Show deductions I 1 ROM TIIE THE NEWS 01 TIIE THE WEEM WEEK the lines being down both cast and west wo we have but little telegraphic news to lay before our readers i morning but bilt taking ilia aggregate of the dispatches received for the past week bog segregating gre gatin the real from the unreliable and sensational and diligently tho the remainder with previously well authenticated facts wo arrive at so several v cral very definite conclusions to wit ill that atthe the manifest choice of f the people for the he t next presidency so fat fai as the people have yet had tho the means of indicating any choice is abraham lincoln the present incumbent whence his election kiy be aim almost deduced as a certainty ad d that while cilc owing to the unprecedented severity of the season no large larg a success lits has been gained by the r federals ede rals nor has any general engagement lately taken place yet as a lule tho the evident fact holds good that bat t the stronger must in the long run control and subdue the weaker and that this is our position with regard to the deluded acl aided people of the Sout southern bern confederacy is so palpable a t tru truth ill as to require no arg argument w hatcher forsbe for the past six bi months the war on the part of our opponents has been gradually degenerating into to a system of licensed pillaging ing and marauding ma and it is probably P the policy of their leaders to try if possible ble by a resort to such means everywhere out of the immediate presence of one or other of our gallant armies to do all in their power toward protracting protract ing the st status matusof af the war until after the ne next at presidential election though what they can possibly expect to gain by the to us so manifest results thereof is is what we w 0 are at some loss to discover it is possible that th at mi cabber like they may expect something somei hing ing io I 1 0 turn ur up favorable to the their s ir cause I 1 in n the interval valand and something but of an a entirely n different nature nat tire will assuredly turn up unless our telegraphic reports be utterly litterly unreliable the eventuality alluded to is the capture of richmond for tho the seriously taking possession of which our army of the potomac is so far as appearance can enable ns lis at this a distance stance t to 0 judge jud C being carefully arrayed and beldin hand and alt although haugh ther ilia city be in itself sufficiently undesirable in in every respect yet inasmuch as tho t he enemy have staked so much on I 1 its ts retention and boasted so ore ere their days of rodomontade tade had gone by of our inability to succeed in its capture the addition of richmond to our U liet t of southern cit cities leg captured will give us a prestige in in th the a minds of the most ignorant of the chias which perhaps not even the immediate capture of charleston would obtain for the army of the federal cause among the minor signs sign of the times which indicate a painful consciousness of humiliation and defeat on the part of the prominent arch traitors to the union and to the cause of human liberty are the dismal forebodings contained in the late address of the confederate congress to their misguided constituents in which all the iho acuteness versatility and acknowledged ability of its scholarly framer were powerless to enable him t to shape the document so that even the most moa superficial cant fail to see sec that he be has bag himself no conal confidence in the statement and argument therein contained the index also established in london some year and a half ago as a journal to further the cause of the confederacy and for a long time I 1 indeed until within L me last months blatant and rabid in its scurrilous scurrile rilo us abuse of of everything yankee and loud and over bearing in the energy with which it insisted upon a prompt recognition of the so called rights of said confederacy by england has become nelvile in its abject whining to affe affect et the object aimed it at and doleful in its laments over the lost glories of slavery and the probable extinction of the vaunted chivalry from the face of the earth |