Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-30
Norles 10 Ial snbeerlbera.
FROM THE BURNT BRIDGES.


FROM THE BURNT BRIDGES,
Another secsssIomIst I1IIIed---our
Troops take Posse salon OF FNa 1 rInont
capture Of SeceShiOnIstH.
Ga Tuesday evening we lett this city to
20 out aud see how the troops were getting
oaat Pennington. At Benw, cd, some four
or Eve hours were consumed in loading
the balance of the 10th Ohio Regiment,
50g in number. into about thirteen house
cars, provided with seats for the purpose,
and about II o'clock, we got under ay,
aud moved off amidst a roar. the like of
which WAS never heard this side of Niagara.
fortunately, or rather unfortunately as it
turned out, we fell in with IA company of
Slppers and Miners, under command of
Capt Freese and Lieuts. Jack Rner md
Oa.ey. who went out to build up the burnt
bridges. Tue soldiers, as they went along,
Iorrei as I've ever heard bull calf" and
the SIppers aud Miners were not much
behind them. individually tue noise was
fearful--cUlIectively it was thunder of the
lOndest aud most approved description
Al! the live people along the road were
startled from their slumbers we know, aud
it is supposed that SOME of the "brothers
ofthe insensibla rock we're resurrected.
The men seemed to he practicing the
Chinese plan OF soaring tie enemy to death,
and We venture to say that more taau one
startled sesesher deaerted his home and
took to the woods.
We balanced ourself on the soft side of
Il plank which was about two inches in
width and supported bY two blocks about
TWO feet above the floor of the car, and
'engthwise in the middle of the sumo
Upon this we stretched out at full length,
With \ bAnlhnut handkerchief tor u COW
srlet, and sought "the sweet re5torer.n-
We have no hesitation ia saying that we
could have picked a snow-bird and made
II better he'd on II stone-pile. All our fac
ulties wsre employed in maintaining an
equilibrium, an we had no time to 90 to
sleep. Besides this we could not have
gone to sleep for the noise anyhow, ANA
no white man ever slept on such a plank
uGdcr tue most f,tvorahly serene and hal
cyon circumstances. Every time the car
would careen we would fall off upon the
Gp,r of the car, and never failed to slap
the faces of tue occupants of the two
cOuches ut our side in the effort to pro-
'ect our person. During the night this
occurred precisely thirty-cight tunes by
tie watch, aad in the performance of
these several feats, nlR while vaiuly en-
deavoriug To steal forty badly needed
wtnks, we succeeded 10 splitting from our
pockets the greater portion of small
loan for which we hld negotiated with
the senior editor of this paper before leIv-
lug BenwoOd depot, to say nothing of
several peu-kntves, pencils, aud other
small valuable gifts from unconscious
friends. 1t WAS sure night indeed, that
"tr.aed former knowiugs'
Ia leaving OFT suddenly the subject of
the roaring in the cars, we do not wish
1t To be understood that the soldiers did
anything of that sort. All night long
they kept bowling ia a AiIeous and in.
SINE manner, and were of course in the
hest OF spirits. Strange us it mty seem,
we do not believe there were half dozen
intoxicated men in the train.
About daylight we reached Huntington,
aud in less than Ave minutes must of the
soldiers were all over the town, enquiring
for water, whist others hal rltmbereI
upon the tops of the cars and were fan
Ging stag "Frsuch fou:J" to the music
of the ear-piercing 6fc.
A.
OH :cr' of the IL .simsnt, aud large num-
Der of Union men, who lad came in from
the country to welcome the soldiers, aud
to render all the assistance ia their power
in making the seeessionists behave them
selves. Ole man, named Elias Ice, IA
COLI name, but hot enough man on the
CHion question: who was driven away
from FGrnington because he WAS for his
country, and who was compelled to leave
his property aud fee into another neigh
borhooI. came IN to Huntington aud offer
ed his services, He said he knew the "se-
cessions''-eyery one of them, their hab-
is, practices, plans anil dcns, and if the
I. $. officers wanted hun to lead tue way,
all they hal to do WAS to give him gun,
aud if Il don't prove true man, shoot me
down like them--'ike secession This
man also seporte1 that company of about
shy sece*sioaisss were dr'lling in the vi
Sinity of worthiagton, about seven miles
back over tue hills from MAnntngton, aud
De offered to head a party to go aud cap
'nFe the whole gang.
We also learnsd that Stephen Roberts,
the leader of the sccessiouts,s at Glover's
Gap, seven miles west Of Warrington, was
Saot and Instantly killed, by "a squad oil
Capt. Hayes men, who have possession OF