Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-08-27
The Thunder again Insulting the EcTth

! From the London Times, Inly l6
 We sadly want Homer for this American Troy. The accounts we have of these battles before Rch-
 ,ond are still very hazy. All that we can safely h .ract from them is, that the tederas have sui e z eevere defeat and that they have attempt it <. .utjc boasts and impudent falsehoods to GU py e non the world victory It is one p..in u " on o -ark.ble circumst.nces connected VI t'c i'@' i'i -il war that 1t seems to have destroved in q common aih ai ,e ,! n!'e! lei'Io of these who have taken pal !" s.l,o,ad tasf;mnnv from the universal and uncont .,,I tba nress of tEe government. the congress, ts,s first which we note that pecuniary honesty -an. quality to go. When Gen. Butler ocean, ,9a ular hero the federal States formally renounce, reputation they had ostentatiousl, cultivated tU gallantry toward women. Alter the letter from Gen. Beauregari, which published yesterday, we obliged 10 withdraw all confidence in the veracy of the highest military officers in the fed eral service. There nsed to be pecuniary honor, manly galiantry, and candid verscity among the Americans. What has become of them since this war commenced? Even previous to General Beau regards letter there had been sufficient evidence of the carelessness reck!essness with which the federal generals made their official reports.
 After Gen. Mcclellan, for instance. had official ly described several brilliant hayonet charges, it tardiy discovered that there was only one man Oil the fed who bad died Of a bayonet thurst.- But that two generals should positively and off cally announce in dispatch to their government the apturc of 10000 prisoners and l5, ,0O0 stand arms, and that the fact so solemny announced should turn out to be utter falsehood, is, We be- lieye, altogether unprecedented in Europe, and even in America. Gen. Beauregard not only de nes the whole story characterizlng 1t as a lament able dsrespect for truth, but he asserts that tho whole of the losses suffered in his mastery retreat was 500 damaged muskets, overlooked in the camp, one or two hundred stragglers, and tour sick sol ders, barbarously burnt by Col. Elliott in rail- way station. That Gen. Bcauregard has given the correct version of the affair, is evident from this, that Generals Halleck and Pope might have readily con.uted him by producing the prisoners and the arms. But it is not suggested that any one has ever seen either the one the other After the dispatch had produced it's effect no more was said of this exceedingly important capture of a Confederate army. After this experience. we must have some testimony other than the official report of an American General before can place confidence in the result even belief in the existence of any operation he may describe.
 Under these circumstances, it is reasonable 10 take every statement telegraphed from the feder al side strongly possible against the federal interest. With this rule of interpretation, 1t is clear that ID to the 7th of this month General Mcclellan had made successful effort to retrieve his fortune, and that Richmond, which was to have fallen the 4th, is still as far from being taken ever But, according to our reading ot these telegrams 1t is not clear that General Nc Clellan has not met with subsequent deteat for when the federal report $ another s6rmish, which has resulted in the Congederates being forced to re treat, I've have admission which is quite strange as shat which descriDedThe terrible battles of the last week in June. It is nossible that in few days this q skrmish'' also may assume different complexion and hostile importance. Gradually, also the facts of General McCleilan's grea strategic victories will ooze out, and gradually the facts of that victory of the 27th are now oozng out for even the American government cannot de- stroy truth for ever and must be content with the advantages they gain by putting out a f1rst false impression. Somebody used to say that a lie had done its work if it could live for forty eight hours. In this instance the ialSehood nao uied very gentle death.
 On the 2d of July, then. Gen. Mcclellan was teIegraphed by the American government to have stated that he had lost but one gun and one wagon.
 
 Just, however, 10 prepare the way for the future. it was admitted that the fedeTa army had retreated seventeen miles. On the 5th of July the old.story is still repeated and it is reassered with obstinate nersistencv that the federal forces were not bea ten in any conflict" It is, however, on that date admitted, as a fact wbich it impossible any longer to conceal, that Gen. McClean's division was at first oyerw whelmed, and that twenty hve pioce of artillery fell into the hands of the Con- federates. Two days later little more is permitted to creep into publicity in New York, and the news papers are allowed to say, as southern version of the Richmond battles, that the Conederafes had captured l2000 prisoners, had got possession of all McClellans siege guns, and had taken from hin supplies sufficient to last the Confederate army three months If compare this last report with the first, we probably the full effect of the ot l fcial cooring.
 This is good example of the way in which great defeat may be cleverly toned down, and the tidings so gently broken as not to shock an impa- tient people. It is plain now to the meanest com prehens.on that. Mcclellan was so thoroughly bea- ten on the 27th. with loss Of guns and baggage, that he would have been driven into the river II his gunboats had not been there to protect him. The government succeeded in falsfying this fact for a short time, and by 50 doing hoisted the stupid populace over this difficulty into another fools l paradise.
 But it is only with the scum of the Atlantic cities these tricks can now avail. They could not avert