Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-22

Grant, Meade and other Cele6ritiss-A
Headquarters Camp Scsne-"Od Virgin.
my"-An Africnn Patriarch.
Special to the New YSrk Tribune.
CHARLES Cry CouRr House, \
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAC,
Monday, June l3-10p.m.
The movementto the James river and
beyond it, now being made, is precisely
what was intended when the campaign
was first mapped out in the event that the
battles which as.known must be fought
on the way should not destroy Lees army.
That they did not so result is due simply
and solely to the Incomplete success OF
the various. cooperating columns. The
check sustained by SigeI in the Shenan.
doah Valley, and by crook further west,
enabled the Rebel General to bring to his
assistance Breckinridge and Buckner from
that quarter. The checks sustained by
Butler permitted large detachmenL to
leave Beauregard, which met us at Cold
Harbor. Such heavy reinforcements adj
ed to the shattered army which we had
fought all the way from the Rapidan,
thwarted US from the complete victory we
should have won on the Chickahominy, or
yet nearer Richmond, and has compelled
us to Cross that stream lower down than
was intended. But the plan has been on
ly delayed nrits execution. ,llSGs3g elE..
Atlast affairs in Western Virginia have
frightened and permit resumption of
the campaign "on this line" The with
drawsl to Richmond of Breckinridge and
Buckner gave Hunter victory at Staun-
ton, and Crook and Averill have Joined
him at that place, finding nothing in their
way on the march. q =
hos . ID
twenty-one days possession of the Peters
burg and Richmond Railroad that the
newspapers OF the latter city could not re-
train from discussing the exorbitantIy
high prices of food, and the general desti-
tuition that prevailed there. They had a
pinched, starvation tone, that ceased only
with the resumption of trains on the road
that fed them. 1t is the conviction of
those best informed that had we been able
to retain that road the city ere this would
have become untenable.
Now, after forty days and forty nights in
and out of the Wilderness, the at frst sp.
parently detached and isolated operations
which marked the initiation of the cam
paign are seen to bear directly upon q
single focus. The first acts of the drama
will have contributed to aud heightened the
effect of the last. Look to see Richmond
approached from the interior much as
Vicksburg was, and that right speedily.
And if the movement, even so much oft
as is already developed, does not raise
public confidence and drop the price of
gold, then its meaning will not be appre-
hended.
Yon should see the brilliant cavalcade
and hear the tramp and clangor of hoof
and saber when Grant and Meade and their
staffs and the whole mounted retinue of
headquarters go sweeping by. Ofcourse the
small man on the small black horse leading
the troop is Grant. IT you did not know
it before, the soldiers who rush out to the
road, or half halt on the march, and point
him out to each other have told you. The
small black pacing horse, half queens
pony, half a kings Bucephalus, with arched
neck and champing bit, and small, alert,
tiexile ears, and short, mouse.like hair,
and great tail carried royalty like ban
ner; whose form is symmetry, spite of the
sloping hips that belong to all PAGERS,
whose muscles are watch springs, whose
impatient air seems to resent his email
size-this little black imp of a horse, a
horse that is call horse, !" is 'tJeff Davis, /"
and Grant is on his back. 90.
The rider sits him with uncommon grace,
controls him with one small gauntleted
borsemen that follow, looks nor right nor
left, but never fails to acknowledge with a
quick gesture the salutes of the soldiers
all. observant, silent, inscrutable, he con-
trolls and moves armies as he does his
horse. ,f
The rider at his side is not less worth
marking we'll. His horse is the ideal war.
horse, tall and powerful, and horse and
rider look like picture of helmeted knight
of old, gRunt, tall, grlzzled, with the large
Roman nose of will and power, aud wear
ing a slonched hat, the wide brim bent
down all round, but not concesling the
lightning glance of eyes that are terrible in
anger-such is George g. Meade, noblest
Roman of them all, relentless fighter, aud
good General, to whose hearty and wise
seconding Grant does not, and the country
should not, heaitatel to acknowledge the
greatest Indebtedness,
The ride has been from Gold Harbor to
Providence Church, a distance of ten miles
and is made in the last two hours of day.
light. II. .5a- l7s aas ps5t tlli52 7r
The location of the camp has been fixed
fires built, and inquiries are heard about
the headquarter train, waich must arrive
4 had. The evening is chilly, and great coat
are taken from the pommels of saddles and
put on. Boxes and boards are made into
seats, or rubber blankets are thrown down
on the ground to lie on, and all gather
closeto the cracking rail FIRE, and wait fol
the. wagons. Grant and Meade are en-,
gagged in conversation upon indi ifsrent top
les apparently. Gems. Hunt and Barnard
discuss guns. Gen. Ingalls sends man
every few minutes to find and hurry uI
the wagons. Mr.. Washburne, here on
u flying visit, has gone to sleep, his feet Il
the FIRE. Mr.. Dana strides up and dowr
as though the day had not afforded snfi
cient exercise. Abont 10, O'Clock It is re
ported that the train will be up in an hon
or two. In crossing stream on Q nsrrov
dam one or two wagons had been cspsized
hence the delay. Mr.. Dana remarks ths
it was 'evidently piece Of dam(n NJ folly,
Grant rises, steps toward the FIRE aud says
'.f We have nothing worse than this -.