The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-30

Henrietta, which we contributed 10 the dover,
ment ont and out, from cur private purse and with
as. Sas aay gun or ship CONTRACTS whatever But th,
pess OF TINS rich t0ke in that Mr.. AFpinya Is sait
70 nave made more money than Morgan by buying
ana selling ships for the Govcrrsnent The twenty
nve fiionsnd dollars profit on his gun contracts Mr.
dred thousand dollars profit upon his Governu,en,
snip operations he puts In his own pocket.
CANT SEE IT.
The Newark IN. J.) Journal can't SEQ how the
Federal Govcrnnent knows the Cenfetierate losses
10 a-nan but can't tell It's own losses IT, says.
Retreatng from an advancing foe, so rapidly that
we are compei.ed TO leave our dead and living in
Inc enemy hands, our troopsare reported an now.
ing 20 fraction the Number of men killed of the
enemy. Have We any kind of shell or ball that.
whenever II strikes down Confederate re norts fhs
fact within opr campt IL moi. how IL Il thst we
optsiln SO soon the Confederate loss while il hrs
.aken us months to ascertain our own That the
s Ionieoerates lost heavy,we very well believes
but that pursuing enemy should lose mora than
Inc pursued, is an absardity We saw q captain
yesterday who has returned wounded who says our
Iosses VIII iootuP nearer forty thousand than thirty
While the loss I stores wagons cannon etc viii
amount to several millions
re says that orr Siege guns that were mounted
on ire en- rencslnents all Left to fall into the
Mshas ., OF tue enemy. The general impression of
tae oIiceis OF the army that he conyersed with in
that an advance movement canuot take nlaee for
ssvera months. Why is it that the Goyornment
noids back informaiion from the people Do they
conceive this is the way to inspire confiteEcca M
osher government would dare thus to tr;He with
the people
NECESSITY or A SHORT WAR;
lFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer, July %
II is not to add shadow to the present bour of
naonai @ gioos that we recall the fact that this day.
the 2lst Of july is the anniversary of the hattie IT
I''iii hun, or, more properly speaking of Mauas.
Mas M Ihat afalr, IN fact, has now become matter
OF history upon which we speculate without feel
ips oI passion, or thought Of national diseredt-
we can clearly trace tn. causes of our disaster /
and we can see how rs things went 1t was unayoil
noit. Ihe cOnrage OF our army, as a whole on |
.i.a. pecasoa' Is nnimpeached; and we have in our
huonai calendar, no finer heroes than many of the
oieers ana soldiers who fought and fell ON that |
DAY. The consequences of etr defeat on that |
heis,, 100, we now clearly zee. 1t has been the |
iheans or pfoioDging the war until now /, |
gave the South time, which to it was all Iimnortan
1t gave 1t nearly Il whole year in which TO con |
sooa'e its power unuo'ested to fix and settle its
so-cAee government; to raise army five or ten I
ns us great rs 1t then had to unite, by necessity
or iorce the pibiie sentiment Of the entire South,
anu TO crush ont every vestige of Uniouism: TO
raise provisions for the support of its army; to /
OBTAIN w:srke supplies from abroad or from ts |
own son anu manufactures; and, in short, to pre-
sent sneh defiant front as il yet shows to the ma
ton tad our arms achieved victory on that day
anu had our army marched onward to Richmond
ana scattered the rebel host, we believe that n !,
"onid virtually have ended the war and that the
haton, after "A brief struggle, would now have been |
enjoying peace. Prolonged resistance in the far
ooathat that season. and under such circumstances
would nave been out of the question and the
muses. OF The Southern people wouid have regard
"a secession rs i,f abortion and would have return
su To the Union after administering Justice TO The
aise prophets who had betrayed them
but we recalled the day and the event TO ON. rea
iefs this mefn,ng with another object than to fol-
ow up such speculations as these We did It for
ne purpose OF reminding them that n wear. has
';sssed away since the battle of Manassas~a wear
q which q bloody aud as yet, indeesive civil war
i's ragged over the length and bresth OF the South
"a wsf Whe'i, as yet, seems to be at its beginning
honsh the nation has power enough to end II in !,
month"; We Recalled MANASSAS the more forcibly
o o urge upon every man. when lie reflects upon |
ne rasi, ana looks at the preseu. aspect Of the
ountfy, he imperative, the perenptory necessity
y oo'iH all that he can to bring this war to tri-
,taphaht !, aud quick Termination. Why shonid
ms ms reoeiiious South. with It's small popu.
on, ~ internal y m 81 esf IL .tf. af EsssLuess
sng "A time bis great popnlous, rich and warlike
aiion at bay7 Why should it thus disgrace us in
he eyes Of the world ,ie,near as in onr own sight
iId beiftse Us in the book OF history7 Why should
be permitted 10 create confusion in the whole |
and, jeoparle freedom and our insiitntions.I l.
NUS ri TIysz. HId Sill pWTeti1 OF National
owers Why should the people every and
hen be brought 10 the ye.:e OF despair by the news
disaster, aud cur army bs stopped or tMned
aek in its victorious march Why should not the
eil.lcus strength that SAUNDERS In the nations
rn be at onee put forth, to the destruction of It's