Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-08
1nterestlnE Rebel Nsws.

InterestInE Rebel News.
Tue Richmond papers of January End
have been received by the new York 7Fi-
6uHs, and several of the editorials are pub.
liShed in :hc last number of that paper
The Examiner is in much doubt about the
result at Murfreesboro, but incliues to
think that Rosecraus will be beaten. The
battle had not ended at the date Of its last
advicss, and therefore it very well remarks
that,
Unfortunately, there is sentence in the
dispatch which renders US unable to say
that the battle is quite over. Gen. Bragg
| says that the enemy on the left successfully
resisted the Confederate assault, aud re
tainSd the position at the end of ten hours
fighting. Since then, aud up to the present
time of writing, there is no information.
The estimate which it places upon Buell.
and RoseCrans as generals, and the likeli.
hood Of each to achieve success will strike
most people this side OF Dixie as being
somewhat curious. Itobserves as follows ::
If Buell. was still in command, we should
remember Shiloh, aud entertain the great
| ~ "oSNS'uN'o ANIShNNC " tut uuhUOWu Sc
qucl. That pertiuacous and determined
spirit would not fail 10 force every man of
his reintOrcements up to the line of fire.
and either recover lost fortune or perish in
the attempt. But VIC doubt whether his
clever successor is quite up to that desper-
ate work. Considering the character Of
kosccrans' aud remembering his past style
Of action, We think it far more probable
that he should attempt a retreat. If he
does SO, both he and his army are lost In
a retrOgrddC movement, without supplies,
and completely demOralized, his regiments
will become one enormous mob, and fall a
helpless prey To the pursuit. The whole
OF Tennessee will be in our power in less
than week, and the army fighting before
Vicksburg will never touch the soil of the
United States again except as paroled pris-
ouers
If our iufOrmstion does not permit us to
indulge in the triumph of au assured vic
tory, 1t authorizes most sunguine homes of
affairs in the South West. If those homes
are fulfilled TO the extent which now seems
probable, the country will owe au iucalcu.
liable debt Of gratitude to Gen. johnston,
to whose genius and activity the great
change which has lately come over the
prospects of the ConfederaCy in that QUAR-.
ter IS clearly Ascribable. Six weeks ago.
the untortunateBArmy of tue South West
was in just that state OF confusion which
renders disaster inevitable The Generals
were uncertain, the soldiers dishearteaed.
and tho country entirely hopeless of the
future. Whether the rapid arrangements
OF troops which his orders ettectG6 nave
secured US entire success is not yet Ascer.
taiued.
If such was the condition of tho rebels
before the late battle of MurfreCsborO, and
the Examiner ought to know, what will it
DO now, We wonder Taking the Eraln
incr'5 statements as correct, and We GER.
taiuly have destroyed the rebel hopes in
the Southwest. The most important news
in the Examiner is the following:
DESTRUCTION or IMPORTANT BalDGEs on
TIlA EAST TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA RAIL.
ROAD ny UNION CAvALRY-A DARING RAID
body of Yankee cavalry, numbering.
it Is reported, some 4, OOe men, made n rail-
on Monday upon tile East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad, and destroyed two i'm
portHnt orldges-one across the Holstou
aud the other across the Watauga river.
The bridge across the lIolstou, at Blounts-
vlllc, was guarded by 200 of our cavalry.
who were completely surpri scd aud made
| "A c.
count of tho raid, which we find in yes,er-
days Lyuchburg Republican, says:
The enemy advanced within six milcs
OF Bristol tho terminus of the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad, but retired with
ont coming to the place. They afterwards
advanced toward JOueShOrO, and burned
the bridge across the WataugH. At this
place n small scouting party Of citizens,
hastily gotten together, came I'm with
them, and II brisk skirmish occurred. in
which one OF the enemy was killed and
TIVE captured, who were brought into Bris.
toll on Tuesday. They belong to II Penn
SyivSni" regiment, and, We learn, reported
their forces at 5000.
The enemy first entered Virginia between
Cumberland Gap aud Pound Gan. and mass
ing through EstiviIle, in Scott county. to
bIountvtlle, fulfilled their mission of bridge
burning and made demonstration as If Il
was their Intention 70 visit Bristol. This
as before stated, they failed to do, fearing
uouoitess, to venture SO far They con-
tinued in the direction of Jonesboro, bnt !,
IS stated by our scouts, who came into
Bristol on Tuesday night. that they wer,
retre"tug over nearly the sane route thew
had advanced.
The distance from the point at which
they entered the State line to Jonesboro is
between ninety and one hundred miles, |
aud the raid is certainly most daring one,
II argues an Nudacity in the enemy which
they were not supposed to possess. They
are reported TO have been piloted hy n |
militia Colonel of Washington CONT
Tennessee, by the name Of Ward, who left I
his home on Friday, and met them at The |
mountains. n - T-'
The damage to the railroad is serious
as, beside burning the bridges named, the
track is torn up in many places aud the
s'ts aud iron burned. The distance be-
nine miles, and the burning of the br15,cs
across these streams involves loss of tSst