The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-09-20
COmmenis Of the Richmond
Examiner

jNRw3Y YoRK, Sept.s.--The Richmond
Examiner of the 5th, in commenting
on Hoods official dispatch announcing
his disaster, says how it was that after
attacking the enemy with two corps
near Jonesboro, only Hardee,s corps
wps left to resist the assault of the en-.
emy, can only BE accounted for by
supposing that after our attack failed
to dislodge the enemy, Hood Withdrew
one of them to Atlanta, leaving Hardee
TO bear the brunt alone. This Hardee
could have done had he not miscalcu-
lated the enomy's designs. He must
have believed the main body of Slier-
mans army to have been in front OF
Atlanta, when in fact it was on Flint
river, near Jonesboro, 20 odd miles
aouth. '' i t'i
The Examiner cahgratulates the
South, that though Atlanta is lost, the
army is not, and says the loss of the
former is nothing, while the loss of
the latter would have been without
remedy. p "i+'io ''- .aifiI a1nIg''
In another article the Examiner
condemns the removal of Johnston,
sayinh he was superseded by Hood,
q commander Of a division, notoriously
incapable Of anything largor than 3
division. The result is disaster at
Atlanta in the very nick of time when
such victory alone could save the
party of Lincoln fyom irretrtrievable
ruin. ol bpsdfe.ruD s.,l .,,-~ r.3
After referring to the absurdity of
putting up and pulling down com
mander in the field, according to the
crude views or opeevish fancies Of a
funstionary in Richmond, the Examin-
or continues "Now il it not hard, is
it not o,uelly hard, that the struggle
of eight millions who sacrifice their
money and their lives, who groan in
the excess of their rexertion, who
wrench every muscle till the blood
starts with the sweat, should come to
nausht, should end in the ruin of us
all. that the predictions and antipa-
thies, the pitiful personal feelings of
q single man may be INDUCED" "1'nfoS
Again it says: "The moral effect of
the loss of Atlanta, though it may be
temporary, will be great. 1t will rem
der incalculable assistance to the party
of Lincoln, and OBSCURE the prospects
OF peace, late 30 bright. 1t may en-
able them to execute the draft. 1t will
difiusc gloom over the South. This
depression, however, may be be speed
lily. relieved If the Administration hes
a spark Of real sense or unselfish pat
riotism. The reinstatement ofJohnson,
or appointment OF Beauregsfd would
at once resto?e the confidence Of the
country and army"
The Examiner says that late Bristol
papers state that it IL a lie about Whee-
Ter destroying the great bridge over the
Tenhesee.at Eondoui The same paper
says '.he seems studiously to avoid the
enemy's bridges and lines Of communi-
cation, and .devotes himself to running
about the country picking up small lots
of prisoners" go pn.0T .Ii iaol r'I
The Sentinel sloses an article on the |
situation as follows: "The only practi-
cal moral We can draw from this isthat
the Confederate States never han more
urgent need of an effective army and
and stringent cohscription, and vigilant
leaders, and all men to the front, than
they have at this hour" ilogsnak |
sFWe see it estimated that so far it
has cost Belmont, Barlow q Go. over
sl00, 900 to bring about the. nomina-
ion ofB.Jittle Mac These stock
oBbers have gone into the speculation
much after, the manner they get up
bogus copper company. The demon
'tration at Chicago, for Mcclellan, ac-
oording to the papers, was got up re-
yardcss of expense. The court house
vas rurrounded by half thousand lit
lie flags bearing McClellan's name pur-
chased in New York. Scores Of trans
,arcncies aud lanterns threw their va
'iegated illumination over the scene.
They were brought from New York.
Two or three thousand dollars worth
blazed and shot, and
pit and sparkled from ten of the eve to
wo of the morn. They were brought
rom Now York. The streets were
,araded by political clubs from New
York and Philadelphia. The music
'ame from Boston, at n cost, it is said,
# between $4,000 and 10000.
,fGeu. Butler says with 100000 moro
nen., Grant could. yanquish Lee, or
Iriye him out ofViroinia: and that if |