Named Entity Results, Butler

The War news. A very considerable amount of cannonading could be heard in the direction of Dutch gap yesterday. Our batteries were, perhaps, celebrating the return of Butler to his canal, which never is, but always is to be, finished. With this exception, there was, as far as we could learn, nothing doing on the lines below this city or in the direction of Petersburg. Butler must hurry his canal to completion, that the shootings over the long expected event may drown the clamor that hisButler must hurry his canal to completion, that the shootings over the long expected event may drown the clamor that his failure to take Fort Fisher has raised. The Richmond Ambulance Committee are still with the army, distributing the New Year's dinner. We have heard nothing from them. From the South. There is nothing in the way of news from Wilmington. Since the retreat of the Porter Butler expedition, affairs have resumed their wonted course in that seaport. We have no advices from Sherman later than furnished by the Northern papers. These papers indicate that he will soon cross the Savanna