The New York herald., 1864-07-25
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.

The Tardy Progress OF the War-Con-
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The Forthcoming stora-Petersbarg
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The b not 20 end In thunder clap. There win be
NO Yorktown and New Orleans, but . gradual
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may eeotry the country by an assault and telling VIC
tory before Atlanta or ne may reps an attack ID forcs
Confederaes In front Of Petersburg may deliver or re-
ceve general engagement aud 10 either event they can
hardly fail Of success. All these are possibilities, but
the history Of the campaign up TO this time does not
justify the expectation Of decisive victory either In
Georgia Virginia.
Is very certain thst neither Grant Dor Sherman csn
afford to dawdle inuch longer Summer days are Hng,
but only one mouth and few days Of summer reyain,
Lincoln must have battles nay he must have victories
within pinev days or his doom 10 sealed The fortia-
every day makes them more So yet they must be car.
red and that speedily ut whatever sacrncs Of fe TO
ensure the fall scctons There via DO bloody and des-
pe.ate BATTLE more desperate and bloody, doubt not
than any which have occurred or that be very
sure for there is no escape from It. The Moloch Of abo
tionsm demands FRESH necstomos OF victims, and from
sti decisive victory for either party hardly pos
a question OF mud and mortars? The combatants ap-
proach within arms length, and the FIRST object OF each
is not TO attack but play part OF tho dir daubsr
and euveop themselves in impenetrabe walls or mud
speedily possible Days are thus wasted, and then
assault on ono side or the other, with tho
army returns 10 Its ntrenchments and throws up
dirt 'front.' flank and rear, while rcpeants BIT quietly
behind their intrenchments, throw up more dirt and
wait for another assault coDjont catalepsy OF longer
or shorter continuance follows envened by occas nal
gavanc spasms OF shelling ard sha pshootng when all
OF sudden the party the other yankees
rally both in Virginia and Geoga) side steps to the efi
right the may be- the other party pursues
falls back, and the dirt dauber game is renewed in
another position. What strange spectacle this to the
military critics In EurJpe. In 1851 there field
gagemens in 1864 there nothing but siege after SIEGE
What hope s there OF signal victory TO either sdei
Can Grant hope to repeat U, or Sherman Saragosaf
We think not
Under such circumstances do perceive how the
is to terminate except by ardy and gradually dimn
shng drbble But the advantages altogether the
their adyersnres cannot No rapidly approaching Pres
Dental election urges the former TO desperate and
peated battles; no impending financial crash dsturbs
their equanmity With steady and unquailng front they
await the oe We take 1t for granted that decision Of
character is not wanting in the new commander In
Georgia, and, that be so, reason why flank
movements at Atlanta may not be brought to grief
easily and certainly at Petersburg But the
sangune reader against high wrought antcipations
Sherman has prepared behind him base after base,
strongly fortified. Defeat Is not annhilson in his
any more than in that OF Banks, ", indeed, 90
much for he is man OF Infinitely ability, and has
with him Of the best minds in the Yankee service
The rcpulse OF Sherman at Atlanta will be followed by
succession OF seges at the fortified points In his
What Grant will do what will be done with him, isle
matter OF conjecture. He s completely incarcerated
In redoubts, redans, traverses and the like, very
much doubt whether he could extricate himsef lef
entirely unmolesed We think It unlikely that hs
will after ortwo lights, mperceptibly ssdreen
away like dapidated barrel OF bis fav0re Mononga
hela He is under the necessity OF buttng his brains
tirely and trust he will be permitted to do
The war may then lnger splutcr fare and finally die on
1t its leisure What matter SO we win independence
~ We surely shallf