Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-06-07

Richmond UnQ,tl1:se.
TuEsDaY MORNING, JUNE :, lstl.
ny rYLsK " AnnaGRE.

TUESDAY MthN'No' o'->' - '-'''
Dan. Grant il said to have retired from taf
Immediate front OF Gan. Less i:a"s. Ia VIA
direction no is moving has not tran'T'.'' cog
tainly, hut it as supposed to b" oe,''.,'""'''"
Ut the previous movement by h'S ie'' Il :.
If this .;s sh his march is now a~@y iroir
R;cbmond aud down the cnat bank Of Ito
Cbickshominy. II may be that the i'cns
Br;5pss, or the Forge Bridge, in Cherries City
county; nay DO tho point of crossing 10 ".I'i
he is directing his march.
Ia lie absence Of al information. 1t ~ use
less to conjecture npon rrohabilitisE about
what must BIO know.a very soon, perhaps BE-
fore these ,linA assia print, lhe fac s'at
Grant las reeils. after hs asc assaults llrG!'ss
tho lines os ae1iefeE Ice nt Turkey Ria:sss, y
tbs eonfeseior.af. his inability to make sa.st
...our loars, Tas :irrtJjh'' to Richh6nd Of which
he lately informed Stanton. lis ,stilen'es;t
(. thu abandonment OF this hst Gho Of march,
and confession that he has failed st tbe very
point that Mcclellan WAC defeated. lie IS
also rspprted to have asked foG:.tFnce to burg
his dead, end that Gen. Lee reis'se4 the trace.
This is the first time during the campaign
that 'sihmanity'" has stirred the heart CT tiis
gambler 10 human lifc.
We are not prepared to say thai THIS reliro-
ment is, a euuse of corgratlation Tor our peoTy
ple--the lats operations At Turkey hAdFe
wore good enough Tor - to be sai!'"oa win
their continued repetition. Edt n,w lit!L d"
has gone, there comes bad news froi" ''is'i,-
ton. Gen. Hunter, with the column 9! s'gaL
lately defeated by Gen. Brockinf'dsE, hss
been reinforced and marched W the Valley.
On Saturday he attacked Gen. " Il. JOKES
below S,aunton, killing ,hs General.
Even the occupation Of Ssauntan eau h"ye
no material infdal.cs on foa great re=nit
now being worked out between General
Lee AID Gbncral Grant. II isver7 fistrc9i-
iup tn, H., heausiinl Yu!ley 6 Ni'giui-
sboul! l,r 81! Jet 70 he igv!.ta';,a,s q ~
: enenly, bat Ca: i;i1tY wtiou, iQi,jer vii
iniiict vii! ha urGn I.,i 2'8'';,a '.si i.yf nfrl
our csu.e ~ It's prvsg' o.. Hy,i.t Gc'.a''d
or driven bcsck uinI! tide w.,:e;, iiuHS"7 "'!i
he easily di.p1a2t q.
The aeas II Gen. ,tGnfs i a ma&tcT OF
very seriinls r,:.gr, i!4'is3 q invat rSc5'ici,t
cavalry Officer.
Ia due timc mt-.ng an2at VIII ne made %
meet this dsnonstru,io:i o, tbs sn.'ny H'''a-
foteemnn:s sru going iotward, and ltn:tie' nnJ
capture Siuur!or OILY TO hnd 'ha' 5'aih'.!i
bus captured him, j ,aa ei:emy va! make
these little c;.Gp2isas. wh;cs-eo&:gitut" '''ts'S
ing towards the great nhjocE;r which ts'a'
lire struggling, tHiIl NOT ipfc' thn tJi,iede,
rate authorities Ia Gissrate her ireas sieoiHa
AN immense circumference 10 ORD ~ "til
every ,coiuiDu se1t cat ~ le qw:';y IN
graft cen;esi -pai.t (. G.lius."fE t!!Ht .ccSts:
too Grant aace dsireu ifota q rig :s:a- '.in,4'
will ay ;towa 7s valley rndsks ;ls'tcel 9: sh
his tutly. - ~; \; = > =
THE NEW Ft{;ks. = i5S
z. KEE ADMlNssTi.a,l1t sN :, :. ;.
The New Yp.ls 4 ta5s ii:
tha following editorial .
