The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-28
ATTEST RON THE NORTH

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We have received copies Of New York papers Of
iueS,Ity, the 25th instant. The news is unm-
po'tdnt, and may be put III a very brief space.
The Yankees have no intclligenc- from Sherman.
The HeJ"d says Hoods movements have been exc
outed with such skill that Sherman must attack and
| whip hun or hi, line Of communication will BE- rem
dercd useless by the proximity Of tho Conf,.srstes
t" it Sherman, say-, has been compelled to leave
one corps IN state Of siese in Atlanta and has
TO 90 forth to fight Hood in his own chosen position
| On the lsih Hood was reported one mile below La
fayetLe, and Sherman at Viliason, six miles from
! him. Hood, according to Yankee accounts being
| heavily reinforced, inculng Walkers division
| from tire Trans Mississippi
| The only intelligence from General Price is the
following telegram from Kansas cl'y, Missouri,
Monday:
A courier Just from the front reports that Price is
| in full retreat and closely pursued by forces
Il hcn the courier lett the enemy was twenty-five
| miles south OF here.
| a letter from EItlcr's army says Of the recent
| gunboat Gglt III the James
Yesterday morning, two new batteries which had
been constructed hy General Butler OH James nver,
near CLaiT's Bluff, opened on the rebel gunboat5
| i'll the vicinity, and drove them all, except stub
| born iron-clad, about half mile further up the
river. The iron-cad, later III the day, Joined her
| consorts The engagement, tor the short time 1t
lasted, is represented by those who witnessed 1t as
| particularly lively and interesting.
Tae Confederate prisoners recently kept under fro
on MolIi~ island have been removed from their po-
sition by General Foster, he having been informed
! that the Union prisoners under fire IN Charleston
had been similarly relieved. General Hardee, COM
handing AT Charleston, mas proposed To Geherai
Foster an exthaRgeof all prisoners captured In their
respective departments, and the proposition has been
referred by the Latter officer to the authorities at
| WashingtOu
| The oppJuents Of the Free State Constitution OF
Mary land made application i'll the Superior Court
| In Baltimore for order compelling Governor Brat--
| fond to exclude, the votes Of soldiers OutsIde the
| state The application was refused by the court,
! and IN appeal from its decision taken, and tho
matter viii he argued before the Cont OF Appeals
by counsel of distinguished ability on both sides
Small bodies OF Cunfeleraes still scattered
around al various points in Kentucky. Four regi-
| monto are said to be at CcntIeviiie, m HicAmah
| county; but to whose command they belong is not
| known Bands were ut Owcnsboro' and Henderson
| on Friday last The number scatt' red along tbs
Ohio from the mouth of salt river to opposite ENaha-
| VILE Indiana. il estimated at two thousand
| By a,yites from Bermuda 10 the 18th instant We
| learn that Lieutenant Bralne and hS conieieratts
have been arrested and held for ta '"r Setzhs anu
| burning the steamship Roanoke. Inc court reilssu
| to bail them.
There Is nothing later from Sheridan. letter
| says:
| f. would seem that, under he losses and morth
tipn~ thIs last defeat, that army Edriys must
| be rendered nearly poweIle but recent experiences
hts shown that II possesses strange elasticity
which defeat and los, DO not wholly overcome, a!li
en- only be conquered by the putting oi every man
| III 1t Lo,S dH cgH9bdf.
! The New York U'orid has a long article upon the
mpJssibllity OF holding the territory occupied IN
th5 South unless there IL party III favor Of tho
Union in the C9niede,aoy aud that 10 hold that ter
ritory it is necessary to create such a party the
South. The Uorid says.
| No yigtorits however complete, will bate one JOt
of the public bur,ens until southern strength shall
aiI Us in Curbng Southern dIsatfectiOn. Ii W. can
create Union party Ill the south, on such ha7i7
that il will grow 10 be IuaIOIty, the prepond.race
physical strength will be on the side of the Union
When that time comes, the Union cause III that SEC
| ton will be seli-suppoItng. But until then the
taking of toTgns only creates necessity Tor hiilg
towns with lirrisoi!s; advances into the rebel
rit0ry only troops III holding our cOGld2>se
| and guallug our rear. But even the conquest "i
the South is doubtful without Southern co-opcra-
| tiuu.
