Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-22

siles IN the scene were the unhouSed in
habitants were driven from their homes
and the unArmed fremen and citizens haC
, congregated for their assistance.
In regard to the alleged cruel treatmen
: of the Yankee prisoners thus placed be
fore Charleston. Gen. Jones' letter says:
To this city, thus circumstanced, the
: prisoners Of war referred to in my letter o
the 18th have been sent for safe keeping
You assert this 10 be an act of indefensible
cruelty, unknown TO honorable warfare
If it were so, it would i'll become any Of
ficer of your Government to raise the ques.
tiOu. For 1t would fall so immeasurably
short of the innumerable crimes perpetra.
ted by your armies, with the approval aud
sanction of your Government, that in com
parison with them it would seem like the
tenderest care that a mother could brstoW
upon child. Your government has re-
tanned at the head of one of its armies a
General whose conduct in this war has
acquired for him such notorious infamy
that his name is byword aud a reproach
in every land where the events of the war
are known; and at the head of another ol
its armies general who publishes TO the
| world, and instrucIs his officers that for
the loyal people of the Southern COnfed-
eracy "death is mercy, the quicker he or
she is disposed of the better" that "Ss-
tan aud the rebeIlious saints of Heaven
were allowed a continuance of existence in
hell merely to swell their just punish
ment," and that "to such as would rebel
against q government 80 mild and Just as
ours was in peace, punishment equal
would not be unjust" The officers ofsuch
| a government are precluded from raising
any question as to the observance or non
observance of the rules of honorable war
fare.
Bat it is not true that the prisoners
of war now in the city are treated With any
cruelty. They are in large city, not be
sieged, but partially blockaded by land
and naval batteries from FIVE or teu miles
distant. They are provided with commo-
dious and comfortable quarters, remote
from all military aud naval works, or any
other otjeot on which you may legitimate
ly FIRE, and are treated With all the cOnsid-
Grafton due to prisoners of war. They are
surrounded by citizens OF all classes aud
condition, and it cannot be regarded as an
act OF cruelty TO place them 10 the immedi-
ate vicinity of the houses occupied by our
wives and children. %. -9
SPIRIT OF TIE PREss.-A RIBEL VIEW OF TIE
CAMPAIGN.
From the Richmond Examiner, July 1s.
The progress and present stage of the
mighty Federal campaign Of 1864 begins 10
be ludicrous. Disinterested spectators far
of must be deriving amusement from il,
though probably thinking, the farce has
been played long enough, and that a joke
is joke. We Confederates can scarcely
absurd as the performance is-fnd it in
our hearts to laugh aud our enemies are
even very much less 10 a merry mood. Yet
there is certain grim humor; sort of
horrible buffoonery in the affair. Think of
it-nearly three months ago, after the
mightiest preparations by land and sea,
two immense armies moved against Rich
mond in Two directions, while another
great force careered up the Valley of Vir-
ginis-all to unite in aud around Rich.
mond, and there and then cut the throat of
the rebellion" And now the irresistible,
inevitable o. S Grant, who was to achieve
that mighty work, sends word to his mas
tiers 10 Washington that if they eau re-
pulse the rebels Ia Confederate army which
is said to be threatening the Federal cap
ital,) he, Grant, "caD attend to Rich
mond!" Why, he has been attending TO
! Richmond for many weeks, paying it the
most devoted, though respectful and dis
tant attentions; but what comfort is this
TO Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Seward, as they
''rids to the 'front.'" or at least towards the
front, listening to Confederate shells burst
| ing in the suburbs of Washington, while
they have fast vessel in the Potomac,
with steam up, in their rear? Grant can
attend TO Richmond What kind Of secu-
rity is that to the bankers of Washington,
who have huddled their safes aud Ihair
books on board another ship Of the PotO-
mac feet? Grant may be paying atten-
tions to Richmond, who, indeed, does not
relish his attentions at all, but keeps him
at arms length; while Washington, his
peculiar trust and care, his own lawful
wife as il were, whom he is bound TO de-
| fend and TO cherish by all the tenderest
| ties, is exposed at home to the insOlent
oVsrtures of a Confederate suitor. Attend
/ ing to Richmond and who ia there TO at
tend to Lincoln and Seward, to Annapolis
and Baltimore
This Federal war to conquer the Confed
eracy has already furnished rich material
to satiTists and esricaturist5 in amusing
pictorials of Europe, to the ChGTiVaTi and
Mr. Punch, and the German Mathematical
Not Louis XIV. himself, prosecuting bis
coDquests in Flanders, }" was ever so Knocked
by an irreverent world ss these successive
grand armies Of the Yankee nation, who
are always going to make q clean sweep OF
the South this time, aud their long series
of inVincible Generals, each of whom is,
for a moment, the coming man, and the
next moment the going one. Pope, who
bad seen only the rebels back. losing the
coat from his own back when the ''Febels"
broke bis camp and scattered his army
which respectable uniform coat was long
after to be seen hanging in store window
10 Richmond-Banks, who came TO destroy
us, but turned out our best Commissary
and QuarteTmaster General, and who.
when last heard of, was fast running away
0F hia oil IN
with the loss of his baggage aud cham
pague," to say nothing Of his wagons aud
cspnous, gunboats aud transports, nor of
the carriages whi2h contained bis fair
coBpanious, with their waTdrobes.
Then the ''grand raids" always destined
to cut of Richmond, aud chop up the Con-
federscy into two or four pieces, which
usually come 70 a bad end, but which are
always found to hsve-WbaIeVsr else they