Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-06-02

IT would be folly at the date CT the present writing
IN make any attempt at summing up the features of the
situation. There is literally situation for to cum
nm. What acas the situation yesterday either East or
West. may be no longer the situation to day what i
the situation as We write may be altogether
changed before we GO to press. Mare1vriog is
prettNnuch and hard fighting alone can 90 very
much GRANT has tackled and mai o1vred himself
within few miles OF R'chmord but be has not heen
able to remove the lion from bis way. LEE ard bis
army still menace bis advance and bar bis PR gess 20
the goal Of his ambition.
So in the West The tug of war has at last come ard
II will he a severe ore The Yankee army under SHER
MAN is very formidable and it is under able ard enter.
nrieipg corps conmonders. Men like MoPHERsoN,
THOMAS HooKER aud others are not to be desplaed-
McPHERsoN is man of genius The rank and file OF
SHERMAN's army rough rugged, fighting stock, and
will task al the wetried bravery and proves of our
Generals and soldiers. Still if Western estimates be
correct, we tbitk the case on our side is fair one
The idea held out by the Atlanta papers is that JOHN
sroN has veleron army of seventy Thousand men
with him. and that he has will have tie assistance Ct
FoRREsr's and WHEELER's cavalry acting on the enc
my's Iear ard communications. The enemy cannot
have rrep2rdersnce Of onefith IL total numberP and
therefore COulQ baFC!y bt W pLiLe
numbers to bear at tie actual point of collision, bis
column il lis advance has necessarily been weakened to
hold captured positions bis rear end thus his
communications and supps.
But all these things gre speculative and such is the
state of things DOW that place little dependence
in things of that character nor truth must be told
in things of any kid that we hear or read about.
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The more we hear from Virginia and Georgia, the
less able we feel to make up Situation article that
conveys dtfnite idea to cur own minds This being
the case, it is hardly to be expected that give
our readers what we have not got ourselves.
GRANT has got near Richmond, and, although he hes
now after the loss OF fifty to seventy five thousand mer
only succeeded in attaining a position to which his
transports might have enabled him to with little
if ary less at ALL still there has been sufficient appear
ance of advance 20 give at least Temporary encourage
ment 10 tie North, without enabling GRANT to crown
himself with the fresh laurels to be in victory
over LEE. Thia is Just what LINCOLN wants. On
Wednesday Of next week the Black Ropubii-
can nominating cOnrention meets at Baltimore.
That convention will meet under auspices ia
y0rabIe to the denomination of LINCOLN
His policy appears, can easily be made to appear,
successful. GRANT is near Richmond; SHERMAN not
far from Atlanta. NethLr of them have done anything
conspcuousIy brilliant far; certainly nothing TO
give them the track. LINCOLN will certainly be re-
nominated, ard unless We very much mistaken, be
will be cleo ed That tie situation that he is work
ing to secure, AID he will probably secure it,
The stote # ifgs in Northern Georgia will be SEE
from the Geographic Dispatches he mals bring &C.
tually nothing calculated any additional light
upon the subject. lh- Especial correspondents and
the inge: i0us editors of the Atlanta papers to
know just about much in regard to operations in
front and the plans of he commanding generals we
do here Jus; about as much, we think Gen. JOHN
sroN certainly Knows how to keep his own counsel
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