Our costly and laborious campaigns are like roll'
ing the stone OF SIsyphuS. When, by great eXer-
tiun, we have earned 1t nearly to the summit, IL
| aytrpowtr, our waning strength and gucs thunder
in; back to the plain. IL would require powerful
memory to recount the times the military stone has
been rolled up and has again rolled down the She
! uau,loah Valley. Ii three years have not suihCet
t. give Us sccte possession Of that small district III
! q angle State, convenient 10 our Resources, how
ON ~ EXPECT a permanent conquest Of the whole
! South General sherman advanced 10 Atlanta; he
j. now, with the bulk Of ms army, watching the
operations of Hood, nearly IA hundred miles back IN
the mount tinUl1 region about Chattanooga. In thu
| Southwest We advances into the Red River country
only to retreat under the pressure OF disaster.
In Missouri, had AFlNtII tht rebels out OF the
STATE tar into Arkansas; but the stone has rolled
] bach and rTice l. III possessDn Of considerable
| palt of the State. The Administration boasts that
| u has rrg0uuUertd tWD-thrdS Ot the Southern Con-
trlerdcy; but it cannot deny that II has neither had
50 many soldiers, Needed so many soldiers, since
| the beginning Of the war, is ut present. And tha
greater the area u its ooIi4uGst7 thr more men
| will continually need, unless, by change O civi
| pai,,y 1t shall cali into existence Caion party IL
| the cong iIGItd territory.
me seminole war IN Florida, some forty years ago.
7 an all
| cty of subugatlUg enemies IN hn iInprae t!cabie
| country The SeliILoie war ritn on for years, and
| seemed likely to be int Tmlnai c, costing the country
thirty or forty mIIons of tolluS to conquer Billy
| BJw,gs and contempt bic tribe of savages. Iii the
everglades OF F,ildi. The painful coh4ueat Of Al
| g,Iia bv France affords mOrv recent aud more strl-
,,y Illustration Ii cost France, the first military
nation IN Europe, at u time when she had no other
war on her hands, thirty OF forty campaigns, ex-
tending through half many years, 10 gam COM
Iletc pose~,iou Of that petty country Ill Norlhch
s. Atliei-l country not more Impracc'tbic for mill
| tary operations than Is great part VI Ia" SOUTH
| Even now, according to Il statement oi n liners.
in his great speech OH the last French budget IL
requires seventy thousand troops 10 hold that con-
| n,.st; a number that would be- wholly insufficient
lid the inhabitants not know that, If they should be-
siege those seventy thousand III their fortresses,
| France has four hundred thousand more constantly
under arms, from Which She can dc:teh heavy re-
| infUrCC mentS.
But suppoSing all military difficulties surmounted
| and the South completely subdued, govern II
| only at the point of the bay onet unless WIN
| back 4. majority of the people. A sullen and
| naughty obedience, extorted by military force, Is
) | not peace, lOr 1t Permits 10 diinnuton OF our
armies 1t not restoration ot the Union, for the
| Union - Il bond between co-equal States, II Is not
j | Republican, Government, since 1t Is the very es-
..:ce of Republican Government that II emanates
from taa spontaneous will Of the people. and Is u
submission t. rulers which they have freely chosen.
| The steel biVckiI.-runner Colonel Lamb
0 | started FROM Haifax Monday for Wilmington.
The Charlotte and Dld DoInluiOn were stl there.
/ | The Elndp had been captured oil Wilmington.
| General Custer Il dear Fanny ia consideration
VI his distinguished services III the SHENANDOAH
, Valley, has been promoted by Lncon to the rank
| Of m,IOy- gesy.,d Of vUlunteers
| Gold rose ~ 2tGs Oh Monday.
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