Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-30
The Demonstration on the Weldon
RailToad-Grant and sherman
EarIyis Operations In the valley. sc
prom The Richmond Examiner,

From the Richmond Examiner, Aug. -.
All around the horizon our sky is brighten
ing General Giants movements. both to the
right and 90 the left in order 10 break out of his
uneasy situation, have been most signal failures
Whether the demonstration TO his left, on the
Weldoa railroad, was intended as a feint 10 draw
attention from the serious movement on his
right or whether the demonstration on the right
was the feint. and the serious movement was that
by the left flank in either case disaster has at
tended him-the feint and the main operation
have been failures alike.
When the soldiers of that Yankee army meet
our troops the very wisest thing they can now do
wiser even than running away-s to &c, them
selves taken prisoners; and, once taken, they
sincerely hope they never will be exchanged till
the end Of the war. Grants style Of warfare is
altogether too bloody to suit the feelings and
taste of the army that has interest in the
cause except pay and ratiOns; and his operations
in Virginia since the day he crossed the Rapidan
have certainly turned the Northern mind more
decidedly to thoughts of peace than any other
agency whatsoever We have been inclined to
award to our own General Lee The title OF the
greatest "peace Commissioners" but on consid
Grafton, that distinction must be conferred upon
General Grant.
General Grants army may now be considered
"a utterly and signally and finally defeated
Whether the moment has come when the rem
nant of il Is 20 be driven to its ships. Gen. Lee
is the best Judge. That measure, however, when
he shall decide upon it, will be a noble move
ment in the interest of peace.
Sherman's campaign against Atlanta, as il has
been a copy of Grants in Virginia from the be
ginning, seems destined to follow that model
to the end All the Yankee correspondents from
that army now tell their readers that Sherman
meets unexpected difficulties; finds opposite TO
i'm xharav ha tod of
troops; learns that Hood has been largely rein
forced; and worst Of ALL finds awkward circum-
stances taking place along hi lines of commu-
nicatoD in the rear. In this particular point
Grant has the advantage of Sherman; the for
mer has his base on the sea. and If the worst
comes 10 the worst, escape to his OWE coun
Sherman, il he cannot move forward, may never
go back
But the most stirring news Of to day IL, that
Gen. Early has once more. We do not say fought
and routed but stampeded, without fighting, the
great and terrible army OF Yankees that has
been pretending TO pursue him for some days
past. Sheridan, Averill, Crook. Wright-who
soeyer may be the commander OF them--has
made believe to be searching for Early with
breathless ardor They sought him east, they
sought him west, all through Maryland and on
both banks of the Potomac--while he, like
careful husbandman and frugal swain, he is,
"dc anu SaibS4iN- w hlo halfcSt
in the rich valley OF Virginia.
A. last, il seems. the aFduous researches of
that tremendous Yankee army were crowned
with successfully found Early. Ii any one
IS disposed 70 mock and sneer at the Yankee
folks for running away precipitately the mo-
ment they found the man they had been look
ing for, cannot smypathize with such
mocking and sneeriDg "hundred days men"
boys, negroes, foreigners, why should they ex-
pose themselves TO be killed by rough "secesh"
soldiers? They all surmise and most shrewdIy
suspec, that there is soon to be peace. Peace Is
In the air; they smell il; they want to live 10 en-
JOY it, and would hate the thought of being
killed by the last stray volley fred. ss il were,
for forms sake.
Whatever may be the popular feeling in the
armies of Grant and sherman, il seems at least
clear, by the two examples of Kernstown and
Strasburg. that the army especially inirusted
with the defences OF Washington has adopted Oh
principle the plain theory and practice of running
away They may do this because, being nearer
the seal % Government, they better in
formed Of the near approaching end of the war.
and DO not think it worth while to he killed at
the eleventh hour; or they may do it merely by
instinct--''instiDcti is 8 great matter"
That formidable army Of dreadful Yankees
being scattered, however, nothing remains for
Gen Early but 10 follow them into Maryland
and Pennsylvania Peace, that pearl of great
price. i to be found only in Pennsylvania.