Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-04

him sOme thousands of those W esterp
braves whose mettle We desire to test for
Grant has with him only some seven thou
sand veterans, and the rest of the frat
OF creation, to defeat whom is no honor
Let Sherman, then, come on with his host
OF Occidental invincibles; We will soon have
MIN IN the position he claimed Hood was.
'Just where we want him."
he does not tell US his programme or
what cities he intends to conquer before he
winds up with Lee as bon 6ouche. Doubt
less he will not leave Charleston behind
him. The glory of conquering the birth
place of secession is an incentive too DOW.
eFtul to be withstood by this doughty
warrior. As for Wilmington, he will leave
that to General Beast Butler, reserviuR in
bis own mind the right of conquest provi-
ding the Beast finds Bragg too hard nut to
crack. His main column, therefore, will
march along the coast, clearing away i'm
pediments and keeping within co-opera-
tive distance of the feet. Nothing more
easy than this to the cmnipotent Sherman.
But he is too polite man to neglect the
capital of the Spartan little State of South
earolins. he will detach q column to pay
| his respects to Columbia, Just as he did to
MilledgeVille. Mules and negroes in plen.
| y, and perhaps Yandee prisoners he hopes
to hnd, and drag to the embrace of the
Union. An easy job, this, to master of
war, as is Mr.. Sherman. Nor will he slight
Raleigh aud his friend Holden. In fact, 1t
would be doing him great injustice to sup
pose that be will be wanting iu courtesy to
any considerable town in the interior of
North Carolina. Far too polite a gentle
man for that is General Sherman. While
his hand is in be will capture all the towns
between Savannah and Richmond. Why
notH Nothing is more easy to the re-.
doubtable Sherman.
- He promised to devastate and desolate
as he advances, and to leave behind him q
blackened waste extending from Ohatts,
nooga to the capital of the Southern con.
federacy. Iu proof of this he delays his
departure from Savannah for few days
10 order that he may destroy the Albany
Railroads. piece OF pure wRntonness and
vandalism. All this will the remarkable
General fisherman do, and that within a
brief space of time; for what can resist the
irresistible Sherman, and what is the use
of prolonging the war into another cam
paign? Why not close it up by the 4th of
next March-the blessed anniversary of
the inauguration of Abraham?
Such in all probability, are the schemes
OF this ambitious creature. who is perhaps
even COW on his march in this direction
Untortunately-fOr We are exceediuglyim-
patient to celebrate in the good city of
Richmond the advent of the couqueriug
hero-there are many miles and many
streams of water between this goal of his
ambition and the point OF his departure
Also, there is soldier of the name Of
Hardee, and another of the name OF Beau.
regard, both of whom are disposed to dis
pute Mr.. Shermau's triumphal progress
Last of all, when he rea shes Richmond, he
will 6nd at his portal man who has never
been RIM nvaE, sROlI EaoWu as GenetaT Ho-
bert E Lee. Even if he bring with him
his army uuiDjured by Beauregard and
Hardee, and add the army of Thomas to
his own army, and then add both armies
to the army of Grant, the combination will
not be more formidable in numbers than
that which was arIayed against Richmond
last spring. Lee was able TO resist the one
combination; what reason is there to doubt
that he will be able to resist the other2-
We very much fear that the reception of
Sherman at the gates of Richmond willbe,
to say the least, uucivil. Nay, we are ap-
prehepsive that Lees treatment of him
will be go rough as to compel him to con.
suit the solsticisl movements as to the
best method OF continuing his journey still
further northward and of leaving Rich
mUuU ilu Iu6 IuEGus "ulCu HUulu U6 d
disappointment to US and chsgrin to the
wonderful Sherman.
THE COTTON FOUND AT SAVANNAH.
From the Richmond Examiner, Dec. 20.
The reader will fad in another column
the enemy's boastful account OF the blood
lees occupation of Savannah. If it be true
that he found there thirty three thousand
bales of cotton stored in warehouses, it is
painful story. Savannah is town full
of Yankee merchants and JeWs; the cotton
probably belonged to them, and we may
be sure that they left no stone Huturned,
40 appeal untried, to prevent it from be-
ing destroyed. The excuse for not burn
ing it probably was that the conaagration
would have consumed the town. But Sa-
Vannah had better be in ashes than in
Yankee possession. The selfish proprietor
of the cotton probably gained nothing
the Yankee would not miss it's con6sca-
tion. Sherman says he took eight hun
dred prisoners; if he did 80, they must
have been skulkers, who wished to be ta-
ken. Aud it is very probable that his
whole despatch is highly colored, to con-
cesl the great fact that Hardee and his
army has slipped between his fingers