Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-18

THE WAR NEWS BEFORE RICHMOND.
NIL L.. AIa.. 4

TFrom the Richmond Examiner, Nov. II1
| The lines OF Richmond and of Petersburg
have been peaceful during the last two days,
but there Is rumor that some Yankee troops
| crossed to the northern bank on Saturday
| night, and It Is not impossible that Grant in.
tends another advance on this side, while he
repeats his old manHuvre on the left. II Is,
| however, improbable that he will attempt an
| assault on our magnificent continuous lines
now. He may attempt TO straghten his line,
now running from Fort Harrison towards Sig
nal Hill, so as TO bring II down to the river.
side parallel with our own defenses. Fort Har.
rison is only eight hundred yards from our
works, but the point at which their lines
touches the river is miles away to the south.
When the canal Is finished, and when his fleet
can get over the distractions, the enemy may
try ts step.
PROM uooD's ARMY.
tFbm the Richmond Examiner, Nov. lLI
The Montgomery Mad, Of the 7th, has the
following from Confederate surgeon, Just
down from Griffin, and a scout Just from the
army Of Tennessce:"
Sherman has returned to Atlanta with four
corps, which, with the garrisons left at that
point, makes total of five corps in and about
the city. Hood is at Tuscumba, confronted
by Thomas, and there are prospects Of an en-.
gagement. Fresh levies have recently been
| sent to Middle Tennessee, swelling the Yankee
| force to forty thousand, which enables Sher-
man TO leave Thomas an charge. If these re-
ports be true we may expect an early advance
upon Augusta or Macon.
There is a rumor Of fight between some of
| the Georgia State troops and portion of scho-
| fields corps, near Stone Mountain, on last
Wednesday. 1t is also reported that raid is
| en- route for Athens. Gen. Forrest is still on
the Tennessee, with his batteries and his
"horse marines" and we may pect at any
time TO hear Of his gunboat operations.
MOBILE, VIA SELMA, ALA, Nov. 1.-THE
| Tribune has received private letter from Tus-
cumbia, dated Nov. 4, which says:
Our scouts report that fifteen thousand OF
the enemy had arrived at Decatur, evidently
following our forces. On the I'd we shelled
thousand, and those we could have captured
| easily; but that was not In the programme
We captured forty prisoners, and killed and
/ wounded three or four hundred Yankee cav.
| airy. They are numerous on the other side
but they exhibit no desire to dispute the pas.
sage of the modern Rubcon.
THE LOSSES OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ny sHERI
DAMS RECENT ADVANCE.
| A committee of seventy.two, consisting o.
thirty-six citizens and the same number o.
magistrates, appointed by the County Court o
| Rockingham for the purpose of making an es
innate Of the losses of the county by the exc
cution ofSheridan's Infamous order, have IN adj
after laborious investigation of the subject
the following report:
Dwelling houses burned 80, barns buruet
45O, mills burned 81, fencing DESTROYED Cmiles
100, bushels Of wheat destroyed 100 900, bush
els OF corn destroyed $4,000, tons of hay des
troyed 6,233, cattle carried of l,7jO, horse
carried of |, ,75O, sheep carried of 200, hog
carried of $3.50, factories burned 3, f1rnaC,
burned |. In addition to which the Rcgiste
says there was an immense amount of farming
utensils Of every description destroyed, mani
of them of great value, such as Mccormick
rcapers, threshing machines; also household
and kitchen furniture, money, bonds, plate
&c; the whole loss being estimated al tn,
enormous sum of S25, 100000.
THE CAPTURE oP THE FLORIDA,
From the Richmond Examiner
The most popular hero in the Yankee coun
try at this moment, not excepting Sheridan, IL
Capt. Collins, of the ship.of-war Wachusett
lie has surprised and captured the Florida
Confederate steamship, while she was lying
quietly In neutral port, while Seventy of hel
men were knownto be on shore, and the others
lust returned from liberty, were asleep ant
half intoxicated" Collins, who had Just ar
rived in port, held a consultation with his on
GERS, and showed them how easy would be suct
peculiarly Yankee exploit; to run suddenl,
= into the unsuspeCting Florida, take possession
of her, and run out to sea with her, leaving tn
Emperor Of Brazil to protest at his leisure.
Brazil will, Of course, demonstrate, but uu
; less she can interest In her cause the grca
maritime nations, her remonstrance will b
wholly in vain. There has lately been a COO
ness between the Emperor and the Englis
Government, and diplomatic relations wer
suspended. For that, and for other reasonl
G the protest from England, if any, will probabl
. be rather cold and perfumery, and easily al
!, swered by Mr.. Seward. France and Brazil ar
Il on very friendly terms, yet there are consider
e ations which may cause France also to be yer
i cautious in stirring the matter too roughly. u
i the whole, we need not expect any seriOu
trouble TO grow out of 1t. The good ship Florid
is lost, and our cruisers will have learned tn
D lesson that they had better for the future avo
r all ports except those of England and France
and their various colonies.
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