The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-08-31
The Military situation-Rstnf fore m nts
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The Military n fore me nts
oGrant and sher man-Ths Prospect.
One hundred thousand men sent to Grant.
and thirty thousand sent to Sherman, will end
the war in sixty days, by the annihilaton Of
the Southern armies. At the rate at which
reinforoements have lately gone to Grant they
have only kept pace with bis losses; but the
draft will do better Before September runs
out, If there is no posiponement of the draft,
both Grant and Sherman will have received all
the men they want By the middle Of Octo-
Der these additions to the armies will have
|. taken effective shape, and ia the cool, crisp
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days % OCsooo. Va ASvvemuer s..o -
force of the rebellion will be under our feet.
1t is this glimpse Of daylight through the strug-
gle, together with the favorable situation Of
affairs at all points 10 the theatre Of war, that
gives its present healthy and hopeful tone to
the public mind. Never was the public mind
In better tone than now; and the actual situa-
ton and the prospect for the fall are both such
as tot nifty this confidence in success.
Mobile, with the better part of its defences
gone. hardly stands at bay, and Is espondent-
has only the faintest hope that 1t will be able
to resist the Old Salamaader when he comes up
Hood, having tried desperately, finds that be
cannot move Sherman. 1t may be that Sher-
man cannot move Hood, though he has not
tried it. But Sherman will be reinforced and
Hood will not, aud that will settle the question
in Georgia. Grant In Virginia has given the
evidence Of his gcneralship. He has forced Lee
to 'come out and 0ght;" and three times Lees
forces have retired from Grants front weaker
and wiser. In the Shenandoah it is the same
Early is desperately anxious to get out Of The
way, aud once more the rebels ara likely
to abandon the valley. That Shenhndoa val
ley has been like glass tube stretched on.
from Richmond to the Potomac. and the move
ment up and down it has indicated throughout
The war the amount of the vital force that pul-
Gated In the heart Of the conlederacy at Rich
mond. At the very commencement the subtle
fluid ran out from Richmond and pulsated on
the Potomac, at the very end of the tube The
advance to Bull run shortened the current, but
1t soon ran up again The Peninsular campaign
empted the tube entirely. and in Pors's cam
in the scale, the stream leaped out across the
Potomac and stopped only at Antietam. Now
once more the rebel life runs low; there
is no force to pulse it out to Winchester and
Charlestown. EARLY retreats. and common III.
NOR in the beleaguered city Of Petersburg tells
Of the bitterness of the rebel leaders over the
failure Of this valley attempt to frighten Grant
from the James. 1t was 80 easy TO Brighten
those who guarded Washington in 1862 that
they thiak II ought to be less difficult now.
Early goes ont Of the valley, and supplies
for Richmond from that direction are done
with. Grants seizure Of the Weldon road ran
up the price of beef in the rebel capital
to eight dollars pound. There must have
been very little Of it then--ten days ago-and
Grant holds the Weldon Railroad yet. Only the
Lynohburg road and the road 10 DaDvile are
left to feed two cities and an army Of sixty
thousand men. So there will soon be another
desperate battle on the Weldon road
THE BoHEsIANs--A FEMALE SPECIMEN We
have been cracking jokes with Brooks Of the
Express, and making fun Of him, and Laughing
at him, for nearly thirty years. Sometimes he
has received the fun in good part and some
times he has not; but, on the whole we were
beginning to entertain sort Of respect Tor
him. Recently, ia fact, he had risen as rapidly
In the thermometer Of our esteem rs the n,er-
curry did In the ordinary thermometers during
the heated term Imagine our surprise, then,
at finding in his paper, without the rebuke
with which gentleman ought to have accom-
"a r. n
whoever she may be- We were not at all sur
prsed to find the same letter copied. without
comment by the World, for the World is the
acknowledged organ OF the Bohemians:--
TO THs EDITORS OF THE NEW York EXPRESS.
GnYRsviLs. Wyoming County, August %, 1864.
IN this region have had ntten lion called TO
staten sni 10 number OF the Ecnnr h1prss
effect that bad sent cory Of my book Talks
expressive q Of Der vtuos &c Win ysu
please do the justice deny this statement never
book 70 Mrs. Lincoln never wrote note 10 her
pressve OF my admiration appreciation whatever
Nrs Lincoln IN arrd TO buy her own books and hiro
her nunkoys and have no ifea Of supplying hcr
'''-'' JENNIE JUNE
We do not know who jennie June is. She
may be the sister OF Green Victoria or the drst
cousin OF the Empress Eugene for augit we
know Of her. We have never read her book,
am EGfcA NaHL " aS@d ~ ~ tIio lctlci w -
specimen OF Ter style. a more ilmapnered
epistle IL has seldom been our misfortune to
encounter. An Irish servant girl, leaning out
q. the area window Of fourth rate boarding
house, he's head covered with al old shawl and
her gown dirty with grease and cobwc5s, would
have chosen filter phrases 10 which to speak OF
the wife OF the President Slrs, Lincoln is a
respectable, ladyiike woman, who never at
tempts 70 step out Of her proper sphere. By
precedent, etiquette and courtesy che is the frat
lady in the land, and certainly she has never
done anything to disgrace that high position