Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-05
A General Advance OF all the YAM
KEGS Threatened.
TrOm the Richmond Di,patch, Oct. q


The decapitation of Rosecrans argues
well for the Confederate cause. He was
the best General they bad, although be
might have been that, and still no Caesar.
IL proves, plainly enough, that, in spite of
his mendaciOus proclamation, ne was very
badly beaten at Chick4uAuga and that his
employers know il. But the best part OF
the operation, so far as We are concerned,
il that il implies au immediate advance up
on the lines OF General Bragg; which We
most ardently hope for. We are afraid,
Notwithstanding the brivado OF the Yam
kee papers, that their hearts will fail them
when the hour arrives, although the late
victory OF Colonel Stevenson. and the near
prospect of famine consequent upon it, are
very well calculated to hasten their move
meut.
The renegade Thomas. and not Grant, it
seems, Is to conduct operations at ChattA-
no0ga. The noble old county OF South
ampI0n, for Its sins, was doomed TO be the
birth place Of thseSIitI sFsa Tia HaAkhsS
are so dedcieat In good material for officers
that they really pick up our renegGdes to
fashion them out OF. We have no fears of
Thomas. Arnold never did anything after
he bad sold himself 10 the British nor is
there any cause to believe that Thomas
will be more successful. We hold him 70
be worse than Arnold. Arnold WAS a
Yankee, to whom it was perfectly natural
to sell himself for gold. DR.. Johnson, we
believe it was, who said the Devil was the
first Rebel. He might have added that Ju.
dAs Iscariot was the first Yankee. But
there is something horribly unnatural in a
Virginia born man turning against his
country for gold.
At the same time that Thomas advances
against Bragg. we are told by the Yankee
/ th.H -. - he
everywhere. Grant, OF somebody else, is
to advance against Johnson, and Meade is
to advance against Lee. Never. according
to their veracious organs, Was the prospect
OF crushing the rebellion so bright We
are TO be pressed up into a smsll space, sad
anuihilHted before the mud comes ou-that
lie, before the first of December. We should
probably feel some degree Of alarm ut these
terrible threats had we not heard them two
months ago, just before Rosecraus advauc.
ed upon Atlanta and stopped at ChatIa-
nOOgH, and Meade advanced upon Rich
mOnd TO fall back on Washington. Indeed
we do not think the trumPets are sounded
quite so fiercely now as they were on that
occasion, aud seeing that such is the fact,
we take heart of grace, and comfort our
| selves with the musty old proYerb that
"thTeatened men live long" Il would
not surprise us at all to hear that
we had given the Yankees a thrashing all
around before the first of December. Be-
fore the advance OF ROsecraus we were as
sured by the Yankee newspapers that the
rebellion would be crushed by that time
Yet the prospect seems as distant as ever.
THE TwO ARNrEs-THEIR NODE or FIGHT
ISG.
A Tennessee army correspondent makes
the following observations on comparing
the armies of Tennessee and Virginia:
The old veterans express surprise that
the far-fAmed army of Bragg fails to come
up to the reputation for drill and discip-
line which common rumor has ascribed to
it, aud claim that the organization of Lees
army is every way superior. The veterans
of Bragg, on the other hand, say that they
have been better fed and dressed than any
other troops in tue Confederacy, and claim
nothing tor themselves but hard knocks,
severe regulations and old clothes. In
the latter qualification they are unuues-
tionably ahead Of any body Of men 10 this
country.
The difference 10 the style of Sighting
between the two armies is also distinct
The Western army, with few exceptions,
seldom charge continuously. The Virginia
army rarely do otherwise. The one are
content to stand up aud exchange shots ct
long range; the other close up aud dash
forward. On the one hand experience has
shown that the enemy stand IRE as we'll as
ourselves; on the other that Yankee pluck
always fails on the advance Of cold steel.
MAxY Of those men and women who are
most brilliant, fascinating aud gentle in |
society at large, reserve their demon, their |
evil temper for some unfortunate home |
slave on whom they think they can vent it |
safely, since the victim does not eOmplaiR. |
A bad temper prefers one victim out Of q |