Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-12-10

CHIcAoo, ILL.,. Nov. %, 1856;

EDITOR RUTLAND HERALD. Inc en-
lire North West is electrified with joy and
renewed hope by the splendid and deci-
sive victory Of Gen. Grant over the army
ofGen. Bragg at Chattanooga. Such a
decisive victory was not expected, IL
was generally supposed that the campaign
was over, and that the army would be
compelled to 60 into winter quarters at
Chattanooga, and await the coming Of
spring for new, and the decisive conflict
OF arms. This unexpected movement OF
Grant "upon the enemy's works " follow
ed by a GROWING victory the most stag
gering blow the rebellion has yet received
could not fail to gladden. our longing
eyes with the first dawnings, however
FAINT, of the light Of peace. For it is APP
parent that Gen. Grant is now master Of
the situation, and that with the reinforce
ments which will be constantly reaching
him, be will soon be able to overrun all
that remains Of the boosted Southern Con-
federacy, and scatter the broken and de-
moralizsd army of Bragg like leaves be-
fore the winds of autumn. The army of
Lee, if indeed it is not beaten and dis
persed by Gen. Meade, the coming week
cannot be kept on foot after the occupa-
ton of the Gulf tier of States, Tennessee,
aud the entire South West, by our Veto
rlous armies. -
! Not the least among the satisfactory
effects of the great victory at Chattanooga,
is the impetus it has given all over the
west TO volunteering. | hope and trust
it may be so in the Middle and New Eng
land states also. The impression is quite
| general that the hard fighting is nearly
| over-that the war cannot last more than
twelve months longer at the worst,
while the chances are that it may be clos
ed before spring, and therefore there is
not so much reluctance to entering the ar
my Added to which consideration, the
very large bountie. offered by the govern
ment, by corporations and towns, makes
volunteering decidedly the best business
going,n even in these money making
times. 1t is believed here that the new
leves will be filed by volunteering before
the first Of January, thus avoiding the ne
cessity for another draft
| The unbroken series of successes which
have attended Gen. Grant in every battle
he has fought with the enemy, has won
for him the distinction of being at last
generally recognized as the leading mill
tary chieftlan this war has produced on
either side. 1t can no longer be contend
ed that be Is surpassed by Gen. Lee in
any of the peculiar qualifications which
combine to make the great general. Lee
has in the main only operated Extensively
in his own country, and oftener than 9th
erwIse, with forces superior in mum bers
TO the enemy he has encountered ; while
Grant has operated Extensively in the enc
my's eouatry,-a task requiring much
greater courage and skill, and strategy,
other things beng equal, than acting
merely on the defensive
have conversed with many officers and
soldiers who have fought under Grant in
various battles up to and including those
attending the siege Of Vicksburg, and
from what | learn from them, am led to
think that the great secret of his success
is to be found in the fact that he is not
content with issuing orders, trusting to
agents to see they are fulfilled. but makes
| tlreless enquiries as to whether the thing
| Is done that he has ordered to be DONE
There is no distant point of the web that
does not tremble to his touch, and, in the
language of M. Theirs, as applied by him
to another, "his very dreams are admins
trative." This great secret Of success was
not unknown to Napoleon, who constantly
practiced upon it. And in respect to this
indispensable requisite to military achieve
ment, Sir Charles j. Napier wrote as fol-
lows: e,.t5 IS
"How entirely all things depend upon
"the mode of executing them, and how
ridiculous mere theories are Ny sue
SCISSOR thought, as half the world always
"thinks, that a man in command has only
"to order, and obedience will follow
Silence they are hafiled, not from want Of
"talent, but from inactivity, vainly think
Sing that while they spare themselves,
'every one under them will work like
''horses." 79,a s pos
Gen. Grant owes his success to fidelity
to details, tireless attention to the wants
of his soldiers, and sleepless vigilance in
seeing that all his orders have been ex-
actly obeyed. May his life be spared to
lead our victorious armies to the final vic
tory, is the prayer which ascends from
millions of hearts to-day. M
II is remarked by every one that bust
ness never was better in Chicago than it
has been the present Fall. The principal
streets remind one forcibly of the activity
and the throngs Of Broadway in New
York. And this uowonted activity in
trade extends, | am told, throughout all
the cities and villages and hamlets of the
great West. Who would suppose that this
people are at the same time carrying on
to successful issue, the greatest war the
world has ever seen2 8sses
In future letter shall have occasion
to speak of Northern Wisconsin, and its
resources and prospects, which will be in
teresting to your readers no doubt, from
the fact that SO many Vermonters have
settled in that region. C. G. d.
The MuRDER OF LIEUT.. SoNBoRN.-