Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-01

RicHNoND-TUTILlTf Oh RAIDS AGAINST RAIL.
KoAps-tYxcHsrEo AND Tar CAMPAIGNS roR
IT. cAPTrRE-ETc.
correspondenoe q The New York New
W,HIScroS. Oct 26. ls6i
The viseacres who, nearly four years ago
prophe-ied The quick and easy overthrow Of the
Southern armie-. ere It'll Rampant They are
continually Caring toward SUI that rev e. rises
above The hof,z0as so sbosting 70 al who will
heed them that tie cloaas sfe breaking AID the
light viii soon burst forth. Three months. SIX
months, t~elve months. The periods prophe,csly
nsc-er;sed 10: the complete recovery Of the pa
tlent, nave been doubled. uebled. quadruped
snd vet he disease tages. aud Tie -ick man raves
aud moaus IA his fevcrish aCony The phys
clans belong 10 the old school and will apply but
one remedy. Phlebotomy Is the only treatment
that 20 them possesses any virtue. and other
shall be tried Blood. blood blood Blood
must be drawn without stint. The patient NAV
die. but the physicians and the dignity Of the
profession must be sustained.
Daily, hourly, DO hear men repeating the sill
ly statement that Grant can walk into Richmond
whenever he wants to do 50. he is deferred only
by a humane regard for the lives of the men of
his command The miles OF innGmerable forti
fications. bristline With cannon and swarming
with desperate soldiers. offer no impedment
whatever Grant and bis invincible legions can
sweep over them at any moment. What does he
care for forts and men ant cannonf Grant the
all powerful! Ulysses, the prodigious. Can he
not crush and scatter his enemies whenever il
pleases him 20 strike? OF course he can Loyal
men say 80, and are they not infalbe in all
thngsf
Gen. Grant has been setting before Petersburg
since the 5th of June On the following day
you were informed through the censor that he
had captured the city The statement vas false,
and known TO be false: but what of that, IL was
just such food as loyal stomachs were craving for;
Just such diet as the war spirit has lived upon for
tour years At the outset Grant tried the Presi-
dents plaL Ii cost him fifty thousand men, and
was then abandoned. He next tried his own plan.
the plan of carrying everything by storm, and
that also failed He then racked his brain for
other plans. scratched out several. tried them all
I and WAS batiied IN every move. he advanced
columns. dug mines. made feinis sent out raid
ers. tried every conceivable measure, was tbwart-
ed and discontinued in all and forced to settle
| down under shelter of his guns and breastworks
before Petersburg.
lie started from the Rspidan with an army OF
one hundrst and fifty thousand men When he
reached the James his army was reduced to eighty
thousand He was then Joined by Butler with
| thirty thousand. and has since received at least
fifty thousand from the several States Of the
two hundred and thirty thousand meu with whom
he has conducted his great campaign, he has not
more than ninety thousand remaining He now
sits awaiting further rein forcements and the com
| pletion OF Buffers canal, and when the former
arrive and the Latter is finished, more thousands
| will be hurled against Notifications and into
graves more false reports will speed over the
wires, more hospitals will be filled, more homes
made desolate, more souls eternity, more
| hopes raised and blasted more valor wasted anC
the army thrown back to It's tents in chagriT
and, perhaps, despair
The defeat OF the Army of the Potomac would
be damaging blow to Mr. Lincons candidacy
tie has no confidence in Grants ability TO over
throw his adversary with one vigorous blow. A
reverse to the Federal armies on the Jane,
might cost Mr.. Lincoln his election. He cannO
afford any such risk The Presidency Is NOR,
important 20 him tn N the immediate destruction
of the Confederate army, even II that were posi-
BILE Thousands think that Grant would fail
Mr.. Lincoln is not sure tba: he would not Ii
two weeks the political battle will be decided
Then Grant may strike and take the chances Of
defeat cannot injure the Presd en-
then. for the people will have returned their yer
diet and cannot repeal their findings. The poor
creatures who have been dragged from the era
die and the grave may be pounced upon AND
crushed, if they will submit to that treatment
more towns depopulated. more villages DESTROY ed
more valleys devastated, more money coined
from human blood-in short the war, with al
its horrors aud ssvagery resumed and prosecuted
under the direction of cur profoundly astute and
wondrously humane President.
With the resumption OF this Virginia campaign
Grant will probably abandon the expensive and
Improbable raidng policy with which il opened
He cannot capture Richmond by cutting rail
road Fifty miles defiant That is one feature oi
the plan on which he commenced his operation.
in Virgins. II was also part OF Sherman 4
plan in Georgia In both places il failed most
signally. Fitzpatrick. and StOneman. and Ger
rard and Rousseau tried il in Georgia, and Sher
man confesses that il brought him no advantage
His cavalry was driven and scattered from every
railroad they attacked. Sheridan, Wilson and
Kauiz tried i, near Richmond and likews,
failed
Sheridan vas driven from the Central Wilson
from the Danvilie and Ksutz from the " eldor
roads. All their designs were frustrated, and
their forces defeated with considerable loss ia
men and material Every railroad raidng party
has come to grief; every effort to destroy the
COMMUNICATIONS of the epemv has been biffied
Experience has taught General Grant the worth
essness and great expense Of the system. anc
he will probably abandon il II not. he Is SLOW
to learn.
Lynchburg, the iguis fatuus Of many cam
paigns. will also be cast on; OF the reckoning
IL has been regarded as second in importance on
" 10 Richmond IL VAS looked upon 40 IN,
grand recuperaung depo, of Leo's army Thi'
iallacy is now exposed Lee can live and fgh
without Is nchburg. As he can wthou. Weldon
but IL IL useful 10 him--not iudispensable--and
he will hold 10 Ii is not worth half the men We
have lost in irving To reach t. Sgel aud Hunter
lost twenty thousand nieu in trying 10 Get 10 70
and trying to get AWAY from IT, Sheridan, on,
of the best lighting Generals in the service, made
two efforts 70 reach Il. and had 10 turn bach
when hall way 20 The goal. Every csmpaigr
against Lynchburg tckercd aud spluttered for
lev brief weeks. and then went out in utter fail
ure. The Confederates will hold Lynchburg. and
they will hold Dluville while they hold Rich
mond, and Grant may veil bring together his
little detichments and concentrate all his strength
on the citadel Within few miles OF Richmond
he will find plenty OF work for all his men.
SEYMOUR.
rhe Rebel Leaders for Lincotn's We.
election.