Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-04

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Is theirs--Let Them Look 10 their
Guns.
Prom the.Pittsburg Evening Chronicle.
This information from Marion county
may be false, and we shall be relieved to
hear tits so. That county lies but little
space back from Fayette county, while
Fairmont is but small distance South Of
Morgantown. Iftrue, and the rising proves
a general one, it Wohld never have taken
place had the rebels not been instigated
thereto from Richmond, and by the belief of
the advance OF Generals Lee, Floyd and
Wise in greater force than is expected. g
This is a matter which comes home di-
rectly to all of MS, and which should re.
ceive orr earliest attention. What with
the Union force now in Western Virginia
under Roseerans, that which the PeiTPoint
Government will be enabled TO Pot into
1.-THE field, and that which can be furnished
from Western Pennsylvania and Eastern
Ohio, Western Virginia ought to be easily
kept quiet and loyal. But it is absolutely
indispensable that we should get ourselves
in readiness to go atonce to the aid OF that
section should any serious reverse happen
70 Gen. Roseerans armies. Alittle timely
lpreeaution and preparation may save us
millions of money, and forever keep war
from our borders. Two thousand men
sent at the right time to the aid oil General'
Lyon would have saved all the treasure
that must now be expended, and the valu-
ableiblood that must now be shed TO secure
Missouri from the ravages and devastation
of ruthless and devastating invasion, and
who knows but the time may speedily be
at hand when few thousand fromWestern
Pennsylvania may keep Western Virginia
from becoming foreign country to us for
ever. We should, therefore, make haste TO
be ready for any misfortune that may hap
pen in Western Virginia, and in case the
news locke threatening, our Committee on
Home Defence ought to get permission to
employ all the force we can raise here in
that direction, where it will be of the
greatest value to Western PennsylVania.-
There is regiment being raised in Union
town, two or three here, and others in
neighboring counties, and should there be
any danger of reverses, we should see to 1t
now4tlIat our local troops will be ready on
any emergency toforward aid betimes.
We are not as yet apprehensiVe OF any
serious check to our forces, but no one
here yet knows the strength of the armies
under Generals Lee, &c. Should their
forces be more numerous than we yet an
ticipate, Western Pennsylvania ought to
be ready at once to furnish abundance of
aid and encouragement. If the Wheeling
news therefore be confirmed, and give rise
TO well grounded fears of a still more for
midable disaffection, we would urge upon
our border counties to lose not moment
in organizing infantry aud cavalry COM
pRuies for our Union loving neighbors of
Wheeling, and through them for ourselves.
Should It be the fortune of this war that
Virginia shall belong to a foreign coufed-
eracy, the Western half of that State must
stay with us. Let the rest of the country
arrange itself as it may, this result depends
mainly on ourselves, aud our remarks are
Intended nos 10 convey any feeling of alarm
about the situation of affairs in Western
Virginia, for that we are far from feeling,
but are intended simply as precautionary,
and are, therefore timely and pertinent.
The following sensible article from the
Philadelphia Inquirer will serve to show
exactly the situation in Western Virginia,
and to prove TO Western Pennsylvania that
it ought to be fully awake to her interests,
or else she may have war raging all along
her border. Il may very soon be neces
sary to cut through red tape distractions
and rush en- mdSSs TO the defence of the
Union loving portion of Virginia, and
thereby defend our own homes. Wequote:
1t is TO be feared that General Rosecrans
has not accomplished what the Govern
meut expected from him. Not from any
want of skill or generaIship on his part,
but owing TO the want Of a sufficient nnm-
Der of troops The indications now are
that unless he is speedily and largely re-
inforced, he, and all the Federal troops now
there, will be driven out of Western Virgin
ia. If this does take place, tue mischief
will be only begun. The expulsion of
the Federal troops will be followed by the
expulsion of the members of the Lcgisln-
ture of the new State of Khnawha or Wes-
tern Virginia, by that of the Governor of
the new State, and probably by the impo
sition of very heavy burdens upon all the
Union people of that part of the country.
The Rebels will then seize upon the Vest
ern part of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road from Parkersburg to Cumberland, and
fortify all the important points in Western
Virginia. If they do this, it will :protract
the war indefinitely. That they are ener-
getically moving in that direction will be
evident from the following facts ;-Immc-
dIately after the battle Of Bull Run, Gen.
Lee was sent by the Confederate War De-
parLment on secret expedition into West
err Virginia. He passed through Cor
louisville, Charlottesville, Staunton and
4 Covington. AT each of these places he
found detachments of troops, which had
been sent there and placed under his or
tlers, so that, on leaving Goyington, he
found himself at the head of a well APP
pointed force of forty thousand men,
With this force he crossed the Allegheny
Mountains, rested and refreshed his men
at Lewisburg, crossed tue Flat Top Noun
taius, aud encamped on the banks of the
Gauley ri or. Here he spent some days in
drilling and moderately exercising his
men, and in getting them accustomed to
the nlanGuVres of brigades aud field eyo-
lutiOns fr=s4f 4-@ tr-,-s
In the meantime, General Floyd, John
B. Floyd, late Secretary of War; with a
column of 10000 troops, raised in the
SouthTestern counties of Virginia, had.
been moving in the same direction. On
the 10th of August he was at Newburn on.
the line of the Great Southern Railroad,