The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-09
What f,la Yankees Expected.

lis ats4l that when ole Bah gave k.s FIRST con-
ce,1 ut N,ishaz, while his glory Was yet in It's first
f,ehness GA the ogsAson Of his iitrt Wait to Anne
,3,a n, Ola platter LIVING IN the nrighborhoeI was
~ carried away hy his feelings that nothing less
waslI seave han ihaa To teach a negro fiddler OF his
asa to rival tie 9cai Norwegian This he coma
taeatly achieved ha coola do SO, ulon returning
hsna, h. sRmsnoated "old R0sin" 10 his presence,
dliatoa in rapfrps upon what Shsl heard and seem
,clsTea that nc hal the that il al consisted
N tae handling of thu bowana tina, he could teach
il eifeegasly in single l,sson "Sow," said he,
sake yolu t3ilc ard I Will take the poker and
VII soon sisow you how to work the wires" How
Ia seecestled history does not tell but rs We have
lsa;l Of no eb,nygtval o: oc Ball in that quarter,
tc inference - qu.e fss TIA. he ''il not succeed AZ
al,
44.c generation Of Yankee correspondence remind
Is iarebly of ;lds planter whenever new scheme
J. IN foot NJ matter what il may he-wiether
Grant BE- trying 70 "ootaank his owa shallow" or
- s.o,1a tic Confederate batteries by direct attack
IN front whether he determine 10 lsht it OH: on
,lis line. ii ii takes an summer" or to flank him
seli entirely out of this line u the south side OF
.;ssns riscr-ah,tber lie b, mc5litating raid upon
,ae Weldon railfosi, a grand blew-up OF the
Confederate easthworks these cnterprisias gentry
w8ys IA advance, attribute 10 it tie greatest posi-
bic it4ygee Of success They know it sagSt succeed
a;ia tity brow ,chg it must succeed at ali lies
Ia The box. ana they have found out how the bow
Is 70 bs haniia1. They cannot telt-no, no, the
= 1t j. x sWinl thtt it win no, bear telling. They
t4n only dead in hiat5 and inuendoes sufficiently
expressive 70 he; oil thc.wor.s and General lee be-
,its, into lie sec.et u the manner in which the
g. Ia l. ,tf4h 1aF.f Il.
- wsa thai they roull teach all Yankee.lom
how 10 do it as easily as the planter taught
h,s Oakley how TO handle the bow like Ole Ball
D5ulrlcss tina. gJea. instructor in the art magical
WAS greatly disappointed when lac failed to make his
pupil handle the bow ike Ole Bull, bat not more
than tle Yankee instructors in The ant military
usually arc, when their last piece of strategy follows
in the footsteps OF all the rest and turns out like
General Graut himself, 10 be neither more no lcss
than gigantic fzze. Not moIe, venture to say
than was The pupil OF the New York Herald, who
after having for months at the feet of his mill
tafy gcmaiies, expresses his disappointment IN the
following woeful sentence Every conceivable pre-
cautionsry measure was taken to insure sueccss,io
project promised favorable result5-alad
officers alike surprised and mortified at fail
ure 10 carry the cncny'a entire lines and possess
ourselves of Petersburg.
There il Is 1herc spoke the whole Yankee ma
ton at once. Disaster after disaster, rout after
rout, slaughter after slaughter, have pursued this
Army OF the Potomac in series OF eyentuities
nnbToken save by the drawn battles of Sharpsburg
and Gettysburg, from the firsr-lTayn blood az Ma
nssas, i'll July 1851 to the last explosion of Beau
regards mine on Saturday last-yet they always
amusing themselves and the Yankee public with
device that is to victory at the next
trial. Unless it be the Chinese, popuati on ever
existed 80 entirely chdlike in its credulity where it,
success is inYolyed. So perfectly have thair
Fourth OF July orators convinced them that they az
the mightiest nation the earth, that thy will be-
lieve nytlling which fatteis their national vanity
terprise is sufficient to console them and TO fkindle
the spirit in the midst OF the most oyerwhen-
ing aud most dspriting disasters. The capture u f
The Alabama caused them to forget q cant's 80 U0a
men slaughtered 10 capture Richmond, aud the cap
tare OF few ships at Mobile VIII entirely obute.ste
al lingering recollection OF their heavy failures in
all GU lrtera during thu. campaign Their prcss-the
greatest curse ever en.ailed upon nation it there
hoods with regard events which have already oc
CURED AMI is extravaglnt predictions with regard
10 the future, They can never know the Truth, For
The wIr Is, to the Yankee press, the goose that lays
the golden egg, and they too sagacious i'll money
MASTERS to rip It up at once