Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-04
Who Tells the Lie?
We clip from the editorial columns Of

f.. We clip from the editorial columns Of
the Democratio paper, Published at
Marietta, and edited by S. y. Miller,
Esq, the following article;
'.The dispatch Of General Halleck to
Secretary Stanton announcing the cap
ture Of 10000 prisoners and II, 5,000
stand Of arms by General Pope, acas
! sIight(y ss,lsofioaa2 Two cIPHERs TOO
MANY WE'RE ADDED 70 TIE NUMBER Of
. prisoners and also to tie 'apasber Of arms
eophtred. Gen. HallecA; has not coptarcd
5000 prisoners, deSarters eud all, sts'og-
giers inclade7, stace the evacuation Of
Coriah and Gen. Pore has not tie credit
Of faLiag one third Of them
Now some body has been attempting
to impose upon she public. Gen. Hal
lech, IN an Official Dispatch to the See
retary Of War, Immediately after the
evacuation, says 10000 prisoners and
$4,000 stand of arms were captured by
Gen. Pope. Gen. Pope, after the hustle
and confusion Of the scene was over,
aud all the facts ascertained in his
Official report, places the numbers of
both prisoners and arms taken, at much
higher figures than those given by Gen.
Hallaek in his first telegraphic dispatch.
The letter writers all concured with
Halleck, Pope, Sherman, Buell. and
those in command. Even the rebels
themselves coroborate the same story.
But if this story were true it would
tell somewhat against the rebels, and
that would not be news To the taste of
Mr. BIiiler and SO Mr. Miller tells his
readers that, Gen. Haileck got up the
dispatch to make a .sensation-that is,
that Gen. HalIeek deliberately lied in
his, official dispatch-that he added
''two ciphers too many to the num- Der
of prisoners, and also to the number of
arms. p Take off the two ciphers which
Mr, Miller5says Gen. Halleek added to.
make sensation, and 1T would leave
but 100 prisoners and $50 arms! This
relieves his, friends Of the Cqnfederacy
of the supposedloss, and .eonviots Hal
leek, Pope andathe rest of the Union
officers aud men of deliberately lying.
But it seems. that they. not only lied as
Ito the numbers, but as to who took
them; for Mr. Miller asserts, that, of
those taken, pope has the credit
of taking zone third. Y Mr.. Miller is
naturally indignant that Gen. Halleck
shouid publish to the world that he had
taken SO many Of his good friends pris-
oners, and to encourage his party he
assures them, that the whole story is
false, aud that their Southern brethren
were not hurt. But, as if chat were not
sufficiently eousoling to his readers, ldr.
Miller comforts them by this cheering
piece of news, which is the nextsartieIe Ie
in the editorial column Of this truly
Democratic organ. Here it IS:
.Our loss in the disastrous defeat of
Gem ShiedsaDiyision by Gen. Jackson
at Fort Republic, is estimated at LOCO
men in killed, wounded and prisoners
II Is said that .gJaehsona5 has hiRed,
wounded qasd tu7ten prisoners aboat o 600
Of oqr nrea aeithiu siety days.
There! that will sootlle the feelings
Of Mr.. Millers well Informed readers.
Halleck and Pope did not take the pris
oners as they say, but lied about it
But jackson has killed aud taken niine
thousand Union men in sixty days!-
And as all Union men, according to the
editor, are "Abolitionists, and as all
"Abolitionists ought to be. killed, this
slaughter and capture of nine thousand
Of them in sixty days by the immortal
Jackson. should encourage the hearts Of
the faithful readers of Mr. Miller 5 paper.
Such is the style of Information given
to the readers of certain class.of parti-
san papers in Ohio Is it any wonder
that the rebels still look for aid from
such a source?
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