The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-05

i We know not whether we arc justified
Z in -jyjns credit to the Intelligence pub
a ).>ued by lis yesterday, and derived from
u q uc;.hDo1inS Journal, to tho effect that
s Gcucral Hood had been. attacked when
s. Ia ne act Of raising the siege Of Nash
u ,i,..: and that, on the 20th Of Dcccm-
fs r. lie hsI made up for his ill-tortune
lr defeating the enemy severely at Co
8lnut:a. We say We know not whcthc.
stMs report Is entitled to entire credit
a but the substance of it corresponds so
we'll with what We had previously con
S cviycI to be The true state Of the case that
81 we cannot avoid attributins to tia GER
#tain degree Of probability at least. Had
-#Gcncgal Hood been so badly beaten or
tie 18th Of December as to compel a
retreat so rapid and dis0rderly that it
1ntajIcd a loss Of ten thousand prisoners,
. ii addition TO the Killed and wounded, it
is Impossible that he should have been,
s Oh tAc 18th, only twenty-five miles from
& the Nell Of battle. Ills army would. by
s that time, either have been many miles
3 farther off OF it would have been entirely
!, Dispersed especially when We take into
consideration the Yankee statement that
I Thomas lost only three thousand men in
3 tn battle itself, and that Hood lost dou
Tile hat number. besides eight hundred
@prisencrs; that the immense subsequent
#c3ptUrc5 WcHe & consequence Of the total
spout sustained by Hood, and that his
Ewboic force previously to the action was
,@t thirty five thousand. Still farther
q it impossible thai an army thus badly
q 4lc@, aad losing thus enormously,
fsp4t have been able to hold together
y teHaciousiy As TO he found, at the end
Z .ue week from the destructive battle,
.s.Hiy .ort.-0ne miles from the field, while
s. e army WAS not nearer than fifteen
y lie, in the rear. From the same Yam
= &C. papers We ere Hearing every day Of
Il preparations made 10 prevent this routed
"a 'ii>oraaDizcd army from crossing the
- cnrcasee, thereby assigning to it a
= atty which most assurediy it would
4, possess had it ever suffered as Sc
sy1ely as the Yankees pretend it has
= he annihilation Of Hood, indcod, seems
& ryscnblc that Of Early last fall. 1t
II quite consistent with his still continn-
j. [. hold his ground and TO present
? tern and defiant an attitude as ever
Z These facts We noticed some days ago,
!. and We ycnturc1 to suggest az the time
H. when the truth came 10 he known,
~ roUs!l the report of General Hood HIM
81 !, OF from other trustworthy sources,
would he found that the panic into
r@ncf our people had been thrown by
a -t Yankee reports was greatly dispro~
-.pHed TO the actual facts Of t!ic case
- to'res sronding 50 well as the intell-
u uee in question does With our own
q .oncciyed views Of the matter, we
= aoaot but place certain degree Ct re-
ancc upon it. IT. On the Goth Of De
NeFnber, there was another battle, in which
iood obtained signal victory and cap
lrod one whole Yankee brigade; and if,
bout the same time, Forrest captured
mother entire brigade, with train Of
TX hundred wagons, we can easily ac-
cunt for what would be altogether un-
accountable upon the supposition that
'e Yankees told the trutfl-na.nely ::
!e 'ar1lhess Of their pursuit. 1t is all
'l0'eiy impossible that an army which
I" routed another army, taken from it
2ht hundred prisoners on the field Of
a'He and ten thousand more in the pur-
'''' Should, at the end Of ten days, find
'oeH sui fifteen miles from that routed
''' ''Sofsanlzed army, having pursued
'''e rate Of five miles Il day But il,