Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-26

| fSipned) j. B. HOOP, General.
| Photographic communications with Mont
gomery was suspended last night near
Notasulga. The interruption is supposed
to have beeu caused by a portion of that
part of the enemy who were reported to
be at Talladega on Saturday. No train
has arrived to day from West Point. The
main forces of the enemy crossed the
Chattahoochee between Isham's Ford and
Roswell, aud are slowly pushing forward.
Cavalry skirmishing took place this morn
| Jog at Buck Head, six miles from this
place.l
THE SITUATION.
From the Richmond Examiner, July 20.
Yesterday was quiet day. There was
no booming of cannon, no heavy masses of
smoke on the Southern horizon, and no
exciting rumors from any quarter. The
fact that the flags of the Yankee shipping
in James river, were at half mast on Mon
day, caused many to give credit to the re-
mort of Grants death, and this topic and
the removal of Gen. ]. &. Johnston from
the command of the Army of Tennessee,
we're the topics that chiefly occupied mems
minds. Though no one believed his death
would be of any great benefit to us, yet
every one would have been glad, on gen.
eral principles, to have been assured OF his
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him, and that is sufficient to make US re-
joice over any misfortune that may befall
him.
We have nothing later from our forces
operating in Maryland than the news pub
lished yesterday. Other officers and men,
wounded at Monocacy, arrived yesterday;
but they bring nothing new, except that
they estimate the number of horses OBJ
tanned and secured by us in the raid at
seven instead of five thousand.
The only news we have from Georgia is
contained in the press dispatch, published
in another column. From that it will be
seen that affairs at Atlanta begin to wear
serious aspect. Sherman and his whole
army has crossed to the east bank of the
Chattahoochee River, and his cavalry were
skirmishing with Hoods, within six miles
of Atlanta. If Atlanta is to be defended
battle must be delivered Within very brief
period. Ifthe enemy is allowed to iutrench,
having the larger army, he will Immediate
~ outfank Gen. Hood or oblige him to fall
back The eyes of the country are anx-
iously turned to this quarter. The dispatch
alluded to says, "the army and the public
were surprised by the announcement of the
change of commanders" The army and
the public in Virginia have seen and ex-
perienced such strange things in the last
three years, as to have lost the faculty of
being surprised at anything done by those
in authority.
From the Richmond Examiner.
n The expedition has also
shown how exactly such things are done
against an enemy that attempts enterpri-
SEES beyond his strength, and strips his own
capital of defenders to swell his armies
sent against distant cities. Our troops
are charmed npon the whole, with the lit
tie campaign. They consider that five or
six thousand horses, two or thee thousand
cattle, and eight hundred prisoners, all
brought safely across the Potomac Except
Franklin. and Tyler,) was no bad result of
q few days dash into Maryland. They
won one small battle, and they lived well;
the fighting was good, the eating and es-
pecially the drinking was GLORIOUS" and
in short, Mr.. Lincoln's official organ de-
clares that "the rebels are so hattered be.
cause they have put Washington aud Bal.
timOre in terror, that they will not hest
tate to repeat the experiment. We think
that extremely likely.
Probably, too, our government may at
last-but of this We are not sanguine-
find GU: that its duty to its own people
does really require it to burt little the
enemies of the people, when it has the
power. And if not, then the people them.
selves Will OeRiu 10 COnCluQ6 GQat the WORST
enemy they have is the government which
they established for their protection.
HOW TO PROTECT souTHERN RAILROADS.
Prom the Richmond Examiner, July Is.
OF such glorious rumors as those which
lperyaded the town on yesterday, it is best
to decline discourse till we know whether
they are truths or only illusions of hope.
Let us attend to another report of a differ
ent chaEacter-that Grants cavalry has
started on fresh raid against the Weldon
Railroad. -..-..'s
One of the marked peculiarities of the
people with whom we war is, that they
publish their military Intentions in news
papers before commencing their execution
One of the peculiarities of the singular
breed of small politicians set over us at
Montgomery, is a resolute disbelief in all
information that comes to them through a
plain, ordinary public channel. Although
the result has a hundred times proven
that the plan made public in the New York
papers was really the plan of the enemy's
General or Government, they cannot COM
prehend the fact that the enemy does so
give notice of their designs The publica-
ton is TO them perfect proof that they
are going to do something else.
They could not believe that this cam
paign in Virginia was intended, chiefly be.
cause the scheme was universally publish,
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