Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-06-11
TUE PRrsKNT AsPROT.


THR PREsENT ASPECT.
The military situation at present is full OF
hone and ehssrfulness. GRANT, after the almost
unparalleled defeat at spOasylvsnis Court
House, on the I2th ul.., and his repeated flank
movements, has been sndeAvoring to force way
across the Chickahominy to either advance upon
Richmond OF pass to the other side Of the James
and establish himself between that city and the
south. Bat at Cold HsrboT, on the 81, he met
with signal and bloody Tepulse. In his re-
pested and determined assaults upon our lines,
be has suffered immense loss and inflicted little
or none upon our army. BE has achieved st
large sacrifice of his men, only = mOmentary
SUCCESS, in g breach into our lines from which
be has been instantly driven cut with great
slaughter. He may now concentrate his army
on the ChickShominy below Bottoms bridge
and Boar's swamp The plan Of his campaign
seems to be an absolute sinilitude of that st
Vicksburg. Ia that campaign, be landed at
Grand Calf and marching without baggage,
overlook PEMBERToE's army while divided,
and beat it in detail so badly that PEMBERToN
was unable 10 keep the field. GRANT then
placed himself between Vicksburg and the conn
tTy, intrsncbed and reduced it BY blockade He
met LEES srmy as a whole, but failed to defeat
Il. The irresistible pressure Of Gen. GRANTS
unrslenting advances" the TribHHs says, forced
LEE to give up all the country between the
RspidAn and the North Anna, te give up the
Central, Orangs and Alexandria, and FredeT-
icksburg railroads in fact, to yield mp the bet
ter part Of Northern Virginia.
The query was once prOpounded to hrs.
PARTINGToN, eff body in motion that is IL
rssistibls' comes in eontses with body at rest
that cannot be moved, what weuld be the re-
suln" She answered it thus; i think some
body win get hurt1 GRAEF's 'irrasistihlsr
body net LEES army ''st rest' at the Wilder
ness and spottsylvanis Court House, and the
consequence Was tbas the "iTrssistibls' body
failed to move the body'fsf Test'' and glanced
of 70 the Psmunksy. But even here the "ir
resistible body" has been net, and caused to
rebound with fearful less At every collision. The
idea Of GRANTS besieging Richmond by ditch
Ing On ; circ umieTence Of ten miles around the
city, is desperate and forlOrn conception. Op-
Grating by the radius, while GRANT is forced to
take an arc OF the circle, LEE can cOncenlrAts
his forces and meet hin st any given point at
shorter distances and with superior numbers.
Richmond will not be besisged SO long as
its main avenues of supply are untouched. A
junction with BUTLER, and the occupation Of
both sides of the nvsr as low down as Bermuda
Hundreds, viii not constitut4 siege. Between
Cold Harbor and Malvern Hill there is 3 thoTny
road, bssst with ugly "reminiscences. On the
other side Of the James, from City Point 20 Pc
tersbUrg, the country Is level enough, but the
psth Is all up bill From Petersburg round to
the Jsmes is 3 long distance full Of perils, par
italy tested by KANT on the 9.h. From Han
over Court House, By way Of Malvern Hill, to
the James, thence to Petersburg and thence to
the James again, is a vide circuit hundred
miles or more In extent. An Investment Of that
line would be heavy, indeed it would require
sJmething ike : million of men.
SHERMAN having been ioiled in bis attempts
to flank US 81 Dallas, retrseed bis way back to
the rAilTesd, and is now sndssyoring to make
flank movement on eur right. His irTesisi-
BE body" has wholesome fear of JOHHsToE's
veterans At rest" Like GRANTS, sHER-
MANS army met JOHSsTON's forces only 10
rebound alter great ioss and iTy the 6enking
process. He has made not . single movement
which hss not been OWNED by J0BSsros and
ss promptly met. TIE irresistible pressure
Of bis unrelenting advance" has not been so
" irresistible" and uBFelenting" - his elee-
tioneering dispatches to the War Department
would indicate.
There must be some excuse for the delay in
their promises to the Northern public to crush
the rebellion speedily by the capture of Rich
mond and Atlantis The report Of GRANT
that having once got LEE safely eusconeed in
bis works, away we go swiftly to his rear, "the
enemy we're Tepulsed in every assault; all gces
WELL" and SHERAIAE's telegram that he has
routed the retreasing and demOrAlizsd forces Of
JOHNSTON, and holds possession of the railroad
within mile Of Marietta, have been resorted
10 by them, to revive and keep up the dropping
spirit Of the N0rtherz cause. They expect the
fslsity Of their reports to bs discovered after a
while, but they seek temporary relief at the ex-
spring campaign was commenced by the North
by force Of some four hundred and Rfty thou
sand men. Their losses from all eauses can not
have been far short of one hundred and fifty
thousand. This leaves them force in the field,
At present, Of three hundred thousand men, only
about twice the number Of men lost
The armies Of both Gems. LEE and JOHNSTON
remain intact in numbers and morale. They
have unabAted confidence ia the sbilify Of thsir
chieftsins, whose modesty and worth ere ae-
knoWledged By all mon. The enemy have
brought out their utmost strength in the pres
snt campaign, and tbs repeated calls for rein
foTcemsnts show, despite Of their brAegSdocio
dispatches, their waning strength. The NsrGh-
em people do not place such implicit reliance
nPon the lying assertions Of GRANT and SHER-
MAN, as the continued rise in gold, the baTome-
Ter Of public conf fisnce, sttssts.
GRANT and SHERMAN appear to be LIs-
coins chief fuglensn n forcing the Baltimore
convention to reaominate him. LINCOLN seems
to have Scared that the tide Of public sentiment
would induce that convention to throw him
overheard, notwithstanding be had stocked the
cards" He snUffs danger in the breeze, and
fears that even his own tools viii be turned
against him. This, TOO, in the face of tbe claim
Of bis supporters that be will carry I79 electoral
votes 10 the coming election, l34 being neces-
ssIy to choice. They completely ignore the
Fremont wing Of their party, and give In
diana, Illinois, New jersey and kentucky to the
COpPerheads.