The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-30
TIE WAR NEWS.

20 H..ny - importance occurred ON
~ line, ~ TINS vicinity on yesterday - !.
.....lal dc,nElory csnnonsde was kept /
81 uut LETT, at Petersburg, wi,h the y
..lI absence of result. +
Military matters seem equally at (
..,i-,lll IN other parts OF Virginia. In
.es Nsllyy. there is nothing doing, ant
SANDMAN has He'd from Southwestern
I-s.ma, after dong much mischief.
IRON IHE SOUTH.
We published on yesterday a telc-
.-,m from Wilmington, announcing that
n. Federal fleet, carrying the army OF
L.,,er. had drawn off from the mouth of
n. Cape Fear river and disappeared, An
..tsial dispatch to the same effect was
-..civcd at the War Office on yesterday. |
Nothing is said nothing, perhaps, Is
kaowu-of the direction taken by them,
The general impression seems to
he that they have gone to aid
sherman in All attack upon Charleston,
Although, doubtless, Sherman will re-
guire all the aid he can obtain when he
undertakes the attack upon Charleston,
yetwe think it quite As likely the Porter
Butler Armada has gone liz search of
-ome quiet port, wherein to retit and re
pair damages for the armada was
most roughly handled on the North Ca
Iulina coast first, by the winds and
waves; then, 10y the heroic little CARR
-eu Of Fort Fisher and then again, by
the stlI angry winds and waves. We
have vet to learn how much II was ia
mayed by the clements TO the fury OF
which il IS, perhaps, still exposed. We
know how it Jared at the hands OF the
garrison Of Fort Fisher but the repuiNe
If tins ,,randest Of land and naval eXpe-
a.tiypo was 80 speedy and complete that,
nn Il. first announcement, we could moi
,1tercther credit it. 1t seemed hardly
ro.-ible tgat & force 80 enormous should
he beaten oii and di-comttted by gar
,isnu II few hundred men, gooc
mart q whom were raw militia
that We were inclined to d0ub
whether any serious attack had been
made. whether the whole denonsta
,.ou were Lot reconnaissance or TENT
preliminary to tie grand moyemen
.ra.nst the real objective point. bui
a.th ali the fact before us, We are con
WINGED not nnly that Wilmington was Ia
object against which the expedition Wa
sent .ut, but are awakened to the u'
neDjous character Of the assaults VINE
were sustained and repealed by the TIN
garrison Of our forts, The whole po"e
I'll fleet having shelled the devoted To-
tor tonrt.pn hours. knocking every h"u'
nit about the heads oi the gaiiiSon, h'
hrirades, numbering from ten to t"el'
,i.Ysand men. assaulted it turlously al
r,ueatedlv on the land side at night
The enemy's calculation was that, u
fortituie Of our troops being shaken
the awful Commandment, they Won
otC.r little resistance to the infantry
t,rL bat in this they were Nignally Il
deceived Our men stood hravely
their Guns. aud so cut up their aSSa
ants in every renewed attack as
cause them to retreat preclpltately
their ships The country owes dc
# gratitude to General Bragg, "
manned the defence of Wilmington, a
L. the troops, to,whose untiinchlng CO.
age 1t to-day owes its safety
FROM SHERMAN.
The Yankee papers state That Shern
j, moving against Charleston. Inns
not the first false announcement III
iournals have made We have autheI
affirmation that Sherman has not
Ief, Savannah, and with the exception
me expedition he sent OFT south, iowa
tho AltaDaha, has made no movemei
anv kind since his capture OF the
lie has his hands full in dlsposIns
the thirty-five thousand bales OF col
he SAYS he has captured, When he
move. it will probably be not aga
Charleston, but Augusta.
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