Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1865-01-06
WAR NEWS.
From the Baltimore Daily Gazette.

Inc ulSappearance OF Admiral PorterS
feet. Only the usual blockadiDg squad
ron now remains off Cape Fear. Gene
raj Bragg reHrts that, with his present
means and the forces at bis disposal, no
danger need be apprehended If the re-
Inducements had reached him sooner, he
claims that he might have captured ma
ny prisoners. The entire Confederate
loss during the bombardment did not
exceed fifty men.
From Nashville, under date of Friday
and Saturday last, we learn that heavy
firing was heard in the direction Of Flo
renee. 1t was believed, however, that
the bulk of Hoods army had crossed the
Tennessee River. The official report Of
General Hood is said to have been re-
ceived at Richmond He claims ID have
crossed Duck River with seventy pieces
of artillery. He also asserts that his
losses in killed and wounded will not ex-
coed in extent the casualties inflicted on
the enemy. The Richmond papers Of
the 2Sth ult., state that Colonel Moseby
is in safe place, and will soon be out
of danger from his wound.
There is nothing reported fran the
James River beyond the customary pick
ct firing. The Alexandria Journal gives
what purports to be an explanation of
the manner in which General Lee pro-
poses to astonish the world. In the event
of affairs in the South becoming despe-
rate, the Confederate authorities, says
the journal, have had under serious dis
cussion a plan for suddenly massing all
their available forces in Virginia and
marching them into the Northern States
with the determination to conquer a
peace or die in the attempt. The tele-
gram from Washington which furnishes
this very startling piece Of intelligence
gravely tells us that the story is worthy
of credit.
TUESDAY, Jan. 3.-WashinAon de-
spatches to all the New York ISpers ST.
multaneously announce that +. Blair,
ST., and his son, the Hon. Montgomery
Blair, ex-Postmaster General, live gone
to Richmond on mission of Beace.-
The New York Tribune says ill., whilst
their mission is not official, it You'd be
absurd to pretend that it has not|keceived
the sanction of the President. The Tn
bune thinks that when the Southern peo-
pie learn that the North wants nobody
enslaved, but everybody liberased, they
will be disposed to view matters in
calmer and more pacific spirit If, as
the Tribune intimates, aud as President
Lincoln asserted in his Niagara despatch
and reasserted in his message negotia
tions for peace are to be made dependent
on the acceptance by the South of the
Emancipation proclamation, il scarcely
probable that the new ENJOYS Fill meet
with more encouragement FROM .the au-
thorities at Richmond than was accorded
to their predecessors, Messrs Kirke and
jacques. 1t is possible, however, that
the terms may have been modified since
then, in consequence Of the rumors Of
European Intervention and the steady
growth of European sentiment in favor
of some diplomatic action being taken
with view to bringing the war to
close.
The Washington Star states that at
daylight on Saturday morning, three
hundred Confederates made a sudden and
impetuous attack on the picket line of
the first and third brigades of the first
corps before Petersburg. Charging with
terrific yells, and firing rapidly as they
advanced, they drove the Federal pick
cts back into their entertainments killed
two, wounded three and captured thirty,
five. Gathering up the blankets and az
coutrements thrown away by the fugi.
tives in their retreat, they retired to their
own lines without losing man.
The abandonment Of the lombard
ment of Fort Fisher, the return Of the
land forces to Hampton Roads, and Of
Admiral Porter's feet to Beaufort, are
confirmed by later advices from North
ern and Southern sources. The loss of
the feet during the bombardment is esti-
mated at seventy-fve men killed and
wounded. The loss sustained by the land
forces is put at one thousand four hun
bred and seventy. The Confederate loss
in prisoners was two hundred and fifty,
and in killed and wounded about fifty.
Since the departure of thy Geet ND the
resumption of the regular blockade, three
bloekade-runners have reached Whining
ton, loaded with supplies, for the Confe-
derate Government and with miscelane-
GUS stores. The shore of North Carroll
na from Fisher to Masonboro' Inlet, is
said to be strewn with the wreck Of boats,
mostly naval.
General Fitzpatrick, with strong force
of cavalry and infantry, left Savannah
recently in the direction of Southwestern
Georgia 1t was supposed that he had
gone in search of the Andersonville pri-
soners. If such were really his object,
he has returned to Savannah without
them. lie did not venture further west
than the bridge ov-r the Altamaha River.
L. is believed in Washington that Ge-
neral Hoods army is now safely across