Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-26

his force have every confidence in
him, aud are flushed with numerous sue.
cesses.
We can have no hope that sigsl will aid
him, though the force with him is now
twice Dc great as Breckinridge's. He L. :
chronic lagger, always finding something
wanting 70 enable him 10 venture 10 act
ethctently.A VIC - stss
Gen. seymour IN Observation-Disclosures
makes asPeeeh and q PredIetIOn.
From the Richmond Examiner.
No more preposterous exhibition has
been seen In the course Of this war than.
the Townof Charlottesville beheld the other
day on the arrival Of those two Yankee
brtgadter Generals who had been captured
10 the night attack by Gordon's brigade, in
the Wilderness. The two worthless are
named Shaler aud Seymour the former has
visited Richmond before, in his capacity of
captain Of q company in the, New York
t.SeVenth, !" when that dandy regiment of
Gotham cockneys'wa entertained kere on
the occasion of the Monroe faneIal obse.
qutes.a AT that time, coming as q friend
and lin some sense) compatriot, he and his
comrades were received with all the cordial
INSCRIPTIONS hospitality of VirginiA. Now,
advancing with his crew of cut. throats and
hte; EaiseEsi 70 burn and sack the city in
which hehas been an honored though IN !.
worthy guest he experienced Virginia's
Other style of receiying visitors, and will
have an opportunity of comparing the Lib.
by with the Ballard! This Shaler, however,
has At least kept himself quiet, and has in
stlence,laid up all these things in his mind
and pondered them Ia his heart
Not Sc, the other redoubtable brigadier.
Seymour. is the same commander who, at
Ocean Pond, in Florida, hurled his negro
troops up against the muzzles of Con.
federAte guns. II he had been caught on
that occasion. in the very act Of leading
4 runaway slaves to attack their masters, It
i8'presumed he would have been hanged or
shot, as he well deserves to be. Summoned
from the extreme South he 10 given COM
msnd in Grant'a army, and on the very
first occasion of going into action, the un-
lucky warrior of Ocean Pond, fancyiug
himself to be pressing the rebels most
prosperously in front, along with the adj
vauciug masses Of Sedgwick's corps, sud
denly hears, upon his right flank peallpg
through the woods, the long fierce yell Of
Gordon's Georgtans. -.
A moment more and the "2d Army
0orps' is In. wild rout before the swift
and steady rush of the Confederates, and
as to what become OF his own special bril-
gade, or any other, the hapIess Brigadier
knows no more. A storm of "Rebels''
bursts. aud rolls over him, and when it is
passed away he finds himself without q
sword, moving to the rear as prisoner.
Ooe might we'll suppnse that this latter
commander would initiate the reserve and
silence of his companion in misfortune aud
GOT, at least, provoke any tauntipg reflsc.
tions upon his two Abortive campaigns.
But this is not Seymour's manner. Il Is
not prescribed by the school of taste in
which he was brought up, and since his
captivity be has omitted no opportunity of
creating effect aud making an impression.
It was the fortune of these two Brigadiers
to be first marched into Orange Court.
House with about ], 200 other prisoners.
They were halted opposite the railing
which inclosed the Court House, but while
Shaler stood in sufficiently natural man
aee aoa apparent unoOnesFn, the other far
ntshed amusement to the few spectators
by his studied attitudes aud highly elabs
rate glances. Standing extremely erect.
with one thumb stuck 10 his belt, and evi
IDENTIFY regarding himself as an object of
intense interest to the village, he first look
ed up around the windows to see whether
the women were peeping aud asking their
own hearts who the proper young man 10
| SAOuAuSE SIESpe COulu DC. 1uenI Iook10R
down upon the sidewalk, where some little
boys, both white aud black, were I've
must eonfess) grinuing, he tempered his
familiar smile with an austere regard of
control, and shot indignant flashes from
his dark eyes. This was apparently all the
notice he vouchsafed to SO small place
| as Orange. But now comes the absurd
part of the affair. n
On arriving ut Charlottesville, larger
town, able to turn out greater crowd of
spectators, this whipped Brigadier be.
thought him of honoring the place SO far
as to address his "fellow. citizens" at the
railroad depot. The thing would seem in
credible, yet Trustworthy gentlemen avouch
the fact that BY some uuaccountable but
most culpable oounivance of the officer of
the guard, this creature was actually per.
mttLed to "make a speech to the citi5ens
OF Charlottesville. They even report the
substance of his speech, which was to the
following effect; "Gen. Lee may possibly
defeat Gen. Grant aud the Union army; but
what of that7 trust that If he defeat him
he may follow up his success by taking
Washington and burning it to the ground.
And let him not stop there; let him capture
and burn Baltimore, then advance Phila.,
delphia aud burn that. Then, at last, we
shall have Q united North, aud shall begin
to show youIwhat war is."
This, from the Ill.starred Brigadter who
has never done anything in the world but
run away from Finnegan in, Florida, aud
yield himself up, rescue or no rescue, at
the hrst yell of Georgians In the Wilder
ness We hnd Il hard to understand, first,
Why the man was not ''bncked ard gag.
ged" by the guard, and, secondly, WHY he
Was not booted and pelted blythe popuIace.
The trash that he uttered Was moreIy a
safe piece of the most vulgar Yankee
6taHgadocia, virulent with all the spite
which usually rankles in mean nature.
apparently sane, absolutely compliment
the "pluck" and ''dash" Of this miscreants
harapgue.
Our people, unhappily, have such a dis,
eaSed appetite for oratory, are so resolute
70 have every man ''deiue his position"
are so easily dnped by the show of every
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