Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-12-27
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English press, it would seem a. the
aristocracy of that countrysbad come to
the conclusion that byasfriking at this
crisis, they could .btet out the last hope
of the people for free Government
The struggle will doubtless be despe-
rasedne, if it comes.
SOur great armies still lie Inactive
We have hoped, and still almost hope,
that the threats Of Fagland will drive
our Generals to strike an effective blow
at the rebels. If we could only show
ourselves capable of protecting our
Government from the hands of our own
traitors, foreign despots would hesitate,
But with sir hondred thousand men IN
the .fe1d-'oith a Nary of nearly three
hundred ships-pith money ayithout limit,
and stores beyond The ability Of eues con-
tractors to exhaust, to be insulted, and
beaten, by set Of rebel traitors, with
out money, or stores, or credit, or navy,
is simply to win the contempt of the
world, and make other nations feel it a
duty te blot us from the list of Govern
ments, as too pusil1anlmous to be per-
mitted to disgrace the name of an indie
pendent sovereignty.
Several brilliant schieyemsuts. on a
small scale have OCCURRED within a few
days. Gen. Pope, in Missouri has
taken noarly 2,uoo rebel prisoners, and a
large train of wagons loaded with the
winter provisions and clot hing for
Prices army. This splendid result was
accomplished without serious fight by
the admirable management of Gen Pope,
and is a severer blow upon the rebels in
the West, than anything which has yet
occurred.
A brilliant skirmish also took place
at Drainsville, Va, in which it is said
I50 rebsls we're killed and wounded,
and some eighteen taken prisoners, wi tn
considerable baggage. Loss on our side
said to be twenty-five killed and
wounded
AT Munsfordville, in KY, there was
also most splendid contest between
Col. Willich's, Indiana German Regi-
ment and the rebels, in which the Union
forces were victorious.
Upon the whole, while no grand
movement has occurred in the great
bodies of our army within the last week,
several skirmishes have taken place, in
nearly all ofwhich our men have showed
themselves far superior to the refels.-
We hope they have not offended the
higher powers by whipping the rebels
in these skirmishes.
The rebels are preparing feet, with
which, in connection with their land
forces, they intend to recapture Hat
teras, and the other points on the South
now occupied By the U. S. troops; SO
they say, at least.
The Richmond rebels speak in high
terms of the conservatism of Gen.
He has SO far respected
their feelings and their rights, as to per-
nit them, without molestation, to finish
the blockade of the Potomac, and per-
feet their other works so as to be able
to spare very large part of the army Of
the Potomac to reinforce the KY. and
Tennessee divisions. They say that
Mcclellan could have utterly annihila-
ted them at any moment for the last three
months, in spite of all the force they
could muster; but that now, with their
works completed, they can spare half
their men, and hold Mcclellan perfectly
at bay.
Considerable astonishmcnt has been
that our forces at Fort
Pickens did not drive the rebels
out of that region. But we learn
from the commander that that was
not the object Of the recent fight there.
The rebels have been bnilding batteries
right under the walls of the fort, for
the last 8 or 8 months. OF course, it
would not have been "eonservative" to
interfere with them until the works
were completed. When Bragg, the
rebel commander got his works done,
he sent over squad of his men to Santa
Rosa Island where Regiment of New
York Zouaves were camped outside of
the Fort, and killed some of them, and
carried away a good many prisoners
This, after the way in which Col Brown
had allowed him to build his batteries,
was not considered the fair thing. In
fact, Col. Brown took it as an insult
And he informs US in his general order,
that it was to resent thts insult that he
commenced fire upon Bragg. We are
happy to state that Col. Brown thinks
the insult sufficiently resented, although,
probably, nobody was hurt on the rebel
side.
Not much has been done in Congress.
Most of the members are spending the
holidays at home. Our member, we
see, is in town, looking remarkably we'll.
We see that Congress has come to the
conclusion that it won't pay to admit too
many s.constructive" members from the
seeded States. Quite a number of "pa-
triotic Union men, from the South,