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I,lp, It was an impressive scene.— jT could it be otherwise, when the bc rs of the olive-branch were passing h(een the gathered thousands of com mits engaged in mortal strife ? A Q ber of lad es were present on the <r ud ; some in trout of the works, on top. and many walking and rid i,in the field to the rear. Their pres- added increased interest to th e oc con, and indicated that they were not i spectators of the scene. t )uring a visit of Col. Hatch and some ,<nds to the lines, earlier in the after on, to superintend the dispatch of a rof truce, we understand that con erable cheering was manifested on the rt of our soldiers and of the enemy, 10 probably mistook them for the com issioners. The enemy is evidently eased at this step we have taken to cure a cessation ot hostilities, and ould welcome a peace as joyfully as e. On the extreme left, in the vicinity (the river, yesterday afternoon, the nemy subjected'our lines to a severe helling, one or more of t heir missiles >eiug aimed so high as to fall into the :ity. [From the Mobile Register, Jan. 10.] The Yankee slap delivered at Fort Wisher was rather more sudden and un expected than agreeable. We had not oven an intimation of a renewed attack on it, or that the 1 “strohgest earthwork in the world" was in any immediate dan ger. But startling and unlooked for as i the blow is, it need not take any man’s breath away. It certainly does not knock the breath out of the body of tbe Confederate cause. We are not sufficiently well informed of the military defences to say whether the loss of this fort involves the evacua tion of Wilmington. If it does, three things follows: The blockade trade is stopped; some few thousand Yanks will be required to garrison the place, and several thousand Confederate troops will be relieved of post duty to join the army that late opposed Sheiman’s advance.— Savannah already lost will require a Yankee garrison, and has set free a good sized corps of Confederate soldiers. If Charleston is added to the trio, the first thing Sherman knows he will have a foimidable army in the field against him, massed by his own strategy and Admiral Porter’s guns and assaulting columns. -Savannah and Wilmington gone, Charleston is no longer essential as a strategic defence. It is rather an ele ment of weakness in the game. We do not mean that Charleston should be given np while it is at all tenable. We owe it to that heroic city to de fend it to the last, and it would be in expressibly painful to see it in the hands of the oppressor. But local and person al misfortunes are often public advant ages, and the forced evacuation of these three •Atlantic cities certain] v would tend to and might result in a fruitful victory over Sherman. The General has not got to the end of hie tether yet. He has yet to grapple with the Confederate chief tain, who has laid low all of his prede - cessors who have crossed swords with him. » (From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 3.) No official intelligence from the South relative to Sherman’s movement was made public On and^ there wa9 a re P° rt iu semi-official cir cles that he was moving a column on Augusta, along the south bank or Georgia side of the Sa vannah river. From this and other reports winch wtihm the past week, have reached us trom Charleston, we think it most probable that tie is menacing both Augusta and Branehville If his army be as great as the Yankee papers rep rent it, he can send columns of twenty-five thou sand against each place. Os our preparation to meet the attack at Branehville, we are not in formed. Augusta is well proteeted by earth works. The enemy’s present plan of campaign is obvious. He seeks to keep up the pressure upon Richmond, and to chain the Army of Northern Virginia to. its breastworks. If, in addition, a favorable moment can be seized for sallying out Qpon the Danville road, and cutting that avenue of supplies, he will surely embrace the opportuni ty to effect so important a purpose. But his ag gressive designs are chiefly directed against two important points in South Carolina,, namely; agaiinst Charleston, so long besieged, so promi nent in the previous history of the war, so con spicuous in the politics of the South, and so cher ished in the affections of the Confederate people; aud Branehville, a mere geographical point, but important as being th- key to Ch .r lest oh, and rhe gateway for supplies which come from the States of the Gnlf. These being the conceded objects of the enemy’s present ope-ations, it is not difficult to determine with approximate certainty the destination of Thomas’ army, if reports be true that it is moving eastward. Not many days ago we had intelli gence that a detachment of 15,000 men from this army hai gone down the Mississippi River, and by the gulf to reinforce Sherman, and now we have another report that 1*2,000 or more have passed Harper’s Ferry in the direction of tho Chesape ke to reinforce Grant. It is probable that both