The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-12


paigaer (apon psper) that ever existed. NJ
sooner has one systcm OF operations, map
ped out for certain success, been brought x
rain By the stupid Confederases who re-
fuse to be conquered by paper campaigns
than We dad him buoy spinning another
The spider Of Pope's famous simile, tbroned
ON the centre of thousand convergini
lines, 10 the proper emblem Of his In
.defatieable activity, as it Is, likewise, OF his
poisonous rancor. But month ago Hunter
was to come from the West. take Lynch
bnrs, aud cut rs off In that direction. But
Ter was to come from the 4 81 and take Pc
tomburg Thus we were to be cut oil from
the South. Grant was to come from IL
, North and ehut up Lee In Richmond, and
there his army was to be starved ont. No
thing 10 the world Was 50 easy - to take
Richmond, demolish Lees army, and crush
the rebellion on paper, but when 1t came
to be tried, this notable scheme failed en-
tirely In the execution. Hunter has been
driven OF, Lypchburg has not been taker,
Petersburg IL safe, Grant has lost $50 oo
men, and h In q position where he is likely
to lose as many more. If he win stay till the
first OF October; Sheridan has been beaten
within an inch of his life, Kautz and Wilson
have lost oil their artillery, all the negroes,
spoons, and other plumber they had in pos
session, three thousand horses, thousands
Of small arms, untold amounts of stores aud
baggage, and have gained nothing but the
reputation Of the thieves and felcns which
they really are. In a word, the quadrilate-
rails one hundred and forty.fith scheme for
subduing the rebels has proved glorious
failure The web which was to encircla the
devoted city" has been brushed away, with.
out leaving trace behind. No matter:
''1'he filthy creatures at It's work asain"
The one hundred and forty sixth plan is
now before ue. 1t Is cminently worthy of
the "quadrilateral," and win recommend
itself highly ITO the sympathies of YOUTH"
especially Of Yankee yosth. for it is a
scheme of plumber on large scale, and
Yankee youths are thieves by instinct. 1t
is hesded "Our New Raids" and is intro
duced by declaration that sthese raids of
our cavalry in Virginia have nor military
significance" sc. The other raids, it seems,
had no military significance" whatever.
They were, we presume, merely set On foot
TO CRAFTY the instructive ptoclivityto theft,
which Is characteristic Of the Yankee race,
Military significance" On, yesi every.
thing, Of course, has had military slgnif-
canoe with tho hero of Solferino ever since
bis flight from that worldrenowned fl eld.
Ee can think of nothing else, dream Of no
thing else, write of nothing else but masters
military. Alas! for his readers for every
morning he
Win gun, drum, trumpet, blunderbus, aud thun
A parrot, which talked very plainly, was
great favorite with the sailors on board of
one Of the English ships that fought at
Trafalgar. The day after the battle "Poor
Poll" was among the missing, and there was
great lamentation among the crew They
thought he had been knocked overheard
in the action aad drowned. 1t was not SO,
however. On the third day after the battle
he was seen peeping cautiously above the
deck, having crawled ont Of the hiding place
in which he had ensconced himself while the
shouts Of Joy by his old friends, bu. to their
sorrow they soon found that he had entirely |
lost his speech. To the usual saluiation
pretty Polly" he would only answer "Bom.'
In word, Poor Polly was ,dsrahged. Traial. |
gar had not only killed Nelson aud de- |
stroyed Napoleon's navy. but it had bereit |!
Polly of her senses. The terrible cannona,ie /
OF that awful day was forever afier in her |
ears. To every term Of eoaxihg and endear-
ment she ever after could be brought to |
answer nothing but 'Bom." so 1t is with
the quadrilateral Of the Times. The bullet
that gained the hattie of Austerlitz, in Mo-
ravia, killed Pit in London. The bullet that
gained the battle Of solferino made Ray
mond mailman for life. 1t served hina rs
Gen Andrew Jackson said the explosion of
the Peacemaker served Col Benton. 1t |
blew out the few brains he had without de-
Btroyipg his life.
"Guns, bombs, bastions, batteries, bayo- |
nets, bullets" now form the everlasting
staple Of his talk. He has never forgotten, |
and he never will forget. tha. awful race of |
10 which no SO far distauced all
competitors % to entit!e the result of the |
race TO be recorded, az that of Eclipse was,
Raymond flrst and the rest nowhere"
We are told by Raymond that from this
time forward "our raids are TO bear directly |
specifically, aud effectively upon the rebel |
army defending the rebel capital" "They |
are intended to harass, embarrass, distract, |
divide, and Isolate the army of Gen Lee-to
cut all his communications, to demolish his
depots, consume his maseritl, burn his stores,
and in every possible way weaken his
power" Is that ALP Why, every army that
has been beaten by the Corfederates since
the war had q more ample mission than that.
There Was not one OF them that was not
sent to"crash the rebellion" and that did
not promise to do 1t. II Grants present
business be only to steal silver, rob hen
roosas, MAIN cattle, burn corn cribs, steal
baby linen, &c.-for these seem to be the
obJects OF these raids-he has come to his
level much sooner than we had hoped. We
always thought him the most thorough
hnmbug.of the day; but we had supposed
he WAS man who would fight to The last
However, VIC can hardly blame him. Lee
gave him such dose In May and June that
we do not wonder he has enough of it. II
ia no doubt safer to rob hen rocsts than 10
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