Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-03

tG5n I.Wes, writing OF the American wac
says:
One thing may be confidently SFs5icted;
in the battles whieh are now apparently i'm
pending there will not be fstich absence of
great results and critical d,nouments as had
attended the bloodshed ofthc last twenty:
four months The terrible apprept ceship;
through which the two sections have passed.
the experience which at least on one side
the generals have gained, will, il is everv4
whore believed, be fruitful of events. and
/ the achievements Of an army which has w.t..
messed one hundred engagements will ex-
eel the achievements of raw recruits as far as
the army of Toulouse excelled the army Of
| Coruuua. The. moment is. a solemn, aud.
serions one, likely to be deeply impressive
to spectator to whom are entrusted by dozi
ems Of officers with whom he has contracted,
| friendships commission to be discharged in
the eveatso generally anticipated By many.
of them, of their falling. Neveg since war
| FIRST desplated she earth has such slaughter:
attended the collision ofmighty hosts ofmcn;.
never has such death dealing weapons, or.
such exuberance of artillery been brought
/ into the field. Chiefly in the terrible bat,
ties of tie West, of which only an imperfect
record has ever reached New York or Rich-s
mond, and Of which not much more is known
IN Europe than OF the battles of Charlie.
mango, has this fearful slaughter been, .ap--
parent. AT Murfreesborough, out of forty
five thousand men whom General Rosen-j
cranz led into the field. ct. least one. third.
| lay dead or wounded at the close of those.
| frightful days Of bloodshed. In the battles.
around Richmond, and in none others, tho,
Southern loss was upon similar scale, butt
in those battles the Federals fought behind.
intrenchments, against which storming par
ties of the Confederates were asein and.
again led But if ever again tie fortunes
of war shall lead to the collision of great
hosts OF combatants in the vicinity of Rich,
mond let no such advantage be again look-i
ed for by the North. On every hill and
crest in the heighbofnood of this city, ON.
every stream and point of vantage in. the
neighborhood Of Petersburg, works and for:
tifcations of every description have, under,
the inspiration Of the best engineer officer.
of the old United States army, been elabors.
ately prepared, and we'll may the copfdens.
allegation, that against such works the whole,
might of Iankeedom will expend itself in.
vain, lind credence in the breast of any OBJ
servant spectator There is little apparent,
ground for tho belief which seems to have,
found favorin Eng land, that the greatest
and most eveutful struggle of this war will.
occur at Vieksburg. From accidental cir.
cumstances, and chiefly from the ssensa-
tom writing of the New York press, an.
amount of interest has attached itself to.
Vicksburg which is by no means entertain-.
Jed with regard to it in the Southern Confeds.
eracy. lii not to Vicksburg, or general
" to the Mississippi river, that the eyes Of,
the Confederates are an1iously turned. but
rather to Charleston, aud to Tullahoma and
the army of General Johnston, The grows.
ing frequency and boldness Of the skirmish-,
es which enterprise of Confederate cavalry
officers IN the west has lately brought on
gives indications Of the approach of that,
desperate battle in the west which nothing
but che tenacity of the mud in Tennessee
has 50 long deferred. x Meantime
in Secessa. still more than in Yankeedom,
the rapid and iucessant manufacture of pa
per promise to pay continues to appreciate.
the currency from day to day. and it isidlys
fancied in New York that no nation which
is giving SIS pound for coffee and SIS a
barrel for -four Cts price in MOBILIZE can :
long protract its resistance. To no effect
are the Yankees told that trever wasi:a de-
termined nation checked by depreciation Of
its paper. Board in the hotels, which six
mouths ago was sSp4 a day has risen to So,
the scarcity ofsuppies, and still worse, their
uncertainty, make it hardly possible for ho-;
tel keepers and owners of boarding houses,
to furnish food for their guests, But not
for moment let it be thoug bit that scarcity,
will ever ascend to-, famine; that a nation
which is more than equal to its enemy in :.
the field will yield to the gaunt. dictates of.
a monitor who, if necessity arose, would be
resisted as Massena resisted him at Genoa;
and the indomitable Protestants Of Ireland
fought him at Londonderry Everywhere
evidence is offered 20 prove that no such .ne-l
cessity can arise; everywhere it is, admitted
that three short months will carry us over
the pinch Desperate indeed must be the.
cause which requires to. be bolstered up by
any other hopes than those resulting from
honest fighting / haye confidence that in,
the death grap2le nov imminent between
the two sections success will still attend the !,
efforts Of a high spirited race, which adds.
to superior fghting qualities the nestimable
advantage of fighting on the defensive, but.
which may possibly be compelled to carry
the menace Of its arms into the rich proyin--
ces of its neighbor before this. sorely strick-,
en- and distracted land shall again know
rest.