Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-05-19

WE nave given up alnOst our cntire pa |
Der TO the telegraph news of late battles. =
We odrise our readers not to betiert all they
read, or they will most likely be disappoin
ted. We give it to them Just as we receive
il. ne confess oe hare but little confidence
in the nelos from, the army Of The Potomac.
When it is recollected that those great ar.
mics were fighting from Wednesday until
Saturday, and not a line was permitted to
20 to the public until Saturday, we consider
we have cause to mistrust that the disaster
to our arms has been very great, but we
hope for tho best. The Washington cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati Enquirer says
that ono thousand wounded were brought
into Washington on Wednesday Of last
week. Where did they come from? Could
they haze been from the reported dcfeat Of
Burnside P Gazette.
The editor of the Gazette was so
well pleased at seeing one of his edi-
torials in the columns of the CHRONICLE
few weeks ago, that we feel like gratl-
flying his vanity by occasionally print
ing one of his efforts in our columns
We give above the "leadiny editoriaT'
from last weeks issue, and it is truly
curiosity in its way.
The editor gives up "almost" his
"entire paper" to the publication of
news in which he says he has "but little
p confidence" and which he advises his
readers mot to believe" This is not
the first time he has given up his paper
to the publication of what he did not
believe to be true, but he has too often
neglected to ''advise his readers not to
believe" it. The only falsehool in his
dispatches about the recent battles in
the East-the butternut report of Burn
sides disaster at Thoroughfare Cap
Is the only thing that the editor seems
to believe or endorse, and this had been
officially contradcted before the issue
of his paper, but it was so thoroughly
in keeping with his feelings and desires,
that even this official contradiction
could not induce him to forego the
qualification oflaying it before his read
ers, and we venture the assertion that
the editor will not, in this weeks issue,
tell his readers that the ''reported defeat
of Burnside" was butternut false
hood, although his columns will con
tain abundance evidence that Burnside
has been with Grant fighting in every
battle since the date of that despatch
to the "World"
The above editorial from the Gazette,
is a fair index to the feelings of the
Vallandigham Democracy of Belmont
County, if not of the State. We have
watched them, we have heard them
talk, and no man can dc either long,
without being forced to the conclusion,
that their hatred of the "Abolitionists,
as they term those who are in favor of
the suppression Of the rebellion, is so
strong, and 80 deeply rooted, that they
cannot but rejoice over the reverses of
our army, and the success of the rebels,
because they believe the success of the
Union cause will strengthen and its re-
verses weaken the party in power.
When the despatch announcing Han
cocks brilliant charge at Spottsylvanla
was read in town, one of these hopeful
Vallandighamer's was heard say: "Oh!
If Stonewall jackson was only there"
On Sabbath evening the whole fra
ternity were in an excellent humor over
adespateh that was said by the operator
here to have passed over the lines, to
the effect that General Sheridan had
been repulsed at Richmond, and the
rebels had captured million of Gov.
ernment rations, but their Joy was
turned into sorrow the next morning
when the paper brought us the accoun,
ofthat Generals grand and destructive
raid on the Railroads, and around the
Rebel Capitol.
They have claimed that Gen. Grant
has been whipped by Lee in every fight
mp to Monday mornings reports, since
then their elongated visages and down
cast looks indicate that they begin to
think things are not going on very fav
orably for them, and we should not b
much surprised to see them chang
front pretty soon and begin TO sa
"they always knew we would viii
them" and claim they were always |
favor Of doing it; but the above prt
ciors item, and few others that migt
be found in the columns Of that intsss'
ly Democratic paper, will be slightly
the way Of such wholesale change {
- front to rear. I"
THE Road TO RIOMMOED.