Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-15
FROM CITY POINT.

| FROM CITY POINT
General Grants Position and Pros
pects-EarIy's MOvement-An Order
about DeseFters.
Correspondence N. 7. Times.
CRY PoIEr, VA, Friday, Sept. 9.
All remains quiet here for the present,
but everything goes on admirably, and
each day sees our armies closing in grad
ually but surely on i'll. fsted Richmond,
like that horrible chamber known in the
days of the Inquisition, whose walls noise
lessly contracted day by day, upon the
wretched victim within, until he WAS lit
orally crushed TO pieces. Lee can read his
fate distictly, and chAfes like Gagged lion.
he is constantly moving portions of his
armies, every day making demonstrations
here and there, but the argus-eyed Grant
| is ready for him everywhere, and is too
old soldier to be deluded or dauuted by
feints. This is no Yorktown affair, where
| Lee can repeat Magruder's game of fright
ening an army of 100, 900 men, by moving
backward and forward some 10000 or
! 900 to magnify their number. The
Army of the Potomac is now, thank
Heaven, in very different hands from what
it was in those early and unfortunate days
| of the war.
| presume there is good reason for sup
| DOSING IQdE OF HaEll lOTCc5 has
| joined Lee, and that with such reinforce
ments the latter may yet be tempted to
make another desperate attempt to regain
the Weldon road but if his first two at
| tempts, when We were comparatively uu-
prepared, were met with such bloody re-
pulse, it is not at all likely that the third
will succeed any better after We have had
ample time to fortify. The fact is, that Lee
is now discovering the vast difference there
is in having to attack us In our intrench-
ments and compelling us to attack the rebels
in theirs, as we have almost always had to
do during this war.
AS to Early's being able to join Lee in
| anything like formidable force nobody en-
tertains the slightest apprehension on that
score, for Early has the iudomitable Sher-
idsn in his rear, and Sheridan is regarded
here, among those high in military posi-
ton, as one of those men who never lets an
enemy escape when he has him fairly on
the hip. Everything, therefore, warrants
the assertion that Lee is in a decidedly
tight place, and his overwhelming discom-
fture is a mere matter of time.
His army has recently received terrible
blow in the shape of an order issued by
Gen. Grant, and which, if we only remain
before Richmond long enough, is likely to
leave MS no army to confront, The order is
bringing US in desertsrs by squads daily no
| fewer than thirty having come in the night
before last. This is the order to which
alluded:
! HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE O. s.
IL THE FIELD, VA, Aug. %, 1854.
| SPECIAL ORDERs, No. s2.-Heresfter de-
serters from the Confederate Army, who
deliver themselves up to the United States
forces, will, on taking the oath that they
will not again take up arms during the
present rebellion, be furnished subsistence
and free transportation to their homes If
the same are within the lines of the Fede-
raj occupation.
If their homes are not within such lines,
they will be furnished subsistence and free
transportation to any point in the Northern
States.
All deserters who take the oath Of allie
glance will, if they desire it, be given en-
ploymeut in the Quartermaster's and 9TH
er departments of the army, and the same
remuneration paid them as is given to ci-
william employees for similar services.
Forced military duty, or service endau-
gering them to capture by the Confederate
forces, will not be exacted from such as
give themselves up to the United States
military authorities.
By command of Lieut. Gen. GRANT.
T. S. BOWERS, A. A. G.
a barrel of sugar rolled among q hungry
swarm offlies could not have proved more
attractive than this order to the ill-fed,
overworked and oppressed legions of the
enemy. 1t is of no use talking about
tsblood thirsty Yankees" and ringing any
more changes upon the humbug about
"beaHSy and booty to any man who has
one of these talismanic missiles IN his
pocket. And they have already been so
; far scattered among them, that it is quite
idle now for the enemy to try and undo the
effect of such proclamation. Even those
J who may not have seen copy will know
all about it from their fellows. Nearly
every deserter who comes into our ranks
has one about him. At the Provost Mar
, shsPs, if anybody offers a copy to aofresh
, deserter, under the supposition that he
may not have seen 1t, he is sure to say that
, he has one; at the same time dragging from
, the lowest depths of his greasy pocket the
: potent document, twisted into the smallest
possible space for concealment.
\ What nonsense it is, in the face OF such
: facts, and knowing as we do by what des-
potic power the rebel armies are held to-
= eether, for people to be constantly telling
! US about the ''last man dying in the lss
= ditch Men who never owned negro
2 and never could own one,-men remorse
lessly dragged from their homes, to fgh
in a wicked cause they know and carr
3 nothing about,-men who never received
any harm from the people against WHOM
= they are compelled to fight, and who vii
= glsdly receive them again as brothers int
e the fold, as soon as they choose to return
b men who when really fighting with
# Twill, are only doing so under the infuenc
of some egregious fslsehood that the Ars
II raw of truth can dispel;--is it in huma
lp6ture to suppose that such people, Whe