Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-04-24

from the rear, or by a flank movement he as
serts, have failed, and TIE only movement
which gives promise Of success, is that Of d.
rect assault. Such method of attack he re-
CARDS as desperate; but, he remarks, gloomi-
ly enough, q the fortunes of the campaign are
also becoming desperate" simultaneously,
however there rings from Cincnnati-a thou
sand miles away from the scene Of operations
"a far different note. We ''may look for
important news from Yicksburg about this
time the 20th-so runs the telegram
which news was to be nothing less than the
running Of the blockade Of the river batteries
by the fleet and an assault upon the Confede-
rate works by way Of Warrenton, with seven
ty thousand men. Fint lily, the Washington
Chronicle states that dispatches have actually
been received by the President, announcing
that portion Of Porters hotlla, laden with
a large number Of Grants soldiers have sue
eeeded in running the batteries at Nicksburg.
and are now in "A condition to engage either
in an assault upon Port Hudson, in coniunc-
ton with General Banks, or on Yicksbufg it.
self, from the South.
The Washington Star Of last evening also
reports that Admiral Porter succeeded in run
ming the batteries at Yicksburg on the night
of the 10th, with seven gnnboats and three
transports-the only damage said to have been
inflicted, was th@burning Of one of the trans
/
abling of the Forest City, and a shot through
/ the Benton's hull. A special despatch from
Memphis TO Chicago states the same particulars
From New Orleans we learn that General
Banks was operating, on the 18th instant, in
the vicinity of Bayou Teche, with some pro-
mise of success. A company of negro troops
/ took possession Of Pascagoula on the 10Th in
stant fought nearly double their number Of
| Confederates-so ii is said-witb astonishing
] haY.g L 81. ! H.
| three prisoners; but achievements arriving
| from Mobile they abandoned their conquest
and returned to Ship Island. The Federal
| gunboat Barrataria struck a snag il Amite
river, and was burned by her Offices to pre-
vent her from falling into the hands of the
Confederates.
General Dix officially reports the capture of
a battery Of six guns and two hundred Con- |
federatcs on the Nansemond river; but Adj
miral Lee reduces the number OF guns taken !
| 20 five, and Of prisoners to about one hun |
dred.' lie subsequently,, however, upon
further Information, estimates the number Of
prisoners taken at one hundred and sixty-one I
According to his account, the Coniederates /
had unmasked another battery on the west
branch OF the Nansemond river. 1t was never |
thelcss, surmised that they were ictreating-
In respect to the object Of the movement, the |
correspondent Of the New ork Tribune eX-
presses the opinion that it was nothing more
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have been abandoned, and the steamer Escort |
which left Newbern on the nth, for Washing
ton, was not molested on the passage up.
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TUESDAY, Aprll Z5.-Ihere are TWO des-
pu'cnes-ohe puOlshed yesterday ana The
otncr lniS MISUNDERSTANDING recent Fede- .
d RAJ achleVements OF more or less Importance. I
IA Inc hIst assumes TO have been received at
" Washington IN the incredibly short time of
TWO days from Milliken,s Bend, on the Missis-
supp river, near Flcksburg, and states that
Aumlral Porter ran the gauntlet of the Nicks-
ouIg batteries on the night OF the 10th inst,
WIN seven me gnnboats OF his squadron
ana his transports. Another telegram to
Ihe same purpose, and which is probably the
father of the whole batch, reached US at the
same time, ga Memphis, and furnished the
same particulars. The circumstantial details
contained in these dispatches give to the story
such an air OF yerisimilitude that we might
accept 1t without question were it not that
certain doubts connected with its transmits
sion leave 1t fairly open to analysis.
In the iirst place, then, the telegram of the
Associated Press, from Washington, states that
the report of Porter's exploit was received
there on the goth, while the Washington Siar
adds that information reached here-Wash-
ington--ln two days from Milliken's Bend.
Inc Chicago despatch, dated at Memphis on
the 18th, says, on the contrary, that the intel
Iigence was brought to that city by the steam
er Silver Moon, which left Nicksburg on the
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