The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-02

II is plain that Lincoln ana his gang consider ths
Chicago Convention affair Of serious importance
from the desperate tying with which they. efea
voring to influence its decisions II was foressen
fron the FIRST that unless Grant could achieve sons
great success before the Convention met itsdession
would he Of a nature to cause Lincoln serious neon
venicnce This Grant was unable to do. On thu
contrary, for two weeks previously TO the meeting
the Convention he had been uniformly defeated il
ali his attempts on both sides Of the river made ev
IDENTIFY with view to influence its phoceedings The
result, Of all these defeats was between nine and ten
thousand prisoners, safely lodged in prison in this
city, where they can be counted by any body who
may choose to take the trouble. What the killed
and wounded footed up, We cannot ascertain with
any degree Of accuracy, but it certainly did not fall
short OF Eve thousand. The only Offset to this con-
slant recurrence Of Ill fortune the capture OF
the Weldon railroad, and the repnlsc Of an attempt
made to recover it, with loss to US OF about eight
hundred men. This little breeze OF good luck was
sufficient for the Yankees. 1t gave Grant something
10 20 upon, and the telegraph was depended on to
do the rest The occasion was so serious that the
talents Of the great ar Stanton, were put In requ-
siton without, think, sufficient cause for Grant
could have been depended TO write the kilograms
although he has been very generally beaten in the
held since this campaign opened or, if he dstrustel
his own invention, he has two very promising su-
bor,linates in Hancock and Meade.
Stanton, il seems, telegraphs to Dix. that on
Thursday, the 25th, General Hancock, who was at
Reams's station, was attacked several times during
the day but repulsed every assault. At half-past
i've in the evening, combined attack made on
his centre and left, which, after of the most des
perafc assaults of the war, "resYlfed ia the enemy
miths,aaing from the field, tearing tAsa dead and
rounded on the ground"
This lie is so shameless, 50 impudent and SO bold
that should feel disposed to credit it entirely to
Stanton Ad not the telegraph further inform Us
that Hancock had his full share in the invention
That pggei general recovered breath from his drub-
bing in time TO all whom it might con-
cern, land IT concerns eveTyb body who has any share
in handling the thousand millions that appro-
priated every year to carry this war; in his OIL
cal report that his losses the occasion will not
exceed twelve fifteen hundred men, killed. wound
ed and missing, and that this was the most despe-
rate fighting Of the Now, the fact Is, that two
thousand and seventy prisoners taken in that en-
gagement, were brought to this city What the killed
and wounded were We do not know; but We suppose
if the fighting was so severe. We took also /
nine guns, which definite number is mystified by
the report into "several. - This would be enough
to show that Hancock was completely routed. Two
thousand prisoners and nine guns, after engage
ment of two hours only, tell tale which defes the
combined ingenuity of Hancock and Stanton Their
is too plain to be mistaken They signify |
complete rout and it was, if may credit the
report of those who engaged in it, and whe add
that but for the seasonable arrival of night, Han
cocks corps would have been utterly destroyed So
Gar from this being the severest engagement Of the
war; these participants say that the Yankees fought
very badly proved by the fact Of their having
been routed in two hours. But Hancock is anxious
to save the reputation Of his corps, and Grant does
not wish it to be known that bis troops have been
lemOralized by an almost uninterrupted series of |
defeats and disasters.
As these lies We're coneocted to answer a very i'm
,ortant purpose, all the generals of any standing
eemed to consider it duty to contribute Meade |
cegraphs that the field is covered with dead rebels,
our whole loss We now learn, very little exceeded
i've hundred, though PVT down seven hundred at |
rst,) and that the t. guard talked with rebel
ioers who said the rebel losses greater than
Yer before during the war" 1t is pity that nei-
her the blank officer nor the rebel officer is named.
lad they been, might have felt disposed to be-
that Meade actually heard this as it is, we i-
eve no more OF it than he does himself that is to
ay, not word OF it, No rebel officer aade any |
ach statement to any blank Yankee officer, OF any
ody else. 1t is lie out Of the whole cloth.
Grant could not let sssch favorable opportunity
ass without throwing in lie of his own. lie says
le re9e.s cannot stand the losses the Weldon |
.ilroad! Those losses do not exceed two three
iousand men, but Stanton says they foot up ten
lousand. Grants statements are not gospel, and
Is predictions do not alwaya prove true He /,
langes his liberalization Occasionally especially {
hen he promises as be once did, TO fight it out OH
certain line ii it took him all summer. He SET |
1t to come TO Richmond Why did not he Come,
I'D Why is he delaying now if the rebels cannot
and their losses on the Weldon railroads
1t is certain that Lincoln looks with intense anx-
ty to the decisions Of the Chicago Convention
therwise he would not have put his machinery OF /
ing into operation extensively at this precise
omeut The fact that there is such d conyen-
IN at all, indicates that there is deep ssatisfac-
On with his measures and the fact that be watches
with such intensity, and uses such disgra ceful
cans to influence its proceedings proves its i'm ,
,rtance in his estimation