Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-10-26
uNMITIGATED LYING.


liberate and unqualified lying, it has, per-
haps, no parallel in political or other history.
That 1t was done for purpose, is clear from
the fact that the truth was entirely within
the editor reach The daily papers, con-
tanning the official reports of the operations
of the Armies for three days previous to the
date Of the Republican, give the lie to eve
ry statement in the article.
1t begins with the declaration that their
readers, can, from the advance in gold, form
a correct idea of the operations Of our mill
tary forces Yet, the Dailies of Monday
morning-the last which they would receive
before working off their paper-contained,
among their Associated Press reports, the
following dispatch:
NEW YORK, Oct l4-''The gamblers in
Wall street have been running gold up to-
day, with a story that Grant has removed
both Meade and Warren from their com
mands Ihts IS q pure fabrication. -
This shows how much the Operations of
our military forces" had to do with any ad
vance in gold. 1t shows, moreover, an in
territorial suppression OF the truth, and mis-
representation of the facts by the Republican.
The next assertion is that there is moth
ing doing at Petersburg. But the papers
of Saturday contain despatch that "a des-
perate charge was made on the middle Of
the Second Corps line, and was successfully
repulsed-that our gunboats and shore bat
teries had succeeded iu silencing the Rebel
battery on the south side of james River,
which had heretofore interfered with the
working party at Dutch Gap The papers
of Monday contain news of a reconnaissance
in force of part of the Tenth Corps and a
fight on the Darbytown road, within three
miles of Richmond, in which the Rebels
were driven from their works, and our for
ces were enabled to hold the position which
they now occupy within four miles of the
Rebel Capital. And yet in the face of this
news the Republican says there i. nothing
doing at Petersburg
The third paragraph of their article so
fully shows the aajnlus of the whole, that
We quote it at length. Here it Is:
Sheridan has fallen back to the vicinity
of Winchester, or perhaps Harper's Ferry
after desolating with the torch the entire
valley Of the Shenandoah from Staunton
nOrthward TO Winchester distance of over
eighty miles-and from mountain 10 noun
tain-an average width Of over twenty miles.
Not barn, or stack of grain or hay escaped,
aud many dwellings and villages have shared
the same fate; the entire population being
driven off This was in obedience to the or
der of Gen. Grant. Let as hear no more
| conlrlaint Of the depredGtionS Of rebel inca
| ders.
The editor of the Republican could not
have been ignorant, when he wrote this ar
ticIe, of the splendid victory achieved by
Sheridan over the Rebel General Lomax,
officially reported in the papers of Friday
morning. The details Of that battle, one Of
the most brilliant of Sheridan's brilliant
campaign in the Valley, were published at
| length in all the dalies of Friday and Satur-
day. The Rebels were completely routed,
with loss of guns and 300 prisoners. In
stead of Sheridan having fallen back to
Winchester or Harper's Ferry, the official
despatch of Friday ends as follows;
THE last advices from Sheridan report
| him as having followed up his victory by
pursuing the enemy still further up the Val
! ley Raidng into Maryland and Pennsylva-
MIA is at an end.
So far from retreating, on the very day on
which the Republican was issued he achiev-
ecranother still more glorious victory, at
| Cedar Greek, over Longstreet, his official re-
port of which will be found in another col
umn of to-days Jo,unaL 1t is fitting that
such an unmitigated lie, evidently concocted
to iniure the National cause, should end
with the pitiful Rebel whine of Let us hear
no more complaint of the depredations of
| Rebel invaders
To keep up this wholesale lying, the next
assertion of the Republican is that n 70 news
have been received from Sherman for over
three weeks" And yet the papers of the
week Immediately proceeding their day OF
publication, We're filed with the details Of
the glorious victory achieved at Allatoora,
in which the Rebel Hoods attack was met
and repulsed with loss of 200 dead and
more than 200 wounded and prisoners
| They further say, on the authority of the
| Richmond papers," from whence, Judging
by its character, the Republican gets all its
news, that Sherman is in the most immi-
nent danger" But Sherman official des-
| patch of the 9th inst, states that Hood
has retreated to Dallas and Van Wert-we
have at Allatoona and Atlanta abundance of
Observation-Disclosures is perfectly secure to
us, and the Army is better off than in campl"
The Republican says, moreover, upon the
same authority, we presume, that Forest