The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-08-06

Total Rebel loss for the summer 100 900
To the above statement we must add
the following. gsrs: .u,.s..s.
Union victory in the Indian Territory, by Blum.
July 10. Isan
The raid to Wythevilie, cattin Virginia and East
Tennessee Railroa d at the same time era
The raids to Tarboro and Rocky Mount, NC.
abour the same time.
The Red River expedition a week earlier.
During this period the only Union de-
feat was the late repulse at Fort Wagner,
near Charleston.
July has thus proved harvest-month OF
victories-a fruitage so ample and sudden
as to show itself the manifest gift ofITeaven
for which, in manner becoming to CRATE
ful people, we are to return public thanks
to the God of Hosts. $50
Public confidence in the Administrator ion
has been greatly strengthened BY these graf
flying successes Of our arms. The People.
who rightly demanded of the Administra.
ton, from the beginning, measure of sue
cess commensurate with the magnitude of
the national preparations, are now generous
~ ready-after many just fault findings Ito
award to the Government its due need of
praise. The truth is, such have been our
resources both in men and in money, and
such the lavishness with which both have
been offered to the Government from the
outset-always exceling our enemy in these
respects-that the President has been left
without excuse for anyth ng but success
Mr.. Lincoln's face. we are told, bears now
an unusually cheerful expression--in fact
since the incoming of this victorious month,
he has been in an unbroken happy humor
full Of hope for the final victory of the
Good Cause. We congratulate both the
President and the Country upon the signal
triumphs which we are gladly called to cele.
brate with Thanksgiving. ~" "
But in the midst of the present thanks
givings, we must not shut our eyes to the
remaining dangers. The cause oftke I'M
ion not yet achieved. The smoke has not
yet cleared from the battlefield. The risks
OF the war are still great. Our enemies are
rallying their broken squadrons, and have
yet a forlorn hope. With brave men, when
numbers diminish, valor increases. We do
not believe-yet who shall say the event is
impossiblei- hat Lee viii ye. pluck his
plume of victory from Meade. A sudden
defeat to our army in Virginia would strike
a shadow over the North, like a cloud over a
meadow. Such catastrophe ought to be
shut out from possibility. Nor is there any
method Of doing it except one-and that is.
the speedy completion of the draft. Graves
have opened under the feet Of our armies,
and decimated ranks cry aloud for re-en.
forcements. tits cruelty to the troops in
the field to delay the draft Every man
who in the North offers an obstacle to the
consumption. smites the cheek of every sold
Ter of the Rappahannock The simple fact
that our army has foe in the front ought
to save it from such foes in the rear. The
Governments duty for the summer is to
urge forward the draft, that before autumn
leaves are red, every skeleton of regiment
now in the field shall be flushed out to its
full. The sooner the consumption is made,
the sooner the rebellion will fall to dust and
ashes. The Richmond papers are already
themselves that the Riot in
New York has dropped veto upon the con
scription, and that Gen. Meade, without an
Increase Of his army. will never conquer his
adversary who, at the decree of Jefferson /
Davis, is shortly to be re-snforced by every
.ble-bodied man in the Confederate States.
Is It not the worlds proverb, to learn from