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THE WI JLMINGTON -MlSbtjE-N (iEK FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1908. 2 IM THE DARK -DRY, Impaired Digestion May not be all that is meant by dyspepsia Of Sttomaclhi No appetite, loss of strength, nervous, ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodol cures indigestion. This 1XTY FOUR Interesting Extracts From the Wilmington Journal or That Period. more.

If we said anything, we might; possibly, give vent to our feelings. "We do place the responsibility for our failure, but if we once commenced' we might give too wide'a vent. Our port ought not to have fallen. There is a responsibility that responsibility will hereafter appear. So far as we can see.

the enemy cannot get to the town. "We say "so far as we can see." for we place no reliance upon what we cannot judge for ourselves. On Sunday night, awfully tired, we slept quietly, thinking that all was right, depending upon an official dispatch. "We found the thing totally different. It is not our nart to give advice to our citizens.

There are so many that, under circumstances, cannot leave, while there are so many that under any circumstances, must leave, 'that no single rule could apply to all. Every man's conscience must be his own judge. "We need hardly say what we will do, or try to do. Our course, we presume, is anticipated. "We are Confederates.

If we lose, why we lose. But we see no reason why we, more than Mobile, should be taken. God onlv knows why our outer defences were taken; we do not; we have lost many good and true friends; we may lose many more. We fear that they were sacrificed. Such is the impression we have derived from all we have heard and otherwise learned.

There is no doubt but that there is a strong evoitement against General Bragg. There can be no doubt either, that General Bragg has attached to him the prestige of bad luck. Unfortunately he always has that prestige. Permanent bad luck means permanent bad management, somewhere. A man with this prestige ought not to have been sent here.

Some people never learn anything, and -never foreet anything; as, for instance, the Bourbons and other high old "Conservatives" in this state, who. for once, did seem to co-operate with Viow, but it will be if neglected. The uneasiness after eating, fits of nervous headache, sourness of the stomach, and disagreeable belching may not be very bad now, but they will be if the stomach is suffered to grow weaker. Dyspepsia is such a miserable disease that the tendency to it should be given e'arly attention. This is completely overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilla which strengthens thewhole digestive system the enemy's line on Wednesday morn-' ins and returned late on that evening.

General Whiting has been quite severely wounded, while also Colonel Lamb in the thigh, severely. Both are beHeved to be doing well. -The fight- ire at the Fort was desperate on both. sides. The casualties on our side we are unable to report.

They will be published as soon as circumstances will permit. Our losses are heavy. From what we can learn from private source they will 'amount to over one hundred killed, anc four or five hundred wound ed. Our whole loss in wounded and prisoners will net amount to less than three thousand. When we sav that among the prisoners are Gen eral Whiting, Colonel Lamb, Major Hill Major Stevenson, and so many other men, good true and brave, our feelings can be appreciated.

Of course the fall of Fort Fisner ne cessitated the fall of the other forts on the river below ilt. Everything be- ow New Inlet is in the power of the enemy, even if it is not already in his possession. But that does not by any means imply possession of the town) of Wilmington. It does mean closing up the blockade running port of Wilmington. In that sense Of the word it is a severe blow.

Betwixt us and the enemy there are Fcrts Anderson and other works. They are now attacking them. We think we know the men in them. John Hed- n-nA TnAn lit him will fiffht thft' i i rv 1 1 iiii iii.u mil. thing out.

We only regret that we are not with them. God knows we would rather be with them in the forts than trying to set up type here, as we are doing now. Wp do not think that Wilmington must necessarily fall. The port of WJl- mmgton is already gone. That has gone cheap.

The Confederacy nas lost iU best port. The men of Wilmington! must now defend their homes. We- think they can do so: We think they will, do so. Let us all try. The truth is, every tolerably decent white man, who does not want to be a slave, must take his position, willing to give up his life for the cause in which he Is engaged.

