Daily national Republican., 1863-02-24
LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
The Attack on Charleston and Savannah
Dreaded.

Dreaded.
We take the following from the Richmond
Wing of February II:
WHO SUNK THE HATTERAsl
This question Is at last solved. The Alabama
did the job.
We also hear that tho Florida has been en-
gagged in some very pretty little operations, of
which no news had previously reached us. The
sending a Yankee vessel, laden with soldiers, to
David Jones' locker, without notice, is a very
Jolly proceeding. Oh, how much one regrets,
in reading such accounts, that the late Mr.. NAL
lory was 80 much addicted to sleep!
The following Is extracted from letter dated
10th instant, just received per steamer Ruby,
from gentleman of high respectability at Mas
sau, on his way to Europe:
''It was the Alabama that sunk the Hatteras.
The Florida has also sent the Annie Bonsall,
with troops for New Orleans, to the bottom"
LATEST CHANGE OF BASE.
The intelligence has assumed positive char
actor, and is relied on, that the Yankee army
on the Rappahannock has sounded retreat.
1t is believed that they arc making for Wash
ington, to recruit, behind the breastworks of
that city, their wasted ranks and broken spirits
Hooker" fighting Joe who snecred at all
his predecessors for doing 80 little, has followed
their example of the back track, having done
still less than they. And yet he had doubtless
ces admitted OF. He had in front of him an
impregnable position and an invinciclo army
He had under him beaten, disgraCed, demOr-
allied and splritlCss force. II was impossible
for him to move forward. The river and the
mud afforded him only temporary respite from
demolition by Lee. 1t was prudent TO get away
while he had n chance. And so ends another
chapter in the history of On to Richmond !
This is the fourth flight to Washington of the
army that has come out from It's walls with
banners flying and Steeds pranclng, to oveTrun
Virginia and occupy her capital. Mcdowell,
Pope, Mcclellan and Hooker rvaled each other
in the glory of a Heglra. Whose turn comes
next, and when will the Confederate States be
conquered at this rate of progress
MAMMOTH ARMADA.
Charleston or Savannah, or both, are now
awaiting, breathless, the onslaught of the
greatest war fleet ever seen In our hemisphere.
The crisis is upon them. Many beating heart
longs and burns to be with the envied de-
Tenders of those cities, under command or the
heroic and devoted BGauregard this day. Many
Confederate soldier would make a present OF
ten years of dull existence in exchange for
Zone crowded hour of glorious lifC" " under our
flag upon those forts and batteries, and under
the eye of such a chief.
Charleston has envied Richmond; Savannah
has been kept from her sleep by the fame OF
Vlcksburg. Their garrisons, lying idly in their
ludIlClb, nave pluCu lndl Hty NCIC uOL bnhTCIh
in the passage of arms at Fredericksburg, when
the Georgian Lawton stood the battle-brunt
with his brigade, and MaXcy Gregg poured out
the last drops of his noble blood for The iJde.
pcHdetcG Of South Cdrolindl At last those
slighted cities have their turn; those injured
soldiers receive attention. Do not their hearts
leap up at the summons TO the battlcl viii
they not make the names of Charleston and
Savannah names of terror to the craven Yankee
heart from this day to the ending of the world
We know not accurately what number OF
| iron-Clad ships the enemy have got in their
mammoth armada" but they will have no use
for anything short of iron-clads in face of our
| forts. Charleston and Savannah have both had
| time for preparation. They have both long
known that they wero coveted objects for the
foe. Charleston, above all, that first, in that
hour of fate, struck down the felon-hag of the
Yankee, and rung, through the throat of can,
non, the dcath-knoll of foul and rotten Union
| Charleston Is the choicest morsel to glut the
| dearest vengeance of the Puritan heart May
| God fight for the gallant Cltyl smashing de.
| feat of tho mammoth armada" in those waters
now, would almost, we think, make the afIec.
tlonato soul of the gentle Northwest turn little
moro to thoughts of peace. Every ship of the
| "armada" sunk, will giYGrise to constitution
al scruplo in the Democratic conscience. The
disgrace of their striped rag will make them
| feel that our friendship must be cultivated and
that their own war debt ls thing to be repu,
dated. Diplomatize for us, then, ye bullets oi
Sumter! Soothe our great Northwest for us,
ye batteries of Beauregard
BATTLE IN TIE WEST.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. Is.
We learn that successful assault was madt
on Gen. Jciiersrn c. Davis's division, stationed
in and around Franklin, yesterday morning al
daybreak.
The attack was led by Gen. Forrest himself
with his usual dash and daring, and the
| Yankees dispersed in every dire,tiOn and
before ten O'Clock were in full retreat toward
Nashville. So say the rumOrs which reach III
| by the evening train. If the whole Of this IL
correct-and We sec no reason to doubt Its au.
thenticity-it entirely breaks the force of the
rUpulse from Fort Donelson, and proves For
rest and his merry men Irresistible and novel
repressible.
Our latest adyicGs from the force under
command of Gen. Davis state that they haC
returned to MurfreesbOro' with $50 rebel prls
oners whom they captured from FOrrest.-Ed
| Tribune
SLAVES IN REBEL MILITARY SERVICE.
In obedience to a requsitlOn of the Governor
of Virginia, for slaves to work on Notifications
| the HenTiCo county court has made an appOr
tionment among one hundred and sixty-six
Shareholders in that county, and called for two
| hundred and seventy-nine slaves. This Is fol
one county, and serves TO show how much thC
rebels depend upon their slaves.
THE APPROACHES TO SAVANNAH.
From the Columbus (Ga) sun
The British, we believe took Savannah bN
an expedition which went up the Ogeechee and
one Of the inland water passages to Montgom
cry or Vernon, at which point they dlsembarket
and marched upon the city by inland. But
this approach is now so well defended by oul
batteries at Bieulieu and other places, that tn,
enemy seem shy of it.