The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-10 00:00:00

in a condition to recover the loss of the thousands
of men and of the vast materiel that they have left
on the field, nor is the army now on its way to Dal-
ton likely soon to recover from the panic and disor-
ganisation into which it has been thrown, while the
tidings of its defeat cannot fail to strike dismay
into the heart of Longetreet, and, perhaps, even
paralyze the arm of the hitherto invincible Lee. So
much has been lost by one stroke, not by actual de-
feat, but, most probably with very little fighting,
by an ill-projected and worse conducted retreat.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day, and, by way
of enlivening the solemnity, a negro regiment (the
2d United States Coloured), the first that ever
was seen in New York, was paraded along the
streets. The appearance of these " gorillas in re-
gimentals," as the Copperheads call them, excited
some attention, but gave rise to no disturbance, in
spite of the merry-making Irishry through whom
they passed, and notwithstanding the old grudge
that Paddy is said to bear against Sambo. Neither,
however, did yesterday see the clapping of hands,
or hear the acclamation with which a sight of that
nature was greeted in Boston, when I stood on the
steps of the Tremont.house four months ago; for
New York, with its motley population and its all-
absorbing dollar-worship, cannot be expected to go
the lengths of earnest and stubborn and fanatical
New England. That the Yankee must familiarize
himself with the idea of a political association of
the negro with his own proud destinies, that he
must even wink at the fusion and amalgamation of
the races is, however, matter which leaves room for
little doubt. Already the blackie steps fearless and
even somewhat swaggering in, elbowing his Cau-
casian brethren in all public rooms and conveyancca.
The barrier which centuries of instinct, or, if you
prefer, prejudice, had raised is everywhere falling
to the gronud, and the New York papers actually
have matrimonial advertisements by " two full-
blooded, likely negroes away down South, who are
looking out for some loyal young ladies of cheerful
• disposition, handsome, intelligent, dark-haired, dark
eyed, fair complexion, and not over 20 years of age,
with a view to mirth and marriage." Well might
Mr. Ward Beecher preach yesterday from the pulpit
at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn :
"There is nothing that will make the common people so
quickly sympathise with the African as the knowledge that
he will fightland he does fight, and if that is a test, is there-
fore a man. Although war is not thought to be a civiliser,
yet men have been held so low that even war is elevation.
And so it is with the coloured men--they come up a great
way before they have a right to touch the sword, and when
they have laid their hand on it, the heroism of it fires their
hearts, and with it they hew themselves, in their rugged
and narrow path, a higher place. When 10,000 negroes can
show that they, in heroic service for us, have given their
blood for ours, then will you let them or their kind be
trampled under foot any more f"

Well might the audience, regardless of the sacred-
ness of the place, welcome with loud plaudits the
close of their preacher's sermon: As they chose to
have the black to fight their battles, so it is right,
not only that the black and their kind should cease
to be trampled under foot, bat also that the two
races should be brought upon a footing of equality,
sufficient not only to remove all civil, social, and
political disabilities, but also to overcome all personal
repugnance, and when the close of the war brings
back to the North 100,000 swarthy Othellos, who
have given their blood for the stay-at-home white
man, it must go hard with them if they do not find
among the Yankee girls 100,000 Desdemonas, fair
creatures, in whose eyes a dark man may be a
pearl."

The stir among the working classes to improve
their condition, under the peculiarly difficult circum-
stances into which a debased currency has plunged
this otherwise thriving country, has generally sub-
sided, but will not be completely at an end till capital
has everywhere done justice to the claims of labour.
"The latest class of men who have held out threats of a
strike fora rise in their wages are the labourers in
the Lord's vineyard, the clergy. The Bishop of
New York, Potter, has addressed a circular to
the churchwardens, vestrymen, and laity generally,
in his diocese, stating " that the parochial clergy
are subjected to serious loss and suffering in wise,.
quence of the depreciated value of the current money
of the country,' and " unless their nominal salaries
are increased they will find it nearly impossible to
melt their necessary expens2s." Increase, by all
means I Only if the great greenback bubble bursts,
and the currency is established on a sound and rea-
sonable basis, will the journeyman's wages or the
clergyman's salary be easily brought down back
again to its former standard, and will the country
have the means to hire either, even on the old scale
of remuneration ?

NOVEMBER 28.

Further accounts of the dissolution of Bragg's
army come in almost hourly. We are too familiar
with the Yankee style of despatch-writing and tele-
graphing to have any doubt that the tidings are
grossly exaggerated. Grant's own bulletins, how-
ever, are entitled to full credit, and even if only
half of his statements were to be admitted, we
should have to conclude that the rout is complete
and the disaster irreparable. The number of prisoners
swells now to 7,000, and even 8,000, and the disper-
sion of the implements of war, of course, keeps pace
with the scattering of the soldiers. The Southerners
throw down their arms, and seem only " longing to
be speedily vanquished and captured." Some resist-
ance was attempted at Chicamauga, but it was soon
overpowered. Bragg is falling back in the direction
of Red Clay, but Hooker and Palmer were already,
the evening before last, close upon him, 10 miles be-
yond Chicamauga. What is more important, if true,
Col. Long's cavalry made a raid to the East Tennes-
see Railroad the same night, and destroyed 15 miles
of it, thus effectually cutting off Longetreet's
retreat, and depriving him of all hope of joining
Bragg. Longstreet is likely enough to march round
Knoxville, and attempt an escape into Virginia,
though he would in all probability have to keep up
a running fight with Burnside's lately besieged
army, which would not fail to sally out of Knox-
ville and harass him in the rear. Of the real state
of affairs about Knoxville we have, however, no
recent intelligence.

The army of the Potomac effected the crossing of
the Rapidan on the 26th, on three points, divided in
three columns, without meeting any resistance what-
ever. Meade telegraphed last night, at midnight,
that "be had been successful at all points." Pos-
sibly he may only mean successful in getting across
the river ; bat there are rumours of a battle having
been fought near Orange Court-house, whence can-
nonading was heard. Up to this moment, 10 o'clock
a.m., nothing positive has reached us. What was
not achieved by Meade yesterday will not probably
came to pass very speedily to-day, as we have again
%,r,.'tla.ll sluggish rain in New York, which, if it
to4cialttnee_ti.l.e Virginian battlefields, can scarcely fail
the mud.
win
etrektae ardour of the combatants. The armies
The zeal:
tanooga areral losses in the disorderly affair at Chat-
delaguely reckoned at less than 3,000
d and
I repeat, that tiaztion, from all I read and hear is,
many. My coe°,4.ed ; very likely they were not so
Men was \vas but little and that desul-
tory fighting.
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your enemy is trying_ tato
steal
away ;" and he said,
Ite.no objection to giving
.. If they want to run, / hav
a helping kick:,
shy
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have yet shirked a battle till the other, and might
tthhaetalboth parties were
'Weather had ren-
dered all operations impossible; for .y read e
means
of
inferiority in numbers, and of the depressed spirist
of his troops, to risk an engagement even in his
good position if by a timely retreat he had been
able to avoid it. A few deserters turned the tide
of destiny.
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