...ml1/strict"> Though late in commencing our preparations for the defences of the approach to this city by the James river, and though the enemy's "infernal gunboats" caught our obstructions at Drewry's Bluff hardly in readiness, we have the satisfaction at least of having repelled his first assault. He went away yesterday, we have reason to hope, smartly damaged, after two hours and a half of fearful c...