New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-23

part Of tho people WHO have to estimate his services
at their true yalue. -.
This leads 10 make single observation ccIc'tu
ing the nse of Gen Grants name in connection ~b me
Presidency and more especially, on the course Of Tie
Nv Yorl Herald on the subject. i hazard nothing IN
saying that the course OF Una, loirnh nwaia ".n'
Grant in this connection IL universally regretted by ms
friends as NOT only positively hurn in case he should
become candidate hut in every particular injudicons
Whatever NAV be Its real intention know that Gen.
Grants nearest friends have not witnessed the frequent
use of his name in this connection with any degree oil
satsfaction As Ia the General himself he has no ide'
~ ever be,uc candidate for the highest office Indeed,
n IL nndcrs,ood that his only remark the subject H.
thai he cannot he induced 10 stand for the Presidency
his highest ambition being 10 do his best to put down
the R.beIon 10 save the Government, and should his
lie he spared 10 spend the remainder Of his days with
his fellow citizens in enjoying its manifold blessings
think may say quite positively that Gen. Grant mas
very fixed views this subject. lie Is not, however
10 the good opinion Of the country. Ia his
services in the sphere in which he has achieved 30 much
rcnown and he will keep right doing his duty, pre-
dicating his conduct as little on Presidential considera'
tons 90 on tine good opinion fear of the enemy.
when Gen. Grant left Knoxville, everything, both IN
the natural and military world war hed last IN the
bonds of Winter. There was no likelihood OF anything
beng done either side for the present Bnt ~ soon
Az the weather permits our forces viii be In notion
ten Foster has applied to be relieved from the com
mnnd of that Department. In forwarding the appica-
ton TO Washington il s understood that Gen. Grant
recommended Gen VIM f. Smith of his own stan
(scon to be- If not already. MajorGencrn with hS old
date and rank) 10 succeed zen fosterior me snort ts
M the unfinished business in Eastern Tennessee. Tint
il should have been lcf unfinished has been and still j.
matter Of no little annoyance e. Cen Grant Tor va,
Iiety of reasons Ihn responsibility in the Gaze of
course rests omcwhprs-rrociscy where II may not II
this time bc profitable Ia attempt 20 fnd out.
When the pursuit Of Bragg cca,ed at kinggold sher-
man was ordered to proceed with I'LL possible dispatch
the relief of Burnside then beseged by longsireet
nj Knoxville. Two divisions OF the lib Corps Gran.
ecrO Of Ihomas's command was pnshed up ny another
route that these forces. united to BurDslG's would
b abundant for executing the order gwen by nrant 10
sherman. % dire L0Hgsfred frou Egserl ItaRessee
On the apnrnach oil Sherman now ioiHed by Granger.
Inngstrr,t raised the siege Of kncrVille aud CON.
nencsd 10 retreat though very deliberately toward the
gaps leading into North Carolina aud Virginia. Burn
side ranked sherman and to him he reported remark
Ing that having already marched his troops long ds.
tancc they not m very good condition ior the
pursuit Nevertheless he wond give him Two divisions
and Burnside expressing the belief Tint they would be
enough Grnngers two divisions were gwen 10 Burn.
side and Sherman cuumtermarchcd a. Chattanooga, u
distance Of 40 miles by the shortest route, whereas
Longstrcet not bali that distance away and To get
thoroughly rid oi him the pursuit would not have 10 IL"
continued much further. The willy rebel Rebel General
seeing Sherman with 100 troops abandon the chase
rather undertake IL At aand march back Ia Chat
fsnooga halied indeed came back "a little. and con-
cndcd not 10 30 at ALL at least long ~ Burnside =
supplies which he had got hold OF lasted. About tiis
time Burnside. on his onf pending application, was
relic, ed oi the command, and Foster came in Our
forces advanced dozen fifteen miles out Of
Knoxville nud there iDngs.r.et having halted thoS
halted also and with little variation. the! have re
mnincd ever since.
