Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-05

Il tu6uIs Lu6 6uGuuya uuA
hope to make the I'd division among
the foremost of the department in the elei
ments that constitute the soldler-skill,
courage, discipline.
JAMES A. MUILtsAS, Colonel.
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From the baltimore American.
The, Frightening Prospects OF the
Republics
The indications are of the most cheering
character, turn which ever way we will,
i that promise us an effectual issue ont of
! the troubles consequent upon the Rebel
.llion. Ii at one time it was deemed fndis-
i pensable to the existence of the so-called
lHConfedera that even Kentucky should
| be reserved to them intact, what must be
4 the convictions of the Rebel leaders, when
i step by step they have been crowded, drtv-
len, tehsppe3 backward, until, at last, With
4 Tennessee, in addition to Kentucky, freed
from their tyranny. they are fam to con
i graduate themselves on the escape Of
Remnant of their boosted inyincibles into
Georgia itself.
/ And lust here, what must be the nature
of those reflections which come tu'console
such arch traitors as the itinerant Rebel
iGovernor Harris, of Tennesaee-one who
| has been lodging about in the advance OF
that troop of Tennessee and Kentucky retu.
gees who, for something like a year and a.
half now, have been waiting, like their
Maryland congenerS, the loves Johnso9s.
land the like, to see their State "dettVefed..
Delivered indeed is Tennessee, at last; and
of as Vile.a troop of treason. mongers as
has disgraced any State of them all, since
the first on the list fell into the tolls OF the
South Carolina politicians and traitors;
and now saved at last and for n nobler des-
/ tiny than to be a pashalie at the disposal
of such despot as JEFF. Davis, she Is on
the verge of q change revolutiontn her
whole social and Industrial system, such as
must forever 6x her destiny as one with our
own and the other Border States-commu-
lnittes Which have shown themselves too
lenlightened to willingly place themselves
in position with the States of the Gulf
CHANGING, too, along the boundaries of
| the great State thus Of late redeemed by
the National arms, we find that upon the
territory of every State which touches 1t
on the southern liue some serious inroads
| have been made trencbiug on rebel rule.-
North Alabama, an important part OF Mis-
sissippi, and gov Georgia, are fe ling the
Influence of that mighty power which has
| been SO steadily crowtliug the rebel forces
off towards the shores Of theiGplf, and
with North Caroline and South Carolina
hemmed in on other side by the Federal
1 forces, our navy ASSUMING Charleston,
whilst Grant threatensi ti1eir Western
boundaries, aud What Is there left of COM
fort for the rebel leaders, compelled thus
to see their territory becoming less aud
less with almost every. skirmish or battle
where they have of late attempted to make
i q stand
Andif we look to the situation of rebel
affairs in virginia, there would appear to
be still less Of anything like hope left to
JEFF. Davis, land those who enlisted In
his forlorn enterprise. Whilst the rebel
army under Lee has shown its inability to
make any advance menncing to the loyal
states in this direction, it has of late been
i subjected to harrassing attacks and losses,
sufficient to dishearten aud demoraliSe a
force placed in the field nnder far better
auspices. Knowing, as we do, that of late
the hearts of the North 0arolininians, es.
lpecially, are not in this attempt to con-
summate the purposes of the rebellion /;
aud With the fact additional, patent to all,
that as State Virginia is eaten out, de-
Il prfved of all that should enable popula.
ton to fight hopefully and strongly, and
II we have more facts which should encour-
age every loyal man in the land to perse-
we're little longer, in the we'll assured
belief that ere long the accursed attempt
at revolution will be brought to anigpo-
mtnions end. =
And for the other aspects of the case, as
exhibited in the States of the fur South
west. We know that terrible blow was
given to the rebel hopes of subsistepceand
Il support for their armies when their com.
munications with Texas, by way of Port
Hudson and Yicksburg, were brought to
an end. The facts have been shown,
abundantly, that by means of blockades
runners and contrahapd trade generally
across Texas, untold amounts of every
thing required in the way of munitions OF
lWar, especially, have been forwarded to
every portion of the Confederacy. The
news comes that this evil to the Union
cause is at last cured, that the expedition
lof General Banks to the Rio GFande has
/ at length furnished remedy; and so an.
l.other source of supply of needful things
to keep the breath of life in the failiugahd
Igasping Confederacy is cut of, thus drying
\ lup, one by one, the very springs Of life so
{ long their dependence 10 opposing the
Federal Government,
Aud thus It will 90 on until the very
end is reached. Charleston and Savannah
Twill, in turn, fall-no one doubts such q
Il result and Mobile will not long lingeriaf.
ter that. Nay, If the seaboard cities are
!, not soon taken by our fleets, the probabil.
Iity seems to be that Gen. Grant aud his
> lsab6rdinate Generals will soon be in po.
sition TO assail aud take them from the
rear. On the line Of march the Tennessee
tCommander seems to have marked out for
himself toward Atlanta. we know that it
isnot far from thence to Augusta. Georgia,
Ion the Savannah river, and within the
;. scope of steamboat navigation, such as an
army finds advantageoust to any further de-
I sired advance. With Charleston and iSa-
yannah nearly equi. distant form this com,
manding t-Adgusta-what might
\ not be achieved should the army oEGen.