Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-10

roaming away from their camps, and have
been guilty of unsoldierly acts. II then
pro eeds to eensure them and their officers
in severe language, threatens the guilty
With severe punishment, aud warns officers
Of all grades, that repetition Of offences
will be followed by orders which will send
them to the rear in Disgrace
l may qualify the foregoing remarks by
alleging, truthfully, that the mcn are
ignorant of their duty, aud that tllcie oil
GERS take but little trouble to educate
them. Many presume that they have a
right to take possession of the property of
secessionists as legitimate spoils of war.
The excesses to which such erroneous be-
lief carry them are conceivable, and need
no designation.
PROSPECTS,.
There is prevalent opinion that the
rebels intend 10 make fight at Laurel Hill.
There is positive information that they
have large force wei prepared to meet
u.s. Ten miles this side of Beverly there
are some 1000 with three field pieces, in.
cluding one rifled cannon. Gen. McClcl-
Ian is preparing TO mike victory complete.
He is annoyed ut being compelled to re-
mHin here, Ly irregnlarity in the subsist-
encc department, but be will not move
until everything is ready. Meantime there
is no news worthg To communicate. Little
scouting parties are constantly securing
the couqiry, but the results are insigniii-
cant. Night before last three armed rebel
prisoners were captured-One il full regi
rnentn!s. They are Virginians, and say
they were Impressed" by the rebels.
DucEHANNoy.
The present Headquarters of the Depart
ment OF the Ohio, is the capital of Upshur
county. 1t is comparatively new town,
OF about one thousand inhabitants. II has
u neat brick court house with pillhred por-
Iico, and cupoil, which is the first Oh
ject that arrests your attention after you
push suddenly from behind the hills on
the Clnrksburg road The people worship
in three cOmmodIous frame churches,
built according TO the primitive western
style of "mceting house. architecture
resembling :; foreshortened ten-pin alley.
The dwellings, with two or three exccp-
tions, are frame or log and several present
IA pretcniious aspect. Just below the town
is diihpidated mill, where the folks do
their grinding, but it is hardly worth IL
dam. The site of the town is charming.
II is in the bosom of II beautiful basin
about two miles is diameter. The cir
cumjacent hills, Lalf cleared, and half
clad by solemn old forests, swell very
gently up from corn fields and luxuriant
meadows, nd roll back like emerald waves,
until they expand into broad breasted
mountains. A narrow green valley, culti-
waited aud fertile, winds screnely among
native tumuli in the west, and creeps soft
ly toward the basin, with which it imPer-
ceptibly blends. Another, east of the
town. quietly follows the meauderings of a
clear little river (Buckhannonj until the
stream is rudrly THRUST aside by jutting
mountains 10 seek Shelter in rocky fortress
SEES through which it leaps aud tnmbles
into the river of Tygarts Valley. Com
Portable farm houses and plcthnsic hay
stacks, rich cOrntields and lnxurinnt mead
Ows diversity the pleasant prospect, busy
farmers aud hzy cattle rowing over clover
clad pastures inptrt animation, and the
surrounding hills conspire with these
many pleasant features, to form IaEd.
scape of excelling beauty.
The hills of Western Virginia hive one
peculiar property. a rich coat of grass
and white clover uniformly follow the axe
With generous spoutaninty. Every cleared
hill is luxuriant pasture, and the iunu-
mernble cattle which roam over them most
urovukingIy suEgestto hungry soldiers Wis
ions OF delicious srloins. The cattle are
OF 1t thousand lilis' in this rich grazing
land. In this region, also, considerable
gain and tobacco are cultivated, but cat
tie IS the staple product. And it is the
bes; meadow land west of the Atleghanies.
am Informed that the soil on the hills is
;.S fertile ,s that of the valleys. There IS
certainly greater surftcc Oft. The dairy
product is also of superior quality. Bet
ter butter than have had since l left Graf
ton never fabricated the staff of life. Gull
E.vated fruit is scarce, but mountain black
berries and raspbcrries are abundant. The
people are emneutiy Western-Yery much
like those of Central Kentucky. Their
children do not enjoy metropolitan ftcil-
iyies' for education, and absurd Prov.n-
ciuisuS furnish entertainment for the
army. ! heard rustic lass say the
other day that she ''didn't know but
she mom be persuaded to go to Ohio "
and nout,H ! discover to be great
part of the '.lingo' of the people. The girls
are not afraid OF tho sun, and their nut
brown compilations aud huNom forias
demonstrate fine constitutions. They are
full of spirit und animation, and will shoot
IA rifle or ride "A colt with the best hnllraky
felIuw in this army. But to close this sort
of observation, may say that The princi-
pal production of Western Virginia thus
far seem to be grass, c'tstlc, mpuhESsns, nnd
head children-thc latter predominant
ing. And bye the bye, the Surgeons say
that tow-Lead children are a country
growth as general rule. Diversityis the
rule with city bora children. There's
physiological fact which I've had in my
pipe all the morning endeavoring TO smoke
it. Put it in yours and try it. It's very
queer though, how some of the +. +. )
get the t,twn in their complications. The
Virginia Doctors have not attempted to
explain. Something 'pceHiidr" about it
sometimes, suspect Dses the "Asp6yz-
iG nigruni1 theory explain it2
MOVEMENT.
have just had an intimatiou that there
will he another forward movement within
fOrty-eight hours, W. D. B.
FROM RICHMOND.