Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-04
More About Col. Roberts, the ReIenS-
ed Prisoner, and Other Matters.

More About Col. Roberts, the ReIenS-
ed Prisoner, and Other Matters.
Col. Roberts, of Roone county, whose
release from prison and arrival here, we
announced on Saturday morning, left on
Saturday evening, on board the steamer
Liberty, for his home near Spencer. Col
Roberts was informed by high authority
in Richmond, that neither Eastern Virgil
mia nor the Confederate States would offer
any opposition to the new State of Kama
whn. They say the country is not worth
fighting for anyhow, and that Rosecrans,
after all his trouble, has nothing to show
but the ground he stands upon. The new
State of Kauawha does not ask the favor
or the recognition OF the c. S. ~, but our
readers will be glad to know they do not
think us worth contending for.
The Hon Alpheous Raymond is still
like Jerry Blossom. He wants to come
home. He sent letter TO Gov Peirpoint.
having previously written to%Gen. Kelley,
stating that he desires to come home and
live in peace. He will take no oath, but
will promise to occupy an inoffensive and
neutral position In this connection we
may state that the Richmond Enquirer is
publishing the proceedings of the celebra-
ted secret session of the Convention which
passed the ordinance of secession. In a
copy of the paper brought by Mr.. Roberts,
there is published {" strong speech of Mr..
Raymond, against the passage of the or
dinance.
| Col. Roberts says the great besetting sin
of the rebel army is that popular beverage
known as bald-faced whisky. The officers
find it impossible to keep the article away
from the men, AT Manassas, recently, the
soldiers procured beef entrails, which they
( blew up with elders and dried, and after
filing these improvised canteens with
whisky, carried them i'll their hats, and for
several days they had as much whisky as
they could drink. The consequence OF
this was a serious mutiny, which was sup
pressed with some difficulty.
As Col. Roberts passed through Win
chester, he saw Col McDonald's forces re-
Gently routed from Romney by Gen. Kel-
ley. They were just coming into town,
and appeared to be about thousand in
number, all of whom seemed to be badly
fatigued and demoralized.
Col. RS account of his capture in Roane
county is very interesting. He had not
slept in his own house for weeks before
the arrest took place as his footsteps were
continually dOgged by his secession neigh
bors. Finally he was pounced upon by
twelve men at the house of a neighhor,
some ten miles from Spencer, about five
o'clock in the evening. He was tied upon
a horse and taken to Charleston that night
n distance of fifty miles. Wise wanted
him to take an oath to support the Con-
fcderatc States, which the Colonel, unlike
his friend Waggoner, of Mason county, re-
fused. to do The Colonel says he could
have procured his release at any time by
sfgnirying his willingness to take this oath
which ne would not have done if they had
stretched his neck out as long as fence
rail. After he was safely Gagged, the ras-
calls who arrested him, his own neighbors,
went back to his house and destroyed ali
his papers, notes, deeds, &C., to the value
e ,I,ort 6yo tbousond dollars