Delaware gazette. (Wilmington, Del.) 1837-1883, 1864-09-02

The no. n6e%ons,rstien on the wsIaon Rail- |
rattons In the Valley, sc,
From The Richmond Examine, August 22
All around the horizon our sky IL bright
ening. General Grants movements, both
TO the right and to the leit in order to break
Out oil bis unensy situation have been most
signal failures. Whether the demonstration
10 the lett. on the Weldon Railroad, was in
teneded as a ieint to draw attention from the
serious movement on the right or whether
me demonstration on the right was the feini,
ana the serious movement was thai by the
lelt tiank, in either case disaster has attend
ca him--ihe teint and the main operation
llave been iailures alike. On his right every
assault mad been met and baffled and beaten
DUCK and on his lett over three tht usand pri.
soners iell into the hands Of General Hill,
who had the good fortune 70 commond al
th9t part oil our line. aThe men do not
charge as they did n month ago' remarksa
Yankee correspondent. How can they2 II
is not IN human nature 10 take this continual
!hreshlng withon; yielding insensiby 10 the
innuehce oil certain COW. In truth the
greater number oil Grants men, being kid
mapped loregnerscan have no desire 10 peril
lheirslives in cause which they know not.
man VIII tight TO the death Tor hs honor,
Tor his hearth and home; bur what have they
10 hight Tort When the soldiers ofihat Yam
kee army meet our troops the very wises,
thlns they cnuid do wiser even tlan run
niny-isto get themselves taken prisoners;
aud. once taken, they sincerely hope they
will not be exchanged until the end Of that
war Grants style Of warfare is altogether
too bloody TO suit the feelings and taste ofany
army that has no interest in the cause ex-
cept pay and rations; and his operations in
| Virginia since tho day he crossed the Rapi
dan have certainly turned Northern mirds
more decidedly TO thoughts nj peace than
any other agency whatsoever. We have
been inclined to award to our own General
Lee the title oil the greatest "peace commis
sioner;" bu', on consideration, that distinction
must be conferred uron Grant.
General Chants army may now be con-
sldered as utterly slgnaly and finally defeat
cd. whether the moment is come when the
remnant OIL tits TO be driven 10 their ships,
General Lee is the hest and sole Judge.
That measure, however, when he shut de
eide upon II, will be noble movement in
the interest," Of peace.
!, Sherman's campaign against Atlanta. as
Il has been copy of Grants 10 Virginia
from the beginning, seems destined to follow
.
kee correspondents from that army now tell
their readers that Sherman meets with un.
expected difficulties; finds opposite to him
wherever he moves, unexpected masses OF
iroopsi learns that Hood has been largely re-
ini1rced; and (worst OF ally finds awkward
circumstances taking place along his Lines Of
communication in the rear. In This paTtlcu-
point Grant has the Advantage oil Sherman
the former has his base on the sea, and il the
worst comes 10 the worst can escape to his
own country. Sherman, II lie cannot move
forward, may never go back.
But the most stirring news of to day lie,
that General Early has once more, we do
not say fought and routed, but stampeded,
without lighting, the grent and terrible army
oil Yankees that has been pretending to 'pur-
sue" him Tor some day past. Sheridan, Az.
erill, Crook, Wright-whuever may be the
commander of lheln--has made believe TO be
searching with early with breathless ardor.
They sought him east, they sought him
west, oil through Maryland, on both banks
ofihe Potomac while he like n careful hus-
bandman md frugal swain, az he 10, was
calmly reaping and gathering up his harvest
in tie rich valley Of Virginia AT last, Il
seems, The ardnous researches Of that tremen-
dous Ytnkee army were crowned with sue
cess--they found EARLY. II any one 10 dis.
posed to laugh and sneer at the Yankee
! folks for running away precipi'antly the mo.
ment they lonnd tho man they had been
sesrvhing for, we vsuuot sympathise with
moeHing and sneering, Hundred days men, u
boys, negroes, iorelgners-why should they
expose themselves TO be killed by the rough
, "secesh" soldiers. They all surmise and
most shrewdly suspect that there is soon 10
be peace. Peace is in the ayr; they smell IT.
they want to live 10 enjoy it, and would hate
the thought Of being killed by the last stray
yolleys fired, as it were, for forms sake
Whatever may be the popular feeling in the
armies of grant and Sheiman5 il seems al
least clear by the Two examples of Kerns-
town and Strasburg, that the army especial.
y entrusted with the defence Of Washington
has adopted on principle the plain theory and
practice Of running away. They may dc
this, BECAUSE, being nearer the seat Of Coy
ernment, they are better informed Of the
near approaching end OF the war, aud do moi
think ii worth while TO BIO killed ut the eley.
enih hour; or they may do il merely by in
s!inct-"lnstinct is great matter"
That formidable army OF dreadful Yam.
KEGS being scattered, however, nothing re-
+ mains Tor General Early but to follow them
into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Peace
that pearl OF great price ia TO be found only
in Pennsylvania.