Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-07-15
WHO ARE THEY

VINO ARE THEY!
just when all Yankecdom is lu-
bilant over the prospect Of CRAFTS
sure and certain capture of Petersburg
and the consequent reduction of tile
Rebel Capital, and the daily journals
are eagerly sought for the news Of
Grants marching into starved ont
Richmond, comes the startling cry,
from the upper Potomac, Of terrible
Rebel invasion. CONSERVATION is de-
picted in the face of Un:onists and
fear and trembling shakes their feeble
knees. Nor is the alarm and panic
allayed by the news from the threat
ened point. One report has it that
Early with large force is moving in
to Pennsylvania, another that it is
only small cavalry force bent on the
destruction of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and the Canal, both of which,
whether they are handful or a null
titude,) have been seriously damaged.
Then they have it that Breckenridge
heads this force of infantry and caval-
~ and that they number 5000, and
finally they have it that it is Ewell's
and Longstreet's corps under the i'm
mediate command of Gen. R. T. Lee.
That there is a multitude of reports
flying which have not reached us may
be seen from the following extract.
IA Chambersburg paper says that. in
summing up the information gathered from
various border sources by largo corps OF
reporters. "thc rebels had crossed the Po-
tomac at 40 less than twenty four different
places, the previous afternoon. in columns
from fye to ten thousand strong, and that
The main body had moi yet reached tho rv-
err that according to all these reports, "'not
less than amiilion rebels we're about to en-
ter Pennsylvania" that they had ''main-
tanned line Of battle twenty miles long all
Gay Sunday, on the Baltimore and Ohio
raiIroad;" that they had fred at the rate
OF fifteen cannon shots every second, and
that. Judging from the distance they we're
heard, some Of the rebel guns could not
have been less than fifteen hundred poun.
dsrs.'
Since no one seems to be able to
give them the desired information as
TO who the invaders are, we, in con-
sideration Of their late kind treatment
to the people in the Valley, venture,
in spite of all the Provost Marshals
and Commandments of Posts 1.-THE Con-
tederacy, to relieve, their minds Gen.
zIunter, while in this county, received
and had read to his troops official in
formation Of the evacuation of Rich
mond and its occupation by Grant
Grant wishing to make as much Bum
comhe as possible has not desired this
information to be given to the Yankee
public yet and consequently it will
be perceived that the last report they
get from the threatened point is the
reliable one, to SOME extent It is not
only EwelPs and Longstreet's corps
but the whole of Gen. Lees army, I'M
der his immediate command, which in
the evacuation of Richmond, have
been forced to cross the Potomac to
avoid being surrounded and captured
by the Victorious Hunter with Sigel
as grand TANKER 1t is true that Lee
has about q half q million or perhaps
{. million Of men with him but they
are 50 depressed at the loss Of Rich
mond that Gov. Curtin's Melish can
easily capture the whole Of them
There now, don't bealarmed, Governor
Curtin's 9.Le.ish and sigePs 100 day
men arc between yoa and danger.