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statements with regard to successes. The truth will be sure to come out at last, and, when a victory is claimed where a defeat has been sustained, the reaction in the public mind is always proportionate to its previous exaltation as soon as the truth leaks out. One of our contemporaries alludes to a curious instance of this, related by Polybius, in his narrative of the 2d Punic war. A Roman consul, whose army had been almost entirely destroyed in the first of those tremendous defeats which Hannibal inflicted upon his countrymen, wrote home that he had gained a victory, although he had not the third part of his army around his banners, and had retreated or rather fled some thirty or forty miles from the scene of conflict.--The Senate proclaimed it to the people, and the people were intoxicated with joy. In the mean time, however, stragglers began to come in at first singly, then in couples, finally in bands. All of them told the same tale. They had been beaten on the bloodiest field