Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-05-23
FEDERAL WAR BULLETINS.
From the London Times, April 50.

work without inconvenience: AS moth
ing is allowed to appear without the
sanction Of the Federal War office it un.
luckily follows that the War-oflice is 70.
sponsible to great extent for everything
which does appear The Northern new
mandatory was not satisfied with cren
ting u Tremendous victory out of TIC ~
cape at Pittsburg Landing, but it actu
ally went so far as to kill General Beau
regard in the fight and to destroy "a ,00(
| Confederates in the pursuit. Happy il
the country which can thus create its
own victories by line Of type; and still
happier the beligerent who can destroy
the most formidable of his enemies Cen
erals by stroke of the pen. While a
salute Of 100 guns, Thanksgiving in
all the churches, and fiction dissemina-
ted through all the newspapers can work
the effect Of real victory, what need Of
ruinous loans and exhaustive levies p
The greatest victory Of all is this great
victory over the credulity of mankind,
which is only the first Of many great
campaigns yet to be accomplished in this
tempting region of romance.
But the brightest inventors have their
detractors. These obstinate Confeder-
ates will not, even at this moment, admit
they have been beaten. Although they
have the clearcst evidence of the Thanks
giving having been offered up; although
they have official documents to prove
that they have been put to fight and
terribly cut up, and although it has even
been broadly intimated to them in the
organs of the War Department that Cor
NTH itself had been taken, yet still these
besotted Rebels will not believe; and
they continue to declare that the Thanks
giyings and the salutes have been or.
dercd, not in triumph for signal victo.
rics, but in gratitude for an unhoped- fol
deliverance, The most unreasonable
person, however, is General Bcauregard
Our correspondent says: ga report o.
General Beauregard's death, at the bat.
tie Of Pittsburg Landing, is obstinately
persisted in, though the Southern papers
have published despatch from rim.
claiming victory on the second days
fighting" General Beauregard is evil
IDENTIFY man who deserves no quarter.
The official newsmakers Of the North be-
haved with great moderation towards him
at first. They only took off his arm
with a cannon-ball. But the ungratcful
General, not approaching this retieencc,
continued to uphold the integrity Of his
person so Mr.. Lincoln's Government,
provoked beyond all patience, put him to
death-in all the New York papers,
This Beauregards obstinacy, however,
is proof alike against indulgence and Sc
verify.
We remember nothing like it except
that celebrated case of Dr.. Partridge,
who continued to publish his almanac,
and to exclaim that he was alive after
Isaac Bickerstaif, Esquire" had given
detailed account Of all the circumstan-
ces Of his death. The town laughed
with the wicked Dean and his friends,
who continued Cor years to argue that the
ingenious Dr. Partridge was not the less
dead because he had continued to puo-
lsh his almanac; and poor Partridge
bitterly complained that lie could not
walk tho streets without the little boys
running after him and exclaiming against
him that he ought to be ashamed to show
his face abroad without having paid for
his funeral expenses. General Beaurc-
gard seems to be in the same awkward
prcdicamcnt. He may be in some point
Of view living and even victorious; but
at Washington and New York he has
been pronounced to be, de .jure, defeated
and dead. Poor man! he does what he
can. He writes dispatches declaring
that he has 36 guns and 8 900 prisoners,
the results of the Pittsburg battle, in his
hands.
On the day after that battle he sent a
flag of truce 10 settle terms for buryiDg
the dead. But the flag Of truce was not
allowed to 90 back until an admission
was extorted that at least Gen. Beaure-
gard was slightly wounded in the arm
and, if such an obstnately yivacious in
diyidual as this would admit, even through |
trumpeter, that he was wounded, it is
self-eyident that he can be nothing less
than stone dead. II any one will take
the volume Of ,SioiH which contains the
argument Of Isaac Bickerstaf upon the
parallel controversy, he will sec at once
the cogcncy Of this reasoning. For our
selves, we are perfectly prepared to adj
nit that Beauregard is dead. The press
Of Federal America is now the voice Of
the War Department; the press Cobalt
nately persists" that Beauregard first had
his arm shot off and then was killed
News from America is now an official
matter, and this is the news Beaure-
gard may cxclaim as much rs he pleases,
but for all newspaper purposes he is dead,
and there ought to be an end Of him. III
be is going about The lines Of Corinth
aud pretending to be alive, it is very iu-
decent Of him.
There is one matter, however, which
We would suggest 70 'bo gentlemen al