Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-05-04
The News of the Week.


Three or four Companies of the seth N.
G. Regiment were attacked on the '2Sth ult.,
ut Gum Swamp, 9 miles below Kinston, by
some six or eight thousand yankees. Our
boys fought them over two hours with the
constancy and determination of veterans, and
only retired from their breastworks when
fanked and o%verpowered by numbers.
Our loss is estimated at about forty killed,
wounded and missing. Among the killed is
the brave Lieut.. Luttsrloh, of Capt. Lock
hart's company, who died nextmorning of his
wounds. ~
The yankees were expected to continue
their advance next morning but did not do so.
Gen. Hill will give them a proper welcome
when they come.
Nothing further is known as to General
Longstreet's operations around Suffolk. He
still has the town in siege and commands the
river so that no reinforcements can be sent to
the enemy in the town. 1t is not. known
whether he intends capturing the town Or
not But while the yanks have been daily
expecting an attack, Gen. Longstreet has
been operating in other directions to the i'm.
mense advantage of our cause in Eastern Vir.
ginia and North Carolina.
For instance, it is said that the Yankee
villains nave abandoned all the Albemarle
country, being no longer visible on the
Chowan, Elizabeth City, or any where else in
that section. Our forces are said now to oc-
cupy all these points, and are determined not
to abandon them again without a desperate
struggle. Immense quantities of provisions
have been brought safely away from that
section, and if the enemy can be kept off from
there, this fine grain growing region will add
millions of bushels to the support of our
army and people.
We are panied to see, however, that the
vandals around Washington and Suffolk are
devastating the country, destroying houses,
insulting and imprisoning the citizens, and
committing all manner of outrages where they
can make their raids free from molestation by
our troops.
Gen. Potter, the yankee in command at
Washington, N. O., has issued an order, re-
quiring every person in the town to leave the
place or take oath of allegiance to Lincoln's
government. This order is alike cruel and
unusual. No exceptions are made. Whole
families are to be driven out as wanderers
ONcI tuC AdOC Vi t1lC CdAU1S OCCduSG tuEf are
true to the State and their native land.
A large body of Rosencrants' mounted in.
fantry made a raid into the town of McMin.
vile, Tenn, recently, and after routing a
small body of our troops there, burnt a large
cotton factory, the Depot buildings and the
Court House. Gen. John II. Morgan was
there at the time, and only succeeded in ma
king his escape with his wife, by a hairs
breadth. Heleft OH an ambulance, Che driving
on the Sparta road. They reached Sparta
that night in safety.
The foiled Yankee gunboats around Charles
ton are having . glorious revenge by throw
ing shells about on the islands where Con-
federate soldiers are thought to be found.
Preparations for a renewal of the attack or
Vicksburg continue, and a formidable assault
is anticipated soon. Our people are not dis
turbed about the result. The concentration
of thirty thousand troops at Corinth, and tn,
sending of thirteen regiments designed to &C
as cavalry in Mississippi, denote that the Fed
erals have adopted a new plan, or revived al
old one, of hanking Vicksburg by way O
Jackson. Let the enemy's object be what i
NAV, one fact is certain-there will be stir
ring times at an early day in Mississippi.
Rosencrans' and Bragg's armies still con
tinue near each other near Murfreesborough
Tenn, and both are being heavily reinforced
A heavy battle is expected there very soon
Gen. 10. Johnston has recovered from a recen
attack Of illness, and with him and Bragg t
command the splendid army under them, W
confidently expect Almost signal victory.
Gen. Pemberton telegraps the suthoritie
at Richmond, that six gunboats, averagin
ten guns each, opened a terrific fire upon on
batteries at Grand Gulf Miss, on the morr