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Ini: I tfl*#Vr lt;■* hn-vv•W'lt;1V »,/ W'*Wil.ppintkp axd pibmsOl^ tjyI. POTTKH *V CO«'*-*• MBMClAltorno; ni u.nnu,X. K « 0B. fOCItTH AKP R\CK »SB.scraped together in Georgia, with ease, iduittily; and he wfli have a secujre basettit operations wherever there b navigable waer Tl vfe it no doubt that he can proceed up the Savannah River and make a base at Augosta.Holding that town and Savannah, b*adndiSATURDAY, DECKMBEK 3./v--‘ *r*s %slt;IA k art* indebted to the officers at the fast steamer Niagara, for New Orleans papers of the 24th ult., iu advance of the mall, foi- 1 warded froui Cairo by the Adams Kxnressrgrnus;*i,UJI * JBfmgJrta? as they are sent Uf the Cumberland Nashville, and Shermak can work backCompanyThe HttlAat Franklilt.At the details of the battle at Franklin,Tennessee, Wednesday afternoon, reach u*. the importance of the engagement and of our soccer in it are fully developed, and it appears that the first reports were rather under the mark. It acems to us, though, that the hoysclaim to have taken rather too man/Thirty stand of colors *» •* extr',orlt;H«5*,Tnumber, for an armyrouted,toae in hotlle. But our Nashville dispatchnatnes the orgaimatkmi that w ere suecesfulin capturing color*, and the number that fellinto tho hands ot each, and gives the story,otherwise incredible, the appearance of verity.The definite statement that eleven hundred prisoners have reached Nashville is proof that the rebel assaulting columns were deeply Wgmtnled aud shattered, and that, in parts, they must have become disorganized. It is perfectly clear that General Thomas had not proposed to fight Hood in force on the line i f the Pulask; Kailroad, but to fitll back to Nashville. The skirmishing at Columbiabeyond remedy, the rebel raUfc and separates Georgia, Alah*«^a Mississippi, fiom the Caroi:—'a **4}more completely than *re novr ® from the Tnnr v*^*ippi State*. Supplies can be ■—* up the Sasannah River toAto _______ .through Georgia, and reach Thomas outpost at Kesaca or turn his attention in the other direction, cut through South Carolina, and take Charleston, or turn to the left, at Cranckville, and seize Columbia, the capiui of the State. Something like this programme will be followed, or Sherman,with his forty thousand Western troops, Hushed with victory, and proud of their immortal achievements, can be thrown intoVirginia, and take the lion’s share of the glory of routing the rebels from Richmond, t is a question for the determination of themilitary authorities, whether Sherman can do most by making his base on tho coast, and operating in Georgia and South Carolina, or bv going to Virginia, In either case, he will bo in a position to strike th*rcbell/on, in its most vital parts, a scries of btows that willtest its capacity of endurance, with greaterseverity thanupon it.and the aCT.ir at Spring Hill were mere brushes; to retard the advance of the enemy, and give us a chance to concentrate.Hood’s iuii*etuosity, aud his necessities, carriedhim on so last that it was necessary to givehim a check at Franklin. This was done in good style, and, being done, our forces continued their tnovemeut to the neighborhood of Nashville, where they had been expectedever since Hood crossed the Tenncaseo River.Hood has been deceived as to the strengthof Thomas’forces. He imagined that Sherman drained the resources of the departmentto a greater extent than he has done. He is ow, though iff a country comparativelyhusoPryor.Roger A. PkYor, who was picked up byonr pickets the other day near Petersburg, isa specimen of the class of Southern politicians who Wire very prominent during tho dissensions preceding the war, and who havo become insignificant since the storm they raised has burst upon the cofifitry. Without going through with the list of failures of Southern politicians as military men, (and it is as l.irgc and general as like failures in the Norfb,) it may be remarked that Breckinridge is the only one of the demagogues who mtde the war, who has attained even respectability os an officer, and he has been repeatedly snublied.Pryor was familiar with the gTound where he was captnrcd. It was the Petersburg dis-trict that he form«rlj repreeonted ; theIcMri
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 03, 1864
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