The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-04-08
Airbmon6 Vispattb.
TUESDAY moRN'a. 1851
THR FIGHT AT ISLAND NO. 10.
A FEDSRaL AUUOUN7
s'tuat!on Of the Opposing Forces.

s'tuation Of the Opposing Foroes.
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men $, the gins, discovers oA,y lew Isolated
men, marching 70 .n0 i.O, np,areu tyy a.Cuc
celned at our piesance. An. seGeraI All pre..
siJu nero is ina:. lie ene ny - moving Gis e.
campnens o .cE f,Cm tEe IiSefs edge oHt G.:
IL reach OF cur shsils. Tnis Is ciA d cpae. Nv
iEe coEst ant VISA Of sle ir@ns ports, GHIcn
seem 10 bs IN oadinE s0Ine,Eins Ike proy,o.
IONS, Brought up tIcin below. The Qu,st,;.i,
OF nmlssariat must have become 80 ,nc.rl
v~ry scIiORe Oac, inasmocn ia h .ir "a sras,
iEg comratiss fftIn Ne" Iadrld coU,d hoe
pring away theis stores, ana can cHly SIC
in oousuInlng those ol hald 1T he is.an5
WILL The hgBRLs Rv AcuArsY
The first ald ;rsoss ',stural iiqury for ey
cry one who reaches .his point is ~ asa: WI.
tbs snesny evscn Ate. or mike their ii 81 sta, 4
TT this pcinty J. is dfh uit III oua who Is
supposed = ba keps lis Sloran. " Ii tlaas
of the com mmanders III give sn il :eli;seur "a.
swsr; but re 'soning r. N the known f.css Of
the siege, and the rules governing all military
operations, we may say that every dav Ia, DIS
to 10 son the prOsaoili Of their eyacua.oa
10 that OF Il determined resistance Ga. de-
lay, coming es j. does after The capture of
View Madrid, is NEST unfortunate tor our
cahss. because every dag o; res.s.ance 10 aa
ials q .et gives increased assnraDre to the fcs
that we sand c ON" fear Of their hattar,ea
and all tho ingenic u excUs-s mads to IA,
count for pn" d-lay bu; serve o strrps aa
this feeling 1--WE fear thosa q Ist.ld 40 10
mere bsrEs of earth as hey are, hasute
'hroTn up, as3. We !gs, entirely witGost
c,semaFes, ba snnsci ut t nold a. back r tive
Seeks. aos mu b more my ta-y Do' xoee,
Of the more slahora "a oe:epoas a, Tnrt PiIinn ,
II the former f@iie even after u severe
SfruEalA ard 8 nAe loss % our side, til q NOR. +
tfecs n Us. hava been dis sIous o thsreA.,e
~h woaid nolenesr fssl safe IN .heir iuwer
| position
sussoArs AGAINST xARrHwosxs
Objection uil., Of G. urse, 30 m .os to arv.
tning ike the rasnnees OF rushing upon suoa
an 6rry OF batteries " j. ia: If we had los,
half our unbo."." ssss nne, ''in the at
a.f0
swer 10 this question. 1t hasa sur boats
are not fnie nd. 20 be II atch cd agajns. fri
fct'io. 8. WY wers thev bui'ts Ii not the
old wood n gunbcats we're saffcient to reps
fess, b, our 'nsctioa, that these floating bas.
eri's Of uurs, which are TO bs l,i under the
n b batteries, ara what s.ms have long
suspeo tsd-not trresisti ble-it Is time we
To b- butt ut once. ihe s"nd s.inca s3ot
which s'rRek the forward cassu ates
OF The Benton, fr iustancs, did not
Dens.ra.s, es 1t c,uld hardly ss ex-
p@esed TO do SO at the ds:e Zoe OF a mi aud
4 hale. ct close range, snd with hea viel
meal. we ein wsll ,mssins how ev.a the
benton must suff-r from tn hostile sio.
Az any rate, cur insc,ion 10 fatal to The
e,fvI os onr soldiers a, d sGii rs, who are
q ite az e: ger to hght ss ever If b ood g Il,
% split it b ID eiter be sooR than Ia a. if we
are TO gain immensely by the SO cr q r.--
aow.v.r. me m.tser - in good hands. and
rious victory. In Ihs mean wnils the tsie
graphic ecmm ustcatiOn between the island
and s:empais should be stopped at once, as
II probably viii
Ast. Is. every day of their ssay At their
present pcs! ton strength enc their 60 audience
ia their ability 20 op our eunooas. IT /"
gre ATTY 70 CO wis had that the q eat terror In
which tha eunbcats gre held by the masses
Sgd bya dashiag capsare of the reb.l bstte-
r'ea, Or caterlniaed contest IN I'll they were
siienoed. and passage forced through 70 the
Amy CT Con Pops
{, Gen. Bragg. woo is in command, las eres.
cor fidence IN his engineering sAiii, and will. :.
no oon bt, do AL that any OF their Generals
could d. under the circumstan ces. The
whole lower Mississippi Is looking 10 him
with hops tina. he will retrieve the mlsfor-
tunes OF Tilehna and Euchner.
DEAD LOCK.
Things at the present moment seem to be In
q sort Or dead locs, Dei.har party being able
TO make any very successful diversion or 81.
seek. Very sineuierIy. tn armis Q are cut
OF from their su, Plies By river. but both have
about eQ lal f. ctlities Of communication by
land. General Pope has no other method
than 10 tarspcrt his stores, smmunition,
and reinforcer ents from BtTd's Point or
ucmmsree over wretched Sei ,wed sTyamre.
General Bragg, similarly, has q tos,ile
force intervening ce,ween n his army ard iss
reseryr, nnd the transports and Sunboa.s
bemmsd i1 by a hlookl de OF which We can
only gray that IL m " be eqns to all that will
be req sirsd OF H.. BrasG hts, however,
nay Of ESCAPE lef' by marching lis a. my over
,he pst of land to MsIriweuther's Landing,
where some OF bis gunroafs end ira nseosls
ere aWsitiog 1t will bs I'M pnesib.c tor q en-.
Pope to push his light siege gu apy farther
dawn the west bank Of the river than ,hs
Uonfsderates can march ON the eastern eide.
The 'ebel transports can therefore m ss the
rstrsaiing army, at al point below onr hat
series, especially ~ the work OF N oun ting
batteries In the face of gunboats, 30 far from
the New Madrid forlifica,ions without the
aid of boats. must be exeesding 6 y difacuit, II
not altogether I'm possible.