Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-01

Frora the Richmond Examiner. October %.
To the condition OF news We are compelled to
give place ia these columns 10 the election bull
etins OF Secretary Stanton and his model Gen
eral Sheridan But there is enough intelligence
smong our readers To distinguish the outlines Of
truth through all their glaring colors. Nobody
10 tact does, because nobody need, ieel discour-
! aged In the least bv the news Of another Sheri-
I dan victory in the valley We have become &C
customed 10 she chances OF the var. and especi.
ally when they appear in the form of reyerses in
the valley
jackson endured manv aud Early endures
more, bus neither sustained any decisive defeat.
The present. h is true. forms one Of a rather long
series But il il not half 50 bad as Winchester
/ Then Stanton and Sheridan told the world that
EtrlyS army was DESTROYED. aud that be would
pursue the scattered fugitives TO Lynchburg or
Richmond Yet Early gave him battle in few
! days. After each of the successive fights the
same story VAS repeated. alwsys Early has lost
/ his cannon, vet be has nifty pieces more % lose
/ Ia the meantime no solid results are obtained.
Sheridan never gets as far up she valley as
/ Hunter: indeed, his tether is no longer than
l Milroy's He has forty thousand men, he has
ten thousand picked cavalry; this is the official
admission. Yet that great army has been held
through the campaign. in two counties OF Nir
/ GINA
| Here, in the month OF October, the whole plan
/ of his operations has TO be changed. He has
1 been compelled 10 abandon the road to Lynch
burg which rms NJ the valley; he must come
over 70 the plains OF Piedmont. form a new base
/ and advance on Gorionsville To accomplish
4 this purpose he forti6es position near Win
chester, so that fragment of bis army NAV hold
Early in check, and keep him out of another in
vasion, while his main body crosses the msun-
| tain But before he is ready that beaten Eirly,
! that dispersed army, whose sole remSining can
non was seen flying over Rudes Hill, twenty
six miles off, in q keen rum" those troops.
which had ceased TO exis. in the shape of de-
serters aud fugitiyes in the mountains: that army
/ suddenly attacks him, Sheridan and bis forty
thousand. captures the entire artillery and camp
/ of tive corps, SEXES and sends here TO Richmond
/ fifteen hundred and sixteen prisoners. while five
hundred more the way. Now, may il not
be doubted whether Sheridan Is indeed Master
of the Valley" when ''no army at all" can do
/ that to him in the midst OF lis fortihcationsl
| Ii il true that a very complete victory lost
! in pursuit Of too much. The Confederate force
attacking was ten thousand The infantry il at
tackled numbered thirty thousand. with eleven
thousand excellent cavalry on their fitnks We
lost mast OF our captured cannon in detle, and
| twenty three pieces of our own. But lost
few OF no unwounded prisoners. except team
sterS AMI cannon drivers. while we have aud
! hold nineteen hundred prisoners captured from
the enemy. We have and hold them Our re
| treating troops left miles OF dead and wounded
| Yankee troops behind them, and the enemy, who
brags of the most splendid victory" did not
pursue
Clearly the victory "a not entirely conclu-
| sive as the Yankee raiders Of Sheridan and Stan
| ton suppose nor is the campaign in the valley a
finished thing. Either Early and his army can
stand a superhun IN amount of beating and can
non taking or Sheridan is liar. HIS master a,
aud the conference of the words--he feels
! the necessity OF accounting with the
public for the discrepancy OF his bulletins and
| OF showing how an army that has so often been
cut to pieces could come together again; how Il
| General who has so often lost all his cannon
could still have fifty pieces more to lose. HIS
KEY To the riddle Is the supposed arrival of Losg-
street in the valley-LoDgstreet and his whole
corps. artillery included that was the party
| that broke loose on Cedar Greek. But it is n
public fact that Longstfeet commands his corps
on the lines of Richmond
Early fought the battle; fought it without re-
Inducements; fought with the same army and
the same cannon winch have held Sheridan and
forty thousand veteran troops in constant bust
ness for half year Perhaps he may give more
business yet to do; perhaps he may ight him as
many times again. Apple brandy is a deeper
drink than 'sherris sack after all He has not
been lucky General but mis- defeats in the lat
Ter half OF the campaign are more easily forgiv
en- than the glorious opportunities lost in its be
! ginning, for he has one quality of "A commander,
/ that he RECEIVERS from disasters with amazing ra-
ndty