The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-27

out. There are many movements making
which the public are not aware of, as, if
published, they might reach the enemy be-
fore they are performed.
s'The situation in Tennessee should cause
no further fear than natural solicitude
for the success of the campaign now inau-
rated. Everything that is necessary for
the ejectment of Grant is being fastened,
and we trust the day is not distant when
our plans will be entirely successful"
The Atlanta Register of Thursday last
has the following touching the situation.
"The fact must be conceded that just now
there is no imperative reason why Bragg
should give battle. If he can choose his
own ground, and thus equalize the two
opposing armies, there would be no danger
OF defeat-in fact, victory would be abso-
lutely certain. He may now be outnum-
bered, and it is thought by military men
that he should merely hold the enemy at
bay until coming events compel, as they
must, the retreat of Thomas from Chat
tanOOga.
"President Davis meant all that he said
when he declared that before the campaign
closed our army would repossess Tennessee.
But there are accidents in war against
which no human genius and forethought
can provide. Such an event might occur
in East Tennessee; but, if we read Alright
what has been done, and the movements
now being executed, and no disaster betall
detachments of our armies, the withdrawal
of Thomas from Chattanooga becomes, at
no distant day, inevitable. He will first
seek to crush Bragg; utithappens, what
ever Bragg's enemies may say Of him, that
they concur in ascribing to him those quail
tiles which made Fabius immortal, and
rendered Washington's military reputation
as admirable as his unselfsh patriotism.
Bragg knows when and how to retreat
Tennessee can be redeemed without a
battle at Chattanooga. In accomplishing
this result retrOgrade movement may be
made, but it will be that of chess player
who loses pawn to catch castle.
"We have no authority for the sugges-
ton that retrograde movement may
occur, and only speculate upon facts which
appear alike in Northern and Southern
journals"
"A WOLF ~ 01N. lhh . AhMI.
A correspondent of the Raleigh North
Carolina) Progress, on visit to General
LEES army, writes:
l rode over yesterday to Gen. Lees
headquarters, which consisted of cluster
of cloth tents pitched in grove of oaks,
surrounding an old meeting house.
found Gen. Lee sitting by log fire at the
mouth Of his tent, with one of his aids,
enjoying social conversation over a late
Yankee newspaper. Upon my approach,
the old hero, without any formality, rose
and gave me a cordial welcome to his
headquarters. q had his acquaintance
before this.) Gen. Lee is in booming
health, and spoke hopefully of our cause,
and confidently of our final triumph in
this bloody struggle for Southern indie
pendence. He remarked: 1t is with US
independence or nothing" have trav-
eled over many miles of this (Culpepper)
and the adjoining counties, once blooming
as garden, but now, as far as the eye
can reach, is one wide waste and desola-
ton. The Yankees have destroyed nearly
everything. The palace and the negro
quarter are torn from their foundations to
furnish material for their winter quarters;
the fences are all burned; the luxuriant
fields no longer wave with cultivated crops;
not a COW, or a horse, or four-footed
beast of any kind, is left to disturb the
melancholy silence. Even the birds seem
to have taken their flight to climes further
South.