The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28.

GREAT operations are again in actual progress
in America. Detained for a time by the rising
of the rivers in the swampy country between
Savannah and Charleston, SuwdlN did not, in
fact, lose anything by the delay, for his plans were
still so undeveloped as to leave the Confederates
in doubt as to his point. By reports judiciously
disseminated, and by some demonstrations, he
suggested Augusta as his object, while his
troops were held in hand almost equi-
distant from it, from Charleston, and from
Branchville, the point on the railway line between
these towns at which the line from the north joins
it. When the weather permitted a forward move-
ment he threw out his cavalry under Kruaralcr,

covering the left wing under Siocuis, which,
driving before it the Confederate detachments
that attempted to defend the two forks of the
Salkahatchee, seized the railroad to the westward

of Branchville. The centre, under Howler),
meantime advanced directly on the junction,
which it would appear the Confederates have
covered with works of some strength. But in

spite of the report that General LEE had sent
10,000 or 15,000 men to BratresOAßD'S aid, it
would seem that that general still finds himself
unequal to cope with his adversary. The line of
the Edisto river, which runs past Branch-
ville, was that which it was under-
stood he had selected for defence. But
his position has been turned without a blow struck.
We have not intelligence as yet whether SHER-
MAN'S centre has creased the river, but we know
that at all events SLocum has with the left, and
that he holds the railway running to the north
from Branchville, the Confederates still retreating
northwards before him. This cute the whole Con•
federate system of railways in two, as efficiently as
if Branchville were captured, and it establishes
besides that either that place is evacuated, or it is in-
vested on the south, west, and north. And if this
last is the case, it proves decisively the Confede-
rate weakness in allowing the separated columns
of SHERMAN'S army to advance without resistance.
The question of interest now is whether BEAURE-
GARD with the bulk of his forces will still retire
northwards, or throw himself into Charleston. The
former would undoubtedly be the safer and the
wiser course. But there are some reasons which
favour the probability of the latter being adopted.
Charleston is morally a most important Confede-
rate position. It was there the rebellion broke
out, and its obstinate resistance to the Federal
flout has seemed to make it the Palladium of
the Confederacy. Moreover, as Lae must have
known very well the strength of SHERMAN'S army,
it seems improbable that he would have weakened
his own force by any detachment of insufficient
strength to resist SHERmsar in the field, unless he
intended that it should retire upon s position where
a stand could effectually be made. There has been ,
time enough and notice enough to allow of Charles-
ton being thoroughly fortified on the land aide
as well as provisioned for a siege, and a conside-
rable force within it, such as BEAUREGAED com-
mands, would be able to detain the Federal' for
some time. Nor could they safely leave in their
rear a place so occupied, or dispense with its pos-
session as a new base for a further advance.
There are, indeed, obvious indications that a
serious attempt is to be made to carry it. While
SHER3IAN'S left and centre have swept round the
west, his right, under FOSTER, has been slowly
advancing along the Savannah line direct on
Charleston, and a strong Federal force has been
landed in the immediate proximity of the town.
It is here, then, that we may look for the intelli-
genes of most interest which the next mail will
bring us.
Meantime the Faderals are pushing on towards
Wilmington, with the evident intention, from the
force and the rank of the general engaged, of cap-
turing it if possible. If this succeeds, and
Charleston falls, they will hold the whole Atlantic
sea-board of the Confederate States. There are
some who still argue that this will only compel the
adoption of that wiser Confederate policy, said to
have been recommended at first by General Lea,
of abandoning the exterior and concentrating in