Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-02

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back, and burning his Notifications as he
leaves them. This is strange proceeding,
IT true, after the repeated war bulletins,
which the General has issued to the North,
that he would press the enemy to the wall,
and be in Richmond in few days Our
telegraphic intelligence from Richmond
makes no reference to such move on the
part of Mcclellan as given above.
ABOUT M'oIEIIAx. alitqf
The "youpg Napoleon" had n narrow
escape short time ago of being captured
by Stuart and his cavalry. The Peters
burgh Express learns that our forces pass
ed in their march an estate in New-Kent
County known as Hampstead, where Gen.
Mcclellan has established his Headquarters
At one point on the march the Confederates
were within six hundred yards Of Hamp-
stead, and it has since been ascertained
that at tue time they passed Mcclellan and
Staff were all in the house at dinner. The
only troops near were his usual body gnard,
numbering not more than 100 cavalry
Had Gen. Stuart been aware of the fact,
the building might have been surrounded
and the Yankee General captured, together
witt. his whole Staff. We have no doubt
that within the next week the young Ma
poleon will wish he had been captured, for,
in that case, he might have avoided the
thorough thrashing which is in store for
him. tiai
In the latest news from the North Nc
Clellan's force is put down at 100000, nj.
though every man knows he has hardly
half that number. A largo number of his
men are sick, and the health of the army
is spoken of by correspondent as decided
ly bad. 1t has been said by Yankee pa
per that their loss in the battle of the
Chickahominy in killed, wounded missing
and demoralized amounts to 10000. We
have no doubt it would take more than
that number of men to make the army as
effective as before tho battle,
/ AFFAIRS NEAR CHARLEsroS.
AllGuiet at james Island to-day. The
gunboats to-day shelled battery of the
Marion Artillery, posted on Johns Island,
and forced them TO retire. -e .etI
THB LINES ABOUT oHARLEsToN. 20
3 TFroh the Richmond Dispatch, June 25.l
2 All quiet along the lines ON james Is.
land up to Sunday night. The situation
of affairs there, howver, lis such that an
otherconfiict may occur at any moment
On Saturday afternoon one of tue enemy's
gunboats crossed the bar at or near tbe
ship channel, aud steamed up along the
beach of Norris Island, keeping up n rapid
fire of shell toward the ridge of sand hills
on which the Confederate battlements were
planted during the siege of Fort Sumter.
THE. WAR N rBNNBssRE-lTs RESULTS.
The Columbus (Ga) Sum- of the goth,
says:
"There is but little doubt now concern
ing the evacuation of Cumberland Cap
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from Tennessee puhlishedi in to.day's paper,
that our troops have fallen back from all
thelgays along the Cumberland Mountain,
preparatory, it would seems, tomaking that
unfortunate section the scene of bloody
strife. Indeed, everything indicates that
East Tennessee is. to become classic ground
in the future history of this war. The
congregation of large Federal force in
Kentucky, beyond the Cumberland Noun
tnins, Gen. Mitchel's approaches to Chat
tanoga, the concentration of our forces in
the Hoiston Valley, and other movements
of our army in other departments which
VIC do not care to mention, all points to
this conclusion.
The invasion of East Tennessee has long
been cherished scheme of the Lincoln
Government. It will there find friends and
symPathizers, such as it has found in no
SCShtOh sNOukutas EA5Ohu Oh SOClGLY
exists in many parts of that country In
the early history of the State, abolition
ism did not fail to make its appearance
among many. of its prominent political
leaders. 1t is the Oldest portion of the
State, and whilst it contains more talent,
in proportion to numbers. than Middle or
West Tennessee, it likewise contains more
ignorance. The masses are greedy, nay
sinfulty ignorant, and have long been ac-
customed to follow their leaders in every
thing, just as the masses of New England
follow theirs. Nor is it wholly unlike New
England in other respects. The first Con-
stitution adopted by that State after its ad-
mission into the Union, contained a clause
guaranteeing to free negroes the rights of
suffrage, provided they had proper quali-
6cation. This, however, was prohibited in
the amendment, and abolition seemed on
the wane until the Presidential election of
1856, in which Fremont received several
votes in many of the mountain counties, al
though there was no Republican ticket in
Tennessee. sss5e, ~
Any one conversant with the geography
of our country cannot fail to see the vast
Importance of this now threatened sectisn
to the Southern Gonfeder4cy. East Ten
nessee once in the indisputed possession of
the euemy, Georgia will become the last
scene of strife in this war. Our fortunes
would seem almost desperate. We have,
however, every confidence iu the ability of
our troops to defeat the enemy after he shall
have crossed the Cumberland mountains, ),
and in that case, the whole rebel horde
now threatening East Tennessee will be
captured.
FoupTrT ors Trrt,y