It is perfectly useless to blow ud the president or General Bragg, we- do not believe that either of these gen- in fViinlr thnt Lit IlltTIl diC JTJ. J-- UU- i even if they were perfect, tney couia save us. They are simply clever and patriotic gentlemen. Let us all of us, be equally so. That is simply tne way tn sav ii- and-to do it, or at least try to do it.

Neither President Davis nor General Bragg can fight for us. We must fight for ourselves, and for our country; p. s. We are officially informed, tnat tne cannonading below last afternoon was from the enemy's gunboats at our forces at or near Sugar Loaf. Other reports say that the enemy attackeu Hoke's forces yesterday afternoon, but whether this is true or not we are unable to say.

V. ii.i.. t.i nece'ssary to evacuate this town, it is a arc inrnrmpn in il ueiruiiitrn the intention of the commanding gen eral to exercise the authority vested in him by act of congress and destroy the cotton remaining here. Instructions have already been given to facili tate the removal of" that in private- hands, and parties not promptly availing themselves of this privilege of re moving their property to a place of saiety, win nave cause ui uuuipiaiiii, when the military authority destroys it. Should Wilmington unfortunately; fail, let the enemv find it a barren gain.

and not realize a capture such as made in Savannah. (Saturday, January 21, 1865.) We understand that on Thursday last there was some skirmishing between the left wing of our forces in the neighborhood of Sugar Foaf, and the Yankee infantry, who had made an advance from their entrenched position. During the afternoon, it is reported, whilst the Yankee vessels were engaged shelling the woods, their infantry made an attack on Clingham's brigade, (occupying our left,) with the evident intention of flanking them, but were repulsed and driven back to their entrenchments. No casualties have as yet been reported, but we learn that several of our men were wounded. John Sipe, Company B.

42nd North Carolina Troops, (of Newton, N. wounded in above skirmish, and brought to General Hospital No. died on yesterday. In the river below no movements have been made by the enemy's vesselg that we are aware of. We would call the attention of our contemporaries to the fact that Fort Fisher never was surrendered but was carried at the point of the bayonet by overwhelming numbers, after all the guns on the land face had been dismounted by the terrific fire from the fleet.

The enemy's loss, in Sunday's fight, i3 estimated to be at least one thousand in killed and -wounded. The Fort wa charged three times on Sunday afternoon and night, before it was captured, i The friends of the. gallant Major Reilly, need have no fears of his being harshly treated by the enemy, because of his having been in the United States service, as we have been shown the original acceptance of his resignation, dated Washington, May, 1861, THE WAY OPEN SOUTH. It gives us pleasure to tat on th authority of the gentlemanly superintendent of the Wilmington and Manchester railroad, Captain Henry M. Drane, that his trains are now running through to Kingsville, that communication is open to Columbia.

(Continued on Third Page.) MB FIVE. quite near to the latter, where some buildings that might have sheltered Yankee sharpshooters had been burned down by our own. people, we suppose, Here and there lay a round shell which had not exploded. Occasionally an elongated Parrot shell with a percussion fuse would be met with. These are dangerous things to fool with, as they are apt to go off if rudely han dled, doing i much damage to life and limb.

A soldier told that an ordnance sergeant whose name we did not learn. wnne collecting snot ana snell on last, was killed by the explosion of a Parrot shell. A negro who was with him driving a cart shared the "same fate. The mule attached to the cart was unhurt. The unexploded Parrot shells seemed mostly to be fitted with percussion fuses.

Within a stone throw of the Fort, on the side of the road leading from the landing, is a small hole something of the length and shape of a coffin, and a few feet from it is an humble ridge' of earth marked by a piece of earth at each end. The hole is a rifle pit dug by one of four or five enterprising Yan kee sharpshooters who ventured up that near to the Fort with the view of picking off our gunners. The ridge of earth marks the grave of a courier. a member of Faison's company of scouts, who was shot from his horse by the occupant of the rifle pit. All of this party of Yankees were either killed or captured.

