Nebraska advertiser., 1863-07-25
The News.

graph, this week. What there Is, how
ever, is important. The rebel armies,
~6th the exception Of Lees. appear dis
heartened and demOralized, and are re-
,nealiDg into the interior of tn Coufed-
eracy. we hive now '.gOt the bulge on
Them. and flour victories are properly
and r1aRidly followed Up. We can keep i
There row seems TO be a Strong prob
ability Ahatl Charleston will soon fall into
our hands. The Charleston Mercury
says: at appears to US useless to attempt
10 disguise from ourselves u situation.
BY whose fault we're we got into it, is
vain now 10 inqaire, the yankees having
gotten ihe southern portion of Morris
Island. If The fight is 10
be conducted BY engineering and cannon
merely, the advantage is with he ene-
my, With their iron-clads on. water
and their men in occupation of land, it
is likely to become a question of time.
The fall of Wagner ends in the fall Of
Charleston. Fort Sumpter, like Fort
Wagnss viii then be assailable by both
land and sea, and The fate of Fort Pu-
tasEf win be that Of SumPter."
The Mobile .Advsrtiser says athere
are signs of The white feather auttering
daring the few past gloomy days. . >
Il is not dark enough yet to justify the
prudence of those who are ready to sub
nit and anxious for peace and security
Of their property on the basis of sub
mission. Let ms warn
them that it is base to feel and danger
Gus to be premature in the ulterance of
such sentiments
This paper admits the fall of Vicks-
burg, but says: 'It has fallen without the
least possible harm to us" eff it had
held out only tweniy-four hours longer,
JohnsOn's army would have, without any
doubt, been cut to pieces. johnson was
o. the Big Black, and on Saturday night
has army ~biyouacked, with orders TO
move on Grants entrenchments at two
o'clock ia the morning. Before the hour
arrived the news of Pemberton's capt.
ulaiion was received. From what has
been learned of Grants position it is
now known that Johnson's force, had it
been doubled aad treble1, could never
have got through the works of Grant"
The fate of MOTgan's bold Marauders
is. lheErmost gratifying thing that has
happened lately. There is no officer IN
the rebel army, not even Lee himself,
hat is more dangerous to US, or more
valuable to them than Morgan He has
been The past two years, eternally raid
ing in Kentucky, destroying railroads,
bridges and cutting off our supply trains.
Atlength emboldened by success, he ven
lures, with about four thousand cavalry
and six pieces of artillery, TO invade
South. Eastern Indiana. His intention,
no doubt, was to retreat Immediately
across the river, but be found gunboats in
his way. Like a boy on stills he was
compelled to keep moving. He passed
Up the river, hunting a place TO cross, but
found none in Indiana. He travelled up
through the river counties as fast as posi-
bic, going ia sight of the steeples of Gin
einnati, on through the hills and fol ests of
Ohio. sometimes venturIng insight of the
river, 10 find gunboats awaiting his ap-
prOach, and then falling back from 40 TO
60 miles among the hills, exchanging his
worn cut horsesfor fresh ones, wherever
be could find a livery stable or catch a
horse. Il was thus impossible for any
force in his rear to catch up with him.
As there was no cavalry in Indiana or
Ohio. and as no one knew where Morgan
would 60, or what route he would take, it
was thought by many that he would es-
cape. The militia at certain PAGES col
lecled together and prevented him from
destroying ,,raiIrOad bridges and robbing
drug stores, &c. But to follow him was
invain, as he would be a hundred miles
away. before a force sufficient could be
organized.
Gen. Burnside, however, started a
force after him, of seven thousand, who
kept about a days march in his rear, un-
tlthey got to Pike County, Ohio, where
the citizens, anticipating his arrival, cut
down on different roads, over one OF
which he would have to pass, timber for
a distance of u miles. In the mean
time cavalry had been raised about Gin
cinnaii and sent by steamboat up she riv-
ef 10 intercept him. They had several
skirmishes and fights with him in Pike
and jackson counties, killed a few and
esp,ured $500 of his men. -Four or five
hundred succeeded in eluding The boats,
and crossed into Virglnis; the gunbOats
, succeeded IN drowning l50.