Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-16

| AhA 9lTUATlONs
That the Yankees should have the te.
merity to insist on assaults on our lines.
after the terrible repulses they have sus.
tained, is surprising. They surely must
be infatuated with the supposed idea of
their overwhelming strength and numbers,
or are melted to it under the influence of
mean whisky. They attempted at one
time duriug the day to enter o wedge be-
tWeen1GOn. Hoods corps and the mgiu
body Of our forces, hoping to isolate that
position, and oVerWhelm them by coup de
mann. They were repulsed terribly by the
cool and steady IRE Of our veterans, who
did not leave their commanding and i'm
preRnabla position. The army at night re-
mained nearly in the same position it oc-
cupied in the morning, but with the ad-
Tantages retained of any positions that
had been gained. - sf'-
We stated on yesterday that the char.
acter of the firing indicated the enemy
was only feeling our lines, and by our
press dispatches in another column, it will
be seen that this was the main feature.
On Friday, the firing commenced yerv
heavy early in the morning, and continued
extensively aud furiously all day; along
toward evening the sounds receded, seen.
ing to indicate retiring of the enemy's
lines.
At late hour last night the wounded
were coming in on the train in large num-
bers, thus indicating that heavy fighting
had occurred during the day, but we could
not learn any satisfactory particulars.
ADDRESS OF THE LADIRs.
The IHtetigsHesT makes feeling address
to the ladies, in which 1t says:
Look at the desolated fields, ruined
homes and insulted women of those Sec
tious where the enemy has passed, and
learn what your fate will be if we are de-
teated. Can you, in this hour of peril,
hesitate TO come forward and render what
assistance you can to your brave defen-
dersf Upon the shoulders of devoted
few rests the heavy responsibility of atIen-
ding to their wants, and We are 6udiug the
undertaking more than we can accomplish
alone. Ladies, come forward and help u.s.
The ordinary Rvocations of life must be
for time suspended Our brave soldiers
are strainiug every nerve to win their own
and our independence, and SO must we
lend all our energies to the task of attend
ing those who require it. few of US
have determined 70 remain in the city as
long as there is COniederate soldier to
care for; and we appeal to you to lay aside
yoHr fears, forget your panic, dismiss ali
tholghts OF rupuiug, aud join Us in the
Euobls work; aud when our liberty q esta6.
lished, you can claim your share ofits re-
wards. aa aazF q. iss
wHIsTLx0.
Rebel whistliug was long ago reduced
to . science, ranking in Importance almost
up to lying-in fact, lying and whistling
intermiugle as harmoniously as the diverse
blood OF the chivalry and his female slave
wife. We have Petersburg and Richmond
papers of late dates, in which the whistle
sounds particularly shrilI and defaut.-
The EramiHeT, speaking of Richmond, says,
in a sentence evidently unfinished by the
boom of Grants cannon "It those highly
excited official circles of Washington and
delighted newspaper readers of New York
and Boston, could see the tranquil serenity
of these emboWered streets at this day
how peacefully our people go about their
daily busines; how quietly they buy and
sell, or even marry or are given 10 mar
risge, as in the day when Noe entered into
the Ark" The simile is singular, to say
the least, for when Noah entered the Ark,
the outsiders who had so long scoffed at
his prophesies were slightly surprised, not
to say demoraliEed. The editor goes on
TO tell his readers that Grant means mis-
chief; that "they know that q mighty power
has gathered countless hosts around this
place commissioned to rAze it utterly and
leave not one stone upon another; true,
| they know that accurate plans of the
Doomed City, multiplied by the hundred
| thousand, point out this very moment
every approach to their peaceful homes,
and indicate each most advantageous
method OF crushing, sacking aud buruing
the place, drenchiug these leafy shades
with blood, and strewiug them with man
| gled bones aud spattered brains True,
also, that they feel in their souls how
much more blessed on that day of doom,
if it should ever dawn upon them, would
be the mangled dead than the landIess,
houseless, living; they do hear every day
the Yankee acoustics are correct-the
roar of cannon flaming in front and flank
of that enormous host, advancing "with a
celebrity never known before;" they are
well aware that this very night, before the
stars shine outfit only one OBSTACLE were
removed-there might be hundred thou.
sand brigands in blue swsrmiDg iu every
street, rampant in every house, until the
work OF slaughter and rapiue were done;
and then, in pyramid of fire, the city of
their pride and love would rush skyward
with all its pleasant dwellings, with the
hearths at which the old people have sat,
and the cradles in which its children have
been rocked. Its murmuring river, reddeu.
ed with flame and blood, would flow here.
after past mounds of gore-Clotted cinders,
which should stand for generations a
monument of Yankee vengeance. Yes,
they know all this; yet to. night they will
lie down peacefully to rest, trusting in
Providence that the morning sun will shine
; as serenely into their windows, through
the whispering trees, as on any morning
of the last hundred years. 1t is not that
our people are boastfuI or presumptuous,
or unconscious of danger, or insensible to
the uuutterable evils and curses which
would come in moment upon them and
theirs in case of the enemy's success
They know well that the fortune of battle
is doubtful, and that each instant of time
may bring on the great arbitrament. But
they are not demonstrative, nor bV anu
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