The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-12
THE WAR NETS

The oriet which sucereded the battles Of tie a'th
OF Ostoter remains u1trokan on the tines below
Richmond There Is no waT of pickcts no cannon
a3,us and no mortar practice. The boast OF the
Yankee aiiuant 81 the First division Of the Second
eo,ps made ten days ago. that very soon his troops
would disturb the equanimity of our lines with their
,,ortars, has not been made good. 1t cons dered
es matter OF cou.se that the enemy have mortar
batteries at Fort Harrison, but they have never yet
bean unmaskei ard upon the only cessation on
which ws bo1nbarl.d them they replied TO our NOR
tar FIRE only will, their small rife guns Il WIS ut
ore time believed they planting mortar bate
res behind skirt OF pines thies hundred yards III
our front and about the distance north oi Fort
Harrison, but they were subsequently, ascortaned
70 ho erecting only slight breastworka at that point
Our batteries continue, with only brief intervals,
TO she'll lay and night that unfortunate portion OF
the Yankee army whose fate it is 10 labor on But
| ler's Dutch Gap canal It is difficult 20 get any
Trustworthy information as to the progress this
| work has made towards completion. The Yankees
say il will be done By Christmas; but it should be
| borne in mind these same Yankees have foretold
su,dry things during the war which have not come
| FROM PETERSBURG.
dav. The hostile pickets having, for the time,
| ceased to fire upon one another, were puslly en-
roced talking politics and discussing the election
news. The Yankee pickets insist that Lincoln ha
| carried every State Whatever may be the fact
about the election, it Is probable that III what the!
state they are actuatcd rather by desire to maxi
themselves disagreeable than 10 promulgate tn
truth.
The firing about seven o'clock on Wednesday cVe
| ming on the Jerusalem planktoad, TO when we ai
luded Yesterday was brought or by an unl;np0r'au
| movement by small body Of our troops. 1t va
; thought oxpeatent to shift the position OF ines
! ,roops and the Yankees rerceiving the noTcIneh'
orenca upon them with riusketIy, cannon and uloI
tars Our guns replied, and the firing was Kept L
| for half An hour Thers were casualties On oa
, | side.
P..sen.rrs 6y last nights train hrtns the in'e4
gene. tlat Sheriians force has been eoisideIeo'
diminished by the sending OF OF troops II the dIe'
| ton of Wsshngton city. Some Of his cavalry hay
| likewise disappeared
Mosby is reported to have made descent 0
> smother wagon train, on the ROAD from Martinsbul
$ to Winchester. burned number of wagons ar
carried off safely horses and mules. Tho tra
;, was guarded By a detachment Of infantry ana OF
Il | company Of cavalry
The Yankee depredattons in the Lufay Fall
:, | were very severe, an imrlnnse quantity OF gFa
A. having bee. destroyed but there Ii now no fahh
IA force in that vicinity.
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m GEORGIA.
:, Thera has been no nows received from georgia
= ..rc-al days Sherman Is in troubled state JUG
ing Nora hi. cratic movements, and docs n'' Ris
IL whether to go backward towards Atlanta. push IL
q ward towards Tennessee, lie still and await HOO
"a, action. Something will shortly hs dono' oe po
H. srriss will be compelled to go into winter quar-