Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-29
REREL NEWS.

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-PrIsoners OF War.
Richmond papers Of the AID instant,
"wednesday contain some interestesting
comments in refsreuce-to the recent battle
near Chattanooga.
WHY THR REBELs FAIL.
The Examiner, while rejoicing in the
achievements Of Bragg's army, thinks the
result is BY no means decisive. "0ur vic
tory,Yi it says, 'sappot be eomplete. unless
it is consummated by the recovery of Chat
tanooga. The prize Of the couqusror is
East Tennessee" Il adds:
nIt has become the settled system of the
! enemy to prepare, before giving battle,
j some strong point on his rear on which he
can fall back after defeat, and win by his
own reinforcemeuts and our indiscipline
what courage could not secure. The gem
erals of the United States know well that
none of their troops, whether eastern or
\ western, can sustain with success the frst
onset of southern army. But if they can
! protract the contest aud retreat without q
rout till they reach their reserves, they
usually win at last. Why Because the
southern army becomes a mob after victo-
Try. Generals and troops give way to an
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linen straggle, the officers drink, and all
brag of The wonders done by our division.
Hence it is that none of the southern
LEADERS have been able TO secure the fruits
! of victory. Beauregard, Lee, Johnston,
1 Bragg, each in turn has been censured for
\ not pursuing advantages which would, in
other countries and by other generals, have
certainly been rendered decisive of the
WAR. None of their battles have helped the
country towards peace always for the
same reason-that when the golden fruit
was within their reach they suddenly found
themselves without an army TO grasp it. :"
s'REcoGSIFIoN."
The E1anliasT says "The talk of the city
last evening, next to victory in Northern
Georgia, was a report that France recog-
nized the Independence of the Confederate
States about the 24th of August. The ru-
NOR was rolled as a sweet morsel under
the tongue of local gossip, aud passed from
one to another, receiving higher coloring
as it progressed. We traced it TO q passen-
ger by the Fredericks6ur train, who in fit
of temporary alteration, entertained his
fellow passengers with a story that he had
just come from Baltimore, aud that the
news had been received there before he
left. We have no faith whatever in the
report" IKE.
THE DEATH OF MAJOR GEEHRAL HOOD.
The Examiner has the following: t'The'
Surgeon General received dispatch yes.
terday afternoon conveying the melancholy
tidings of the death of Major General
j. B. Hood, of Texas he was wounded
in the leg by grape shot in the battle of.
the Chickamaugo, and sank under the eff.
fects of amputation. Our army possessed
no drawer or more gallant spirit than Gen.
Hood. Asa leader Of the brave Texans in
the numerous battles in Virginia his name
is intimately connected with brilliant
campaigns, and will long live in the mem
DRY of q grateful people" 49,
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
The EzGminer says San interview be-
tween Colonel Ould and General Meredith,
at City Point, on Monday, resulted in
nothing really substantial, although Col.
onel 0nld made proposition to the fed.
eral commissioner relative to the exchange
of officers. which, If accepted, will secure
the release of all our (rebel) officers now
In captivity aS the North We do not
know the nature of the proposition, though
we may say that General Meredith regard
ed it With favor. He, however, being
clothed with no power over the mat
ter, has to consult the government at
Washington in regard to it."
FEDERAL PRISONERS IN RICHMOND.
The Examiner gives the following list of
prominent prisoners in Richmond
..There are some big fish in Castle
Thunder, caught in the net of military
surveillance. The most notable, because
of his ancestry, is Andy johnson, nephew
OF Andy johnson, of Tennessee. he is
about thirty years of age aud boasts of
how he is soon to be liberated by Yankee
bayonets. he is charged with disloyalty,
&c.
"The next in Importance is George W.
Hudson, the Englishmau and spy ar
rested on the Southern railroad BY the
unknown detective almost month since.
.'Another is the Yankee spy, Negley, arr
rested in the Confederate uniform within
the lines of the army of Northern Virgin.
ia, and sent to Richmond by General Lee.
1Among the females is Mrs. Clarke, a
French woman from New Orleans, and ap-
pretended at Mobile on the charge of be-
ing an emissary from the Yankees. The
other day she surrepetitionsly sent u letter
from the Castle by negro boy. On the
discovery of the violation of the rule the
boy was ordered to be fOgged, whereupon
she asked that the stripes might be laid
upon her own back instead of the boy's.-
OF course her expression of devoted sym.
patty for the negro could not be entertain-
ed in this instance, as she was we'll aware
! when she INDUCED herself in that slight
exultation." 80
4. A stirring Appeal. s'i
4 The war democrats of Ohio IN their late