Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-02

ran sat the top of his bent" from the brave
and gallant Cox.t?
By the way, this reminds me of re-
mark of the gallant Captain D., of the
Twelfth Ohio, to your correspondent, who
af0resaid) was going under Cox's COM
maud. said, "Sir, you will be in n position
of perfect safety" But he added, How
ever, he (Cox) is going to join 'old Rosy
and ID if he don't have to fight then"
Captain D. was in the bloody strife at
'.Scarey" and "Cross Lanes"
But, whew what depression be-
lieve | was talking about getting on n
steamboat, if remember correctly. Yes,
it was steamboat. Well, seeing that no
time was to be lost, l summoned all my
"residue" of strength, put myself upon the
double quick, aud, simultaneously with the
steamer, made the point of her landing.
Oh, Captain Devinney, Captain DeYinney,
can ever forgive you? An echo an
swcrs, "can u" Do you remember the
flight of Tvanhoe, when he arrived to do
battle with Baron Dubois Gilbert. for the
fair Rebecca? "Just my FIX when ar
rived on the deck of that steamer. But
what mean yOuder white tents for thouS-
and men on II beautiful plain and high bank
on the "sacrcd soil?n | will wait for an
answer from that young Lieutenant who
is coming from the camp i'll skill to
board us. The following particulars, how
ever, are prima fdcid: The camp is three
miles above Big Sandy, in Virginia, or,
more properly speaking, kanawha. Big
Sandy, we all know, is the line between
Kentucky and Virginia Lieut.. j. Edward
Wood, officer aforesaid, politely communi-
tnl IN hn
relation to this enrumpment.
The town is called CeredO; the camp is
called PiGrpoint, after the new Governor Of
Knnawla, formerly Virginia. 1t is the
first camp formed on the Virginia soil. un-
der the three years service; it contains 900
men, armed with enfield rifles, and about
200 tents. The name of the regiment is
the Fifth Virginia; the Colonel is John l..
Zeigler, who resides six miles up the Big
Sandy, on the Virginia side he is a gentle
man of large influence, possessing gOodly
share of this worlds goods, very highly
esteemed by his neighbOrs and fellow-citi-
Zcns The regiment has been raised al
most entirely by his own personal eXer-
tions. He leGS towards it as Lafayette
said he felt towards Louis Philippe, call
the pride of an author" One detachment
from it, under command of Capt. Smith,
Company b, went out to Wayne Court
House some three weeks ago, twenty miles
distant, where, after forty-eight hours
skirmish with the foe, they killed twenty
eight of them, and took fourteen prison.
crs. The same Captain is out skirmishing
Mt present; MS far rs heard from, lie has
killed five and taken twelve prisoners
The camp is about two months old. a
new regiment, to he called the Eighth, is
forming on the same ground, under the
auspices of Major (by courtesy X. V.
Whaley, member of Congress from this
district. lie has four companies nearly
ready to come into camp. These gallant
people seem to feel the force of the often
quoted, but always strong and truthful,
sentiment of the poet
'who would be free, themselves must strike the
blow"
The growth of this feeling among the
true patriots of Virginia is becoming so
strong that | am greatly encouraged to
believe that, ere long, much of our army
from other States now there can be spared
to 20 South, ahd strike the many-hcadcd
monster Rebellion where IOlaus struck
the .'Lernean Hydra" with his burning
brand-in the very seat and center cf his
UitalS.
An incident of the pleasures of camp
lllt uluSL iGlS lSllbC' A)pHIS hlEANSi ~
rather mornings. since, WAS sleeping in
my tent, along with some fourteen mess
mates, when | was awakened by II tremen-
dous rain storm, to find my blanket wet
under me, and water almost everywhere
on the ground in the tent. l reused my
ielIow-soldicrs; we all got to work and
drained off the water by digging trench
around the tent, and another from that to
Il large one, which we call Bulls Run, in
the center of the plain. We then threw
ourselves down, wrhpt in our wet blau-
kcts, upon the recently baptized ground,
and in Il few moments forgot our troubles
in sweet slumbers. l have never slept
soundcr.
But have scrhblcd over all the writing
paper in the Capitola, so | will bid you
good bye, and walk out and see Ports
mouth, the smoke of which | see rising
over yonder point. NoLuNTEEE.
p. S.-Such is the burning Indignation
of my injured friend, Lieutenant Wood,
(the young officer who Informed me in
lntion to Camp Peirpoint,) against his rebel
countrymen, that he would have Congress
pass law compelling every one in our
power to be branded with the word
"Trnitor" on the forehead.
TIE FLOOD UP AT PITTSBURGH.
Thirty Feet of Water in the Channel
n Inn