Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1864-02-22
THE NEW s.
FROM VIRGINIA.

We have but little news from the Ar
my Of Northern Virginia. The opposing
armies occupy still their old positions,
and not SO much as a skirmisA has oc-
CURED to relieve the monotony of the
situation. '....
The telegraph continues to convey
however, the gratifying intelligence that
establishments are going on in every part
OF the army. President Davis in his ad-
mirable address, which We publish to-
Gay has eloquently and truly character
ICED these latest manifestations Of the
patriotic ardor and endurance. of our SOL
diers as their noblest triumph victo-
ry over themselves.
On the 18th inst, Lieut.. Catch. q
Marylander, with ten men, also Mary
landers, captured eight yanke,s and nine
well equipped cavalry horses, near New
ton, in the Valley.
A telegram, dated the 10th inst, states
that Gilmer's and Blacklord's, Cavalry
threw a train of cars off the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, six miles above Har-
per's Ferry, on Thursday 18th inst, cap
turing and p~aroling fifty Federal officers
and soldiers, and getting some booty.
Rumors of anot her advance on Rich
monA, by way of the peainsdlo, have
once more resolved themselves into a
false alarm. The Examiner says:
Dispatches received by the authorities
here leave no doubt that the yankees
have retired from Barhamsville and ac-
counts by the railroad contradict the
rumors of the apparition of a fleet of
transports at Yorktown. Two of the
enemy's vessels, a gunboat and side
wheel steamer, had appeared in the riv-
Ell, evidently accommodating for torpedoes
without, however, any success.
An official despatch from Maj. General
Jones, dated Feb. 10th, states that on the
3D. inst, Major MUurmaD, with a detach-
ment of forty men of the Sixteenth Var
GINA cavalry, captured the armed steam
.er B. c. Lera, at Winfreela, Putnam
county, Va, with a valuable cargo and
t%wenty-nine prisoners, including Brig.
Gen. G. P. Sceammon, commanding
forces in Kanawha Valley, captain, anc
two Lieutenants of his StaG.
A Richmond telegram of the 18th
inst, gives the following quotations O
Confederate stocks:
At auction sale to-day of bonds ant
stocks, prices advanced to an aveFagc o
about ten per cent. Confederate bonds
eight per cent, Coupons due IN 1868
121 and interest; ditto registered, du
1879, sold for 1876 and interest ; Z pc
cents 115 and a half; cotton loan, Is!
and fat; God %; silver 20.
FROM TENNESSEE.
We have no later intelligence Of tn
military situation in Tennessee than
contained in the following summar
which we find in tine Standard of tn
18th inst. 81
Gen. Burnside's army, immediatel
commanded by Gen. Cox, of Virginia,
said to be massed in and below Knox
Vile, to the number Of about 40, 000.-
Their supplies come from Chattsnoog
by steamers and railway. A force
stationed at Loudon, and a smaller GU,
post is kept up at Sweetwater-princi
patty to cover foraging parties sent o,
10 pillage the rich vallies In that region
Persons who have escaped from Knox
Vile, within the last three days, repo
that the enemy are building a birds
ACROSS the Holston opposite Knoxvill
and are fortifying the heights on the e2
side of that river. These heights con-
mand the city and its principal defence
and were occupied in part by Longstree
in his Sige, last fall. They report al.
that the main body of the yankee troop
are encamped five miles below the eli
on the Loudon road and that they a.
fortifying hat position. The fcarij
ravages of small pox are said to hal
caused this change in their position, Il
deaths last week amounting to from
to 40 pc: day. The Confederate advan'