The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1864-02-25

fortnight Of beautiful cam paign weather,
now interrupted by cold snap, which
we may expect soon topass away.
From the Gazette.
Tho crisis Of the war was over when
Vicksburg fell. Why? Not because of
the conqucaG not because we got the
Mississippi; not because of commerce;
but, because we cut the Southern Con.
federacy into two -psFts,-so that neitAer
could help>thE cider. In other words,
we pi4ii6ed, for war purposes, the en-.
tire western half, All the troops, or
means, The rebels have west OF the Mis-
sissippi. are Of no sort of use, They
might almost as well, be in The Pacific
ocean. Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana
had four.and hall millions of cattle,
(more than all the rest OF the South, aud
Louisiana had the sugar, To cut off
this western haH Of the Confedoracy was
death blow. II might take some time
10 die, but ii was moi the less fatal; so,
in military pointof view, ii enabled
usto concentrate al The western armies
in the grand movement now going on.
Reduced down partially to Georgia, AL
ALBANIA, North and South Carolina, with
half of Virginia, and half OF Mississippi,
what can the rebels do? What they
mean toiry, Mr. Davis discloses. They
hope 10 recruit their armies up by con.
scriplion,. and then TO defeat Us by bat.
tie! The theory is desperate. But, let
US allow all the possibilities ofthe case,
what will it amount ,o?st Two consorip,
! tions have slreadydakens Pasele- ~, 4 9
South, and have absorbed very marble
tween the ages Of Is and as, which can
be got, and many more. The present
CONSUMPTION is 10 take all up to co.
Now, il We suppose, that all, the last
man up to 60, in the present territory,
can be got, till there is not an able bod.
led white man left, it will only amount
TO only 1877, 1870 men, and we know it is
impossible to get the whole. Looking,
then, TO the recruiting Of the rebel army
up to the last point, when there shall be
no more white men left, the available
rebel army cannot be raised above $780,
900 men; and that is no moro than they
had last year, Whorcan they do with
it? If Richmond and Virginia are 10 be
defended, not less than $4,000 are re-
CURED for that. Not less than $4,000
are required for Charleston, Wilmington,
Mobile and North Carolina. $4,000
are beyond the Mississippi; aud at the
very utmost 100000 will be left in the
armies ofLongstreet, Johnston and Polk,
to resist the occupation of Georgia, Al
ALBANIA and Mississippi In eli human
probability they will not have that
strength by many thousands. The work
cannot be done. In the month of
March our armies will exceed in efectiss
force anything that we have had Four
ft;hs ofall the veteran troops have re.
enlisted, Three hundred thousand new
Iroups will DO 10 the field, and oil the
organization, material and resources OF
war will be vastly increased. Tens Of
thousands OF negro troops are pouring
over the fields Of Mississippi, Alabama
and Corolina. The negro troops will
soon be sufficient to garrison all the
Southern forts, That is the point to
which the war naturally and legitimate
\ ly tended--when The slave should be
taken from the master aud made to do
the work of redeeming both himself from
slavery, and his master from the bond
age of holding slaves, The redemption
viii be complete. The evenging sword
will mol end its work till the last slave is
Tree, and the last master shOll be re.
deemed from the curse.
Shermon is marching on Meridian. -
The army OF Grant will move on; and
soon the Contederocy will be again cut
in Two. Longstreet must Eight, or hy;
and by the time the army Of Grant was
last year crushing in its folds Pemberton
and Johnston, it will be crushing, en-
folding and destroying the remaining
rebel hosts. :
The rebels talk Of terrible, desperate
last efforts. Where, and what will they
bel Dying men catch at straws; but Is
it any use? Some desperate plan to
march again on Washington or Cincin.
na,i may possibly DO got up, butt is in
vain. The lime has passed; the thought
to do it is unequal 10 the task, The ex.
hauslud tiger may spring q few feet on