Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-13
LETTERS FROM ROsECRANS,
ARMY.
DETAILS OF THE
ADVANCE.
[correspondtnee Of tile CINCINNATI Gazette

LcOrrespondtnee Of tie ciasiHpau Gazette.l
Departure 1rom weston--Gen. Rose
crans' StafE--A Camp S0enes-VirStn-
Ia Provision for Lun
VerhicIde--A Breakdown to begin
Iylth--Telegraphing Under DimsuI-
ence between the MononghelR and
the 161k--Chances for Am 6u scades :
An Enemy's Country-Camp near
NEAR BOIL TowS, 4 II
BRAxToE Co., Va, Sept.3,
AT four o'clock on Monday morning,
Sept. I'd, Gen. Rosecrans left Weston,
(whitIier he had removed from Clarksburg
on the previous Saturday. to place himself
at the head of 5his nrmy and resume tue
personal command of the active opera
tions, which, since Rich Mountain, has
been delegated TO subordinate officers. -
Early ns 1t still was, Weston was arOnsed,
aud every window had its nncombed head
thrust out to see the Generals cOrfege go
by. Despite the frowsy hair and half con-
cenled nigbtcaps of The inhabitants, the viii
.agc was looking its best, and left us with
n remembrance of quiet rural comfort tint
we arenot likely to witness again till the
campaigning shall be over in the barbarOus
regions between the Elk and the Upper
Kanawha. Altogether, Weston appears to
he one Of the pleasantest villages in North
Western Virginia, II lately received a
special mark of favor from the defnnct gov
eminent at Richmond, in tue shape of n
law making appropriations for the erection
there ofa State Lunatie Asylum. The law
makers seem to have had a premonilion
that crazy people wOuld soon be remarkR-
bly, abundant ia the Old Dominion, and the
building appears TO have been planned
with reference to auticipattd wants. It's
size may be inferred when ] tell you that
its front is tirsiUe hundred ftst IN length -
The foundations were laid, and the walls
had begun to rise, when the ordinance of
secession blighted this rs it did every .oth-
er enterprise of the State. IL WAS well;
for, enormous as the structure was TO have
been. it would still have sadly failed to
accommodate the present crop Of lunatics
in Virginiu.
Everybody was delighted at the prospect
of active service, after the long inaction
Tor prepardtion) of Clarksburg, and the
party was in The most exubcrnnt spirits
partly declared by the most malicious to
lie Of very good quality, imported from
Ohio. For time u perfect storm of puns
ragged along the line; but aftcr the punsters
had descended so low as TO declare that
the bugIer in advance, who sounded the
marching orders, would have done better
to have become pedagogue, because he
was manifcstly good tooter (tutoEli and
that an ugly old maid, who was standing
in the door of ii log cabin aud vigorously
brandishing her kerchief, ought to be sea-
sick, because she wis always on the wave;
and that the Private Secretary and the
Division Commissary were the luckiest fell
lows ON the staff, because they were the
Generals Dart lings the Hgoakh mnnufac-
turers became ashamed of the depths they
had reached, and 10 the credit of the staff
be it spoken, the perbicide, fas Wendell
Holmes calls it) was abandoned.
One calamity was hardly over till ano-
ther befel us. One ofthe teamsters, of the
same brood with the pack whose praises
have repeatedly sounded. and among whom
il is remarkable at any time 10 fiud n man
who knows thst there IS any difference be-
tween the endurance OF. his horse and that
- a locomotiye-one of these teamsIers,
n o, because known to be utterly unit to
touch any other horses, are therefore sup
posed to be admirably adapted for taking
charge of the government tennis, had the
grace to ieta fine, well-eouditioned span
Of horses run away with him. To make
matters worse it was the telegraph wagon,
containing the batteries, coils of isolating
wire, transmitting Instruments, aud the
like, TO which the team chaneed to be at
tached. fortunately no damage was done
beyond smashing up an ambulance or two,
breaking few wagon tongues, and proba-
bly, running fine pair of horses. On the
old principle, long tested, and therefore
sale, ofloelting the stable door after the
horse is stolen, the teamster was promptly
discharged, and the whole party stopped