, 1864-12-29
CUR CINCINNATI LETTER.
Effect of our Victories-The Weather,
monttors-M0rals and Hogs-Cops
perhead LIterature-Soldierss Pair
Tho Military Commission.


rerhead LIterature-Soldlers' Faif-
The Military Commission.
[From our Special Correspondent
CEC1ssAT1, o., Dec. "a, 1864.
*sThere is time to laugh" Bilious men
and Coppeshcads are exempted" owing to
the constitutional necessity Of "kceping o
stiff upper lip" All other men have what
our Puritan fathers styled "the christinu lib
erty Of laughing" Our war record for the
past ten days bids us rejoice and give thanks.
The peoples faces brighten. The smiles that
we're daguerreotyped there by the first news
Of victory have deepened ever since, aud TO-
day ererybody's cheerful. light hearted un-
| consciously glad. Who doesn't want to
laugh. Such is the inspiration Of victory. It's
contagious. The newsboys herald it with de-
lightful naiests. Tho laborer whistles satisfac-
ton Us he goes to his work. Pork-packers,
merchants, bankers are nervous, but Jet am-
ply consoled By the though that though gold
has gone down Hood has "gone up." Let Us
| note Hoods antecedents. Since he took COM
mand in Georgia his whole course has been
| disastrous to the Southern arms. On the 22Oth
| Of July he attacked Hooker at Peach Tree
| Greek, ncar Atlanta, and was badly pommell-
cd. A few days later be attackcd Sher.
mans lelI ana ls uflFeA uach WILL italiM
| loss. He assaults the right and gets similarly
| served. Sherman worries him out Of Atlanta,
| beats him ont Of Joncsboro, bluffs him out OF
| Allatoona, until his army, baiiled and broken,
crecps awny and cncamps on the Tennessee.
| Hood Is studious Of tactics, and when ne learns
that Sherman has made secret and sudden
start through tie heart Of Georgia, he picks
up his army, and ventures to - see-saw" He
moves va1ntingly up to Frank1in-nghts-
looses Is generals and 6, goo men. He swings
round on Nashville just as stedman, With
! fresh troops, joins Thomas, and 4. J, Smiths
| b1unt Of series of battles that for the last
ten days has thinned his ranks fearfully, ind
beaten him back, crippled and sore, with the
loss Of GO cannon and thousands Of prisoners
Such Is the fate Of Hood, and such the disas-
ter to the rebels-peculiarly grave when we
army, rested and ready, has reached the coast
after .'a most agreeable" march through the
| very heart Of the rebellion, and now girdles
Savannah with a wall OF fire while Thomas,
with but a remnant Of the army that combat
ted Hood at Atlanta, has crushed him at
| Nashville.
Cold weather seems to improve morals in
Cincinnati, The police docket has been won.
derful1L light for q few days. "Confdcnce"
men seem to abound, however. There ore
enough to work" the city, or will be, If the
importation increases, One or two have re-
|
selves off as special detective police sent from
another city to ferret out deserters. They
we're relieved"
The third iron-clad monitor ordered to be
built for the Government at this port was
launched yesterday. She is 2S5 feet long and
Is feet broad.
Civilization drives ont hogs, but though
pork packers are no longer Dur "solid" men,
yet the people are capable Of 'smania." Oh
is getting to be King here as elsewhere In the
country. Nine Of our leading capitalists left
the city to-day for the oil regions of Pennsyl-
vania. It is said they propose to invest cx-
tenslyely.
The rumor has been current for the past
few days that new hotel, modelled On the
plan Of the Lindel at st. Louis, il about to go
NJ on the corner Of Fourth and Race streets.
Eastern parties have the work in hand.l
Since the election, Copperhead literature
has grown beautifully less., Some choice
sheets still live, but chronic complaints will
take them of. The A&.land Union, in re-
cent do,ortns, says: ave can neither buy nor
| borrow, nor steal enough wood or coal to
!, warm our office to work In" The Ehqxirtr
,, is at its old habits. Let one give few lines
.. from to.day's editorial on the Puritans
, "They were the great opponents Of religious
. liberty, and practically the sustainers o
slavery. They regarded themselves as thu
i chosen and exclusive people of God. They
were harsh, stern and unyieldiug in their ma