New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-20

But the plan has been only delayed in its execution
Atlast affairs in Western Virginia have frightened
and permit a resumption Of the campaign ION this
lime, The Withdrawal TO Richmond Of Breckenridge
and Buckncr gave Hunter victory at Stanton, and
Crook and Ayerill have joined him at that place,
finding nothing in their way on the march
II YOU remember il was during Bntler's twenty one
DAYS possession Of the Petersburg and Richmond Rail-
road that the newspapers OF the latter city could not
frain from discussing the exorbitany high prices OF
food and the general desuton that prevailed there
They had piuched starvation tone that ceased only
with the resumption Of trains on the road that fed them
It is the conviction Of those best informed that had we
been able TO retain that road tho city this would
have become untenable.
Now after forty days and forty nights in and out Of
the Wilderness the Mt first apparently detached and
isolated operations which marked the initiation Of the
campaign to bear directly upon single focus
The first acts of the drama will have contributed to and
heightened the effect of the last Look to Richmond
approached from the interior much as Vicksburg was,
and that right speedily And II the movement even so
much Of it as rs already developed does not raise public
confidence and drop the price Of gold then Its meaning
viii not be apprehended.
You should see the brilliant cavacade and hear the
tramp and cangor OF hoof and saber when Grant and
Meade and their stats and the whole mounted retinne
of headquarters go sweeping by or course the small
man on the small black horse leading the troops Grant
II Won did not know II before the soldiers who rush out
10 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 kings Bucephalus, with
arched neck and champing bit. and small alert fexie
ears and short mouseke hair and great tail carried
royalty like banner; whose form is symmetry spite OF
the sopng hips that belong all PAGERS whose muscles
ore watch springs whose impatient air seems to resent
bis small szethis little black imp OF horse, horse
that is all horse" is JEFF Davis" and Grant is on his
back.
The rider sits him with uncommon grace. controls
him with one small gsunteted hand. regards
the torrent Of horsemen that follow looks right nor
left but never fails TO acknowledge with quick ges-
ture the salues OF the soldiersaabsorbed alobserv
ant silent nscrutable he controls and moves armies as
he docs his horse.
The rider at his side Is not less worth marking wen
His horse Is the ideal war.horse tall and powerful and
horse and rider look like picture Of helmeted knight
Of ED gaun tall grizzled with the large Roman nose
Of will and power and wearing slouched hat the wide
brirn bent down all round but not conccalng the light
ming glance Of eyes that terrible In angersuch is
Geo. q. Meade modest Roman Of them all, relentless
fighter and good General to whose hearty and wise
seeondng Grant does not and the country should not
hesitate 20 acknowledge the greatest Indebtedness.
The ride has been from Cold Hsrbor TO Providence
Church distance Of ten miles. and Is made In the last
two hours OF daylight.
The location OF the camp has been fixed fires built
and inquiries heard about the headqnarier train.
which must arrive before tents be pitched and
supper had The evening is chilly and great coats
taken from the pommels Of saddles and put Boxes
and boards are made into seats rubber blankets are
thrown upon the ground lie on. and all gather closc
TO the cracking rail.fre and wait for the wagons
Grant and Meade are engaged In conversation upon In
different topics apparently. Gems. Hunt aud Barnard
discuss guns. Gen. Ingalls, sends man every few
minutes TO find and hurry MP the wagons. Mr. Wash
burne here flying visit has gone 10 sleep his feet
TO tho fire. Mr. Dana strides up and down as though
the day had not afforded sufficient exercise About 10
O'Clock 1t il reported that tho train will be up In m
hour or two. In crossing stream on lnarrow dam
one or two wagons had been capszcd hence tho delay
Mr. Dana remarks tina. it was "eyidenty piece OF
dam(n) folly" Grant rises steps toward the fire and
sayst" II We have nothing worse than this - The
| sentence was never finished.
The correatye TO the III" may. however. be imag.
ined. That was not expressed was because at that
instant the General took q brand from the ire and
lighted his pipe action incompatible with speech
The messenger who brings the report as 10 the wagons
has brought O supply Of bread and butter and ginger
bread and pail Of water has been fetched Every
body lunches. (Mem A phenomenon-Dust Is no re-
spectcr Of persons Gen. Grant is rs dusty as am
ter lunch all light pipes and smoke az vigorously and
silently as Indians In counclwaitng for the wagons
The writer rolled In a single blanket. falls TO sleep; at
midnight Is Weakened 10 fad tents pitched everybody
turning In and the fire Pickering low. The officer
whose tent be shares informs him that breakfast
dered at four O'Clock 1t Just time till the
shrill buged revee rouses the camp. Breakfast Il
dispatched tents struck, horses mounted. all with
astonishing CELEBRITY. and again galops headquarters
cayaIcadc. To-day Grant rides his war.horse "Cin-
cinnat tall bay the handsomest horse in tho Army.
and the best.
II is difficult for one familiar with the thriving villages
and wecultyated farms that the North TO imag
Inc Virginia populous State. He steans hundred
and fifty miles up the Rappahannock and sees but one
village port Royal, and but Indifferent city Qred
ericksburg); up the York and Pamunkey hundred
miles and comes to or two Landings Of two or
three houses, now deserted. Riding the country
he is struck with the sparseness Of the population
as must have been before the Pretcnous
that at tie North would community OF thousands
cover here an Insignificant hamlet OF q dozen houses
He rides miles and miles between farms. or plantations.
The houses are mainly small implanted. dapidated
structures the oubuildngs few negro huts. Ride up
to them and he finds them deserted except maybe by
native too old for war. old African crones, too
old TO run away He school.houses--a fcw
churches. but no school.bouses. have ridden over
nearly all the roads In the region have traversod
between the Rappahannock and the James and have
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