzzles
of their canon are said to look down into
every street in Fredericksburg. Artillery is
also posted at all the fords. AT Port Royal,
some twenty-five miles down the river.
the enemy have a heavy land battery, and on
the 3Oth ult., four gunboats were reported
to be in that vicinity.
1t is estimated that not more than three
or four hundred persons of the resident
population, have Withdrawn to. any distance
fion Fredericksburg. But many more are
crowded in the country Immediately around
the city, camping out in the fields, and living
on such scanty and precarioGs subsistence
as is at hand. TIE. spectac,es which meet
the eye, as tie city is approached, of this
houselets population are said to be very
touching. Not more than about thirty fami-
lies remain within the limits of the city, who
from poverty and other causes, are desper-
ate'y resolved to alb de the chances OF war.
BURNSIDE SUPERCEDED.-The report that
Burnside had replied to an order Of Hal.
leck's oadvance at once for political reasons,
that his movements should lie governed by
military necessities solely, and that if he was
to be interfered with he preferred some one
should take his place-seemS to be tue; for
telagraphic dispatches from Richmond report
Burnside as being superseded by Gen. Hook
er. Shall we now have a c..ange of base, or
a politi> al advance Of the Grand Army?
WAR AGAINST WoMAN.-A correspondent
Of the Christian Index states, on the. author.
ity Of a p~aroled prisoner, that when our SOL
dierS, captured in Maryland, passed through
Baltimore, 1.-The streets were thronged with
ladies, who threw apples, peaches and pears
to the prisoners-an act of kindness for
which the Federal soldiers seized them by
the dresses at the throat and thrust them
back on the sidewalk one of the dastards
carrying this display of Indignant and cour-
: ageous patriotism so far as to strike a lady
in the breast with the bu t of his musket, and
drive her staggering backward across the
e Sidewalk to the wall !"
+ ANTI SLAVERY RELIG1ok The New York
:. Christian Advocate and Journal. thinks that
colonization has ST. engtheued rather than
: weakened American slavery" because Shy
t removing the most intelligent, daring and en-
r terprising spirits among the bllcks, it has
! diminished the prospects Of servile, insured.
, ton ?" -
: HEAVY Loss OF MARRIAGEABLE MEN-The
. war correspondent of the Savannah Republic
f can, estimates the yearly loss of the Confed-
eracy in young and manageable men by the
war at 100, 900. This carries with it the loss
1 as old maids of the same number of mar
riageable women. He says,
1t would seem as if the time spoken of by
Isaiah was about to be realized by the wO-.
e men of the South.
And in that day seven. women shall tske
= hold Of one man, saying We will eat our
} own bread and wear oar own apparel, only
let US be called by thy name, to take away
our reproach."'
Luis ANTICIPATION Is dlScOruaIlHS enough,
I; and we do not know who are to be the most
; = pltIed, the women or the remaining men.
# The Brigades of Generals Evans and Jen-
+ klns are ordered from Virginia to Weldon in
North Carolina. General Evans Brigade had
arrived there at last accounts and Jenkins
would soon follow. These Brigade are CON-
. posed entirely of South Carolina troops.
A Dash INTO KENTUcKY.e.nlanal James
r. Howard, of the Alabama c~avalry, reached
Knoxville recently from a sc mt IL Kentucky
, as far as BuIkevisle, The Register Says he
encountered, on the 10th ult., a large force of
Abolition cavalry and infantarv on the Col
~ unbla pike, and after a brisk engagement
y routed thtm, killing thirty. Our liss was
four killed and three wounded Colonel How
ard captured 5000 hogs, and afer two severe
~ skirmishes drove back the enemy, and safely
q brought out the hogs. This is one of the
most brilliant feats which has lately crowned
ne our arms.
ne
GEN. JOHNSTON GONE WEST. The Express
he says General Joseph f. Johnston and staff
he reached ~Lynchburg Saturday night by a spe.
hit cial train from Richmond. The distinguish
he cd General is en- route for his new command
in the West.
A PRINCtLY PRE-RNT.-P. w. a, the Rich
\ mond correspondent Of the Savannah Repub
lican, says:-lt is reported that John Fraser
& Co, OF Charleston, have made 4~present t.
~ the Government of a splendid Sar steamer
completely armed and equipped. This patri
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