The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-02-01


Signs Of Despair among the Rebels.
The tone of the Southern press grows more
and more Responding. We observe several re-
cent articles from Southern newspapers which
show that hope and confidence are wavering in
view Of the situation. 1t Is quite evident that
there is foreboding of the end now apparently
near and inevitable.
The Richmond Examiner, Of the 10th, for in.
stance, "sees but one chance of success from the
net that has been cooily drawn around us; it is
to concentrate our energy on one point and cut
IT through; to convert our defensive into an Of
fensive war, and tranefer the scenes Of at least
. part of these hostilities to the enemy's own
country. Situated as we are, Il is only possible at
one point, and that is Kentucky"
But since the time when the Examiner dis.
covered one possible point in Kentucky, the ar
my Of Zollicoffer, which held the key to Tennes.
zee, has been utterly routed and dispersed. The
Examiner anticipated the movement and dc.
clared that II the plan of Buell-that is Of flank
ing Bowling Green on either side-wAs success
ful, it must "result in a great disaster" Its on
~ hope then was 'in an offensive campaign
across the Ohio from the point that Gen. John
ston now defends"
Bat when the intelligence which had not ther
reached Richmond, Of the utter rout of Hum
phrey Marshall's forces at Prcstonburg, and O
lolcoffer's defeat at Somerset which tool
place three days afterwards, became fully known
that "only hope" must have persisted.
The Richmond Wing, Of the nth, apparently
70 counterfeit the discouraging effect of the Ex
.miner Of the day previous said; "Let us turr
for moment to the West. Price, Polk, Mar
shaR and Zouico6er having whipped the cowardly
mercenaries at every point" or course, this
vas intended to cheer up the Respondent South
hoor h,,t hos linn
must be the reaction when the truth was known
The Richmond Dispatch discovers that ever
IN Richmond there are men who are loyoa &c
the Union, and the fervor of its denunciation o.
such Indicate clearly the fear that Union eenti
ments may become contagious, as the fortunes
OF the Confederacy from day to day become
more gloomy.
The Trenton Uennessee) Standard "regrct.
70 say considerable evidence of disloyalty to the
Confederate Government has been manifested
n West Tennessee designating the counties Of
CARROLL, Weakly and AcNairy Is the localities oil
formidable Unionism and resistance, in that
part Of the State. too, where secession, in the
start, had unresisted end absolute sway
The articles We recently published from tn,
Memphis Argus, were Allied with the most bitte
hostility to JED Davis and his conduct Of th,
war. There would be no utterancee of tina
sort-no determinations 90 intensely wrathfuI
except in he abandonment of ell hope of pre-
sent success under his auspices
All these things clearly denote the Rrowin
suspicion, ct least in the minds of sharp. intell
gent observers Of events, that the catastrophe !
not very far Oh. They perceive how completed
they are beleaguered BY hostile forces on ever
hsnd-that the Port Royal expedition is still i
potential activity in the heart Of South CaroIin,
that Burnsidss expedition, whatever the poir
to which it is directed, will meet no adequa,
opposing force; that Butler has position o
tho Gulf coast, where be can assail either N,
bile OF New Orleans At pleasure; that Lanes e,
petition will soon move down through Arkansa
and Louisiana, Irresistible. In short, turn whic
way they will, now that the hope Of our insta,
sr with England, on which they counted,
elss'pated, there ID nothing but black, rayie
oespar.-iSt Louis Democrat