Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-07
The WAR NEWS.

IuL WAR NEWS
TIE attack on Wilmington has been aban.
joned. The expedition s given ap Gen.
Butler with his land iorces has returned 10
Fortress M5nr6e. Admiral Porter with the |
feet has wilhdrswn uutil ordered to "re-
proceed " Butler says that F,u Fisher is
war has begun between military aud
naval men about the responsibility for the
disaster al Wilmington. Each branch Of the !
service lays the blame on the other. The
navy says l!a, Butler should have made an
assault. The army rc,orls that porler's pow
der explosion should have damaged The fort.
rhis is the principal occupation not only oi
the military, bn also OF the newspapers,
and though there is great difficulty iii deci.
ding who is to blame, there seems 10 be-
perfect agreement OF all concerned that the
expedition was failure. Butler has " i'h
drawn all the land orces from the expedi-
lion ant. has gone up The James TO his old
headquarters al Deep Bottom, leaving the
troops under Weilzel to,sail up from For
ress Monroe more: leisurely The greater
part OF Pouer's feet is att. Beaufort, North
Carolina, taking supplies aud coal on bord'
a desultory bomdardment OF Fort Fisher is
kept up by few vessels, but it is rather 10
make a show OF doing something than the
precursor ci another attack The Federal
losses on the EXPEDITION are varously esl.
mated. Five or six OF The vessels were Sc
riously damaged six OF the hundred poun'
der parrou gums burst. The loss insthe
flee, was rs killed and wounded. III me
army ii is stated 10 be l,i70.
There seems 10 be some discrepancy in
the Confederate and Federal accounts oil
| Hoods late defeat The Confederate ac'
counts state that Hoods losses are about e.
oral 10 Thomas and ha, seventy pieces oil
cannon were brought by Hood south oil Co
| umbia, in his retreat The Federal ac-
coun, has il that Hood. lost four times as
many men as Thomas anu that when HOOD
crossed Duck liver, at Columbia, he had
| out Two CaleSOHs, diiu thoJ "o'S SS'"S N"o
aed off by the Confederate soldieiS.
We have contradictory accounts OF The
movements OF Generals Davidson and Gran.
ger in Western FLORIDA. 1t appears thai
Granger assembled the Pascagoua river
abou, thirty miles, under The convoy OF two
tin clad gunboa,s, and then leaving Inc
river marched towards Mobile. hing
has been heard from him, however Da-
wilson with large force OF Federal cavalry
is still encamped a, West Pascagoua.
Thsre are rumors from the army in front
OF Petersburg that General Lee conempia-
les new movement, The Conedera'es in
front of portions OF Geuera Grants line
have kept up a vsgorous she!ling tor sew
eral days past but have made no Other de-
mons,ralions'
Four Federal gunboa's have been lost or
disabled recently on the Roanoke river,
near Plymolh They ran against lorpedoes
Twenty five hundred Confederates are
threatening AN attack upon Baton Rouge
General Bur.on commands The Federal gar
.ison.
|, is announced from Washington thai
the Brazilian minister mas accepted Sew
ards apology for the seizure OF the Florida
Moseby was no, killed. as is reported
He was dangerously, though not morally
wounded -Age.