Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-17

The way they make Soldiers over IN
Eastern VIrgInIa--FOrelnS men an
20 the Ranks
The Richmond DppateA, some days ago
stAied thatth militia Of Betkely county
having refused TO join the army, PeremP-
tory orders were issued from military
headquarters TO force them in, or TO treat
them as deserters or alien enemies. Alet-
ter to the Baltimore American, dated At
Clear Spring, Nd, on the 9Th inst, gives a
brief account of the manner of impressing
which has been praetieed for some time
past in the adjacent counties in Virginia,
as derived from prisoners who have Is
ped from that State. The writer says:
"They do not pursue the Constitutional
mode Of drifting, thereby giving few q
chance 10 stay at home, but require that
every man between the ages Of ID and IS
shall perform military duty and allow has
own property to be wrecked and his tami-
" 70 starTe, giving his time and strength
70 his oppressors. They tell all that 1t Is
their duty to go, and IL such persuasion
| fails they readily use the old Prusslau
argument (the bayonetj which generally
eonTinees all refractory citizens that there
is an earnestness, if not a desperateness IN
the ACaIl for Volunteers" They say that
volunteers are needed, and so when the
people cease 70 volunteer, secession mimi
ous will save them the trouble and write
| their names for them
After being impressed they are taken to
Winchester, where they are fed upon an
nnWhoIesome diet, with an abundance Of
hard labor, aud are then told that If they
will volunteer, and go to Manassas juno
iion, all labor will be At an end and they
will be enabled TO reap some Of the merits
of a martial life without its pains and
trials. This has generally the desired eff
feet. and men stake their lives on des-
perate issue, aud take the chances of be-
ing killed BY the bayonet in preference to
..dyiag by inches in these militia hauuts.
The patrolle.s, whose duty It is to gather
in the militia, go about il in SORT Of a
capt Kidd" way, and have no hesitauey
about enforcing their demands. An old
man named Penery, whose two sons had
escaped 10 Maryland. was subject for
Secession lie.
The patroIlers having called for his sons,
we're told by the aged father, with great
enthusiasm, Hthat they had escaped to
free land" Ehereupon they seized the old
man as party to the sons escape, bound
him hand and foot, and jolted him Oh 10
their camp, seven miles distant, where he
is still held prisoner. The men of this
neighborhood. who have thus far escaped
their clutches, have not slept within doors
for six weeks, being compelled to sleep in
the woods, for fear their houses will be
surrounded and they carried of.
Whenever they (the secessionists) wish
horses and wagons to convey any stolen
goods from one point 10 another. as in the
case Of the contract between one sharper
and the citizens of Winchester in regard
to stealing the railroad iron and machinery
! from the workshops Al Martingsburg, the
Union men must invariably send their
teams TO do the labor. Itdoes remain OPP
tional with the owner of the teams if he
does send or not; but it is compulsory up
on him, as in the case of a farmer in the
neighborbood of Bunker Hill, Virginia
His team being impressed, he, from certain
circumstances could not deliver it "a soon
as ordered, whereupOn a guard was sent
that cursed him, iusulted his family, and
took his entire team away and sent it to
the Junction. Such are a few of the bios
SONS of secession. -