The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource]

The New York Times has a delectable article entitled "The Wrangling of the Rebels in the Hour of Ruin." It asserts that its files of rebel newspapers are filled with the most extraordinary outbursts of fury against the rebel authorities, and the most vivid pictures of the moral and political chaos that now prevails in the South. "There is a perfect uproar in the Confederacy. The maledictions and the hatred that have for years been directed against the North are now, in the hour of their despair and ruin, directed against their own leaders, authorities, generals and armies." "The quarrelling which is going on in the South at this crisis is a very bad sign for the Confederacy. It is certainly a bad state of mind for the rebels of Carolina and Virginia to be in, in view of Sherman's campaign. It is the demoralization of spirit which might be expected to follow such a crushing series of defeats as the rebels have lately suffered. The disaster at Wilmington will increase it, and other blows we hope soon to give must make it still worse. It looks as if this rebellion would break up, as many other rebellions and revolutions have broken up, by a ferocious wrangle, if not a bloody strife, among those who were its originators and supporters."

The concern of the Times over this sad state of affairs will, we hope, be relieved by its next intelligence from the Confederacy. Its files will now inform it of a different kind of "uproar," which, we hope, will cheer its drooping spirits. We see the impropriety of indulging in these household quarrels, and can promise that excellent friend of the family, the New York Times, that it shall no longer be pained by such a spectacle.