Colonel Lamb concurs in our'opinion previously expressed, that over twenty thousand shells were thrown at the Fort. We believe that General Whiting also entertains the same view. It was the heaviest naval bombardment, while it lasted, of which any account is given. Having once got on the subject of the fight at the Fort we thought it better to dispose of it at once so not to mix it up with the more pleasing topic of the day-the ladies's visit to Fort Fisher which was essentially a surprise as from some derangement of the telegraph the dispatch announcing the intended visit of the ladies of the Soldiers Aid Socier- and their object, namely, to thank the soldiers and tender to them a New Year's dinner, did not arrive until after the ladies in person. However, the soldiers were glad to see! the and tne ladies were glad to see the soldiers, and they were proud of them too, as the gallant line was formed of men of whom their commander; could truly say-not one man left his gun not one shrank from his duty, j.

The troops as drawn up formed three sides of a square. The ladies formed the fourth. Major Strange as their representative tendered to the officers and soldiers of the garrison of Fort Fisher the thanks and the congratulations of those whose homes had been saved bv their gallantry between whom and the ruthless invader they had stood like a wall of fire. The ladies had labored for the soldiers they had prayed for them, they came now in person to thank them. To Colonel Lamb, the leader and commander; of the gallent men.

their thanks were especial Sue. Thev had relied upon hie skill, his coolness and undaunted courage. They had felt that whil he and his brave men stood between them and the ener Wilmington was safe, and their reliance was not in -vain. Colonel Lamb in reply, said that the ladles had done What the enemy failed to do. They had surprised the garri son and taken the Fort by storm.

The victory which had crowned our arms was I a heaven-sent victory a providential deliverance. Under Prov idence it was due to the bravery of the gallant men by whom he was surround ed men of whom he. could truly say tnat in tne hour of trial not one had faltered or failed. He and his garri son appreciated the kindness of the ladies. They knew that they had work ed for the soldiers.

They had the benefit of their best exertions, their Kindest wishes, and above all, of their fervent prayers. For this last token of their regard he thanked them sincerely on nis own pehalf and behalf of his men. We do not pretend to give any ac curate report of the remarks of Major Strange or; of Colonel Lamb neither pretend to make a set speech since both were taken comparatively by surprise. That they both acquitted themselves the ladies the sole arbiters of the occasion will bear witness. Owing to the fact that due notice had not been received at the Fort, and to the' further fact that the tide, which, like time, waits' upon no man, nor woman either rendered an early return to the boat; necessary, no dinner table could be spread, and the ladies were unable personally to superintend the dinner which they had prepared for the troops.

The dinner we know had been provided liberally, and we trust that it was relished by the soldiers not simply as a wrelcome addition to their usual fare, but as a testimonial or gratitude and appreciation on the part of the ladies. Where every man did his duty, and did it well, from General Whiting down to the most recently joined private, it would be difficult if not impossible to discriminate. We may mention, however, that we heard frequent reference made to Private Rand, of Company 36th regiment, who twice replaced the flag-staff on the mound when shot away by the enemy. We think we are correct in the company but are not certain. In; due course of time the official report will probably be given to the world, when we- feel assured, due credit will be given to all.

On the boat all passed pleasantly. The day -was beautiful, the party on board seem to make the best of every thing and no accident or other untoward circumstances occurred to mar the pleasure of the day. There being no "Jenkins" along to dilate upon the presence of the stately Mrs. Dash, and the lively Miss Blank, an so forth, and so on all these, "must be nameless for evermore." It is no harm, however, to say that the commanding General was since General Bragg is somewhat of a public character, nor do we think it wrong to add that the. general seemed to enjoy himself, and that he further exerted himself to promote the comfort and add to the enjoyment of others.

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Bellamy. THE SECOND ATTACK ON WILMINGTON. (Monday, 16, 18S5.) As already stated in Saturday's pa per, the enemy suddenly appeared, on! our coast on Thursday night last, and commenced landing on Friday morning at day light. On Friday they landed a considerable force, differently stated by orison ers to be from ten to fifteen thousand and to be under the command of General Terry. Prisoner differ very much about the number, knowing or professing to know only the force on the- same vessel with themselves, which we think is quite likely.

