The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-03-05

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IA reader win be startled this morning
A~4A> dinbolical plans Of the Yankee raider
vhoAsvs lust been driven In disappointment
ana dIegrsce nom thu very gates Of kicr.
mond. A lucky shot has sent 70 his long
account one Of the three leaders OF the three
hands into which Kilptrick's command was
divided, and upon his person we're found tie
repess making the important development
q thefr whole plan 1t was quite complete
in itself Involving the MASSACRE OF THE
PpyMpexr AND HIS ENTIRE CABINET, AND
TIE DESTRUCTION OF RIcHMoND-'theh hated
5fv.v a one Of the orders styles II. Allthis
wsa 10 hsve followed the releasing Of all
the Federal prisoners, which was the first
achievement cut out for the expedition upon
IT. arrival here. Besidcs these events, which
WeI6 W AOt IN tAo hAoAC va VAC y oA0 "a SNA
ton, IL was especially enjoined that call
mills mast be burned" and ''also everything
which can be used by the rebels must be
DESTROYED" OF course that means every
thing that 10 to be eaten or worn 1t will be
seen that 1t was further ordered that all
shoses and cattle VIC 0hey) do not need
Immediately must be shot rather than left"
The men were required to keep together
and we'll IN hand, and once IN the city, II must
h destroyed, and JET. Davis and Cabinet
Killed"
The. address" setting forth these objects.
and signed by Col. Dahlgren, on whose body
It Was found, appeals to the men under his
command, to engage heartily in the enter
prise and taunts contemptuously any who
would decline. To any such q man, Col
D. says: ''Let him step out, and he may go
hence to the arms of his sweetheart, aud
md of the brdsvs who hare speps through
the ciyy Of Richmond! :" A memorandum
discovered, imparts the information that
none declined to accompany the gallant and
chivalrous Colonel Not the blandishments
OF Q sweetheart could tempt any of the
band Of robbers and thieves, to forego the
booty and butchery, the robbing and ma
r.uding, which would enevitably fall to the
lot Of the braves, "who swept through the
city of Richmond" And the pious as vel,
- ''braye" Dahlgren, concludes his
address to- his cut-throat followers thus
"Ask the blessing of the Almighty, and do
not fear the enemy" And they came and
the Almighty blessed them not; but Dahlgren
IL dead and gone to answer for his crimes,
while several hundred of his partners in the
plot, concocted so deliberately, are now in
our prisons. They every one richly merit
death.
The whole plot seemed to have gone
awy q 1t deserved. There we're to have
been three bands. One to have entered the
city on the North, the other two to have
approached 1t by tho river-one on the
north bank and the other on the south. We
have not the particulars of their march, but
1t is undeDtood that from a delay caused by
4 mistake or intentional misleading of them
" . negro guide, the column that was to
have crossed the river did not do so. The
guido was certainly hung for his services =
The three columns were to have been led by
fitzpatrick, Gregg, and Dahlgren. But a.
70 part Of tho command crossed the river
the two last named brought their mer
In one body towards the city by the Rive
road, and were met by the Armory and Hen
Icy battaliops Tuesday night and fepulsed
And thus concluded the grand plot whicl
w. TO have achieved results that Dahlgrel
ensured his men would "write their name
On the hearts of their conntrymen in let
tors thst en- never be erased" Their failur
depnvcs their of any such inscription OF
the hearts of their eountrymen; but the.
have in lieu another inscription upon tn
pages Of history which will hand them dow
70 the sxecration of mankind through al
future A0es.
These raiders were to have rioted in bloc,
and destruction In Richmond on honda
Hast They miscalculated. They did not ap
proaeh the city till Tuesday noon, and thel
to make most ridiculous demonstration
tAaS was repulsed by q few men sent out t.
watch them. Their scheme was most at
6urd Did they suppose there was nobod
hero but women and children? Let it no
be aid that II they had not failed at on
point they would have succeeded at another
There 10 nothing more absurd than tina
wisdom which affects to say what woul
Aavs Happened If something had not hav
happened. Who can pretend to say wha
would have taken place if that which di
occur had not have happened at all? Tn
Infamous plau Of the internal Yankees wa
conceived TO be frustrated. But while W.
think and feel thus, let us redouble our en-
ssEio and our vigilance to guard against til
schsmeDaud plots of foe who has prove
Aimsslf to DO the most INSCRIPTIONS, as b
b the most brutal and flendlike, that eve
mads waf on u rsople.
ss0siaG Oat fer Wesl and Coming HON,
ShoRn."
We are greatly disappointed that Kilpat.
fiok ana his hen.roost warriors were not al
taken Yet, although the scousdrels die
not meet with the full meaeure Of retribu
tien due 10 their crimes, we do not recol
lect to have heard or read Of . more tho
fonsk Allure, short Of entire humiliation
Thnv 1888 aawt IN ~ ,f,vn fhn cstv IF Rieh