The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-11
uses Or fools. CsrtainIy It i either far
above o. mnch below the standard oI

| apose " Mncn below ehe 1tandard oil
prudence and common sense. Beaure
CARDS entire force is not estimated 10 be
over forty or forty five Thousand, Ind 70
attend 70 this the forcss under denersl
Thomas will be found fully sieqsatc In
decd. already il is intimated that the reb-
els have halted in their advance, BIZ are
retiring.
Meantime Gen. Sherman With bhur-
drsd miles .the start of Bsauregard, with
no eaemy in font and with g be ex J.
presses it "the whole Southern States
open to him. left Atlanta several days
ago with an army of SEVENTY. FIVE sHou-
SAND MEN, und will sweep with thu ire
sistibIe power Of tornado down into the
heart Of Georgia and Soath Carolina to
Charleston and Mobile. He will march
10 three grand columns or corps d'armee,
each veil provided With artillery and cav
airy, wholly abandoning and probably
destroying Atlsnta-destroying the roads
aud btidges in his rear,-gathering sup
plies from the country, and receiving the
fugisives who will Hock to his standard
probably by Thousand. In short, for the
first time during the war our armies will
have passed through the shell of the re-
bellion and will move unoppossd through
the enemy's country An opportunity
will be given TO the Union men, black
and white. on his route to fock to the
standard Of the Union. 1t 10 believed
that Sherman will arrive at bis objective
point with ! reinforcement of no, less
than City thousand able bodied men pluck.
ed from the hear. Of the enemys country.
The occupation of the navigable line OF
the Savannah River and the fall OF
Charleston and Savannah before ) rear at.
tack would constitute far more disastrous
blow 70 the rebellion than the fail of Rich
mond.
JEFF. Davis would, 10 fact be called up
on either to abandon South Carolins and
Georgia to their fate or to attempt 70 res
cue them by the abandonment Of Rich
mond in the face of Grants largely su-
perior army. dangerous and probably
impracticabie undertaking, indeed, it is
evident that JEFF. Davis will have en- nbueh
TO do to save the Richmond army from
annihiation ii he ventures to leave his
strong intrenchments at Richmond and
Petersburg. On the other hand, BeAure-
gard 10 alFeady two hundred miles il the
rear Of Sherman, and has neither ftcili
ties to overtake him, nor strength 10 Eght
him when overtaken.
Never during the war has either party
held the other so completely At disad = an
tage as Sherman now holds his incaa-
tious and blundering adversary. Of
course there are in the unforeseen possi-
biiities Of war. contingencies which may
turn the most promising situations into
disaster. To sll human appearances Tbs
game appears to be wholly in Sheru an 4
hands Certainly Hood, 10 uncov4ring
Sherman's front and attacking his Eom
munications, has reversed the poiidy o
General Johnston who is universally ac
counted . stratsgist lar superior t9 hii
successors. So far from Sherna an fearing
or Johnston desiring. such a movehen
As Beauregard and Hood have just a Bade
every flank movement which Shetmal
made to Johpston's rear was an invita-
tin to Johnston TO act on sherman rea
to the fuliest eytent he might deem de
sirable Johnston, however, 'cautibusl,
declined every such indueement, prefer
ring to fall back aud keep constantly il
Sherman's frsut. Either Johnston o
Beauregard, therefore, we're eadly de6ci
ent in generalship. II Sherman woi A,
lauta BY The blundering OF Hood in fend
ing merely his cavalry to Sherman's real
it is difficult to see why he should no
win Charleston aud Savannah, now ths
Beauregafd and Hood, in repetition c
the same blunder on more stupe4dou
scale, have cent their whole army som
two hundred miles to Sherman's real
thus uncovering to his victofioue legion
the whole prize which the former seek
defend and the latter to possess.