The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-04-19
WAR NEW

WAX NEWS.
There Is but one army remaining TO
athe Rebellion large enough to be formid-
liable 10 the field or which by any accident
could be kept together for many weeks
Joe Johnston is supposed to have forty
Jthousand men somewhere between Colds
Borough and Raleigh. If he would choose
Ito meet Gen. Sherman in a fair fight, he
would find himself in the condition of
he bull that charged a locomotive Ii
She retreats, which is about the only thing
Johnston ever did, he must abandon Ra-
leigh. Ia either case he has probably
found before this his sole railway line of
communication cut off By Eruption of
aStoneman from western North Carolina
upon the Danville Road somewhere be,
tween that place and GreeEsborough.-
aStoneman fortnight since was within a
hundred miles of the road, and may be
| presumed 10 have reached it before this
Stime, In which case where is Johnston
Ito 20, or what business has he to be any
where? He and bis army are an absur-
Sdity. Nor do we believe he can long have
IAN army. The surrender of Lee will be
sthe signal for the virtual disbandment OF
1 the Rebel forces throughout the South.
3The story of that surrender cannot be
Ekept untold and the hungry, despondont
shomesick soldiers who gather loosely about
/ sJohnston's standard, will need no other
slncentive to scatter them over half doz
len States. So that whatever Johnston
Smight choose to do, it is not likely he will
shave any choice, or that the North Caro-,
] sllna campaign can be many days protract-
led. Now, as when he started from Allan
eta and from Savapnah, the very delibera
sdon of Sherman's movements at the out
/ will insure the most dazzling rapidity
in the end.
The expedition from Norfolk toward
aWedon of which brief account is given
sthis morning,may or may not have d
spurpose IN connection with Sherman 5
sadvance 1t was discovered that Weldon
! twas strong y fortified and garrisoned =
sThat,wi considerable amount OF booty
sln the shape Of cotton and tobacco, is
5about what the expedition achieved
The capture of Lynchburg shows what
sother places may be expected to do Thi,
aimportant town, center of three railroads
land vast magazine of stores, surrendered
sto handful of skirmishers commanded by
ia lieutenant. 1t is the town which was
TO be the base of Lees promised guerrilla
warfare for twenty years.
Selma and Montgomery, the capture Of
(which is reported and believe by Gen
sThomas, are known to have been object
live points of Gen. Wilson's cavalry expe
sdltion which left Eastport to SWEEP
trough Alabama, and perhaps bring W
lat Mobile. Montgomery, first, as Rich
3mond was the last, capital of the Confed
seracy, is 331 miles from Mobile by the
Alabama River, which is navigable for
large steamers the whole distance the
gyear through, so that the place has al
military as well as political Importance
1t used to ship $4,000 bales of cotton
sannualIy. Selma is 70 miles below
Montgomery, and has been the seat of
numerous mills and factories since the
war began. Were there Confederacy
3left, it would be seriously embarrassed byI
the less of these two places TriJuae.
April, Is.
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