Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-14
-"And from It's horrid hair,
Shook pestilence and war"

Shook peStlenco and war,
assumes a less and less startling aspect,
and its late fiery train has become SO pale
and dim that the stars shine brightly
through it.
We have to-day additional good tidings
from the Southwest. The rebel forces
under Bragg have declined the attempt to
maintain their ground at Chattanooga,
have abandoned the place, aud, marching
southwark, have opened Northern Georgia
to the federal troops. Rosecrans, by one
of his mastery movements, has crossed the
Tennessee and the mountains beyond, and
suddenly appearing on Bragg's right flank,
has forced him to seek safety in retreat
rV"uSSsuU uOW, UILN-=ssIs- thlf wholA nt ita
extent, from the Mississippi eastward to
the Aileghanies, acknowledges the juris-
tlictlon of the federal government and Par
sou Browulow returns to his old occupa-
ton of "piling up eptthets' in Knoxville.
The separation of the seeding states west
of the Mississippi from those to the east
of it having been accomplished by the
possession of that river from its sources to
the sea, the occupation of Tennessee more
than half effects another separation, by
belt drawn east and west between the
more northern slave states and those which
border on the Gulf of Mexico. Virginia
will yet be disioined from the cotton states,
and they from the rebel capital.
The tidings from the Southern Atlantic
coast are no less auspicious. The enemy
has found us too near his remaining forts
on Morris Island, aud seeing himself una
BILE to resist our sure and fatal approach,
Beauregard has now directed them to be
abandoned in haste, leaving that island
and it's Notifications, on which he SO con-
fdently reliedfor the protection of the har-
boz, to our entire possession. We have now
only to engage Fit. Moultrie and the bate
ries on Sulliyan's Island, while the city of
Charleston lies directly under the range of
our own batteries, ready to be reduced to
ashes at any moment We choose to turn
our engines of destruction upon It. There
is now not a corner of the city so remote
or sheltered that shells cannot be thrown
into it from our batteries. The old chem
ical wonder of the middle ages, the Greek
fire, has been revived for the destruction
1 oflthe place, and the trials of its efficacy
have already caused Beauregard, in des-
pair, to protest against its use, and passing
from weapons to words, endeavor to scold
back our military and naval officers from
the threshold of victory on which they
stand. There is now no longer any doubt
I Of the fate of Charleston. The Greek hre
will soon begin to spread itself on its
payements, and cling 70 Its walls, defying
the power Of water to quench IT. and the
capture of the place is inevitable,
The progress Of our arms on the west OF
the Mississippi is no less rapid than In the
4 region to the east of IL. The Arkansas ex-
petition under Major: General Steele il
passing from one victory TO another. A
| detachment of our forces under General
Blunt has Just passed the Arkansas, which
| divides the state nearly in the middle from
east to west, and has carried our arms and
1.-THE Acknowledgements OF the authority OF the
Union into the southern part of the state
At New Orleans an expedition has beer
fitted ont for some unknown destination
we take leave, without any other informa-
ton than our own conviction OF what the
government ought to do, to suppose tha
\ Il is intended for Texas. Should that b
the case, aud should the expedition--fol
which we learn great numbers of SteamerI
desceuding the Mississippi have been seized
to be employed as transports Will
il the means of armiug the loyal men o
that region, the restoration OF Texas tS
the UniOn,is speedy and sure. In VerJ
| few weeks the Rio Grande will dow 70 tn'
ocean along frontier where no rebel viii
dare show his face.
Thus is the government organized o!
the rebellion-a military despotism-be
coming dislodged from one strongnoid al
ter another, falling in pieces from DAY ]. =
day, growing weaker and weaker WniI
tths federal government is growing mor'
Il and more formidable. We have now IN
4 great advantage which the rebels bad to
nearly two yeafs-the advantage Of cen
4 trail position. We occupy the heatt Q
their country: we possess the great midland
/ lyiyef, We hold the Midland region OF Ten
nessee and the contiguous districts; th
rebeillionsIies around us ID disjointed trag
msnts. ana we can strike our blows at
LIZ a. foId desnatch and force. ArkRnsa