The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-15

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Opinion of Grants Army-.They
70 Affect to Believe it q Myth
5R Richmond not Beseiged. 4
q tL[From The Richmond Examiner, June 81
'aafaEs q WAR NEWS. So H9a&J
e. The news is dull this morning. We have
nothing new to report from the armies i'm
mediately around Richmond. The situa
ton remains unchanged. It'll reported by
persons from the army that Grants believ
ed to be moving from the front down in the
direction of James River, and it is presum-
ed that this is done with the ultimate design
of crossing to the south side. But this is
mere conjecture, and it will probably be-
some days before the enemy's plans are de-
veloped. In the meantime the two armies
ale confronting each other, with their lines
only some four hundred yards apart. Il 4
SOUTHLAND WEST. '.a-.
On the south side all remains quiet. The
enemy sends over an occasional shell; but
this seems to be the extent of his Demon
strationss .- tenn .i4..r.-.-l .; ... ....
We are still without any information of
the enemy in the valley. 1t is not known
what injury the enemy have done to Staun-
ton, and it was even doubted on the treet
yesterday whether they had taken the
town. s'H ID
SHIPMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR 4
Yesterday morning, eleven hundred of
the Yankee prisoners of war, held in Rich
mond, and which have mainly accumulated
since Gen. Lee commenced active opera
tons onthe Richmond lines, was seat south
ward, en- route for Americas, Ga, To-day
one Thousand more of the same sort will
followed. Between forty and fifty officers
are among the number of prisoners forwar-
ded. a.. s...-. t7..' ,....-..f .......ii o.,
, FEEDING THE POOR. e-
While the Yankee ghouls are making
themselves merry over the supposed desti-
tuition and starvation existing in our armies,
the best evidences to the contrary is afford.
ed by the extraordinary spectacle of the
soldiers frequently donating their rations to
help feed the suffering. The Thirtieth Vir-
GINA regiment, Corse's brigade, Yesterday
Jumped their entire rations for that day and
sent it, in -four, meal, bacon, etc, to be
distributed among the poor of Richmond.
From the Richmond Examiner, June 81
Siege Of Richmond.
After alluding to the comments upon
this subject in the Northern press, the lead
ing article in the Examiner concludes as
follows:
The citizens, if we may Judge By their
quiet indifference, did not believe one word
of it. They begin to doubt even the exs-
tence of Grants army. Let Grant prove it.
Here is Richmond waiting to be taken;
built evidently to be taken; predestined to
be taken, robbed and burned, according to
very high authorities. And it is clear also.
that the whole heart OF great and mighty
nation, of all the mighty nations the might.
lest and the best, has been set upon this
achievement, as its highest business and
hottest mission upon earth. -...sl
And there are not wanting eager. elo-
quent voluble writers for the public press,
of that same people, most enlightened press
of all creation, protesting, affirming, and al
most swearing, that large and numerous
bodies of persons in uniform, wearing but
tons, carrying weapons, in fact what Yam
KEGS call armies, were most certainly COM
that Richmond was to consider herself be
sieged, or, for that matter, as good as taken.
There is a very general increduity about
this whole matter.
They sllrmise that the whole story of
these vast hosts and this Investment of
city, and bloody arbitrament Of the great
world conflict of the age, must have been
got up in order to amuse or delude con-
vention now said to be assembled at Bal. |
timore. And they begin generously to
doubt whether it be indeed true, or was
true few days ago, that some Of the larg
est armies ever embattled upon earth were
advancing with celebrity never before
known, to decide the destinies of CONT
nent in our streets, and seal the grand
charter of her man freedom in ffame and
blood, amidst the conhagration of our
crashing dwellings and the murderous
shrieks of hundred. thousand souls. 4