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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Hunting season. (search)
The Hunting season. --The public mind is so much occupied with the war that it has no thought for the partridges. The huntsmen, too, have all gone off to fire at the enemy, who seem to be as hard to bring down on the wing as the birds, if we may judge from the Bull Run races. If there should be another fight in that direction shortly, by-the-by, we hope General Johnston will have a pack of greyhounds ready. It is the only way to catch a Yankee. But, as we were saying, huntsmen are scarce, and shot sells very high; so the birds are likely to be little disturbed this season. So it is a very ill wind that blows nobody any good. We hear, however, of a few, above the age for military service, who are getting ready to take the field, not of Mars, but of Diana. The birds, we learn, are very small, and we hope they will not be disturbed until they get older and the weather gets colder. A partridge ought not to be shot before the first day of November.
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch, (search)
North They know very well, too, that the regiments which they recruit in the Northwest are vastly superior in prowess and courage to those raised in the Eastern and Middle States; and it is much more politic to precipitate those Northwestern regiments in vast bodies upon Kentucky, than to send them far West into Missouri or Kansas, or as far East as Washington and the Potomac. The Southern cause, on the other hand, is embarrassed in Kentucky by the political position of that State. Gen. Johnston, as we see by his recent proclamation to the Kentucky people, holds a defensive attitude, and does not feel at liberty to take such decided and aggressive steps to confront and resist the enemy as he would do if Kentucky were a member of the Southern Confederacy. Of all the States, Kentucky is the one in which the enemy is concentrating his largest forces and assuming the most offensive and formidable attitudes; and yet it is in Kentucky in which the hands of the confederacy are tied mo
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Medical Department of the army. (search)
represent the distress prevailing at the North, growing out of the derangement of commerce, the stagnation of business, the shortness of the grain crop, and the uneasiness of capitalists, to be almost incredible. The correspondent suggests that Johnston and Beauregard may have lain idle for the reason that an active campaign might have stimulated the efforts of Northern capitalists to assist their Government. Whilst he thinks that an active and offensive policy after the battle of Manassas would have been the best, yet he confesses that the opposite policy pursued by Johnston and Beauregard has not been without its good results. If what we hear through the Northern press, and other channels be true, then we are whipping the enemy by standing still. Their expenses are enormous, being $8,500,000 per week. No nation can stand such a drain as this long. Hence the clamors of bankers and capitalists against McClellan. The prospect of the most frightful suffering among the poorer classe