Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-25

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and men may be freely given to any one tC
allay anxiety of friends, and the bare fac
of death may be communicated to relatives
butsspos dates, or any circumstances which
would be required to be used in prosecut.
ing claims. .it.-..
The parties interested must satisfy the
accounting officers OF the Treasury that
they are the legal claimants, and then this
| Office will obtain and give to those officers
all the official evidence necessary TO perfect
the claim. -a
MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH THE ARMY OF
THE, POTOMAC. .f-
The uncertainty and unreliability of the
mail Arragements with the Army of the
Potomac. which have heretofore caused SO
much dissatisfaction and complaint, are to
be. remedied, Gen. Grant has, in co.ope.
ration withth Postmaster General, arrang-
ed a perfect and reliable system of mail
communication between the army and
Washington which will secure promptness,
reliability and satisfactory mail facilities
hereafter. The admirable mail arrange
ments in the w Western army are well known,
and the same are to be adopted with the
army in Virginia. The whole business will
be under the superintendence of Ool. A.
q. Markland, special agent of the Post
Office Department, who occupied the same
position under Gen. Grant in the West.-
Gen. ingalls,, Chief Quartermaster of the
Army of the Potomac, has afforded to this
reform prompt and effective 90 cooperation
which has very much facilitated its sue
cessful establishment. The following is
copy of an official order in regard to it,
H'Do' Rs, CHIEP QuARTERMAsTRR's DRp'T.O
ARMIES OF THE o. s., June 10, 1864. !
Until otherwise ordered there will here :
after be a daily line of steamers established
between Bermdua Hundred and Washing.
ton, for the purpose of transporting the
mails, light freight and passengers. The
following schedule is adopted, aud will be.
rigidly adhered to Leave Washington
daily at two o'clock P. NJ; arrive at For
tress Monroe at nine O'Clock A. NJ. the fol-
lowing morning; leave Fortress Monroe at
ten O'clock A. NJ; arrive OF City Point at
four o'clock P. NJ; leave City Point at five
o'clock P. NJ arrive at Bermuda Hundred
daily at nine O'Clock P. NJ; leave City
Point at ten o'clock A. M; touch at For
tress Monroe and Alexandria to deliver and
receive mails, and arrive in Washington
at ten o'clock A. NJ. the following day. No
passengers but officers and soldiers Of the
army aud persons employed in govern.
ment service will be conveyed by these
boats.
8 UNION CAUCUS.
The Republican members of the House
held a caucus at the capital tonight uu-
der a call to consult as to the best means
for raising additional troops, and to har.
mouize conflicting views on subjects con.
nected With the draft. Not more than fifty
or sixty members were present. There
was general interchange of opinions, all
the speakers expressing their readiness to
vote the necessary men and money TO carry
on the war till the suppression of the re-
bellion. No definite action was taken 90
any proposition for .this purpose, and the
members are therefore left free to act on
the bill reported from the committee on
Military affairs as they may think proper.
REBEL PRISONERS
The rolls of the Commissary Geueral of
Prisoners show that we have over fifty
thousand rebels reported-showing a very
large balance in our favor. About thou.
sand reported by arrival here to-day to
have been recently captured, are not in-
cluded in the above calculation.
RICHMOND PREPARING FOB A SIEGE.
A gentleman who left the headquarters
of the Army of the Potomac yesterday
states that rebel prisoners captured before
Petersburg says that for three months past
the Confederate government has been con-
stantly shipping and storing provisions at
Richmond, in anticipation of a siege.
HOW THE NEws OF THE PosTPoNEMENr OF
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION Is RECRlvBD. q
The Copperheads were in their glory
here tonight upon the receipt of the news
of the postponement of the Chicago Con-
vention. This has been done by the Cox
War Democrats, who fear that Grant will
not get into Richmond by the 4th ofJuly.
They thiRk that the convention IN such an
event would be rash enough to nominate
Vallandigham-hence the postponement.
The Oopperheads hail the announcement
with joy, and declare that Grant will
DemocFatically be all right by that time,
and that he, will be in Richmond by the
18th August, &c., &c., sc. They also de-
clare that Lincoln went braVelyto the front
last Monday in full uniform.