Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-12-01


session.
| ADDITIONAL FROM THE UNITED STATES.
We continue, says the Richmond Wing, our extracts
from our Northern iles
THE PHILADELPHIA "PRRss" UPON SHERMAN
Every additional mail from the United States
strengthens the belief that the people of the North
rey Tor success, in Sherm4Bs grand campaign" upon
the hypothesis that be will be allowed to march enin
terrupted through the heart of the South. They have
az instructive fear of the least opposition to his pro-
gr:es, and they fOesee in delay on his part to reach
the pad for goal the s. disastrous equences-
For this reason, their Press holsters up the peoples
hopes by proclaming that Lee afford succor to
the cause In Georgia.; that Wilmington, Say annah and
Charleston are dependent upon their garrsons for safe
" that ID God, watched by Thomas, is incapable Of
sweeping down upon Sherman g rear-that, in brief
Sherman has nothing to fear from aoy armed Confed-
crate force 10 his advance and that, therefore, having
nothing to fear, he cannot be otherwise than success
Following up this idea, the Philadelphia Press thus
gently balances itself into deusive Dreams in an eiito-
rial entitled SHERMAN Unopposed :"
TO us the military problem not what Sherman
great Union has been lib rated from the necessity
Sd move nde1 evidently ia any direction it's comman.
der mSy choose. The presence Of large and
with us nsars OF the
perfectly untrameIed and almost unopposed, is ee
men in the ard revoV the entire
sbernan into The granary of tbs South upon
he OF irs great railroad communication Unless
bic march thwarted he will the Confederacy into
pieces.
Our readers pretty we'll aware by this time that
Shoi man has been :opposed" somewhere in Georgia
ll~eed, his march has been "thwarted" and that the
policy OF prancng uninteruptedly through vast tract
OF hostile country burning pillaging ard destroying
has BEEN contested somewhere, by army that, posi-
bly, Sherman may never have taken toto consideration
10 The formation OF his plans.
lmpre 'sed, them, with the agreeable fances that it
Irt0 in ola of ba
OF the Conttderacy, the Press thus satisfactorily dispo
seq OF the whole subject in grand review Of the situa
tlOi:
We hold it to be elfevdent that Lee extend no help
to he lotion States. and has fcuy enough in taking
care of the rebel capital Nor Hood still Floreuce
escape the vigilance of Thomas. In he
every tramp OF that steady march makes he hollow ground
of the rebellion trembe. What is his ultimate hj=ct
of the Confederacy. 1t what he will do, but
THAT the rebs that excites speculation and unless
there armies IN he South of which nothing has
been heard We must believe that they do pothiDg,
The Press in the above repeats the stale old rumor
that Sherman has beggary array Of fifty thousand
men, only, with him. Why not enter into the spirit of
the occasion, and, with the New York Herald, award
him his due need of seventy Thousand In the picture
OF the future that the Press before its imagina
ton, does it the vision of Sherman entering
Charleston or Savannah, or Wilmington, with banners
flying, and with the tread of unopposed con-
queror? If it does, it that which shall TO
pass when Vanderdecken, to lite again. shall dis
cover FL Dorado, ard when Preser John, seated u IN
his elephant, shall appear once more-about the time
of the Greek Kalends.
MOVEMENTS OF KIRBY SMITH.
The st. Louis correspondence Of the New Y ork Her
aid contains the following, under date of November
l8L:
has been circulated on streets for two
three days that rby Smith has moved around Little Rock
in the Price and is menscing trontier
to the he and
ct RtSeCrans' j
Cured to extent the is attributed to fent to
cover Prices retreat. It we'll known that when Price
into this he was promised cooperation by
gruder The rebel Mobile and Georgia. referring
rice's movement upon Missouri spoke openly of Ma
gruder and Kirby Smith taking of Steele at Little
Rock The that the rebels in Arkansas have
advised Prices disasters have made demon
northwad toward southeast divert attention
from Price il the southeast.
The following, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, is
detailed account of Mosbys last victory brief refer
ence to which has already appeared in our columns:
MosBY AMBUsHEs A PARTY OF UNION CAVALRY.
Harper's Ferry via Baltimore Nov. 2l.-In my last dis
patch to the Inquirer mentioned the fact that party of
chester, few days SINCE For the purpose, possible
of intervening and capturing the attacking party Captain
scouting Command started though Loudon county Fri
day last. The command 10 the saddle all day and
finally reached Cabetown on the Shenandoah river, about
miles from Harper's Ferry.
The morning Captain Basher captured two of Mos
by's and received information from them that small
party from the guerrilla chietans ulaws about
miles from Csbetown Captain Bcasher started with
party of between thirty and forty of the enemy. He
quickly returned to his main body consisting of
men, and proceeded to meet As the
in sight Captsin Brasher drew his men in
and charged them The Rebels fell back until the
of Cap ain Brasher's command had passed
road when hosby, with over two hundred men, made .
sudden dash both sides of the road, and sharp
COULTER ensued The Union scouts confled this
time in aBe, without much chance to manGavre
Wfs FREE % 2
ed the spot amoLg the number Lieutenant Cole
Eight were wounded, and the balance hirtytwo in num-