The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-15


We a. he came ss Ssssch The God Of mercy and
and attach you 70 US BY perfect friendship. Given al
Rome a. st. Peters, The Sd Of December 1853, Of our
Pontincate 16. Plus TX.
An English Report from Richmond.
REBEL oPP0HITTON TO sBHRNAN's ADvANCE-THH
FIRST sYxPToAs OF TIE DISSOLUTION OF rns
[RiehmOnd (Nov ls) correspondence Of the London
h..,.n "a .o.c. a.. INTERPRETATION which
in my letter Of the 14th inst gave Of the important
movement which has for ten days past been IN pro-
nsd % q a the
incorrect and that General Longsrees eyes were turned
westward, in contemplation Of an attack upon General
Sherman and the federal army which 10 advancing from
the Mississippi and Cornth towards Chattanooga along
the line Of Che Memphis and Charleston Railroad II ap
pears, however, that General Stephen ID. Lee one o.
the most energetic Confederate officers whom have yet
encountered has been committed the task OF checking and
utmost Is junction Win Cen Tnoms; a. Chattanooga
impossible that difncut and hazardous duty-that OF
arrespg the march OF twenty thousand BY op
posing 10 them cavalry force OF less than half their
numbercan have been more calamity and judicfousy
executed. General Lee sometimes by taking strong
hanging on his flank sometimes by falling and
cutting of detached bodies Of men, has delayed and
the ederals have fallen back to Corinth that they
have at rate rereated to the northern side Of the
Tennessee river is not At all impossible that the for
mer report is true as understand that General D. Lee
has returned 70 Canton, IN Mississippi, which would
imply that his task Of ar,estpg sherman has
very manifest that the federals are realiz
ing the difficulties of repairing railroads for
hostile to them and in which, every bridge AND yaTa
trestework have TO be vgautly guarded by night and
day TO repair and keep in working order the railroad
tsnooga would require seventy thousand infantry and
thirty thousand cavalry The Conederates far too
well Of their enemy's deficiency In numbers Of the
waning spirit or the federal recruits, aud Of
diminishing reservoir from which those recruits
bued to Mr. Seward, to the effect that he swoud con-
tinue to drive new federal buocks into the field" q
quote his own reported wordsl until the two hundred
thousand remaining Confederate troops killed off
exhausted 1t is possible that Mr.. Stewards supply OF
bulocks viii fall before the task which he assigns to
them is half way towards Its execution.
And yet there Is reason to pause and dread
The cattle uhich seems 10 lie Imminent than any
Of Us Jorumners. For the first time Lee fights without
on the other hand, Icofdentu anticipate, wi fight better
than hey eueT fought before Without an atom Of military
to hare been ko,on TO Mcclellan alone among the
federal generals in vrgna-the secret OF massng his
nnuverinR In face Of his Lee will fight in the ratio
Of two men against three At Charlottesville he fought
want Of confidence in the army Of Lee which shakes
faith. II the Confederate horizon is at this moment
overcast il not because Confederate troops less
valiant than of yore, but because the Confederate people
corrup. II IL difficult not TO curl the lip when
the graspng money grubbing mercenary spirit Of the
speculation evcrsh and eager than any that Wall
street exhibits Go this day the great auction sale
Of blockade running goods exhibited by Messrs Kent
Pane In the principal street Of Richmond take note OF
s army Of young and able bodied men ,uho might, they
men and not sharks, s,sll Lees host to hundred
h1isond b0yo,es, and who are engaged in scrambliDg
ovor each others backs TO huy silks and usns and TO
invest some of the Confederate notes which they have
tvo years and half of apscrupnlous greed
materials and fabrics nich, schetr the Concderdfes sink
sUin must sill command gold What may still be in
store for this agonized aud sorcy tried continent
it Is more difficult to say than when the thunder
Of the first gun, which initiated the greatest
revolutionary war Of history reverberated around
the walls Of Fort sumter and died away on
the startled ear but the 7th OF this current month
the Confederate Congress- which assemblies TO hold
sci upon matters OF as grave debate were sub
United 70 deliberative body and aoch IL must be oaoned,
has hthero shoun lille grasp ness, capacity,
fails TO rise 10 he height Of the great argument tefore Il,
then mag Be erpecsd such niv as upon earth has
yet been htoWnthe extension over the whole of
ccessa OF the bloody border warfare OF Missouri and
kansasa cessation OF the purc and mild sway Of Gene
raj Lee and his ma0rs and ascent to the surface OF
Quantre MCNEIL, PEARSON Browu0w, and others OF the
brood-the dispersion all tho slave States
least two hundred Thousand border ruans guerias
mercless than Italian Condottierf, stealthy
and willy than the red Indian savage, who will never
TO STAY and burn until tho fcderas rcnquish their
grasp upon country OF which IL would take standing
army Of two million soldiers to crush the spirit and
tinguish the resistance.