Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-25


mounted on the redoubt on AIasou's Hill
would sweep all the roads and approaches
Ito Munson's Hill and could do admirable
Eexecution upon troops advancing by the
Leesburg turnpike, certainly the most de-
tsirable avenue of approach for anyconsid-
erable body of men! From Upton's it is
an easy matter to throw shellEupon Halls
t.Hill, and it would be but little work to de-
stroy entirely the house of Mary Hall, now
fused as n look out or observatory by Fed
eral pickets. That house has now become
1quite, n centre of attraction, and there are
many visitors who climb to its roof in or
lder to get alglimpse offthe Confederate
camp near Upton's house. ii grigs.f
Ina On Sunday last number were assem-
bledin both houses, and stood peering at
each other through glasses for some hours.
We in Upton's house waved ahandker-
chief to those opposite, and the salute was
Immediately returned; but soon after, pos
sibly when itiwas suggested that tue sig
nal was for an attack, there was a general
stampede, and we saw no moro of them
FLOR some hours.
ESCAPE OF FEDERAL PRISONERS.
The Richmond HRig, of the 10th, says;
40 We learn that a party Of six Yankee mer-
Acenaries escaped from the tobacco factory
n,whichlthey werecontined about o'clock
last evening, and Notwithstanding the Wig
orous search which was at once instituted
for them, continued, up to a late hour last
might, 20 elude the pursuit.
Has49 A BAIT1uoREAN IN TROUBLE.
The Richmond Why, of the 18th, says:
Officer Morris arrested yesterday morn
ing man named Thomas Conley; hniling
from Baltimore, charged with stHbbing
Mr.. Doyle, foreman of the government la
boratory, near tile depot of the Petersburg
railroad. aaat3 s- 'A's.
BALTlxoRR rbUG 6eLiEs.
A letter from Shepherdstown to the Rich
mond DispGtch, dated September 9TH,
charges the First Maryland Regiment, un-
der Colonel Henley, with various acts of
outrage on the Virginia side of the Potomac
and styles them "Baltimore Plug Uglies."
Two of them had been taken prisoners.-
The writer adds: ..yt s.a.sssr a.f
The work of removing the railrond iron,
locomotives, &C., from Martinsburg to
Winchester goes braVely on. With "a
horses hitched to it, a locomotive is hauled
over the turnpike with considerable case.
The locomotives appear out of keller and
much injured by being burned, yet it is
understood that from S3OO'to $500 will
put them in complete running order.
REVELATIONS OF LATE PRDRRAL OFFICER.
A man named Byrd, who alleges that lie
has lately held an Office in Washington;
under the present Administration, has ar
rived in the South, and furnished the
Charleston Courier with considerable in-
formation. His statements, however, are
looked upon with. suspicion. Here is u
part of his narrativc,ias published in the
Courier:
| Mr.. Byrd said he was able to testify from
direct aud positive testimony to the hang
ing of two South Carolins prisoners after
the battle of Bull Run on the 18th. In
addition to those hang, fifteen prisoners
were shot bv their captors, under the fear
of losing them. When their prisoners,
captured in tue battle of the 2lst, were
taken to Washington. the Fire ZouRvos
| Succeeded in forcibly mrenching twenty
Eve of the number out of the hands OF the
guard who toOk them to the Capitol build
| ing, and there had a rope thrown over n
beam ind were on the point Of hanging
them, when Cen Scott came with u large
force and secured the prisoners safety
Gen. Scott was very Indignant, and threat
ened to hung the ringleaders of the Zou-
aves with the same rope designed for the
Southeruers. Some of the prisoners were
wounded by the stones thrown ut them by
the Zounves while in the, hands of their
guard. These fellows, Mr.. Byrd said, are
very expert in this practice, and throw
rocks hs straight as good marksmen would
fire n bullet. They make it their daily
study to pefect themselves in all kinds aud
forms OF deviltry. '.l 'l,........ I.''' ~
the CAMPS on THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
IN. 81, A GENERAL ACTION ia.t sur
We find the following in the Richmond
ESrdn1i1eyl:i 9ii. 5srf9sl uilla 1l nlus0
On the OceOqpaa, Sept. 6, Is61.MFrom
what can be learhed in the camps, gath
cred ut headquarters or concluded from
the events bf the last few days, we are now
equally and positively certain that no at
tack is designed on our part on Arlington
Heights, or Immediately on the works OF
Washington. The Occupation on Halls
Hill has not been followed up by anything
indicative ofau. attack on the Union works
ut, Arlington. Again, it is somewhat re-
lnarkuble that the headquarters OF General
Johnston and Beauregard should still be
continued at Manassas Junction, and not
moved, to thsia iadyanee.11 $50 g1lp isipcf
If the enemy should accept the gage of
battle which We have offered pGrsistently
for nearly n week past or we should be
able to excite general action by heavy
skirmishiug on our lines, the eud of our
advance movements will be sufficiently
gained. The battle, should such occur,
will be fought on our advanced lines, and
in position sufficiently advantageous to
be followed up into Washington, The
conclusion is positive and confirmed by
every particle of intelligence we can obtain,
that no direct attack is at present designed
upon the tporksloC Rashiagton, at least on
The Southern side. ws' bins .qiJ
: i,i,,,iy .AFFAIRs IN, GEoR0IA. ~ ileF q
a correspondent offthe Savannah Ntlps
recommends the enrolment of every p,ale
in the State between the ages of sixteen
d. Land sixty, and the suspension of all busi-
ness after twoi'. M.rin orderthSt they may
be thoroughly drilled in military. tactics