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

General Rosecrans Keeping His Own
Secrets--His Proclaim eI-
laneOus Items Of interest.
For few days the feverish tone of the
public pulse has subsidized, although the i'm
dications of an approaching contest of
some kind are perhaps as apparent as ten
days ago. The movements, and the spe-
cial objects of them, of Gen. Rosecrans are
yelled in mystery, except to his military
family. might tell you of the marching
of regiments il this direction, and that all
il itwere not prohibited by headquarters,
and even then you would be compelled to
make Yankee guess as to what it all
meant.
The proclamation issued by Gen. Rose
Grams, on the Goth, which has already ap-
peared in the papers, has had good effect
in two ways. 1t gives assurance to the
Union men that they are still to be sup
ported by the strong arm of the Govern
ment; that the bold position they have as
sumed is TO be maintained against treason
and the long train of evils that naturally
follow in its wake. In word, that they
are to be protected in their devotion to.
assurance to the patriotic men of Western
Virginia, its digniied, firm and determined
tone warns the rebels that the laws must
be maintained, at all hazards, and that
just retribution for their follies and
crimes will be visited upon their own
heads with unerring certainty. Every
word uttered in the proclamation is meant,
and those who fancy that they can indulge
in q career of lawless opposition to the
recognized Government, will discover their
error when the strong arm of military law
infiicts the proper punishment.
A REBEL OUTRAGE, AND ARREST OF A LARGE
PART OF AiNRIGHBoRHooD.
On Saturday night an outrage was COM
mitted upon two prominent Union farmers,
living some ten miles from town, which
will be promptly punished if the offenders
can be detected. Two splendid fields of
wheat, the entire crop of the season, had
been gathered and shocked for future dis
posal, when the midnight torch of the in-
cendiary was applied, and in q few hours
the whole was reduced to ashes. The fact
that the farmers were two miles apart,
shows that the fires could not have been
the result of accident, and as both belong
ed to Union men, while the crops of Sc
cession sympathizers were unharmed, the
rebels were undoubtedly the authors of
the outrage. 8
Gen. Rosecrans, in his proclamation re-
ferred to, in speaking of "the savage war
Waged by individuals" expressly declared
that be should "be obliged to hold the
neighborhood in which outrages were COM
mitted, as responsible, and unless they
raise the hue and cry, and pursue the Of
tenders, deal with them as accessories to
the crime" In pursuance of this clear,
distinct proposition, Isuppose, files of SOL
diers were Immediately dispatched from
here to the locality of the outrage Ihave
detailed, and this morning hear that they.
have already made over forty arrests of
persons residing in the neighborhood.-
Those who can show their innocence, or
establish their loyalty, will undoubtedly
be discharged, while those who can do
neither, will be "dealt with as accessories
to the crime.'' The commanding General
issued timely warning, and therefore
takes no t'snap judgment" upon the guilty
parties. -