Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-08

The rebels have pledged themselves to
the European stockholders OF Confederate
bonds to invade the North, The necessi-
ties of Lees army demand Northern in
vasions. The telegraph reports the in
vaders at Hagerstovn, Nd, waiting for re-
inforcements before making a grand
movement into the valley of the Cumber-
land and through Pennsylvania.
The Richmond Sentinel Of August Sd,
commenting upon the statement that the
New York Herald had spies in Richmond,
because it reported that General Johnston
had assumed command of the rebel raid
ers, says
The New York Herald must certainly
have secret emissaries in our midst, for
how else could he know that Geueral
Johnston, at the head OF an army Of sixty
thousand men, was about to fail like an
avalanche upon the Capital Of the United
States An army Of sixty thousand men
added to Earlys command would ensure
the fall Of Washington and the regener,S
tion of Maryland The Infamous action
Of the State Constitutional Convention,
the robbery of their slaves and the mill
tary despotsln under which her people a1e
groaning, has increased the hatred of the
inhabitants OF Maryland against their op-
pressors to such a degree that they are
ready and eager, the moment there Is Il
prospect Of permanent occupation Of the
State by Confederate troops, to rise and
turn upon their oppressors.
Tie Examiner of the same date has
similar testimony that the new invasion is
to be quite formidable.
The Cause Of the Failure at petersburg.
The Tribune's correspondent presents
the cause of the recent deieat at Peters
burg, IN the following summary;
What was the affair of Saturday? l
shall tell it only in the outlines for ii is my
desire to do no wrong, yet my determine
tioR't9 tell the truth. So, until gather
theisafe facts Of the case, will only say
generally, that the commander Of the corps
charged with the duty and intrusted with
the coveted honor Of making the assault,
did not accompany the troops tnat led it
that not commander OF division OF the
corps accompanied the troops; that the
work which their absence thus discredited
and impaired was left entirely to brigade
commanders; that the charge made by the
leading force was not supported for three
quarters Of an hour; that when the sup
port came up to ana entered in the crater
produced by the explosion Of the mine, it
found it full of the advance, in II necessa-
rily disordered state; that the delay in sup
porting the leading charge gave the rebels
time to recover from the confusion and
terror caused by the explosion, to gather
opposite the breach all their available
force, to drive into the crater the fOie; that
bad advanced beyond it, to train upon the
fatal pit all their artillery, to rain into it a
fire Of musketry, grape and canister, that
tore remorselessly, and without the possi-
bility OF error or aim, the solid mass OF
heaving, twisting, crawling,
helpless soldiers, black and white, that, in
extricably intermingled, deGed allattempts
to tactically extricate them The suryi-
vers crawled out of the hell-hole one by
one. The rebels swooped upon the pit be-
fore it could be emptied. 1 am assured
that we left in it, of dead and wounded and
and have under treatment this
side oft Of wounded, 5,O00men. 5. w.