The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-05
PIRrT OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
|THE REBEL SOLDIERS FOREONSTING
THE END OF THE REBELIION.

|TFora he InHes'
We have had, during the war, so many stories
bfrepentant Rebel soldi rs that have proved to
b be utterly worthless that it Is, P'rhtps. VOL not
10 lay too much stress on those that are so freely
repeated at the present timc l. does seem, h,v.
evor, comparing the reports OF che various cor
Respondents in the valley with Sheridan, that
4 ee's orscripts are getting tucd of their work
lat they arc getting tired, moreover, in large
humber. and ths, Early has actually lost more
4py. deScrtion Than ho has 10 killed, wounded, aud
9prisOuCis.
4 Every mile Of the army, u,,rrb un the valley.
bur army has found squads Of fuAifiyos eager 10
1get projection from their late mi itiry CmpJycrs,
f and ready 20 march as far as their limos could
&carry thCm away beyond the bbunls Of the C)n-
NiederaCy. The number Of guus deserted by Eirly
I In his eouthward Hight is, iu measure, prult ia
itself that his men could not be depended on.
.One great battle, aut one 0Hiy, ha, been fought
3sncc Sheridan crossed o itn creek-the blttle
(which began at Dukesyiue 1T grey dawn OF
MONDAY, the 10Th Of SrptemNer and closed on
thc outskirts Of Winchester at rigbtttll of the
lsame day. In the series of engagements which
8guade up that battle, Sheridan took, in all, but
3fye guns
4 The engagement a. fishers Mountain, import
ant as it was in results, was neither sa1gdiuary
nor prolonged. II was sp ismodc struggle on
Barly'S part 10 hold his pursuor IN check, at "A
point of great defensive -trenRth, for couple Ot
hours or so, TO enable the fugitiyes 70 take once
brief and cOmpara'iyey bloDdless as was the
struggle here, some sixteen guns fell into Sheri-
dams hands. J be engagement, two days later,
4 at Luray Court House, was of Il still less san
culinary character; and yet between that engage
ment and the destruction Of the StauntOn nd
Waynesboro railroad, reported in Sherdan's
despatch of Saturday last, nine more guns must
4 tIaVe been captured-for the whole number Of
these trophies already in our possession is found
4 20 number thirty.
Looking thus at the nature Of the eng glgements
in the valley, and comparing the various rep lrts
some of which have, doubtless, an extra sup.
ply of colorng-we are forced to the conclusion
that Early's men had begun TO show an alarming
spirit of disatiection long before he reached
Stanton that this hasteued his Hight, and COM
PEELED him to sacrifice his artillery right aud left,
and trust to fortune aud his expected supports
i from Lee to save some remnant Of his command.
All the testimony agrees that the deserters found
4 on our line of march are loud and deep in their
4 execrations of their late military supe eiors.
And without regarding this rs any very Il ltter-
ing sign of revival of loyal feeling, we think II
q is fair enough conclusion, that these renegades
If we are TO call them such find the cause OF
the Rebellion giving way. They wish 20 DO out OF
i the deep damnation which Is overtalNiug the
thing TheyifoTCsee some virtue in being out OF
+ the fight VIXEN the final catastrophe comes. Ii is
a kind of virtue which will find numDBr of wOr-
shippers in political life among ourselves during
a the next thirty days, when these heavy blows by
Grant and his Lieutenant have Knocked the
peace platform and its feeble supports into neyi-
table smash.