The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-29

Sam. time during the month Of July last the AZ
teniian Of the county was powerfully ate'"o's" "
81. letter of correspondent OF the Ne~ JON
World who dated from Baltimore, en'ic'S'hs' WIN
ca. a,rfeness and a sufficient degree OF aSl"f''!'
SO esa,t.irn of General Grant from the Kappa Ann
.l,e souih siic Of James liver. 1hat~rfer sta''a
,e.,n that Grant could never take Richmond from
~. .c,il SIDE and that the point where the Keys
al II .,n.and :" as he rather pomponsly said, would
t,.s4tv l.. ,l.l,verea up somewhere on the OAR
,-t,x,. ,,aa He has written another letter, re-
,.iy., this scrcstion and declaring that If Rich
mend H. taken at all it must he taken by that route,
- C,s,!t kns"if has at last found out. The letter
~ Question - r.n,s, ksblc Tor the expot 1t n'akes {"
Grant losses IN the late campaign, Of his failures
and oC the enormous forces with which &c ope''" IT,
i ,s.ain~ 10 this writer, then, Grant has had hh-
d,e has ovn immediate direction III ms army 10"
.,. ,..s,,. Richmond, eco 600 men,. of which but
igI 6.a arr lett lie has had besides, III the val
4. tn, ,,,.ors.,tun OF three different armies, I'M
G.t e.ezal. hunter and Sheridan ; the aggregate
,,5,r Il TIC tAl,c bong $4,000 men. 1t thus APP
pears taat 3,00co men have been Brought 10 Dear
uI..l ;i!- a.n2Ie point. 1t has been seven months
sn ti.r campaign opened, and not one foot col pro-
.e;. has vet been made by Grant IN the capture Of
either Petersburg Richmond. The grand scheme
ior starving cut te people Of the Confciera'y has
lLevs>e. h.cDf5in5 to the writer, absolutely
IN utt,riy failed ani must continue 10 fail which,
ever i may again be attempted The losses sns-
tanned by Siccc!, !Ianter ana sheridan, added the
sse4 sustained in the nToa1 OF Early into fonnsyi-
ysI.Ia, Maryland ana the DISTINCT VI Columbia,
amount in tac aggregate, according TO the same au-
thJ,iy, to TT 900 As the loss OF Sheridan in the
ias battle which has been fought since the date oil
The letter Is not less than 5000 following the est-
mate the entire Yankee loss has been $780, coo men
a rrodlsious exhibit of blood and slaughter. Hete
are men enough killed outright TO constitute the
population Of 4 huge city five times large as
Richmond. They were all, too, men in the very
PRIME Of life few Of them, perhaps, 50 much as
thirty years old A city that would afford fighting
population of go, 000 would have, probably, mil
lion AID half of inhabitants. Only think of the
whole male population OF Paris between the ages Of
eighteen and forty five cut off in the space of few
hort months by disease other calamity, and
idea of the insanity which impels the Yankee
Government may be formed. The object, it must
b. recotlectcd, is longer pretended TO be recon-
ton of the Union, but the subugation of this
Conio1elacy the cxtiTpation of its people That
auy enc people should hate another people 20 badly
din not believe TO be within the possibility Of
human passions, bad we know them to be.
Grant seems 10 have adopted the suggestions Of
thi- writer completely. Even write, his forces
ltssi,ig rapidly over the river, though be de-
signed to throw them al upon Lees works. We
Tot afraid Of the issue, if there bc surprise in the
case. Unless where j. has been 20, lie has never
vet gained the smallest advantage over us, and he
never will. The correspondent Of the Horld sug-
Yets that the fleet should move at the same time,
which, We suppose, viii be done.