Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-12

termination OF the country that every KIND
of business shall fairly share its proportion
of the public burthens. We uudersta.d
that the Gas company here proposes to pay
. its taxes out of its dividends, and not try
to make it of the public. This is right.
The profits of all Gas companies amply
warrant them in doing this, and it would
be to the last degree unjust to add their
taxes to the accommodating dividends upon
theiI customers.
wE can feel no anxiety about Washing
ton. Its Notifications, with 10000 men
behind them, ought to make it safe against
i've times that number of assaiIauts. And
if the rebels have not put over $4,000 men
across the Potomac into Maryland, such
an army as General Mcclellan can send
against them ought to make it the next
thing TO an absolute certainty that they
shall be destroyed or captured, and Stone
wall Jackson's career be summarily ended
five cannot win decisive victory in the
present position of things around Washing
ton, we may we'll despair, and resign our
selves to our destiny with such equanimity
as we can command. For the rest we have
no fears. kentucky and Ohio can defend
themselves and they willIdo it; and Penn
gylyania needs only to be stirred up by &C
tual invasion of her soil, to pour out an
army of her own large enough to sweep
y Virginia clear.
The'present perils fail to alarm US be-
cause we have confidence in the Govern
ment. The complaint that The Govern
ment is not in earnest comes only from
{. those who cannot force upon the President
their special ideas of war policy. The
Government is in truth earnest and rlgor-
Gus in all that pertains to actual war, aud
is Fastening the new legions to the field as
s rapidly as it can equip and supply them,
and tits fully determined that fighting shall
be its policy till all rebels are oyerpower-
ed. We have confidence in our Generals.
Pope aud Mcdowell having lost the conf
dence of the soldiers, whatever may be
their merits, have been relieved, and there
is not a division General left in. our en-
tire army who has not won the confidence
6fthe soldiers and of the people by skill
and bravery in the fields. General Nc.
-Clellan un 1oubtedly has the confidence of
the soldiers, and Hslleek has just as I'M
d0ubtedly the confidence of his subordinate
generals. Every body agrees that there is
stuf In our men for soldiers. Thousands
of them have .eginced their manliness on
many a hard contested field. They would
not be Americans ifthey could not be made
soldiers. Our men will fight in good
cause, just as bravely as the men of the
South in a badcause. Up to this time they
have been badly handled-most wretchedly
differed, aud their true glory and bravery
~ has been under cloud for the last few
weeks. The miserable regimental officers
that we have had have cursed our cause, and
We rejoice to sec that the strong arm of in
dignation is taking hold on many of them as
examples. chastened as onr army has
been by reverses, and at the same time
Z oheered as it must be by the arrival of i'm
$ mense aud enthusiastic achievements, we
have tho fullest confidence that on the
plains of Maryland aud in the defeuces
) around Washington it will gloriously re-
tFieye the fortunes OF the Republic. The
universal testimony, SO far as we see, is
that the enemy are likely to afford US
great opportunity-the greatest of the war,
tofght them on equal terms and ON neutral
ground as it were. Every hour we expect
to hear the news that the conflict has be-
{ gun. 1t cannot certainly be long delayed
We believe tina. the rebellion will Ia that
, same hour receive its fatal blow.
TaE Grenada (Mtss.l appeal complains
bitterly that one million dollars worth Of
slaves have absconded from the counties of
sTunica and oomhoua since the Union
troops went there. It saws We ."haye VIC
: lated the Constitution ~
: THH Washington Star calls for arrests
among thsarmy of abandoned women at the
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