Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-12-20
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PePNhS y AocS ia tdoAh - IA .
the news of a areported battle in p,egress
at New Orleans, between the United
States forces and the rebels. No par
ticulars, and probably the whole story
unrelia BILE.
There are also re,cr.-, somewhat
vague and con Trajectory, of extensive
slave instructions in South Carolina
If this be true our armies there will
probably find employment in quelling
the row.
1t is also reported that the city of
Charleston, S. c., was destroyed by fire,
and that the negroes who were COM
PEELED to work the engines broke them
and rendered them useless.
1t is also reported that the rebels are
obstructing the navigation of the river
at Columbus, KY, by filling the channel
with chains and anchors.
We should not be astonished to hear
that there has been great rerie,o of our
army on the Potomac before long. As
to a battle, we will report it when it oc-
ours.
\ battle occurred at Cheat m mountain,
in Virginia, between Gen. Milroy on
our side, with eighteen hundred Ohio
and Indiana and Virginia troops, and a
lot of rebels, in which It is said our side
gained a splendid victory The fire
was kept up until evening, when our
forces were called off, intending to cap
ture the whole rebel force the next
day. But, strange to say, the next day
there was no rebel force 10 capture, as
they had ran away in the night.
Our loss was twenty killed and thir-
ty four wounded.
The loss of the enemy may have been
very large. BY this brilliant achieve
ment the rebels are again driven clear
out of Western Virginia.
The rebel gunboats, and large num-
Der of rebel troops, have left Columbus,
KY, for New Orleans, to defend that
city from the attack of the Z. S. forces
IF it were not for fear of sfring the
Southern heart" and preventing a
"compromise," it would seem to be
good time for the two hundred thou
sand Federal troops now in that
State to capture those that are left.
But we suppose it would not be in ac-
cordance with the programme Of the
war to do anything of that sort.
Intense excitement is said to prevail
all through the South. The rebels feel
quite sure that Enngland and France
will join them Immediately in the over
throw of the Government. They may,
and from appearances they probably
will, join in the attempt, but its final
overthrow is another thing entirely.
In the history of the worl d, since the
world has had history, there was never
such an army congregated as we have
now in the field. With half the number
Of men, and not one tenth of the money
and munitions. the conquerors of the
earth have swept over the prostrated
nations, with resistless tread Our
army of sac hundred thousand men eat
their rations ard draw their pay, and
ale getting "a good ready" probably,
to - go into winter quarters.
The painful conviction is forced upon
US, that imbecility has formed a partner
ship with treachery, and between the
two, as between the upper and the
neither mill-stones, the country is
being ground to powder.
We hope for some relief from this in
tolerable state of things on account of the
threatening aspect of our foreign affairs
It will cost us no more to fight England
and France, than it does to keep our
present armies in their camps. Not an
other man is needed, if we have officers
competent to lead them, and if we have
not, more men would only add to ou1
weakness. We have as many men in
the field now as both parties had when
the fate of Europe hung upon the bat
tie of Waterloo IF properly directed
the number is far larger than is needle
to meet all she nations Of Europe. And
if the, threatening aspect Of our foreign
affairs shall arouse our rulers into energy
good; and if it takes actual war to arouse
them, if they arc capable of being
aroused, then in Gods name give US the
wa! Any relief from thus standing
paraly.zed in the presence of handful
of traitors!
IF we are fit to be free and have q
country, there are men and means
enough now collected to insure to us oul
country and our freedom against all the
foreign despots and domestic traitors in
existence. And if we are only fit for
slaves, let the fact be known at once
that we may choose our masters, if a
choice be permitted, or bow our necks
to whoever may win US in the rattle
A. Good Idea.
hit upon a capital me thod of conveying