Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-12
SOMETHING LIKE WAR.

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and the Northern States wanted McClel-
Ian elected, so that if this unholy war
was to be continued, it might be conduct
ed ''upon the principles of Christian CIV
ilization." That was Macs STYLE and nc
played into Jeff.'s hand in style that
was "ducks for the Confederacy. Mac
however, was ruled out Of the game some
time ago, and all the rebel hopes OF hap
nv return of his Christian civilization
were most efectually mashed out on Tues
day last. Playing at war stopped some
rim. since, and stern reality has taken Its
nlace, The rough iron gauntlet OF Grant
was . grievous contrast to the velvet
glove of Mcclellan, and the rebels began
n shrek about barbarity" long ago.
The slight taste of his quality that they
have experienced thus far, has not been
printing to what is in store for them.
They have talked about the "horrors of
war;" but they don't begin to know what
that term signifies. If the past has been
horrible, they will have to coin new
word for that which is to come. The
days when Lee could take a rest from the
active operations of war, and send thirty
or forty thousand men of into the agri.
cultural districts to harvest years pro-
vision, have passed. There is to be no
planting of fields in the Southern Con-
federacy during the coming season, L
Grant knows himself-and we think he
knows himself. The farming operations
of the South are destined to be very lin
tied, and the rebs will be invited to come
North and do their harvesting, if they
happen to run short of corn, and think
the climate of Northern cornfelds would
agree with their health. What kind Of a
crop is likely to be raised next season in
the Shenandoah Valley, may be gathered
from the following item from the war cor
respoudence of the New York Herald:
On Thursday, September Goth, Generals
Clusters and Merritt's Divisions were sent
up the Valley to destroy, according to the
following Order:
HEADQUARTERS; ETC.
Do all the damage you can to the railroad
and crop. Garry of stock of all descriptions
and negroes, so as TO prevent further plant
ing. II the war is to last another year, let
the Shenandoah Valley remain barren
waste. U. ). GRANr.
It is further given out that General Grant
has ordered the above to be so completely
carried out that crow flying over the Val
lev will have to carry its own rations. All
day on the 18th both Custer and Merritt were
engaged in destroying the crops, mills, and
all property Of use to the rebel army. The
scene presented on this occasion was indeed
a very saddening, but still very necessary
one. In the course Of the day we destroyed
enough wheat TO subsist the whole rebel army
for year to come, besides collecting fifteen
hundred head of cattle and about three thou
sand sheep.
That's pretty rough papers on Johnny
Reb, isn't it: Hardly in accordance with
Little Macs ideas of warfare on
the principles of Christian cirii-
ration" At last accounts Hoods
army were subsisting on parched
corn. Even that most modest and not
over nutritious edible will be rather scant
in their commissary department if Grant
persists in his unchristian and uncivilized
style Of persecution" When Hood
drew his lines so close to inhabited towns
that Sherman could not FIRE at him with
out endangering the lives of women and
children, Hood refused to remove his non
combatants. and whlned about barbara
ty' when Sherman opened fire. When
Sherman took the town and sent the peo-
pie out of it, Hood and the Mayor of At
lanta whined "barbarity" again. Hester-
day the telegraph brought US intelligence
that Sherman had burned that town to
ashes. We wonder what the " barbarity"
shriekers will "can that when its
cooked :" The rebellion thinks it has
been having hard time of it for some
time back: but it is &" like young bear,
all its sorrow is to come" The war that
has now commenced against them admits
of no alternative but submission or utter
destruction. Their walls about "barbari-
ty" fall on ears deafened by three years
roar of artillery and the groans of starved
and butchered prisoners. Their appeals
to humanity in behalf of starving women
and children" are unavailing with men,
who have for years past offered them, and
offer them still, peace. plenty and pros
perity at the cheap and only price of sub
mission to the best, freest and most just
government on the face of the earth. If
they still stubbornly refuse to yield, the
starving women and children will know
their husbands, sons and fathers as their
murderers. The fat has gone forth from
the government, and has been endorsed by
the people of the United States, that this
rebellion shall yield, or that war, not
with McClellan's proviso about
christian civilization" but cruel, relent-
less, devastating war shall desolate. and
the whole domain OF treason
111I,Y FOR THE UMBILIoAL."
last Monday, the day before the cleo