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Fro0 the 1edfanRpnafa Jorfsal.1 i
hey. Mr. Cotton, Chsplx3n Of 1sth 1ndtsa. |
kektnMt ROW u Choi{ N0asS.5n ~ Wsst-
ee1 virginia, tnt1raed home ysetnTday. havfnr
aeH ths reEtIu mt In camp On Tuee4sS. the 81
nsk ~ hrtnss The l4est news 1T reoeIYad
non Cur army It the mountain passea. He
s1rs sas FL 4en ~ as 9sasxaay T. gooa he.lh md
no poeeeas danger Of any fdntde tint Lse can !
faAe getting past them. Gea. Reynolds his
perfected his NraDgemsnts 70 admirably that
ne y ahae 20 concentrate his entire br3EnAe 1t
any aeaa1lxble point In SIX houn, nd has
snd ekillful thas he Possesses the entire conf
dence sf his men- Ha has held his fff0cult
post with mksterl7 ability, and 70 improved it, !
defencee that he has made Western VitRihia
safe from any attack n his direction. He
honor e. his friends may BE- proud Of. Wea.
ways felt great confidence thst he would show
h1mselt eqoA 20 any EN- efge0eX md BoahF
he has done 50. hr. Cotton IL fill Of prAises
Of tAe General, and thinks that in his remote
posihon he has received too little Of the u
tention and applause Of the public. : M, Cot
ton also brings the important news that 1t the
time he lett Appearances strongly indicated
thai considerable portion Of the forces Of Leo
bad BEEN Withdrawn, but whether to Eastern
virginia 81 the Ksnawha, could not be learned.
prisoner who wss taken day OF two before
confirmed this opinion He also said that
Lees forces we're suffering feszfuIly from sick
ICES, the dead often numbering fifteen 4 siav,
Ecoutng WIS going on actively, and 30 thor.
Gnghly TINT it WIS impossible for Lee to leave
1is position to advance on the Kanavha with
out Its being known in time to allow our men
to reach the same destination u soon ~ he
The artillery force ID considerably larger tbsn
is generally believed, and Z number of the
pieces are 1itled twe1ye.pounders. General
Reynolds had been constantly in the saddle
otoN NG3t9 p41ra1 o$ he
reconnoitered and mapped out the country for
twenty five mf1eA in every direction. 4 day or
two before Mr. Cotton left, Major Foster had
taken portion Of the 18Th regiment out On
scouting expedition, aud advanced further
than any force bad eyer gone before N-was
gence Of the withdrawal Of portion Of Lee's
force. He thinks that there is very little dan.
ger OF any successful attempt Of the rebels to
| get into Western Virginia.
| Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial. j
BIZ 11n ROADSIDE 1E Bull Toxx, vA,l
~. ,, September 8. 1851
| pike Ei'h considerable fap1dity. We left
| Weston at daylight yesterday morning and
| marched twenty-rhree miles, establishing our
camp in Wild v21ley fenr miles above The
! land about Weston grows wilder and more rug
ged as We proceed, and the character OF tho
people approaches several degrees nearer the
aboriginal condition of the race There il
| but little culture either Of land or people,
and both seem to be set on edge "A mile
ahoye this village Of bovine nom msnclature, We
| first strike the Little Kanawha, beautiful
| stream Of clear water, which meanders dc.
| Gghttully among the mountaine. There is q
| steep precipice oTeThang ing the river, and CD
poettei that is small rolling valley upon
| which our troops are encamped. Coal IS IS
your river hills, and OF the brink Of the riye1
| where we crnes the bridge into town, there Is
salt well and works, which produce fifty
bushels per dsy, finding market In the viein
We found here considerable body of troops
including detachments of several regiments
aad the whcle Of Col E. L. McCook's. Maio,
r, B. Hays, Of the 23d Ohio, had just returned
from severe march over the mountains
which Knocked up both men and horses. Al
cne O'Clock re resume cur march and to
night eucamp at F1atwood, eleven mi1es dis
the rebels have receded, and 1t is likely the,
will secede entirely until we approach Lewis
burg, provided that be our destination
point open to doubt.
There Is absolutely no news to conmuni
cate. It is superfuous to report that mention
yond that which must be known to the enc
my Is prohibited, so that readers who hav
friends in the army need not look into the pa
peIs for tidings Of troops In whom they ar
interested.
The General hes the use of the army tele
graph along the line. Occasionally, when "
halt, nr. Brown, the operator, nnships hi
battery, forms the desired connection IN
fence corner, and Headquarters Instant
communicates with Washington or elsewhere
according to requisitiGn. We received new
OF Butler's operations in North Carolina earl
yesterday morning, while hAlting in the woo
in the mountains, some twenty miles aboy
here.