Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-27
ASSAULT and Battery on the Irlthme.


When man becomes a tory he loses
not only honesty, but seems 10 bid fare.
well 10 common sense Among the
scri5blers who have undertakes 70 write
the eonutFy down aud reheldom MP. il
The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Times. He has been conaider-
ed 30 able ia that line, that the Sentinel
has eoatained one Of bis artieles svery
day on al average fOrths last two years.
In that sheet Of yesterday there appears
one Of the illusions Of this seryieeable
tool Of Jeif Davis, NOT more remarkable
for its.toryiam thaa for It's coutempt OF
figures, as the following extract viii
show:
Daring the whole campaign Of the
summer ia Virgins, General Lees army
has not reached more than 10000 20
10000, strong. including Beauregard's 5
troops At Petersburgi while Gen. GranG's
army has exceeded 10000, and even
$50 600 men ali the time Yet IA every
eBgagelnsnt &c have been repnlsed with
heavy lOss- And nos. so ceafdent is
General Lee 10 his ability 70 hold Peters.
burg aud Richmond, that be has left 10
ihe former place oaiv 20 000 OF Bpaure-
gard's troops, and l0000 Of A. z. Hts
Beaarrgard himself has goae 90 Mobile,
Wherr be vlIi Jake eomma1d and wili
conduct The defense General Long
sireei's corps, "a 900 sirouK, consisting
Of the divisions Of General Anderson,
Pickett aud Fields. asa nov command.
ed by General r A. Anderson in the
temporary absence Of Longsirest hjms
sslf, has gone to Atlanta 10 reinforce
Gen Hood. accompanied By the divisions
Of Gens kershaw and Hoke. 1900
more. who have been detached for that
purpose from Beanregsrd's corps
Ewell'k corps, nov Commanded By Gem
eral Early, 20 900 strong, is 10 the She
nandoah valley, near Winchester. 1t
consists of the divisions Of Generals Cor:
don, Wharton, BFsckinridge and Rhodes
Part OF A. p Hills corps is either a.
Richmond. or between that place ADD
Pc ersburg. But two divisions ef thai
corps, those Of Generals Heath and Ma
bone, and embracing ten thousand mens
are neither at Petersburg or Richmond,
nor have they been sent to Georgia
Where are these 10000 troops1 | will.
veature to say that they will turn np
where they are least expected, and viii
turn The tide of some important battle
This Confederate semi-edilor Of the
Sentinel, who has not found the Lincoln
tyranay powerful enough 70 check his
inofdinate lying, starts ont With the as
sertion that the maxInum- strength Of
Lees army during this campaign has
been 60, 1000 men; yet, after all alossss Of
the campaign, the figures be gives Of
the strength vf the various corps aHd di.
visions Of that Amy makes i. amosBt to
gS 600 men.
g There cannot he found in all the past
history so shameless prostitutioa Of the
press to the seryiceof the peblie enemy,
as has been exhibited by the conductor
Of the Copperhsad journals during This
war, nor IS there another goSernz
nent on earth that wosld have permitted
such condBct Iflhe nation is preserved
notsiths anding the enemyiu front and
the sappers within the citadel, II viii fur
nists an uuanswerable argument in fsvor
Of republican institutions which make
even treason free; but lift fails, the
world viii except the result as evidence
that this form Of government is too weak
for self preservation. = Indianapolis
Journal