Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-10-13
The Latest News.

The Richmond Examiner cf the 10th says:
1.-THE long talked.of forward movement Of Gen.
Lee has been at last begun. The army of Northern
Virginia is north of the Rapidan, in hot pursuit of
the Grand Army of the Potomac, which has fallen
back from Culpepper Court House, and is in rapid
fight for Manassas or Arlington Meade may make
stand at the Rappahannock, but this is not re-
grded as probable. His army not numerically
Terv strong, mastering not over fifty thousand
nuSkets, is weak as regards the elements of which
it's composed, there being in it a large proportion
Of recent and most unwilling conscripts and re
ugured conscripts
twould be unwise at present to give even such
neagre particulars of our plans and movements as
have come to our knowledge We may, however,
say that Ewelrs corps is in the advance, with Gen.
Edmund Johnson's division as vanguard.
The coming week will be one of great activity
with Gen. Lee, and doubtless also with his antago-
mist, whether he accepts or declines battle II
h has determined to rum no tortoise pace will avail
hqn He must fy, and we may expect to hear of
E/at quantities of stores burnt and much baggage
h Iown away"
I've have nothing later than the foregoing from
sDea army of Virginia.
Nothing of ofinterest from Chattanooga The South
arm news gatherers complain that Gen. Bragg per-
It's no reporters to visit his camps, and the news
com that quarter amounts to little, except when a
cattle is going on. ROsecranz is stated to have been
heavily reinforced. Whether he will simply at
tempt to hold Chattanooga, or advance again to-
wards Atlanta, remains to be seen.
Nothing of interest from Charleston.
Latest from the United States.
New York papers of the 9th say that gold opened
on the previous Gay at 147i, reached 1473, closed
1851
Maximilian has accepted the crown of Mexico.
Gen. Heitzlcnan has been relieved from the COM
nand of the dcfences of Washington. The post has
been tendere'l to Gen. Barnard.
Louisville despatch S ste.es that Gen. Burnside
has driven the enemy bet6Gs him southwark, to the
HawaSse river, and eastward as far as Greenyille
On the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. The
right wing of Gen. Burnsides army is thus put in
communication with the army of the Cumberland.
Hooker is to command part of the reinfOrcements
sen: to ROsecranz. Reinforcements are literally
pouring down from Louisville.
Eight hundred prisoners, captured at the battle
aChckamauga, have been sent to Camp Douglas,
Chicago, Illinois.
nun OudElcSIOi udIOOL W ou lnSt-, To-
@lVed 1t was currently reported that Gen. Gill
nores headquarters had been removed from Morris
" Folly Island, and that the mass of the troops and
war material would soon follow.
dispatches from the army of the Potomac say
'uere nothing occurring to indicate immediate
'''e operations. Conscrpts in large numbers are
arriving daily. Changes have been made in the
"atlOn of some of the corps.
AaVlces from Matamoras to the 18th ut, make
r0 mention OF the occupation Of that place by the
French forces. ....-
tue RUSSIAN fleet will probably stay in American
'a,siS until spring The Admiral and his officers
WI visit Washington and the Great West on pri-
"te invitations. .r-- -- 'r..
-, a new arrangement for the exchange of prisoners
eeh agreed upon. The details are still under
onSideration. -. .-.. nc -.Ess -...-...