All seem to agree upon the statement that General Terry is in command of the land forces. On Friday the bombardment of Fort Fisher was heavy especially towards night fall. Up to six o'c-'r Friday evening the casualties by the enemy's shelling were some forty-four, four be ing killed and forty wounded. In the wounded is Sergeant Thos. E.

King, of Southerland's Battery, who was acting as courier. Dr. James A. Miller, chief surgeon report fifty-two wounded as being received at Smithville from Fort Fisher on Saturday, also three were killed of which the names are given in his dis patch. "We cannot as vet whether these were killed or wounded on Saturday, or included part of the sufferers on Friday.

"We learn that on Saturday and yesterday the bombardment continued heavy, although not heard here with any distinctness. It is pretty certain that the enemy on Saturday had succeeded in extending their lines across to the river, which their skirmishers struck at Craig's Landing the usual landing of steamers to and from Fort Fisher and Vilmington. and there captured the steamer James R. Grist. On Saturday night or "Sunday morning the Grist, thus seized by the enemy, was blown up by the Confederate steamer Chicka-mauga.

The Grist wTas a small quartermaster's boat, old and of no great value. As we write, about mid day on Sunday in such times there are no Sundays to which at present we can lay claim the last report we have heard is that things remain pretty much in "statu quo." The enemy are said to be entrenching across the narrow strip of land between Fort Fisher and Sugar Loaft but had not landed either horses or atillery. Some deserters from the enemy, confined now in the military prison, say that the enemy forces consist of seven thousand white and four thousand negroes. This is perhaps correct. Terry commands.

General Bragg telegraphed Sunday afternoon that all was quiet and that there was no cause for excitement or apnrehension. The present attempt of the enemy is evidently destined to be more pertinacious and determined than the last. Information received here through scouts says that the enemy, four thousand strong, started from New Bern on Thursday or Friday, for an advance upon Kinston and a raid upon "Wilmington and Weldon fbad, but turned back, not deeming therr number sufficient. They will probably start again when reinforced. KILLED AND WOUNDED.

The following dispatch was received here late on Saturday night: Smithville Jan. 14th. 1864. Journal Fifty-two wounded received from Fort Fisher today, Sergeant Latham and Gillespie of Adams Light Battery, and Carter of Captain Powell's company, killed. JAS.

A. MILLER, Surgeon. Later A half past six last evening, (Sunday) the enemy were making a heavy assault by land and sea. The bombardment was going on furiously. General Whiting slightly wounded.

At seven and a half the fighting was still continued at the Fort the enemy's infantry force far out numbering ours. It is reported that the enemy had succeeded in establishing a battery on the river above Fort Fisher and below Sugar Loaf, Cutting communication with the Fort by water. An uneasy feeling pervades the community. The gallant defenders of Fort Fisher are passing through a terrible ordeal. God grant that they may pass through, it successfully.

Still Later The following official dispatch from General Bragg has been handed to us: Sugar Loaf, Jar 15 8 p. m. The sensational reports about Fisher are entirely unfounded. Official information from General Whiting of later hour, reports enemy's attack unsuccessful. Fresh troops are being sent to him, and we are confident they will hold it.

BRAXTON BRAGG. P. S. Jan. 16th 6 p.

m. Fisher was captured at 1 a. m. this morning. CAPTURE OF FORT FISHER.

(Tuesday, Jan. 17. 1865.) Night before last we quietly went to bed satisfied, that air was right at Fort Fisher. Our attention, strained to the utmost for days, flagged and we went immediately to sleep. On yesterday morning we woke to find Fort Fisher captured.

As we expected. General Whiting fought like a paladin. Both he and Colonel Lamb are seriously wounded and in the hands of the enemy. It is certain that generally, the Fort was fought with chivalric braver To this there were exceptions, to which, at some future time may allude as a matter of justice to others. We cannot say when that time may occur.

