December 22, 1864---A bad fix, indeed.

DECEMBER 22, 1864:     

The Richmond Daily Dispatch (down to a single sheet, front and back) reports the war news as it has it:

Nothing of interest has occurred on the lines below Richmond. At Petersburg the enemy keep up their now daily bombardment of our lines.

Information was received here on yesterday that a column of Sheridan's forces, estimated at eight thousand men, had crossed the Blue Ridge . . . The telegraph wire between Gordonsville and Trevillian's [ ] was cut in several places yesterday morning . . . 

We have no further news of Stoneman's operations in Southwestern Virginia. There has been no confirmation of the report that Breckinridge had beaten the raiders [ ] From the nature of the case, it is difficult to get any authentic information from points beyond Dublin station . . . 

An official dispatch from Wilmington, received Tuesday night, announced that thirty of the sixty-five Yankee war vessels that recently sailed from Hampton Roads had arrived off that place. No- thing was heard from Wilmington on yesterday. It is to be hoped the gale which sprung up last night swept the North Carolina coast with greater violence than it evinced here. 

From Savannah, we have nothing . . .  

We are still without advices from General Hood, except through the Northern papers. [ ] If half they tell be true, Hood is in a bad fix, indeed.