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The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], $40 reward. (search)
ntly, or like gales which strip the oak of its dry foliage, but cannot lift it from its immovable roots. The South has entered upon the present struggle under great disadvantages, and our only wonder is, when we consider the disparity of numbers, gold, and all the equipments and appliances for a state of war in the possession of the Federal Government and in working order, that we have been able to hold a single foot of ground in Virginia. When we consider the state of things before General Lee assumed the control of affairs, and the mighty energies of President Davis were brought personally in this quarter to the support of the war, we stand amazed at the amount which has been accomplished in so brief an interval. There was a time when the Federal Government could have struck a blow at Richmond which would have involved almost irreparable injury to the cause in the South. But that time has passed by. Our rivers and estuaries, so long without a single battery for their protect
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
cClellan would attempt the march to Staunton. It is, on the contrary, to be presumed that having cleared his rear of danger, he will proceed to Grafton, and thence make good his way by railroad to Martinsburg, whence, in conjunction with Gen. Patterson, he would precipitate himself upon the command of Gen. Johnston. We have given the bad news from Laurel Hill just as it has reached this city. For ourselves, however, we take the liberty of doubting the correctness of it. A letter to General Lee from General Garnett, written Saturday morning, represents General Garnett to have been making good his retreat with all his stores and baggage in good order, without mention of the probability of an engagement. A gentleman also is in the city who left General Garnett late on Saturday safe and in good condition. Yet it is on Saturday that the desperate misfortune is said to have been inflicted upon him. The Cincinnati dispatch in itself amounts to nothing, for it has been preceded for a