The New York herald., 1864-12-21

muiau In tn&S Qlrocsi0n secures MN ereos
advantage In the further prosecution Of hh
plans should he again take them up. aes 7.
AT any rate we have now before us the spec
taols of the absorption, by stroke Of tho pea,
OF an important and nourishing British colony.
6y an Austrian adveuturer, placed on a throne
by another adventurer Of the Same class, and
both where they do not belong. II remains T.
be seen what will be tho action of the British
government Will it kiss the hand that smitee
it, employ Lord Russell in billet dous ocr-
respondence, issue q proclamation OF neu-
trality, and forthwith commence Supplying the
Juarists with arms to overthrow Maximilian. Or
give up their mahogoay trade, "cut stick and
leavew
The Rebel Press a.d enc Recent vas-
tories.
Generally the rebel press Of this city en-
cites only the indignation of every patriotic
person in whose way Its psrnicious issues may
fall; but it Is difficult to sec how Its antics h
relation to the recent great triumphs Of the
Union cause can move anything but laughtec.
Ths best news that the friends Of the Unioa,
havo received for many day-the news Of II
.
victorious march to Savannah-stimuiats fAs
World and the Ne,cs to contortions that =
pitiful extravaganza, equal those of NANCY
cur laboring under the double effects Of collie
and turpentine. It il wonderful to SEQ how
they jump and halloo, and run round the cor
ner and stamp, and swear terribly that ths
good news is tissue of lies through aad
md hiatt fno uhr ia nMk
tissue OF lies is q sooundrel, liar and .
"patriot." Yes, patriot The Ncaos is at last
honest on one point-it accepts with the best
grace it may the designation of o rebel paper,
and admits distinctly and In plain terms its
"disloyalty." Against all that it hates, more
over, it uses the adjective patriotic" This b
progress.
General Sherman, the Neaos says, is liar
In Shermans despatch were these Words
"We have completely destroyed all the rail-
roads leading into Savannah, and invested tho
city" Now, as General Sherman was on the
spot, and as he has had some little experience
in military matters, We modestly assume tAAS
the statement is true. But the Ne,os hes
examined the matter, and finds that Savannah
is not invested, and declares that General
Sherman's statement is 20 fraud upon the pops
lar intelligence" Some facts in relation -
affairs near Savannah, quite unpalatable -
the rebels, have lately been made public,
and the Ne,cs calls those who publish these
facts "wretched panderers to public folly"-
public folly being the delight with which tho
people hear of the triumph of our arms Rich
mond papers stated few days ago that there
had been second or third battle between the
all statements Of the result, under the pressnoe
that they did not know it. The Ne,os thinks that
we may conclude that the result was against
the Union forces Before Sherman could reach
the sea and "entsr on the enjoyment Of bass,"'
says this good rebel, he "found it necessary"t -
capture fort. So it was not so much Of . suo-
cess after all. And the worst il that our gov
ernment has got to 60 on in the sams way ana
capture fort after fort, and when it has captured
the last one Of course the European Powers
will recognize the confederacy. How can they
help itf
But the Ne,cs is not satisfied with declaring
Sherman liar: it declares that Thomas Il .
liar too. 1t does not believe that there has
been any battle in Tennessee at ell. And h
quietly informs its readers that 1t must await
"more trustworthy Eintelligeuce" than Thomas'
dispatches before it will believe that there has
been any battle. For, says the Nesos, only the
other day some one said that Milroy had gained
victory and there had not been any battles
then some one said that the gunboass had
! whipped Hood and it was not true; now some
one says that Thomas has whipped Hood, and
that is even more ridiculous than the other
stories, and Of course we do net believe Il.
As for all the official dispatches, says
this same Ne,cs, they are extracts
from the blatherskite of the HERALp,o
Two or three OF the thousands OF persons
captured By Thomas are cavalry generals-and
that indicates that Thomas had captured Hoods
cavalry odtposta--and that is all there is Of
the great victory. Hood had altogether sixty
five pieces of artillery, and Thomas has cap
tured fity-four of them. The Ne,os does not
tell us whether the cavalry had oil these.
The World is tanner than the Neps. II al-
mits that there has been battle. More than
that it admits that Hood has been apparently
beaten; but it has got an elf" AS thus:-n
Chattanooga has been evacuated, as the rebels
say it has; if Hood can get there and occupy
it; If he can, once in it, hold It, then "ths
rebel campaign in the West'-this very cam
paign from which Hood is now running for his
lre-"will, all things considered, be decided
strategic success" and the writer knew all
the time that Chattanooga had not been svacu-
ated at all.
We had expected thcse sheets to be little
louder on the new call for men than they are.
But that has got to como. or course, now that
tbey have rot their old cue they will not fail to