The New York herald., 1864-09-06

ihe CITY Inspectors report 500
deaths in the city onring ending Sepem D.
decrease OF 67 compared with the mortality OF the
week previous, ana 20 than occurred d. lag the
corresponding ssS ot last year.
he violent fluctuations in gold connected with the
for all kinds Of merchandise yesterday and both imported
and domestic produce nom;nally lower Inported
goods In cases firmly hec but in nearly every
instance where there was any business done prices
ruled lower Cotton petroleum. groceries, &C. &c
dul and nomnay lower. ON Change the -four market
dull and without decided change, Wheat was
rather steady and firm. Corn without decided
change 10 price oats quiet Pork was active and
rather frner Beef quiet Lard was less active and
scarcely firm. Whiskey continued dul! and heavy.
freights were very dul.
Our Great GiIlitary Succ.s,es-Thc Poll
ticians and the Presidency.
In Georgia the confeGeracy, under Saerman's
cyclopean blows, las fallen into hopeless ruin.
Atlanta, the great vital point of the confede-
racy in that section, is in our possession. and
Hood, who had been expected to make it one
OF the many last bitches. is in retreat with q
heartess remnant Of Johnstcn's old army. His
numbers at Atlanta had been sweiled by mill
ta but militia which fights but indifferently at
he has by this time lost every man OF it. Sher-
man will easily finish him at his leisure, and
meantime be may be practically counted out OF
the struggle. The moral effect of the fall of
Atlanta will determine the fail of Mobile.
South Carolina is from this time one of the
frontier States of the coniederacy. On the
other frontier in Virginia the struggle promises
TO yield the grandest results Grant and Sher-
dan will have the same glorious success that
Sherman has had. Large reinforcements are
continually on the way to Grant and Sheridan
meanw while keeps from Lee the only reinforce
ment that he could possibly count upon. Sup
plies of all kinds and even ammunition. must
soon run low in Lees army, and he has not yet
been able to move Grant from the Weldon road.
He could not do it in three great attempts, and
it is now useless to try it. The result at Rich
pond is simply o question OF time, and is
already definitely fixed in our favor. With
such generals as now control the operations OF
our armies-wi,h Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
in command-fliure is no longer possible. The
rebellion has no longer the least hope Of sMc-
cess.
In this great crisis of our country, history
the great armies in Georgia and in Virginia
the armies OF the Potomac, the Cumberland
tue Tennessee and the 0hio-are not in the
remotest manner analogous TO the armies that
are organized and sent TO the field in Europe to
fight the private battles Of quarrelsome poten-
tates. They are not mere armies in any such
restricted sense as the word army is generally
used in. Those great assemblsges Of Inen are
the American people under arms. They are
the committee of the nation who have taken
the affairs OF the country in hand, aud have
gone out to settle the great questions of the
age. In those armies will be found the stronger
men OF every social circle; for those armies are
| the essence, the heart, the brain, the hand OF
| the American people. Those armies, after the
struggles and changes OF three years, have found
their real and worthy leaders, and the leaders of
those armies are the natural leaders OF the
American people. One OF the most pitiful
spectacles in history is to see nation declare
against its really great men in tho face OF the
most palpable facts; to see the political huck-
sters declare that some nonentity of their num-
ber is entitled TO the sovereign power, while
the real Hannibal thunders at the gates Of an
opposing Rome, and the people accept the
decision of the hucksters We are asked as a
people to repeat this spectacle. Our great war
has tried as in furnace every prominent man
in the country, and 1t has proven that there are
some few distilled Of all our virtues'--tbe
real types Of our greatness as people--and
our worthy leaders, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan
and staunch old Thomas are the foremost OF
these-thc only men that the country can
count upon as reliable leaders in time of dan
ger. Yet, in the face OF the fact that these men
have been proved by the hardest OF all tests
to be our real leaders, party OF political
traders at Baltimore hare told the people that
they Ought to accept helpless politician ~
their leader; another party urges from Cieve-
iaud another politician, and convention OF
recognized enemies OF the government told-
ing up the bait Of a popular name, urge the
people also to ignore their great leaders, TO
vote their way and make peace.
Ii Is simple infatuation--it is national blind
ness-for the people, in the face Of the great
facts Of this war, TO be led away from their real
leaders, and TO follow any one OF these corrupt
political ciiques Indeed, only the Chicago
Convention offers the people any reasonable
temptation to ignore such leaders as Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan. They raise the name
! OF Mcclellan to strengthen their feeble cause
but Il will not do. II is a name that aseo-
ciated with noble struggle FOR the natienals
causs--with . patriotic dsairs 70 save the