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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ith this column. To judge by past experience, this move pretends some offensive operation against our right, on the south of the town of Petersburg; or it is a feint, designed to induce us to weaken our line fronting. Fort Harrison. It has been Grant's practice only to move when about to attack. He moves and strikes without delay. But, twenty-four hours having already elapsed since this last movement, and nothing having come of it, it may be he has tired of his old strategy and is about to from Yankee pickets, who do not hesitate to declare their apprehensions. The complete and formidable character of our fortifications, running from a point opposite. Fort Harrison north to the Charles City road, may have something to do with Grant's withdrawing forces from their front. He assailed them repeatedly and desperately last Thursday, and must feel convinced they are impregnable. This being the case, any advance for Richmond on the north side of the James must be by some route a
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
foreign goods to force gold up in order to dispose of their goods at an advance. But there was no general movement, owing to the fact that very little confidence was felt in the continuance of the prevailing high price of gold. In another column it says: Two well-known operators in the gold room failed to respond to their contracts to-day, and the demand for gold created by these failures assisted the efforts of the "bulls" in some degree. Rumors, too, of unfavorable news from Grant's army were said to be current in Baltimore. After 2 o'clock, however, a report was circulated to the effect that Richmond was captured. Gold fell soon afterwards from 217 to 212, but recovered again. The stock market at the second board was also excited by the report, although little credit was attached to it. No rumor of importance, however improbable, fails to exercise at least a momentary effect in Wall street. John Van Buren for M'Clellan. On the evening of Friday, the 7th
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t only is Abraham Lincoln President of the United States for the next four years after the 4th of March, 1865, but he goes in with a majority large enough to sustain him in any atrocity he may meditate. The majority of the North have pretty clearly declared themselves well pleased with the war and with the manner of conducting it. They endorse all the atrocities of Sherman, all the cruelties of Hunter, all the crimes of Sheridan, all the murders of Butler, all the butchery and barbarism of Grant. The conflagrations of our towns and villages, the deportation of our women and children, the starvation of whole populations, the instigations of our slaves to murder and robbery, an aggravation of all the horrors of war, in its most horrible aspects, where the passions are left entirely without control, and every appliance is used to stimulate them, until, by their indulgence, men become devils — all these things, the virtuous, intelligent, civilized, christian, religious North--the heirs