For the present it is enough for us to know that Fort Fisher has fallen: that a division of infantry in the field were in gun-shot and did not fire a gun to save it, that we know of. and that heroic men like Whiting, Lemb and others are prisoners that the last port of the Confederacy is gone, and that it ought to have been saved. We will not trust ourselves to say portion of heavily armed frigates and sloops of war, commenced a furious bombardment of Fort Fisher at 20 minutes to one o'clock, which they kept up until 5:30 p. when they withdrew. No part of the work was greatly injured.

Casualties 23 wounded, one mortally, three severely, 19 slightly. The officers, soldiers and seamen all did their whole duty. As the enemy at tempted no passage of the bar and staid out at loner ranee with the ex ception of the irpn-clads I fired very siowiy ana deliberately. I am unable to know what damage was done them, but I am certain the injury inflicted upon them far exceeds the injury their bombardment did us. Our Heavenly Father has protected my garrison this day, and I feel that he will sustain us in derenaing our nomes irom tne in vaders.

(Signed) WM. LAMB, Colonel Commanding. THE SITUATION. Wednesday. Dec.

28. 1864.) An official dispatch, from Sugar Loaf, of the date of 2 p. m. yesterday, states that the enemy had evacuated Battery Anderson and re-embarked. So, for the time, epds that attempt at landing and invasion.

The nemy has suffered far more in killed and wounded that we have, and his fleet will be found shattered to an extent that will take a long time to repair. The "nest of pirates" is safe. Fort Fisher has sustained a most terrific bombardment. Just look at the list of war vessels brought against her. But her defence was as gallant as the attack was terrific.

The damage to the Fort is slight, except to buildings not necessary to defence. The troops all behaved well and are in fine spirits. But our enemy is persevering, and al though signally- foiled this time, will hardly be willing to give up the design so fondly entertained without making some further His discomfited legions have sought refuge aboard his ships, ready to be cast forth upon some point which he may hope to find unprotected, and his stupendous armada still prpwls round our coasts baffled, but still formidable. The immediate danger ih over and Wilmington may breathe freer than she has done for months. The strength of her de fences has been tried by the most for midable fleet, alfthings considered, of modern times, and nobly have they borne the trial.

There is no cause now for panic, fear or uneasiness. Let us resume the even tenor of our way. If any, in panic, harve refused Confed erate monev let them be ashamed of themselves and sfn no more. The next time they will be mariejl and hardly escape serious consequences. Business ought soon to be resumed.

(Thursday, Dec. 29, 1864.) All quiet along the Cape Fear. And all quiet, and more than auiet in town for all the stores are shut up and the market silent and deserted. The own ers of the stores are in the trenches- the people from the surrounding country are also in service for the time ms is right enousrh. All mere busi ness, as business, must give way to the necessities of the public defence.

But the trade in groceries and provisions must be resumed-if suffering wTould be avoided. No doubt the proper arrange ments will be made in a few days, and things resume their wonted course Or something, like it. Thursday Dec. 29, 1864.) CLEAN GONE The vast armament that had hung upon our coast for a week and more was no' longer visible yesterday afternoon, and by night-fall only the usual blockading force held its place outside our bars. Where they have gwa we cannot pretend to say.

but gone they are. Their attempted surprise failed and their expedition with it. It was told our authorities by a confidential agent that Lincoln had said that his agents here had fully apprized him; of the weakening of our garrisons to send to Georgia, and of our total bareness of troops; and that he felt certain of being able to take the place with hardly the shadow of opposition. Other things also he is reported to have said which we will not repeat. If so, they are already known to the authorities.

If not so, it would do no good to make them known to anybody else. But indeed it does seem as if the enemy had made his calculations pretty accurately, and but for the element of the weather, might have come much nearer accomplishing his ends. The next time he will hardly try a landing on an open coast, meditating a surprise will include the element in his calculation. It was a short campaign, but it spoiled Christmas here in town. lEt can't be helped now, but really it was spiteful of the Yankees to choose the very day they did, and we respectfully request that they do not do it again.

