The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-06
jeff Davis Organ on the Situation.

jeff Davis Organ on the Situation.
The following review of the situation is
from the Sentinel, the organ If JEFF Da.
vls,and is Important because it re fleets his
views: We have hau seasons of such i'm
preferable gloom that our faith has Leen
tried as hy fire, aud hope nas been able to
do DO mere than to olpose its courage tothe
present shock, and apxlously to anticipate
the return OF prosperity, to cast anchor,
and wish Tor day, And however long the
night and violent the tempest, day has
never failed to dawn at last, and to gild
our skies with brightness and beauty l,
shall be so again. The thing which has
been is the thing which shall be- For
some days we have had succession of un
pleasant tidinps. Shouts of our cnemits
have broken upon our ears like the howl
of exulting demons rejoicing i'll the pros
pect Of running down their prey.
But, thank heaven, our faith has had
no very prolonged season Of trial Our
hope has moi been long in eclipse Area
dy the East is streaked with the light of
dawn, and cay will soon send abroad its
full beams. In Tennessee, we presume,
the worst is now over. Hood will proba-
bly, continue his retreat to a favorable
point, and take up defensive position.
We will have lost men who have fallen
or been captured, and besides them we
will have lost large part of what we gain
ed aud hoped to hold. We hope, howev-
CT, we have secured considerable num-
Der of recruits, aud that altogether if not
80 well off Us We ight have been we aie
better uif than il we had attempted moth
ing .-. . -al7.-...'
lu Georgia We presume We have evac-
uated Savannah, or, will find it necessary
to do 50. Sherman seu out from Atlanta
to capture everything. lie was going to
seize Macon and Augusta. lie was going
seize our prison carp and set untold
thousands Of Federal captives at liberty
lu truth, however, he has merely exchan-
ged Atlanta, IA city in the interior four ter
rltory, for Savannah, city on the edge.
1t Is just such an exchange AS no mli.
tury man would dream of making unless
driven by necessity Instead of conquest,
it is evacuation. 1t las been frouI the be-
ginning the opinion Of eminent military
men that it would have been wise to abau.
don such coast towns as Savannah, and
even Richmoud, and retire to the interior.
Sherman, who had got into the interior,
makes all exchange for Savannah.
We have not learned what number of
chickens and turkeys he boasts to have Ia
ken from hen-ruosts along his track, but
the advantage OF trade is 50 grcutly on
our side that we can very well afford to
throw them in. A number of minor en-
terprises were set on foot Contemporaries
neouSly with the above leading opera
tins.
Warren set out to take Weldon, but was
whipped at Meherrin, aud after losiay
number killed and captured, returned to
camp, Many of tue rest were frust bit
ten.
A naval expedition started up the Ro-
auoke, PROBABLY to cooperate with War
rem. Three Sunboats were blown up by
torfedoes, aud the enterprise failed. An
other party moved from Newborn upon
h'nslon, but Was viii pped aud driven
back. Burbrid &c moved into Southwest
Virginia, aud upon our railroads, and did
US Some ipconvenience, but the news is
that Breckenridge has sailed bin again.
An expedition from The valley against
Gordoussillc was met aid suundIy defea.
ted there on yesterday aud is probably at
an end. An advance up the valley has
been whipped back. La these lesser
movements of late Yankee spasms 1t is
seen that there is nothing for them to
boast OF and nothing to depress U.S.
There is a more important enterprise yet
in progress of attempt, and OF which the
result is yet TO be developed We mean
the expedition against Wilmington
The b gh gales which have scourged
the seas since that expedition Was aho.t
have at least RETARDED the delivery of its
blow, and < ven us Time to prepare for re-
sistance. We trust they have done more;
for the waves OF Carolina are extremely
and chase aud rage, under the
lash Of the winds, which are there pfculi-
arly violent. The iron-cads are at best
but very bad swimmers and in such seas
we may well hope that they have not been
able to liye. at all. Unless Butler was in.