Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-25

WILMINGTON, n c., SATUhDA-1-
W. woTIn respectfully refer our readers TO the
". s we present in another column Tor
II e. inforrnation we can now give them. we are
.sont paper from either the North or the South,
ard can only listen to rumours which are generally not
worth the amount of breath employed IN VenuIatlng
them.
This nucb is certain The advance upon Goldsboro'
IL 18th force and determination which exceeds
all our previous artcipaons, and indicates design on
be mart of the enemy to make this State the theatre OF
anmportant part of their operations during the cam
paign which they propose to carry on this winter
North Carolina and Souhside Virginia are evidently
To be the base or least base of operations against
Richmond.
There was hard fighting yesterday in the immediate
vicinity of Godsboro though with what result we have
not vet been able to learn. We fear that the enemys
force is very heavy and that he is constantly getting
achievements. From information obtained from New
bern we are led to the inference that either the Suffolk
army or an important portion of Burnsdes force is be-
ing transferred to North Carolina.
The enemy burned the two culverts on each side of
The Goshen Swamp trestle work on the Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad, seriously damaged the trestlework
ITSELF and tore up two hundred yards OF the track
in one place and about seventy yards in another, OR
rather they made the railroad negroes do it. They built
fires on the track at Mount Olive and Milton, though
we have not learned the amount Of damage done at these
points.
1t will be seen by our dispatches that the Yankees
have succeeded in burning the bridge over the Neuse
river about miles from Goldsboro'.
Upon the whole, oar people appear to be maintain
ing their ground. They fighting vaiantly and
well.
We regret to learn that Col Radclf taken pris-
orer at Kinston but has been released on parole Lieut.
Ippitt is said to he missing but is believed to be
prisoner Capts o. P. Meares and W.. Anderson
are SAFE
General Lee appears to have got Burnside into big
trap and to have given him foretaste Of tophe Burn
side will fall as soon as Pope or nearly SO.
It appears doubtful from our dispatches whether any
forces from Suffolk are among those advancing upon
9oIdsboro'. 1t is more probable that Banks ezpedl-
ton is there in force
THE pcws from Fredericksburg is encouraging and
likely to be true BURNSIDE is certainly no match Tor
LEE.-DaHy Journal, 1871.
CESAR came saw and conquered BANKS and Fos-
TER came, saw, plundered got whipped and skedad-
died."
They came up like hungry wolves, marking their
path by desolation. Ruined homes, desolated arms'
wrecked buildings burned bridges stolen negroes mark
their track.
They plundcrcd helpless women and childfen-they
have been driven back By far interior numbers OF arm
ed men, They have showed themselves to be robbers
and Vapdals lacking even in the courage that history
ascrbes to those scourges of the Roman EMPEROR popu-
lar opnion connects with the image of the bold high
wayman.
But perhaps after ALL the Abolition forces did what
tbey were sent for-carrying out their programme IN
full desolatpg the country exhausting its resources
and hoping to make men partizans of submission by
causing them to feel the mseres attendant upon wal
waged for independence In this they will not succeed
while they will embier the feelings of all and make then
even more adverse than ever to the reconstruction OF
Union that would ion them by unnatural bond to G
people that they have seen guilty Of such atrocities anc
from whom they have suffered SO many wrongs.
But although the Yankees have disappeared from the
front OF our forces near Godsboro there is no certain
tv as to where they have gone. Some go SO far al
to think that they may bend their way in this direction
We do not think so. They will never attempt such
march by aud u1lcss indeed they be crazy, and BANK
IS not crazy, although no match for GUsTAvUs w
SMITH in military knowledge or capacity.
After all the flourish OF trumpes made over TIT
BANKS expedition, we are inclined to think that, il
coming to Beaufort harbor it reached the point fol
which it was intended TO SAIL but that in failing to reacI
Godsboro, it did not reach the point aimed at ant
failed 10 accomplish the main object in view.
But they have done much injury to private propert.
both belonging to individuals and to corporations, ant
in doing so they have doubt carried out part
their programme.
We expect to hear something of them soon. AT pre-
sent it is doubtful whether they going to Newberr
Beaufort or --. We hope the latter place may IT
Ceive them before they do much more harm. We trus
that their final destination may be their immediate DEF
tination.
P S,-Since writing the above, We have semi-oficie
Information that the enemy beat rapid retreat toward
Newbern on night before last 1t is supposed the
next effort viii be to take Wilmington. We sur
when the attempt is made, they will meet with a
reception, equally as warm as at Kinston and Gold
boro', if not little more They have made the
boast that they would occupy this place on the 25t
inst. We she'll see
The YANKEES are informed, so they say-that th
roads leading to Wilmington from the sea coast are
mined, or filed with masked batteries. They propos
to get this by putting Confederate prisoners
front and making them point out the situation of sue
mines or other works. at any rate the risk of tt
explosion OR draw the fire of the battery.
Now that Is proposition that would disgrace Tartt
a Hndoo, and yet it is gravely made and shameless
Iy avowed through the columns of leading New Yol
paper an organ and supporter of the Lincoln admin
traton and presumed to reflect its views and to be ava
Of its policy
We have nothing to say about the mines or batteri
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