these rumors are true. Each one, and both, would be entirely consistent with the enemy's present plan of operations in Virginia and South Carolina. It is very probable that the object of r inforcing Grant at present i3 to en aole him to make a demonstration lrorn his left wing upon Lee’s line cf supplies simultaneously with Sherman’s movements in South Carolina. The additions of Thomas’ army to those of Sher man and Grant, may put it in the power of both commanders to make formidable aggressive movements in earnest, each being much more than a feint in aid of the other. Whether the Virginia movement shall be a mere diversion in favor of Sherman or a move ment in chief, will depend of coarse upon the number from Thomas' army whieh shall be transported to the James—a question which the developments of a few days will disclose. This transference of the Federal army in Tennessee, by circuitous but more expeditious routes, to Virginia, or to Carolina, or to both localities, seems to be a modification of the original design of the present year’s campaign. Until within the last fortnight it w*s the accepted opinion that Tnomaa. at the head of a large army was to cross the Appalachian chain from Chattanooga to Knoxville, through East Tennessee and South west Virginia, und to bear down upon Lynch burg, taking Richmohd in the rear. This design has been relinquished for several potential rea sons, _ The distance from Chattanooga to Lynch burg is more than four hundre t miles. The val ley through which the line of march would be is narrow, and flanked on cither side by mountains, which would be the shelter of innumerable bands guerrillas, who would render it quite impossible to keep up a railroad line of supplies in the rear, so long a distance, without so weakening the main column as to render it feeble at the last to push through to its destination. The chance of procuring supplies along that long line of moun tain country would be hopeless for any force large enough to overcome the obstacles which would there oppose its march. The performance of Sherman in Georgia would augur nothing in favor of a similar movement over the route in question. The length of Sher man’s march was only 200 miles; here it would be 400. Sherman accomplished the feat With About 20,000 men, marching unobstructed through a champagne country, tilled with supplies.— ' Thomas could not venture with less than doublq that force, and his passage would be along a narrow' valley, the greater part of it lying in East Tennessee, and already desolated by long' continued hostilities ; another portion of that be tween Bristol and the New Liver, recently rav aged by Stoneman’s raiding column; and the rest of it, which could never be reached, already partially, if not entirely exhausted of supplies thrown away from the Army of Virginia." The impracticability of the enterprise would be a suf ficient argument against it. Another argument would equally defeat it, to wit, the want of men. Not less than a column of 60,000 men could ven ture upon such an expedition with any safety, and tne Federal Government, has not that num ber to. spare from its main armies under the di rect command of Grant and Sherman. It may be Concluded, therefore, with entire safety, that ‘he transmontaue advance upon Lynchburg has been discarded, and that heavy detachments from. Thomas’ army have been transferred to Virginia or to South Caroliua, or to both these States. The result of this change of plan will be that the campaign of lS6swill open much earlier than if it had been made to await a long inarch from the West upon Lynchburg. It behooves our author ities, therefore, to hasten our own preparations for the conflict. Saved.— Four men, in a sinking con dition, were picked up from a small vessel outside the bar at Hilton Head on Wednesday evening, by an officer of the steamship Illinois. The vessel was loaded with Butler stores and bound for Fernandina, Florida. She sprung a leak off Tybee Island, and soon became unmanageable. Front thence she drifted out to the above men tioned bar, running within 'thirty yards of the Illinois, which was at anchor. — The cries of those on the sinking vessel attracted the attention of the Captain, who despatched a boat with four men and an officer to their assistance. On reaching the sinking vessel they took the crew, consisting of three men and the owner of the - goods, who was on board, to the Illinois. The vessel was anchored of the bar, and had not gone down when the steamer left on Thursday morning. , | Torpedo Explosion.— This morning about nine o’clock Mr. Richard Downing, a clerk in the store of King and Savage, under Masonic Hall, stepped on a torpe do in the cellar of the store and the tor pedo exploded, nearly killing Mr. Down |ing. < y ; , . •' ; This torpedo was unquestionably placed in the cellar last night, as the cel lar is otherwise perfectly clear, and is examined every day. Mr. Downing lies in a very dangerous condition. 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