The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-18
TINE SITUATION.

a.. ,,ec,an superstition with regard to the
~, or supernatural voice, 10 familiar to
h n.n At all acquainted with Grsoisn lite
eer 7, was nothing moro than that unac-
''. '",.b,e Inspiration tif II bs allowable to use
''a. ~ora 10 that sspse) By which highly
10 ~, community is enabled 70 anticipate
'' ssnmou vehicles Of Intelligence when
"s events are on the wing. The PHExE
80 an important part in tho history Of
- on an occasion mentioned by Hero.
w. ... The battles Of Plataa and Mycale
S tonsh. on the same dsy-the first In the
ING the los. in the svening-the former
n,lo,is, the latter in Ionis--the distance
s.-..n them being at least one thousand
p. A the Greeks st Myca le were about
,n battle herald staff was found on the
'...t and the PaEME proclaimed among the
-, Who we're previously somew hat dispirited
.;ya, of the ensmy's numbers, that the
s. psrsian army had been destroyed at
b., tha, morning. The intelligence ran
-. x,la.hre through the Grscisn host, who,
..,.a 70 a pitch Of irresistible enthusiasm,
.s.s,i upon the enemy, put bim TO the rout,
...iaaistsd upon him a slaughter only inferior
;. ,ha his countrymen had endured in the
pornins a, Plstsa.
Ne hsd a striking example of the opera.
,;,.s Of the PHEME In this city on the occasion
:, III. csptnrs of Winchester Last Sunday,
nb ,Juue, THE sixty third anniversary Of the
,.,,ls Of Msrsngo,) Gen. Early stormsd the
rorrs around that town. There is no tsle.
,,srbic communication thence with Richmond.
Ssuu,on seventy miles of, presents the first
pls,rsph. Yet almost before the smoke Of
Ii. battlefield had cleared away ru-
uOrs Of the result began to spread
On Monday morning they pervaded the
xbole city, and described the actual con-
srou of affairs with q minuteness and accu-
,cy absolutely astounding The number o,
g,ns and prisoners were designated, and it
xss stated that Miboy had escaped, which
u,u, on. to be true. We leave it to metsphy-
scsus to account for this singular phenoms-
non We content ourselves with saying that
i was very singular, and, to us, altogether un.
seoun.sble.
The capture of Winchester ia one of the
NOS, glorious, and we believe it is destined to
prove one of the most important, events of the
ru II eesms to be the first in a projected
ssriss of operations, which there is every res.
sp TO believe will result most beneticially to
the cause of the Confsderacy. What those
projected operations may be, we cannot even
conjecture, and we only presume that they are
70 BE- because Gen. Lee is not the man to in.
dalgs in isolated enterprises, having n bearing
rp0n the grand object of the campaign. The
ss.asl tangible fruits are very great Fifty can
Don, three miles tso reported of wagons, large
Numbers Of cattle, cows, and mules, snd 3, 600
prisoners, including 1900 captured by General
Eward johnson. The enemy behaved ex.
saly as might have been expected of such
Es.ches. They proved in plain terms to be
,rant towards. Placed behind strong forti'
iss.ions, they only stood their ground long
.aough to kill and wound 100 of our men.-
Opressors are almost always towards, and
'Asss were oppressors of the most brutal de-
seription.