The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1864., [Electronic resource]

A certain Captain Coverdale, an English officer, who is serving with Sherman, writes to the London Times, in August, that Sherman has lost, up to that date, twenty- two thousand men, while the rebels — that is, the army under Hood — have lost fifty- two thousand, killed, wounded and prisoners! What a tremendous Army Hood must have had, seeing that there are believed to be quite as many left behind! The President, he says, "has called out, since the war began, 1,300,000! He has "called out" more than double that number. Whether they all came when they were called is another matter. At any rate, a great many more than 1,300,000 have actually served. He thinks that the new call for 500,000 will not be sufficient; for, in his opinion, the Confederates "have got to be subjugated, or been annihilated, before they give up." The expression. "got to be whipped," is genuine Yankee, not English. The name of the writer, "Coverdale," smacks strongly of Plymouth Rock. The Yankees boast hugely of an old Puritan called Miles Caverdale. We are half disposed to think this correspondent is a Yankee. But what follows forbids the idea.

He says of the Confederates: "It is awful to see how they suffer, and how patiently they bear it. Their best blood is flowing like water; their crops destroyed; their horses, mules and live — stock carried off by our army — not so much as a chicken left; their homes and farms all consumed by fire, and their negroes all gone — is it not a wonder that, with all this desolation and utter ruin staring them in the face, they should still have any hope left? I tell you they have; and were it not for their wicked attempt to destroy the Constitution, I might almost wish them to succeed, for they hare shown more bravery, self- denial, cherry, perseverance and pure self-sacrifice than I ever thought it possible for any people to make." This man must be a fanatic of the first order. He speaks of the wickedness of overthrowing the Constitution. Does he not see the desperate wickedness of destroying a brave people in the attempt to force that Constitution upon them? Is it not the very thing, this resistance, which the Yankees glorify every fourth of July? Would they have been anything but a colony of Great Britain but for this very resistance? Does not their Declaration of Independence give to the governed the fight to select their own form of government?

But the idea of destroying a brave people, root and branch, because they choose not to accept a certain constitution, which others choose to think good for them, is Yankeeish all over, or, rather, Russian; for the Russian is the inventor, though the Yankee has improved upon the invention.

After saying that the Yankees feel none of the horrors of the war, and are all making money and enjoying themselves, "Coverdale" adds: ‘"Had the Northern people and the Yankees been called upon to suffer one-tenth as much as the poor deluded Southern people, they would have cared in long ago. At least, so I think. They have not got half the pluck and self-denial that the South has. "’ That is all true enough. The Yankee will not fight one moment beyond the time that he finds it will pay. Ravage his fields and burn his house, and he submits at once. He would never come down here did he not expect to make money by the operation. Here follows something so genuinely Yankeeish that we cannot forbear to insert it: "Were it not for the Union--were we fighting to free the negroes — we wouldn't deserve to succeed; but I trust it is for a far more honorable cause — that of restoring the Constitution and the Supremacy of the Laws, and with it equal fights to both North and South!" And, like a genuine Yankee, he thinks that a brave, free people ought to be exterminated rather than not forced to take this Constitution.

Captain Goverdale says the feeling against England is intensely bitter.--Why, we cannot conceive. England has surely been as subservient to Lincoln as she possibly could have been.