The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-11-22

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twenty-five thousand rebels station
cd. Winchester is thirty miles
from Manassas, on the Orange and
! Alexandria Railroad, leading to
Manassas Junction. We are OK
Ipecting an attack every hour, ev-
cry soldier sleeps upon his gun
Our pickots are stationed ten miles
on the roads leading to Monterey,
Moorfield and Winchester, making
the picket duty heavy and disagree.
able; they have to stand twenty
four hours without fire.
The natural Publications Of this
place together with those we have
made, give us great advantage
over the enemy; for eight miles on
either Of the roads, they may come
and wo will contest, stubbofnly
their advance; ana before we are
driven out by the enemy, there must
be terrible slaughter. Tho mum
Der ofmcn, and efficient artillery
we have, can hold this place against
fifteen thousand Of the enemy; our
men, since this is the second time
we have taken this place, feel de-
termined, and are confident that
they can, and will hold it. The
question so much mooted amongst
the men, as to the advance on Win
chester Immediately, l think, will
not be done until we have, at least,
fifteen thousand men, which we.
will have in a few days, when an
onward movement toward that
place will, doubtless, be made, and
without doubt, every inch of the
road will be hotly contested, twen-
/ ty miles from this place. They
have taken their strongholds in
these mountain Businesses and will
give us battle.
learned, few moments ago.
that Gen. Helley's command was
to be twenty-five thousand strong,
on the upper Potomac TO work in
conjunction with Gems. Banks and
Stone, who are now near Ices
burgh, which is fifteen miles from
Winchester, and doubtless, before
long, this part Of the army of the
Potomac will have driven back one
Of the strong wings Of Beauregard's
army. 1t looks to me, through this
route, instead ofcrossing that haz-
ardous river at Leesburgh, would
be the most advantageous route to
effect that end. We have had full
enough of the disastrous effects of
transporting troops across that riv-
er at this season Of the year. Some
of our friends in the North seem
! greatly inccnsod at us for not ad-
vancing and driving the enemy be-
fore us; to such men we will polite
lily invite to grid on their armor and
take rank 10y our side, and we will
show them the bold front Of the en-
emy. In Western Virginia we
have made a slow but sure move
ment, and put a quietus to seccs.
sion; but we have had, invariably,
an enemy superior in number,
which seems to be too true in the
great army Of the United States.
With the exception of a part of the
kanawha valley, Western Va, has
had its day of secession. We are,
properly, now in Eastern Virginia,
driving the enemy to the great To-
cal head at Manassas junction.
THE BLOCKADE.
Since we are in this part of Vir-
ginia, we have not found many I'm.
ion men; there is but about one
dozen men remaining in the town
of Romney-all the rest have fed.
Those remaining declare, that they
have not, nor ever will, take up
arms on either side; the stoppage Of.
the mails and the transportation of
goods to the seeded states, and the
blockade which has now become to
be eflectual is beginning to tell
most severely. Sugar and coffee
cannot be boughthcre at any price;
salt zoe per pound; boots, snch as
retail at Tiflin for two dollars and
fifty cents and three dollars per
pair, sell for fifteen and eighteen
dollars; prints, such as retail at
from six to eight cts. sell for from
fifty to sixty cents per yard. when
they can be had. Negroes are plen-
ty; no price is offered, no buyers,
no sales; the percentage of this ar
tiele is, about seyenty-fvep per cent.