Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-01


back water from the recent flood destroyed
all the corn fields in the valley of Wheel
ing creek, for three or four miles west Of
Bridgeport Thousands of pumpkins were.
carried away and taken down the river.
and thousands are lying in the mud and
drift-wood along the banks of the creek.
ROsecrans and the Rebels--The SItua-
Ilon OF the Armies I'm the Gau1ey
Region.
agate" the correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette, with Rosecrans, writes in
that paper of yesterday, the estimation, 2
as it is called, of our army under Rose
Grams and Reynolds, aud of the rebels
under Wise, Floyd and Lee. He says:
What is called Hthe situation" then, is
briefly this: Floyd and Wise with forces
known to be re-enforced mp to an aggregate
of At least ten thousand, and at Lewisburg,
or in its immediate vicinity, and cannot
be halt days march from direct railio
COMMUNICATION with Richmond. We have
advance post of COx's and McCook's brig
AIDES on the Lewisbnrg pike watching them.
Rosecrans lies at Cross Lanes, and por-
ton of the "brignde of the Kanawha"is
still guarding Gauley Bridge, which has
now become tue base Corporations instead
of Clarksburg. go ist
In the Cheat Mountain region Reynolds
continues to hold his positions, and Lee
continues to menace ttem. And over the
whole country, except Immediately in
those counties where 'he Union Strengths
overwhelming, the secessfonists continue
to carry on their guerrilla warfare, and to
hold in terror a people that lack spirit to
defend themselves. One. would suppose
that If the Ohio and Indiana troops keep
out the invaders from Eastern Virginia, the
boosted Union strength of tue country
might at least be able to protect itself
from its internal foes, but even so moderate
a hope ia disappointed, and after we have
driven off Garnet and Pegram, Floyd and
Wise. the people still beg that we will
march here and march there, to protect
them from IN insOlent minority among
themselves. -
Meanwhile. the inspiring vision of adj
Yances through Western Virginia on Stnun-
ton and down to Richmond, while Manas-
sas should be left to fall to pieces of its
own weight; or of advances to Cumber-
laud Gap, seizure of the Tennessee and
Lynchburg Railroad, stopping Southern
supplies and troops for Virginia, and relief
for the Union men of East Tennessee, all
fade away before the dull reality that the
roads are becoming impossible, and that
Gen. Rosecrans and his subordinates in
stead of meditating bold movements to
warmer climates, are already talking of
hunting up winter quarters in the neigh
horhoOd of CharlestOnl We had Western
Virginia clear of rebel armies, we opened
n gap to let them in, then fought them, be-
hind their entertainments, on ground of
their own selection, drove them out again,
and then stopped. That is the sum OF our
Western Virginia campaigning up to date.
Aud to accomplish II, We have Kept twenty
to thirty thousand Ohio and Indiana troops
there, that have been imperatiyely needed
nearer home.
The danger now ia, that assured of The
safety of their positions in the East, and
confident of their ability to-amuse QUE
troops at the Gaps with a small fragment
of their force, Lee may move the main
body of his army, Composed of ffteehto
eighteen thousand menu down to Staun-
ton, run it thence by rail to East Tennes-
see, aud suddenly drop in on us in South
ern Kentucky, in junction with Zollicoffer,
in an advance on Lexington. Four days
will put Lees army at the Cumberland
Gaps. Despairing of his ability to force
his way past Reynolds at the Cheat Noun
tain Gaps, is there not at least possibility
thatthe may make this sudden rush for u
prize so eagerly coveted as Kentucky