The New York herald., 1864-12-13

Shormau'a MOvcme ntS-Hss success -
Show by the Rebel Papers.
General Sherman is beyond doubt well
established on the seacoast at the present time,
in communication with the ships of the United
States Navy. and in all probability in posses
sion of the city OF Savannah. Ten days ago be
was within eighty miles of that city and march
ing towards it, and the shrie ks Of the Richmond
papers that Savannah was perfectly safe, and
that Sherman would be in most critical posi-
ton if he attempted to take it, furnish the best
possible assurance that no adequate provision
had been made for its defence, and that it was
completely at his mercy. Sherman's movement
has been one continual success He has
marched an army straight across the whole
territory of q people arrayed in arms against
| the government, and has met with no resist
| ance. He has taken cities and towns at pleas.
| ure, and burned them where it was deemed
| expedient. He has lived on the country and
| devastated it where the conduct of the people
compelled him to. He has so decidedly divided
one extremity of the confederacy from the
other, in respect to railroad connections, that
the least the Southern papers claim is that
they can restore the connections in forty days.
II the life of an army or the success OF its ope-
ratons depends on such . connection, forty
days is as good as eternity. And now at
the last Sherman has at an important
point on the Southern seacoast, veteran
army Of ffty thousand men, completely
equipped, fresh, and flushed with the pleasant
excitement Of an excursion through fertile
country. He has lost men only to the extent
| knlI io nal
number. His army is fresh, for 1t has only
marched eight miles per day, and it Is we'll
supplied, for the rations Ii started with are not
y't exhausted by twenty days.
All this most satisfactory knowledge Of Sher
rlaa's success has come to us entirely through
tic rebel papers, although those papers have
constantly endeavored to represent the move
lncnt as grand failure. AS they have, however,
from day to day, made their heavy literary on
slaughts against "Mr. Sherman" and have told
US how great his failure was, the casual ad.
missions that they have unintentionally and
most inconsistency made have told US all that
we could desire Of General Shermans success.
Sherman's movement, says one Richmond
paper, is failure, and he has not cut the con-
federacy in two, but has merely marched
across it. In another paragraph the same
paper tells ps that it will take till Febysary
70 restore Only one Of the rsi.7s oads that Sher
man has cut In one of these paragraphs
ern ears I; in the other it gives vent
to . groan Of misery at the thought of
what Sherman has done. The Richmond Dis
patch of the 9th inst. tells us that Sherman is
moving "very slowly" and is becoming tmid
in his movement or exhausted in his power to
advance" In the same issue it declares that
he is cat last moving towards the Atlantic coast
in earnest" All the Southern citizens turn out
periodically to overwhelm the Yankees; but
guards are sent to hunt these patriots at their
homes. All officials alike do their utmost in
the public service; but Governor Brown, when
transportation is scarce, uses train OF cars for
bis personal accommodation, and even to carry
away his private cabbages. No public properly
has fallen into Sherman's hands; but at MilIed.e-
vile he destroyed three thousand stand OF
arms, and all the powder owned by the State
Of Georgia. Sherman's movement is Of no con-
sequence, and is merely worthy Of laughter,
and in the next breath 1t becomes "vitally
interesting" and " a great humiliation to the
confederacy." So the Southern papers have
made themselves ridiculous for twenty days.
We have been very much amused at the
manner in which General Wheeler has, with
the assistance of the rebel papers used up
General Fitzpatrick. Wheeler has thrashed
Fitzpatrick three times every day, and then has
"talen back" every night He has wounded
fitzpatrick, killed Fitzpatrick, destroyed all Of
ktpatrick's cavalry; and all be has to show
for it is Klpatricks hat or hat that he says
was Kilpatrick's. 1t is not less funny to note
how Sherman has been used up. Dreadful
hints Of "a lion in the path" have been given
every day, end we might expect that the lion
lad claws; yet, despite the lion and his claws,
the Southern papers do not even claim that
there has been battle. Sherman, however,
has had great losses, has been in great Distress
did not know where to 60 to, and finally is
drifting towards Savannah with the dis
pirited remnant" of his army. Savannah will
find it heavy drift. All these dreadful inhic-
tions on Sherman and Whoeler's victories are
the collisions of that General and the other
Southern forces with Sherman's foragers
Neither Wheeler nor any other Southern sol
dier has been within twenty miles OF Sherman's
main force since he left Atlanta. But Wheeler
hovers around to catch two or three foragers;
they run, and he announces victory over
Fitzpatrick. II any one kills one infantry -man
and captures another, word is sent to Rich
mond that Sherman cannot possibly reach the
seacoast. And that is the sum OF all the dis
asters to Sherman.
| DISAPPOINTMENT or THE FOREIGN CoRREsPoND-
ENTs.-It is very interesting to note the manner