To-day completes ,te relye {; "
npsl;esfic-, o! the .Na% = ii; .'N5sHs v7;s IA,
.t.me,i after Its .sappIrgS;.ii W tie i'in9'aHi=,
ton. II N.s ss,pp,ossl kr tiose siEf.:'si'ss -;
which tiA3so IS !isa:cs'i ii tri'f y '"r i'lts'
eating e,r0r ".i pa -chsas truth. lfs r""iira
hon va, iesp.te>l I.Is bc:$,;sp ia Esra%ctAr!:
re!eated cc rapea,ea, tu, h.t@asn !'ohii& !n'r'oi
had, to Il CERTAIN degree, s3aTcts" ITS n:SRp-h,
denca, aud clitI shame ,!pan dos Nqa%ar5, I'D.
unprecedented aiSsS.it upon ins i'1e!Sf 81 t.is
pIess in this Republics W. ~" 'ar!e!t:2 ho
I'M debt 10 GO:ertI9rUt n'Itu!S ter t'S f&H!is"'
VI exercising :: "oca.c" y"i4sie.st "IitS5 On
trammeile, What WAS taken iiclM NJ ~ aThi'
trarr power WAS Given b.rs 20 whun III pop
pIsr 90 urinl-,.; ,!.n:,ula the Restitution atid
our slrbse ae: cuNfse ht. aitSsted that 'h!s .in
munity FROM the strong iaai has not one.' lni'
chased by auY Concessions ON cur partio 0SS;o'
:sn or. 10y ANY sacrifice o. piitcli'ie: 81 ~ 's'S
shameful bsiGains 20 au6jeiva The VIII "i !'v"e.
or the iptsreats CT natinii ~ IN" cspirse ~ IRE
countly's wei's's We endured ircniy ioHHliis
Of suppression, uGieI rii"": protest vAsiiahy
ulsciut our c,,,s:..n liz huia o i.a ir'pI. .'i'!
awaiting in tnli gon.id 20. ttal judgment " t>''
thew ultimately awarded ssyomi onf expecia'
tions We have .os so!oyed Tor i%tF>3 'h'ntH'
the full liberty 1T oSlIrit!on ni "iiAiei' ara
willis we have Iut abused II, iiis HISTORY o. our
career dutipg tasaa tHsiTs months Shows ths'
we have ;i.od it neither iey sly ncs u. via
We snieT, therefore today tho f:'nit,! year Of
our resur:ect;on from tl:a hp!iis o! tyiArny. HMd
looking bava THO ih.. yeHr ilat is past, Ne See
that tiule hiss everywhere ::a"ad the confirms
tion OF those doctrines that W" i.avr advocated
It.hnb been a. we pronounced It nli't inevitably
be, IL the mad appeal to AIMS wire p}Histod III
Blood enough has bowed 30 blot Uut u existence
every bond If friendship het"eei ho SECTIONS
One barren ca!Hysigil iEgs followed another al
way. with great loss .oi HE bal ..rvel wi!i! de-
cisive military :a,uI!. " i1ia-inu.nG 81 these
campaigns the "Ai journals ii tl:c y ,tth iihV"
been bosstiii at anticipated frIuap!.5 sad ~
trsysgant, IN thar psopay1,. q: lEc !sns"=,:t"is
crushing 81 tho rebellion, ~ tho rioiu a.,
these campaigns, lie siniH lnn'hsh have
besn almost exclusively 0ccnpici III explain
;oe the Causes o: ,iiEe0IntIure ana ~ h%sP'
ioe aehe upon The iat.1 Of sofse k!sss gert
ral,gbom they hsd crowned in advance, "iE
the laurels @. victory. And Bus from campsgp
TO- campsign. tha war has. dragged 10 sleS
length dong, its course marked Wan nieoi as.
sgony aud drsolation but raa goat forever TO
cedine and never within aigh:' We have no"
reached the most desperate peiiod OF lie st:lfe
Men enough have heed Sir.h aaI wrt;i',las IN
ia Virginia withia.tlio past t"cr,e 'igys 10 hnsr
decided al European Tar aid 10 t.iHs aell Atiaad
N, lnipoTsii
.ltiss counted BY fiie sixty ts,,ssaa @e bs.e,
failad to advance ten miles beg oni: Tic pons OF
stsrtipe .afd the tertihj. slaughter hsS hsca ers
tireiY M vain. As Is bss been with other Gene
rxisfn virginia, so will II ha with Grant He IL
now exalted az de.sigod; be viii i'll ttm9 bs.rai!ea
at n. a hound tiet misses ths scent. Tho wal
Journals are as bitter in their disappointment,
they are extravaganza in their hopes lHcy must
have All object Tor their idoiat'y % 'or tri:
curses.
mencement OF the unnatural struggle W. have
let hardly day pass 'withoutan invocation 70
peace, al appeal 20 the trua patriotism OF The
people TO end .Lis hatchery that has converted
>their country iuto shslnbles. That We have beer
understood md thst iho great truths we lave,t
tered hsre been appreciated by the muses., is
evident from tho une2smped popularity that the
''Daiiy News his attained Within the year since
our republication, that ended yesterday. On
the eighties nth May, lStSi, we resumed publisa,
Lion, under the paralyzing influence OF twenty
months of constrained siience ol our part long
enough, in such times of excitement anil Of great
events, for the ant5cedsnts of u newspaper 10
psss almost away from public memory. W.
started with small sheet without official patron
- .-.na NTH mo riea na of securing nnIisr ns.