Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-01

LATE RSUT.
The Tri5ans is full Of lamentations over The
defeat OF the Hessians, and attributes it to
every cause but the right one. Undsr the
head Of ''The Lesson" The lschrymOse Tri-
bune says:
The defeat of the nstional army at BULBS
run. on Sunday evening Is a sore lesson. All
can ace that it ought not TO have been incurred.
Yetit amounts, 20 far as our troops are con-
cerned, simply TO this-tbat forty thousand
patriots were worsted by sixty to seventy
thousand rebels, as was TO be appTehended.
OF the one hundred thousand rebels in arms
on the line Of the Potomac, thTee-fourtbs were
present usdeT Bsauregsrd At M4nasgas while,
Of the one hundred thOuqahd patriots confront
Jog them on that line, but fifty thousand in all
were under the command Of Gen Mcdowell,
and many Of these out Of reach Of the bat
tie field.
That tells the whole story. It is easy to say
now that we ought to have had-mIght baVe
had, a much larger force there; that PatJerson's
column should have followed up Gen. John
ston closely from Martinsburg, and either
routed him or Joined Gen. Mcdowell as soon
as Johnston joined Bsauregsrd-that an unac-
countsble panic broke out among toe teamsters
and spectators In the rear Of our over-mateh'd
and exhausted soldiers In fr0ht-that this,
that, and the other thing ought TO have been
lust az it was not. The sum and substance or
It all IT,, that we wers outmaueuvered and out
numbered, and that forty thousand patriots in
our advance proved too few 70 beat the seventy
thousand rebels who confronted them after
Johnston Joined Beauregard.
Again It says:
There is nothing in all This that should dis
courage any patriot. We have more men than
the rebels have-mors already in the field, and
can call CT two to their one, We cannot beat
them ut enormous odds, aud should not attempt
Il. Bat let vs. call men enough into the field,
and be sure that we have them where they are
wanted. We can beat the rebels with equal
numbers or even ground, and this advantage
viii compel them to come out Of their skulking
places, and meet the unionists IN the open
Geld. Tdpy cannot pursue theiry cautious pol
isY any longer
4 own contempt.
The Herald Gays, The attack was premature
on the part Of the federalists, and contrary to
the ORDERS OF Gen. Scott. But Mcdowell
thought that Patterson would strike AZ the
right time, and consequently commenced the
battle. The result was that be was overPow-
cred by superior foTces-he rebels having
$4,000 men, quite an improvement on the Times
estimate TO be sure.
In another article the Herald proceeds TO
show the causes Of he disaster:
Our rgsIcings over the promised victory at
Bull Tull were premature. That promised
victory was turned into a disastrous defeat.
The details 20 far as received are before our
readers, and We do not care TO dwell upon hem.
We have no explanation 70 make Of the panic
which seized upon our retreating troops, ex-
eept this, that, expecting nothing but victory,
they were wholly unprepsred, morally, strRte-
getica'ly, and from experience, from the duties
Of a retreat.
The TtnsS, however, appears to be more
honest in lis admissions of the extent Of the
federal defeat. It says:
There is no occasion to belittIe the calamity
which has fallen upon the country. The gal
liant army Of the Union has been routed and
put to flight by the army OF the rebels and If,
from the fragments, enough material can be
gathered to insure the immediate safety OF the
capital, the aatioR will have a melancholy and
imperfect reason for congratulatiOn The plot
of this tragedy is hardly worth while TO ana
I'VE. We Cuiy know that r~ecoiIing from their
exposed encounter with hostile batteries on
Thursday last, our troops had prepared them
selves foT an exhibition Of greater strength
and more desperate valor; and that up 10 a
certain hour Cd Sunday afternoon, these prep
a~rations had borne fruit in a series Of brilliant
successes, In which three powerful batteries Of
the enemy had been captured. At this mo-
ment the fee seemed to have rsdoubled his
AOtCesJ anu W nave oiVuEtL 10 TIE AiIu%Ste
with our exhausted but courageous fellows, a
renewed and irresistible power, against which
they found themselves unable to make head.
Upon our lines OF exhausted and ineXpe-
risnced soldiers, hostiIe cagalFy in great num-
bers charged irapotuously, a species OF assault
for which they had no preparation, and which
only veterans know how successfully to rePel.
A panic retreat followed; artillery, baggage,
arms, are abandoned to an enemy whi,h.
Z strange to say, made 70 pursuit; aud the de-
feated only paused within the lines Of their dis
tsnt entrenchments. To attempt any djminu-
ton Of the victory Of the rebels would be alb
surd, self-delusive. Tie world will tell over
the count of dead ard wounded, the guns,
nearly a hundred in number, captured BY the
yietoTs, and the standard seizad-alas, thatthe
starry flag Of our fathers should be that stand
ard-and from these elemsnts will determine
the real magnitude Of the national loss.