The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-08
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 9, 1864.
YESTERDAY VA. the f,tsy-.econd anniversary Of the

Yesterday was the fifsy-secend anniversary Of the
great battle Of Borodinothe greatest, Alison says,
ever fought In Eurepe, at least in modern times.
The French army numbered 600 men; the
Russian has been vuioasly estimated at 100, $50.
l5e, Lee. go and 25o.ooo men, At any rate, IL was
an enormous army, with nearly thousand pieces Of
cannon, the French themselves bringing about six
hundred into the contest. The day was cool, bra
eng and beautifully clear, the earlier part Of
yesterday was. As the first rays Of the sun shot
above the horizon, Napoleon said to those around
him, Behold the sun If Aasterltz," e. roiia fe
soiea TAssteria."J This was the only occasion
on which he ever apostrophised that sun, far a.
we have been able to discover after digent Search
although Scott and after him all the book-makers,
viii hare it that he was continually abiding to 1t
The battle was desperate the slaughter awful, tho
prise Moscow, with its giied domes and noble pal
aces, bur;hened warehouses; and its popula-
ton Of SooIo1 souls Military genius and thorough
discipline prevailed at last over fierce fanatieism
and patriotism than Spartan. Moscow fell,
bat not until she had exacted from those who trol
the path that led to her gates toll Of So 900
We could not but think Of this great event yester
day. when under sun resembling that of Boro
dino, read. for the first time, in Stantons bul
letin. that Grant still required hundred thou
sand additional troops to insure him the capture Of
this city. He started to take it last May with one
hundred and forty thousand men. This same Stan
ton continually assured the Yankee public that he
would sweep everything before him. He fought not
one. bu. series of bloody battles in every one Of
which he repulsed with enormous slaughter
and in every Of which Stanton claimed vic
tory, proved Stahtons assertions to be falsehoods
by ceasng Ito fight it out this ne," and cross
ing the nyer, after having lost more than one hun
dred Thousand men; sat himself down before Pc
tersburg, twenty miles from the doomed city;
has met with hslf-a-dozen disastrous defeats since
he got there; and now calls for hundred thou
sand men more, after having been already rein
Forced, at various times, to fully that extent We
could not but contrast the defence of Richmond
with the defence of Moscow, and say to ourselves,
:" Surely city never was defended as this city has
beefl" The combinations against it last spring
and summer, including Grant, Butler, Hunter ST.
ei &c, must have reached three hundred thou
sand men, or very nearly. And yet it stands as |
defiant as ever defiant that Grant tells his en-
pioyers, through Stanton, it will require hum
dred thousand men more to take it, We agree with |
him, and even then it will not be taken
Stanton, in this bulletin, tells the Yankees that /
only three hundred thousand men will be required
OF these Grant is to use up one hundred thousand,
and the rest are to keep down rebellion everywhere
IN Virginia, in Kentucky, in Louisiana, in Arkan-
sas, &c Why, his three hundred thousand will not
much more than replace the men that have been lost
turing the campaign. If take into consideration
he fact that they are new levies, who viii lose at
east half their number before the other half become
"lernbe soldiers, We may say with truth that they
will not fill up the gaps in the ranks Yet it is alb
olutely necessary for safety, as well as for
he ultimate triumph of our cause, that we should
axe energetic measures to recruit our ranks
Upon this subject, We are pleased to see that the
Vhole press is AS unanimous as it is possible for
rec press to be upon any subject whatever.
The evacuation Of Atlanta will be magnified by
he Yankee press into great victory, it will
ave the effect Of facilitating the draft which COM
nenced last Monday, and it will insure the required
lumber of men. 1t will not do for us to depend
pom resistance to the measure in the North by
lobs, instructions and popular connections We
lust recruit own ranks to meet the accession of
'rce which the Yankee army will be certain to re-
nive and We must doit speedily. There are numbers
able-boded men doing what disabled soldiers could
o just as well; numbers OF white men doing what
do much better; and numbers of young
len doing nothing at all. We want the services of
U these-the country requires them--the crisis de-
lands them-and the Bureau Of Consumption hasJ
ready indicated who and what they are, |
nd where to be found The three months S
lat must elapse before the campaign shall
ave closed are important months to u.s. If en-
Dyed as they might be, they would, in all
become the period from which to date
e rise Of feeling the part of our enemy that =
ay tend to peace. The campaign thus far has been
losing business to him. We must take care that
continue to be Grant promises, If furnished =
th one hundrci. thousand more men, to finish all
e necessary fighting in six weeks. They viii be fur
shed, and We must enable Lee to meet him. The u
estion as to whether can do it, is no question =
all We can do it, and We should do it,