THE LADIES' VISIT. (Friday, Jan. 6, 1865.) General Bragg having in the most courteous manner tendered the use of a boat to the Ladies of the Soldiers Aid Society, accompanied by an invitation to visit Fort Fisher, the scene of the recent fearful bombardment by the enemy, and the heroic resistance by our gallant troops, a goodly number of the gentler sex with a considerable sprinkling of the un-gentler. left town on Wednesday morning at ten minutes before nine o'clock in the steamer Flora MacDonald and after a very pleasant trip arrived at the landing at Confederate Point between eleven and twelve. The landing is probably a mile and a half from the Fort.

The line of march, in very open order, was taken up for the Fort and that powerful work, with its gallant defenders, immediately surrendered at discretion. We did not notice any serious marks of shot or shell on the houses on. our way to the Fort, until we approached The First Attack on Fort Fisher. 1 I- i Congregations Disturbed By Booming of Cannon. Ds-patches From the Fort.

De parture of the Fleet. Ladies' Visit to the Fort. The Second Attack. The Capture. Severe Criticisms.

Issuing Fapex Under Difficulties. From the files of the "Wilmington Journal of 1864-5 we clip the following interesting articles upon the stirring events of those days. These extracts will be read with much interest, especially by the people of Wilmington: (Sunday, Pec. 25th. 1864.) At one o'clock on Saturday 24th, 1864, an immense fleet of steamers, led by the Ironsides, and containing, it is said, not less than fifty-one others, among them spvpral tnnnitnrs nnnrnri.rhpd Fnrt Fisher in line of battle, and opened a most tremendous fire upon that work.

An eye-witness who passed the Inlet in. a steamer coming up the Cape Fear river says it exceeded in its awful fury anything he ever had ''witnessed or could conceive of. In rapidity it resembled the roll of musketry rather than the distinct and separate reports of cannon. The following official dispatch from Forth Fisher, received at headquarters, Is the latest and most authentic news we have: Fort Fisher, Dec. 24.

1864. 6 p. m. The bombardment of Fort Fisher was rough. No attempt to pass the bar.

Wo death casualties. The firing from the Fort was slow and deliberate. The men are in good spirits. The fleet has drawn off, but could not see that they went west. Weather smoky.

THE ATTACK ON WILMINGTON. (Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1864.) In Monday's paper (Issued on Sun- to Saturday night. We resume with the operations of Sunday, Christmas day. Precisely at ten o'clock, as the bells began to ring summoning the worshippers to church, the deep booming of guns from sea announced that the enemy's fleet had reopened upon Fort Fisher and the deep, heavy and incessant fire was kept up with 1 terrible rapidity during the whole day, and away into the night, and all night, and all day yesterday, with little abatement until about noon, when it is probable that the gradually rising sea compelled the fleet to haul off, or at least slacken their fire.

Up to three o'clock on Sundav the casualties in the Fort were forty-three. On Sundav afternoon it was ascer-tained that the enemy had succeeded in effecting a landing at a point not far from the head of the sound and just below the site of old Camp Wyatt, say five and a half to six miles above Fort Fisher and sixteen miles from Wilmington. They were confronted by General Kirkland, with such of his gallant men as were then with him, their object beine to interpose between Wilmington and Fort Fisher, ours to -prevent their doing so. Their force became swelled by new regiments landed from their transports. Ours by arrivals of some of the most gallant veterans on the continent.

On yesterday General Bragg assumed command in person, and at the date of this writing (Monday 7 p. we have the gratification of being able to state that the communication with the Fort is un interrupted, with no Yankees interposing between our troops in the field and our troops in the Fort; that the Fort is all right, and the men in fine spirits. The enemy's proud armada and terrific bombardment have, so far been powerless to effect anything against sandhills" that guard the Ntew Inlet to our river, and which stands a nroud monument to the scientific genius of the able engineer under whose eye our defences have been mainly planned and executed, and who, liimself, was also in Fisher to watch the performance of works. Fort Fisher and its defence will always be associated ith the names of Major General Whtting and Colonel Lamb. During the night of Sunday and.

on the morning of Monday two attempts "were made to take Fort Fisher by storm, but both were gallantly repulsed by our Junior Volunteers. We might mention many instances of individual gallantry then and there performed. hilt fnrVionr io n- rwn 1 rl hrirrlli. -fail do unintentional injustice, and we hope soon to have full account. Yankee prisoners say thf1 the land force with the fleet consisted of four brigades of four regiments each, each regiment numbering about 560 men.

