Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-07-29


Al an IN snst have seen with dismay for months past
the usrssten, attempts Of the Aboliir oss 10 Congress
and IN the Cabinet 90 nc ~ tbis for the aho
ion Of tl,yery and 70 mancipate and arm the slaves
II such are 70 b. the Of ses Of the var they unW
\ ipR 20 become he Instruments 10 eject it.
IiacSln ana ne Losss in nocleIIan's Array.
Lincoln sortly distressed 70 know what has become
Of his Sojiers Fully half Of the multitude heOle
Ian brought with him, or bad forwarded TO him. 70 the
Peninsula have dsaPpsared and tho bereAved Gorilla is
unable lecture how t has happened where they
are If be could follow the track of McCellans army
since he 6rst landed at Fortress Nonroe-examne the
ground about Yorktown Williamsburg and onup to the
CAickAbominy-thS Seven Pines-keadoW Bridgs and
thence BY MSehEnicsVle Gaines Nil, savagss Station,
White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hills to the Camp at
Berkeley the graves that urroW the whole route would
account to him for many thousand Of the absent The
following extracts vii show at once the cause and char
Actsr Of LincOIn's uneaSlness
Agate" the Western correspondent Of tie Cincinnati
Ga-ssts, has found his way to Washington Whencs he
writes under date Of July lSh:
Ga the single mater Of the Presidents belief a. to
the amount Of our csses already have three or four
contradictory versions; vhils l happen TO know that
every Of them COZ cts with the statements the
President himself made 70 certain party Of four, only
last Friday evening.
Said the President with marked emphasis, 81 can't
tell where the men have gone 10 that army have sent
there at one time aud another, one hundred and -"
perhsps prudence requires that should leave the next
IHo places for figures bank, "one hundred and -
thousand meD and can only hld Just half that many
nov. Where they have gone Burnside accounts
70 me for every man he has tsksn-so many killed in
battle many wounded; 80 many sick in the hospitals
80 many absent furough. So does Mitchell SO does
Buell. and 90 do others but can't tell what has become
Of half the army I've ns down to the Peninsula"
From the Nruk tN y Journal
Il Il not Singular circumstance that while We can
count TO toe los sustained in the recent bat les
upon the Peninsula by the ConiederAes, knoW n1th-
ilg concerning losses Rsiresung from All I'D
vlucing foe rapidly that are compelled TO leave
our nesd and dying IN the enemys hands, Gus troops
reported as knowing to fraction the number OF
men killed OF the enemy Have any kind OF shell
ball that WhSn strikes dom OonisdeIA re
ports t5e fact within camp? l. not hoW is it that
obtsiO tue Co Tolerate oss while has taken
monhs 10 ss,srtSn oFu That the Coniedera es
lost heavily very well believe, but thAIa pursuing
easmy should lose aln the pursued absatdy.
We Captain yesterday who has returned wounded,
Sho says leases viii TOO; Up nearer forty thousand
tlan thirty, While the lOss in stores wagons Cannon etc
vii AMOUNT 10 several millions.
BE Saws sitge guIs t1sg mounted on the eL-
treuchmens all fs 20 fall iotO the hands Of the
eny Toe general impression Of the officers Of the
cI"not take place for several months.
Way it that the government holds back information
RON the people Do they conceive this is me way TO ia.
pre- 6delcr No other government would dare thus
trhs With the people. Had the Eaglish Government
do so in tho Of the Ormel, there would have
oseu danger Of popular revolution. Why disguise,
TO- the OF the disaster The public mind under
sucl circumstances imAgins from this por enous silence
,aat IL is grea. deal worse han il really Is. No.hug
surely is gained by such policy.
r. on ~. Providence Post, ,Jliy 81.
Toe csient asc srtl1e3 whsu AZ Harr on's Landing
~ about seventy thouslnd Ulcers and soldiers OF Il
army Of The Po,cnc we're absent from their posts Il
believed tia. not than forty thousand could
properly be rCckoaed killed. Woucdat or sick Thou
lands bad been allowed leave Of abse &c on account Of
stkues bat we're lettering about our cities 10 good
Deal h. Oher Thousands away o. iurlcugh not
VIII sanding the calls tina. bad been made upon them
return and large numbers had left without any authoii
" Whatever and should be a, arrested deserters
There can be 10 doub; 10 the truth OF u statement
Tor i, Il ccrrobora,ed By Gsueral Mcclellan himself o.
member OF hs staff Who appeals to the press TO assist in
ffrs he avfl