The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-27


roi mon our railroads, and did us some inoogvo-
ienco, but nc news IL that BREoKiNmD5E has
a expedition from the Valley against Gordons.
vlc was met and sOuDdly doieated thore yes.
tordny, aud is probably at an end. An advances up
TIE Va Icy has boon whipped back. In these lessor
movements Of ate Yankee sp lsms u is soon that
theN is nothing Tor Them 10 boast OF and nOhnEt 10
dtprcss Us There is more important enterprise
et m progress Oi attempt, and OF winch ths result
is yoi TO 10 developed We moan the expedition
The nigh galcs which have scourqed the so,s since
that expedition adoat have least retarded the
delivery of its blow, and gwen US timo TO prepare
Tor resistance We trust tiey have done more; Ior
the waves of Carolina are extremely irritable aud
chaie and rage, under the lash OF tho v1nds
winch there peculiarly yioon,. Tho iron.ciads
aro AZ bet but very bad swimmer, aud m such
We may WeI, nope tlat they hWo not been alb 20
I've az All. Unloss BUTLER vae indeed born % be
hnngcd, lhero ssomo hopc that ho may nayo boon
A erson who taxes this general WOW will nnd
himself like child whose lamentations Woro unoOn-
sciousy quic'ed by the coutemp alton Of some ng
tina pleased lin, and who before no could recover
his anRuish, had 70 inquire what no crying
about just now. Truly We have boon depressed
greatly beyond the occasion. We have iOrgOtton
tG humberiess defeats and disappontmehts We have
inflicted on the enemy attempts we have baiIlod,
anu a. Yantagos we have gained tnfOur disappoiut-
mcht at missing large advantages we had hoped.
Let US be thankful that the year cosGs IavOrlblY
os IL IS now dong. Lot the season OF cstvlty winch
Is at hand be loved lts innoo'ut joys
Our armies have dono glOuOusy lu the year winch
Is now running out its last sands Tho balance Of
ta ADVANTAGES is LARGELY Ia our favor. and our
cause and its prospects have advanced I,t us dp-
youtiy thank God and take courage
he Whig. which has sometimes boon vory soyoro
on JrrF DAVIS leads OF IN an editorial, Of which
We extract the first and last paragraphs o.
Tao Cause.
Whatever may le the opinions ontorta ned in ro
garu 10 the conduct Of the war thcrc 80 one point
| ON which two opinions are Impossible; como what
| NAV. the cause must D' upheld Everything that Is
dear TO man. every hope Oi the future is b aksd on
| this cause
ID may be tlat our rulers have erred IN their udg-
mont OF men; 1t may uc that they have boon too
much guiucd by thor prcjudiccs, still that does not
aisolyc ms nom our allegiance to the cause. We
| abat donrd Or the doiborate. declared purpDso of
tic enemy ls to CNtcrmlnut0 the p'stlCut race Of
Rcb H. ana 10 replace thom with nogroes first aud
Yankees afterwards. Our cause then, involves not
mercy the right OF self government but the higher
| right OF soltprcs3ryauOn
To Ycld Is nUt only 90 nCur ucZgdrY and slavery
but death its,li; death m thousand iorms-by
sW ord by halter by starvation, Uy all tho apph-
nLcCs which tyranny can invent TO brClk the hOart
atd crush ne soul we caunO1 dohY that me 1ah.
klo Is ingenious, and all his ingonuit IN the cyont
Of our submission VIII be 3rted 10 torture US out
| Of eNi. tcncc. We have daily evidence OF the Yam
kce purpose to destroy tho negro race ON this con
| uIcnt
Ills purpose is no less Axod to destroy the race Of
the South. ours Is literally war Tor lie death,
| physical death Victory or annim alton are the
only alternatives There ~ no denying the ta 81 that
for the lime the affairs of the Conlodcrncy under
| cloud Ihe mnroh OF SHERMAN through tho heart
oi Georgia has been accomplished ana no has been
allowed TO establish his communications with tho
naval force on the Atlantic without any Other loss
than that Of numerous sra0ger and the usual wear
and tear OF an army on so long an expedition.
Sayai nah once occupied, he will endeavor not
only TO make valuable the line OF the Savannah
River uteul for srategical purposes up TO Au gustI
| n we do not behmes impede its navigation but he
Will also march at once upon BranChgilIe AMI On
| deRYOr to posses himsef of that most important
| centre OF rail Oad communication.
HOOPS progress in Tonne sec has been peramp-
tOrily checked, and ms army has lost the compact
ness, efficiency and spirit which had signal ed 10
| after few months service under JOHNSTON. Ike
| the march of BRAGG into Kentucky, whoh onded
| with the battle OF MuriroosbOrO', won by The men,
aud lost by the commanders the move into Ten
nessoe, also Unuertaken for the purpose OF with
| drawing SHERMAN from the Cotton States has been
an unsuccessful diversion.
The LATHE OF Franklin may have been brilliant,
but II was useless and the affair Of Nashville seems
to have been the battle OF Winchester over agan. A
miserable brigade OF Yankee cuYa ry turns the flank
OF our army and our intrenchments are abandoned,
! aud the army Is in retreat.
! There Is reason to believe that FoRBEsT WAS alb.
! sent ON a similar diversion in Kentucky, and HOOD
was thus deprived OF the most efficient part of his
forces. Were the forces that had boon sent to de-
| feud East Tennesse aud Western Virginia detached
on n like dIverslOnl BREORINRIDGE whom the
! Yankees had with ten thousand mon at Spa ta in
| tennessee, and whose command was scattered from
| the bank OF the Hoson to the head waters o. the
James was far OFF in Abingdon, and the raid the
! Yankees, which cost us our lead works, nothing