Interesting from the North Carolina coast — the enemy at Pamlies — feeling of the people — enlistments Extractdinary.
Through the kindness of
Lieut. Woodbury Wheeler, now in the city upon a special mission, we are in possession of a few facts which may not prove uninteresting to our readers.
He reports that on yesterday week
Col. George B. Singletery went down the coast in the steamer
Albemarle upon a reconnoissance, and returned last Saturday, having on Wednesday overhauled a pilot who had just escaped from the enemy.
From the source he learned that on Tuesday 175 Yankee vessels were certainly essaying a passage over the bar, and heading directly
Pamlico Sound.
In addition to this information, the polot avers that he saw three of the
Yankee gun-boats wrecked and stranded at
Hatteras.
For corners, however
Commodore Lynch, of
Norfolk, having just returned from a reconnoissance of the enemy, declares that there was no appearance of these ships at
Hatteras.
He saw, it is true, a number of craft hunddled up and close in shore, but gives it as a correct opinion, that they were merely transports, or coasting craft, taking shelter from the raging storms that have lately blown over that part of the coast with so much violence.
The rumor so current on the streets yesteray, and so eagerly devoured, to the effect that one half of the
Yankee fleet had gone to Navy
Jones's locker, appears to have had its vigin in the joking humor of a Government official who succeeded, by his pranks, in ‘"playing off"’ upon more than one wise head.
Newborn, N. C., is in a ferment of excitement in expectation of an attach in that quarter.
The town is under martial law, and every preparation made for early intelligence of the enemy's moverments and for his repulse when he does come.
The
Progress, of Thurday last, says:
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Several reports have reached us recently to the effect that large quantities of gun-boats were in the
Sound and that a simultaneous attack would be slade at four or five important points, this being one of the places, at the same time, the legitimate result of which has been a panic here.
We, however, are not exactly prepared to call it a panic, for it resembles more, a cool and deliberate determintion on the part of our male citizens to place their wives and children in a safer position out of town preparatory to giving the randals a fight as desperate as they may choose to make it. No man has been idle here for a few days and every man seems determined to dispute the advance of the enemy such by inch to the very last extremity, should be venture to set foot upon land.
There is a exedness and determination on the countenance of every one that seems to say, ‘"if he comes we will kill as many of him as he can of us."’
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In every part of the Old North State, her sons are rousing themselves.
We have heard that in
Wayne county, when it was proposed to draft the militia, every man instantly volunteered for the war. This unexpected response, was so universal that contentions resulted upon the question of remaining at home, and these upon whom this lot feel, there loud in their expressions of disappointment.
