The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-04
TIE WAR NEWS.

N''i'''iSSailce IN loTce.' Perhaps the weather
"'Sooheerted his usual weekly arrangements; or.
"at Is more likely, the result Of his last so-ealed
reconnaissance was so disastrous TO his army as to
MAKE 1t necessary for him to pause longer between
ms blows However that may be, he was duiet-un-
s'mmonly Quiet-yesterday. Not a gun was fired
north OF James river, and very few ON the lines at
Petersburg. The positions usually swarming with
eiue-jackets in fine weather were tenanted vester-
day only by solitary sentinels, who wet and COM
fortless hugged their shoddy great-coats closely az
they trod their lonely rounds. \ Yankee officer
who came out TO the picket line iii front of Fort
HARRISON yesterday morning. remarked to one Of our
orleerS that our men We're having n very quiet time
Just now, but that the Yankees would wake them un
rs soon as they the Yankees HAD completed certain
little mortar arrangements which they were at
work They would he said, make Elliott Hill tour
position immediately in front Of, and nearest to,
Fort iIarlison) too hot to hold our fellows. We
have not learned that this boast created any cons
derable excitement amongst our men.
II is reported that Grant has transferred some Of
his troops from the north TO the south side and cor
tain crcaking and rafting of his pontoons during,
the past few nights gives slight confirmation to the
report. II AZ quite probable that, having failed to
take the collective point the Southside railroad-
with the Second, fh and Ninth corps, he
purposes making another attempt upon it AZ
an early day. aided by the Tenth corps, and
that, for that SET vice, he has drawn tha. corps
over 10 him. We believe he has moved the
Tenth corps if any; because we know that parts at
least OF the Eiehteenthhis only other force on the
north sideare still in the trenches at and near Fort
Harrison The Tenth corps, we, believe, is COM
posed largely Of negroes. Bney, it, late COM
InaIGer, who died recentIyot Congestiyc chill WAS
what the New York Herald used % calla nigge4
"orshpper, and, il Will be rccollectei recruited"
many Africans in Maryland last fall Terry nov
commands II II II does better in its next flzht
than 1t did last Thursday on the DaIbytown ROAD
the aouthside railroad will be in little danger from
It's efforts.
A gentleman who came III from the lines late last
evening reports that the enemy has reduced his
force IL our front between Fort Harrison and the
river II this observation is correct, it is further
confrpatory OF the reported withdrawal OF Yam |
KEGS to the fouth side, hut possibly the Yankees |
were not visible because they were shetering them
selves from the rain
The election is close at hand, and it will surprise
no one If Grant gives another contest for the |
opulliA4CC IL VIII II ht
does not
FROM PETERSBURG
All was quiet on the lines around Petersburg yes
tertay. There is some activity manifested among
the Federal troops, but from What cause is not
known. But from the fact that it is generally be-
lieved by our generals on tn, month side that the
enemy have decreased their force to a considerable
degGse and that Fort Harrison is only held by
strong garrison, it is supposed that Grant is pre-
pairing for grand blow elsewhere.
General Lee is, without doubt, posted as to all |
and part is to meet the denou-
1,ent.
1t is now a we-ascertained fact that the detach-
nent Of Federals lately sent from the vcinity of
Petersburg to City Point Were destined for Ply
mouth. The result has been seen.
Forseveral hours, OH Wednesday morning, a brisk |
shelng was kept up left centre-nost of the |
proceeding from side. This is no
unusual occurrence, at this point, and elsewhere
Dn the lines, there is more or less cannonading
every day. |
THE VALLEY.
The main armies are quiet, grimly watching each |
1ther from unfriendly picket lines. the vdettes |
greet each other daily, at the grey Of the morning,
With the whistling of bullet; and there is through
1ut that army general antipathy to conference. Our
,avalry beginning to somewhat change the tide of
ttfars, and are driving the Yankee horsemen from
pillar to post. There have been several small af- |
airs i'll the Luray Valley; i'll which the Confede-
rates have off first best
Citizens of Staunton say that thesbody of cavalry
which lately passed through that town their way
to Sheridan the most efficient, and most finely
al
THE AFFAIR IN EAST TENNESSEE.
We have some further particulars OF the affair in |
East Tennessee, mentioned a few days ago 1t ap- |
pears that Lincoln is maxi ig desperate effort to /
hold East Tennessee until after the election and
has recently thrown the following force in there for
that purpose: AT Knoxville two regiments of ne |
groes and the Eighth Ohio cavalry; ut Strawberry
Plains, the Sixteenth Kentucky and Tenth Michi-
gan; and between that point and Morristown, the
Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Thirteenth Tennessee.
md Kinks cavalry-the whole force being about Sc
zen Thousand men. OF course our little force under
General Vaughan, at MolistoW1l could do little !
against such odds in the fight of Friday last and
vas driven back with the loss of four pieces of ar
ltery and one hundred and fifty men, including
killed, wounded and missing. Colonel Rose OF the
Sixty-tiTst Tennessee, s missing, and Captain Mayo
1f the Sixty second Tennessee, also. We hear of |
several wounded-Captsin Allen, severely; Adiu-
ant Hawkins, of the Thirty-irst, wounded in the |
arm, severely; Lieutenant Smith, of the same reg-
ment, killed. The enemy are al Bulls gap; and it
Is not believed that they Will attempt further ad-
vance at present.
THE CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH-LOSS OF
THE ALBEMARLE.
The capture Of Plymouth, North Carolina, by the |
enemy is explained by later accounts. A lack OF
sufficient watchfulness the part of our troops |
seems 10 have been the prime cause of the loss of
he town. II seems that, on Thursday night party
n AlbeInagle sound, some eight ten miles from
Plymouth, took a small torpedo boat and started for
Plymouth. On the way, they found a small boat
,ontaining six Of our men, In the rivcr, stationed
here as Il picket guard; but all of them being
.sleep, they were taken prisoners Then proceeding
o Plymouth, they found the Albemarle at the
wharf and running the torpedo boat under her,
.rnidship blew her up, causing damages from which
he soon sunk Infantry stationed on the
wharf who fired the assaulting party, and after
he Albemare sunk, captured the whole ofthem; but
no one was killed ana only one man wounded.
There was no force OF the enemy near Plymouth
With the exception of the five six gunboats IN the
ound but the loss Of the Albemarle opened the |
Roanoke 20 them-and hence the fall Of the town.
,,ntain Roberts it is stated, commanded the Albe-
naIle.
II ia understood that there were no lives lost on
ha Albemarle, and that there were very few men
- .s,oa of ha axnosiOn of the tOrpedO |