The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

NEW YORK. DIIO. 31.

Jteyond the toes of time and ices of money in-
red
in the failure at Wilmington, I do not believe
i ill have any influence on the operations in the
. The reinforcements received by Bragg for
defence at the place, about 4,000 men, it is
, haes4 Wee undoubtedly drawn from
army, which is, as long as the present weather lasts
in Virginia, tolerably secure against any serious
move on Grant's part, so that Sherman's
operations are in no way affected by it.
Of what he is doing, or is about to
do, nothing is known here worth repeat-
ing. It seems to be certain that be has sent
a small column southward to effect the release d
the unfortunate Union prisoners, who are said to
have been carried down into Florida, from Ander-1
sonville in Georgia, where they were kept when
Sherman began his march from Atlanta. Their
delivery would restore a few thousand men to the
ranks, and deliver a still greater number from
horrible suffering, and almost certain death. With
the rest of the army he is probably in pursuit of
Hardee, whose whereabouts is entirely unknown ia
these pares; but the more trustworthy amanita
represent it as scattered, the militia part of it
having gone home to Georgie. With the remainder
he has probably reinforced the garrison of Charles-
ton. lam told there is the rested eager-1
ness on the part of Sherman's troops to be led
into South Carolina, which I presume they will
be in good time, and when they are, I fear that
State will receive a very severe dose of the miseries
which it has been in great part instrumental in
bringing on the rest of the country. The animosity
towards ft at the North amongst men of all parties
is intense, and this feeling is shared to the fullest
extant by the army. It has been the hot-bed of all
the extreme doctrines on the subject of slavery and
democracy ; was the first to claim divine sanction
for the former, to preach its applicability to the
poor of all races, as well as the negro, to denounoe,
universal suffrage and the education el the
working classes, and to heap contempt os la-
bour. It hes slimy' also embodied its theories in
legislation with a remorseless logic unknown
elsewhere, maintaining a rigid censorship of the
press before the other States bad ventured on it,
and imprisoning all free blacks, even British eels-
men, arriving in vends in the port of Charleston,
and keeping them in close custody as criminals till',
the departure of their ships. And what has madel
this all the harder to bear has been that many of
the foremost apostles of theee doctrines have been
persons of humble origin, or of Yankee birth or
parentage. One of the fiercest preachers of the
Soureern views on the degradation of labour was
the late Governor Hammond, whose father was a
teacher from Massachusetts. The State was the
first to secede, but if we except the damage done
to Charleston by its various bombardments, it has
suffered little from the war beyond loss of men.
When Sherman's army gets into it, I am afraid the
i great planters—and there are comparatively few
1 small ones in the State—will certainly have aloes-
sion presented to them iu an entirely new light

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