Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-05
state OF FeoIlnC I'm nc sou,n.

| -.t SGALoOA 6te01lnR In the SOUTH
The Newbern IN. CO. Times has infor.
nation that affairs are coming to crisis
in the interior of that State. Refugees
who are pouring in agree in saying that
there is great oppression and destitution
in the State, and a genuine Union feeling
istncreasing throughout the State. An in.
telligent northern lady just escaped from
Richmond, says there is great disaffection
there, and7the opinion that all further ef-
forts to gain the position of an indepen.
dent nation must fail, is openly and freely
expressed and the authorities make no eff
fort to suppress the utterance of such adj
verse sentiments. Southern politicians
daily visit the army to exhort the soldiers
to hold on. "Druid." the rebel Baltimore
correspondent of the New York World,
who has up to this time declared the con-
federate cause as strong as ever, and the
subjugation of the South impossible, has
been enlightened by late events and now
saye:-
1.-The fall of Savannah is really great
I
mond. 1t is not the loss of the city itself
that isfelt. That is mere bagateile. 1t
is the consequence that must result from
that capture which gives the southern
leaders-such great concern. In this view
the confederate leaders are forced to admit
that Gen. Sherman has done we'll in aban-
doning Atlanta for Savannah, because
Savannah, to the North, is worth dozen
Atlantas. In the first place, it gives US, if
the operations to secure it are conducted
with ordinary prudence, about 12O,OOO or
5000 bales of cotton, which are stored
at various points in Georgia and South
Carolina. This stock of. cotton forms part
of that immense store upon which the
South has been drawing sparingly during.
the last two years, and which has been
their most potent ally in England and.
France, afording' the means of Negotiating
their cotton loans, of keeping up the con-
federate credit in Europe, and of purcha.
sing their muskets and cannon. The con-
tederate leaders look upon Georgia as lost
70 them for the present. Nor is that all.
They are we'll aware that, either from
Savannah or Augusta, Gen. Sherman can
transport his whole army by railroad to
Charleston; and what they dread now,
above all things, is that be will do so, and
that that city Will be attacked from the
land side by Shermsn's victorious and in
vincible army. This is the. conviction that
now fills the public mind at the South, and
the minds of the rebel leaders also, and
that makes tho'present hour the darkest in
their history"
The Richmond Wh5q, tacitly conceding
that the Confsderates have power no long
er to prevent their territory from being
overruu by the Union armies, attempts to
find consolation in the belief that the peo-
pie of the South will adhere to the rebel
cause after they are Defeated with more
ltehheity than before. Quoting evidence of
lthe Continued attachment.ot the people of
tlEeR Orleans, Natchez. and other Southern
eiaies toSthe Confederacy, it says:
town, or village, or homestead
Ino1 Within the enemy's lines but would
hail with joy inexpressible the day that re-
stored thsm to our embrace. No length of
time will change this feeling. How, then,
iist1e Yankee ever to establish general and
4 fIasttng authority over these States. In
i'thsae wide reaches, of territory, to invade
lis npt To- 6yerrun, to overrun is not to oc.
i cnpS = to dcoupy is not to subdue. Time
that is So pally and surely destroying the
cap4eify OF 2the enemy to wage war of
Iinyasipn he9 no power to change the,hearts
4 or shake the constancy of our people"
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4 l7TH1 INV ATLANTIC CABLB.-The cable
tcrths nsw Submarine Atlantic telegraph is
being prepared. at London and placed on
hoard the Great Eastern. Messrs. Cann-
| ~ 8 CLIFFORD are to commence laying the
e applicable, across the Atlantic in June
Iintze The Great Eastern will have 500
heads on board, with weight of 10, 1000
tods including 1900 tons of cable and 5000
tons of coat. The conductor is formed OF
sevsa copper wirsss and as there are 1900
I mile4.of cable, there will belle 600 miles
Of copper W71l!Jtis....-Eyery portion of this
4 wire Is s1bjvCtsd C6 electrical tests and
then covered with sight successive coats
of the Insulating material. This coat is
q covered ita ;tatsii.gaa the jute is covered
with Osered iron wires, each of which
is covsrdd spaIiatSlY With Eve strands Of
! iIiarred hsHp The- mAnufaOture and pre-.
paration 81 ecAble is going on with great
rapidity, "a hsFe i every reasen to hope
aud believs tdat TINS coming experiment
to secure teglsphie standardization be.
: tween Euglsud aih6is Ameriea,will7 prove
success.
II is suggd sd GsasR Rutler may b,
. appointed to Ire e6ls the depart
meneof Kentucky bly, won't b,