Of 4hese three landed, all under command of General Ames. The fourth, composed of negro troops under Wetzell (captured at Plymouth) had not yet landed. and what our troops opposing them are. they will coon, find out. They are just the same men that have been, whipping them all along.

We will be somewhat mistaken if this does-not to prove to be one of the worst failures that the united genius of Wells and Stanton has vet prepared for the arms of the Uited States. The Journal in the same issue. Dec. 27th. says the following report was received from Colonel Lamb on last Saturday night: Fort Fisher o'clock, p.

m. The enemy's fleet consisting of over fifty vessels, including two monitors, several armed vessels and a large pro-. the Richmond clinues In maligning General "Whiting, and demanding somebody else. They appear to have got their desires gratified. General "Whiting is wounded and a prisoner.

Is Governor Vance perfectly satisfied? He, we know, was one of the agents in overriding, superseding and trying to ruin General Whiting. All right, we suppose, in a party point of view. (Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1865.) So far as we are able to learn there nas been no movement of importance among the Yankee troops since the capture Of Fort Fisher. On yesterday it was stated, noon what appeared to be good authority, that only two.

of the eiinhoats had as yet made their ap pearance in the river, opposite Fort Fisher, the rest of the neet still lying off. Wp havA endeavored to obtain some particulars in regard to the fight, but matters are in so contused a state tnat no two reports agree, and unless we ran sret the truth we prefer publishing nothing. All reports concur, however. in stating that General Whiting and Colonel Lamb fought gallantly, leaq-ins- thp troons to repel each assault, and never gave up, but were overpow ered or shot down. Others also iougnt bravely and well, and are deserving of all praise.

We understand that when the enemy had gained the parapets of the Fqrt and planted their flag. General Whiting two or three times tore the flag down and only desisted when he was shot down and unable to rise. A communication has been received from the commander of the Federal forces, General Terry, stating that General Whiting's wounds were of a serious nature, but not mortal. We trust that he may soon recover. Colonel Lamb, we believe, received a serious wound in his thigh, from a minnie ball.

Forts Holmes and Caswell were evacuated by our troops on Monday, as was expected, the capture of Fisher rendering the holding of these points as useless to us. A tremendous explosion was heard and felt in town about 1:30 o'clock on Tuesday, mornin supposed to have been produced by the blowing up of the magazines of the above Forts. (Thursday, Jan. 19, 1865.) When a great public calamity it is natural that people who are immediate sufferers by such calamity, should seek some victim upon whom to place the responsibility. We do not claim to be any better or purer than our neighbors.

If the town of Wilmington it seems to us that the labors of a 'reasonably intelligent and tolerably industrious lifetime are gone. Knowing this to be the fact sympathising with others loved friends and relatives ladies whom wre can no longer protect; with servants whom we have protected, who look to us for protection, who beg us to protect them who beg us to carry them with us wherever we go. Seeing and feeling all this, we may have said something about General Bragg, which under other circumstances, we would not have said. Generally, we are thoughtful and cautious. This is simply because we control our feelings.

Possibly we have given vent to them possibly we have blamed our authorities when we ought not to have blamed them. We do not know. say this however: whether we lose, other people just as good people, have already lost as much. Any sacrifice that is due and necessary for us to make, that sacrifice we are willing and ready to make. We can do no more.

The cause is not gone. We do not give up the ship. We do not mean to give it up. We must expect to meet difficulties. We must have expected that from the first.

Let us be men. Now is the time to try our manhoojl. We must throw ourselves upon the kindness and courtesy of our readers, and ask them to excuse lateness of issue and all other defects. We are almost alone. Our effective force is on guard, and re required to do the best we can under the circumstances.

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