This. I believe, is sui siantialy the case. Whore
the fault possibility hes Tie reader can Judge FOR
limrcL Sherman whose truols were too much Ia
tguei "a pursue Longstrset forty or my mne, toun-
t.rmarched not only 10 Chattanooga bot continued on
10 bridgeport som" forty mihs farther. Grant. no
dOuLt elI1toi that Longsreet oud DO driven out OF
Eastern Tennessee without stopping. and t"uk meas
ures ~ have II done The only positive order ] can
learn that wa given tho one ~ sherman g. drive
L,sgstreet from Eastern IenI"ssee The fact that
burnside who ranked sherman, raid that De- wanted
but two divisions put With li, force for TIE bus
noss may b. thought mcasufGhiy 20 relieve sherman
from responsibility. How much might the plea Of er
lsIAton had with Burnside IN deciding "a thAr orah
gers tso divisions 10 lon for inference. y alsD
whether Sheruans troops we're not NJ able to g ius
ward fnJ milcr as io g. back one hundred and my
Brtx oen them al much Ia General Grants annoy
nut Tie least If which il he florence will Li plaLs
for tho Winter monih,-tio work not donr When h
Nigh. have been done easioss aud !; must b. under
taken under CIRCUMSTANCES when, II don" al Ak u VIII
DC at the hardest
Very lately Lopgsireet sent ~ flag ofuuee cor'rnr
nicatlon Cen. foeter combining oi the iusiious
circulation among his men by Union soldiers. Of f,e
dent Linooln's Proclamation 81 Amnesty. With Gen.
Grants order concerning Rebel dssort.rs Against
this Ia. Rebel General protested and said that Gen.
Foster Ind any communication 20 make IL should h.
made through the ordinary chhnneL
Ia answer 70 ihis Gen. Foster dispatched "a Long
street quantity II the documents referred TO- viii tie
request thai they might De read every morning b. his
men, and otherwise circulated among them ~ y l7ot-
able that the receipt 81 this response col,iaeed Long
street that hc Lad opened the dOOs rather Wide! an he
intended Ii is scarcely probable that be win redeem
his implied promise 10 " circulate the documents o
Nevertheless they VIII continue 90 ciruate the same NJ
before.
Desertlons from the Rebels since the Issuing ~ The
Proclamation lave very much increased. ard are In
creasing dliiyihe daily arrivals within lines being
from 10 g. 40. according 10 opportunities. They would
come by the platoon and regiment n permitted, and IN
month there would be little left Of other Johrsun-
or ongstfccis army Tie Proclamation lays pcrIeiul
siege 10 the Rebels and Is a. good as an army with
hanncrs.'
With us the grand feature j. tie yc,crnuilng 81 The
old regiments. The movement j. universal IL would
probably bt Injurious to give II IN extent enough to
know however there Is li,e 10 be dlrcd in the prem
In the Spring, our army In the West wiz be equal
10 every emergency. and II properly handled. VIII put
speedy end to what vii then b. lcit Of the Rebellion
We have at lAst uninterrupted railway commuuicn-
ton between Chattanooga and Nafhyiilc-a most I'M
p0Tiant contamination. Nov let Gen. Grant or Gen.
Thomas whichever II Is 10 whom 1t belongs. TO tie
0i the route. IL there can be- such
thing as fyiicmntc dHArranrDucnt and an orguli<na
disregard OF system, then here We have H. In afica
lar, do the soldiers suicr VILE travelling over this
route. Within the ast thirty DAYS hundreds 81 them
have been made seriously III ami have died from
tie exposure. have not tie sLghiet idea that etlcf
Gen. Grant or Gen Thomas know how serious aru the
grounds Of complaint
This road being open The whole length another alter
Iaie mile via the 1uscumbia being nesr completion. We
eau almost tell the time when this place depot viii
begin to gain IN supply On the dnil} ana hourly de-
nands o he aImy when tolershly mi ruiiuns fOr
man and beast vii become a certainty. Then VIII We
enter other and better days and begin to ccnfein
tlf ittuif WIN nhAftAlAf ill' Iturhnblt
bhty $50 10 plans and movements. But IL Will DOT b.
next week. next month 10 takes "a long rain nitcr
severe drOuth ~ 81 the springs and streams win AL
abundance.
The correspondent who teo eraphod from Washington
that Gen. Grant had not made known 10 e-GoVoln
neut hs views concerning the future condnct Ut the
war, was not well informed. | DO not suppose that
such fact would BE- likely to be- maze public at
Washington. | cannot say IN whose til the inlorn,a
ton 49, nor AIN certain 10 ~ IN ys-since special
messengers are sometimes employed to convey the
~,
presume that neither Mr. Lincoln Mr.. Stanton nor
cen Haeok II ignorant Of the views Il zen Grant on
the mturc conduc Of the war; Of his views OF The policy
that should govern the movements OF armies or IN
some dogIeo AZ lensl " Die npInions conccrnnn who