Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-10-18

Sat mes ~ 'i:;cstnis, tyt:s :.:t;i$s - ="
one sjts into Si!saou.., and Htsi5s. hissn's
duke, fsghn, Lad slreaas !:ryedad a!'a 9q BE-
other within seventy or eighty nles .! 81.
Louis. And thus, ye hopeful advocates Of
sutjugn.ion, deco the work Of conquest PFC
gress beyond the Mississippi.
Western Tennessee the work of subjugation
hns compelled us to surrender. The recruit
ing ground and storehouse thus opened has
given and fed On army for Forrest. The Mem,
phis aud Charleston Railroad has been sur
rendered. Memphis has been lately plumber.
cd by few Confederate horsemen; Ficks-
burg has recently been threatened BY gath
orins at jackson and the sovereignty OF tao
Coniede:scy stands unchalenged throughout
almost the length and breadth Of the great
producing region of Mississippi.
Forrest is in Middle Tennessee. Killing,
capturing. rIunderins, ard not afraid. Csv-
alrymen IF tho regular army Of the Confede-
racy, saorillgs, bushwbacke7a, and all de-
scriptioas Of evil d0cra dissuIE FEDERAL do
iniIion ia Tie fair Sta.e Of Kentucky. And
thus, ycu believing iInresislists, progresses
bslween the Tennessoo ani the Ohio tho
highly democratic business ol Grned reprcs-
sion
Sherman is in Atlanta. The gallant fellow
seems to have bean loss puzzled as to the mode
Of taking it, than he is noT by the question OF
what to do with il. One advantage that the
war- makers have gained by it is the comfort
ing ASSURANCE thst he seas, from within its
onrthworks, tusnosa IF cnnques: which
must 20 on, he says, for many Ysa:s. The
great guns fired, and tho powder burned for tho
Ill - y, L., md 1lnDI yrhof N
been accar1 plstsh, aside from executive clap
tap, By tbs FOOLISH hunting 8 She ignis Ja-
tvus Of Souther:; suhiugalion is:o tho jaws OF
tho cannon Of AtlautiH
Sheridan has won two victories in the VAL
10y. The materiel result, 80 far, gives him
the possestion Of thu. region for distance Of
about sixty miles from the Potomac-bus not
until after EARLY hGl stripped il: very thorough
" Of ,s corn I'D oil, it's ticks and herds
The Federal chief may, it ID truo, with his
overwhelming iorce obtained by Gripping
Grant--presS still onward; but unless Sher
man sbandOns his @!!!sGhrsc chnHe into
Georgia for movement on The rear OF Kleh-
mond can DO ~ only sulj0ct to the danger Of
such q movement in his rear AZ that which
hurled Hunter 20 the Karawha ut the head Of
II StGrViag mob.
Urant-oh we !.ats to think Of the thou-
ssn.!s III pocr victims that now drop around
hin unti.c the -hut anu shell! and brssstwork
und mine Of deadly pestilence The Lieu.
,enan; General, however. still langu!sheR with
hin shattered army under this tide water lever
Of Visgini; lie is monarch of about one
hundred eqrGTe miics OF Virginia eWl-iGr
which. however, he has recently acknUw-
lodged his rassa'age to tho eStsrt q, CON-
tribrtiun Of twenty five buadrod sat bui!ocxs
Ali around the coast Of tine Confederate
st ,les tho FsIerGlsts hold positions very 10
yorabio for killing cur men by pettilence. All
these, however, Gro OF 10 use to the work OF
WAT, save only SO far 10 they illustrate lts
'barbnr;ties by sheling city, burning some
houses, and Tightening poor women out Of
their wits. At Mobile end at Charleston the
Fedc-a!s.s haze louts that cut OF foreign IT,
tercourse ut those points utter it had been
opened without let or hndTtnce, along all the
vida border ot Texas Vessels by the hundred
steam I'D and down from the Potomac to the
Missisaipp; around the Southern shoras and
nrctend 10 declare thess Federal States mas
ters On tine ocean, whils the Confederate
cruisers make tho high seas too hot icr tae
Northern merchantmen Such, Oh ye
iabilant nsserters If Conquest. ~ the pro-
gress of your work upon the shOrec and waters
Of rho deep
And tbs draft Whist Of that A fslse pre-
tense 4 criup-ssrgesnt's trick for winning
recruits Abandoned in New York and Brook
!yn by confession, it is also abandoned sli over
tho country in actual fact A m"ke.be!ieve OF
filing quotas hers by volunteering, or OF CONS
p!et:ng ihsm ,htre by CONSUMPTION, the call for
i've hundred thousand men has turned out like
that of Gendower for opir;ts that would not come.
One hundred thousand men would, We firmly be-
lieve. represent more than the total results obs
t.;rei under the draft whip; and tmst number
falls prestly shor. of The recruit required 10 bring
I'D our rrniea 10 their old relative standard Of
comparison with thcso Of tho ConfejeTacy. Ea-
prsiinrs of t. rms Of servica, rrostTations by
sicku.ss or death under autumnsl levers, casual
ties Of bs!,s, etc. msy he lairly supposed to have
involved reduction i'll our strength in tho field
to An e1toLt that permits of but very modersts
expectations from tbs accessions ohtained under
tho csll for iivs hundred thousand NEIL. The
'.rebels." in the meantime, have mat our pre-
tended CONSUMPTION by new eviss; and thus do
both sill les come again together TO enter, for tho
tenth or twelfth time, on work of blood which
Will surely be completed in nnetg days. And
thus mts; sapieut fiends of Imperial Federalism,
does tho labor Of wsr 60 bravely On