The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-23


latest FaOT Tt1E FUoNr-SplEV.
BIN PROSPECTS OF THE WINTER
CAmPAIGs.
FROM the Hsr0M
General Tn mfs, continuing his pursuit, still
gathcii up nc stagglcr, usd dcscriers, and
absIdonod gIu., wagols. camp oquiyags, co.,
OF IIooo's broke -rI, terripy tumrni,hcd demo.
roized, chcpfa len, cAbtus.tt and helpless army.
A month go, in bus pursuit, of Thomas, the army
trUul h, over the tennessee uyer Uy II iod nun.
tered near fpty I've ;bousaud mcn and some
seventy five or eighty pieces Of artillery. Should
be rccross the Iyu.es,ec 10 his rctrca, without
further molcsaIon, it will be with q ragged.
bleeding, ana dI o.dcred mass OF twenty tlou-
sand iuiitlyCs, With, perhaps a dozen cannon.
But there aft movement, asoot. by It1d and
water, which may TtsIt iu the auu.l.lt-il4 or
capture OF hil whuIu remaining force tt the cross
lngS Of tlc tuuuC| Tennessee. Even in seuurilE
thg passage OF tuu river and if I further pursu.l
he will be occupied Tor at l,a,s @ month 10 co ms
IN rthtuHg for IuUth,r movement; but then, ia
what direction can uu 90 to DO OF any furthcr
service to J'f Davis |. strikes us tnlt uis on,y
alternative Will ne o. work along eastward ON
the south siue uf the r mess Sc river for a june.
tiOu with BfeCkinrIIEu m che extreme corn u of
Atlst 1cnupss.c q, uu1 thence, witb RrecNurid 20.
TO the support Of Lee, no Richmond.
But that This u.nlCult Jutgrprise cav b. effected
in season o. DE o. s list 20 Lee, over the cNhausC
country, the miry roads swollen stream aul
SuOw.cJNcrCd mountains that lie in the way be.
tween Northern A ALBANIA aud Richmond, would
seem TO us impossible, even were Hood not
men Ced by the ylCtIrlpu. aud vastly superior
4 rCes Of Thomas, flank aud rear As lt nov
ever, we think that, in our calculations of tl9
game which is now 70 be played, H0OJ's army,
though remnant may csChpt, may be safely
counted out, as AN a,mJ subsJautIa ly destroyed.
The disastrous Rebel strategy adOl;ul Oy
J IL Davis, in lIs lfst September trip 70 G.OrHl,
has thus resulted In chaa gins The conditions of
the war from lwO Rrea. ermies agaIns. Two, u
three 2 eat armic-, on our side against one, ours
being the army ol Grant, at Richmond; the army
ofTl omas, in UeuEessrci and the army of Shur
man, IN Georgia The force OF fifteen Thousand
strong, under HHrd,e, at savannah, made up Of
scattered squaCs Of veterans and of new con
scripts hastily sCrapgd together. can hardly be
cassed Ms an army and AL the Rebel reserves OF
Nurih Carolina, rushing TO the defense Of Will
mingtOn, viii DC more than nCuTllIHed, we
guess, by the Bu Ter Porter expedition. With the
inevitable fall OL savannah, Wilmington, aud
Charleston, the whole army of SlermIn may DO
drawn TO the Jams river; and even 70 day, If
deemed Necessary, Sherman and Thomas ca ,h
could with perfect safety, spare twenty thousand
men 70 reinforce General Grant, u. Richmond.
IL is not surp'is ng, therefore, thAt the Rebel
journals and leading members OF the Rebel Goa.
greSs at Richmond Uegiu 10 comprehend the
Handwriting on he wall, aud that moth ng short
OF miraCe can save them and their sinking
cause from the O.. mCnuDus combinations tn are
closing round that Inflated city. We arc not sur
prised that GeCcrai Lee himself has uT ayt been
reduced TO the pa'liu extremity of appealing TO
SamOU-poOr desplsCd and unfortunate Sam)o -
for a rescue. Blu. the appeal cones too late, the
danger is TOO imminent, the necessity IS too urgent
for any help from that quarter.
No measures that Jtl aud his beleaguCred and
bewldered C ngress could adopt for armiug The
African element OF the Rebel States would help
them low. Sherman's march through Georgia
has shown thar in he int ermost recesses OF "tuc
Conitderacy" the minds OF the blacks are made
uT, and that they are universally ready 10 "br6ss
de Lord for he coming Of dc Liucum people,"
Tie Shareholders, still under the rule Of the
Richmond junta, know this, and they will not be
TITLED with by Davis upon this corners stone Of
African slavery.
The simple truth is thatthe grand combinations
of General Grant are coming TO a focus-that
Richmond is doomed, and that with its fall the
"SoutheTn Confederacy," from its turretS to It's
foundations, will be shaken to pieces.