The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-01-06

supplies and mIsceIlaueOus goods have en-
tered the port Of Wilmington If the
Yankees are not aware o, this fact, il is
only because all hands in the bIockading
vessels were fast asleep when the steamers
came in.
\ telegram from Besuregard last
night says II IS reported that the column
OF 'he enemy which proceeded as far Al
tamaha bridge, on the Gulf railroad, has
returned TO Savannah. fitzpatrick was in
that city on Wednesday.
We have again lost sight Of the army
of Tennessee. Il is somewhere in the vi.
clnity OF the tennessee river, and may
have crossed that stream ere now, though
Yankee telegrap phists would persuade rs,
II they could, that the river is so high that
It Is impossible for Hood to get his troops
across. Gen. Beauregard officially re-
ports that he has not received any com
munlca!lon from Gen. Hood since the 81
inst. ; but we learn thai dispatches have
reached this city which materially modify
the Van kee account, Of their success be-
fore Nashville.
Washington, Jan. l.
The editorials in the Richmond rapers
still continue to be important and signifi-
cant. The Examiner Of Friday, the 3Oth
of December, opens its leading article as
follows: When, in Any crisis Of the
nations history, 8,ea seem 10 look all
around them 10 wild alarm, j. is proof at
least that they are subdued If the mass
Of their coun'rymen had not more presence
of mlad than !hey have, The doom Of all
would be at hand We seem to have
such frightened counaeors in the confei-
eracy at this moment, AMI their wild ou,
cries jar and gfate discor1an,Iy on the
general calm and .ssolu,s lore of coantrv
lhey 60 not p, but hinder. One pub
nc Journal exhorts these Confederate
States TO throw themselves back into the
arms Of England, France, and Spain, and
the powers tia. first planted colonies
here; 70 go back like the pgodigaI son, TO
acknowledge that We were young birds
that had broken the shell to soon. Poor,
frightened creatures tell Us to take this
course if we should prove unable to snaiu-
tam our cause against our enemies. But
to admit this suggestion now is to say t, o
plainly that we have proved unable to sus-
tain ourselves. That is saying, beaten,
overwhelmed, oyermatcGel. aud ready to
sink, come, AL ye good Christians, and
receive Us and take Us to yourselves as
your own loyal subjects forever" The
Examiner gees on at length 70 denouuca
this proposition, Il says: II would be
Ri open confession that the confedcracY is
sutjngated and England, from self-iuler.
est, would stand aIoof then even worse
! than She does now, and coldlg bid the
conIederacy TO come back into tic union
and stay there. They would understand, p
The Lrpmincr declares, "that the Uni.cd
States would be the ruling nation Of the
west" The kcan1iner then proceeds to
take UP another class Of maIcontents who,
It says, go in fer the abolition Of slavery
By the confederacy "a order to secure roc>
ognltlon. 1t replies 10 them By saying
that " Nel;he: England nor France has
ever Ainted at lis recognition on that
ground. This i1ea, muftted up" it saws
amounts simply 10 an invitation to Eng
!aui to make war on the United States IN
order to save the confelerAcY from Vans
kee dominion and il return" it asks.
: what 10 the south offer, Why, tic
destruction Of our labor power, which
would leave US Of no use to them, TO our-
selves, or to anybody eEse We Dc 10,
look to foreign recognition, but call On
tie people to put their military sfiairs in
more competent HANDS than those who
control them now"